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Steven Rostedt
0c75a3ed63 ftrace: state that all functions are enabled in set_ftrace_filter
Impact: clean up, make set_ftrace_filter less confusing

The set_ftrace_filter shows only the functions that will be traced.
But when it is empty, it will trace all functions. This can be a bit
confusing.

This patch makes set_ftrace_filter show:

  #### all functions enabled ####

When all functions will be traced, and we do not filter only a select
few.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-02-16 16:21:35 -05:00
Ingo Molnar
d351c8db95 Merge branch 'tip/tracing/ftrace' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into tracing/ftrace 2009-02-13 10:26:45 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
1c511f740f Merge branches 'tracing/ftrace', 'tracing/ring-buffer', 'tracing/sysprof', 'tracing/urgent' and 'linus' into tracing/core 2009-02-13 10:25:18 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
45141d4667 ring-buffer: rename label out_unlock to out_reset
Impact: clean up

While reviewing the ring buffer code, I thougth I saw a bug with

	if (!__raw_spin_trylock(&cpu_buffer->lock))
		goto out_unlock;

But I forgot that we use a variable "lock_taken" that is set if
the spinlock is taken, and only unlock it if that variable is set.

To avoid further confusion from other reviewers, this patch
renames the label out_unlock with out_reset, which is the more
appropriate name.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-02-12 13:39:46 -05:00
Li Zefan
cfebe563bd cgroups: fix lockdep subclasses overflow
I enabled all cgroup subsystems when compiling kernel, and then:
 # mount -t cgroup -o net_cls xxx /mnt
 # mkdir /mnt/0

This showed up immediately:
 BUG: MAX_LOCKDEP_SUBCLASSES too low!
 turning off the locking correctness validator.

It's caused by the cgroup hierarchy lock:
	for (i = 0; i < CGROUP_SUBSYS_COUNT; i++) {
		struct cgroup_subsys *ss = subsys[i];
		if (ss->root == root)
			mutex_lock_nested(&ss->hierarchy_mutex, i);
	}

Now we have 9 cgroup subsystems, and the above 'i' for net_cls is 8, but
MAX_LOCKDEP_SUBCLASSES is 8.

This patch uses different lockdep keys for different subsystems.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-11 14:25:36 -08:00
Sven Wegener
fc3501d411 mm: fix dirty_bytes/dirty_background_bytes sysctls on 64bit arches
We need to pass an unsigned long as the minimum, because it gets casted
to an unsigned long in the sysctl handler. If we pass an int, we'll
access four more bytes on 64bit arches, resulting in a random minimum
value.

[rientjes@google.com: fix type of `old_bytes']
Signed-off-by: Sven Wegener <sven.wegener@stealer.net>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
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>
2009-02-11 14:25:35 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
6c6f1f0f4d Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  sched: revert recent sync wakeup changes
2009-02-11 08:25:06 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
94dba89533 Merge branch 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  timers: fix TIMER_ABSTIME for process wide cpu timers
  timers: split process wide cpu clocks/timers, fix
  x86: clean up hpet timer reinit
  timers: split process wide cpu clocks/timers, remove spurious warning
  timers: split process wide cpu clocks/timers
  signal: re-add dead task accumulation stats.
  x86: fix hpet timer reinit for x86_64
  sched: fix nohz load balancer on cpu offline
2009-02-11 08:24:32 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
9ce04f9238 Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  ptrace, x86: fix the usage of ptrace_fork()
  i8327: fix outb() parameter order
  x86: fix math_emu register frame access
  x86: math_emu info cleanup
  x86: include correct %gs in a.out core dump
  x86, vmi: put a missing paravirt_release_pmd in pgd_dtor
  x86: find nr_irqs_gsi with mp_ioapic_routing
  x86: add clflush before monitor for Intel 7400 series
  x86: disable intel_iommu support by default
  x86: don't apply __supported_pte_mask to non-present ptes
  x86: fix grammar in user-visible BIOS warning
  x86/Kconfig.cpu: make Kconfig help readable in the console
  x86, 64-bit: print DMI info in the oops trace
2009-02-11 08:23:22 -08:00
Peter Zijlstra
fc631c82e1 sched: revert recent sync wakeup changes
Intel reported a 10% regression (mysql+sysbench) on a 16-way machine
with these patches:

  1596e29: sched: symmetric sync vs avg_overlap
  d942fb6: sched: fix sync wakeups

Revert them.

