Eric Dumazet reported that hardware PMU events do not work on his
system, due to the BIOS corrupting PMU state:
Performance Events: PEBS fmt0+, Core2 events, Broken BIOS detected, using software events only.
[Firmware Bug]: the BIOS has corrupted hw-PMU resources (MSR 186 is 43003c)
Linus suggested that we continue in the face of such BIOS-induced CPU
state corruption:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2011/3/24/608
Such BIOSes will have to be fixed - Linux developers rely on a working and
fully capable PMU and the BIOS interfering with the CPU's PMU state is simply
not acceptable.
So this patch changes perf to continue when it detects such BIOS
interaction, some hardware events may be unreliable due to the BIOS
writing and re-writing them - there's not much the kernel can do
about that but to detect the corruption and report it.
Reported-and-tested-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The read of a proper MSR register was missed and instead of
counter the configration register was tested (it has
ARCH_P4_UNFLAGGED_BIT always cleared) leading to unknown NMI
hitting the system. As result the user may obtain "Dazed and
confused, but trying to continue" message. Fix it by reading a
proper MSR register.
When an NMI happens on a P4, the perf nmi handler checks the
configuration register to see if the overflow bit is set or not
before taking appropriate action. Unfortunately, various P4
machines had a broken overflow bit, so a backup mechanism was
implemented. This mechanism checked to see if the counter
rolled over or not.
A previous commit that implemented this backup mechanism was
broken. Instead of reading the counter register, it used the
configuration register to determine if the counter rolled over
or not. Reading that bit would give incorrect results.
This would lead to 'Dazed and confused' messages for the end
user when using the perf tool (or if the nmi watchdog is
running).
The fix is to read the counter register before determining if
the counter rolled over or not.
Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <4D8BAB49.3080701@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The original intent of the code was to repeat the search with
want_symtab = 0. But as the code stands now, we never hit the "default"
case of the switch statement. Which means we never repeat the search.
Tested-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reported-by: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com>
Reported-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Dave Martin <dave.martin@linaro.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
The a1645ce1 changeset:
"perf: 'perf kvm' tool for monitoring guest performance from host"
Added a field to struct build_id_event that broke the file format.
Since the kernel build-id is the first entry, process the table using
the old format if the well known '[kernel.kallsyms]' string for the
kernel build-id has the first 4 characters chopped off (where the pid_t
sits).
Reported-by: Han Pingtian <phan@redhat.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: Zhang Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Resolving the sample->id to an evsel since the most advanced tools,
report and annotate, and the others will too when they evolve to
properly support multi-event perf.data files.
Good also because it does an extra validation, checking that the ID is
valid when present. When that is not the case, the overhead is just a
branch + function call (perf_evlist__id2evsel).
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
The maximum kilobytes of locked memory that an unprivileged user
can reserve is of 512 kB = 128 pages by default, scaled to the
number of onlined CPUs, which fits well with the tools that use
128 data pages by default.
However tools actually use 129 pages, because they need one more
for the user control page. Thus the default mlock threshold is
not sufficient for the default tools needs and we always end up
to evaluate the constant mlock rlimit policy, which doesn't have
this scaling with the number of online CPUs.
Hence, on systems that have more than 16 CPUs, we overlap the
rlimit threshold and fail to mmap:
$ perf record ls
Error: failed to mmap with 1 (Operation not permitted)
Just increase the max unprivileged mlock threshold by one page
so that it supports well perf tools even after 16 CPUs.
Reported-by: Han Pingtian <phan@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Reported-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Stable <stable@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <1300904979-5508-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This patch solves a stale pointer problem in
update_cgrp_time_from_cpuctx(). The cpuctx->cgrp
was not cleared on all possible event exit paths,
including:
close()
perf_release()
perf_release_kernel()
list_del_event()
This patch fixes list_del_event() to clear cpuctx->cgrp
when there are no cgroup events left in the context.
[ This second version makes the code compile when
CONFIG_CGROUP_PERF is not enabled. We unconditionally define
perf_cpu_context->cgrp. ]
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: perfmon2-devel@lists.sf.net
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: davem@davemloft.net
LKML-Reference: <20110323150306.GA1580@quad>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
builtin-top.c has an uninitialized variable.
gcc(version 4.5.1) warns about it and it results in build failure:
builtin-top.c: In function 'display_thread':
builtin-top.c:518:9: error: 'counter' may be used uninitialized
This situation can indeed trigger, if the getline() call in
prompt_integer() fails.
