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Author SHA1 Message Date
Dean Nelson
21056830c4 irq: set_irq_chip() has redundant call to irq_to_desc()
Extraneous call to irq_to_desc().

Signed-off-by: Dean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-16 16:53:07 +02:00
Yinghai Lu
8c464a4b23 sparseirq: move kstat_irqs from kstat to irq_desc - fix
fix non-sparseirq architectures.

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-16 16:53:04 +02:00
Yinghai Lu
e89eb43863 x86: sparse_irq needs spin_lock in allocations
Suresh Siddha noticed that we should have a spinlock around it.

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-16 16:52:59 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
e955b5398b sparseirq: fix lockdep
-tip testing found this lockdep splat:

[    0.000000] Initializing CPU#0
[    0.000000] found new irq_desc for irq 0
[    0.000000] INFO: trying to register non-static key.
[    0.000000] the code is fine but needs lockdep annotation.
[    0.000000] turning off the locking correctness validator.
[    0.000000] Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.27-rc3-tip-00191-g98ccb89-dirty #1
[    0.000000]  [<c0153c22>] register_lock_class+0x3d2/0x400
[    0.000000]  [<c0104d87>] ? mcount_call+0x5/0xa
[    0.000000]  [<c0154f3a>] __lock_acquire+0x22a/0x5d0
[    0.000000]  [<c0104d87>] ? mcount_call+0x5/0xa
[    0.000000]  [<c0155351>] lock_acquire+0x71/0xa0
[    0.000000]  [<c016d61f>] ? set_irq_chip+0x3f/0x90
[    0.000000]  [<c070f148>] _spin_lock_irqsave+0x58/0x90
[    0.000000]  [<c016d61f>] ? set_irq_chip+0x3f/0x90
[    0.000000]  [<c016d61f>] set_irq_chip+0x3f/0x90
[    0.000000]  [<c016d7e0>] ? handle_level_irq+0x0/0xe0
[    0.000000]  [<c016da1a>] set_irq_chip_and_handler_name+0x1a/0x40
[    0.000000]  [<c0a396c1>] init_ISA_irqs+0x51/0xa0
[    0.000000]  [<c0a4a365>] pre_intr_init_hook+0x25/0x30
[    0.000000]  [<c0a39723>] native_init_IRQ+0x13/0x370
[    0.000000]  [<c015569c>] ? lock_release+0xcc/0x1d0
[    0.000000]  [<c0104d87>] ? mcount_call+0x5/0xa
[    0.000000]  [<c070dc22>] ? __mutex_unlock_slowpath+0x92/0x110
[    0.000000]  [<c070dcad>] ? mutex_unlock+0xd/0x10
[    0.000000]  [<c0135f62>] ? cpu_maps_update_done+0x12/0x20
[    0.000000]  [<c06c6743>] ? register_cpu_notifier+0x23/0x30
[    0.000000]  [<c011e8ae>] init_IRQ+0xe/0x10
[    0.000000]  [<c0a357a5>] start_kernel+0x1c5/0x340
[    0.000000]  [<c0a35280>] ? unknown_bootoption+0x0/0x210
[    0.000000]  [<c0a3506b>] i386_start_kernel+0x6b/0x80
[    0.000000]  =======================
[    0.000000] found new irq_desc for irq 1
[    0.000000] found new irq_desc for irq 2
[    0.000000] found new irq_desc for irq 3

this:

 static void init_one_irq_desc(struct irq_desc *desc)
 {
         memcpy(desc, &irq_desc_init, sizeof(struct irq_desc));
 #ifdef CONFIG_TRACE_IRQFLAGS
         lockdep_set_class(&desc->lock, &irq_desc_lock_class);
 #endif
 }

should be unconditional.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-16 16:52:54 +02:00
Yinghai Lu
8b8e8c1bf7 x86: remove irqbalance in kernel for 32 bit
This has been deprecated for years, the user space irqbalanced utility
works better with numa, has configurable policies, etc...

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmai.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-16 16:52:52 +02:00
Yinghai Lu
67fb283e14 irq: separate sparse_irqs from sparse_irqs_free
so later don't need compare with -1U

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-16 16:52:51 +02:00
Yinghai Lu
cb5bc83225 x86_64: rename irq_desc/irq_desc_alloc
change names:

          irq_desc() ==> irq_desc_alloc
	__irq_desc() ==> irq_desc

Also split a few of the uses in lowlevel x86 code.

v2: need to check if desc is null in smp_irq_move_cleanup

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-16 16:52:51 +02:00
Yinghai Lu
46926b67fc generic: add irq_desc in function in parameter
So we could remove some duplicated calling to irq_desc

v2: make sure irq_desc in  init/main.c is not used without generic_hardirqs

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-16 16:52:50 +02:00
Yinghai Lu
7d94f7ca40 irq: remove >= nr_irqs checking with config_have_sparse_irq
remove irq limit checks - nr_irqs is dynamic and we expand anytime.

v2: fix checking about result irq_cfg_without_new, so could use msi again
v3: use irq_desc_without_new to check irq is valid

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-16 16:52:50 +02:00
Yinghai Lu
2c6927a38f irq: replace loop with nr_irqs with for_each_irq_desc
There are a handful of loops that go from 0 to nr_irqs and use
get_irq_desc() on them. These would allocate all the irq_desc
entries, regardless of the need for them.

Use the smarter for_each_irq_desc() iterator that will only iterate
over the present ones.

v2: make sure arch without GENERIC_HARDIRQS work too

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-16 16:52:33 +02:00
Yinghai Lu
9059d8fa4a irq: add irq_desc_without_new
add an irq_desc accessor that will not allocate any sparse entry
but returns failure if there's no entry present.

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-16 16:52:32 +02:00
Yinghai Lu
7f95ec9e4c x86: move kstat_irqs from kstat to irq_desc
based on Eric's patch ...

together mold it with dyn_array for irq_desc, will allcate kstat_irqs for
nr_irq_desc alltogether if needed. -- at that point nr_cpus is known already.

v2: make sure system without generic_hardirqs works they don't have irq_desc
v3: fix merging
v4: [mingo@elte.hu] fix typo

[ mingo@elte.hu ] irq: build fix

fix:

 arch/x86/xen/spinlock.c: In function 'xen_spin_lock_slow':
 arch/x86/xen/spinlock.c:90: error: 'struct kernel_stat' has no member named 'irqs'

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-16 16:52:32 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
3bf52a4df3 irq: sparse irqs, fix IRQ auto-probe crash
fix:

[   10.631533] calling  yenta_socket_init+0x0/0x20
[   10.631533] Yenta: CardBus bridge found at 0000:15:00.0 [17aa:2012]
[   10.631533] Yenta: Using INTVAL to route CSC interrupts to PCI
[   10.631533] Yenta: Routing CardBus interrupts to PCI
[   10.631533] Yenta TI: socket 0000:15:00.0, mfunc 0x01d01002, devctl 0x64
[   10.731599] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000040
[   10.731838] IP: [<c0c95b5f>] _spin_lock_irq+0xf/0x20
[   10.732221] *pde = 00000000
[   10.732741] Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP
[   10.733453]
[   10.734253] Pid: 1, comm: swapper Tainted: G        W (2.6.27-rc3-tip-00173-gd7eaa4f-dirty #1)
[   10.735188] EIP: 0060:[<c0c95b5f>] EFLAGS: 00010002 CPU: 0
[   10.735523] EIP is at _spin_lock_irq+0xf/0x20
[   10.735523] EAX: 00000040 EBX: 00000000 ECX: f6e04c90 EDX: 00000100
[   10.735523] ESI: 000000df EDI: f6e04c90 EBP: f7867df0 ESP: f7867df0
[   10.735523]  DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0000 SS: 0068
[   10.735523] Process swapper (pid: 1, ti=f7867000 task=f7870000 task.ti=f7867000)
[   10.735523] Stack: f7867e04 c0155fbd 00000000 00000000 f6e04c90 f7867e5c c0c6e319 c0f6a074
[   10.735523]        f6e04c90 000017aa 00002012 c112b648 f791f240 c112b5e0 f7867e44 c010440b
[   10.735523]        f791f240 f791f29c c112b8ec f791f240 00000000 f7867e5c c048f893 03c0b648
[   10.735523] Call Trace:
[   10.735523]  [<c0155fbd>] ? probe_irq_on+0x3d/0x140
[   10.735523]  [<c0c6e319>] ? yenta_probe+0x529/0x640
[   10.735523]  [<c010440b>] ? mcount_call+0x5/0xa
[   10.735523]  [<c048f893>] ? pci_match_device+0xa3/0xb0
[   10.735523]  [<c048fc1e>] ? pci_device_probe+0x5e/0x80
[   10.735523]  [<c0515423>] ? driver_probe_device+0x83/0x180
[   10.735523]  [<c0515594>] ? __driver_attach+0x74/0x80
[   10.735523]  [<c0514b69>] ? bus_for_each_dev+0x49/0x70
[   10.735523]  [<c051528e>] ? driver_attach+0x1e/0x20
[   10.735523]  [<c0515520>] ? __driver_attach+0x0/0x80
[   10.735523]  [<c05150d3>] ? bus_add_driver+0x1a3/0x220
[   10.735523]  [<c048fb60>] ? pci_device_remove+0x0/0x40
[   10.735523]  [<c05157f4>] ? driver_register+0x54/0x130
[   10.735523]  [<c048fe2f>] ? __pci_register_driver+0x4f/0x90
[   10.735523]  [<c11e9419>] ? yenta_socket_init+0x19/0x20
[   10.735523]  [<c0101125>] ? do_one_initcall+0x35/0x160
[   10.735523]  [<c11e9400>] ? yenta_socket_init+0x0/0x20
[   10.735523]  [<c01391a6>] ? __queue_work+0x36/0x50
[   10.735523]  [<c013922d>] ? queue_work_on+0x3d/0x50
[   10.735523]  [<c11a2758>] ? kernel_init+0x148/0x210
[   10.735523]  [<c11a2610>] ? kernel_init+0x0/0x210
[   10.735523]  [<c01043f3>] ? kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10
[   10.735523]  =======================
[   10.735523] Code: 10 38 f2 74 06 f3 90 8a 10 eb f6 5d 89 c8 c3 8d b6 00 00 00 00 8d bc 27 00 00 00 00 55 89 e5 e8 a4 e8 46 ff fa ba 00 01 00 00 90 <66> 0f c1 10 38 f2 74 06 f3 90 8a 10 eb f6 5d c3 90 55 89 e5 53

as auto-probing wants to iterate over existing irqs.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-16 16:52:30 +02:00
Yinghai Lu
08678b0841 generic: sparse irqs: use irq_desc() together with dyn_array, instead of irq_desc[]
add CONFIG_HAVE_SPARSE_IRQ to for use condensed array.
Get rid of irq_desc[] array assumptions.

Preallocate 32 irq_desc, and irq_desc() will try to get more.

( No change in functionality is expected anywhere, except the odd build
  failure where we missed a code site or where a crossing commit itroduces
  new irq_desc[] usage. )

v2: according to Eric, change get_irq_desc() to irq_desc()

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-16 16:52:29 +02:00
Yinghai Lu
d17a55ded3 irq: make irqs in kernel stat use per_cpu_dyn_array
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-16 16:52:08 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
fa42d10dd5 irq: sparse irqs, export nr_irqs
fix:

  Building modules, stage 2.
  MODPOST 458 modules
  ERROR: "nr_irqs" [drivers/serial/8250.ko] undefined!

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-16 16:52:08 +02:00
Yinghai Lu
d60458b224 irq: make irq_desc to use dyn_array
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-16 16:52:07 +02:00
Yinghai Lu
85c0f90978 irq: introduce nr_irqs
at this point nr_irqs is equal NR_IRQS

convert a few easy users from NR_IRQS to dynamic nr_irqs.

v2: according to Eric, we need to take care of arch without generic_hardirqs

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-16 16:52:05 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
5fef06e8c8 Merge branch 'linus' into genirq 2008-10-16 16:51:32 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
8cd162ce23 sched: only update rq->clock while holding rq->lock
Vatsa noticed rq->clock going funny and tracked it down to an update_rq_clock()
outside a rq->lock section.

This is a problem because things like double_rq_lock() update the rq->clock
value for both rqs. Therefore disabling interrupts isn't strong enough.

Reported-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-15 20:43:27 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
6b2ada8210 Merge branches 'core/softlockup', 'core/softirq', 'core/resources', 'core/printk' and 'core/misc' into core-v28-for-linus 2008-10-15 12:48:44 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
8acd3a60bc Merge branch 'for-2.6.28' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux
* 'for-2.6.28' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux: (59 commits)
  svcrdma: Fix IRD/ORD polarity
  svcrdma: Update svc_rdma_send_error to use DMA LKEY
  svcrdma: Modify the RPC reply path to use FRMR when available
  svcrdma: Modify the RPC recv path to use FRMR when available
  svcrdma: Add support to svc_rdma_send to handle chained WR
  svcrdma: Modify post recv path to use local dma key
  svcrdma: Add a service to register a Fast Reg MR with the device
  svcrdma: Query device for Fast Reg support during connection setup
  svcrdma: Add FRMR get/put services
  NLM: Remove unused argument from svc_addsock() function
  NLM: Remove "proto" argument from lockd_up()
  NLM: Always start both UDP and TCP listeners
  lockd: Remove unused fields in the nlm_reboot structure
  lockd: Add helper to sanity check incoming NOTIFY requests
  lockd: change nlmclnt_grant() to take a "struct sockaddr *"
  lockd: Adjust nlmsvc_lookup_host() to accomodate AF_INET6 addresses
  lockd: Adjust nlmclnt_lookup_host() signature to accomodate non-AF_INET
  lockd: Support non-AF_INET addresses in nlm_lookup_host()
  NLM: Convert nlm_lookup_host() to use a single argument
  svcrdma: Add Fast Reg MR Data Types
  ...
2008-10-14 12:31:14 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
98d9c66ab0 tracing/fastboot: improve help text
Improve the help text of the boot tracer.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 14:27:20 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
4519d9e54d tracing/stacktrace: improve help text
Improve the help text that is displayed for CONFIG_STACK_TRACER.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 14:15:43 +02:00
Harvey Harrison
ad0a3b6811 trace: add build-time check to avoid overrunning hex buffer
Remove the runtime BUG_ON and change to a compile-time check in
the macro that calls the hex format routine

[Noticed by Joe Perches]
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:39:26 +02:00
Harvey Harrison
2fbc474901 ftrace: fix hex output mode of ftrace
Fix the output of ftrace in hex mode as the hi/lo nibbles are output in
reverse order. Without this patch, the output of ftrace is:

raw mode : 6474 0 141531612444 0 140 + 6402 120 S
hex mode : 000091a4 00000000 000000023f1f50c1 00000000 c8 000000b2 00009120 87 ffff00c8 00000035

There is an inversion on ouput hex(6474) is 194a

[based on a patch by Philippe Reynes <tremyfr@yahoo.fr>]
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:39:25 +02:00
Arjan van de Ven
8a5d900cca tracing/fastboot: fix printk format typo in boot tracer
When printing nanoseconds, the right printk format string is %09 not %06...

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:39:23 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
c2931e05ec ftrace: return an error when setting a nonexistent tracer
When one try to set a nonexistent tracer, no error is returned
as if the name of the tracer was correct.
We should return -EINVAL.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:39:22 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
3ea2e6d71a ftrace: make some tracers reentrant
Now that the ring buffer is reentrant, some of the ftrace tracers
(sched_swich, debugging traces) can also be reentrant.