Reported-by: "Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Bisected-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-11 14:43:35 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra
4da94d49b2 timers: fix TIMER_ABSTIME for process wide cpu timers
The POSIX timer interface allows for absolute time expiry values through the
TIMER_ABSTIME flag, therefore we have to synchronize the timer to the clock
every time we start it.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-11 14:04:21 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra
3fccfd67df timers: split process wide cpu clocks/timers, fix
To decrease the chance of a missed enable, always enable the timer when we
sample it, we'll always disable it when we find that there are no active timers
in the jiffy tick.

This fixes a flood of warnings reported by Mike Galbraith.

Reported-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-11 14:04:19 +01:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
00f62f614b ring_buffer: pahole struct ring_buffer
While fixing some bugs in pahole (built-in.o files were not being
processed due to relocation problems) I found out about these packable
structures:

$ pahole --packable kernel/trace/ring_buffer.o  | grep ring
ring_buffer	72	64	8
ring_buffer_per_cpu	112	104	8

If we take a look at the current layout of struct ring_buffer we can see
that we have two 4 bytes holes.

$ pahole -C ring_buffer kernel/trace/ring_buffer.o
struct ring_buffer {
	unsigned int               pages;           /*     0     4 */
	unsigned int               flags;           /*     4     4 */
	int                        cpus;            /*     8     4 */

	/* XXX 4 bytes hole, try to pack */

	cpumask_var_t              cpumask;         /*    16     8 */
	atomic_t                   record_disabled; /*    24     4 */

	/* XXX 4 bytes hole, try to pack */

	struct mutex               mutex;           /*    32    32 */
	/* --- cacheline 1 boundary (64 bytes) --- */
	struct ring_buffer_per_cpu * * buffers;     /*    64     8 */

	/* size: 72, cachelines: 2, members: 7 */
	/* sum members: 64, holes: 2, sum holes: 8 */
	/* last cacheline: 8 bytes */
};

So, if I ask pahole to reorganize it:

$ pahole -C ring_buffer --reorganize kernel/trace/ring_buffer.o

struct ring_buffer {
	unsigned int               pages;           /*     0     4 */
	unsigned int               flags;           /*     4     4 */
	int                        cpus;            /*     8     4 */
	atomic_t                   record_disabled; /*    12     4 */
	cpumask_var_t              cpumask;         /*    16     8 */
	struct mutex               mutex;           /*    24    32 */
	struct ring_buffer_per_cpu * * buffers;     /*    56     8 */
	/* --- cacheline 1 boundary (64 bytes) --- */

	/* size: 64, cachelines: 1, members: 7 */
};   /* saved 8 bytes and 1 cacheline! */

We get it using just one 64 bytes cacheline.

To see what it did:

$ pahole -C ring_buffer --reorganize --show_reorg_steps \
	kernel/trace/ring_buffer.o | grep \/
/* Moving 'record_disabled' from after 'cpumask' to after 'cpus' */

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-11 13:21:40 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker
b22f485812 tracing/sysprof: add missing tracing_{start,stop}_record_cmdline()
Add the missing pair tracing_{start,stop}_record_cmdline() to record well
the cmdline associated with pid.

Changes in v2:

- fix a build error, the sched_switch tracer is needed to record the
  cmdline.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-11 12:55:19 +01:00
Oleg Nesterov
06eb23b1ba ptrace, x86: fix the usage of ptrace_fork()
I noticed by pure accident we have ptrace_fork() and friends. This was
added by "x86, bts: add fork and exit handling", commit
bf53de907d.

I can't test this, ds_request_bts() returns -EOPNOTSUPP, but I strongly
believe this needs the fix. I think something like this program

	int main(void)
	{
		int pid = fork();

		if (!pid) {
			ptrace(PTRACE_TRACEME, 0, NULL, NULL);
			kill(getpid(), SIGSTOP);
			fork();
		} else {
			struct ptrace_bts_config bts = {
				.flags = PTRACE_BTS_O_ALLOC,
				.size  = 4 * 4096,
			};

			wait(NULL);

			ptrace(PTRACE_SETOPTIONS, pid, NULL, PTRACE_O_TRACEFORK);
			ptrace(PTRACE_BTS_CONFIG, pid, &bts, sizeof(bts));
			ptrace(PTRACE_CONT, pid, NULL, NULL);

			sleep(1);
		}

		return 0;
	}

should crash the kernel.