Signed-off-by: Akihiro Nagai <akihiro.nagai.hw@hitachi.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <20110323072939.11638.50173.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
If one or more function probes (like traceon) are enabled,
and there's no other function filter, the first probe
func is skipped (which one depends on the position in the hash).
$ echo sys_open:traceon sys_close:traceon > ./set_ftrace_filter
$ cat set_ftrace_filter
#### all functions enabled ####
sys_close:traceon:unlimited
$
The reason was, that in the case of no other function filter,
the func_pos was not properly updated before calling t_hash_start.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1297874134-7008-1-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The following patch solves the problems introduced by Robert's
commit 41bf498 and reported by Arun Sharma. This commit gets rid
of the base + index notation for reading and writing PMU msrs.
The problem is that for fixed counters, the new calculation for
the base did not take into account the fixed counter indexes,
thus all fixed counters were read/written from fixed counter 0.
Although all fixed counters share the same config MSR, they each
have their own counter register.
Without:
$ task -e unhalted_core_cycles -e instructions_retired -e baclears noploop 1 noploop for 1 seconds
242202299 unhalted_core_cycles (0.00% scaling, ena=1000790892, run=1000790892)
2389685946 instructions_retired (0.00% scaling, ena=1000790892, run=1000790892)
49473 baclears (0.00% scaling, ena=1000790892, run=1000790892)
With:
$ task -e unhalted_core_cycles -e instructions_retired -e baclears noploop 1 noploop for 1 seconds
2392703238 unhalted_core_cycles (0.00% scaling, ena=1000840809, run=1000840809)
2389793744 instructions_retired (0.00% scaling, ena=1000840809, run=1000840809)
47863 baclears (0.00% scaling, ena=1000840809, run=1000840809)
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: ming.m.lin@intel.com
Cc: robert.richter@amd.com
Cc: asharma@fb.com
Cc: perfmon2-devel@lists.sf.net
LKML-Reference: <20110319172005.GB4978@quad>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Make sure the 'match' variable always has a value.
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The debugfs interface for branch profiling is through
/sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_stat/branch_annotated
/sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_stat/branch_all
so update the Kconfig accordingly.
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1103161716320.11407@chino.kir.corp.google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Remove unused HAVE_HWSAMPLER config option. It is not used anymore,
removing it.
Also make some functions static and some coding style fixes.
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Merge the contents of hwsampler_files.c into
arch/s390/oprofile/init.c.
Signed-off-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heinz Graalfs <graalfs@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
When destroying inherited events, we need to destroy groups too,
otherwise the event iteration in perf_event_exit_task_context() will
miss group siblings and we leak events with all the consequences.
Reported-and-tested-by: Vince Weaver <vweaver1@eecs.utk.edu>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> # .35+
LKML-Reference: <1300196470.2203.61.camel@twins>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Remove 8 bytes of alignment padding from perf_event_context on 64 bit
builds which shrinks its size to 192 bytes allowing it to fit into one
fewer cache lines and into a smaller slab.
Signed-off-by: Richard Kennedy <richard@rsk.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1299512819.2039.5.camel@castor.rsk>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
We toggle the state from start and stop callbacks but actually
don't check it when the event triggers. Do it so that
these callbacks actually work.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1299529629-18280-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Events on POWER7 can roll back if a speculative event doesn't
eventually complete. Unfortunately in some rare cases they will
raise a performance monitor exception. We need to catch this to
ensure we reset the PMC. In all cases the PMC will be 256 or less
cycles from overflow.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> # as far back as it applies cleanly
LKML-Reference: <20110309143842.6c22845e@kryten>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
PEBS_EVENT_CONSTRAINT() is just a duplicate of INTEL_UEVENT_CONSTRAINT().
Remove it and use INTEL_UEVENT_CONSTRAINT() instead.
Signed-off-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1299684089-22835-3-git-send-email-ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Use INTEL_EVENT_CONSTRAINT() for the events where all umasks support PEBS.
Signed-off-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1299684089-22835-2-git-send-email-ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
If lock was uncontended, wait_time_min == ULLONG_MAX, so we need to
handle this case differently to show high wait times first
Acked-by: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Cc: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20110222174715.GC9687@joi.lan>
Signed-off-by: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Some versions of grep don't treat '\s' properly. When building perf on such
systems and using a kernel tarball the perf version is unable to be determined
from the main kernel Makefile and the user is left with a version of '..'.
Replacing the use of '\s' with '[[:space:]]', which should work in all grep
versions, gives a usable version number.
