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Steven Rostedt
0a1c49db8d tracing: use macros to create internal ftrace entry ring buffer structures
The entries used by ftrace internal code (plugins) currently have their
formats manually exported to userspace. That is, the format files in
debugfs/tracing/events/ftrace/*/format are currently created by hand.
This is a maintenance nightmare, and can easily become out of sync
with what is actually shown.

This patch uses the methodology of the TRACE_EVENT macros to build
the structures so that their formats can be automated and this
will keep the structures in sync with what users can see.

This patch only changes the way the structures are created. Further
patches will build off of this to automate the format files.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-09-12 23:08:06 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
16bb8eb1b7 tracing: allow filter predicates to handle ksym symbols
This patch increases the max string used by predicates to
handle KSYM_SYMBOL_LEN.

Also moves an include to look nicer.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-09-12 23:08:05 -04:00
Tom Zanussi
95b696088c tracing/filters: add filter Documentation
Documentation for event filters and formats.

v2 changes: fix a few problems noticed by Randy Dunlap.

Reviewed-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1252642431.8016.9.camel@tropicana>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-09-12 22:33:12 -04:00
Li Zefan
558e6547e4 tracing/profile: fix profile_disable vs module_unload
If the correspoding module is unloaded before ftrace_profile_disable()
is called, event->profile_disable() won't be called, which can
cause oops:

  # insmod trace-events-sample.ko
  # perf record -f -a -e sample:foo_bar sleep 3 &
  # sleep 1
  # rmmod trace_events_sample
  # insmod trace-events-sample.ko
  OOPS!

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A9214E3.2070807@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-09-12 22:28:38 -04:00
Jiri Olsa
4818d80942 tracing/function-graph: x86_64 stack allocation cleanup
Only 24 bytes needs to be reserved on the stack for the function graph
tracer on x86_64.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090729085837.GB4998@jolsa.lab.eng.brq.redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-09-12 22:13:43 -04:00
John Reiser
4b3b4c5e64 ftrace: __start_mcount_loc should be .init.rodata
__start_mcount_loc[] is unused after init, yet occupies RAM forever
as part of .rodata.  152kiB is typical on a 64-bit architecture.  Instead,
__start_mcount_loc should be in the interval [__init_begin, __init_end)
so that the space is reclaimed after init.

__start_mcount_loc[] is generated during the load portion
of kernel build, and is used only by ftrace_init().  ftrace_init is declared
'__init' and is in .init.text, which is freed after init.
__start_mcount_loc is placed into .rodata by a call to MCOUNT_REC inside
the RO_DATA macro of include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h.  The array *is*
read-only, but more importantly it is not used after init.  So the call to
MCOUNT_REC should be moved from RO_DATA to INIT_DATA.

This patch has been tested on x86_64 with CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC=y
which verifies that the address range never is accessed after init.

Signed-off-by: John Reiser <jreiser@BitWagon.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A6DF0B6.7080402@bitwagon.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-09-12 21:57:29 -04:00
Carsten Emde
b5130b1e7d tracing: do not update tracing_max_latency when tracer is stopped
The state of the function pair tracing_stop()/tracing_start() is
correctly considered when tracer data are updated. However, the global
and externally accessible variable tracing_max_latency is always updated
- even when tracing is stopped.

The update should only occur, if tracing was not stopped.

Signed-off-by: Carsten Emde <C.Emde@osadl.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-09-12 21:45:17 -04:00
Carsten Emde
41dfba4367 tracing: remove unused local variables in tracer probe functions
When the nsecs_to_usecs() conversion in probe_wakeup_sched_switch() and
check_critical_timing() was moved to a later stage in order to avoid
unnecessary computing, it was overlooked to remove the original
variables, assignments and comments..

Signed-off-by: Carsten Emde <C.Emde@osadl.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-09-12 21:44:13 -04:00
Carsten Emde
fe63b94a43 tracing: prevent NULL pointer dereference in ftrace_raw_event_block_bio_bounce
Booting 2.6.31 and executing
   echo 1 >/sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/enable
leads to
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null)
IP: [<c032a583>] ftrace_raw_event_block_bio_bounce+0x4b/0xb9

Apparently,
   bio = bio_map_user(q, NULL, uaddr, len, reading, gfp_mask);
is called in block/blk-map.c:58 where bio->bi_bdev in set to NULL and
still is NULL when an attempt is made to evaluate bio->bi_bdev->bd_dev
in include/trace/events/block.h:189.

