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Linus Torvalds
62f49052ac 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: Fix migration expiry check
  hrtimer: migration: do not check expiry time on current CPU
2009-07-14 18:35:24 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
989fa94096 Merge branch 'core-fixes-for-linus-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'core-fixes-for-linus-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  futexes: Fix infinite loop in get_futex_key() on huge page
2009-07-14 18:35:00 -07:00
Steven Rostedt
6ab5d668b1 tracing/function-profiler: do not free per cpu variable stat
The per cpu variable stat is freeded if we fail to allocate a name
on start up. This was due to stat at first being allocated in the
initial design. But since then, it has become a static per cpu variable
but the free on error was not removed.

Also added __init annotation to the function that this is in.

[ Impact: prevent possible memory corruption on low mem at boot up ]

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-07-13 11:01:10 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
7638d5322b Merge branch 'kmemleak' of git://linux-arm.org/linux-2.6
* 'kmemleak' of git://linux-arm.org/linux-2.6:
  kmemleak: Remove alloc_bootmem annotations introduced in the past
  kmemleak: Add callbacks to the bootmem allocator
  kmemleak: Allow partial freeing of memory blocks
  kmemleak: Trace the kmalloc_large* functions in slub
  kmemleak: Scan objects allocated during a scanning episode
  kmemleak: Do not acquire scan_mutex in kmemleak_open()
  kmemleak: Remove the reported leaks number limitation
  kmemleak: Add more cond_resched() calls in the scanning thread
  kmemleak: Renice the scanning thread to +10
2009-07-12 12:24:35 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan
405f55712d headers: smp_lock.h redux
* Remove smp_lock.h from files which don't need it (including some headers!)
* Add smp_lock.h to files which do need it
* Make smp_lock.h include conditional in hardirq.h
  It's needed only for one kernel_locked() usage which is under CONFIG_PREEMPT

  This will make hardirq.h inclusion cheaper for every PREEMPT=n config
  (which includes allmodconfig/allyesconfig, BTW)

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-07-12 12:22:34 -07:00
Sonny Rao
ce2ae53b75 futexes: Fix infinite loop in get_futex_key() on huge page
get_futex_key() can infinitely loop if it is called on a
virtual address that is within a huge page but not aligned to
the beginning of that page.  The call to get_user_pages_fast
will return the struct page for a sub-page within the huge page
and the check for page->mapping will always fail.

The fix is to call compound_head on the page before checking
that it's mapped.

Signed-off-by: Sonny Rao <sonnyrao@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Cc: anton@samba.org
Cc: rajamony@us.ibm.com
Cc: speight@us.ibm.com
Cc: mstephen@us.ibm.com
Cc: grimm@us.ibm.com
Cc: mikey@ozlabs.au.ibm.com
LKML-Reference: <20090710231313.GA23572@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-07-11 12:40:44 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
ac3f482236 Merge branch 'core-fixes-for-linus-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'core-fixes-for-linus-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  dma-debug: Fix the overlap() function to be correct and readable
  oprofile: reset bt_lost_no_mapping with other stats
  x86/oprofile: rename kernel parameter for architectural perfmon to arch_perfmon
  signals: declare sys_rt_tgsigqueueinfo in syscalls.h
  rcu: Mark Hierarchical RCU no longer experimental
  dma-debug: Put all hash-chain locks into the same lock class
  dma-debug: fix off-by-one error in overlap function
2009-07-10 14:25:59 -07:00
Peter Zijlstra
d86ee4809d sched: optimize cond_resched()
Optimize cond_resched() by removing one conditional.

Currently cond_resched() checks system_state ==
SYSTEM_RUNNING in order to avoid scheduling before the
scheduler is running.

We can however, as per suggestion of Matt, use
PREEMPT_ACTIVE to accomplish that very same.

Suggested-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-07-10 14:24:05 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
2a6f86bc5e Merge branch 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  tracing: Fix trace_print_seq()
  kprobes: No need to unlock kprobe_insn_mutex
  tracing/fastboot: Document the need of initcall_debug
  trace_export: Repair missed fields
  tracing: Fix stack tracer sysctl handling
2009-07-10 11:41:41 -07:00
Thomas Gleixner
6ff7041dbf hrtimer: Fix migration expiry check
The timer migration expiry check should prevent the migration of a
timer to another CPU when the timer expires before the next event is
scheduled on the other CPU. Migrating the timer might delay it because
we can not reprogram the clock event device on the other CPU. But the
code implementing that check has two flaws:

- for !HIGHRES the check compares the expiry value with the clock
  events device expiry value which is wrong for CLOCK_REALTIME based
  timers.