Reported-by: Tapan Dhimant <tdhimant@akamai.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Tapan Dhimant <tdhimant@akamai.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: stable@kernel.org
LKML-Reference: <1300241800-30281-1-git-send-email-johunt@akamai.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Hunt <johunt@akamai.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
* 'x86-platform-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (27 commits)
x86: Clean up apic.c and apic.h
x86: Remove superflous goal definition of tsc_sync
x86: dt: Correct local apic documentation in device tree bindings
x86: dt: Cleanup local apic setup
x86: dt: Fix OLPC=y/INTEL_CE=n build
rtc: cmos: Add OF bindings
x86: ce4100: Use OF to setup devices
x86: ioapic: Add OF bindings for IO_APIC
x86: dtb: Add generic bus probe
x86: dtb: Add support for PCI devices backed by dtb nodes
x86: dtb: Add device tree support for HPET
x86: dtb: Add early parsing of IO_APIC
x86: dtb: Add irq domain abstraction
x86: dtb: Add a device tree for CE4100
x86: Add device tree support
x86: e820: Remove conditional early mapping in parse_e820_ext
x86: OLPC: Make OLPC=n build again
x86: OLPC: Remove extra OLPC_OPENFIRMWARE_DT indirection
x86: OLPC: Cleanup config maze completely
x86: OLPC: Hide OLPC_OPENFIRMWARE config switch
...
Fix up conflicts in arch/x86/platform/ce4100/ce4100.c
* 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (93 commits)
x86, tlb, UV: Do small micro-optimization for native_flush_tlb_others()
x86-64, NUMA: Don't call numa_set_distanc() for all possible node combinations during emulation
x86-64, NUMA: Don't assume phys node 0 is always online in numa_emulation()
x86-64, NUMA: Clean up initmem_init()
x86-64, NUMA: Fix numa_emulation code with node0 without RAM
x86-64, NUMA: Revert NUMA affine page table allocation
x86: Work around old gas bug
x86-64, NUMA: Better explain numa_distance handling
x86-64, NUMA: Fix distance table handling
mm: Move early_node_map[] reverse scan helpers under HAVE_MEMBLOCK
x86-64, NUMA: Fix size of numa_distance array
x86: Rename e820_table_* to pgt_buf_*
bootmem: Move __alloc_memory_core_early() to nobootmem.c
bootmem: Move contig_page_data definition to bootmem.c/nobootmem.c
bootmem: Separate out CONFIG_NO_BOOTMEM code into nobootmem.c
x86-64, NUMA: Seperate out numa_alloc_distance() from numa_set_distance()
x86-64, NUMA: Add proper function comments to global functions
x86-64, NUMA: Move NUMA emulation into numa_emulation.c
x86-64, NUMA: Prepare numa_emulation() for moving NUMA emulation into a separate file
x86-64, NUMA: Do not scan two times for setup_node_bootmem()
...
Fix up conflicts in arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
* 'x86-mem-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86-64, mem: Convert memmove() to assembly file and fix return value bug
* 'um-irq-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
um: Select GENERIC_HARDIRQS_NO_DEPRECATED
um: Use proper accessors in show_interrupts()
um: Convert irq_chips to new functions
um: Remove stale irq_chip.end
* 'irq-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (116 commits)
x86: Enable forced interrupt threading support
x86: Mark low level interrupts IRQF_NO_THREAD
x86: Use generic show_interrupts
x86: ioapic: Avoid redundant lookup of irq_cfg
x86: ioapic: Use new move_irq functions
x86: Use the proper accessors in fixup_irqs()
x86: ioapic: Use irq_data->state
x86: ioapic: Simplify irq chip and handler setup
x86: Cleanup the genirq name space
genirq: Add chip flag to force mask on suspend
genirq: Add desc->irq_data accessor
genirq: Add comments to Kconfig switches
genirq: Fixup fasteoi handler for oneshot mode
genirq: Provide forced interrupt threading
sched: Switch wait_task_inactive to schedule_hrtimeout()
genirq: Add IRQF_NO_THREAD
genirq: Allow shared oneshot interrupts
genirq: Prepare the handling of shared oneshot interrupts
genirq: Make warning in handle_percpu_event useful
x86: ioapic: Move trigger defines to io_apic.h
...
Fix up trivial(?) conflicts in arch/x86/pci/xen.c due to genirq name
space changes clashing with the Xen cleanups. The set_irq_msi() had
moved to xen_bind_pirq_msi_to_irq().