The tracepoint should ensure bio->bi_bdev is not dereferenced, if NULL.

Signed-off-by: Carsten Emde <C.Emde@osadl.org>
LKML-Reference: <4AAAC9B1.9060505@osadl.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-09-12 21:31:19 -04:00
jolsa@redhat.com
689fd8b65d tracing: trace parser support for function and graph
Convert the writing to 'set_graph_function', 'set_ftrace_filter'
and 'set_ftrace_notrace' to use the generic trace_parser
'trace_get_user' function.

Removed FTRACE_ITER_CONT flag, since it's not needed after this change.

Minor fix in set_graph_function display - g_show function.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1252682969-3366-4-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-09-11 15:20:18 -04:00
jolsa@redhat.com
489663644c tracing: trace parser support for set_event
Convert the parsing of the file 'set_event' to use the generic
trace_praser 'trace_get_user' function.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1252682969-3366-3-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-09-11 14:47:11 -04:00
jolsa@redhat.com
b63f39ea50 tracing: create generic trace parser
Create a "trace_parser" that can parse the user space input for
separate words.

struct trace_parser is the descriptor.

Generic "trace_get_user" function that can be a helper to read multiple
words passed in by user space.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1252682969-3366-2-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-09-11 14:46:55 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
f81c972d27 tracing: consolidate code between trace_output.c and trace_function_graph.c
Both trace_output.c and trace_function_graph.c do basically the same
thing to handle the printing of the latency-format. This patch moves
the code into one function that both can use.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-09-11 14:24:13 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
637e7e8641 tracing: add lock depth to entries
This patch adds the lock depth of the big kernel lock to the generic
entry header. This way we can see the depth of the lock and help
in removing the BKL.

Example:

 #                  _------=> CPU#
 #                 / _-----=> irqs-off
 #                | / _----=> need-resched
 #                || / _---=> hardirq/softirq
 #                ||| / _--=> preempt-depth
 #                |||| /_--=> lock-depth
 #                |||||/     delay
 #  cmd     pid   |||||| time  |   caller
 #     \   /      ||||||   \   |   /
   <idle>-0       2.N..3 5902255250us+: lock_acquire: read rcu_read_lock
   <idle>-0       2.N..3 5902255253us+: lock_release: rcu_read_lock
   <idle>-0       2dN..3 5902255257us+: lock_acquire: xtime_lock
   <idle>-0       2dN..4 5902255259us : lock_acquire: clocksource_lock
   <idle>-0       2dN..4 5902255261us+: lock_release: clocksource_lock

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-09-11 13:55:35 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
48659d3119 tracing: move tgid out of generic entry and into userstack
The userstack trace required the recording of the tgid entry.
Unfortunately, it was added to the generic entry where it wasted
4 bytes of every entry and was only used by one entry.

This patch moves it out of the generic field and moves it into the
only user (userstack_entry).

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-09-11 11:36:23 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
49ff590390 tracing: add latency format to function_graph tracer
While debugging something with the function_graph tracer, I found the
need to see the preempt count of the traces. Unfortunately, since
the function graph tracer has its own output formatting, it does not
honor the latency-format option.

This patch makes the function_graph tracer honor the latency-format
option, but still keeps control of the output. But now we have the
same details that the latency-format supplies.

 # tracer: function_graph
 #
 #      _-----=> irqs-off
 #     / _----=> need-resched
 #    | / _---=> hardirq/softirq
 #    || / _--=> preempt-depth
 #    ||| /
 #    ||||
 # CPU||||  DURATION                  FUNCTION CALLS
 # |  ||||   |   |                     |   |   |   |
  3)  d..1  1.333 us    |        idle_cpu();
  3)  d.h1              |        tick_check_idle() {
  3)  d.h1  0.550 us    |          tick_check_oneshot_broadcast();
  3)  d.h1              |          tick_nohz_stop_idle() {
  3)  d.h1              |            ktime_get() {
  3)  d.h1              |              ktime_get_ts() {

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-09-11 10:59:49 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
fc06b8520b x86/tracing: comment need for atomic nop
The dynamic function tracer relys on the macro P6_NOP5 always being
an atomic NOP. If for some reason it is changed to be two operations
(like a nop2 nop3) it can faults within the kernel when the function
tracer modifies the code.

