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2014-04-06Merge tag 'modules-next-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-0/+9
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux Pull module updates from Rusty Russell: "Nothing major: the stricter permissions checking for sysfs broke a staging driver; fix included. Greg KH said he'd take the patch but hadn't as the merge window opened, so it's included here to avoid breaking build" * tag 'modules-next-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux: staging: fix up speakup kobject mode Use 'E' instead of 'X' for unsigned module taint flag. VERIFY_OCTAL_PERMISSIONS: stricter checking for sysfs perms. kallsyms: fix percpu vars on x86-64 with relocation. kallsyms: generalize address range checking module: LLVMLinux: Remove unused function warning from __param_check macro Fix: module signature vs tracepoints: add new TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE module: remove MODULE_GENERIC_TABLE module: allow multiple calls to MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE() per module module: use pr_cont
2014-03-24VERIFY_OCTAL_PERMISSIONS: stricter checking for sysfs perms.Rusty Russell1-0/+8
Summary of http://lkml.org/lkml/2014/3/14/363 : Ted: module_param(queue_depth, int, 444) Joe: 0444! Rusty: User perms >= group perms >= other perms? Joe: CLASS_ATTR, DEVICE_ATTR, SENSOR_ATTR and SENSOR_ATTR_2? Side effect of stricter permissions means removing the unnecessary S_IFREG from several callers. Note that the BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO((perm) & 2) test was removed: a fair number of drivers fail this test, so that will be the debate for a future patch. Suggested-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Acked-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com> for drivers/pci/slot.c Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com> Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2014-03-20Rename TAINT_UNSAFE_SMP to TAINT_CPU_OUT_OF_SPECDave Jones1-1/+1
Rename TAINT_UNSAFE_SMP to TAINT_CPU_OUT_OF_SPEC, so we can repurpose the flag to encompass a wider range of pushing the CPU beyond its warrany. Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@fedoraproject.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140226154949.GA770@redhat.com Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2014-03-13Fix: module signature vs tracepoints: add new TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULEMathieu Desnoyers1-0/+1
Users have reported being unable to trace non-signed modules loaded within a kernel supporting module signature. This is caused by tracepoint.c:tracepoint_module_coming() refusing to take into account tracepoints sitting within force-loaded modules (TAINT_FORCED_MODULE). The reason for this check, in the first place, is that a force-loaded module may have a struct module incompatible with the layout expected by the kernel, and can thus cause a kernel crash upon forced load of that module on a kernel with CONFIG_TRACEPOINTS=y. Tracepoints, however, specifically accept TAINT_OOT_MODULE and TAINT_CRAP, since those modules do not lead to the "very likely system crash" issue cited above for force-loaded modules. With kernels having CONFIG_MODULE_SIG=y (signed modules), a non-signed module is tainted re-using the TAINT_FORCED_MODULE taint flag. Unfortunately, this means that Tracepoints treat that module as a force-loaded module, and thus silently refuse to consider any tracepoint within this module. Since an unsigned module does not fit within the "very likely system crash" category of tainting, add a new TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE taint flag to specifically address this taint behavior, and accept those modules within Tracepoints. We use the letter 'X' as a taint flag character for a module being loaded that doesn't know how to sign its name (proposed by Steven Rostedt). Also add the missing 'O' entry to trace event show_module_flags() list for the sake of completeness. Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> NAKed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> CC: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> CC: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2014-01-25Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-nextLinus Torvalds1-0/+19
Pull networking updates from David Miller: 1) BPF debugger and asm tool by Daniel Borkmann. 2) Speed up create/bind in AF_PACKET, also from Daniel Borkmann. 3) Correct reciprocal_divide and update users, from Hannes Frederic Sowa and Daniel Borkmann. 4) Currently we only have a "set" operation for the hw timestamp socket ioctl, add a "get" operation to match. From Ben Hutchings. 5) Add better trace events for debugging driver datapath problems, also from Ben Hutchings. 6) Implement auto corking in TCP, from Eric Dumazet. Basically, if we have a small send and a previous packet is already in the qdisc or device queue, defer until TX completion or we get more data. 7) Allow userspace to manage ipv6 temporary addresses, from Jiri Pirko. 8) Add a qdisc bypass option for AF_PACKET sockets, from Daniel Borkmann. 9) Share IP header compression code between Bluetooth and IEEE802154 layers, from Jukka Rissanen. 10) Fix ipv6 router reachability probing, from Jiri Benc. 11) Allow packets to be captured on macvtap devices, from Vlad Yasevich. 12) Support tunneling in GRO layer, from Jerry Chu. 13) Allow bonding to be configured fully using netlink, from Scott Feldman. 14) Allow AF_PACKET users to obtain the VLAN TPID, just like they can already get the TCI. From Atzm Watanabe. 15) New "Heavy Hitter" qdisc, from Terry Lam. 16) Significantly improve the IPSEC support in pktgen, from Fan Du. 17) Allow ipv4 tunnels to cache routes, just like sockets. From Tom Herbert. 18) Add Proportional Integral Enhanced packet scheduler, from Vijay Subramanian. 19) Allow openvswitch to mmap'd netlink, from Thomas Graf. 20) Key TCP metrics blobs also by source address, not just destination address. From Christoph Paasch. 21) Support 10G in generic phylib. From Andy Fleming. 22) Try to short-circuit GRO flow compares using device provided RX hash, if provided. From Tom Herbert. The wireless and netfilter folks have been busy little bees too. * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (2064 commits) net/cxgb4: Fix referencing freed adapter ipv6: reallocate addrconf router for ipv6 address when lo device up fib_frontend: fix possible NULL pointer dereference rtnetlink: remove IFLA_BOND_SLAVE definition rtnetlink: remove check for fill_slave_info in rtnl_have_link_slave_info qlcnic: update version to 5.3.55 qlcnic: Enhance logic to calculate msix vectors. qlcnic: Refactor interrupt coalescing code for all adapters. qlcnic: Update poll controller code path qlcnic: Interrupt code cleanup qlcnic: Enhance Tx timeout debugging. qlcnic: Use bool for rx_mac_learn. bonding: fix u64 division rtnetlink: add missing IFLA_BOND_AD_INFO_UNSPEC sfc: Use the correct maximum TX DMA ring size for SFC9100 Add Shradha Shah as the sfc driver maintainer. net/vxlan: Share RX skb de-marking and checksum checks with ovs tulip: cleanup by using ARRAY_SIZE() ip_tunnel: clear IPCB in ip_tunnel_xmit() in case dst_link_failure() is called net/cxgb4: Don't retrieve stats during recovery ...