* 'x86-debug-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86: Combine printk()s in show_regs_common()
x86: Don't call dump_stack() from arch_trigger_all_cpu_backtrace_handler()
* 'x86-cpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86: Fix and clean up generic_processor_info()
x86: Don't copy per_cpu cpuinfo for BSP two times
x86: Move llc_shared_map out of cpu_info
* 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86, binutils, xen: Fix another wrong size directive
x86: Remove dead config option X86_CPU
x86: Really print supported CPUs if PROCESSOR_SELECT=y
x86: Fix a bogus unwind annotation in lib/semaphore_32.S
um, x86-64: Fix UML build after adding CFI annotations to lib/rwsem_64.S
x86: Remove unused bits from lib/thunk_*.S
x86: Use {push,pop}_cfi in more places
x86-64: Add CFI annotations to lib/rwsem_64.S
x86, asm: Cleanup unnecssary macros in asm-offsets.c
x86, system.h: Drop unused __SAVE/__RESTORE macros
x86: Use bitmap library functions
x86: Partly unify asm-offsets_{32,64}.c
x86: Reduce back the alignment of the per-CPU data section
* 'timers-rtc-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
RTC: Fix up rtc.txt documentation to reflect changes to generic rtc layer
RTC: sa1100: Update the sa1100 RTC driver.
RTC: Fix the cross interrupt issue on rtc-test.
RTC: Remove UIE and PIE information from the sa1100 driver proc.
RTC: Include information about UIE and PIE in RTC driver proc.
RTC: Clean out UIE icotl implementations
RTC: Cleanup rtc_class_ops->update_irq_enable()
RTC: Cleanup rtc_class_ops->irq_set_freq()
RTC: Cleanup rtc_class_ops->irq_set_state
RTC: Initialize kernel state from RTC
* 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (62 commits)
posix-clocks: Check write permissions in posix syscalls
hrtimer: Remove empty hrtimer_init_hres_timer()
hrtimer: Update hrtimer->state documentation
hrtimer: Update base[CLOCK_BOOTTIME].offset correctly
timers: Export CLOCK_BOOTTIME via the posix timers interface
timers: Add CLOCK_BOOTTIME hrtimer base
time: Extend get_xtime_and_monotonic_offset() to also return sleep
time: Introduce get_monotonic_boottime and ktime_get_boottime
hrtimers: extend hrtimer base code to handle more then 2 clockids
ntp: Remove redundant and incorrect parameter check
mn10300: Switch do_timer() to xtimer_update()
posix clocks: Introduce dynamic clocks
posix-timers: Cleanup namespace
posix-timers: Add support for fd based clocks
x86: Add clock_adjtime for x86
posix-timers: Introduce a syscall for clock tuning.
time: Splitout compat timex accessors
ntp: Add ADJ_SETOFFSET mode bit
time: Introduce timekeeping_inject_offset
posix-timer: Update comment
...
Fix up new system-call-related conflicts in
arch/x86/ia32/ia32entry.S
arch/x86/include/asm/unistd_32.h
arch/x86/include/asm/unistd_64.h
arch/x86/kernel/syscall_table_32.S
(name_to_handle_at()/open_by_handle_at() vs clock_adjtime()), and some
due to movement of get_jiffies_64() in:
kernel/time.c
* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (26 commits)
sched: Resched proper CPU on yield_to()
sched: Allow users with sufficient RLIMIT_NICE to change from SCHED_IDLE policy
sched: Allow SCHED_BATCH to preempt SCHED_IDLE tasks
sched: Clean up the IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING code
sched: Add #ifdef around irq time accounting functions
sched, autogroup: Stop claiming ownership of the root task group
sched, autogroup: Stop going ahead if autogroup is disabled
sched, autogroup, sysctl: Use proc_dointvec_minmax() instead
sched: Fix the group_imb logic
sched: Clean up some f_b_g() comments
sched: Clean up remnants of sd_idle
sched: Wholesale removal of sd_idle logic
sched: Add yield_to(task, preempt) functionality
sched: Use a buddy to implement yield_task_fair()
sched: Limit the scope of clear_buddies
sched: Check the right ->nr_running in yield_task_fair()
sched: Avoid expensive initial update_cfs_load(), on UP too
sched: Fix switch_from_fair()
sched: Simplify the idle scheduling class
softirqs: Account ksoftirqd time as cpustat softirq
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* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (184 commits)
perf probe: Clean up probe_point_lazy_walker() return value
tracing: Fix irqoff selftest expanding max buffer
tracing: Align 4 byte ints together in struct tracer
tracing: Export trace_set_clr_event()
tracing: Explain about unstable clock on resume with ring buffer warning
ftrace/graph: Trace function entry before updating index
ftrace: Add .ref.text as one of the safe areas to trace
tracing: Adjust conditional expression latency formatting.