This patch adds a comment to note that the P6_NOPs are expected to
be atomic. This will hopefully prevent anyone from changing that.

Reported-by: Mathieu Desnoyer <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-09-10 17:22:44 -04:00
Li Zefan
197e2eabc9 tracing: move PRED macros to trace_events_filter.c
Move DEFINE_COMPARISON_PRED() and DEFINE_EQUALITY_PRED()
  to kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4AA8579B.4020706@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-09-09 23:54:11 -04:00
Li Zefan
a5921c6c37 tracing: remove stats from struct tracer
Remove unused field @stats from struct tracer.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4AA8579B.4020706@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-09-09 23:54:09 -04:00
Li Zefan
bd9cfca9cb tracing: format clean ups
Fix white-space formatting.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4AA8579B.4020706@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-09-09 23:54:07 -04:00
Li Zefan
e0ab5f2dae tracing: remove dead code
Removes unreachable code.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4AA8579B.4020706@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-09-09 23:54:06 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
478142c39c tracing: do not grab lock in wakeup latency function tracing
The wakeup tracer, when enabled, has its own function tracer.
It only traces the functions on the CPU where the task it is following
is on. If a task is woken on one CPU but then migrates to another CPU
before it wakes up, the latency tracer will then start tracing functions
on the other CPU.

To find which CPU the task is on, the wakeup function tracer performs
a task_cpu(wakeup_task). But to make sure the task does not disappear
it grabs the wakeup_lock, which is also taken when the task wakes up.
By taking this lock, the function tracer does not need to worry about
the task being freed as it checks its cpu.

Jan Blunck found a problem with this approach on his 32 CPU box. When
a task is being traced by the wakeup tracer, all functions take this
lock. That means that on all 32 CPUs, each function call is taking
this one lock to see if the task is on that CPU. This lock has just
serialized all functions on all 32 CPUs. Needless to say, this caused
major issues on that box. It would even lockup.

This patch changes the wakeup latency to insert a probe on the migrate task
tracepoint. When a task changes its CPU that it will run on, the
probe will take note. Now the wakeup function tracer no longer needs
to take the lock. It only compares the current CPU with a variable that
holds the current CPU the task is on. We don't worry about races since
it is OK to add or miss a function trace.

Reported-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de>
Tested-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-09-09 23:54:04 -04:00
Robert Richter
d8eeb2d3b2 ring-buffer: consolidate interface of rb_buffer_peek()
rb_buffer_peek() operates with struct ring_buffer_per_cpu *cpu_buffer
only. Thus, instead of passing variables buffer and cpu it is better
to use cpu_buffer directly. This also reduces the risk of races since
cpu_buffer is not calculated twice.

Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
LKML-Reference: <1249045084-3028-1-git-send-email-robert.richter@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-09-09 23:54:02 -04:00
Ingo Molnar
d28daf923a Merge branch 'tracing/core' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/random-tracing into tracing/core 2009-09-06 06:27:40 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
ed011b22ce Merge commit 'v2.6.31-rc9' into tracing/core
Merge reason: move from -rc5 to -rc9.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-06 06:11:42 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
e07cccf404 Linux 2.6.31-rc9 2009-09-05 16:38:12 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
f815c335d2 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6:
  firewire: sbp2: fix freeing of unallocated memory
  firewire: ohci: fix Ricoh R5C832, video reception
  firewire: ohci: fix Agere FW643 and multiple cameras
  firewire: core: fix crash in iso resource management
2009-09-05 14:59:00 -07:00
Roderick Colenbrander
74a01180db powerpc: Fix i8259 interrupt driver kernel crash on ML510
This patch fixes a null pointer exception caused by removal of
'ack()' for level interrupts in the Xilinx interrupt driver.  A recent
change to the xilinx interrupt controller removed the ack hook for
level irqs.