- the check is racy. It holds the hrtimer base lock of the target CPU,
  but the clock event device expiry value can be modified
  nevertheless, e.g. by an timer interrupt firing.

The !HIGHRES case is easy to fix as we can enqueue the timer on the
cpu which was selected by the load balancer. It runs the idle
balancing code once per jiffy anyway. So the maximum delay for the
timer is the same as when we keep the tick on the current cpu going.

In the HIGHRES case we can get the next expiry value from the hrtimer
cpu_base of the target CPU and serialize the update with the cpu_base
lock. This moves the lock section in hrtimer_interrupt() so we can set
next_event to KTIME_MAX while we are handling the expired timers and
set it to the next expiry value after we handled the timers under the
base lock. While the expired timers are processed timer migration is
blocked because the expiry time of the timer is always <= KTIME_MAX.

Also remove the now useless clockevents_get_next_event() function.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2009-07-10 17:32:55 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner
7e0c5086c1 hrtimer: migration: do not check expiry time on current CPU
The timer migration code needs to check whether the expiry time of the
timer is before the programmed clock event expiry time when the timer
is enqueued on another CPU because we can not reprogram the timer
device on the other CPU. The current logic checks the expiry time even
if we enqueue on the current CPU when nohz_get_load_balancer() returns
current CPU. This might lead to an endless loop in the expiry check
code when the expiry time of the timer is before the current
programmed next event.

Check whether nohz_get_load_balancer() returns current CPU and skip
the expiry check if this is the case.

The bug was triggered from the networking code. The patch fixes the
regression http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13738
(Soft-Lockup/Race in networking in 2.6.31-rc1+195)

Cc: Arun Bharadwaj <arun@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Tested-by: Joao Correia <joaomiguelcorreia@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2009-07-10 17:22:20 +02:00
Catalin Marinas
264ef8a904 kmemleak: Remove alloc_bootmem annotations introduced in the past
kmemleak_alloc() calls were added in some places where alloc_bootmem was
called. Since now kmemleak tracks bootmem allocations, these explicit
calls should be run.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-07-09 17:07:02 +01:00
Joe Perches
ad361c9884 Remove multiple KERN_ prefixes from printk formats
Commit 5fd29d6ccb ("printk: clean up
handling of log-levels and newlines") changed printk semantics.  printk
lines with multiple KERN_<level> prefixes are no longer emitted as
before the patch.

<level> is now included in the output on each additional use.

Remove all uses of multiple KERN_<level>s in formats.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-07-08 10:30:03 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan
b43f3cbd21 headers: mnt_namespace.h redux
Fix various silly problems wrt mnt_namespace.h:

 - exit_mnt_ns() isn't used, remove it
 - done that, sched.h and nsproxy.h inclusions aren't needed
 - mount.h inclusion was need for vfsmount_lock, but no longer
 - remove mnt_namespace.h inclusion from files which don't use anything
   from mnt_namespace.h

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-07-08 09:31:56 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
793285fcaf cred_guard_mutex: do not return -EINTR to user-space
do_execve() and ptrace_attach() return -EINTR if
mutex_lock_interruptible(->cred_guard_mutex) fails.

This is not right, change the code to return ERESTARTNOINTR.

Perhaps we should also change proc_pid_attr_write().

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: 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>
2009-07-06 13:57:04 -07:00
Kevin Cernekee
5bfd756097 Fix virt_to_phys() warnings
These warnings were observed on MIPS32 using 2.6.31-rc1 and gcc-4.2.0:

mm/page_alloc.c: In function 'alloc_pages_exact':
mm/page_alloc.c:1986: warning: passing argument 1 of 'virt_to_phys' makes pointer from integer without a cast

drivers/usb/mon/mon_bin.c: In function 'mon_alloc_buff':
drivers/usb/mon/mon_bin.c:1264: warning: passing argument 1 of 'virt_to_phys' makes pointer from integer without a cast

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix kernel/perf_counter.c too]
Signed-off-by: Kevin Cernekee <cernekee@gmail.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-07-06 13:57:03 -07:00
Xiao Guangrong
e1af3aec3e tracing: Fix trace_print_seq()
We will lose something if trace_seq->buffer[0] is 0, because the copy length
is calculated by strlen() in seq_puts(), so using seq_write() instead of
seq_puts().