2014-01-23kernel.h: define u8, s8, u32, etc. limitsAlex Elder1-0/+13
Create constants that define the maximum and minimum values representable by the kernel types u8, s8, u16, s16, and so on. Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <elder@linaro.org> Cc: Sage Weil <sage@inktank.com> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-01-21net: introduce reciprocal_scale helper and convert usersDaniel Borkmann1-0/+19
As David Laight suggests, we shouldn't necessarily call this reciprocal_divide() when users didn't requested a reciprocal_value(); lets keep the basic idea and call it reciprocal_scale(). More background information on this topic can be found in [1]. Joint work with Hannes Frederic Sowa. [1] http://homepage.cs.uiowa.edu/~jones/bcd/divide.html Suggested-by: David Laight <david.laight@aculab.com> Cc: Jakub Zawadzki <darkjames-ws@darkjames.pl> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-01-20Merge branch 'core-debug-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-0/+9
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull core debug changes from Ingo Molnar: "Currently there are two methods to set the panic_timeout: via 'panic=X' boot commandline option, or via /proc/sys/kernel/panic. This tree adds a third panic_timeout configuration method: configuration via Kconfig, via CONFIG_PANIC_TIMEOUT=X - useful to distros that generally want their kernel defaults to come with the .config. CONFIG_PANIC_TIMEOUT defaults to 0, which was the previous default value of panic_timeout. Doing that unearthed a few arch trickeries regarding arch-special panic_timeout values and related complications - hopefully all resolved to the satisfaction of everyone" * 'core-debug-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: powerpc: Clean up panic_timeout usage MIPS: Remove panic_timeout settings panic: Make panic_timeout configurable
2013-12-12include/linux/kernel.h: make might_fault() a nop for !MMUAxel Lin1-1/+2
The machine cannot fault if !MUU, so make might_fault() a nop for !MMU. This fixes below build error if !CONFIG_MMU && (CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING=y || CONFIG_DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP=y): arch/arm/kernel/built-in.o: In function `arch_ptrace': arch/arm/kernel/ptrace.c:852: undefined reference to `might_fault' arch/arm/kernel/built-in.o: In function `restore_sigframe': arch/arm/kernel/signal.c:173: undefined reference to `might_fault' ... arch/arm/kernel/built-in.o:arch/arm/kernel/signal.c:177: more undefined references to `might_fault' follow make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1 Signed-off-by: Axel Lin <axel.lin@ingics.com> Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-11-26panic: Make panic_timeout configurableJason Baron1-0/+9
The panic_timeout value can be set via the command line option 'panic=x', or via /proc/sys/kernel/panic, however that is not sufficient when the panic occurs before we are able to set up these values. Thus, add a CONFIG_PANIC_TIMEOUT so that we can set the desired value from the .config. The default panic_timeout value continues to be 0 - wait forever. Also adds set_arch_panic_timeout(new_timeout, arch_default_timeout), which is intended to be used by arches in arch_setup(). The idea being that the new_timeout is only set if the user hasn't changed from the arch_default_timeout. Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@akamai.com> Cc: benh@kernel.crashing.org Cc: paulus@samba.org Cc: ralf@linux-mips.org Cc: mpe@ellerman.id.au Cc: felipe.contreras@gmail.com Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1a1674daec27c534df409697025ac568ebcee91e.1385418410.git.jbaron@akamai.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-11-06tracing: Remove unused function ftrace_off_permanent()Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)1-2/+0
In the past, ftrace_off_permanent() was called if something strange was detected. But the ftrace_bug() now handles all the anomolies that can happen with ftrace (function tracing), and there are no uses of ftrace_off_permanent(). Get rid of it. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-09-20lib: introduce upper case hex ascii helpersAndre Naujoks1-0/+11
To be able to use the hex ascii functions in case sensitive environments the array hex_asc_upper[] and the needed functions for hex_byte_pack_upper() are introduced. Signed-off-by: Andre Naujoks <nautsch2@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-08-02tracing: Fix trace_dump_stack() proto when CONFIG_TRACING is not setDhaval Giani1-1/+1
When CONFIG_TRACING is not enabled, the stub prototype for trace_dump_stack() is incorrect. It has (void) when it should be (int). Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAPhKKr_H=ukFnBL4WgDOVT5ay2xeF-Ho+CA0DWZX0E2JW-=vSQ@mail.gmail.com Signed-off-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval.giani@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-07-04Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-3/+2
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial Pull trivial tree updates from Jiri Kosina: "The usual stuff from trivial tree" * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (34 commits) treewide: relase -> release Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt: fix stat file documentation sysctl/net.txt: delete reference to obsolete 2.4.x kernel spinlock_api_smp.h: fix preprocessor comments treewide: Fix typo in printk doc: device tree: clarify stuff in usage-model.txt. open firmware: "/aliasas" -> "/aliases" md: bcache: Fixed a typo with the word 'arithmetic' irq/generic-chip: fix a few kernel-doc entries frv: Convert use of typedef ctl_table to struct ctl_table sgi: xpc: Convert use of typedef ctl_table to struct ctl_table doc: clk: Fix incorrect wording Documentation/arm/IXP4xx fix a typo Documentation/networking/ieee802154 fix a typo Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l fix a typo Documentation/video4linux/si476x.txt fix a typo Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt fix a typo Documentation/early-userspace/README fix a typo Documentation/video4linux/soc-camera.txt fix a typo lguest: fix CONFIG_PAE -> CONFIG_x86_PAE in comment ...