Signed-off-by: Roderick Colenbrander <thunderbird2k@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-05 14:58:07 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
5136a6c0fd Merge git://git.infradead.org/~dwmw2/mtd-2.6.31
* git://git.infradead.org/~dwmw2/mtd-2.6.31:
  JFFS2: add missing verify buffer allocation/deallocation
  mtd: nftl: fix offset alignments
  mtd: nftl: write support is broken
  mtd: m25p80: fix null pointer dereference bug
2009-09-05 14:57:04 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
e505a8d5f9 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block:
  block: Allow changing max_sectors_kb above the default 512
2009-09-05 14:56:13 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
b71b7dc09a Merge branch 'fix/oxygen' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6
* 'fix/oxygen' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6:
  sound: oxygen: handle cards with missing EEPROM
  sound: oxygen: fix MCLK rate for 192 kHz playback
2009-09-05 14:55:30 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
59430c2f43 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6:
  tc: Fix unitialized kernel memory leak
  pkt_sched: Revert tasklet_hrtimer changes.
  net: sk_free() should be allowed right after sk_alloc()
  gianfar: gfar_remove needs to call unregister_netdev()
  ipw2200: firmware DMA loading rework
2009-09-05 14:52:41 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
e9ee3a54a1 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6:
  crypto: skcipher - Fix skcipher_dequeue_givcrypt NULL test
2009-09-05 14:51:45 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
3bb314f01c Merge branch 'fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq
* 'fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq:
  [CPUFREQ] Re-enable cpufreq suspend and resume code
2009-09-05 14:51:24 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
535e0c1726 Merge branch 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6
* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6:
  [IA64] fix csum_ipv6_magic()
  [IA64] Fix warning in dma-mapping.c
2009-09-05 14:50:53 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
0edfa2b1b5 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://oss.sgi.com/xfs/xfs
* 'for-linus' of git://oss.sgi.com/xfs/xfs:
  xfs: actually enable the swapext compat handler
2009-09-05 14:25:14 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
5a09adf130 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ryusuke/nilfs2
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ryusuke/nilfs2:
  nilfs2: fix preempt count underflow in nilfs_btnode_prepare_change_key
2009-09-05 14:24:33 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
931f70350e Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu:
  percpu: don't assume existence of cpu0
2009-09-05 14:22:00 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
e305fc5ecd Merge branch 'slab/urgent' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6
* 'slab/urgent' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6:
  slub: Fix kmem_cache_destroy() with SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU
2009-09-05 13:57:53 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
154f807e55 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/agk/linux-2.6-dm
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/agk/linux-2.6-dm:
  dm snapshot: fix on disk chunk size validation
  dm exception store: split set_chunk_size
  dm snapshot: fix header corruption race on invalidation
  dm snapshot: refactor zero_disk_area to use chunk_io
  dm log: userspace add luid to distinguish between concurrent log instances
  dm raid1: do not allow log_failure variable to unset after being set
  dm log: remove incorrect field from userspace table output
  dm log: fix userspace status output
  dm stripe: expose correct io hints
  dm table: add more context to terse warning messages
  dm table: fix queue_limit checking device iterator
  dm snapshot: implement iterate devices
  dm multipath: fix oops when request based io fails when no paths
2009-09-05 13:51:07 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
9b6a3df372 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6:
  PCI SR-IOV: correct broken resource alignment calculations
2009-09-05 13:50:46 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
d3acd16cda Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6:
  sparc64: Fix bootup with mcount in some configs.
  sparc64: Kill spurious NMI watchdog triggers by increasing limit to 30 seconds.
2009-09-05 13:49:06 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
93697a3cab Merge branch 'perfcounters-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'perfcounters-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  perf_counter/powerpc: Fix cache event codes for POWER7
  perf_counter: Fix /0 bug in swcounters
  perf_counters: Increase paranoia level
2009-09-05 13:48:37 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
6399534472 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input:
  Input: atkbd - add Compaq Presario R4000-series repeat quirk
  Input: i8042 - add Acer Aspire 5536 to the nomux list
2009-09-05 13:41:29 -07:00
Nicolas Pitre
9de6886ec6 ext2: fix unbalanced kmap()/kunmap()
In ext2_rename(), dir_page is acquired through ext2_dotdot().  It is
then released through ext2_set_link() but only if old_dir != new_dir.
Failing that, the pkmap reference count is never decremented and the
page remains pinned forever.  Repeat that a couple times with highmem
pages and all pkmap slots get exhausted, and every further kmap() calls
end up stalling on the pkmap_map_wait queue at which point the whole
system comes to a halt.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@marvell.com>
Acked-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-05 13:41:08 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
ac7ac9f2b9 Merge branch 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jlbec/ocfs2
* 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jlbec/ocfs2:
  ocfs2: ocfs2_write_begin_nolock() should handle len=0
  ocfs2: invalidate dentry if its dentry_lock isn't initialized.
2009-09-05 13:38:37 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
ac89a9174d pty: don't limit the writes to 'pty_space()' inside 'pty_write()'
The whole write-room thing is something that is up to the _caller_ to
worry about, not the pty layer itself.  The total buffer space will
still be limited by the buffering routines themselves, so there is no
advantage or need in having pty_write() artificially limit the size
somehow.