Note: Never make the function tracer reentrant, that can cause
  recursion problems all over the kernel. The function tracer
  must disable reentrancy.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:39:20 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
bf41a158ca ring-buffer: make reentrant
This patch replaces the local_irq_save/restore with preempt_disable/
enable. This allows for interrupts to enter while recording.
To write to the ring buffer, you must reserve data, and then
commit it. During this time, an interrupt may call a trace function
that will also record into the buffer before the commit is made.

The interrupt will reserve its entry after the first entry, even
though the first entry did not finish yet.

The time stamp delta of the interrupt entry will be zero, since
in the view of the trace, the interrupt happened during the
first field anyway.

Locking still takes place when the tail/write moves from one page
to the next. The reader always takes the locks.

A new page pointer is added, called the commit. The write/tail will
always point to the end of all entries. The commit field will
point to the last committed entry. Only this commit entry may
update the write time stamp.

The reader can only go up to the commit. It cannot go past it.

If a lot of interrupts come in during a commit that fills up the
buffer, and it happens to make it all the way around the buffer
back to the commit, then a warning is printed and new events will
be dropped.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:39:19 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
6f807acd27 ring-buffer: move page indexes into page headers
Remove the global head and tail indexes and move them into the
page header. Each page will now keep track of where the last
write and read was made. We also rename the head and tail to read
and write for better clarification.

This patch is needed for future enhancements to move the ring buffer
to a lockless solution.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:39:18 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
097d036a2f tracing/fastboot: only trace non-module initcalls
At this time, only built-in initcalls interest us.
We can't really produce a relevant graph if we include
the modules initcall too.

I had good results after this patch (see svg in attachment).

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:39:17 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
6450c1d321 ftrace: move pc counter in irqtrace
The assigning of the pc counter is in the wrong spot in the
check_critical_timing function. The pc variable is used in the
out jump.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:39:16 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
aa1e0e3bcf ring_buffer: map to cpu not page
My original patch had a compile bug when NUMA was configured. I
referenced cpu when it should have been cpu_buffer->cpu.

Ingo quickly fixed this bug by replacing cpu with 'i' because that
was the loop counter. Unfortunately, the 'i' was the counter of
pages, not CPUs. This caused a crash when the number of pages allocated
for the buffers exceeded the number of pages, which would usually
be the case.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:39:15 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
5601020feb tracing/fastboot: get the initcall name before it disappears
After some initcall traces, some initcall names may be inconsistent.
That's because these functions will disappear from the .init section
and also their name from the symbols table.

So we have to copy the name of the function in a buffer large enough
during the trace appending. It is not costly for the ring_buffer because
the number of initcall entries is commonly not really large.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:39:12 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
cb5ab74204 tracing/fastboot: change the printing of boot tracer according to bootgraph.pl
Change the boot tracer printing to make it parsable for
the scripts/bootgraph.pl script.

We have now to output two lines for each initcall, according to the
printk in do_one_initcall() in init/main.c
We need now the call's time and the return's time.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:39:11 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
77ae11f63b ring-buffer: fix build error
fix:

 kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c: In function ‘rb_allocate_pages’:
 kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c:235: error: ‘cpu’ undeclared (first use in this function)
 kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c:235: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
 kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c:235: error: for each function it appears in.)

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:39:10 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
38697053fa ftrace: preempt disable over interrupt disable
With the new ring buffer infrastructure in ftrace, I'm trying to make
ftrace a little more light weight.

This patch converts a lot of the local_irq_save/restore into
preempt_disable/enable.  The original preempt count in a lot of cases
has to be sent in as a parameter so that it can be recorded correctly.
Some places were recording it incorrectly before anyway.

This is also laying the ground work to make ftrace a little bit
more reentrant, and remove all locking. The function tracers must
still protect from reentrancy.

Note: All the function tracers must be careful when using preempt_disable.
  It must do the following:

  resched = need_resched();
  preempt_disable_notrace();
  [...]
  if (resched)
	preempt_enable_no_resched_notrace();
  else
	preempt_enable_notrace();

The reason is that if this function traces schedule() itself, the
preempt_enable_notrace() will cause a schedule, which will lead
us into a recursive failure.

If we needed to reschedule before calling preempt_disable, we
should have already scheduled. Since we did not, this is most
likely that we should not and are probably inside a schedule
function.

If resched was not set, we still need to catch the need resched
flag being set when preemption was off and the if case at the
end will catch that for us.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:39:09 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
e4c2ce82ca ring_buffer: allocate buffer page pointer
The current method of overlaying the page frame as the buffer page pointer
can be very dangerous and limits our ability to do other things with
a page from the buffer, like send it off to disk.

This patch allocates the buffer_page instead of overlaying the page's
page frame. The use of the buffer_page has hardly changed due to this.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:39:08 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
7104f300c5 ftrace: type cast filter+verifier
The mmiotrace map had a bug that would typecast the entry from
the trace to the wrong type. That is a known danger of C typecasts,
there's absolutely zero checking done on them.

Help that problem a bit by using a GCC extension to implement a
type filter that restricts the types that a trace record can be
cast into, and by adding a dynamic check (in debug mode) to verify
the type of the entry.

This patch adds a macro to assign all entries of ftrace using the type
of the variable and checking the entry id. The typecasts are now done
in the macro for only those types that it knows about, which should
be all the types that are allowed to be read from the tracer.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:39:07 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
797d3712a9 tracing/ftrace: adapt mmiotrace to the new type of print_line, fix
Correct the value's type of trace_empty function

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:39:06 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
d769041f86 ring_buffer: implement new locking
The old "lock always" scheme had issues with lockdep, and was not very
efficient anyways.

This patch does a new design to be partially lockless on writes.
Writes will add new entries to the per cpu pages by simply disabling
interrupts. When a write needs to go to another page than it will
grab the lock.

A new "read page" has been added so that the reader can pull out a page
from the ring buffer to read without worrying about the writer writing over
it. This allows us to not take the lock for all reads. The lock is
now only taken when a read needs to go to a new page.

This is far from lockless, and interrupts still need to be disabled,
but it is a step towards a more lockless solution, and it also
solves a lot of the issues that were noticed by the first conversion
of ftrace to the ring buffers.

Note: the ring_buffer_{un}lock API has been removed.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:39:05 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
70255b5e3f ring_buffer: remove raw from local_irq_save
The raw_local_irq_save causes issues with lockdep. We don't need it
so replace them with local_irq_save.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:39:04 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
9e9efffb78 tracing/ftrace: adapt the boot tracer to the new print_line type
This patch adapts the boot tracer to the new type of the
print_line callback.

It still relays entries it doesn't support to default output
functions.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:39:03 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
07f4e4f790 tracing/ftrace: adapt mmiotrace to the new type of print_line
Adapt mmiotrace to the new print_line type.
By default, it ignores (and consumes) types it doesn't support.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:39:02 +02:00
Pekka Paalanen
9ff4b9744c tracing/ftrace: fix pipe breaking
This patch fixes a bug which break the pipe when the seq is empty.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:39:01 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
2c4f035f6c tracing/ftrace: change the type of the print_line callback
We need a kind of disambiguation when a print_line callback
returns 0.

_There is not enough space to print all the entry.
 Please flush the seq and retry.
_I can't handle this type of entry

This patch changes the type of this callback for better information.

Also some changes have been made in this V2.

_ Only relay to default functions after the print_line callback fails.
_ This patch doesn't fix the issue with the broken pipe (see patch 2/4 for that)

Some things are still in discussion:

_ Find better names for the enum print_line_t values
_ Change the type of print_trace_line into boolean.

Patches to change that can be sent later.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:39:00 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
777e208d40 ftrace: take advantage of variable length entries
Now that the underlining ring buffer for ftrace now hold variable length
entries, we can take advantage of this by only storing the size of the
actual event into the buffer. This happens to increase the number of
entries in the buffer dramatically.

We can also get rid of the "trace_cont" operation, but I'm keeping that
until we have no more users. Some of the ftrace tracers can now change
their code to adapt to this new feature.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:38:59 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
3928a8a2d9 ftrace: make work with new ring buffer
This patch ports ftrace over to the new ring buffer.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:38:57 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
ed56829cb3 ring_buffer: reset buffer page when freeing
Mathieu Desnoyers pointed out that the freeing of the page frame needs
to be reset otherwise we might trigger BUG_ON in the page free code.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:38:56 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
a7b1374333 ring_buffer: add paranoid check for buffer page
If for some strange reason the buffer_page gets bigger, or the page struct
gets smaller, I want to know this ASAP.  The best way is to not let the
kernel compile.

This patch adds code to test the size of the struct buffer_page against the
page struct and will cause compile issues if the buffer_page ever gets bigger
than the page struct.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:38:55 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
7a8e76a382 tracing: unified trace buffer
This is a unified tracing buffer that implements a ring buffer that
hopefully everyone will eventually be able to use.

The events recorded into the buffer have the following structure:

  struct ring_buffer_event {
	u32 type:2, len:3, time_delta:27;
	u32 array[];
  };

The minimum size of an event is 8 bytes. All events are 4 byte
aligned inside the buffer.

There are 4 types (all internal use for the ring buffer, only
the data type is exported to the interface users).

 RINGBUF_TYPE_PADDING: this type is used to note extra space at the end
	of a buffer page.

 RINGBUF_TYPE_TIME_EXTENT: This type is used when the time between events
	is greater than the 27 bit delta can hold. We add another
	32 bits, and record that in its own event (8 byte size).

 RINGBUF_TYPE_TIME_STAMP: (Not implemented yet). This will hold data to
	help keep the buffer timestamps in sync.

RINGBUF_TYPE_DATA: The event actually holds user data.

The "len" field is only three bits. Since the data must be
4 byte aligned, this field is shifted left by 2, giving a
max length of 28 bytes. If the data load is greater than 28
bytes, the first array field holds the full length of the
data load and the len field is set to zero.

Example, data size of 7 bytes:

	type = RINGBUF_TYPE_DATA
	len = 2
	time_delta: <time-stamp> - <prev_event-time-stamp>
	array[0..1]: <7 bytes of data> <1 byte empty>

This event is saved in 12 bytes of the buffer.

An event with 82 bytes of data:

	type = RINGBUF_TYPE_DATA
	len = 0
	time_delta: <time-stamp> - <prev_event-time-stamp>
	array[0]: 84 (Note the alignment)
	array[1..14]: <82 bytes of data> <2 bytes empty>

The above event is saved in 92 bytes (if my math is correct).
82 bytes of data, 2 bytes empty, 4 byte header, 4 byte length.

Do not reference the above event struct directly. Use the following
functions to gain access to the event table, since the
ring_buffer_event structure may change in the future.

ring_buffer_event_length(event): get the length of the event.
	This is the size of the memory used to record this
	event, and not the size of the data pay load.

ring_buffer_time_delta(event): get the time delta of the event
	This returns the delta time stamp since the last event.
	Note: Even though this is in the header, there should
		be no reason to access this directly, accept
		for debugging.

ring_buffer_event_data(event): get the data from the event
	This is the function to use to get the actual data
	from the event. Note, it is only a pointer to the
	data inside the buffer. This data must be copied to
	another location otherwise you risk it being written
	over in the buffer.

ring_buffer_lock: A way to lock the entire buffer.
ring_buffer_unlock: unlock the buffer.

ring_buffer_alloc: create a new ring buffer. Can choose between
	overwrite or consumer/producer mode. Overwrite will
	overwrite old data, where as consumer producer will
	throw away new data if the consumer catches up with the
	producer.  The consumer/producer is the default.

ring_buffer_free: free the ring buffer.

ring_buffer_resize: resize the buffer. Changes the size of each cpu
	buffer. Note, it is up to the caller to provide that
	the buffer is not being used while this is happening.
	This requirement may go away but do not count on it.

ring_buffer_lock_reserve: locks the ring buffer and allocates an
	entry on the buffer to write to.
ring_buffer_unlock_commit: unlocks the ring buffer and commits it to
	the buffer.

ring_buffer_write: writes some data into the ring buffer.

ring_buffer_peek: Look at a next item in the cpu buffer.
ring_buffer_consume: get the next item in the cpu buffer and
	consume it. That is, this function increments the head
	pointer.

ring_buffer_read_start: Start an iterator of a cpu buffer.
	For now, this disables the cpu buffer, until you issue
	a finish. This is just because we do not want the iterator
	to be overwritten. This restriction may change in the future.
	But note, this is used for static reading of a buffer which
	is usually done "after" a trace. Live readings would want
	to use the ring_buffer_consume above, which will not
	disable the ring buffer.

ring_buffer_read_finish: Finishes the read iterator and reenables
	the ring buffer.

ring_buffer_iter_peek: Look at the next item in the cpu iterator.
ring_buffer_read: Read the iterator and increment it.
ring_buffer_iter_reset: Reset the iterator to point to the beginning
	of the cpu buffer.
ring_buffer_iter_empty: Returns true if the iterator is at the end
	of the cpu buffer.

ring_buffer_size: returns the size in bytes of each cpu buffer.
	Note, the real size is this times the number of CPUs.

ring_buffer_reset_cpu: Sets the cpu buffer to empty
ring_buffer_reset: sets all cpu buffers to empty

ring_buffer_swap_cpu: swaps a cpu buffer from one buffer with a
	cpu buffer of another buffer. This is handy when you
	want to take a snap shot of a running trace on just one
	cpu. Having a backup buffer, to swap with facilitates this.
	Ftrace max latencies use this.

ring_buffer_empty: Returns true if the ring buffer is empty.
ring_buffer_empty_cpu: Returns true if the cpu buffer is empty.

ring_buffer_record_disable: disable all cpu buffers (read only)
ring_buffer_record_disable_cpu: disable a single cpu buffer (read only)
ring_buffer_record_enable: enable all cpu buffers.
ring_buffer_record_enabl_cpu: enable a single cpu buffer.

ring_buffer_entries: The number of entries in a ring buffer.
ring_buffer_overruns: The number of entries removed due to writing wrap.

ring_buffer_time_stamp: Get the time stamp used by the ring buffer
ring_buffer_normalize_time_stamp: normalize the ring buffer time stamp
	into nanosecs.

I still need to implement the GTOD feature. But we need support from
the cpu frequency infrastructure.  But this can be done at a later
time without affecting the ring buffer interface.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:38:54 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
5aa60c6073 ftrace: give time for wakeup test to run
It is possible that the testing thread in the ftrace wakeup test does not
run before we stop the trace. This will cause the trace to fail since nothing
will be in the buffers.

This patch adds a small wait in the wakeup test to allow for the woken task
to run and be traced.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:38:53 +02:00
Frédéric Weisbecker
7c572ac0cf tracing/ftrace: don't consume unhandled entries by boot tracer
When the boot tracer can't handle an entry output, it returns 1.
It should return 0 to relay on other output functions.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:38:52 +02:00
Frédéric Weisbecker
3ce2b9200d ftrace/fastboot: disable tracers self-tests when boot tracer is selected
The tracing engine resets the ring buffer and the tracers touch it
too during self-tests. These self-tests happen during tracers registering
and work against boot tracing which is logging initcalls.

We have to disable tracing self-tests if the boot-tracer is selected.

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:38:51 +02:00
Frédéric Weisbecker
1f5c2abbde tracing/ftrace: give an entry on the config for boot tracer
Bring the entry to choose the boot tracer on the kernel config.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:38:49 +02:00
Frédéric Weisbecker
b5ad384e79 tracing/ftrace: make tracing suitable to run the boot tracer
The tracing engine have now to be init in early_initcall to set the
boot tracer. Only the debugfs settings will be initialized at
fs_initcall time.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:38:48 +02:00
Frédéric Weisbecker
d13744cd6e tracing/ftrace: add the boot tracer
Add the boot/initcall tracer.

It's primary purpose is to be able to trace the initcalls.