There have a example:
after reboot:

 # echo kmemtrace > current_tracer
 # echo 0 > options/kmem_minimalistic
 # cat trace
 # tracer: kmemtrace
 #
 #

Nothing is exported, because the first byte of trace_seq->buffer[ ]
is KMEMTRACE_USER_ALLOC.

( the value of KMEMTRACE_USER_ALLOC is zero, seeing
  kmemtrace_print_alloc_user() in kernel/trace/kmemtrace.c)

Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Acked-by: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <4A4B2351.5010300@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-07-02 08:51:13 +02:00
Masami Hiramatsu
4a2bb6fcc8 kprobes: No need to unlock kprobe_insn_mutex
Remove needless kprobe_insn_mutex unlocking during safety check
in garbage collection, because if someone releases a dirty slot
during safety check (which ensures other cpus doesn't execute
all dirty slots), the safety check must be fail. So, we need to
hold the mutex while checking safety.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090630210809.17851.28781.stgit@localhost.localdomain>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-07-01 10:43:07 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
e83c2b0ff3 Merge branch 'kmemleak' of git://linux-arm.org/linux-2.6
* 'kmemleak' of git://linux-arm.org/linux-2.6:
  kmemleak: Inform kmemleak about pid_hash
  kmemleak: Do not warn if an unknown object is freed
  kmemleak: Do not report new leaked objects if the scanning was stopped
  kmemleak: Slightly change the policy on newly allocated objects
  kmemleak: Do not trigger a scan when reading the debug/kmemleak file
  kmemleak: Simplify the reports logged by the scanning thread
  kmemleak: Enable task stacks scanning by default
  kmemleak: Allow the early log buffer to be configurable.
2009-06-30 19:04:53 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
55bcab4695 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: (47 commits)
  perf report: Add --symbols parameter
  perf report: Add --comms parameter
  perf report: Add --dsos parameter
  perf_counter tools: Adjust only prelinked symbol's addresses
  perf_counter: Provide a way to enable counters on exec
  perf_counter tools: Reduce perf stat measurement overhead/skew
  perf stat: Use percentages for scaling output
  perf_counter, x86: Update x86_pmu after WARN()
  perf stat: Micro-optimize the code: memcpy is only required if no event is selected and !null_run
  perf stat: Improve output
  perf stat: Fix multi-run stats
  perf stat: Add -n/--null option to run without counters
  perf_counter tools: Remove dead code
  perf_counter: Complete counter swap
  perf report: Print sorted callchains per histogram entries
  perf_counter tools: Prepare a small callchain framework
  perf record: Fix unhandled io return value
  perf_counter tools: Add alias for 'l1d' and 'l1i'
  perf-report: Add bare minimum PERF_EVENT_READ parsing
  perf-report: Add modes for inherited stats and no-samples
  ...
2009-06-30 19:02:59 -07:00
Renaud Lottiaux
df279ca896 bsdacct: fix access to invalid filp in acct_on()
The file opened in acct_on and freshly stored in the ns->bacct struct can
be closed in acct_file_reopen by a concurrent call after we release
acct_lock and before we call mntput(file->f_path.mnt).

Record file->f_path.mnt in a local variable and use this variable only.

Signed-off-by: Renaud Lottiaux <renaud.lottiaux@kerlabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Louis Rilling <louis.rilling@kerlabs.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-30 18:56:00 -07:00
Zhang Rui
8bc1ad7dd3 kernel/resource.c: fix sign extension in reserve_setup()
When the 32-bit signed quantities get assigned to the u64 resource_size_t,
they are incorrectly sign-extended.

Addresses http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13253
Addresses http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9905

Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Reported-by: Leann Ogasawara <leann@ubuntu.com>
Cc: Pierre Ossman <drzeus@drzeus.cx>
Reported-by: <pablomme@googlemail.com>
Tested-by: <pablomme@googlemail.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Cc: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-30 18:56:00 -07:00
Paul Mackerras
57e7986ed1 perf_counter: Provide a way to enable counters on exec
This provides a way to mark a counter to be enabled on the next
exec. This is useful for measuring the total activity of a
program without including overhead from the process that
launches it.

