One of the changes between kernels 2.6.28 and 2.6.29 is that a branch profiler
has been added for if() statements. Unfortunately this patch makes the sparse
output unusable with CONFIG_TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING=y: when branch profiling is
enabled, sparse prints so much false positives that the real issues are no
longer visible. This behavior can be reproduced as follows:
* enable CONFIG_TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING, e.g. by running make allyesconfig or
make allmodconfig.
* run make C=2
Result: a huge number of the following sparse warnings.
...
include/linux/cpumask.h:547:2: warning: symbol '______r' shadows an earlier one
include/linux/cpumask.h:547:2: originally declared here
...
The patch below fixes this by disabling branch profiling while analyzing the
kernel code with sparse.
See also:
* http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/11/21/18
* http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12925
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <200904051620.02311.bart.vanassche@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: better performance for if branch tracer
Use an array to count the hit and misses of a conditional instead
of using another conditional. This cuts down on saturation of branch
predictions and increases performance of modern pipelined architectures.
Signed-off-by: Witold Baryluk <baryluk@smp.if.uj.edu.pl>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
- include the gcc version-dependent header files from the generic gcc
header file, rather than the other way around (iow: don't make the
non-gcc header file have to know about gcc versions)
- don't include compiler-gcc4.h for gcc 5 (for whenever it gets
released). That's just confusing and made us do odd things in the
gcc4 header file (testing that we really had version 4!)
- generate the name from the __GNUC__ version directly, rather than
having a mess of #if conditionals.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Impact: feature to profile if statements
This patch adds a branch profiler for all if () statements.
The results will be found in:
/debugfs/tracing/profile_branch
For example:
miss hit % Function File Line
------- --------- - -------- ---- ----
0 1 100 x86_64_start_reservations head64.c 127
0 1 100 copy_bootdata head64.c 69
1 0 0 x86_64_start_kernel head64.c 111
32 0 0 set_intr_gate desc.h 319
1 0 0 reserve_ebda_region head.c 51
1 0 0 reserve_ebda_region head.c 47
0 1 100 reserve_ebda_region head.c 42
0 0 X maxcpus main.c 165
Miss means the branch was not taken. Hit means the branch was taken.
The percent is the percentage the branch was taken.
This adds a significant amount of overhead and should only be used
by those analyzing their system.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: clean up to make one profiler of like and unlikely tracer
The likely and unlikely profiler prints out the file and line numbers
of the annotated branches that it is profiling. It shows the number
of times it was correct or incorrect in its guess. Having two
different files or sections for that matter to tell us if it was a
likely or unlikely is pretty pointless. We really only care if
it was correct or not.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: clean up of branch check
The unlikely/likely profiler does an extra assign of the f.line.
This is not needed since it is already calculated at compile time.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: name change of unlikely tracer and profiler
Ingo Molnar suggested changing the config from UNLIKELY_PROFILE
to BRANCH_PROFILING. I never did like the "unlikely" name so I
went one step farther, and renamed all the unlikely configurations
to a "BRANCH" variant.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: fix bootup crash
the branch tracer missed arch/x86/vdso/vclock_gettime.c from
disabling tracing, which caused such bootup crashes:
[ 201.840097] init[1]: segfault at 7fffed3fe7c0 ip 00007fffed3fea2e sp 000077
also clean up the ugly ifdefs in arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_64.c by
creating DISABLE_UNLIKELY_PROFILE facility for code to turn off
instrumentation on a per file basis.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: new unlikely/likely profiler
Andrew Morton recently suggested having an in-kernel way to profile
likely and unlikely macros. This patch achieves that goal.
When configured, every(*) likely and unlikely macro gets a counter attached
to it. When the condition is hit, the hit and misses of that condition
are recorded. These numbers can later be retrieved by:
/debugfs/tracing/profile_likely - All likely markers
/debugfs/tracing/profile_unlikely - All unlikely markers.