It is intended to be used with scripts/bootgraph.pl after some small
improvements.

Note that it is not active after its init. To avoid tracing (and so
crashing) before the whole tracing engine init, you have to explicitly
call start_boot_trace() after do_pre_smp_initcalls() to enable it.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:38:47 +02:00
Lai Jiangshan
1b7ae37c03 markers: bit-field is not thread-safe nor smp-safe
bit-field is not thread-safe nor smp-safe.

struct marker_entry.rcu_pending is not protected by any lock
in rcu-callback free_old_closure().
so we must turn it into a safe type.

detail:

I suppose rcu_pending and ptype are store in struct marker_entry.tmp1

free_old_closure() side:           change ptype side:

                                |  load struct marker_entry.tmp1
--------------------------------|--------------------------------
                                |  change ptype bit in tmp1
load struct marker_entry.tmp1   |
change rcu_pending bit in tmp1  |
store tmp1                      |
--------------------------------|--------------------------------
                                |  store tmp1

now this result equals that free_old_closure() do not change rcu_pending
bit, bug! This bug will cause redundant rcu_barrier_sched() called.
not too harmful.

----- corresponding:

free_old_closure() side:           change ptype side:

load struct marker_entry.tmp1   |
--------------------------------|--------------------------------
                                |  load struct marker_entry.tmp1
change rcu_pending bit in tmp1  |
                                |  change ptype bit in tmp1
                                |  store tmp1
--------------------------------|--------------------------------
store tmp1                      |

now this result equals that change ptype side do not change ptype
bit, bug! this bug cause marker_probe_cb() access to invalid memory.
oops!

see also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit_field

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:38:45 +02:00
Lai Jiangshan
48043bcdf8 markers: fix unchecked format
when the second, third... probe is registered, its format is
not checked, this patch fixes it.

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:38:42 +02:00
Mathieu Desnoyers
ed86a59071 markers: re-enable fast batch registration
Lai Jiangshan discovered a reentrancy issue with markers and fixed it by
adding synchronize_sched() calls at each registration/unregistraiton.

It works, but it removes the ability to do batch
registration/unregistration and can cause registration of ~100 markers
to take about 30 seconds on a loaded machine (synchronize_sched() is
much slower on such workloads).

This patch implements a version of the fix which won't slow down marker batch
registration/unregistration. It also go back to the original non-synchronized
reg/unreg.

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:38:38 +02:00
Mathieu Desnoyers
e2d3b75dbc markers: fix unregister bug and reenter bug, cleanup
Use the new rcu_read_lock_sched/unlock_sched() in marker code around the call
site instead of preempt_disable/enable(). It helps reviewing the code more
easily.

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:38:28 +02:00
Mathieu Desnoyers
9a1e9693f5 tracepoints: fix reentrancy
The tracepoints had the same problem markers did have wrt reentrancy. Apply a
similar fix using a rcu_barrier after each tracepoint mutex lock.

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:38:23 +02:00
Mathieu Desnoyers
ca2db6cf30 tracepoints: use rcu sched
Make tracepoints use rcu sched. (cleanup)

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:38:21 +02:00
Lai Jiangshan
d74185ed27 markers: fix unregister bug and reenter bug
unregister bug:

codes using makers are typically calling marker_probe_unregister()
and then destroying the data that marker_probe_func needs(or
unloading this module). This is bug when the corresponding
marker_probe_func is still running(on other cpus),
it is using the destroying/ed data.

we should call synchronize_sched() after marker_update_probes().

reenter bug:

marker_probe_register(), marker_probe_unregister() and
marker_probe_unregister_private_data() are not reentrant safe
functions. these 3 functions release markers_mutex and then
require it again and do "entry->oldptr = old; ...", but entry->oldptr
maybe is using now for these 3 functions may reenter when markers_mutex
is released.

we use synchronize_sched() instead of call_rcu_sched() to fix
this bug. actually we can do:
"
if (entry->rcu_pending)
		rcu_barrier_sched();
"
after require markers_mutex again. but synchronize_sched()
is better and simpler. For these 3 functions are not critical path.

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:38:19 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
05736a427f ftrace: warn on failure to disable mcount callers
With the recent updates to ftrace, there should not be any failures when
modifying the code. If there is, then we need to warn about it.

This patch has a cleaned up version of the code that I used to discover
that the weak symbols were causing failures.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:38:11 +02:00
Frédéric Weisbecker
43a15386c4 tracing/ftrace: replace none tracer by nop tracer
Replace "none" tracer by the recently created "nop" tracer.
Both are pretty similar except that nop accepts TRACE_PRINT
or TRACE_SPECIAL entries.

And as a consequence, changing the size of the ring buffer now
requires that tracing has already been disabled.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Steven Noonan <steven@uplinklabs.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:38:09 +02:00
Frédéric Weisbecker
2a3a4f669d tracing/ftrace: tracing engine depends on Nop Tracer
Now that the nop tracer is used as the default tracer by
replacing the "none" tracer, tracing engine depends on it.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Steven Noonan <steven@uplinklabs.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:38:06 +02:00
Frédéric Weisbecker
35cb5ed012 tracing/ftrace: make nop tracer reset previous entries
If nop tracer is selected, some old entries from the previous tracer
could still be enqueued. Tracing have to be reset.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Steven Noonan <steven@uplinklabs.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:38:04 +02:00
Steven Noonan
8925b394ec trace: remove pointless ifdefs
The functions are already 'extern' anyway, so there's no problem
with linkage. Removing these ifdefs also helps find any potential
compiler errors.

Suggested by Andrew Morton.

Signed-off-by: Steven Noonan <steven@uplinklabs.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:38:01 +02:00
Steven Noonan
71c67d58b5 ftrace: mcount_addr defined but not used
When CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE isn't used, neither is mcount_addr. This
patch eliminates that warning.

Signed-off-by: Steven Noonan <steven@uplinklabs.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:37:58 +02:00
Steven Noonan
fb1b6d8b51 ftrace: add nop tracer
A no-op tracer which can serve two purposes:

 1. A template for development of a new tracer.
 2. A convenient way to see ftrace_printk() calls without
    an irrelevant trace making the output messy.

[ mingo@elte.hu: resolved conflicts ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Noonan <steven@uplinklabs.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:37:43 +02:00
Pekka Paalanen
5bf9a1ee35 ftrace: inject markers via trace_marker file
Allow a user to inject a marker (TRACE_PRINT entry) into the trace ring
buffer. The related file operations are derived from code by Frédéric
Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:37:20 +02:00
Pekka Paalanen
fc5e27ae4b mmiotrace: handle TRACE_PRINT entries
Also make trace_seq_print_cont() non-static, and add a newline if the
seq buffer can't hold all data.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:37:14 +02:00
Pekka Paalanen
9e57fb35d7 x86 mmiotrace: implement mmiotrace_printk()
Offer mmiotrace users a function to inject markers from inside the kernel.
This depends on the trace_vprintk() patch.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:37:11 +02:00
Pekka Paalanen
801fe40001 ftrace: add trace_vprintk()
trace_vprintk() for easier implementation of tracer specific *_printk
functions. Add check check for no_tracer, and implement
__ftrace_printk() as a wrapper.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:37:07 +02:00
Pekka Paalanen
45dcd8b8a8 ftrace: move mmiotrace functions out of trace.c
Moves the mmiotrace specific functions from trace.c to
trace_mmiotrace.c. Functions trace_wake_up(), tracing_get_trace_entry(),
and tracing_generic_entry_update() are therefore made available outside
trace.c.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:37:04 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
644f991d4b ftrace: fix unlocking of hash
This must be brown paper bag week for Steven Rostedt!

While working on ftrace for PPC, I discovered that the hash locking done
when CONFIG_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD is not set, is totally incorrect.

With a cut and paste error, I had the hash lock macro to lock for both
hash_lock _and_ hash_unlock!

This bug did not affect x86 since this bug was introduced when
CONFIG_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD was added to x86.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:36:58 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
d3ee6d9928 ftrace: make it depend on DEBUG_KERNEL
make most of the tracers depend on DEBUG_KERNEL - that's their intended
purpose. (most distributions have DEBUG_KERNEL enabled anyway so this is
not a practical limitation - but it simplifies the tracing menu in the
normal case)

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:36:51 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
80b5e94005 ftrace: sched_switch: show the wakee's cpu
While profiling the smp behaviour of the scheduler it was needed to know to
which cpu a task got woken.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:36:48 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
f09ce573f5 ftrace: make ftrace_printk usable with the other tracers
Currently ftrace_printk only works with the ftrace tracer, switch it to an
iter_ctrl setting so we can make us of them with other tracers too.

[rostedt@redhat.com: tweak to the disable condition]

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:36:45 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
5a90f577e5 ftrace: print continue index fix
An item in the trace buffer that is bigger than one entry may be split
up using the TRACE_CONT entry. This makes it a virtual single entry.
The current code increments the iterator index even while traversing
TRACE_CONT entries, making it look like the iterator is further than
it actually is.

This patch adds code to not increment the iterator index while skipping
over TRACE_CONT entries.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:36:42 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
652567aa20 ftrace: binary and not logical for continue test
Peter Zijlstra provided me with a nice brown paper bag while letting me know
that I was doing a logical AND and not a binary one, making a condition
true more often than it should be.

Luckily, a false true is handled by the calling function and no harm is
done. But this needs to be fixed regardless.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:36:39 +02:00
Michael Ellerman
a6168353d1 ftrace: make output nicely spaced for up to 999 cpus
Currently some of the ftrace output goes skewiff if you have more
than 9 cpus, and some if you have more than 99.

Twiddle with the headers and format strings to make up to 999 cpus
display without causing spacing problems.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:36:34 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
2ff01c6a17 stack tracer: depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:36:31 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
1b6cced6ec ftrace: stack trace add indexes
This patch adds indexes into the stack that the functions in the
stack dump were found at. As an added bonus, I also added a diff
to show which function is the most notorious consumer of the stack.

The output now looks like this:

# cat /debug/tracing/stack_trace
        Depth   Size      Location    (48 entries)
        -----   ----      --------
  0)     2476     212   blk_recount_segments+0x39/0x59
  1)     2264      12   bio_phys_segments+0x16/0x1d
  2)     2252      20   blk_rq_bio_prep+0x23/0xaf
  3)     2232      12   init_request_from_bio+0x74/0x77
  4)     2220      56   __make_request+0x294/0x331
  5)     2164     136   generic_make_request+0x34f/0x37d
  6)     2028      56   submit_bio+0xe7/0xef
  7)     1972      28   submit_bh+0xd1/0xf0
  8)     1944     112   block_read_full_page+0x299/0x2a9
  9)     1832       8   blkdev_readpage+0x14/0x16
 10)     1824      28   read_cache_page_async+0x7e/0x109
 11)     1796      16   read_cache_page+0x11/0x49
 12)     1780      32   read_dev_sector+0x3c/0x72
 13)     1748      48   read_lba+0x4d/0xaa
 14)     1700     168   efi_partition+0x85/0x61b
 15)     1532      72   rescan_partitions+0x10e/0x266
 16)     1460      40   do_open+0x1c7/0x24e
 17)     1420     292   __blkdev_get+0x79/0x84
 18)     1128      12   blkdev_get+0x12/0x14
 19)     1116      20   register_disk+0xd1/0x11e
 20)     1096      28   add_disk+0x34/0x90
 21)     1068      52   sd_probe+0x2b1/0x366
 22)     1016      20   driver_probe_device+0xa5/0x120
 23)      996       8   __device_attach+0xd/0xf
 24)      988      32   bus_for_each_drv+0x3e/0x68
 25)      956      24   device_attach+0x56/0x6c
 26)      932      16   bus_attach_device+0x26/0x4d
 27)      916      64   device_add+0x380/0x4b4
 28)      852      28   scsi_sysfs_add_sdev+0xa1/0x1c9
 29)      824     160   scsi_probe_and_add_lun+0x919/0xa2a
 30)      664      36   __scsi_add_device+0x88/0xae
 31)      628      44   ata_scsi_scan_host+0x9e/0x21c
 32)      584      28   ata_host_register+0x1cb/0x1db
 33)      556      24   ata_host_activate+0x98/0xb5
 34)      532     192   ahci_init_one+0x9bd/0x9e9
 35)      340      20   pci_device_probe+0x3e/0x5e
 36)      320      20   driver_probe_device+0xa5/0x120
 37)      300      20   __driver_attach+0x3f/0x5e
 38)      280      36   bus_for_each_dev+0x40/0x62
 39)      244      12   driver_attach+0x19/0x1b
 40)      232      28   bus_add_driver+0x9c/0x1af
 41)      204      28   driver_register+0x76/0xd2
 42)      176      20   __pci_register_driver+0x44/0x71
 43)      156       8   ahci_init+0x14/0x16
 44)      148     100   _stext+0x42/0x122
 45)       48      20   kernel_init+0x175/0x1dc
 46)       28      28   kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10

The first column is simply an index starting from the inner most function
and counting down to the outer most.

The next column is the location that the function was found on the stack.

The next column is the size of the stack for that function.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:36:28 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
3b47bfc1fc ftrace: remove direct reference to mcount in trace code
The mcount record method of ftrace scans objdump for references to mcount.
Using mcount as the reference to test if the calls to mcount being replaced
are indeed calls to mcount, this use of mcount was also caught as a
location to change. Using a variable that points to the mcount address
moves this reference into the data section that is not scanned, and
we do not use a false location to try and modify.

The warn on code was what was used to detect this bug.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:36:22 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
e5a81b629e ftrace: add stack tracer
This is another tracer using the ftrace infrastructure, that examines
at each function call the size of the stack. If the stack use is greater
than the previous max it is recorded.

You can always see (and set) the max stack size seen. By setting it
to zero will start the recording again. The backtrace is also available.

For example:

# cat /debug/tracing/stack_max_size
1856

# cat /debug/tracing/stack_trace
[<c027764d>] stack_trace_call+0x8f/0x101
[<c021b966>] ftrace_call+0x5/0x8
[<c02553cc>] clocksource_get_next+0x12/0x48
[<c02542a5>] update_wall_time+0x538/0x6d1
[<c0245913>] do_timer+0x23/0xb0
[<c0257657>] tick_do_update_jiffies64+0xd9/0xf1
[<c02576b9>] tick_sched_timer+0x4a/0xad
[<c0250fe6>] __run_hrtimer+0x3e/0x75
[<c02518ed>] hrtimer_interrupt+0xf1/0x154
[<c022c870>] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x71/0x84
[<c021b7e9>] apic_timer_interrupt+0x2d/0x34
[<c0238597>] finish_task_switch+0x29/0xa0
[<c05abd13>] schedule+0x765/0x7be
[<c05abfca>] schedule_timeout+0x1b/0x90
[<c05ab4d4>] wait_for_common+0xab/0x101
[<c05ab5ac>] wait_for_completion+0x12/0x14
[<c033cfc3>] blk_execute_rq+0x84/0x99
[<c0402470>] scsi_execute+0xc2/0x105
[<c040250a>] scsi_execute_req+0x57/0x7f
[<c043afe0>] sr_test_unit_ready+0x3e/0x97
[<c043bbd6>] sr_media_change+0x43/0x205
[<c046b59f>] media_changed+0x48/0x77
[<c046b5ff>] cdrom_media_changed+0x31/0x37
[<c043b091>] sr_block_media_changed+0x16/0x18
[<c02b9e69>] check_disk_change+0x1b/0x63
[<c046f4c3>] cdrom_open+0x7a1/0x806
[<c043b148>] sr_block_open+0x78/0x8d
[<c02ba4c0>] do_open+0x90/0x257
[<c02ba869>] blkdev_open+0x2d/0x56
[<c0296a1f>] __dentry_open+0x14d/0x23c
[<c0296b32>] nameidata_to_filp+0x24/0x38
[<c02a1c68>] do_filp_open+0x347/0x626
[<c02967ef>] do_sys_open+0x47/0xbc
[<c02968b0>] sys_open+0x23/0x2b
[<c021aadd>] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x26

I've tested this on both x86_64 and i386.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:36:19 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
ac8825ec6d ftrace: clean up macro usage
enclose the argument in parenthesis. (especially since we cast it,
which is a high prio operation)

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:36:09 +02:00
Stephen Rothwell
2d7da80f71 ftrace: fix build failure
After disabling FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD via a patch, a dormant build
failure surfaced:

 kernel/trace/ftrace.c: In function 'ftrace_record_ip':
 kernel/trace/ftrace.c:416: error: incompatible type for argument 1 of '_spin_lock_irqsave'
 kernel/trace/ftrace.c:433: error: incompatible type for argument 1 of '_spin_lock_irqsave'

Introduced by commit 6dad8e07f4c10b17b038e84d29f3ca41c2e55cd0 ("ftrace:
add necessary locking for ftrace records").

