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Mike Galbraith
3cb63d527f sched: Complete buddy switches
Add a NEXT_BUDDY feature flag to aid in debugging.

Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-15 16:01:02 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
e6b1b2c9c0 sched: Split WAKEUP_OVERLAP
It consists of two conditions, split them out in separate toggles
so we can test them independently.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-15 16:01:02 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
b78bb868c5 sched: Fix double_rq_lock() compile warning
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-15 16:01:01 +02:00
Xiao Guangrong
b3e62e3505 perf_counter: Fix buffer overflow in perf_copy_attr()
If we pass a big size data over perf_counter_open() syscall,
the kernel will copy this data to a small buffer, it will
cause kernel crash.

This bug makes the kernel unsafe and non-root local user can
trigger it.

Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <4AAF37D4.5010706@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-15 09:53:31 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
1824090496 Merge branch 'for-linus3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6
* 'for-linus3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6:
  SELinux: inline selinux_is_enabled in !CONFIG_SECURITY_SELINUX
  KEYS: Fix garbage collector
  KEYS: Unlock tasklist when exiting early from keyctl_session_to_parent
  CRED: Allow put_cred() to cope with a NULL groups list
  SELinux: flush the avc before disabling SELinux
  SELinux: seperate avc_cache flushing
  Creds: creds->security can be NULL is selinux is disabled
2009-09-14 20:07:31 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
f86054c245 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/suspend-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/suspend-2.6: (23 commits)
  at_hdmac: Rework suspend_late()/resume_early()
  PM: Reset transition_started at dpm_resume_noirq
  PM: Update kerneldoc comments in drivers/base/power/main.c
  PM: Add convenience macro to make switching to dev_pm_ops less error-prone
  hp-wmi: Switch driver to dev_pm_ops
  floppy: Switch driver to dev_pm_ops
  PM: Trivial fixes
  PM / Hibernate / Memory hotplug: Always use for_each_populated_zone()
  PM/Hibernate: Do not try to allocate too much memory too hard (rev. 2)
  PM/Hibernate: Do not release preallocated memory unnecessarily (rev. 2)
  PM/Hibernate: Rework shrinking of memory
  PM: Fix typo in label name s/Platofrm_finish/Platform_finish/
  PM: Run-time PM platform device bus support
  PM: Introduce core framework for run-time PM of I/O devices (rev. 17)
  Driver Core: Make PM operations a const pointer
  PM: Remove platform device suspend_late()/resume_early() V2
  USB: Rework musb suspend()/resume_early()
  I2C: Rework i2c-s3c2410 suspend_late()/resume() V2
  I2C: Rework i2c-pxa suspend_late()/resume_early()
  DMA: Rework txx9dmac suspend_late()/resume_early()
  ...

Fix trivial conflict in drivers/base/platform.c (due to same
constification patch being merged in both sides, along with some other
PM work in the PM branch)
2009-09-14 20:03:54 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
c91d7d54ea Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-kconfig
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-kconfig:
  kconfig: add missing dependency of conf to localyesconfig
  kconfig: test if a .config already exists
  kconfig: make local .config default for streamline_config
  kconfig: test for /boot/config-uname after /proc/config.gz in localconfig
  kconfig: unset IKCONFIG_PROC and clean up nesting
  kconfig: search for a config to base the local(mod|yes)config on
  kconfig: keep config.gz around even if CONFIG_IKCONFIG_PROC is not set
  kconfig: have extract-ikconfig read ELF files
  kconfig: add check if end exists in extract-ikconfig
  kconfig: enable CONFIG_IKCONFIG from streamline_config.pl
  kconfig: do not warn about modules built in
  kconfig: streamline_config.pl do not stop with no depends
  kconfig: add make localyesconfig option
  kconfig: make localmodconfig to run streamline_config.pl
  kconfig: add streamline_config.pl to scripts
2009-09-14 19:59:37 -07:00
Mike Frysinger
555f386c98 ftrace: document function and function graph implementation
While implementing function tracer and function tracer graph support,
I found the exact arch implementation details to be a bit lacking
(and my x86 foo ain't great).  So after pounding out support for
the Blackfin arch, start documenting the requirements/details.

Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
LKML-Reference: <1252973415-21264-1-git-send-email-vapier@gentoo.org>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-09-14 21:43:15 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
355bbd8cb8 Merge branch 'for-2.6.32' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block
* 'for-2.6.32' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (29 commits)
  block: use blkdev_issue_discard in blk_ioctl_discard
  Make DISCARD_BARRIER and DISCARD_NOBARRIER writes instead of reads
  block: don't assume device has a request list backing in nr_requests store
  block: Optimal I/O limit wrapper
  cfq: choose a new next_req when a request is dispatched
  Seperate read and write statistics of in_flight requests
  aoe: end barrier bios with EOPNOTSUPP
  block: trace bio queueing trial only when it occurs
  block: enable rq CPU completion affinity by default
  cfq: fix the log message after dispatched a request
  block: use printk_once
  cciss: memory leak in cciss_init_one()
  splice: update mtime and atime on files
  block: make blk_iopoll_prep_sched() follow normal 0/1 return convention
  cfq-iosched: get rid of must_alloc flag
  block: use interrupts disabled version of raise_softirq_irqoff()
  block: fix comment in blk-iopoll.c
  block: adjust default budget for blk-iopoll
  block: fix long lines in block/blk-iopoll.c
  block: add blk-iopoll, a NAPI like approach for block devices
  ...
2009-09-14 17:55:15 -07:00
Anirban Sinha
353f6dd2de cleanup console_print()
console_print() is an old legacy interface mostly unused in the entire
kernel tree. It's best to clean up its existing use and let developers
use their own implementation of it as they feel fit.