# cat /debug/tracing/profile_unlikely | head
correct incorrect % Function File Line
------- --------- - -------- ---- ----
2167 0 0 do_arch_prctl process_64.c 832
0 0 0 do_arch_prctl process_64.c 804
2670 0 0 IS_ERR err.h 34
71230 5693 7 __switch_to process_64.c 673
76919 0 0 __switch_to process_64.c 639
43184 33743 43 __switch_to process_64.c 624
12740 64181 83 __switch_to process_64.c 594
12740 64174 83 __switch_to process_64.c 590
# cat /debug/tracing/profile_unlikely | \
awk '{ if ($3 > 25) print $0; }' |head -20
44963 35259 43 __switch_to process_64.c 624
12762 67454 84 __switch_to process_64.c 594
12762 67447 84 __switch_to process_64.c 590
1478 595 28 syscall_get_error syscall.h 51
0 2821 100 syscall_trace_leave ptrace.c 1567
0 1 100 native_smp_prepare_cpus smpboot.c 1237
86338 265881 75 calc_delta_fair sched_fair.c 408
210410 108540 34 calc_delta_mine sched.c 1267
0 54550 100 sched_info_queued sched_stats.h 222
51899 66435 56 pick_next_task_fair sched_fair.c 1422
6 10 62 yield_task_fair sched_fair.c 982
7325 2692 26 rt_policy sched.c 144
0 1270 100 pre_schedule_rt sched_rt.c 1261
1268 48073 97 pick_next_task_rt sched_rt.c 884
0 45181 100 sched_info_dequeued sched_stats.h 177
0 15 100 sched_move_task sched.c 8700
0 15 100 sched_move_task sched.c 8690
53167 33217 38 schedule sched.c 4457
0 80208 100 sched_info_switch sched_stats.h 270
30585 49631 61 context_switch sched.c 2619
# cat /debug/tracing/profile_likely | awk '{ if ($3 > 25) print $0; }'
39900 36577 47 pick_next_task sched.c 4397
20824 15233 42 switch_mm mmu_context_64.h 18
0 7 100 __cancel_work_timer workqueue.c 560
617 66484 99 clocksource_adjust timekeeping.c 456
0 346340 100 audit_syscall_exit auditsc.c 1570
38 347350 99 audit_get_context auditsc.c 732
0 345244 100 audit_syscall_entry auditsc.c 1541
38 1017 96 audit_free auditsc.c 1446
0 1090 100 audit_alloc auditsc.c 862
2618 1090 29 audit_alloc auditsc.c 858
0 6 100 move_masked_irq migration.c 9
1 198 99 probe_sched_wakeup trace_sched_switch.c 58
2 2 50 probe_wakeup trace_sched_wakeup.c 227
0 2 100 probe_wakeup_sched_switch trace_sched_wakeup.c 144
4514 2090 31 __grab_cache_page filemap.c 2149
12882 228786 94 mapping_unevictable pagemap.h 50
4 11 73 __flush_cpu_slab slub.c 1466
627757 330451 34 slab_free slub.c 1731
2959 61245 95 dentry_lru_del_init dcache.c 153
946 1217 56 load_elf_binary binfmt_elf.c 904
102 82 44 disk_put_part genhd.h 206
1 1 50 dst_gc_task dst.c 82
0 19 100 tcp_mss_split_point tcp_output.c 1126
As you can see by the above, there's a bit of work to do in rethinking
the use of some unlikelys and likelys. Note: the unlikely case had 71 hits
that were more than 25%.
Note: After submitting my first version of this patch, Andrew Morton
showed me a version written by Daniel Walker, where I picked up
the following ideas from:
1) Using __builtin_constant_p to avoid profiling fixed values.
2) Using __FILE__ instead of instruction pointers.
3) Using the preprocessor to stop all profiling of likely
annotations from vsyscall_64.c.
Thanks to Andrew Morton, Arjan van de Ven, Theodore Tso and Ingo Molnar
for their feed back on this patch.
(*) Not ever unlikely is recorded, those that are used by vsyscalls
(a few of them) had to have profiling disabled.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The notrace define belongs in compiler.h so that it can be used in
init.h
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Remove the redundant definition of ACCESS_ONCE() from rcupreempt.c in
favor of the one in compiler.h. Also merge the comment header from
rcupreempt.c's definition into that in compiler.h.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
It actually makes much more sense there, and we do tend to need it for
non-RCU usage too. Moving it to <linux/compiler.h> will allow some
other cases that have open-coded the same logic to use the same helper
function that RCU has used.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
People are adding `noinline' in various places to prevent excess stack
consumption due to gcc inlining. But once this is done, it is quite unobvious
why the `noinline' is present in the code. We can comment each and every
site, or we can use noinline_for_stack.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Remove the deprecated __attribute_used__.
[Introduce __section in a few places to silence checkpatch /sam]
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
The __deprecated marker is quite useful in highlighting the remnants of
old APIs that want removing.