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:36:06 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
99ecdc43bc ftrace: add necessary locking for ftrace records
The new design of pre-recorded mcounts and updating the code outside of
kstop_machine has changed the way the records themselves are protected.

This patch uses the ftrace_lock to protect the records. Note, the lock
still does not need to be taken within calls that are only called via
kstop_machine, since the that code can not run while the spin lock is held.

Also removed the hash_lock needed for the daemon when MCOUNT_RECORD is
configured. Also did a slight cleanup of an unused variable.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:35:47 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
00fd61aee1 ftrace: do not init module on ftrace disabled
If one of the self tests of ftrace has disabled the function tracer,
do not run the code to convert the mcount calls in modules.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:35:43 +02:00
Frédéric Weisbecker
98a983aad2 ftrace: fix some mistakes in error messages
This patch fixes some mistakes on the tracer in warning messages when
debugfs fails to create tracing files.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: srostedt@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:35:40 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
3f5a54e371 ftrace: dump out ftrace buffers to console on panic
At OLS I had a lot of interest to be able to have the ftrace buffers
dumped on panic.  Usually one would expect to uses kexec and examine
the buffers after a new kernel is loaded. But sometimes the resources
do not permit kdump and kexec, so having an option to still see the
sequence of events up to the crash is very advantageous.

This patch adds the option to have the ftrace buffers dumped to the
console in the latency_trace format on a panic. When the option is set,
the default entries per CPU buffer are lowered to 16384, since the writing
to the serial (if that is the console) may take an awful long time
otherwise.

[
 Changes since -v1:
  Got alpine to send correctly (as well as spell check working).
  Removed config option.
  Moved the static variables into ftrace_dump itself.
  Gave printk a log level.
]

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:35:26 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
2f2c99dba2 ftrace: ftrace_printk doc moved
Based on Randy Dunlap's suggestion, the ftrace_printk kernel-doc belongs
with the ftrace_printk macro that should be used. Not with the
__ftrace_printk internal function.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:35:22 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
dd0e545f06 ftrace: printk formatting infrastructure
This patch adds a feature that can help kernel developers debug their
code using ftrace.

  int ftrace_printk(const char *fmt, ...);

This records into the ftrace buffer using printf formatting. The entry
size in the buffers are still a fixed length. A new type has been added
that allows for more entries to be used for a single recording.

The start of the print is still the same as the other entries.

It returns the number of characters written to the ftrace buffer.

For example:

Having a module with the following code:

static int __init ftrace_print_test(void)
{
        ftrace_printk("jiffies are %ld\n", jiffies);
        return 0;
}

Gives me:

  insmod-5441  3...1 7569us : ftrace_print_test: jiffies are 4296626666

for the latency_trace file and:

          insmod-5441  [03]  1959.370498: ftrace_print_test jiffies are 4296626666

for the trace file.

Note: Only the infrastructure should go into the kernel. It is to help
facilitate debugging for other kernel developers. Calls to ftrace_printk
is not intended to be left in the kernel, and should be frowned upon just
like scattering printks around in the code.

But having this easily at your fingertips helps the debugging go faster
and bugs be solved quicker.

Maybe later on, we can hook this with markers and have their printf format
be sucked into ftrace output.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:35:19 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
2e2ca155cd ftrace: new continue entry - separate out from trace_entry
Some tracers will need to work with more than one entry. In order to do this
the trace_entry structure was split into two fields. One for the start of
all entries, and one to continue an existing entry.

The trace_entry structure now has a "field" entry that consists of the previous
content of the trace_entry, and a "cont" entry that is just a string buffer
the size of the "field" entry.

Thanks to Andrew Morton for suggesting this idea.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:35:15 +02:00
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
20272c8994 Merge branch 'proc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/adobriyan/proc
* 'proc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/adobriyan/proc:
  proc: remove kernel.maps_protect
  proc: remove now unneeded ADDBUF macro
  [PATCH] proc: show personality via /proc/pid/personality
  [PATCH] signal, procfs: some lock_task_sighand() users do not need rcu_read_lock()
  proc: move PROC_PAGE_MONITOR to fs/proc/Kconfig
  proc: make grab_header() static
  proc: remove unused get_dma_list()
  proc: remove dummy vmcore_open()
  proc: proc_sys_root tweak
  proc: fix return value of proc_reg_open() in "too late" case

Fixed up trivial conflict in removed file arch/sparc/include/asm/dma_32.h
2008-10-13 10:04:04 -07:00
Alan Cox
dbda4c0b97 tty: Fix abusers of current->sighand->tty
Various people outside the tty layer still stick their noses in behind the
scenes. We need to make sure they also obey the locking and referencing rules.

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
95f9bfc6b7 tty: Move tty_write_message out of kernel/printk
This is pure tty code so put it in the tty layer where it can be with the
locking relevant material it uses

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-13 09:51:41 -07:00
Alan Cox
9c9f4ded90 tty: Add a kref count
Introduce a kref to the tty structure and use it to protect the tty->signal
tty references. For now we don't introduce it for anything else.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-13 09:51:40 -07:00
Arjan van de Ven
dc4304f7de rangetimers: fix the bug reported by Ingo for real
and please hand me a brown paper bag

(thanks to Thomas for pointing out this very obvious bug)

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
2008-10-13 11:08:34 -04:00
David S. Miller
56c5d900db Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
Conflicts:

	sound/core/memalloc.c
2008-10-11 12:39:35 -07:00
Arjan van de Ven
030aebd2e4 rangetimer: fix BUG_ON reported by Ingo
There's a small race/chance that, while hrtimers are enabled globally,
they're later not enabled when we're calling the hrtimer_interrupt() function,
which then BUG_ON()'s for that. This patch closes that race/gap.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
2008-10-11 12:25:45 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
ead9d23d80 Merge phase #4 (X2APIC, APIC unification, CPU identification unification) of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-v28-for-linus-phase4-D' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (186 commits)
  x86, debug: print more information about unknown CPUs
  x86 setup: handle more than 8 CPU flag words
  x86: cpuid, fix typo
  x86: move transmeta cap read to early_init_transmeta()
  x86: identify_cpu_without_cpuid v2
  x86: extended "flags" to show virtualization HW feature in /proc/cpuinfo
  x86: move VMX MSRs to msr-index.h
  x86: centaur_64.c remove duplicated setting of CONSTANT_TSC
  x86: intel.c put workaround for old cpus together
  x86: let intel 64-bit use intel.c
  x86: make intel_64.c the same as intel.c
  x86: make intel.c have 64-bit support code
  x86: little clean up of intel.c/intel_64.c
  x86: make 64 bit to use amd.c
  x86: make amd_64 have 32 bit code
  x86: make amd.c have 64bit support code
  x86: merge header in amd_64.c
  x86: add srat_detect_node for amd64
  x86: remove duplicated force_mwait
  x86: cpu make amd.c more like amd_64.c v2
  ...
2008-10-11 11:51:16 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
0afe2db213 Merge branch 'x86/unify-cpu-detect' into x86-v28-for-linus-phase4-D
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
	arch/x86/kernel/signal_64.c
	include/asm-x86/cpufeature.h
2008-10-11 20:23:20 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
d84705969f Merge branch 'x86/apic' into x86-v28-for-linus-phase4-B
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/kernel/apic_32.c
	arch/x86/kernel/apic_64.c
	arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
	drivers/pci/intel-iommu.c
	include/asm-x86/cpufeature.h
	include/asm-x86/dma-mapping.h
2008-10-11 20:17:36 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
bf6f51e3a4 Merge phase #3 (IOMMU) of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-v28-for-linus-phase3-B' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (74 commits)
  AMD IOMMU: use iommu_device_max_index, fix
  AMD IOMMU: use iommu_device_max_index
  x86: add PCI IDs for AMD Barcelona PCI devices
  x86/iommu: use __GFP_ZERO instead of memset for GART
  x86/iommu: convert GART need_flush to bool
  x86/iommu: make GART driver checkpatch clean
  x86 gart: remove unnecessary initialization
  x86: restore old GART alloc_coherent behavior
  revert "x86: make GART to respect device's dma_mask about virtual mappings"
  x86: export pci-nommu's alloc_coherent
  iommu: remove fullflush and nofullflush in IOMMU generic option
  x86: remove set_bit_string()
  iommu: export iommu_area_reserve helper function
  AMD IOMMU: use coherent_dma_mask in alloc_coherent
  add AMD IOMMU tree to MAINTAINERS file
  AMD IOMMU: use cmd_buf_size when freeing the command buffer
  AMD IOMMU: calculate IVHD size with a function
  AMD IOMMU: remove unnecessary cast to u64 in the init code
  AMD IOMMU: free domain bitmap with its allocation order
  AMD IOMMU: simplify dma_mask_to_pages
  ...
2008-10-11 11:03:12 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
5b16a2212f Merge branch 'sched/clock' into sched/urgent 2008-10-11 18:50:45 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
098ef215b1 Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq
* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq:
  [CPUFREQ] Fix BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible code
  [CPUFREQ] Don't export governors for default governor
  [CPUFREQ][6/6] cpufreq: Add idle microaccounting in ondemand governor
  [CPUFREQ][5/6] cpufreq: Changes to get_cpu_idle_time_us(), used by ondemand governor
  [CPUFREQ][4/6] cpufreq_ondemand: Parameterize down differential
  [CPUFREQ][3/6] cpufreq: get_cpu_idle_time() changes in ondemand for idle-microaccounting
  [CPUFREQ][2/6] cpufreq: Change load calculation in ondemand for software coordination
  [CPUFREQ][1/6] cpufreq: Add cpu number parameter to __cpufreq_driver_getavg()
  [CPUFREQ] use deferrable delayed work init in conservative governor
  [CPUFREQ] drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c: Adjust error handling code involving cpufreq_cpu_put
  [CPUFREQ] add error handling for cpufreq_register_governor() error
  [CPUFREQ] acpi-cpufreq: add error handling for cpufreq_register_driver() error
  [CPUFREQ] Coding style fixes to arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/powernow-k6.c
  [CPUFREQ] Coding style fixes to arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c
2008-10-11 08:49:34 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
061b1bd394 Staging: add TAINT_CRAP for all drivers/staging code
We need to add a flag for all code that is in the drivers/staging/
directory to prevent all other kernel developers from worrying about
issues here, and to notify users that the drivers might not be as good
as they are normally used to.

Based on code from Andreas Gruenbacher and Jeff Mahoney to provide a
TAINT flag for the support level of a kernel module in the Novell
enterprise kernel release.

This is the kernel portion of this feature, the ability for the flag to
be set needs to be done in the build process and will happen in a
follow-up patch.

Cc: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-10-10 15:31:05 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
b922df7383 Merge branch 'rcu-v28-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'rcu-v28-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (21 commits)
  rcu: RCU-based detection of stalled CPUs for Classic RCU, fix
  rcu: RCU-based detection of stalled CPUs for Classic RCU
  rcu: add rcu_read_lock_sched() / rcu_read_unlock_sched()
  rcu: fix sparse shadowed variable warning
  doc/RCU: fix pseudocode in rcuref.txt
  rcuclassic: fix compiler warning
  rcu: use irq-safe locks
  rcuclassic: fix compilation NG
  rcu: fix locking cleanup fallout
  rcu: remove redundant ACCESS_ONCE definition from rcupreempt.c
  rcu: fix classic RCU locking cleanup lockdep problem
  rcu: trace fix possible mem-leak
  rcu: just rename call_rcu_bh instead of making it a macro
  rcu: remove list_for_each_rcu()
  rcu: fixes to include/linux/rcupreempt.h
  rcu: classic RCU locking and memory-barrier cleanups
  rcu: prevent console flood when one CPU sees another AWOL via RCU
  rcu, debug: detect stalled grace periods, cleanups
  rcu, debug: detect stalled grace periods
  rcu classic: new algorithm for callbacks-processing(v2)
  ...
2008-10-10 13:10:51 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
725c25819e Merge branches 'core/iommu', 'x86/amd-iommu' and 'x86/iommu' into x86-v28-for-linus-phase3-B
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/kernel/pci-gart_64.c
	include/asm-x86/dma-mapping.h
2008-10-10 19:47:12 +02:00
Dave Kleikamp
5b7dba4ff8 sched_clock: prevent scd->clock from moving backwards
When sched_clock_cpu() couples the clocks between two cpus, it may
increment scd->clock beyond the GTOD tick window that __update_sched_clock()
uses to clamp the clock.  A later call to __update_sched_clock() may move
the clock back to scd->tick_gtod + TICK_NSEC, violating the clock's
monotonic property.

This patch ensures that scd->clock will not be set backward.

Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-10 11:17:04 +02:00
Alexey Dobriyan
3bbfe05967 proc: remove kernel.maps_protect
After commit 831830b5a2 aka
"restrict reading from /proc/<pid>/maps to those who share ->mm or can ptrace"
sysctl stopped being relevant because commit moved security checks from ->show
time to ->start time (mm_for_maps()).

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com>
2008-10-10 04:24:51 +04:00
Lai Jiangshan
a6bebbc87a [PATCH] signal, procfs: some lock_task_sighand() users do not need rcu_read_lock()
lock_task_sighand() make sure task->sighand is being protected,
so we do not need rcu_read_lock().
[ exec() will get task->sighand->siglock before change task->sighand! ]

But code using rcu_read_lock() _just_ to protect lock_task_sighand()
only appear in procfs. (and some code in procfs use lock_task_sighand()
without such redundant protection.)

Other subsystem may put lock_task_sighand() into rcu_read_lock()
critical region, but these rcu_read_lock() are used for protecting
"for_each_process()", "find_task_by_vpid()" etc. , not for protecting
lock_task_sighand().

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
[ok from Oleg]
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
2008-10-10 04:18:57 +04:00
venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com
8083e4ad97 [CPUFREQ][5/6] cpufreq: Changes to get_cpu_idle_time_us(), used by ondemand governor
export get_cpu_idle_time_us() for it to be used in ondemand governor.
Last update time can be current time when the CPU is currently non-idle,
accounting for the busy time since last idle.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2008-10-09 13:52:44 -04:00
Ingo Molnar
a5d8c3483a sched debug: add name to sched_domain sysctl entries
add /proc/sys/kernel/sched_domain/cpu0/domain0/name, to make
it easier to see which specific scheduler domain remained at
that entry.