This also changes the perf stat command to use this new
facility.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <19017.43927.838745.689203@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-30 12:00:16 +02:00
Catalin Marinas
12de38b186 kmemleak: Inform kmemleak about pid_hash
Kmemleak does not track alloc_bootmem calls but the pid_hash allocated
in pidhash_init() would need to be scanned as it contains pointers to
struct pid objects.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2009-06-29 17:14:14 +01:00
Li Zefan
238a24f626 tracing/fastboot: Document the need of initcall_debug
To use boot tracer, one should pass initcall_debug as well as
ftrace=initcall to the command line.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <4A48735E.9050002@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-29 10:22:10 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
8326e284f8 Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86, delay: tsc based udelay should have rdtsc_barrier
  x86, setup: correct include file in <asm/boot.h>
  x86, setup: Fix typo "CONFIG_x86_64" in <asm/boot.h>
  x86, mce: percpu mcheck_timer should be pinned
  x86: Add sysctl to allow panic on IOCK NMI error
  x86: Fix uv bau sending buffer initialization
  x86, mce: Fix mce resume on 32bit
  x86: Move init_gbpages() to setup_arch()
  x86: ensure percpu lpage doesn't consume too much vmalloc space
  x86: implement percpu_alloc kernel parameter
  x86: fix pageattr handling for lpage percpu allocator and re-enable it
  x86: reorganize cpa_process_alias()
  x86: prepare setup_pcpu_lpage() for pageattr fix
  x86: rename remap percpu first chunk allocator to lpage
  x86: fix duplicate free in setup_pcpu_remap() failure path
  percpu: fix too lazy vunmap cache flushing
  x86: Set cpu_llc_id on AMD CPUs
2009-06-28 11:05:28 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
187dd317f0 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:
  timer stats: Optimize by adding quick check to avoid function calls
  timers: Fix timer_migration interface which accepts any number as input
2009-06-28 11:05:16 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
9b71272b6a Merge branch 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  ftrace: Fix the output of profile
  ring-buffer: Make it generally available
  ftrace: Remove duplicate newline
  tracing: Fix trace_buf_size boot option
  ftrace: Fix t_hash_start()
  ftrace: Don't manipulate @pos in t_start()
  ftrace: Don't increment @pos in g_start()
  tracing: Reset iterator in t_start()
  trace_stat: Don't increment @pos in seq start()
  tracing_bprintk: Don't increment @pos in t_start()
  tracing/events: Don't increment @pos in s_start()
2009-06-28 11:05:04 -07:00
Lai Jiangshan
82d5308127 trace_export: Repair missed fields
Some fields for struct ftrace_graph_ret are missed
when they are exported to user.

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <4A448FB6.5000302@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-26 20:48:40 +02:00
Li Zefan
a32c7765e2 tracing: Fix stack tracer sysctl handling
This made my machine completely frozen:

  # echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/stack_tracer_enabled
  # echo 2 > /proc/sys/kernel/stack_tracer_enabled

The cause is register_ftrace_function() was called twice.

Also fix ftrace_enabled sysctl, though seems nothing bad happened
as I tested it.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A448D17.9010305@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-26 20:48:39 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
19d2e75543 perf_counter: Complete counter swap
Complete the counter swap by indeed switching the times too and
updating the userpage after modifying the counter values.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1246014623.31755.195.camel@twins>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-26 17:48:54 +02:00
Li Zefan
0296e4254f ftrace: Fix the output of profile
The first entry of the ftrace profile was always skipped when
reading trace_stat/functionX.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A443D59.4080307@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-26 09:25:42 +02:00
Kurt Garloff
5211a242d0 x86: Add sysctl to allow panic on IOCK NMI error
This patch introduces a new sysctl:

    /proc/sys/kernel/panic_on_io_nmi

which defaults to 0 (off).

When enabled, the kernel panics when the kernel receives an NMI
caused by an IO error.

The IO error triggered NMI indicates a serious system
condition, which could result in IO data corruption. Rather
than contiuing, panicing and dumping might be a better choice,
so one can figure out what's causing the IO error.

This could be especially important to companies running IO
intensive applications where corruption must be avoided, e.g. a
bank's databases.

[ SuSE has been shipping it for a while, it was done at the
  request of a large database vendor, for their users. ]

Signed-off-by: Kurt Garloff <garloff@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Roberto Angelino <robertangelino@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090624213211.GA11291@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-25 22:06:11 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
e6e18ec79b perf_counter: Rework the sample ABI
The PERF_EVENT_READ implementation made me realize we don't
actually need the sample_type int the output sample, since
we already have that in the perf_counter_attr information.

Therefore, remove the PERF_EVENT_MISC_OVERFLOW bit and the
event->type overloading, and imply put counter overflow
samples in a PERF_EVENT_SAMPLE type.