Signed-off-by: Anirban Sinha <asinha@zeugmasystems.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-14 17:41:42 -07:00
David Howells
4a5d6ba191 CRED: Allow put_cred() to cope with a NULL groups list
put_cred() will oops if given a NULL groups list, but that is now possible with
the existence of cred_alloc_blank(), as used in keyctl_session_to_parent().

Added in commit:

	commit ee18d64c1f
	Author: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
	Date:   Wed Sep 2 09:14:21 2009 +0100
	KEYS: Add a keyctl to install a process's session keyring on its parent [try #6]

Reported-by: Marc Dionne <marc.c.dionne@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2009-09-15 09:10:57 +10:00
Wu Fengguang
8de0307326 PM: Trivial fixes
Fix the definition of BM_BITS_PER_BLOCK and kerneldoc
description of create_bm_block_list().

[rjw: Added changelog.]

Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
2009-09-14 20:26:59 +02:00
Gerald Schaefer
98e73dc5d2 PM / Hibernate / Memory hotplug: Always use for_each_populated_zone()
Use for_each_populated_zone() instead of for_each_zone() in hibernation
code. This fixes a bug on s390, where we allow both config options
HIBERNATION and MEMORY_HOTPLUG, so that we also have a ZONE_MOVABLE
here. We only allow hibernation if no memory hotplug operation was
performed, so in fact both features can only be used exclusively, but
this way we don't need 2 differently configured (distribution) kernels.

If we have an unpopulated ZONE_MOVABLE, we allow hibernation but run
into a BUG_ON() in memory_bm_test/set/clear_bit() because hibernation
code iterates through all zones, not only the populated zones, in
several places. For example, swsusp_free() does for_each_zone() and
then checks for pfn_valid(), which is true even if the zone is not
populated, resulting in a BUG_ON() later because the pfn cannot be
found in the memory bitmap.

Replacing all occurences of for_each_zone() in hibernation code with
for_each_populated_zone() would fix this issue.

[rjw: Rebased on top of linux-next hibernation patches.]

Signed-off-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
2009-09-14 20:26:59 +02:00
Rafael J. Wysocki
ef4aede3f1 PM/Hibernate: Do not try to allocate too much memory too hard (rev. 2)
We want to avoid attempting to free too much memory too hard during
hibernation, so estimate the minimum size of the image to use as the
lower limit for preallocating memory.

The approach here is based on the (experimental) observation that we
can't free more page frames than the sum of:

* global_page_state(NR_SLAB_RECLAIMABLE)
* global_page_state(NR_ACTIVE_ANON)
* global_page_state(NR_INACTIVE_ANON)
* global_page_state(NR_ACTIVE_FILE)
* global_page_state(NR_INACTIVE_FILE)

minus

* global_page_state(NR_FILE_MAPPED)

Namely, if this number is subtracted from the number of saveable
pages in the system, we get a good estimate of the minimum reasonable
size of a hibernation image.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
2009-09-14 20:26:59 +02:00
Rafael J. Wysocki
64a473cb74 PM/Hibernate: Do not release preallocated memory unnecessarily (rev. 2)
Since the hibernation code is now going to use allocations of memory
to make enough room for the image, it can also use the page frames
allocated at this stage as image page frames.  The low-level
hibernation code needs to be rearranged for this purpose, but it
allows us to avoid freeing a great number of pages and allocating
these same pages once again later, so it generally is worth doing.

[rev. 2: Take highmem into account correctly.]

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
2009-09-14 20:26:58 +02:00
Rafael J. Wysocki
4bb334353e PM/Hibernate: Rework shrinking of memory
Rework swsusp_shrink_memory() so that it calls shrink_all_memory()
just once to make some room for the image and then allocates memory
to apply more pressure to the memory management subsystem, if
necessary.

Unfortunately, we don't seem to be able to drop shrink_all_memory()
entirely just yet, because that would lead to huge performance
regressions in some test cases.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
2009-09-14 20:26:58 +02:00
Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo
e681c9dd62 PM: Fix typo in label name s/Platofrm_finish/Platform_finish/
Although the same label name is used somewhere else in the file, this
particular label was consistently typoed in all of its uses.

Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@holoscopio.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
2009-09-14 20:26:58 +02:00
Rafael J. Wysocki
ac8d513a68 Merge branch 'master' into for-linus 2009-09-14 20:26:05 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
d7e9660ad9 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6: (1623 commits)
  netxen: update copyright
  netxen: fix tx timeout recovery
  netxen: fix file firmware leak
  netxen: improve pci memory access
  netxen: change firmware write size
  tg3: Fix return ring size breakage
  netxen: build fix for INET=n
  cdc-phonet: autoconfigure Phonet address
  Phonet: back-end for autoconfigured addresses
  Phonet: fix netlink address dump error handling
  ipv6: Add IFA_F_DADFAILED flag
  net: Add DEVTYPE support for Ethernet based devices
  mv643xx_eth.c: remove unused txq_set_wrr()
  ucc_geth: Fix hangs after switching from full to half duplex
  ucc_geth: Rearrange some code to avoid forward declarations
  phy/marvell: Make non-aneg speed/duplex forcing work for 88E1111 PHYs
  drivers/net/phy: introduce missing kfree
  drivers/net/wan: introduce missing kfree
  net: force bridge module(s) to be GPL
  Subject: [PATCH] appletalk: Fix skb leak when ipddp interface is not loaded
  ...