If the task is traced by its natural parent ptrace_reparented() returns 0
but we should clear ->btsxxx anyway.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-11 10:32:46 +01:00
Hannes Eder
e7669b8e32 tracing: fix sparse warning: attribute function with __acquires/__releases
Fix this sparse warning:

  kernel/trace/trace.c:458:9: warning: context imbalance in 'register_tracer' - unexpected unlock

Signed-off-by: Hannes Eder <hannes@hanneseder.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-11 10:15:42 +01:00
Hannes Eder
5e39841c45 tracing: fix sparse warnings: fix (un-)signedness
Fix these sparse warnings:

  kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c:70:37: warning: incorrect type in argument 2 (different signedness)
  kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c:84:39: warning: incorrect type in argument 2 (different signedness)
  kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c:96:43: warning: incorrect type in argument 2 (different signedness)
  kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c:2475:13: warning: incorrect type in argument 2 (different signedness)
  kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c:2475:13: warning: incorrect type in argument 2 (different signedness)
  kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c:2478:42: warning: incorrect type in argument 2 (different signedness)
  kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c:2478:42: warning: incorrect type in argument 2 (different signedness)
  kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c:2500:40: warning: incorrect type in argument 3 (different signedness)
  kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c:2505:44: warning: incorrect type in argument 2 (different signedness)
  kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c:2507:46: warning: incorrect type in argument 2 (different signedness)
  kernel/trace/trace.c:2130:40: warning: incorrect type in argument 3 (different signedness)
  kernel/trace/trace.c:2280:40: warning: incorrect type in argument 3 (different signedness)

Signed-off-by: Hannes Eder <hannes@hanneseder.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-11 10:15:42 +01:00
Hannes Eder
4fd2735881 tracing: fix sparse warnings: make symbols static
Impact: make global variables and a global function static

The function '__trace_userstack' does not seem to have a caller, so it
is commented out.

Fix this sparse warnings:
  kernel/trace/trace.c:82:5: warning: symbol 'tracing_disabled' was not declared. Should it be static?
  kernel/trace/trace.c:600:10: warning: symbol 'trace_record_cmdline_disabled' was not declared. Should it be static?
  kernel/trace/trace.c:957:6: warning: symbol '__trace_userstack' was not declared. Should it be static?
  kernel/trace/trace.c:1694:5: warning: symbol 'tracing_release' was not declared. Should it be static?

Signed-off-by: Hannes Eder <hannes@hanneseder.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-11 10:15:41 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
4040068dce Merge branch 'tip/tracing/ftrace' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into tracing/ftrace 2009-02-11 10:03:53 +01:00
Wenji Huang
c3706f005c tracing: fix typos in comments
Impact: clean up.

Fix typos in the comments.

Signed-off-by: Wenji Huang <wenji.huang@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-02-10 12:32:35 -05:00
Wenji Huang
810dc73265 tracing: provide correct return value after outputting the event
This patch is to make the function return early on failure, and give
correct return value on success.

Signed-off-by: Wenji Huang <wenji.huang@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-02-10 12:32:33 -05:00
Wenji Huang
f54fc98aa6 tracing: remove unneeded variable
Impact: clean up.

Remove the unnecessary variable ret.

Signed-off-by: Wenji Huang <wenji.huang@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-02-10 12:32:18 -05:00
Tobias Klauser
4543ae7ce1 tracing: storage class should be before const qualifier
The C99 specification states in section 6.11.5:

The placement of a storage-class specifier other than at the beginning
of the declaration specifiers in a declaration is an obsolescent
feature.

Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-02-10 11:58:45 -05:00
Lai Jiangshan
667d241258 ring_buffer: fix ring_buffer_read_page()
Impact: change API and init bpage when copy

ring_buffer_read_page()/rb_remove_entries() may be called for
a partially consumed page.

Add a parameter for rb_remove_entries() and make it update
cpu_buffer->entries correctly for partially consumed pages.

ring_buffer_read_page() now returns the offset to the next event.

Init the bpage's time_stamp when return value is 0.

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-02-10 09:17:37 -05:00
Lai Jiangshan
b85fa01ed9 ring_buffer: fix typing mistake
Impact: Fix bug

I found several very very curious line.
It's so curious that it may be brought by typing mistake.

When (cpu_buffer->reader_page == cpu_buffer->commit_page):

1) We haven't copied it for bpage is changed:
   bpage = cpu_buffer->reader_page->page;
   memcpy(bpage->data, cpu_buffer->reader_page->page->data + read ... )
2) We need update cpu_buffer->reader_page->read, but
   "cpu_buffer->reader_page += read;" is not right.