2013-07-02Merge branch 'sched-mm-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-5/+2
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull voluntary preemption fixes from Ingo Molnar: "This tree contains a speedup which is achieved through better might_sleep()/might_fault() preemption point annotations for uaccess functions, by Michael S Tsirkin: 1. The only reason uaccess routines might sleep is if they fault. Make this explicit for all architectures. 2. A voluntary preemption point in uaccess functions means compiler can't inline them efficiently, this breaks assumptions that they are very fast and small that e.g. net code seems to make. Remove this preemption point so behaviour matches with what callers assume. 3. Accesses (e.g through socket ops) to kernel memory with KERNEL_DS like net/sunrpc does will never sleep. Remove an unconditinal might_sleep() in the might_fault() inline in kernel.h (used when PROVE_LOCKING is not set). 4. Accesses with pagefault_disable() return EFAULT but won't cause caller to sleep. Check for that and thus avoid might_sleep() when PROVE_LOCKING is set. These changes offer a nice speedup for CONFIG_PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY=y kernels, here's a network bandwidth measurement between a virtual machine and the host: before: incoming: 7122.77 Mb/s outgoing: 8480.37 Mb/s after: incoming: 8619.24 Mb/s [ +21.0% ] outgoing: 9455.42 Mb/s [ +11.5% ] I kept these changes in a separate tree, separate from scheduler changes, because it's a mixed MM and scheduler topic" * 'sched-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: mm, sched: Allow uaccess in atomic with pagefault_disable() mm, sched: Drop voluntary schedule from might_fault() x86: uaccess s/might_sleep/might_fault/ tile: uaccess s/might_sleep/might_fault/ powerpc: uaccess s/might_sleep/might_fault/ mn10300: uaccess s/might_sleep/might_fault/ microblaze: uaccess s/might_sleep/might_fault/ m32r: uaccess s/might_sleep/might_fault/ frv: uaccess s/might_sleep/might_fault/ arm64: uaccess s/might_sleep/might_fault/ asm-generic: uaccess s/might_sleep/might_fault/
2013-06-05net: core: move mac_pton() to lib/net_utils.cAndy Shevchenko1-0/+2
Since we have at least one user of this function outside of CONFIG_NET scope, we have to provide this function independently. The proposed solution is to move it under lib/net_utils.c with corresponding configuration variable and select wherever it is needed. Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com> Reported-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-05-28tracing: Put trace_puts() comment above trace_puts() macro for kernel docSteven Rostedt1-3/+2
Kernel-doc gives the following warning: DOCPROC Documentation/DocBook/kernel-api.xml Warning(/include/linux/kernel.h:590): No description found for parameter 'ip' Warning(/include/linux/kernel.h:590): No description found for parameter 'ip' Due to the externs between the the comment and the trace_puts() macro. This is fixed by moving the externs below the macro and keeping the macro and comment directly together. Reported-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2013-05-28mm, sched: Allow uaccess in atomic with pagefault_disable()Michael S. Tsirkin1-5/+2
This changes might_fault() so that it does not trigger a false positive diagnostic for e.g. the following sequence: spin_lock_irqsave() pagefault_disable() copy_to_user() pagefault_enable() spin_unlock_irqrestore() In particular vhost wants to do this, to call socket ops from under a lock. There are 3 cases to consider: - CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING - might_fault is non-inline so it's easy to move the in_atomic test to fix up the false positive warning. - CONFIG_DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP - might_fault is currently inline, but we are calling a non-inline __might_sleep anyway, so let's use the non-line version of might_fault that does the right thing. - !CONFIG_DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP && !CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING __might_sleep is a nop so might_fault is a nop. Make this explicit. Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1369577426-26721-11-git-send-email-mst@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-05-28mm, sched: Drop voluntary schedule from might_fault()Michael S. Tsirkin1-1/+1
might_fault() is called from functions like copy_to_user() which most callers expect to be very fast, like a couple of instructions. So functions like memcpy_toiovec() call them many times in a loop. But might_fault() calls might_sleep() and with CONFIG_PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY this results in a function call. Let's not do this - just call __might_sleep() that produces a diagnostic for sleep within atomic, but drop might_preempt(). Here's a test sending traffic between the VM and the host, host is built with CONFIG_PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY: before: incoming: 7122.77 Mb/s outgoing: 8480.37 Mb/s after: incoming: 8619.24 Mb/s outgoing: 9455.42 Mb/s As a side effect, this fixes an issue pointed out by Ingo: might_fault might schedule differently depending on PROVE_LOCKING. Now there's no preemption point in both cases, so it's consistent. Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1369577426-26721-10-git-send-email-mst@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-05-24linux/kernel.h: fix kernel-doc warningRandy Dunlap1-2/+3