However, it is quite normal for one or more years to pass, before the
(usually ancient, bitrotten) code in question is either updated or
deleted.
Thus, like __must_check, add a Kconfig option that permits the silencing
of this compiler warning.
This change mimics the ifdef-ery and Kconfig defaults of MUST_CHECK as
closely as possible.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To be consistent with the use of attributes in the rest of the kernel
replace all use of __attribute_pure__ with __pure and delete the definition
of __attribute_pure__.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
Cc: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
gcc 4.3 supports a new __attribute__((__cold__)) to mark functions cold. Any
path directly leading to a call of this function will be unlikely. And gcc
will try to generate smaller code for the function itself.
Please use with care. The code generation advantage isn't large and in most
cases it is not worth uglifying code with this.
This patch marks some common error functions like panic(), printk()
as cold. This will longer term make many unlikely()s unnecessary, although
we can keep them for now for older compilers.
BUG is not marked cold because there is currently no way to tell
gcc to mark a inline function told.
Also all __init and __exit functions are marked cold. With a non -Os
build this will tell the compiler to generate slightly smaller code
for them. I think it currently only uses less alignments for labels,
but that might change in the future.
One disadvantage over *likely() is that they cannot be easily instrumented
to verify them.
Another drawback is that only the latest gcc 4.3 snapshots support this.
Unfortunately we cannot detect this using the preprocessor. This means older
snapshots will fail now. I don't think that's a problem because they are
unreleased compilers that nobody should be using.
gcc also has a __hot__ attribute, but I don't see any sense in using
this in the kernel right now. But someday I hope gcc will be able
to use more aggressive optimizing for hot functions even in -Os,
if that happens it should be added.
Includes compile fix from Thomas Gleixner.
Cc: Jan Hubicka <jh@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The ifdef tests were broken. Assume it acts like gcc 4
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
__used is defined to be __attribute__((unused)) for all pre-3.3 gcc
compilers to suppress warnings for unused functions because perhaps they
are referenced only in inline assembly. It is defined to be
__attribute__((used)) for gcc 3.3 and later so that the code is still
emitted for such functions.
__maybe_unused is defined to be __attribute__((unused)) for both function
and variable use if it could possibly be unreferenced due to the evaluation
of preprocessor macros. Function prototypes shall be marked with
__maybe_unused if the actual definition of the function is dependant on
preprocessor macros.
No update to compiler-intel.h is necessary because ICC supports both
__attribute__((used)) and __attribute__((unused)) as specified by the gcc
manual.
__attribute_used__ is deprecated and will be removed once all current
code is converted to using __used.
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Change prototypes for __chk_user_ptr and __chk_io_ptr to take const
void* instead of void*, so that code can pass "const void *" to them.
(Right now sparse does not warn about passing const void* to void*
functions, but that is a separate bug that I believe Josh is working on,
and once sparse does check this, the changed prototypes will be
necessary.)
Signed-off-by: Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org>
Acked-by: Christopher Li <sparse@chrisli.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The kernel doesn't compile with GCC <3.2, do not allow it to succeed if GCC
3.0.x or 3.1.x are used.
Signed-off-by: Alistair John Strachan <s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
The lock annotation macros __acquires, __releases, __acquire, and __release
all currently throw away the lock expression passed as an argument. Now
that sparse can parse __context__ and __attribute__((context)) with a
context expression, pass the lock expression down to sparse as the context
expression. This requires a version of sparse from GIT commit
37475a6c1c3e66219e68d912d5eb833f4098fd72 or later.
Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Currently, __acquire and __release take a lock expression, but __cond_lock
takes only a condition, not the lock acquired if the expression evaluates
to true. Change __cond_lock to accept a lock expression, and change all
the callers to pass in a lock expression.
Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Those 1500 warnings can be a bit of a pain. Add a config option to shut them
up.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
There's one scsi driver which doesn't compile due to weird __VA_ARGS__ tricks
and the rather useful scsi/sd.c is currently getting an ICE. None of the new
SAS code compiles, due to extensive use of anonymous unions. The V4L guys are
very good at exploiting the gcc-2.95.x macro expansion bug (_why_ does each
driver need to implement its own debug macros?) and various people keep on
sneaking in anonymous unions, which are rather nice.
Plus anonymous unions are rather useful.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Add a deprecated_for_modules macro that allows symbols to be deprecated only
when used by modules, as suggested by Andrew Morton some months back.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.
Let it rip!