Fixed up trivial conflicts:

 - arch/x86/include/asm/socket.h

   converted to <asm-generic/socket.h> in the x86 tree.  The generic
   header has the same new #define's, so that works out fine.

 - drivers/net/tun.c

   fix conflict between 89f56d1e9 ("tun: reuse struct sock fields") that
   switched over to using 'tun->socket.sk' instead of the redundantly
   available (and thus removed) 'tun->sk', and 2b980dbd ("lsm: Add hooks
   to the TUN driver") which added a new 'tun->sk' use.

   Noted in 'next' by Stephen Rothwell.
2009-09-14 10:37:28 -07:00
Steven Rostedt
1f5a6b4541 tracing: make testing syscall events a separate configuration
Parag noticed that the number of event tests has increased tremendously:

grep "Testing event" dmesg.31rc9 |wc -l
100

grep "Testing event" dmesg.31git |wc -l
1172

This is due to the testing of every syscall event when ftrace self
test is enabled. This adds a bit more time to kernel boot up and can
affect development by slowing down the time it takes between reboots.

This option makes the testing of the syscall events into a separate
config, to still be able to test most of ftrace internals at boot up
but not have to wait for all the syscall events to be tested.

The syscall event testing only tests the enabling and disabling of
the trace point, since the syscalls are not executed. What really needs
to be done is to somehow have a userspace tool test the syscall tracepoints
as well.

Reported-by: Parag Warudkar <parag.lkml@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <f7848160909130815l3e768a30n3b28808bbe5c254b@mail.gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-09-14 11:58:24 -04:00
Li Zefan
20a58a7723 tracing: remove some unused macros
- remove FTRACE_ENTRY_STRUCT_ONLY()
- remove TRACE_XXX() macros

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4AADF6E6.3080606@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-09-14 11:43:24 -04:00
Li Zefan
05ffa2d020 ftrace: add compile-time check on F_printk()
Make sure F_printk() has corrent format and args, and make sure
changes in F_STRUCT() won't break F_printk().

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4AADF6CC.1060809@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-09-14 11:42:10 -04:00
Li Zefan
c16de8fd7a tracing: fix F_printk() typos
I found some typos in F_printk(), so I wrote compile-time check
for it, and triggered some compile errors and warnings.

I've fixed them on x86_32, but I have no x86_64 in my hand, so there
may still be some compile warnings on 64bits.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4AADF60B.5070407@cn.fujitsu.com>

[ tested on x86_64, and works fine ]

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-09-14 11:40:59 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
ec827c7ece tracing: add static to generated TRACE_EVENT functions
Some of the generated functions used in the TRACE_EVENT macros are
not declared static, but they are not global.

Discovered by sparse.

Reported-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-09-14 10:50:23 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
08a4081617 ring-buffer: typecast cmpxchg to fix PowerPC warning
The cmpxchg used by PowerPC does the following:

  ({									 \
     __typeof__(*(ptr)) _o_ = (o);					 \
     __typeof__(*(ptr)) _n_ = (n);					 \
     (__typeof__(*(ptr))) __cmpxchg((ptr), (unsigned long)_o_,		 \
				    (unsigned long)_n_, sizeof(*(ptr))); \
  })

This does a type check of *ptr to both o and n.

Unfortunately, the code in ring-buffer.c assigns longs to pointers
and pointers to longs and causes a warning on PowerPC:

ring_buffer.c: In function 'rb_head_page_set':
ring_buffer.c:704: warning: initialization makes pointer from integer without a cast
ring_buffer.c:704: warning: initialization makes pointer from integer without a cast
ring_buffer.c: In function 'rb_head_page_replace':
ring_buffer.c:797: warning: initialization makes integer from pointer without a cast

This patch adds the typecasts inside cmpxchg to annotate that a long is
being cast to a pointer and a pointer is being casted to a long and this
removes the PowerPC warnings.

Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-09-14 09:41:57 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
60ba770227 tracing: add filter event logic to special, mmiotrace and boot tracers
Now that the pluging tracers use macros to create the structures and
automate the exporting of their formats to the format files, they also
automatically get a filter file.

This patch adds the code to implement the filter logic in the trace
recordings.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-09-12 23:34:04 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
51df5fcbc1 tracing: remove trace_event_types.h
The macros in trace_entries.h have made the code in trace_event_types.h
obsolete. The file is no longer used, so this patch removes it.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-09-12 23:08:11 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
4e5292ea1a tracing: use the new trace_entries.h to create format files
This patch changes the way the format files in

  debugfs/tracing/events/ftrace/*/format

are created. It uses the new trace_entries.h file to automate the
creation of the format files to ensure that they are always in sync
with the actual structures. This is the same methodology used to
create the format files for the TRACE_EVENT macro.

This also updates the filter creation that was built on the creation
of the format files.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-09-12 23:08:10 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
d73150943c tracing: show details of structures within the ftrace structures
Some of the internal ftrace structures use structures within. The
output of a field saying it is just a structure is useless for a format
file. A binary reader of the ring buffer needs to know more about
how the fields are broken up.