Fix kernel-doc warning in <linux/kernel.h>: Warning(include/linux/kernel.h:590): No description found for parameter 'ip' scripts/kernel-doc cannot handle macros, functions, or function prototypes between the function or macro that is being documented and its definition, so move these prototypes above the function that is being documented. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-05-05Merge tag 'modules-next-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-7/+0
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux Pull mudule updates from Rusty Russell: "We get rid of the general module prefix confusion with a binary config option, fix a remove/insert race which Never Happens, and (my favorite) handle the case when we have too many modules for a single commandline. Seriously, the kernel is full, please go away!" * tag 'modules-next-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux: modpost: fix unwanted VMLINUX_SYMBOL_STR expansion X.509: Support parse long form of length octets in Authority Key Identifier module: don't unlink the module until we've removed all exposure. kernel: kallsyms: memory override issue, need check destination buffer length MODSIGN: do not send garbage to stderr when enabling modules signature modpost: handle huge numbers of modules. modpost: add -T option to read module names from file/stdin. modpost: minor cleanup. genksyms: pass symbol-prefix instead of arch module: fix symbol versioning with symbol prefixes CONFIG_SYMBOL_PREFIX: cleanup.
2013-04-30kernel/compat.c: make do_sysinfo() staticStephen Rothwell1-2/+0
The only use outside of kernel/timer.c was in kernel/compat.c, so move compat_sys_sysinfo() next to sys_sysinfo() in kernel/timer.c. Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-04-29Merge tag 'trace-3.10' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-3/+67
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt: "Along with the usual minor fixes and clean ups there are a few major changes with this pull request. 1) Multiple buffers for the ftrace facility This feature has been requested by many people over the last few years. I even heard that Google was about to implement it themselves. I finally had time and cleaned up the code such that you can now create multiple instances of the ftrace buffer and have different events go to different buffers. This way, a low frequency event will not be lost in the noise of a high frequency event. Note, currently only events can go to different buffers, the tracers (ie function, function_graph and the latency tracers) still can only be written to the main buffer. 2) The function tracer triggers have now been extended. The function tracer had two triggers. One to enable tracing when a function is hit, and one to disable tracing. Now you can record a stack trace on a single (or many) function(s), take a snapshot of the buffer (copy it to the snapshot buffer), and you can enable or disable an event to be traced when a function is hit. 3) A perf clock has been added. A "perf" clock can be chosen to be used when tracing. This will cause ftrace to use the same clock as perf uses, and hopefully this will make it easier to interleave the perf and ftrace data for analysis." * tag 'trace-3.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (82 commits) tracepoints: Prevent null probe from being added tracing: Compare to 1 instead of zero for is_signed_type() tracing: Remove obsolete macro guard _TRACE_PROFILE_INIT ftrace: Get rid of ftrace_profile_bits tracing: Check return value of tracing_init_dentry() tracing: Get rid of unneeded key calculation in ftrace_hash_move() tracing: Reset ftrace_graph_filter_enabled if count is zero tracing: Fix off-by-one on allocating stat->pages kernel: tracing: Use strlcpy instead of strncpy tracing: Update debugfs README file tracing: Fix ftrace_dump() tracing: Rename trace_event_mutex to trace_event_sem tracing: Fix comment about prefix in arch_syscall_match_sym_name() tracing: Convert trace_destroy_fields() to static tracing: Move find_event_field() into trace_events.c tracing: Use TRACE_MAX_PRINT instead of constant tracing: Use pr_warn_once instead of open coded implementation ring-buffer: Add ring buffer startup selftest tracing: Bring Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt up to date tracing: Add "perf" trace_clock ... Conflicts: kernel/trace/ftrace.c kernel/trace/trace.c
2013-03-22printk: Provide a wake_up_klogd() off-caseFrederic Weisbecker1-1/+0
wake_up_klogd() is useless when CONFIG_PRINTK=n because neither printk() nor printk_sched() are in use and there are actually no waiter on log_wait waitqueue. It should be a stub in this case for users like bust_spinlocks(). Otherwise this results in this warning when CONFIG_PRINTK=n and CONFIG_IRQ_WORK=n: kernel/built-in.o In function `wake_up_klogd': (.text.wake_up_klogd+0xb4): undefined reference to `irq_work_queue' To fix this, provide an off-case for wake_up_klogd() when CONFIG_PRINTK=n. There is much more from console_unlock() and other console related code in printk.c that should be moved under CONFIG_PRINTK. But for now, focus on a minimal fix as we passed the merged window already. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: include printk.h in bust_spinlocks.c] Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Reported-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com> Cc: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-03-15CONFIG_SYMBOL_PREFIX: cleanup.Rusty Russell1-7/+0