Since we process the scheduler domain tree and
simplify it, it's not always immediately clear during debugging
which domain came from where.

depends on CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG=y.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-09 17:13:06 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
cdbb92b31d Merge branch 'linus' into core/rcu 2008-10-09 00:17:25 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
2fb7635c4c sched: sync wakeups vs avg_overlap
While looking at the code I wondered why we always do:

  sync && avg_overlap < migration_cost

Which is a bit odd, since the overlap test was meant to detect sync wakeups
so using it to specialize sync wakeups doesn't make much sense.

Hence change the code to do:

  sync || avg_overlap < migration_cost

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-08 12:20:26 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
990d0f2ced Merge branches 'sched/devel', 'sched/cpu-hotplug', 'sched/cpusets' and 'sched/urgent' into sched/core 2008-10-08 11:31:02 +02:00
Jason Wessel
cc1e0f4f7a kgdb: call touch_softlockup_watchdog on resume
The softlockup watchdog needs to be touched when resuming the from the
kgdb stopped state to avoid the printk that a CPU is stuck if the
debugger was active for longer than the softlockup threshold.

Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
2008-10-06 13:50:59 -05:00
Li Zefan
34b3ede235 sched: remove redundant code in cpu_cgroup_create()
css will be initialized by cgroup core.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-06 08:13:34 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
2c10c22af0 Merge branch 'linus' into sched/devel 2008-10-06 08:13:18 +02:00
Dario Faggioli
f6121f4f87 sched_rt.c: resch needed in rt_rq_enqueue() for the root rt_rq
While working on the new version of the code for SCHED_SPORADIC I
noticed something strange in the present throttling mechanism. More
specifically in the throttling timer handler in sched_rt.c
(do_sched_rt_period_timer()) and in rt_rq_enqueue().

The problem is that, when unthrottling a runqueue, rt_rq_enqueue() only
asks for rescheduling if the runqueue has a sched_entity associated to
it (i.e., rt_rq->rt_se != NULL).
Now, if the runqueue is the root rq (which has a rt_se = NULL)
rescheduling does not take place, and it is delayed to some undefined
instant in the future.

This imply some random bandwidth usage by the RT tasks under throttling.
For instance, setting rt_runtime_us/rt_period_us = 950ms/1000ms an RT
task will get less than 95%. In our tests we got something varying
between 70% to 95%.
Using smaller time values, e.g., 95ms/100ms, things are even worse, and
I can see values also going down to 20-25%!!

The tests we performed are simply running 'yes' as a SCHED_FIFO task,
and checking the CPU usage with top, but we can investigate thoroughly
if you think it is needed.

Things go much better, for us, with the attached patch... Don't know if
it is the best approach, but it solved the issue for us.

Signed-off-by: Dario Faggioli <raistlin@linux.it>
Signed-off-by: Michael Trimarchi <trimarchimichael@yahoo.it>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-04 14:31:54 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner
07454bfff1 clockevents: check broadcast tick device not the clock events device
Impact: jiffies increment too fast.

Hugh Dickins noted that with NOHZ=n and HIGHRES=n jiffies get
incremented too fast. The reason is a wrong check in the broadcast
enter/exit code, which keeps the local apic timer in periodic mode
when the switch happens.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-10-04 10:51:07 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
d294eb83d8 cpusets: scan_for_empty_cpusets(), cpuset doesn't seem to be so const
This fixes a warning on latest -tip:

 kernel/cpuset.c: Dans la fonction «scan_for_empty_cpusets» :
 kernel/cpuset.c:1932: attention : passing argument 1 of «list_add_tail» discards qualifiers from pointer target type

Actually the struct cpuset *root passed in parameter to scan_for_empty_cpusets
is not supposed to be const since an entry is added on the tail of its list.
Just correct the qualifier.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-03 13:39:50 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
77af7e3403 softirq, warning fix: correct a format to avoid a warning
Last -tip gives this warning:

kernel/softirq.c: Dans la fonction «__do_softirq» :
kernel/softirq.c:216: attention : format «%ld» expects type «long int», but argument 2 has type «int»

This patch corrects the format type, and a small mistake in the "softirq" word.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-03 11:41:41 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
2ec2b482b1 rcu: RCU-based detection of stalled CPUs for Classic RCU, fix
fix the !CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR path:

 kernel/rcuclassic.c: In function '__rcu_pending':
 kernel/rcuclassic.c:609: error: too few arguments to function 'check_cpu_stall'

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-03 10:41:00 +02:00
Paul E. McKenney
2133b5d7ff rcu: RCU-based detection of stalled CPUs for Classic RCU
This patch adds stalled-CPU detection to Classic RCU.  This capability
is enabled by a new config variable CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR, which
defaults disabled.

This is a debugging feature to detect infinite loops in kernel code, not
something that non-kernel-hackers would be expected to care about.

This feature can detect looping CPUs in !PREEMPT builds and looping CPUs
with preemption disabled in PREEMPT builds.  This is essentially a port of
this functionality from the treercu patch, replacing the stall debug patch
that is already in tip/core/rcu (commit 67182ae1c4).

The changes from the patch in tip/core/rcu include making the config
variable name match that in treercu, changing from seconds to jiffies to
avoid spurious warnings, and printing a boot message when this feature
is enabled.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-03 10:36:08 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
b5259d9442 Merge commit 'v2.6.27-rc8' into core/rcu 2008-10-03 10:34:36 +02:00
Dan Carpenter
aa94fbd5cc fix error-path NULL deref in alloc_posix_timer()
Found by static checker (http://repo.or.cz/w/smatch.git).

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-02 15:53:13 -07:00
Thomas Gleixner
8e85b4b553 softirqs, debug: preemption check
if a preempt count leaks out of a softirq handler it can be very hard
to figure it out. Add a debug check for this.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-02 10:58:04 +02:00
David Brownell
0c5d1eb77a genirq: record trigger type
Genirq hasn't previously recorded the trigger type used by any given IRQ,
although some irq_chip support has done so.  That data can be useful when
troubleshooting.  This patch records it in the relevant irq_desc.status
bits, and improves consistency between the two driver-visible calls
affected:

 - Make set_irq_type() usage match request_irq() usage:
    * IRQ_TYPE_NONE should be a NOP; succeed, so irq_chip methods
      won't have to handle that case any more (many do it wrong).
    * IRQ_TYPE_PROBE is ignored; any buggy out-of-tree callers
      might need to switch over to the real IRQ probing code.
    * emit the same diagnostics (from shared utility code)

 - Their kerneldoc now reflects usage:
    * request_irq() flags include IRQF_TRIGGER_* to specify
      active edge(s)/level ... docs previously omitted that
    * set_irq_type() is declared in <linux/irq.h> so callers
      should use the (bit-equivalent) IRQ_TYPE_* symbols there

Also: adds a warning about shared IRQs that don't end up using the
requested trigger mode; and fix an unrelated "sparse" warning.

Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-02 10:24:09 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
d6d5aeb661 Merge commit 'v2.6.27-rc8' into genirq 2008-10-02 10:21:26 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
cf4b0b2c95 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:
  hrtimer: prevent migration of per CPU hrtimers
  hrtimer: mark migration state
  hrtimer: fix migration of CB_IRQSAFE_NO_SOFTIRQ hrtimers
  hrtimer: migrate pending list on cpu offline

Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Tested-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2008-09-30 08:39:28 -07:00
Amit K. Arora
64b9e0294d sched: minor optimizations in wake_affine and select_task_rq_fair
This patch does following:
o Removes unused variable and argument "rq".
o Optimizes one of the "if" conditions in wake_affine() - i.e.  if
  "balanced" is true, we need not do rest of the calculations in the
  condition.
o If this cpu is same as the previous cpu (on which woken up task
  was running when it went to sleep), no need to call wake_affine at all.

Signed-off-by: Amit K Arora <aarora@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-30 15:25:44 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
1508487e7f timers: fix itimer/many thread hang, fix
fix bogus rq dereference: v3 removed the locking but also removed the rq
initialization.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-30 08:28:17 +02:00
Thomas Petazzoni
bfcd17a6c5 Configure out file locking features
This patch adds the CONFIG_FILE_LOCKING option which allows to remove
support for advisory locks. With this patch enabled, the flock()
system call, the F_GETLK, F_SETLK and F_SETLKW operations of fcntl()
and NFS support are disabled. These features are not necessarly needed
on embedded systems. It allows to save ~11 Kb of kernel code and data:

   text          data     bss     dec     hex filename
1125436        118764  212992 1457192  163c28 vmlinux.old
1114299        118564  212992 1445855  160fdf vmlinux
 -11137    -200       0  -11337   -2C49 +/-

This patch has originally been written by Matt Mackall
<mpm@selenic.com>, and is part of the Linux Tiny project.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: matthew@wil.cx
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: mpm@selenic.com
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2008-09-29 17:56:57 -04:00
Balbir Singh
31a78f23ba mm owner: fix race between swapoff and exit
There's a race between mm->owner assignment and swapoff, more easily
seen when task slab poisoning is turned on.  The condition occurs when
try_to_unuse() runs in parallel with an exiting task.  A similar race
can occur with callers of get_task_mm(), such as /proc/<pid>/<mmstats>
or ptrace or page migration.

CPU0                                    CPU1
                                        try_to_unuse
                                        looks at mm = task0->mm
                                        increments mm->mm_users
task 0 exits
mm->owner needs to be updated, but no
new owner is found (mm_users > 1, but
no other task has task->mm = task0->mm)
mm_update_next_owner() leaves
                                        mmput(mm) decrements mm->mm_users
task0 freed
                                        dereferencing mm->owner fails

The fix is to notify the subsystem via mm_owner_changed callback(),
if no new owner is found, by specifying the new task as NULL.

Jiri Slaby:
mm->owner was set to NULL prior to calling cgroup_mm_owner_callbacks(), but
must be set after that, so as not to pass NULL as old owner causing oops.

Daisuke Nishimura:
mm_update_next_owner() may set mm->owner to NULL, but mem_cgroup_from_task()
and its callers need to take account of this situation to avoid oops.

Hugh Dickins:
Lockdep warning and hang below exec_mmap() when testing these patches.
exit_mm() up_reads mmap_sem before calling mm_update_next_owner(),
so exec_mmap() now needs to do the same.  And with that repositioning,
there's now no point in mm_need_new_owner() allowing for NULL mm.

Reported-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-09-29 08:41:47 -07:00
Thomas Gleixner
ccc7dadf73 hrtimer: prevent migration of per CPU hrtimers
Impact: per CPU hrtimers can be migrated from a dead CPU

The hrtimer code has no knowledge about per CPU timers, but we need to
prevent the migration of such timers and warn when such a timer is
active at migration time.

Explicitely mark the timers as per CPU and use a more understandable
mode descriptor for the interrupts safe unlocked callback mode, which
is used by hrtimer_sleeper and the scheduler code.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-09-29 17:09:14 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner
b00c1a99e7 hrtimer: mark migration state
Impact: during migration active hrtimers can be seen as inactive

The migration code removes the hrtimers from the queues of the dead
CPU and sets the state temporary to INACTIVE. The enqueue code sets it
to ACTIVE/PENDING again.

Prevent that the wrong state can be seen by using a separate migration
state bit.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-09-29 17:09:14 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner
41e1022eae hrtimer: fix migration of CB_IRQSAFE_NO_SOFTIRQ hrtimers
Impact: Stale timers after a CPU went offline.

commit 37bb6cb409
       hrtimer: unlock hrtimer_wakeup

changed the hrtimer sleeper callback mode to CB_IRQSAFE_NO_SOFTIRQ due
to locking problems. A result of this change is that when enqueue is
called for an already expired hrtimer the callback function is not
longer called directly from the enqueue code. The normal callers have
been fixed in the code, but the migration code which moves hrtimers
from a dead CPU to a live CPU was not made aware of this.

This can be fixed by checking the timer state after the call to
enqueue in the migration code.


Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-09-29 17:09:14 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner
7659e34967 hrtimer: migrate pending list on cpu offline
Impact: hrtimers which are on the pending list are not migrated at cpu
	offline and can be stale forever

Add the pending list migration when CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS is enabled

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-09-29 17:09:13 +02:00
Frank Mayhar
7086efe1c1 timers: fix itimer/many thread hang, v3
- fix UP lockup
- another set of UP/SMP cleanups and simplifications

Signed-off-by: Frank Mayhar <fmayhar@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-27 20:04:45 +02:00
Jason Wessel
d7161a6534 kgdb, x86, arm, mips, powerpc: ignore user space single stepping
On the x86 arch, user space single step exceptions should be ignored
if they occur in the kernel space, such as ptrace stepping through a
system call.

First check if it is kgdb that is executing a single step, then ensure
it is not an accidental traversal into the user space, while in kgdb,
any other time the TIF_SINGLESTEP is set, kgdb should ignore the
exception.

On x86, arm, mips and powerpc, the kgdb_contthread usage was
inconsistent with the way single stepping is implemented in the kgdb
core.  The arch specific stub should always set the
kgdb_cpu_doing_single_step correctly if it is single stepping.  This
allows kgdb to correctly process an instruction steps if ptrace
happens to be requesting an instruction step over a system call.

Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
2008-09-26 10:36:41 -05:00
Atsuo Igarashi
18d6522b86 kgdb: could not write to the last of valid memory with kgdb
On the ARM architecture, kgdb will crash the kernel if the last byte
of valid memory is written due to a flush_icache_range flushing
beyond the memory boundary.

Signed-off-by: Atsuo Igarashi <atsuo_igarashi@tripeaks.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
2008-09-26 10:36:41 -05:00
Ingo Molnar
13eb83754b IO resources, x86: ioremap sanity check to catch mapping requests exceeding, fix
fix this build error:

 kernel/resource.c: In function 'iomem_map_sanity_check':
 kernel/resource.c:842: error: implicit declaration of function 'r_next'
 kernel/resource.c:842: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast

r_next() was only available if CONFIG_PROCFS was enabled.

and fix this build warning:

 kernel/resource.c:855: warning: format '%llx' expects type 'long long unsigned int', but argument 2 has type 'resource_size_t'
 kernel/resource.c:855: warning: format '%llx' expects type 'long long unsigned int', but argument 3 has type 'long unsigned int'
 kernel/resource.c:855: warning: format '%llx' expects type 'long long unsigned int', but argument 4 has type 'resource_size_t'
 kernel/resource.c:855: warning: format '%llx' expects type 'long long unsigned int', but argument 5 has type 'resource_size_t'

resource_t can be 32 bits.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-26 10:10:12 +02:00
Suresh Siddha
379daf6290 IO resources, x86: ioremap sanity check to catch mapping requests exceeding the BAR sizes
Go through the iomem resource tree to check if any of the ioremap()
requests span more than any slot in the iomem resource tree and do
a WARN_ON() if we hit this check.

This will raise a red-flag, if some driver is mapping more than what
is needed. And hopefully identify possible corruptions much earlier.

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-26 09:42:20 +02:00
Bharata B Rao
b87f17242d sched: maintain only task entities in cfs_rq->tasks list
cfs_rq->tasks list is used by the load balancer to iterate
over all the tasks. Currently it holds all the entities
(both task and group entities) because of which there is
a need to check for group entities explicitly during load
balancing. This patch changes the cfs_rq->tasks list to
hold only task entities.

Signed-off-by: Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-25 11:24:11 +02:00
Roman Zippel
d40e944c25 ntp: improve adjtimex frequency rounding
Change PPM_SCALE_INV_SHIFT so that it doesn't throw away any input bits
(19 is the amount of the factor 2 in PPM_SCALE), the output frequency
can then be calculated back to its input value, as the inverse divide
produce a slightly larger value, which is then correctly rounded by the
final shift.

Reported-by: Martin Ziegler <ziegler@uni-freiburg.de>
Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-09-24 17:33:13 +02:00
Roman Zippel
5cd1c9c5cf timekeeping: fix rounding problem during clock update
Due to a rounding problem during a clock update it's possible for readers
to observe the clock jumping back by 1nsec.  The following simplified
example demonstrates the problem:

cycle	xtime
0	0
1000	999999.6
2000	1999999.2
3000	2999998.8
...