This patch adds to the ftrace structure macros new fields to
describe the structures inside a structure.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-09-12 23:08:07 -04:00
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
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
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
Linus Torvalds
483e3cd6a3 Merge branch 'tracing-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'tracing-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (105 commits)
  ring-buffer: only enable ring_buffer_swap_cpu when needed
  ring-buffer: check for swapped buffers in start of committing
  tracing: report error in trace if we fail to swap latency buffer
  tracing: add trace_array_printk for internal tracers to use
  tracing: pass around ring buffer instead of tracer
  tracing: make tracing_reset safe for external use
  tracing: use timestamp to determine start of latency traces
  tracing: Remove mentioning of legacy latency_trace file from documentation
  tracing/filters: Defer pred allocation, fix memory leak
  tracing: remove users of tracing_reset
  tracing: disable buffers and synchronize_sched before resetting
  tracing: disable update max tracer while reading trace
  tracing: print out start and stop in latency traces
  ring-buffer: disable all cpu buffers when one finds a problem
  ring-buffer: do not count discarded events
  ring-buffer: remove ring_buffer_event_discard
  ring-buffer: fix ring_buffer_read crossing pages
  ring-buffer: remove unnecessary cpu_relax
  ring-buffer: do not swap buffers during a commit
  ring-buffer: do not reset while in a commit
  ...
2009-09-11 13:24:03 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
774a694f8c Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (64 commits)
  sched: Fix sched::sched_stat_wait tracepoint field
  sched: Disable NEW_FAIR_SLEEPERS for now
  sched: Keep kthreads at default priority
  sched: Re-tune the scheduler latency defaults to decrease worst-case latencies
  sched: Turn off child_runs_first
  sched: Ensure that a child can't gain time over it's parent after fork()
  sched: enable SD_WAKE_IDLE
  sched: Deal with low-load in wake_affine()
  sched: Remove short cut from select_task_rq_fair()
  sched: Turn on SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE
  sched: Clean up topology.h
  sched: Fix dynamic power-balancing crash
  sched: Remove reciprocal for cpu_power
  sched: Try to deal with low capacity, fix update_sd_power_savings_stats()
  sched: Try to deal with low capacity
  sched: Scale down cpu_power due to RT tasks
  sched: Implement dynamic cpu_power
  sched: Add smt_gain
  sched: Update the cpu_power sum during load-balance
  sched: Add SD_PREFER_SIBLING
  ...
2009-09-11 13:23:18 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
4f0ac85416 Merge branch 'perfcounters-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'perfcounters-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (60 commits)
  perf tools: Avoid unnecessary work in directory lookups
  perf stat: Clean up statistics calculations a bit more
  perf stat: More advanced variance computation
  perf stat: Use stddev_mean in stead of stddev
  perf stat: Remove the limit on repeat
  perf stat: Change noise calculation to use stddev
  x86, perf_counter, bts: Do not allow kernel BTS tracing for now
  x86, perf_counter, bts: Correct pointer-to-u64 casts
  x86, perf_counter, bts: Fail if BTS is not available
  perf_counter: Fix output-sharing error path
  perf trace: Fix read_string()
  perf trace: Print out in nanoseconds
  perf tools: Seek to the end of the header area
  perf trace: Fix parsing of perf.data
  perf trace: Sample timestamps as well
  perf_counter: Introduce new (non-)paranoia level to allow raw tracepoint access
  perf trace: Sample the CPU too
  perf tools: Work around strict aliasing related warnings
  perf tools: Clean up warnings list in the Makefile
  perf tools: Complete support for dynamic strings
  ...
2009-09-11 13:22:43 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
d90a7e8640 Merge branch 'irq-threaded-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'irq-threaded-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  genirq: Do not mask oneshot edge type interrupts
  genirq: Support nested threaded irq handling
  genirq: Add buslock support
  genirq: Add oneshot support
2009-09-11 13:21:31 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
12a499612e Merge branch 'irq-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'irq-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  pci/intr_remapping: Allocate irq_iommu on node
  irq: Add irq_node() primitive
  irq: Make sure irq_desc for legacy irq get correct node setting
  genirq: Add prototype for handle_nested_irq()
  irq: Remove superfluous NULL pointer check in check_irq_resend()
  irq: Clean up by removing irqfixup MODULE_PARM_DESC()
  genirq: Fix comment describing suspend_device_irqs()
  genirq: Remove obsolete defines and typedefs
2009-09-11 13:20:42 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
eee2775d99 Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (28 commits)
  rcu: Move end of special early-boot RCU operation earlier