We have CONFIG_SYMBOL_PREFIX, which three archs define to the string "_". But Al Viro broke this in "consolidate cond_syscall and SYSCALL_ALIAS declarations" (in linux-next), and he's not the first to do so. Using CONFIG_SYMBOL_PREFIX is awkward, since we usually just want to prefix it so something. So various places define helpers which are defined to nothing if CONFIG_SYMBOL_PREFIX isn't set: 1) include/asm-generic/unistd.h defines __SYMBOL_PREFIX. 2) include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h defines VMLINUX_SYMBOL(sym) 3) include/linux/export.h defines MODULE_SYMBOL_PREFIX. 4) include/linux/kernel.h defines SYMBOL_PREFIX (which differs from #7) 5) kernel/modsign_certificate.S defines ASM_SYMBOL(sym) 6) scripts/modpost.c defines MODULE_SYMBOL_PREFIX 7) scripts/Makefile.lib defines SYMBOL_PREFIX on the commandline if CONFIG_SYMBOL_PREFIX is set, so that we have a non-string version for pasting. (arch/h8300/include/asm/linkage.h defines SYMBOL_NAME(), too). Let's solve this properly: 1) No more generic prefix, just CONFIG_HAVE_UNDERSCORE_SYMBOL_PREFIX. 2) Make linux/export.h usable from asm. 3) Define VMLINUX_SYMBOL() and VMLINUX_SYMBOL_STR(). 4) Make everyone use them. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Reviewed-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com> Tested-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com> (metag)
2013-03-15tracing: Add skip argument to trace_dump_stack()Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)1-1/+1
Altough the trace_dump_stack() already skips three functions in the call to stack trace, which gets the stack trace to start at the caller of the function, the caller may want to skip some more too (as it may have helper functions). Add a skip argument to the trace_dump_stack() that lets the caller skip back tracing functions that it doesn't care about. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-03-15tracing: Optimize trace_printk() with one arg to use trace_puts()Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)1-1/+22
Although trace_printk() is extremely fast, especially when it uses trace_bprintk() (writes args straight to buffer instead of inserting into string), it still has the overhead of calling one of the printf sprintf() functions, that need to scan the fmt string to determine what, if any args it has. This is a waste of precious CPU cycles if the printk format has no args but a single constant string. It is better to use trace_puts() which does not have the overhead of the fmt scanning. But wouldn't it be nice if the developer didn't have to think about such things, and the compile would just do it for them? trace_printk("this string has no args\n"); [...] trace_printk("this sting does %p %d\n", foo, bar); As tracing is critical to have the least amount of overhead, especially when dealing with race conditions, and you want to eliminate any "Heisenbugs", you want the trace_printk() to use the fastest possible means of tracing. Currently the macro magic determines if it will use trace_bprintk() or if the fmt is a dynamic string (a variable), it will fall back to the slow trace_printk() method that does a full snprintf() before copying it into the buffer, where as trace_bprintk() only copys the pointer to the fmt and the args into the buffer. Well, now there's a way to spend some more Hogwarts cash and come up with new fancy macro magic. #define trace_printk(fmt, ...) \ do { \ char _______STR[] = __stringify((__VA_ARGS__)); \ if (sizeof(_______STR) > 3) \ do_trace_printk(fmt, ##__VA_ARGS__); \ else \ trace_puts(fmt); \ } while (0) The above needs a bit of explaining (both here and in the comments). By stringifying the __VA_ARGS__, we can, at compile time, determine the number of args that are being passed to trace_printk(). The extra parenthesis are required, otherwise the compiler complains about too many parameters for __stringify if there is more than one arg. When there are no args, the __stringify((__VA_ARGS__)) converts into "()\0", a string of 3 characters. Anything else, will be a string containing more than 3 characters. Now we assign that string to a dynamic char array, and then take the sizeof() of that array. If it is greater than 3 characters, we know trace_printk() has args and we need to do the full "do_trace_printk()" on them, otherwise it was only passed a single arg and we can optimize to use trace_puts(). Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Steven "The King of Nasty Macros!" Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-03-15tracing: Add trace_puts() for even faster trace_printk() tracingSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)1-1/+40
The trace_printk() is extremely fast and is very handy as it can be used in any context (including NMIs!). But it still requires scanning the fmt string for parsing the args. Even the trace_bprintk() requires a scan to know what args will be saved, although it doesn't copy the format string itself. Several times trace_printk() has no args, and wastes cpu cycles scanning the fmt string. Adding trace_puts() allows the developer to use an even faster tracing method that only saves the pointer to the string in the ring buffer without doing any format parsing at all. This will help remove even more of the "Heisenbug" effect, when debugging. Also fixed up the F_printk()s for the ftrace internal bprint and print events. Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-03-15tracing: Add internal tracing_snapshot() functionsSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)1-0/+4