This also fixes the issue that event->type was only 32-bit
and sample_type had 64 usable bits.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-25 21:39:08 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
bfbd3381e6 perf_counter: Implement more accurate per task statistics
With the introduction of PERF_EVENT_READ we have the
possibility to provide accurate counter values for
individual tasks in a task hierarchy.

However, due to the lazy context switching used for similar
counter contexts our current per task counts are way off.

In order to maintain some of the lazy switch benefits we
don't disable it out-right, but simply iterate the active
counters and flip the values between the contexts.

This only reads the counters but does not need to reprogram
the full PMU.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-25 21:39:07 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
38b200d676 perf_counter: Add PERF_EVENT_READ
Provide a read() like event which can be used to log the
counter value at specific sites such as child->parent
folding on exit.

In order to be useful, we log the counter parent ID, not the
actual counter ID, since userspace can only relate parent
IDs to perf_counter_attr constructs.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-25 21:39:07 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
194002b274 perf_counter, x86: Add mmap counter read support
Update the mmap control page with the needed information to
use the userspace RDPMC instruction for self monitoring.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-25 21:39:06 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
7f8b4e4e09 perf_counter: Add scale information to the mmap control page
Add the needed time scale to the self-profile mmap information.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-25 21:39:05 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner
aa715284b4 futex: request only one page from get_user_pages()
Yanmin noticed that fault_in_user_writeable() requests 4 pages instead
of one.

That's the result of blindly trusting Linus' proposal :) I even looked
up the prototype to verify the correctness: the argument in question
is confusingly enough named "len" while in reality it means number of
pages.

Pointed-out-by: Yanmin Zhang <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2009-06-25 14:33:46 +02:00
Paul Mundt
1155de47cd ring-buffer: Make it generally available
In hunting down the cause for the hwlat_detector ring buffer spew in
my failed -next builds it became obvious that folks are now treating
ring_buffer as something that is generic independent of tracing and thus,
suitable for public driver consumption.

Given that there are only a few minor areas in ring_buffer that have any
reliance on CONFIG_TRACING or CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER, provide stubs for
those and make it generally available.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Jon Masters <jcm@jonmasters.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <20090625053012.GB19944@linux-sh.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-25 10:31:30 +02:00
Li Zefan
00e54d087a ftrace: Remove duplicate newline
Before:
  # echo 'sys_open:traceon:' > set_ftrace_filter
  # echo 'sys_close:traceoff:5' > set_ftrace_filter
  # cat set_ftrace_filter
  #### all functions enabled ####
  sys_open:traceon:unlimited

  sys_close:traceoff:count=0

After:
  # cat set_ftrace_filter
  #### all functions enabled ####
  sys_open:traceon:unlimited
  sys_close:traceoff:count=0

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A4313A7.7030105@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-25 10:28:36 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
c622304825 Merge branches 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/{vfs-2.6,audit-current}
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6:
  another race fix in jfs_check_acl()
  Get "no acls for this inode" right, fix shmem breakage
  inline functions left without protection of ifdef (acl)

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/audit-current:
  audit: inode watches depend on CONFIG_AUDIT not CONFIG_AUDIT_SYSCALL
2009-06-24 14:17:14 -07:00
Eric Paris
3a6a6c16be audit: inode watches depend on CONFIG_AUDIT not CONFIG_AUDIT_SYSCALL
Even though one cannot make use of the audit watch code without
CONFIG_AUDIT_SYSCALL the spaghetti nature of the audit code means that
the audit rule filtering requires that it at least be compiled.

Thus build the audit_watch code when we build auditfilter like it was
before cfcad62c74

Clearly this is a point of potential future cleanup..

Reported-by: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-06-24 16:42:05 -04:00
Thomas Gleixner
d0725992c8 futex: Fix the write access fault problem for real
commit 64d1304a64 (futex: setup writeable mapping for futex ops which
modify user space data) did address only half of the problem of write
access faults.

The patch was made on two wrong assumptions:

1) access_ok(VERIFY_WRITE,...) would actually check write access.

   On x86 it does _NOT_. It's a pure address range check.

2) a RW mapped region can not go away under us.

   That's wrong as well. Nobody can prevent another thread to call
   mprotect(PROT_READ) on that region where the futex resides. If that
   call hits between the get_user_pages_fast() verification and the
   actual write access in the atomic region we are toast again.