  rcu: Changes from reviews: avoid casts, fix/add warnings, improve comments
  rcu: Create rcutree plugins to handle hotplug CPU for multi-level trees
  rcu: Remove lockdep annotations from RCU's _notrace() API members
  rcu: Add #ifdef to suppress __rcu_offline_cpu() warning in !HOTPLUG_CPU builds
  rcu: Add CPU-offline processing for single-node configurations
  rcu: Add "notrace" to RCU function headers used by ftrace
  rcu: Remove CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU
  rcu: Merge preemptable-RCU functionality into hierarchical RCU
  rcu: Simplify rcu_pending()/rcu_check_callbacks() API
  rcu: Use debugfs_remove_recursive() simplify code.
  rcu: Merge per-RCU-flavor initialization into pre-existing macro
  rcu: Fix online/offline indication for rcudata.csv trace file
  rcu: Consolidate sparse and lockdep declarations in include/linux/rcupdate.h
  rcu: Renamings to increase RCU clarity
  rcu: Move private definitions from include/linux/rcutree.h to kernel/rcutree.h
  rcu: Expunge lingering references to CONFIG_CLASSIC_RCU, optimize on !SMP
  rcu: Delay rcu_barrier() wait until beginning of next CPU-hotunplug operation.
  rcu: Fix typo in rcu_irq_exit() comment header
  rcu: Make rcupreempt_trace.c look at offline CPUs
  ...
2009-09-11 13:20:18 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
53e16fbd30 Merge branch 'core-printk-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'core-printk-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  printk: Fix "printk: Enable the use of more than one CON_BOOT (early console)"
  printk: Restore previous console_loglevel when re-enabling logging
  printk: Ensure that "console enabled" messages are printed on the console
  printk: Enable the use of more than one CON_BOOT (early console)
2009-09-11 13:19:40 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
4e3408d9f7 Merge branch 'core-locking-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'core-locking-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (32 commits)
  locking, m68k/asm-offsets: Rename signal defines
  locking: Inline spinlock code for all locking variants on s390
  locking: Simplify spinlock inlining
  locking: Allow arch-inlined spinlocks
  locking: Move spinlock function bodies to header file
  locking, m68k: Calculate thread_info offset with asm offset
  locking, m68k/asm-offsets: Rename pt_regs offset defines
  locking, sparc: Rename __spin_try_lock() and friends
  locking, powerpc: Rename __spin_try_lock() and friends
  lockdep: Remove recursion stattistics
  lockdep: Simplify lock_stat seqfile code
  lockdep: Simplify lockdep_chains seqfile code
  lockdep: Simplify lockdep seqfile code
  lockdep: Fix missing entries in /proc/lock_chains
  lockdep: Fix missing entry in /proc/lock_stat
  lockdep: Fix memory usage info of BFS
  lockdep: Reintroduce generation count to make BFS faster
  lockdep: Deal with many similar locks
  lockdep: Introduce lockdep_assert_held()
  lockdep: Fix style nits
  ...
2009-09-11 13:17:24 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
7193bea53f Merge branch 'core-futexes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'core-futexes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  futex: Detect mismatched requeue targets
  futex: Correct futex_wait_requeue_pi() commentary
2009-09-11 13:16:22 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
989aa44a5f Merge branch 'core-debug-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'core-debug-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  debug lockups: Improve lockup detection, fix generic arch fallback
  debug lockups: Improve lockup detection
2009-09-11 13:15:55 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
4004f02d7a Merge branch 'core-cleanups-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'core-cleanups-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  workqueues: Improve schedule_work() documentation
2009-09-11 13:13:32 -07:00
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
Linus Torvalds
a12e4d304c Merge branch 'writeback' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block
* 'writeback' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block:
  writeback: check for registered bdi in flusher add and inode dirty
  writeback: add name to backing_dev_info
  writeback: add some debug inode list counters to bdi stats
  writeback: get rid of pdflush completely
  writeback: switch to per-bdi threads for flushing data
  writeback: move dirty inodes from super_block to backing_dev_info
  writeback: get rid of generic_sync_sb_inodes() export
2009-09-11 09:17:05 -07:00
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
Jens Axboe
5e605b64a1 block: add blk-iopoll, a NAPI like approach for block devices
This borrows some code from NAPI and implements a polled completion
mode for block devices. The idea is the same as NAPI - instead of
doing the command completion when the irq occurs, schedule a dedicated
softirq in the hopes that we will complete more IO when the iopoll
handler is invoked. Devices have a budget of commands assigned, and will
stay in polled mode as long as they continue to consume their budget
from the iopoll softirq handler. If they do not, the device is set back
to interrupt completion mode.