The new snapshot feature is quite handy. It's a way for the user to take advantage of the spare buffer that, until then, only the latency tracers used to "snapshot" the buffer when it hit a max latency. Now users can trigger a "snapshot" manually when some condition is hit in a program. But a snapshot currently can not be triggered by a condition inside the kernel. With the addition of tracing_snapshot() and tracing_snapshot_alloc(), snapshots can now be taking when a condition is hit, and the developer wants to snapshot the case without stopping the trace. Note, any snapshot will overwrite the old one, so take care in how this is done. These new functions are to be used like tracing_on(), tracing_off() and trace_printk() are. That is, they should never be called in the mainline Linux kernel. They are solely for the purpose of debugging. The tracing_snapshot() will not allocate a buffer, but it is safe to be called from any context (except NMIs). But if a snapshot buffer isn't allocated when it is called, it will write to the live buffer, complaining about the lack of a snapshot buffer, and then stop tracing (giving you the "permanent snapshot"). tracing_snapshot_alloc() will allocate the snapshot buffer if it was not already allocated and then take the snapshot. This routine *may sleep*, and must be called from context that can sleep. The allocation is done with GFP_KERNEL and not atomic. If you need a snapshot in an atomic context, say in early boot, then it is best to call the tracing_snapshot_alloc() before then, where it will allocate the buffer, and then you can use the tracing_snapshot() anywhere you want and still get snapshots. Cc: Hiraku Toyooka <hiraku.toyooka.gu@hitachi.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-01-21taint: add explicit flag to show whether lock dep is still OK.Rusty Russell1-1/+5
Fix up all callers as they were before, with make one change: an unsigned module taints the kernel, but doesn't turn off lockdep. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2012-12-20linux/kernel.h: fix DIV_ROUND_CLOSEST with unsigned divisorsGuenter Roeck1-2/+4
Commit 263a523d18bc ("linux/kernel.h: Fix warning seen with W=1 due to change in DIV_ROUND_CLOSEST") fixes a warning seen with W=1 due to change in DIV_ROUND_CLOSEST. Unfortunately, the C compiler converts divide operations with unsigned divisors to unsigned, even if the dividend is signed and negative (for example, -10 / 5U = 858993457). The C standard says "If one operand has unsigned int type, the other operand is converted to unsigned int", so the compiler is not to blame. As a result, DIV_ROUND_CLOSEST(0, 2U) and similar operations now return bad values, since the automatic conversion of expressions such as "0 - 2U/2" to unsigned was not taken into account. Fix by checking for the divisor variable type when deciding which operation to perform. This fixes DIV_ROUND_CLOSEST(0, 2U), but still returns bad values for negative dividends divided by unsigned divisors. Mark the latter case as unsupported. One observed effect of this problem is that the s2c_hwmon driver reports a value of 4198403 instead of 0 if the ADC reads 0. Other impact is unpredictable. Problem is seen if the divisor is an unsigned variable or constant and the dividend is less than (divisor/2). Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Reported-by: Juergen Beisert <jbe@pengutronix.de> Tested-by: Juergen Beisert <jbe@pengutronix.de> Cc: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [3.7.x] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-12-17kstrto*: add documentationEldad Zack1-0/+33
As Bruce Fields pointed out, kstrto* is currently lacking kerneldoc comments. This patch adds kerneldoc comments to common variants of kstrto*: kstrto(u)l, kstrto(u)ll and kstrto(u)int. Signed-off-by: Eldad Zack <eldad@fogrefinery.com> Cc: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org> Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-12-11Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-5/+2
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull perf updates from Ingo Molnar: "Lots of activity: 211 files changed, 8328 insertions(+), 4116 deletions(-) most of it on the tooling side. Main changes: * ftrace enhancements and fixes from Steve Rostedt. * uprobes fixes, cleanups and preparation for the ARM port from Oleg Nesterov. * UAPI fixes, from David Howels - prepares the arch/x86 UAPI transition * Separate perf tests into multiple objects, one per test, from Jiri Olsa. * Make hardware event translations available in sysfs, from Jiri Olsa. * Fixes to /proc/pid/maps parsing, preparatory to supporting data maps, from Namhyung Kim * Implement ui_progress for GTK, from Namhyung Kim * Add framework for automated perf_event_attr tests, where tools with different command line options will be run from a 'perf test', via python glue, and the perf syscall will be intercepted to verify that the perf_event_attr fields set by the tool are those expected, from Jiri Olsa * Add a 'link' method for hists, so that we can have the leader with buckets for all the entries in all the hists. This new method is now used in the default 'diff' output, making the sum of the 'baseline' column be 100%, eliminating blind spots. * libtraceevent fixes for compiler warnings trying to make perf it build on some distros, like fedora 14, 32-bit, some of the warnings really pointed to real bugs. * Add a browser for 'perf script' and make it available from the report and annotate