tracing: Fix event alignment: skb:kfree_skb
tracing: Fix event alignment: mce:mce_record
tracing: Fix event alignment: kvm:kvm_hv_hypercall
tracing: Fix event alignment: module:module_request
tracing: Fix event alignment: ftrace:context_switch and ftrace:wakeup
tracing: Remove lock_depth from event entry
perf header: Stop using 'self'
perf session: Use evlist/evsel for managing perf.data attributes
perf top: Don't let events to eat up whole header line
perf top: Fix events overflow in top command
ring-buffer: Remove unused #include <linux/trace_irq.h>
tracing: Add an 'overwrite' trace_option.
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* 'core-futexes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
arm: Remove bogus comment in futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic()
futex: Deobfuscate handle_futex_death()
plist: Add priority list test
plist: Shrink struct plist_head
futex,plist: Remove debug lock assignment from plist_node
futex,plist: Pass the real head of the priority list to plist_del()
futex: Sanitize futex ops argument types
futex: Sanitize cmpxchg_futex_value_locked API
futex: Remove redundant pagefault_disable in futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic()
futex: Avoid redudant evaluation of task_pid_vnr()
futex: Update futex_wait_setup comments about locking
* 'core-debugobjects-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
debugobjects: Add hint for better object identification
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: (57 commits)
tidy the trailing symlinks traversal up
Turn resolution of trailing symlinks iterative everywhere
simplify link_path_walk() tail
Make trailing symlink resolution in path_lookupat() iterative
update nd->inode in __do_follow_link() instead of after do_follow_link()
pull handling of one pathname component into a helper
fs: allow AT_EMPTY_PATH in linkat(), limit that to CAP_DAC_READ_SEARCH
Allow passing O_PATH descriptors via SCM_RIGHTS datagrams
readlinkat(), fchownat() and fstatat() with empty relative pathnames
Allow O_PATH for symlinks
New kind of open files - "location only".
ext4: Copy fs UUID to superblock
ext3: Copy fs UUID to superblock.
vfs: Export file system uuid via /proc/<pid>/mountinfo
unistd.h: Add new syscalls numbers to asm-generic
x86: Add new syscalls for x86_64
x86: Add new syscalls for x86_32
fs: Remove i_nlink check from file system link callback
fs: Don't allow to create hardlink for deleted file
vfs: Add open by file handle support
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The new vfs locking scheme introduced in 2.6.38 breaks NFS sillyrename
because the latter relies on being able to determine the parent
directory of the dentry in the ->iput() callback in order to send the
appropriate unlink rpc call.
Looking at the code that cares about races with dput(), there doesn't
seem to be anything that specifically uses d_parent as a test for
whether or not there is a race:
- __d_lookup_rcu(), __d_lookup() all test for d_hashed() after d_parent
- shrink_dcache_for_umount() is safe since nothing else can rearrange
the dentries in that super block.
- have_submount(), select_parent() and d_genocide() can test for a
deletion if we set the DCACHE_DISCONNECTED flag when the dentry
is removed from the parent's d_subdirs list.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org (2.6.38, needs commit c826cb7dfc "dcache.c:
create helper function for duplicated functionality" )
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This creates a helper function for he "try to ascend into the parent
directory" case, which was written out in triplicate before. With all
the locking and subtle sequence number stuff, we really don't want to
duplicate that kind of code.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* pull the handling of current->total_link_count into
__do_follow_link()
* put the common "do ->put_link() if needed and path_put() the link"
stuff into a helper (put_link(nd, link, cookie))
* rename __do_follow_link() to follow_link(), while we are at it
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
The last remaining place (resolution of nested symlink) converted
to the loop of the same kind we have in path_lookupat() and
path_openat().
Note that we still *do* have a recursion in pathname resolution;
can't avoid it, really. However, it's strictly for nested symlinks
now - i.e. ones in the middle of a pathname.
link_path_walk() has lost the tail now - it always walks everything
except the last component.
do_follow_link() renamed to nested_symlink() and moved down.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Now that link_path_walk() is called without LOOKUP_PARENT
only from do_follow_link(), we can simplify the checks in
last component handling. First of all, checking if we'd
arrived to a directory is not needed - the caller will check
it anyway. And LOOKUP_FOLLOW is guaranteed to be there,
since we only get to that place with nd->depth > 0.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>