The solution is to not rely on access_ok and get_user() for any write
access related fault on private and shared futexes. Instead we need to
fault it in with verification of write access.

There is no generic non destructive write mechanism which would fault
the user page in trough a #PF, but as we already know that we will
fault we can as well call get_user_pages() directly and avoid the #PF
overhead.

If get_user_pages() returns -EFAULT we know that we can not fix it
anymore and need to bail out to user space.

Remove a bunch of confusing comments on this issue as well.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
2009-06-24 21:27:35 +02:00
Paul E. McKenney
f6faac71d5 rcu: Mark Hierarchical RCU no longer experimental
Removes the warnings about Hierarchical RCU being experimental,
given that it has gone through almost six months of being the
default RCU in mainline for the x86 with very little trouble.

This makes hierarchical-RCU bootup look less scary.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com
Cc: lethal@linux-sh.org
Cc: kernel@wantstofly.org
Cc: cl@linux-foundation.org
Cc: schamp@sgi.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-24 15:02:48 +02:00
Li Zefan
9d612beff5 tracing: Fix trace_buf_size boot option
We should be able to specify [KMG] when setting trace_buf_size
boot option, as documented in kernel-parameters.txt

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A41F2DB.4020102@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-24 11:41:12 +02:00
Heiko Carstens
507e123151 timer stats: Optimize by adding quick check to avoid function calls
When the kernel is configured with CONFIG_TIMER_STATS but timer
stats are runtime disabled we still get calls to
__timer_stats_timer_set_start_info which initializes some
fields in the corresponding struct timer_list.

So add some quick checks in the the timer stats setup functions
to avoid function calls to __timer_stats_timer_set_start_info
when timer stats are disabled.

In an artificial workload that does nothing but playing ping
pong with a single tcp packet via loopback this decreases cpu
consumption by 1 - 1.5%.

This is part of a modified function trace output on SLES11:

 perl-2497  [00] 28630647177732388 [+  125]: sk_reset_timer <-tcp_v4_rcv
 perl-2497  [00] 28630647177732513 [+  125]: mod_timer <-sk_reset_timer
 perl-2497  [00] 28630647177732638 [+  125]: __timer_stats_timer_set_start_info <-mod_timer
 perl-2497  [00] 28630647177732763 [+  125]: __mod_timer <-mod_timer
 perl-2497  [00] 28630647177732888 [+  125]: __timer_stats_timer_set_start_info <-__mod_timer
 perl-2497  [00] 28630647177733013 [+   93]: lock_timer_base <-__mod_timer

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Mustafa Mesanovic <mustafa.mesanovic@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <20090623153811.GA4641@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-24 11:15:09 +02:00
Li Zefan
d82d62444f ftrace: Fix t_hash_start()
When the output of set_ftrace_filter is larger than PAGE_SIZE,
t_hash_start() will be called the 2nd time, and then we start
from the head of a hlist, which is wrong and causes some entries
to be outputed twice.

The worse is, if the hlist is large enough, reading set_ftrace_filter
won't stop but in a dead loop.

Reviewed-by: Liming Wang <liming.wang@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A41876E.2060407@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-24 11:02:53 +02:00
Li Zefan
694ce0a544 ftrace: Don't manipulate @pos in t_start()
It's rather confusing that in t_start(), in some cases @pos is
incremented, and in some cases it's decremented and then incremented.

This patch rewrites t_start() in a much more general way.

Thus we fix a bug that if ftrace_filtered == 1, functions have tracer
hooks won't be printed, because the branch is always unreachable:

static void *t_start(...)
{
	...
	if (!p)
		return t_hash_start(m, pos);
	return p;
}

Before:
  # echo 'sys_open' > /mnt/tracing/set_ftrace_filter
  # echo 'sys_write:traceon:4' >> /mnt/tracing/set_ftrace_filter
  sys_open

After:
  # echo 'sys_open' > /mnt/tracing/set_ftrace_filter
  # echo 'sys_write:traceon:4' >> /mnt/tracing/set_ftrace_filter
  sys_open
  sys_write:traceon:count=4

Reviewed-by: Liming Wang <liming.wang@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A41874B.4090507@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-24 11:02:53 +02:00
Li Zefan
85951842a1 ftrace: Don't increment @pos in g_start()
It's wrong to increment @pos in g_start(). It causes some entries
lost when reading set_graph_function, if the output of the file
is larger than PAGE_SIZE.

Reviewed-by: Liming Wang <liming.wang@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A418738.7090401@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-24 11:02:52 +02:00