browsers. It does filtering to find the scripts that handle events found in the perf.data file used. From Feng Tang * perf inject changes to allow showing where a task sleeps, from Andrew Vagin. * Makefile improvements from Namhyung Kim. * Add --pre and --post command hooks in 'stat', from Peter Zijlstra. * Don't stop synthesizing threads when one vanishes, this is for the existing threads when we start a tool like trace. * Use sched:sched_stat_runtime to provide a thread summary, this produces the same output as the 'trace summary' subcommand of tglx's original "trace" tool. * Support interrupted syscalls in 'trace' * Add an event duration column and filter in 'trace'. * There are references to the man pages in some tools, so try to build Documentation when installing, warning the user if that is not possible, from Borislav Petkov. * Give user better message if precise is not supported, from David Ahern. * Try to find cross-built objdump path by using the session environment information in the perf.data file header, from Irina Tirdea, original patch and idea by Namhyung Kim. * Diplays more output on features check for make V=1, so that one can figure out what is happening by looking at gcc output, etc. From Jiri Olsa. * Add on_exit implementation for systems without one, e.g. Android, from Bernhard Rosenkraenzer. * Only process events for vcpus of interest, helps handling large number of events, from David Ahern. * Cross compilation fixes for Android, from Irina Tirdea. * Add documentation on compiling for Android, from Irina Tirdea. * perf diff improvements from Jiri Olsa. * Target (task/user/cpu/syswide) handling improvements, from Namhyung Kim. * Add support in 'trace' for tracing workload given by command line, from Namhyung Kim. * ... and much more." * 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (194 commits) uprobes: Use percpu_rw_semaphore to fix register/unregister vs dup_mmap() race perf evsel: Introduce is_group_member method perf powerpc: Use uapi/unistd.h to fix build error tools: Pass the target in descend tools: Honour the O= flag when tool build called from a higher Makefile tools: Define a Makefile function to do subdir processing perf ui: Always compile browser setup code perf ui: Add ui_progress__finish() perf ui gtk: Implement ui_progress functions perf ui: Introduce generic ui_progress helper perf ui tui: Move progress.c under ui/tui directory perf tools: Add basic event modifier sanity check perf tools: Omit group members from perf_evlist__disable/enable perf tools: Ensure single disable call per event in record comand perf tools: Fix 'disabled' attribute config for record command perf tools: Fix attributes for '{}' defined event groups perf tools: Use sscanf for parsing /proc/pid/maps perf tools: Add gtk.<command> config option for launching GTK browser perf tools: Fix compile error on NO_NEWT=1 build perf hists: Initialize all of he->stat with zeroes ...
2012-12-11mm: use IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_COMPACTION) instead of COMPACTION_BUILDKirill A. Shutemov1-7/+0
We don't need custom COMPACTION_BUILD anymore, since we have handy IS_ENABLED(). Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-12-11mm: use IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_NUMA) instead of NUMA_BUILDKirill A. Shutemov1-7/+0
We don't need custom NUMA_BUILD anymore, since we have handy IS_ENABLED(). Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-12-08Merge branch 'linus' into perf/coreIngo Molnar1-0/+7
Conflicts: tools/perf/Makefile tools/perf/builtin-test.c tools/perf/perf.h tools/perf/tests/parse-events.c tools/perf/util/evsel.h Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-12-03linux/kernel.h: define SYMBOL_PREFIXJames Hogan1-0/+7
Define SYMBOL_PREFIX to be the same as CONFIG_SYMBOL_PREFIX if set by the architecture, or "" otherwise. This avoids the need for ugly #ifdefs whenever symbols are referenced in asm blocks. Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Cc: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2012-10-31linux/kernel.h: Remove duplicate trace_printk declarationMichal Hocko1-5/+2
!CONFIG_TRACING both declares and defines (empty) trace_printk. The first one is not redundant so it can be removed. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1351172511-18125-1-git-send-email-mhocko@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2012-10-13UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate include/linuxDavid Howells1-11/+1
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2012-09-19linux/kernel.h: Fix warning seen with W=1 due to change in DIV_ROUND_CLOSESTGuenter Roeck1-1/+1
After commit b6d86d3d (Fix DIV_ROUND_CLOSEST to support negative dividends), the following warning is seen if the kernel is compiled with W=1 (-Wextra): warning: comparison of unsigned expression >= 0 is always true The warning is due to the test '((typeof(x))-1) >= 0', which is used to detect if the variable type is unsigned. Research on the web suggests that the warning disappears if '>' instead of '>=' is used for the comparison. Tests after changing the macro along that line show that the warning is gone, and that the result is still correct: i=-4: DIV_ROUND_CLOSEST(i, 2)=-2 i=-3: DIV_ROUND_CLOSEST(i, 2)=-2 i=-2: DIV_ROUND_CLOSEST(i, 2)=-1 i=-1: DIV_ROUND_CLOSEST(i, 2)=-1 i=0: DIV_ROUND_CLOSEST(i, 2)=0 i=1: DIV_ROUND_CLOSEST(i, 2)=1 i=2: DIV_ROUND_CLOSEST(i, 2)=1 i=3: DIV_ROUND_CLOSEST(i, 2)=2 i=4: DIV_ROUND_CLOSEST(i, 2)=2 Code size is the same as before. Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Tested-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com> Acked-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