This patch holds the core bits for blk-iopoll, device driver support
sold separately.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-09-11 14:33:31 +02:00
Jens Axboe
d993831fa7 writeback: add name to backing_dev_info
This enables us to track who does what and print info. Its main use
is catching dirty inodes on the default_backing_dev_info, so we can
fix that up.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-09-11 09:20:26 +02:00
James Morris
a3c8b97396 Merge branch 'next' into for-linus 2009-09-11 08:04:49 +10:00
Ingo Molnar
e1f8450854 sched: Fix sched::sched_stat_wait tracepoint field
This weird perf trace output:

  cc1-9943  [001]  2802.059479616: sched_stat_wait: task: as:9944 wait: 2801938766276 [ns]

Is caused by setting one component field of the delta to zero
a bit too early. Move it to later.

( Note, this does not affect the NEW_FAIR_SLEEPERS interactivity bug,
  it's just a reporting bug in essence. )

Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
LKML-Reference: <4AA93D34.8040500@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-10 20:52:54 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
3f2aa307c4 sched: Disable NEW_FAIR_SLEEPERS for now
Nikos Chantziaras and Jens Axboe reported that turning off
NEW_FAIR_SLEEPERS improves desktop interactivity visibly.

Nikos described his experiences the following way:

  " With this setting, I can do "nice -n 19 make -j20" and
    still have a very smooth desktop and watch a movie at
    the same time.  Various other annoyances (like the
    "logout/shutdown/restart" dialog of KDE not appearing
    at all until the background fade-out effect has finished)
    are also gone.  So this seems to be the single most
    important setting that vastly improves desktop behavior,
    at least here. "

Jens described it the following way, referring to a 10-seconds
xmodmap scheduling delay he was trying to debug:

  " Then I tried switching NO_NEW_FAIR_SLEEPERS on, and then
    I get:

    Performance counter stats for 'xmodmap .xmodmap-carl':

         9.009137  task-clock-msecs         #      0.447 CPUs
               18  context-switches         #      0.002 M/sec
                1  CPU-migrations           #      0.000 M/sec
              315  page-faults              #      0.035 M/sec

    0.020167093  seconds time elapsed

    Woot! "

So disable it for now. In perf trace output i can see weird
delta timestamps:

  cc1-9943  [001]  2802.059479616: sched_stat_wait: task: as:9944 wait: 2801938766276 [ns]

That nsec field is not supposed to be that large. More digging
is needed - but lets turn it off while the real bug is found.

Reported-by: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de>
Tested-by: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de>
Reported-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Tested-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
LKML-Reference: <4AA93D34.8040500@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-10 20:34:48 +02:00
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
Rafael J. Wysocki
bf992fa2bc Merge branch 'master' into for-linus 2009-09-10 00:02:02 +02:00
Mike Galbraith
61cbe54d94 sched: Keep kthreads at default priority
Removes kthread/workqueue priority boost, they increase worst-case
desktop latencies.

Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1252486344.28645.18.camel@marge.simson.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-09 17:30:06 +02:00
Mike Galbraith
172e082a91 sched: Re-tune the scheduler latency defaults to decrease worst-case latencies
Reduce the latency target from 20 msecs to 5 msecs.

Why? Larger latencies increase spread, which is good for scaling,
but bad for worst case latency.

We still have the ilog(nr_cpus) rule to scale up on bigger
server boxes.

Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1252486344.28645.18.camel@marge.simson.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-09 17:30:06 +02:00
Mike Galbraith
2bba22c50b sched: Turn off child_runs_first
Set child_runs_first default to off.

It hurts 'optimal' make -j<NR_CPUS> workloads as make jobs
get preempted by child tasks, reducing parallelism.

Note, this patch might make existing races in user
applications more prominent than before - so breakages
might be bisected to this commit.

Child-runs-first is broken on SMP to begin with, and we
already had it off briefly in v2.6.23 so most of the
offenders ought to be fixed. Would be nice not to revert
this commit but fix those apps finally ...

Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1252486344.28645.18.camel@marge.simson.net>
[ made the sysctl independent of CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG, in case
  people want to work around broken apps. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-09 17:30:05 +02:00
Mike Galbraith
b5d9d734a5 sched: Ensure that a child can't gain time over it's parent after fork()
A fork/exec load is usually "pass the baton", so the child
should never be placed behind the parent.  With START_DEBIT we
make room for the new task, but with child_runs_first, that
room comes out of the _parent's_ hide. There's nothing to say
that the parent wasn't ahead of min_vruntime at fork() time,
which means that the "baton carrier", who is essentially the
parent in drag, can gain time and increase scheduling latencies
for waiters.

With NEW_FAIR_SLEEPERS + START_DEBIT + child_runs_first
enabled, we essentially pass the sleeper fairness off to the
child, which is fine, but if we don't base placement on the
parent's updated vruntime, we can end up compounding latency
woes if the child itself then does fork/exec.  The debit
incurred at fork doesn't hurt the parent who is then going to
sleep and maybe exit, but the child who acquires the error
harms all comers.

This improves latencies of make -j<n> kernel build workloads.

Reported-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-08 13:15:34 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
71a29aa7b6 sched: Deal with low-load in wake_affine()
wake_affine() would always fail under low-load situations where
both prev and this were idle, because adding a single task will
always be a significant imbalance, even if there's nothing
around that could balance it.

Deal with this by allowing imbalance when there's nothing you
can do about it.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-07 20:39:06 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
cdd2ab3de4 sched: Remove short cut from select_task_rq_fair()
select_task_rq_fair() incorrectly skips the wake_affine()
logic, remove this.

When prev_cpu == this_cpu, the code jumps straight to the
wake_idle() logic, this doesn't give the wake_affine() logic
the chance to pin the task to this cpu.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-07 20:39:05 +02:00
Jaswinder Singh Rajput
b6d9c25631 Security/SELinux: includecheck fix kernel/sysctl.c
fix the following 'make includecheck' warning:

  kernel/sysctl.c: linux/security.h is included more than once.

Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2009-09-07 11:41:03 +10:00
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
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
Steven Rostedt
85bac32c4a ring-buffer: only enable ring_buffer_swap_cpu when needed
Since the ability to swap the cpu buffers adds a small overhead to
the recording of a trace, we only want to add it when needed.

Only the irqsoff and preemptoff tracers use this feature, and both are
not recommended for production kernels. This patch disables its use
when neither irqsoff nor preemptoff is configured.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-09-04 19:42:22 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
62f0b3eb5c ring-buffer: check for swapped buffers in start of committing
Because the irqsoff tracer can swap an internal CPU buffer, it is possible
that a swap happens between the start of the write and before the committing
bit is set (the committing bit will disable swapping).

This patch adds a check for this and will fail the write if it detects it.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-09-04 19:38:42 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
e8165dbb03 tracing: report error in trace if we fail to swap latency buffer
The irqsoff tracer will fail to swap the cpu buffer with the max
buffer if it preempts a commit. Instead of ignoring this, this patch
makes the tracer report it if the last max latency failed due to preempting
a current commit.