And what happened was that the caller (the n_tty line discipline, in
this case) may have verified that there is room for 2 bytes to be
written (for NL -> CRNL expansion), and it used to then do those writes
as two single-byte writes.  And if the first byte written (CR) then
caused a new tty buffer to be allocated, pty_space() may have returned
zero when trying to write the second byte (LF), and then incorrectly
failed the write - leading to a lost newline character.

This should finally fix

	http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14015

Reported-by: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-05 13:27:10 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
37f81fa1f6 n_tty: do O_ONLCR translation as a single write
When translating CR to CRNL in the n_tty line discipline, we did it as
two tty_put_char() calls.  Which works, but is stupid, and has caused
problems before too with bad interactions with the write_room() logic.
The generic USB serial driver had that problem, for example.

Now the pty layer had similar issues after being moved to the generic
tty buffering code (in commit d945cb9cce20ac7143c2de8d88b187f62db99bdc:
"pty: Rework the pty layer to use the normal buffering logic").

So stop doing the silly separate two writes, and do it as a single write
instead.  That's what the n_tty layer already does for the space
expansion of tabs (XTABS), and it means that we'll now always have just
a single write for the CRNL to match the single 'tty_write_room()' test,
which hopefully means that the next time somebody screws up buffering,
it won't cause weeks of debugging.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-05 12:46:07 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
a2a8474c3f exec: do not sleep in TASK_TRACED under ->cred_guard_mutex
Tom Horsley reports that his debugger hangs when it tries to read
/proc/pid_of_tracee/maps, this happens since

	"mm_for_maps: take ->cred_guard_mutex to fix the race with exec"
	04b836cbf19e885f8366bccb2e4b0474346c02d

commit in 2.6.31.

But the root of the problem lies in the fact that do_execve() path calls
tracehook_report_exec() which can stop if the tracer sets PT_TRACE_EXEC.

The tracee must not sleep in TASK_TRACED holding this mutex.  Even if we
remove ->cred_guard_mutex from mm_for_maps() and proc_pid_attr_write(),
another task doing PTRACE_ATTACH should not hang until it is killed or the
tracee resumes.

With this patch do_execve() does not use ->cred_guard_mutex directly and
we do not hold it throughout, instead:

	- introduce prepare_bprm_creds() helper, it locks the mutex
	  and calls prepare_exec_creds() to initialize bprm->cred.

	- install_exec_creds() drops the mutex after commit_creds(),
	  and thus before tracehook_report_exec()->ptrace_stop().

	  or, if exec fails,

	  free_bprm() drops this mutex when bprm->cred != NULL which
	  indicates install_exec_creds() was not called.

Reported-by: Tom Horsley <tom.horsley@att.net>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-05 11:30:42 -07:00
Mel Gorman
dd5d241ea9 page-allocator: always change pageblock ownership when anti-fragmentation is disabled
On low-memory systems, anti-fragmentation gets disabled as fragmentation
cannot be avoided on a sufficiently large boundary to be worthwhile.  Once
disabled, there is a period of time when all the pageblocks are marked
MOVABLE and the expectation is that they get marked UNMOVABLE at each call
to __rmqueue_fallback().

However, when MAX_ORDER is large the pageblocks do not change ownership
because the normal criteria are not met.  This has the effect of
prematurely breaking up too many large contiguous blocks.  This is most
serious on NOMMU systems which depend on high-order allocations to boot.
This patch causes pageblocks to change ownership on every fallback when
anti-fragmentation is disabled.  This prevents the large blocks being
prematurely broken up.

This is a fix to commit 49255c619f [page
allocator: move check for disabled anti-fragmentation out of fastpath] and
the problem affects 2.6.31-rc8.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Tested-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Acked-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-05 11:30:42 -07:00