[
  This bug was a typo. The commit->reader_page is a page pointer
  and not an index into the page. The line should have been
  commit->reader_page->read += read.  The other changes
  by Lai are nice clean ups to the code.  - SDR
]

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-02-10 09:17:19 -05:00
Ingo Molnar
ae216dd239 Merge branch 'tip/tracing/ftrace' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into tracing/ftrace 2009-02-10 13:58:28 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
f9915bfef3 Merge branches 'tracing/ftrace' and 'tracing/urgent' into tracing/core 2009-02-10 13:25:42 +01:00
Hugh Dickins
acd895795d profiling: fix broken profiling regression
Impact: fix broken /proc/profile on UP machines

Commit c309b917ca "cpumask: convert
kernel/profile.c" broke profiling.  prof_cpu_mask was previously
initialized to CPU_MASK_ALL, but left uninitialized in that commit.
We need to copy cpu_possible_mask (cpu_online_mask is not enough).

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-10 00:50:37 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
34cd4998d3 tracing: clean up splice code
Ingo Molnar suggested a series of clean ups for the splice code.
This patch implements those suggestions.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-02-09 12:24:58 -05:00
Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu
ff98781bab tracing: Move pipe waiting code out of tracing_read_pipe().
This moves the pipe waiting code from tracing_read_pipe() into
tracing_wait_pipe(), which is useful to implement other fops, like
splice_read.

Signed-off-by: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-02-09 12:24:51 -05:00
Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu
3c56819b14 tracing: splice support for tracing_pipe
Added and implemented tracing_pipe_fops->splice_read(). This allows
userspace programs to get tracing data more efficiently.

Signed-off-by: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-02-09 12:24:34 -05:00
Frederic Weisbecker
b91facc367 tracing/function-graph-tracer: handle the leaf functions from trace_pipe
When one cats the trace file, the leaf functions are printed without brackets:

 function();

whereas in the trace_pipe file we'll see the following:

 function() {
 }

This is because the ring_buffer handling is not the same between those two files.
On the trace file, when an entry is printed, the iterator advanced and then we can
check the next entry.

There is no iterator with trace_pipe, the current entry to print has been peeked
and not consumed. So checking the next entry will still return the current one while
we don't consume it.

This patch introduces a new value for the output callbacks to ask the tracing
core to not consume the current entry after printing it.

We need it because we will have to consume the current entry ourself to check
the next one.

Now the trace_pipe is able to handle well the leaf functions.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-09 12:37:27 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
1dfba05d0f tracing/blktrace: move the tracing file to kernel/trace, fix
Impact: build fix

The BLK_DEV_IO_TRACE entry used to be in block/Kconfig - which
file itself was dependent on CONFIG_BLOCK. But now the entry is
in kernel/trace/Kconfig - which is present even on !CONFIG_BLOCK.

So add a 'depends on BLOCK' to BLK_DEV_IO_TRACE.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-09 12:07:28 +01:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
b5db03c435 tracing: handle unregistering the current tracer
Impact: simplification

Instead of requiring that plugins have the sequence:

  my_tracer_stop(my_trace_array);
  unregister_tracer(my_tracer);

it should be possible just do a:

  unregister_tracer(my_tracer);

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-09 10:56:53 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker
3861a17bcc tracing/function-graph-tracer: drop the kernel_text_address check
When the function graph tracer picks a return address, it ensures this address
is really a kernel text one by calling __kernel_text_address()

Actually this path has never been taken.Its role was more likely to debug the tracer
on the beginning of its development but this function is wasteful since it is called
for every traced function.

The fault check is already sufficient.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-09 10:51:38 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker
1292211058 tracing/power: move the power trace headers to a dedicated file
Impact: cleanup

Move the power tracer headers to trace/power.h to keep ftrace.h and power bits
more easy to maintain as separated topics.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-09 10:51:38 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker
7447dce96f tracing/function-graph-tracer: provide a selftest for the function graph tracer
Making it more easy to do a basic regression test for this tracer.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-09 10:51:37 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker
2db270a80b tracing/blktrace: move the tracing file to kernel/trace
Impact: cleanup

Move blktrace.c to kernel/trace, also move its config entry.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-09 10:51:02 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
44b0635481 Merge branch 'tip/tracing/core/devel' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into tracing/ftrace
Conflicts:
	kernel/trace/trace_hw_branches.c
2009-02-09 10:35:12 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
4ad476e11f Merge commit 'v2.6.29-rc4' into tracing/core 2009-02-09 10:32:48 +01:00
Stefan Richter
f7de7621f0 async: use list_move_tail
list.h provides a dedicated primitive for
"list_del followed by list_add_tail"... list_move_tail.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
2009-02-08 10:00:26 -08:00
Cornelia Huck
766ccb9ed4 async: Rename _special -> _domain for clarity.
Rename the async_*_special() functions to async_*_domain(), which
describes the purpose of these functions much better.
[Broke up long lines to silence checkpatch]

Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
2009-02-08 09:56:11 -08:00
Cornelia Huck
f30d5b307c async: Add some documentation.
Add some kerneldoc to the async interface.

Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
2009-02-08 09:56:11 -08:00
Cornelia Huck
86532d8b16 async: Handle kthread_run() return codes.
If we fail to create the manager thread, fall back to non-fastboot.
If we fail to create an async thread, try again after waiting for
a bit.

Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
2009-02-08 09:56:10 -08:00
Cornelia Huck
7a89bbc749 async: Fix running list handling.
async_schedule() should pass in async_running as the running
list, and run_one_entry() should put the entry to be run on
the provided running list instead of always on the generic one.

Reported-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
2009-02-08 09:56:10 -08:00
Wenji Huang
57794a9d48 trace: trivial fixes in comment typos.
Impact: clean up

Fixed several typos in the comments.

Signed-off-by: Wenji Huang <wenji.huang@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-02-07 20:03:36 -05:00
Steven Rostedt
a81bd80a0b ring-buffer: use generic version of in_nmi
Impact: clean up

Now that a generic in_nmi is available, this patch removes the
special code in the ring_buffer and implements the in_nmi generic
version instead.

With this change, I was also able to rename the "arch_ftrace_nmi_enter"
back to "ftrace_nmi_enter" and remove the code from the ring buffer.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-02-07 20:03:33 -05:00
Steven Rostedt
78d904b46a ring-buffer: add NMI protection for spinlocks
Impact: prevent deadlock in NMI

The ring buffers are not yet totally lockless with writing to
the buffer. When a writer crosses a page, it grabs a per cpu spinlock
to protect against a reader. The spinlocks taken by a writer are not
to protect against other writers, since a writer can only write to
its own per cpu buffer. The spinlocks protect against readers that
can touch any cpu buffer. The writers are made to be reentrant
with the spinlocks disabling interrupts.

The problem arises when an NMI writes to the buffer, and that write
crosses a page boundary. If it grabs a spinlock, it can be racing
with another writer (since disabling interrupts does not protect
against NMIs) or with a reader on the same CPU. Luckily, most of the
users are not reentrant and protects against this issue. But if a
user of the ring buffer becomes reentrant (which is what the ring
buffers do allow), if the NMI also writes to the ring buffer then
we risk the chance of a deadlock.

This patch moves the ftrace_nmi_enter called by nmi_enter() to the
ring buffer code. It replaces the current ftrace_nmi_enter that is
used by arch specific code to arch_ftrace_nmi_enter and updates
the Kconfig to handle it.

When an NMI is called, it will set a per cpu variable in the ring buffer
code and will clear it when the NMI exits. If a write to the ring buffer
crosses page boundaries inside an NMI, a trylock is used on the spin
lock instead. If the spinlock fails to be acquired, then the entry
is discarded.

This bug appeared in the ftrace work in the RT tree, where event tracing
is reentrant. This workaround solved the deadlocks that appeared there.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-02-07 20:00:17 -05:00
Steven Rostedt
1830b52d0d trace: remove deprecated entry->cpu
Impact: fix to prevent developers from using entry->cpu

With the new ring buffer infrastructure, the cpu for the entry is
implicit with which CPU buffer it is on.

The original code use to record the current cpu into the generic
entry header, which can be retrieved by entry->cpu. When the
ring buffer was introduced, the users were convert to use the
the cpu number of which cpu ring buffer was in use (this was passed
to the tracers by the iterator: iter->cpu).

Unfortunately, the cpu item in the entry structure was never removed.
This allowed for developers to use it instead of the proper iter->cpu,
unknowingly, using an uninitialized variable. This was not the fault
of the developers, since it would seem like the logical place to
retrieve the cpu identifier.

This patch removes the cpu item from the entry structure and fixes
all the users that should have been using iter->cpu.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-02-07 19:38:43 -05:00
Len Brown
2d29c6a075 Merge branches 'release', 'asus', 'bugzilla-12450', 'cpuidle', 'debug', 'ec', 'misc', 'printk' and 'processor' into release 2009-02-07 01:34:56 -05:00