The output of the latency tracer will look like this:

 # tracer: irqsoff
 #
 # irqsoff latency trace v1.1.5 on 2.6.31-rc5
 # --------------------------------------------------------------------
 # latency: 112 us, #1/1, CPU#1 | (M:preempt VP:0, KP:0, SP:0 HP:0 #P:4)
 #    -----------------
 #    | task: -4281 (uid:0 nice:0 policy:0 rt_prio:0)
 #    -----------------
 #  => started at: save_args
 #  => ended at:   __do_softirq
 #
 #
 #                  _------=> CPU#
 #                 / _-----=> irqs-off
 #                | / _----=> need-resched
 #                || / _---=> hardirq/softirq
 #                ||| / _--=> preempt-depth
 #                |||| /
 #                |||||     delay
 #  cmd     pid   ||||| time  |   caller
 #     \   /      |||||   \   |   /
    bash-4281    1d.s6  265us : update_max_tr_single: Failed to swap buffers due to commit in progress

Note the latency time and the functions that disabled the irqs or preemption
will still be listed.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-09-04 19:22:41 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
659372d3e4 tracing: add trace_array_printk for internal tracers to use
This patch adds a trace_array_printk to allow a tracer to use the
trace_printk on its own trace array.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-09-04 19:13:53 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
e77405ad80 tracing: pass around ring buffer instead of tracer
The latency tracers (irqsoff and wakeup) can swap trace buffers
on the fly. If an event is happening and has reserved data on one of
the buffers, and the latency tracer swaps the global buffer with the
max buffer, the result is that the event may commit the data to the
wrong buffer.

This patch changes the API to the trace recording to be recieve the
buffer that was used to reserve a commit. Then this buffer can be passed
in to the commit.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-09-04 18:59:39 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
f633903af2 tracing: make tracing_reset safe for external use
Reseting the trace buffer without first disabling the buffer and
waiting for any writers to complete, can corrupt the ring buffer.

This patch makes the external version of tracing_reset safe from
corruption by disabling the ring buffer and calling synchronize_sched.

This version can no longer be called from interrupt context. But all those
callers have been removed.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-09-04 18:46:51 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
2f26ebd549 tracing: use timestamp to determine start of latency traces
Currently the latency tracers reset the ring buffer. Unfortunately
if a commit is in process (due to a trace event), this can corrupt
the ring buffer. When this happens, the ring buffer will detect
the corruption and then permanently disable the ring buffer.

The bug does not crash the system, but it does prevent further tracing
after the bug is hit.

Instead of reseting the trace buffers, the timestamp of the start of
the trace is used instead. The buffers will still contain the previous
data, but the output will not count any data that is before the
timestamp of the trace.

Note, this only affects the static trace output (trace) and not the
runtime trace output (trace_pipe). The runtime trace output does not
make sense for the latency tracers anyway.

Reported-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-09-04 18:44:22 -04:00
Li Zefan
c58b43218c tracing/filters: Defer pred allocation, fix memory leak
The predicates of an event and their filter structure are allocated
when we create an event filter for the first time.

These objects must be created once but each time we come with a new
filter, we overwrite such pre-existing allocation, if any.

Thus, this patch checks if the filter has already been allocated
before going ahead.

Spotted-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A9CB1BA.3060402@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2009-09-04 23:22:33 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
76f0d07376 tracing: remove users of tracing_reset
The function tracing_reset is deprecated for outside use of trace.c.

The new function to reset the the buffers is tracing_reset_online_cpus.

The reason for this is that resetting the buffers while the event
trace points are active can corrupt the buffers, because they may
be writing at the time of reset. The tracing_reset_online_cpus disables
writes and waits for current writers to finish.

This patch replaces all users of tracing_reset except for the latency
tracers. Those changes require more work and will be removed in the
following patches.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-09-04 12:12:39 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
621968cdb2 tracing: disable buffers and synchronize_sched before resetting
Resetting the ring buffers while traces are happening can corrupt
the ring buffer and disable it (no kernel crash to worry about).

The safest thing to do is disable the ring buffers, call synchronize_sched()
to wait for all current writers to finish and then reset the buffer.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-09-04 12:02:35 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
b8de7bd168 tracing: disable update max tracer while reading trace
When reading the tracer from the trace file, updating the max latency
may corrupt the output. This patch disables the tracing of the max
latency while reading the trace file.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-09-04 11:52:24 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
8248ac052d tracing: print out start and stop in latency traces
During development of the tracer, we would copy information from
the live tracer to the max tracer with one memcpy. Since then we
added a generic ring buffer and we handle the copies differently now.
Unfortunately, we never copied the critical section information, and
we lost the output:

 #  => started at: kmem_cache_alloc
 #  => ended at:   kmem_cache_alloc

This patch adds back the critical start and end copying as well as
removes the unused "trace_idx" and "overrun" fields of the
trace_array_cpu structure.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-09-04 11:48:12 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
077c5407cd ring-buffer: disable all cpu buffers when one finds a problem
Currently the way RB_WARN_ON works, is to disable either the current
CPU buffer or all CPU buffers, depending on whether a ring_buffer or
ring_buffer_per_cpu struct was passed into the macro.

Most users of the RB_WARN_ON pass in the CPU buffer, so only the one
CPU buffer gets disabled but the rest are still active. This may
confuse users even though a warning is sent to the console.