1500 =	1499999.4
=	0.0 + 1499999.4
=	999999.6 + 499999.8

When reading the clock only the full nanosecond part is used, while
timekeeping internally keeps nanosecond fractions.  If the clock is now
updated at cycle 1500 here, a nanosecond is missing due to the truncation.

The simple fix is to round up the xtime value during the update, this also
changes the distance to the reference time, but the adjustment will
automatically take care that it stays under control.

Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-09-24 17:33:13 +02:00
Maciej W. Rozycki
eb3f938fd6 ntp: let update_persistent_clock() sleep
This is a change that makes the 11-minute RTC update be run in the process
context.  This is so that update_persistent_clock() can sleep, which may
be required for certain types of RTC hardware -- most notably I2C devices.

Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Acked-by: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-09-24 17:33:12 +02:00
Oleg Nesterov
31d9284569 posix-timers: lock_timer: make it readable
Cleanup.  Imho makes the code much more understandable.  At least this
patch lessens both the source and compiled code.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: mingo@elte.hu
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-09-24 15:45:48 +02:00
Oleg Nesterov
5a51b713cc posix-timers: lock_timer: kill the bogus ->it_id check
lock_timer() checks that the timer found by idr_find(timer_id) has ->it_id
== timer_id.  This buys nothing.  This check can fail only if
sys_timer_create() unlocked idr_lock after idr_get_new(), but didn't set
->it_id = new_timer_id yet.  But in that case ->it_process == NULL so
lock_timer() can't succeed anyway.

Also remove a couple of unneeded typecasts.

Note that with or without this patch we have a small problem. 
sys_timer_create() doesn't ensure that the result of setting (say)
->it_sigev_notify must be visible if lock_timer() succeeds.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: mingo@elte.hu
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-09-24 15:45:48 +02:00
Oleg Nesterov
5a9fa73072 posix-timers: kill ->it_sigev_signo and ->it_sigev_value
With the recent changes ->it_sigev_signo and ->it_sigev_value are only
used in sys_timer_create(), kill them.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: mingo@elte.hu
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-09-24 15:45:48 +02:00
Oleg Nesterov
ef864c9588 posix-timers: sys_timer_create: cleanup the error handling
Cleanup.

- sys_timer_create() is big and complicated. The code above the "out:"
  label relies on the fact that "error" must be == 0. This is not very
  robust, make the code more explicit. Remove the unneeded initialization
  of error.

- If idr_get_new() succeeds (as it normally should), we check the returned
  value twice. Move the "-EAGAIN" check under "if (error)".

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: mingo@elte.hu
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-09-24 15:45:48 +02:00
Oleg Nesterov
717835d94d posix-timers: move the initialization of timer->sigq from send to create path
posix_timer_event() always populates timer->sigq with the same numbers,
move this code into sys_timer_create().

Note that with this patch we can kill it_sigev_signo and it_sigev_value.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: mingo@elte.hu
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-09-24 15:45:48 +02:00
Oleg Nesterov
36b2f04600 posix-timers: sys_timer_create: simplify and s/tasklist/rcu/
- Change the code to do rcu_read_lock() instead of taking tasklist_lock,
  it is safe to get_task_struct(p) if p was found under RCU.

  However, now we must not use process's sighand/signal, they may be NULL.
  We can use current->sighand/signal instead, this "process" must belong
  to the current's thread-group.

- Factor out the common code for 2 "if (timer_event_spec)" branches, the
  !timer_event_spec case can use current too.

- use spin_lock_irq() instead of _irqsave(), kill "flags".

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: mingo@elte.hu
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-09-24 15:45:48 +02:00
Oleg Nesterov
2cd499e38e posix-timers: sys_timer_create: remove the buggy PF_EXITING check
sys_timer_create() return -EINVAL if the target thread has PF_EXITING.

This doesn't really make sense, the sub-thread can die right after unlock.
And in fact, this is just wrong.  Without SIGEV_THREAD_ID good_sigevent()
returns ->group_leader, and it is very possible that the leader is already
dead.  This is OK, we shouldn't return the error in this case.

Remove this check and the comment.  Note that the "process" was found
under tasklist_lock, it must have ->sighand != NULL.

Also, remove a couple of unneeded initializations.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: mingo@elte.hu
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-09-24 15:45:47 +02:00
Oleg Nesterov
918fc03728 posix-timers: always do get_task_struct(timer->it_process)
Change the code to get/put timer->it_process regardless of
SIGEV_THREAD_ID.  This streamlines the create/destroy paths and allows us
to simplify the usage of exit_itimers() in de_thread().

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: mingo@elte.hu
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-09-24 15:45:47 +02:00
Oleg Nesterov
4aa7361179 posix-timers: don't switch to ->group_leader if ->it_process dies
posix_timer_event() drops SIGEV_THREAD_ID and switches to ->group_leader
if send_sigqueue() fails.

This is not very useful and doesn't work reliably.  send_sigqueue() can
only fail if ->it_process is dead.  But it can die before it dequeues the
SI_TIMER signal, in that case the timer stops anyway.

Remove this code.  I guess it was needed a long ago to ensure that the
timer is not destroyed when when its creator thread dies.

Q: perhaps it makes sense to change sys_timer_settime() to return an error
if ->it_process is dead?

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: mingo@elte.hu
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-09-24 15:45:47 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
8553f321e0 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:
  timers: fix build error in !oneshot case
  x86: c1e_idle: don't mark TSC unstable if CPU has invariant TSC
  x86: prevent C-states hang on AMD C1E enabled machines
  clockevents: prevent mode mismatch on cpu online
  clockevents: check broadcast device not tick device
  clockevents: prevent stale tick_next_period for onlining CPUs
  x86: prevent stale state of c1e_mask across CPU offline/online
  clockevents: prevent cpu online to interfere with nohz
2008-09-23 14:57:36 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
be3be89058 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 init_hrtick() section mismatch warning
2008-09-23 14:57:22 -07:00
Jonathan Steel
f9092f358b kexec: fix segmentation fault in kimage_add_entry
A segmentation fault can occur in kimage_add_entry in kexec.c when loading
a kernel image into memory.  The fault occurs because a page is requested
by calling kimage_alloc_page with gfp_mask GFP_KERNEL and the function may
actually return a page with gfp_mask GFP_HIGHUSER.  The high mem page is
returned because it was swapped with the kernel page due to the kernel
page being a page that will shortly be copied to.

This patch ensures that kimage_alloc_page returns a page that was created
with the correct gfp flags.

I have verified the change and fixed the whitespace damage of the original
patch.  Jonathan did a great job of tracking this down after he hit the
problem.  -- Eric

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Steel <jon.steel@esentire.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-09-23 08:09:14 -07:00
Peter Zijlstra
57fdc26d4a sched: fixup buddy selection
We should set the buddy even though we might already have the
TIF_RESCHED flag set.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-23 16:23:17 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
4653f803e6 sched: more sanity checks on the bandwidth settings
While playing around with it, I noticed we missed some sanity checks.
Also add some comments while we're there.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-23 16:23:16 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
78333cdd0e sched: add some comments to the bandwidth code
Hopefully clarify some of this code a little.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-23 16:23:16 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
940959e939 sched: fixlet for group load balance
We should not only correct the increment for the initial group, but should
be consistent and do so for all the groups we encounter.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-23 16:23:15 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
63e5c39859 Merge branches 'sched/urgent' and 'sched/rt' into sched/devel 2008-09-23 16:23:05 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
6956985009 sched: rework wakeup preemption
Rework the wakeup preemption to work on real runtime instead of
the virtual runtime. This greatly simplifies the code.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-23 14:54:23 +02:00
Frank Mayhar
bb34d92f64 timers: fix itimer/many thread hang, v2
This is the second resubmission of the posix timer rework patch, posted
a few days ago.

This includes the changes from the previous resubmittion, which addressed
Oleg Nesterov's comments, removing the RCU stuff from the patch and
un-inlining the thread_group_cputime() function for SMP.

In addition, per Ingo Molnar it simplifies the UP code, consolidating much
of it with the SMP version and depending on lower-level SMP/UP handling to
take care of the differences.

It also cleans up some UP compile errors, moves the scheduler stats-related
macros into kernel/sched_stats.h, cleans up a merge error in
kernel/fork.c and has a few other minor fixes and cleanups as suggested
by Oleg and Ingo. Thanks for the review, guys.

Signed-off-by: Frank Mayhar <fmayhar@google.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-23 13:38:44 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
f8e256c687 timers: fix build error in !oneshot case
kernel/time/tick-common.c: In function ‘tick_setup_periodic’:
 kernel/time/tick-common.c:113: error: implicit declaration of function ‘tick_broadcast_oneshot_active’

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-23 12:57:00 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner
27ce4cb4a0 clockevents: prevent mode mismatch on cpu online
Impact: timer hang on CPU online observed on AMD C1E systems

When a CPU is brought online then the broadcast machinery can
be in the one shot state already. Check this and setup the timer 
device of the new CPU in one shot mode so the broadcast code
can pick up the next_event value correctly.

Another AMD C1E oddity, as we switch to broadcast immediately and
not after the full bring up via the ACPI cpu idle code.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-09-23 11:38:53 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner
302745699c clockevents: check broadcast device not tick device
Impact: Possible hang on CPU online observed on AMD C1E machines.

The broadcast setup code looks at the mode of the tick device to
determine whether it needs to be shut down or setup. This is wrong
when the broadcast mode is set to one shot already. This can happen
when a CPU is brought online as it goes through the periodic setup
first.

The problem went unnoticed as sane systems do not call into that code
before the switch to one shot for the clock event device happens.
The AMD C1E idle routine switches over immediately and thereby shuts
down the just setup device before the first interrupt happens.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-09-23 11:38:53 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner
49d670fb8d clockevents: prevent stale tick_next_period for onlining CPUs
Impact: possible hang on CPU onlining in timer one shot mode.

The tick_next_period variable is only used during boot on nohz/highres
enabled systems, but for CPU onlining it needs to be maintained when
the per cpu clock events device operates in one shot mode.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-09-23 11:38:53 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner
6441402b1f clockevents: prevent cpu online to interfere with nohz
Impact: rare hang which can be triggered on CPU online.

tick_do_timer_cpu keeps track of the CPU which updates jiffies
via do_timer. The value -1 is used to signal, that currently no
CPU is doing this. There are two cases, where the variable can 
have this state:

 boot:
    necessary for systems where the boot cpu id can be != 0

 nohz long idle sleep:
    When the CPU which did the jiffies update last goes into
    a long idle sleep it drops the update jiffies duty so
    another CPU which is not idle can pick it up and keep
    jiffies going.

Using the same value for both situations is wrong, as the CPU online
code can see the -1 state when the timer of the newly onlined CPU is
setup. The setup for a newly onlined CPU goes through periodic mode
and can pick up the do_timer duty without being aware of the nohz /
highres mode of the already running system.

Use two separate states and make them constants to avoid magic
numbers confusion. 

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-09-23 11:38:52 +02:00
Harvey Harrison
3a72dc8eb5 rcu: fix sparse shadowed variable warning
kernel/rcuclassic.c:564:18: warning: symbol 'flags' shadows an earlier one
kernel/rcuclassic.c:527:16: originally declared here

Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-23 11:04:30 +02:00
Andrew Morton
006c75f146 sched: clarify ifdef tangle
- Add some comments to try to make the ifdef puzzle a bit clearer

- Explicitly inline one of the three init_hrtick() implementations.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-23 11:02:31 +02:00
Rakib Mullick
fa74820317 sched: fix init_hrtick() section mismatch warning
LD      kernel/built-in.o
WARNING: kernel/built-in.o(.text+0x326): Section mismatch in reference
from the function init_hrtick() to the variable
.cpuinit.data:hotplug_hrtick_nb.8
The function init_hrtick() references
the variable __cpuinitdata hotplug_hrtick_nb.8.
This is often because init_hrtick lacks a __cpuinitdata
annotation or the annotation of hotplug_hrtick_nb.8 is wrong.

Signed-off-by: Md.Rakib H. Mullick <rakib.mullick@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-23 11:02:13 +02:00
Chris Friesen
caea8a0370 sched: fix list traversal to use _rcu variant
load_balance_fair() calls rcu_read_lock() but then traverses the list
 using the regular list traversal routine.  This patch converts the
list traversal to use the _rcu version.

Signed-off-by: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-22 19:43:10 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
f681bbd656 sched: turn off WAKEUP_OVERLAP
WAKEUP_OVERLAP is not a winner on a 16way box, running psql+sysbench:

       .27-rc7-NO_WAKEUP_OVERLAP  .27-rc7-WAKEUP_OVERLAP
-------------------------------------------------
    1:             694              811    +14.39%
    2:            1454             1427    -1.86%
    4:            3017             3070    +1.70%
    8:            5694             5808    +1.96%
   16:           10592            10612    +0.19%
   32:            9693             9647    -0.48%
   64:            8507             8262    -2.97%
  128:            8402             7087    -18.55%
  256:            8419             5124    -64.30%
  512:            7990             3671    -117.62%
-------------------------------------------------
  SUM:           64466            55524    -16.11%

... so turn it off by default.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-22 16:29:00 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
15afe09bf4 sched: wakeup preempt when small overlap
Lin Ming reported a 10% OLTP regression against 2.6.27-rc4.

The difference seems to come from different preemption agressiveness,
which affects the cache footprint of the workload and its effective
cache trashing.

Aggresively preempt a task if its avg overlap is very small, this should
avoid the task going to sleep and find it still running when we schedule
back to it - saving a wakeup.

Reported-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-22 16:28:32 +02:00
Mark McLoughlin
d7cfb60c5c hrtimer: remove hrtimer_clock_base::get_softirq_time()
Peter Zijlstra noticed this 8 months ago and I just noticed
it again.

hrtimer_clock_base::get_softirq_time() is currently unused
in the entire tree. In fact, looking at the logs, it appears
as if it was never used. Remove it.

Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-22 13:52:42 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
b4df9d88a6 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 deadlock in setting scheduler parameter to zero
  sched: fix 2.6.27-rc5 couldn't boot on tulsa machine randomly
2008-09-19 16:17:12 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
902f2ac9da 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:
  clockevents: make device shutdown robust
  clocksource, acpi_pm.c: fix check for monotonicity
  clockevents: remove WARN_ON which was used to gather information
2008-09-19 16:16:50 -07:00
David S. Miller
2e57572a50 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6
Conflicts:

	arch/sparc64/kernel/pci_psycho.c
2008-09-16 14:11:43 -07:00
Thomas Gleixner
2344abbcbd clockevents: make device shutdown robust
The device shut down does not cleanup the next_event variable of the
clock event device. So when the device is reactivated the possible
stale next_event value can prevent the device to be reprogrammed as it
claims to wait on a event already.

This is the root cause of the resurfacing suspend/resume problem,
where systems need key press to come back to life.

Fix this by setting next_event to KTIME_MAX when the device is shut
down. Use a separate function for shutdown which takes care of that
and only keep the direct set mode call in the broadcast code, where we
can not touch the next_event value.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-09-16 13:47:02 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
9dfed08eb4 Merge commit 'v2.6.27-rc6' into core/resources 2008-09-14 17:23:29 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
5ce73a4a5a timers: fix itimer/many thread hang, cleanups
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-14 17:11:46 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
430b5294bd timers: fix itimer/many thread hang, fix
fix:

 kernel/fork.c:843: error: ‘struct signal_struct’ has no member named ‘sum_sched_runtime’
 kernel/irq/handle.c:117: warning: ‘sparse_irq_lock’ defined but not used

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-14 16:40:11 +02:00
Frank Mayhar
f06febc96b timers: fix itimer/many thread hang
Overview

This patch reworks the handling of POSIX CPU timers, including the
ITIMER_PROF, ITIMER_VIRT timers and rlimit handling.  It was put together
with the help of Roland McGrath, the owner and original writer of this code.