This patch changes the macro to disable the entire buffer even if
the CPU buffer is passed in.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-09-04 11:46:25 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
a1863c212b ring-buffer: do not count discarded events
The latency tracers report the number of items in the trace buffer.
This uses the ring buffer data to calculate this. Because discarded
events are also counted, the numbers do not match the number of items
that are printed. The ring buffer also adds a "padding" item to the
end of each buffer page which also gets counted as a discarded item.

This patch decrements the counter to the page entries on a discard.
This allows us to ignore discarded entries while reading the buffer.

Decrementing the counter is still safe since it can only happen while
the committing flag is still set.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-09-04 11:43:36 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
dc892f7339 ring-buffer: remove ring_buffer_event_discard
The function ring_buffer_event_discard can be used on any item in the
ring buffer, even after the item was committed. This function provides
no safety nets and is very race prone.

An item may be safely removed from the ring buffer before it is committed
with the ring_buffer_discard_commit.

Since there are currently no users of this function, and because this
function is racey and error prone, this patch removes it altogether.

Note, removing this function also allows the counters to ignore
all discarded events (patches will follow).

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-09-04 11:36:19 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
7e9391cfed ring-buffer: fix ring_buffer_read crossing pages
When the ring buffer uses an iterator (static read mode, not on the
fly reading), when it crosses a page boundery, it will skip the first
entry on the next page. The reason is that the last entry of a page
is usually padding if the page is not full. The padding will not be
returned to the user.

The problem arises on ring_buffer_read because it also increments the
iterator. Because both the read and peek use the same rb_iter_peek,
the rb_iter_peak will return the padding but also increment to the next
item. This is because the ring_buffer_peek will not incerment it
itself.

The ring_buffer_read will increment it again and then call rb_iter_peek
again to get the next item. But that will be the second item, not the
first one on the page.

The reason this never showed up before, is because the ftrace utility
always calls ring_buffer_peek first and only uses ring_buffer_read
to increment to the next item. The ring_buffer_peek will always keep
the pointer to a valid item and not padding. This just hid the bug.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-09-04 11:28:39 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
1b959e18c4 ring-buffer: remove unnecessary cpu_relax
The loops in the ring buffer that use cpu_relax are not dependent on
other CPUs. They simply came across some padding in the ring buffer and
are skipping over them. It is a normal loop and does not require a
cpu_relax.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-09-04 11:25:27 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
98277991a9 ring-buffer: do not swap buffers during a commit
If a commit is taking place on a CPU ring buffer, do not allow it to
be swapped. Return -EBUSY when this is detected instead.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-09-04 11:22:47 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
41b6a95d69 ring-buffer: do not reset while in a commit
The callers of reset must ensure that no commit can be taking place
at the time of the reset. If it does then we may corrupt the ring buffer.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-09-04 11:15:08 -04:00
Ingo Molnar
d7ea17a769 sched: Fix dynamic power-balancing crash
This crash:

[ 1774.088275] divide error: 0000 [#1] SMP
[ 1774.100355] CPU 13
[ 1774.102498] Modules linked in:
[ 1774.105631] Pid: 30881, comm: hackbench Not tainted 2.6.31-rc8-tip-01308-g484d664-dirty #1629 X8DTN
[ 1774.114807] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff81041c38>]  [<ffffffff81041c38>]
sched_balance_self+0x19b/0x2d4

Triggers because update_group_power() modifies the sd tree and does
temporary calculations there - not considering that other CPUs
could observe intermediate values, such as the zero initial value.

Calculate it in a temporary variable instead. (we need no memory
barrier as these are all statistical values anyway)

Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090904092742.GA11014@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-04 11:52:52 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
18a3885fc1 sched: Remove reciprocal for cpu_power
Its a source of fail, also, now that cpu_power is dynamical,
its a waste of time.

before:
<idle>-0   [000]   132.877936: find_busiest_group: avg_load: 0 group_load: 8241 power: 1

after:
bash-1689  [001]   137.862151: find_busiest_group: avg_load: 10636288 group_load: 10387 power: 1

[ v2: build fix from From: Andreas Herrmann ]

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Tested-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Acked-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Acked-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090901083826.425896304@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-04 10:09:56 +02:00
Gautham R Shenoy
d899a789c2 sched: Try to deal with low capacity, fix update_sd_power_savings_stats()
sgs.group_capacity can now be 0, if for some reason
group->__cpu_power happens to be less than SCHED_LOAD_SCALE/2.

In that case, we need the following fix to make it work for
update_sd_power_savings_stats(). That's because both
sum_nr_running and group_capacity are unsigned longs.

Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-04 10:09:56 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
bdb94aa5db sched: Try to deal with low capacity
When the capacity drops low, we want to migrate load away.
Allow the load-balancer to remove all tasks when we hit rock
bottom.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Tested-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Acked-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Acked-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090901083826.342231003@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-04 10:09:55 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
e9e9250bc7 sched: Scale down cpu_power due to RT tasks
Keep an average on the amount of time spend on RT tasks and use
that fraction to scale down the cpu_power for regular tasks.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Tested-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Acked-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Acked-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090901083826.287778431@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-04 10:09:55 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
ab29230e67 sched: Implement dynamic cpu_power
Recompute the cpu_power for each cpu during load-balance.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Tested-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Acked-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Acked-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090901083826.162033479@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-04 10:09:54 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
a52bfd7358 sched: Add smt_gain
The idea is that multi-threading a core yields more work
capacity than a single thread, provide a way to express a
static gain for threads.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Tested-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Acked-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Acked-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090901083826.073345955@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-04 10:09:54 +02:00