The problem we ran into, and the reason for this rework, has to do with using
a profiling timer in a process with a large number of threads.  It appears
that the performance of the old implementation of run_posix_cpu_timers() was
at least O(n*3) (where "n" is the number of threads in a process) or worse.
Everything is fine with an increasing number of threads until the time taken
for that routine to run becomes the same as or greater than the tick time, at
which point things degrade rather quickly.

This patch fixes bug 9906, "Weird hang with NPTL and SIGPROF."

Code Changes

This rework corrects the implementation of run_posix_cpu_timers() to make it
run in constant time for a particular machine.  (Performance may vary between
one machine and another depending upon whether the kernel is built as single-
or multiprocessor and, in the latter case, depending upon the number of
running processors.)  To do this, at each tick we now update fields in
signal_struct as well as task_struct.  The run_posix_cpu_timers() function
uses those fields to make its decisions.

We define a new structure, "task_cputime," to contain user, system and
scheduler times and use these in appropriate places:

struct task_cputime {
	cputime_t utime;
	cputime_t stime;
	unsigned long long sum_exec_runtime;
};

This is included in the structure "thread_group_cputime," which is a new
substructure of signal_struct and which varies for uniprocessor versus
multiprocessor kernels.  For uniprocessor kernels, it uses "task_cputime" as
a simple substructure, while for multiprocessor kernels it is a pointer:

struct thread_group_cputime {
	struct task_cputime totals;
};

struct thread_group_cputime {
	struct task_cputime *totals;
};

We also add a new task_cputime substructure directly to signal_struct, to
cache the earliest expiration of process-wide timers, and task_cputime also
replaces the it_*_expires fields of task_struct (used for earliest expiration
of thread timers).  The "thread_group_cputime" structure contains process-wide
timers that are updated via account_user_time() and friends.  In the non-SMP
case the structure is a simple aggregator; unfortunately in the SMP case that
simplicity was not achievable due to cache-line contention between CPUs (in
one measured case performance was actually _worse_ on a 16-cpu system than
the same test on a 4-cpu system, due to this contention).  For SMP, the
thread_group_cputime counters are maintained as a per-cpu structure allocated
using alloc_percpu().  The timer functions update only the timer field in
the structure corresponding to the running CPU, obtained using per_cpu_ptr().

We define a set of inline functions in sched.h that we use to maintain the
thread_group_cputime structure and hide the differences between UP and SMP
implementations from the rest of the kernel.  The thread_group_cputime_init()
function initializes the thread_group_cputime structure for the given task.
The thread_group_cputime_alloc() is a no-op for UP; for SMP it calls the
out-of-line function thread_group_cputime_alloc_smp() to allocate and fill
in the per-cpu structures and fields.  The thread_group_cputime_free()
function, also a no-op for UP, in SMP frees the per-cpu structures.  The
thread_group_cputime_clone_thread() function (also a UP no-op) for SMP calls
thread_group_cputime_alloc() if the per-cpu structures haven't yet been
allocated.  The thread_group_cputime() function fills the task_cputime
structure it is passed with the contents of the thread_group_cputime fields;
in UP it's that simple but in SMP it must also safely check that tsk->signal
is non-NULL (if it is it just uses the appropriate fields of task_struct) and,
if so, sums the per-cpu values for each online CPU.  Finally, the three
functions account_group_user_time(), account_group_system_time() and
account_group_exec_runtime() are used by timer functions to update the
respective fields of the thread_group_cputime structure.

Non-SMP operation is trivial and will not be mentioned further.

The per-cpu structure is always allocated when a task creates its first new
thread, via a call to thread_group_cputime_clone_thread() from copy_signal().
It is freed at process exit via a call to thread_group_cputime_free() from
cleanup_signal().

All functions that formerly summed utime/stime/sum_sched_runtime values from
from all threads in the thread group now use thread_group_cputime() to
snapshot the values in the thread_group_cputime structure or the values in
the task structure itself if the per-cpu structure hasn't been allocated.

Finally, the code in kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c has changed quite a bit.
The run_posix_cpu_timers() function has been split into a fast path and a
slow path; the former safely checks whether there are any expired thread
timers and, if not, just returns, while the slow path does the heavy lifting.
With the dedicated thread group fields, timers are no longer "rebalanced" and
the process_timer_rebalance() function and related code has gone away.  All
summing loops are gone and all code that used them now uses the
thread_group_cputime() inline.  When process-wide timers are set, the new
task_cputime structure in signal_struct is used to cache the earliest
expiration; this is checked in the fast path.

Performance

The fix appears not to add significant overhead to existing operations.  It
generally performs the same as the current code except in two cases, one in
which it performs slightly worse (Case 5 below) and one in which it performs
very significantly better (Case 2 below).  Overall it's a wash except in those
two cases.

I've since done somewhat more involved testing on a dual-core Opteron system.

Case 1: With no itimer running, for a test with 100,000 threads, the fixed
	kernel took 1428.5 seconds, 513 seconds more than the unfixed system,
	all of which was spent in the system.  There were twice as many
	voluntary context switches with the fix as without it.

Case 2: With an itimer running at .01 second ticks and 4000 threads (the most
	an unmodified kernel can handle), the fixed kernel ran the test in
	eight percent of the time (5.8 seconds as opposed to 70 seconds) and
	had better tick accuracy (.012 seconds per tick as opposed to .023
	seconds per tick).

Case 3: A 4000-thread test with an initial timer tick of .01 second and an
	interval of 10,000 seconds (i.e. a timer that ticks only once) had
	very nearly the same performance in both cases:  6.3 seconds elapsed
	for the fixed kernel versus 5.5 seconds for the unfixed kernel.

With fewer threads (eight in these tests), the Case 1 test ran in essentially
the same time on both the modified and unmodified kernels (5.2 seconds versus
5.8 seconds).  The Case 2 test ran in about the same time as well, 5.9 seconds
versus 5.4 seconds but again with much better tick accuracy, .013 seconds per
tick versus .025 seconds per tick for the unmodified kernel.

Since the fix affected the rlimit code, I also tested soft and hard CPU limits.

Case 4: With a hard CPU limit of 20 seconds and eight threads (and an itimer
	running), the modified kernel was very slightly favored in that while
	it killed the process in 19.997 seconds of CPU time (5.002 seconds of
	wall time), only .003 seconds of that was system time, the rest was
	user time.  The unmodified kernel killed the process in 20.001 seconds
	of CPU (5.014 seconds of wall time) of which .016 seconds was system
	time.  Really, though, the results were too close to call.  The results
	were essentially the same with no itimer running.

Case 5: With a soft limit of 20 seconds and a hard limit of 2000 seconds
	(where the hard limit would never be reached) and an itimer running,
	the modified kernel exhibited worse tick accuracy than the unmodified
	kernel: .050 seconds/tick versus .028 seconds/tick.  Otherwise,
	performance was almost indistinguishable.  With no itimer running this
	test exhibited virtually identical behavior and times in both cases.

In times past I did some limited performance testing.  those results are below.

On a four-cpu Opteron system without this fix, a sixteen-thread test executed
in 3569.991 seconds, of which user was 3568.435s and system was 1.556s.  On
the same system with the fix, user and elapsed time were about the same, but
system time dropped to 0.007 seconds.  Performance with eight, four and one
thread were comparable.  Interestingly, the timer ticks with the fix seemed
more accurate:  The sixteen-thread test with the fix received 149543 ticks
for 0.024 seconds per tick, while the same test without the fix received 58720
for 0.061 seconds per tick.  Both cases were configured for an interval of
0.01 seconds.  Again, the other tests were comparable.  Each thread in this
test computed the primes up to 25,000,000.

I also did a test with a large number of threads, 100,000 threads, which is
impossible without the fix.  In this case each thread computed the primes only
up to 10,000 (to make the runtime manageable).  System time dominated, at
1546.968 seconds out of a total 2176.906 seconds (giving a user time of
629.938s).  It received 147651 ticks for 0.015 seconds per tick, still quite
accurate.  There is obviously no comparable test without the fix.

Signed-off-by: Frank Mayhar <fmayhar@google.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-14 16:25:35 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
6e03f99803 Merge branch 'linus' into x86/iommu
Conflicts:
	lib/swiotlb.c

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-14 14:07:00 +02:00
Li Zefan
4e74339af6 cpuset: avoid changing cpuset's cpus when -errno returned
After the patch:

commit 0b2f630a28
Author: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>
Date:   Fri Jul 25 01:47:21 2008 -0700

    cpusets: restructure the function update_cpumask() and update_nodemask()

It might happen that 'echo 0 > /cpuset/sub/cpus' returned failure but 'cpus'
has been changed, because cpus was changed before calling heap_init() which
may return -ENOMEM.

This patch restores the orginal behavior.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-09-13 14:41:50 -07:00
David S. Miller
17f04fbb0f sysctl: Use header file for sysctl knob declarations on sparc.
This also takes care of a sparse warning as scons_pwroff's definition
point.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-09-11 23:33:53 -07:00
David S. Miller
72c57ed506 sysctl: Use CONFIG_SPARC instead of __sparc__ for ifdef tests.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-09-11 23:29:54 -07:00
Arjan van de Ven
2e94d1f71f hrtimer: peek at the timer queue just before going idle
As part of going idle, we already look at the time of the next timer event to determine
which C-state to select etc.

This patch adds functionality that causes the timers that are past their
soft expire time, to fire at this time, before we calculate the next wakeup
time. This functionality will thus avoid wakeups by running timers before
going idle rather than specially waking up for it.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
2008-09-11 07:17:49 -07:00
Arjan van de Ven
ae4b748e81 hrtimer: make the futex() system call use the per process slack value
This patch makes the futex() system call use the per process
slack value; with this users are able to externally control existing
applications to reduce the wakeup rate.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
2008-09-11 07:17:00 -07:00
Arjan van de Ven
3bd012060f hrtimer: make the nanosleep() syscall use the per process slack
This patch makes the nanosleep() system call use the per process
slack value; with this users are able to externally control existing
applications to reduce the wakeup rate.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
2008-09-11 07:16:55 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
09b22a2f67 Merge commit 'v2.6.27-rc6' into sched/devel 2008-09-11 13:37:28 +02:00
Hiroshi Shimamoto
ec5d498991 sched: fix deadlock in setting scheduler parameter to zero
Andrei Gusev wrote:

> I played witch scheduler settings. After doing something like:
> echo -n 1000000 >sched_rt_period_us
>
> command is locked. I found in kernel.log:
>
> Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra
> Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra Pid: 4495, comm: bash Tainted: G        W
> (2.6.26.3 #12)
> Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra EIP: 0060:[<c0213fc7>] EFLAGS: 00210246 CPU: 0
> Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra EIP is at div64_u64+0x57/0x80
> Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra EAX: 0000389f EBX: 00000000 ECX: 00000000
> EDX: 00000000
> Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra ESI: d9800000 EDI: d9800000 EBP: 0000389f
> ESP: ea7a6edc
> Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 0000 GS: 0033 SS: 0068
> Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra Process bash (pid: 4495, ti=ea7a6000
> task=ea744000 task.ti=ea7a6000)
> Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra Stack: 00000000 000003e8 d9800000 0000389f
> c0119042 00000000 00000000 00000001
> Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra 00000000 00000000 ea7a6f54 00010000 00000000
> c04d2e80 00000001 000e7ef0
> Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra c01191a3 00000000 00000000 ea7a6fa0 00000001
> ffffffff c04d2e80 ea5b2480
> Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra Call Trace:
> Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra [<c0119042>] __rt_schedulable+0x52/0x130
> Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra [<c01191a3>] sched_rt_handler+0x83/0x120
> Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra [<c01a76a6>] proc_sys_call_handler+0xb6/0xd0
> Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra [<c01a76c0>] proc_sys_write+0x0/0x20
> Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra [<c01a76d9>] proc_sys_write+0x19/0x20
> Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra [<c016cc68>] vfs_write+0xa8/0x140
> Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra [<c016cdd1>] sys_write+0x41/0x80
> Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra [<c0103051>] sysenter_past_esp+0x6a/0x91
> Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra =======================
> Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra Code: c8 41 0f ad f3 d3 ee f6 c1 20 0f 45 de
> 31 f6 0f ad ef d3 ed f6 c1 20 0f 45 fd 0f 45 ee 31 c9 39 eb 89 fe 89 ea
> 77 08 89 e8 31 d2 <f7> f3 89 c1 89 f0 8b 7c 24 08 f7 f3 8b 74 24 04 89
> ca 8b 1c 24
> Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra EIP: [<c0213fc7>] div64_u64+0x57/0x80 SS:ESP
> 0068:ea7a6edc
> Sep 11 00:39:34 zaratustra ---[ end trace 4eaa2a86a8e2da22 ]---

fix the boundary condition.

sysctl_sched_rt_period=0 makes exception at to_ratio().

Signed-off-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-11 09:39:18 +02:00
Zhang, Yanmin
baf25731e5 sched: fix 2.6.27-rc5 couldn't boot on tulsa machine randomly
On my tulsa x86-64 machine, kernel 2.6.25-rc5 couldn't boot randomly.

Basically, function __enable_runtime forgets to reset rt_rq->rt_throttled
to 0. When every cpu is up, per-cpu migration_thread is created and it runs
very fast, sometimes to mark the corresponding rt_rq->rt_throttled to 1 very
quickly. After all cpus are up, with below calling chain:

   sched_init_smp => arch_init_sched_domains => build_sched_domains => ...
=> cpu_attach_domain => rq_attach_root => set_rq_online => ...
=> _enable_runtime

_enable_runtime is called against every rt_rq again, so rt_rq->rt_time is
reset to 0, but rt_rq->rt_throttled might be still 1. Later on function
do_sched_rt_period_timer couldn't reset it, and all RT tasks couldn't be
scheduled to run on that cpu. here is RT task migration_thread which is
woken up when a task is migrated to another cpu.

Below patch fixes it against 2.6.27-rc5.

Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-11 09:34:28 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
59c37bf892 Merge commit 'v2.6.27-rc6' into x86/unify-cpu-detect
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c
	arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
	arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common_64.c
	arch/x86/kernel/cpu/feature_names.c
	include/asm-x86/cpufeature.h

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-10 14:00:45 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
e92b4fdacc Merge commit 'v2.6.27-rc6' into x86/iommu 2008-09-10 11:32:52 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
429b022af4 Merge commit 'v2.6.27-rc6' into core/rcu 2008-09-10 08:35:40 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner
61c22c34c6 clockevents: remove WARN_ON which was used to gather information
The issue of the endless reprogramming loop due to a too small
min_delta_ns was fixed with the previous updates of the clock events
code, but we had no information about the spread of this problem. I
added a WARN_ON to get automated information via kerneloops.org and to
get some direct reports, which allowed me to analyse the affected
machines.

The WARN_ON has served its purpose and would be annoying for a release
kernel. Remove it and just keep the information about the increase of
the min_delta_ns value.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-09-09 22:20:01 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
e1d7bf1499 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: arch_reinit_sched_domains() must destroy domains to force rebuild
  sched, cpuset: rework sched domains and CPU hotplug handling (v4)
2008-09-08 15:47:21 -07:00
Manfred Spraul
e545a6140b kernel/cpu.c: create a CPU_STARTING cpu_chain notifier
Right now, there is no notifier that is called on a new cpu, before the new
cpu begins processing interrupts/softirqs.
Various kernel function would need that notification, e.g. kvm works around
by calling smp_call_function_single(), rcu polls cpu_online_map.

The patch adds a CPU_STARTING notification. It also adds a helper function
that sends the message to all cpu_chain handlers.

Tested on x86-64.
All other archs are untested. Especially on sparc, I'm not sure if I got
it right.

Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-08 19:25:24 +02:00
Arjan van de Ven
704af52bd1 hrtimer: show the timer ranges in /proc/timer_list
to help debugging and visibility of timer ranges, show them
in the existing timer list in /proc/timer_list

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
2008-09-07 16:10:20 -07:00
Arjan van de Ven
da8f2e170e hrtimer: add a hrtimer_start_range() function
this patch adds a _range version of hrtimer_start() so that range timers
can be created; the hrtimer_start() function is just a wrapper around this.

In addition, hrtimer_start_expires() will now preserve existing ranges.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
2008-09-07 10:58:01 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
f532522565 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:
  clocksource, acpi_pm.c: check for monotonicity
  clocksource, acpi_pm.c: use proper read function also in errata mode
  ntp: fix calculation of the next jiffie to trigger RTC sync
  x86: HPET: read back compare register before reading counter
  x86: HPET fix moronic 32/64bit thinko
  clockevents: broadcast fixup possible waiters
  HPET: make minimum reprogramming delta useful
  clockevents: prevent endless loop lockup
  clockevents: prevent multiple init/shutdown
  clockevents: enforce reprogram in oneshot setup
  clockevents: prevent endless loop in periodic broadcast handler
  clockevents: prevent clockevent event_handler ending up handler_noop
2008-09-06 19:33:26 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
291c54ff76 Merge branch 'sched/cpuset' into sched/urgent 2008-09-06 21:03:16 +02:00
Pawel MOLL
7e6e178ab1 genirq: irq_chip->startup() usage in setup_irq and set_irq_chained handler
This patch clarifies usage of irq_chip->startup() callback:

1. The "if (startup) startup(); else enabled();" code in setup_irq()
   is unnecessary, as startup() falls back to enabled() via
   default callbacks, set by irq_chip_set_defaults().

2. When using set_irq_chained_handler() the startup() was never called,
   which is not good at all... Fixed. And again - when startup() is not
   defined the call will fall back to enable() than to unmask() via
   default callbacks.

Signed-off-by: Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@st.com>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-06 20:36:38 +02:00
Alexey Dobriyan
978b0116cd softirq: allocate less vectors
We don't need whole 32 of them, only NR_SOFTIRQS.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-06 20:04:36 +02:00
Max Krasnyansky
dfb512ec48 sched: arch_reinit_sched_domains() must destroy domains to force rebuild
What I realized recently is that calling rebuild_sched_domains() in
arch_reinit_sched_domains() by itself is not enough when cpusets are enabled.
partition_sched_domains() code is trying to avoid unnecessary domain rebuilds
and will not actually rebuild anything if new domain masks match the old ones.

What this means is that doing
     echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/sched_mc_power_savings
on a system with cpusets enabled will not take affect untill something changes
in the cpuset setup (ie new sets created or deleted).

This patch fixes restore correct behaviour where domains must be rebuilt in
order to enable MC powersaving flags.

Test on quad-core Core2 box with both CONFIG_CPUSETS and !CONFIG_CPUSETS.
Also tested on dual-core Core2 laptop. Lockdep is happy and things are working
as expected.

Signed-off-by: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>
Tested-by: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-06 19:22:15 +02:00
Manfred Spraul
3ba35573ad kernel/cpu.c: Move the CPU_DYING notifiers
When a cpu is taken offline, the CPU_DYING notifiers are called on the
dying cpu. According to <linux/notifiers.h>, the cpu should be "not
running any task, not handling interrupts, soon dead".

For the current implementation, this is not true:
- __cpu_disable can fail. If it fails, then the cpu will remain alive
  and happy.
- At least on x86, __cpu_disable() briefly enables the local interrupts
  to handle any outstanding interrupts.

What about moving CPU_DYING down a few lines, behind the __cpu_disable()
line?
There are only two CPU_DYING handlers in the kernel right now: one in
kvm, one in the scheduler. Both should work with the patch applied
[and: I'm not sure if either one handles a failing __cpu_disable()]

The patch survives simple offlining a cpu. kvm untested due to lack
of a test setup.

Signed-off-By: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-06 19:13:59 +02:00
Gautham R Shenoy
38736f4750 sched: fix __load_balance_iterator() for cfq with only one task
The __load_balance_iterator() returns a NULL when there's only one
sched_entity which is a task. It is caused by the following code-path.

	/* Skip over entities that are not tasks */
	do {
		se = list_entry(next, struct sched_entity, group_node);
		next = next->next;
	} while (next != &cfs_rq->tasks && !entity_is_task(se));

	if (next == &cfs_rq->tasks)
		return NULL;
	^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
      This will return NULL even when se is a task.

As a side-effect, there was a regression in sched_mc behavior since 2.6.25,
since iter_move_one_task() when it calls load_balance_start_fair(),
would not get any tasks to move!

Fix this by checking if the last entity was a task or not.

Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-06 16:53:34 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
7f79d852ed Merge branch 'linus' into sched/devel 2008-09-06 16:51:57 +02:00
Maciej W. Rozycki
4ff4b9e19a ntp: fix calculation of the next jiffie to trigger RTC sync
We have a bug in the calculation of the next jiffie to trigger the RTC
synchronisation.  The aim here is to run sync_cmos_clock() as close as
possible to the middle of a second.  Which means we want this function to
be called less than or equal to half a jiffie away from when now.tv_nsec
equals 5e8 (500000000).

If this is not the case for a given call to the function, for this purpose
instead of updating the RTC we calculate the offset in nanoseconds to the
next point in time where now.tv_nsec will be equal 5e8.  The calculated
offset is then converted to jiffies as these are the unit used by the
timer.

Hovewer timespec_to_jiffies() used here uses a ceil()-type rounding mode,
where the resulting value is rounded up.  As a result the range of
now.tv_nsec when the timer will trigger is from 5e8 to 5e8 + TICK_NSEC
rather than the desired 5e8 - TICK_NSEC / 2 to 5e8 + TICK_NSEC / 2.

As a result if for example sync_cmos_clock() happens to be called at the
time when now.tv_nsec is between 5e8 + TICK_NSEC / 2 and 5e8 to 5e8 +
TICK_NSEC, it will simply be rescheduled HZ jiffies later, falling in the
same range of now.tv_nsec again.  Similarly for cases offsetted by an
integer multiple of TICK_NSEC.

This change addresses the problem by subtracting TICK_NSEC / 2 from the
nanosecond offset to the next point in time where now.tv_nsec will be
equal 5e8, effectively shifting the following rounding in
timespec_to_jiffies() so that it produces a rounded-to-nearest result.

Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-06 15:31:48 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
77dd3b3bd2 Merge branch 'linus' into timers/ntp 2008-09-06 15:31:03 +02:00
Krzysztof Helt
c8bfff6dd4 sched: compilation fix with gcc 3.4.6
I found that 2.6.27-rc5-mm1 does not compile with gcc 3.4.6.
The error is:
  CC      kernel/sched.o
kernel/sched.c: In function `start_rt_bandwidth':
kernel/sched.c:208: sorry, unimplemented: inlining failed in call to 'rt_bandwidth_enabled': function body not available
kernel/sched.c:214: sorry, unimplemented: called from here
make[1]: *** [kernel/sched.o] Error 1
make: *** [kernel] Error 2

It seems that the gcc 3.4.6 requires full inline definition before first usage.
The patch below fixes the compilation problem.

Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@wp.pl> (if needed>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-06 15:17:09 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner
7300711e8c clockevents: broadcast fixup possible waiters
Until the C1E patches arrived there where no users of periodic broadcast
before switching to oneshot mode. Now we need to trigger a possible
waiter for a periodic broadcast when switching to oneshot mode.
Otherwise we can starve them for ever.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-09-06 07:21:17 +02:00
Arjan van de Ven
6976675d94 hrtimer: create a "timer_slack" field in the task struct
We want to be able to control the default "rounding" that is used by
select() and poll() and friends. This is a per process property
(so that we can have a "nice" like program to start certain programs with
a looser or stricter rounding) that can be set/get via a prctl().

For this purpose, a field called "timer_slack_ns" is added to the task
struct. In addition, a field called "default_timer_slack"ns" is added
so that tasks easily can temporarily to a more/less accurate slack and then
back to the default.

The default value of the slack is set to 50 usec; this is significantly less
than 2.6.27's average select() and poll() timing error but still allows
the kernel to group timers somewhat to preserve power behavior. Applications
and admins can override this via the prctl()

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
2008-09-05 21:35:30 -07:00
Arjan van de Ven
654c8e0b1c hrtimer: turn hrtimers into range timers
this patch turns hrtimers into range timers; they have 2 expire points
1) the soft expire point
2) the hard expire point

the kernel will do it's regular best effort attempt to get the timer run
at the hard expire point. However, if some other time fires after the soft
expire point, the kernel now has the freedom to fire this timer at this point,
and thus grouping the events and preventing a power-expensive wakeup in the
future.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
2008-09-05 21:35:27 -07:00
Arjan van de Ven
cc584b213f hrtimer: convert kernel/* to the new hrtimer apis
In order to be able to do range hrtimers we need to use accessor functions
to the "expire" member of the hrtimer struct.
This patch converts kernel/* to these accessors.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
2008-09-05 21:35:13 -07:00
Thomas Gleixner
df0cc0539b select: add a timespec_add_safe() function
For the select() rework, it's important to be able to add timespec
structures in an overflow-safe manner.

This patch adds a timespec_add_safe() function for this which is similar in
operation to ktime_add_safe(), but works on a struct timespec.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
2008-09-05 21:34:57 -07:00
Arjan van de Ven
7bb67439bf select: Introduce a hrtimeout function
This patch adds a schedule_hrtimeout() function, to be used by select() and
poll() in a later patch. This function works similar to schedule_timeout()
in most ways, but takes a timespec rather than jiffies.

With a lot of contributions/fixes from Thomas

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-09-05 21:34:53 -07:00
Balbir Singh
49048622ea sched: fix process time monotonicity
Spencer reported a problem where utime and stime were going negative despite
the fixes in commit b27f03d4bd. The suspected
reason for the problem is that signal_struct maintains it's own utime and
stime (of exited tasks), these are not updated using the new task_utime()
routine, hence sig->utime can go backwards and cause the same problem
to occur (sig->utime, adds tsk->utime and not task_utime()). This patch
fixes the problem

TODO: using max(task->prev_utime, derived utime) works for now, but a more
generic solution is to implement cputime_max() and use the cputime_gt()
function for comparison.

Reported-by: spencer@bluehost.com
Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-05 18:14:35 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
56c7426b39 sched_clock: fix NOHZ interaction
If HLT stops the TSC, we'll fail to account idle time, thereby inflating the
actual process times. Fix this by re-calibrating the clock against GTOD when
leaving nohz mode.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Tested-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-05 18:14:08 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner
1fb9b7d29d clockevents: prevent endless loop lockup
The C1E/HPET bug reports on AMDX2/RS690 systems where tracked down to a
too small value of the HPET minumum delta for programming an event.

The clockevents code needs to enforce an interrupt event on the clock event
device in some cases. The enforcement code was stupid and naive, as it just
added the minimum delta to the current time and tried to reprogram the device.
When the minimum delta is too small, then this loops forever.

Add a sanity check. Allow reprogramming to fail 3 times, then print a warning
and double the minimum delta value to make sure, that this does not happen again.
Use the same function for both tick-oneshot and tick-broadcast code.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-05 11:11:53 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner
9c17bcda99 clockevents: prevent multiple init/shutdown
While chasing the C1E/HPET bugreports I went through the clock events
code inch by inch and found that the broadcast device can be initialized
and shutdown multiple times. Multiple shutdowns are not critical, but
useless waste of time. Multiple initializations are simply broken. Another
CPU might have the device in use already after the first initialization and
the second init could just render it unusable again.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-05 11:11:52 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner
7205656ab4 clockevents: enforce reprogram in oneshot setup
In tick_oneshot_setup we program the device to the given next_event,
but we do not check the return value. We need to make sure that the
device is programmed enforced so the interrupt handler engine starts
working. Split out the reprogramming function from tick_program_event()
and call it with the device, which was handed in to tick_setup_oneshot().
Set the force argument, so the devices is firing an interrupt.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-05 11:11:52 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner
d4496b3955 clockevents: prevent endless loop in periodic broadcast handler
The reprogramming of the periodic broadcast handler was broken,
when the first programming returned -ETIME. The clockevents code
stores the new expiry value in the clock events device next_event field
only when the programming time has not been elapsed yet. The loop in
question calculates the new expiry value from the next_event value
and therefor never increases.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-05 11:11:51 +02:00
Venkatesh Pallipadi
7c1e768974 clockevents: prevent clockevent event_handler ending up handler_noop
There is a ordering related problem with clockevents code, due to which
clockevents_register_device() called after tickless/highres switch
will not work. The new clockevent ends up with clockevents_handle_noop as
event handler, resulting in no timer activity.

The problematic path seems to be

* old device already has hrtimer_interrupt as the event_handler
* new clockevent device registers with a higher rating
* tick_check_new_device() is called
  * clockevents_exchange_device() gets called
    * old->event_handler is set to clockevents_handle_noop
  * tick_setup_device() is called for the new device
    * which sets new->event_handler using the old->event_handler which is noop.

Change the ordering so that new device inherits the proper handler.

This does not have any issue in normal case as most likely all the clockevent
devices are setup before the highres switch. But, can potentially be affecting
some corner case where HPET force detect happens after the highres switch.
This was a problem with HPET in MSI mode code that we have been experimenting
with.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-05 11:11:51 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
0c8c708a7e Merge branch 'x86/core' into x86/unify-cpu-detect 2008-09-05 09:27:23 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
1cf44baad7 IO resources: fix/remove printk
Andrew Morton noticed that the printk in kernel/resource.c was buggy:

| start and end have type resource_size_t.  Such types CANNOT be printed
| unless cast to a known type.
|
| Because there is a %s following an incorrect %lld, the above code will
| crash the machine.

... and it's probably quite unneeded as well, so remove it.

Reported-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-04 22:08:24 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
8040d77688 Merge branch 'core/resources' into x86/core 2008-09-04 21:04:04 +02:00
Yinghai Lu
268364a0f4 IO resources: add reserve_region_with_split()
add reserve_region_with_split() to not lose e820 reserved entries if
they overlap with existing IO regions:

with test case by extend 0xe0000000 - 0xeffffff to 0xdd800000 -
we get:
	e0000000-efffffff : PCI MMCONFIG 0
		 e0000000-efffffff : reserved

and in /proc/iomem we get:
	found conflict for reserved [dd800000, efffffff], try to reserve with split
	    __reserve_region_with_split: (PCI Bus #80) [dd000000, ddffffff], res: (reserved) [dd800000, efffffff]
	    __reserve_region_with_split: (PCI Bus #00) [de000000, dfffffff], res: (reserved) [de000000, efffffff]
	initcall pci_subsys_init+0x0/0x121 returned 0 after 381 msecs
in dmesg

various fixes and improvements suggested by Linus.

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-04 21:02:44 +02:00
Al Viro
b380b0d4f7 forgotten refcount on sysctl root table
We should've set refcount on the root sysctl table; otherwise we'll blow
up the first time we get down to zero dynamically registered sysctl
tables.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Tested-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-09-04 11:06:21 -07:00