2012-09-01linux/kernel.h: Fix DIV_ROUND_CLOSEST to support negative dividendsGuenter Roeck1-2/+10
DIV_ROUND_CLOSEST returns a bad result for negative dividends: DIV_ROUND_CLOSEST(-2, 2) = 0 Most of the time this does not matter. However, in the hardware monitoring subsystem, DIV_ROUND_CLOSEST is sometimes used on integers which can be negative (such as temperatures). Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Acked-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
2012-07-21Remove SYSTEM_SUSPEND_DISK system stateRafael J. Wysocki1-1/+0
The SYSTEM_SUSPEND_DISK system state is never used, so drop it. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-05-31introduce SIZE_MAXXi Wang1-0/+1
ULONG_MAX is often used to check for integer overflow when calculating allocation size. While ULONG_MAX happens to work on most systems, there is no guarantee that `size_t' must be the same size as `long'. This patch introduces SIZE_MAX, the maximum value of `size_t', to improve portability and readability for allocation size validation. Signed-off-by: Xi Wang <xi.wang@gmail.com> Acked-by: Alex Elder <elder@dreamhost.com> Cc: David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-05-24Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparcLinus Torvalds1-0/+2
Pull sparc changes from David S. Miller: "This has the generic strncpy_from_user() implementation architectures can now use, which we've been developing on linux-arch over the past few days. For good measure I ran both a 32-bit and a 64-bit glibc testsuite run, and the latter of which pointed out an adjustment I needed to make to sparc's user_addr_max() definition. Linus, you were right, STACK_TOP was not the right thing to use, even on sparc itself :-) From Sam Ravnborg, we have a conversion of sparc32 over to the common alloc_thread_info_node(), since the aspect which originally blocked our doing so (sun4c) has been removed." Fix up trivial arch/sparc/Kconfig and lib/Makefile conflicts. * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc: sparc: Fix user_addr_max() definition. lib: Sparc's strncpy_from_user is generic enough, move under lib/ kernel: Move REPEAT_BYTE definition into linux/kernel.h sparc: Increase portability of strncpy_from_user() implementation. sparc: Optimize strncpy_from_user() zero byte search. sparc: Add full proper error handling to strncpy_from_user(). sparc32: use the common implementation of alloc_thread_info_node()
2012-05-24kernel: Move REPEAT_BYTE definition into linux/kernel.hDavid S. Miller1-0/+2
And make sure that everything using it explicitly includes that header file. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-04-23tracing: Add percpu buffers for trace_printk()Steven Rostedt1-6/+7
Currently, trace_printk() uses a single buffer to write into to calculate the size and format needed to save the trace. To do this safely in an SMP environment, a spin_lock() is taken to only allow one writer at a time to the buffer. But this could also affect what is being traced, and add synchronization that would not be there otherwise. Ideally, using percpu buffers would be useful, but since trace_printk() is only used in development, having per cpu buffers for something never used is a waste of space. Thus, the use of the trace_bprintk() format section is changed to be used for static fmts as well as dynamic ones. Then at boot up, we can check if the section that holds the trace_printk formats is non-empty, and if it does contain something, then we know a trace_printk() has been added to the kernel. At this time the trace_printk per cpu buffers are allocated. A check is also done at module load time in case a module is added that contains a trace_printk(). Once the buffers are allocated, they are never freed. If you use a trace_printk() then you should know what you are doing. A buffer is made for each type of context: normal softirq irq nmi The context is checked and the appropriate buffer is used. This allows for totally lockless usage of trace_printk(), and they no longer even disable interrupts. Requested-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2012-03-31Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-6/+9
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull perf updates and fixes from Ingo Molnar: "It's mostly fixes, but there's also two late items: - preliminary GTK GUI support for perf report - PMU raw event format descriptors in sysfs, to be parsed by tooling The raw event format in sysfs is a new ABI. For example for the 'CPU' PMU we have: aldebaran:~> ll /sys/bus/event_source/devices/cpu/format/* -r--r--r--. 1 root root 4096 Mar 31 10:29 /sys/bus/event_source/devices/cpu/format/any -r--r--r--. 1 root root 4096 Mar 31 10:29 /sys/bus/event_source/devices/cpu/format/cmask -r--r--r--. 1 root root 4096 Mar 31 10:29 /sys/bus/event_source/devices/cpu/format/edge -r--r--r--. 1 root root 4096 Mar 31 10:29 /sys/bus/event_source/devices/cpu/format/event -r--r--r--. 1 root root 4096 Mar 31 10:29 /sys/bus/event_source/devices/cpu/format/inv -r--r--r--. 1 root root 4096 Mar 31 10:29 /sys/bus/event_source/devices/cpu/format/offcore_rsp -r--r--r--. 1 root root 4096 Mar 31 10:29 /sys/bus/event_source/devices/cpu/format/pc -r--r--r--. 1 root root 4096 Mar 31 10:29 /sys/bus/event_source/devices/cpu/format/umask those lists of fields contain a specific format: aldebaran:~> cat /sys/bus/event_source/devices/cpu/format/offcore_rsp config1:0-63 So, those who wish to specify raw events can now use the following event format: -e cpu/cmask=1,event=2,umask=3 Most people will not want to specify any events (let alone raw events), they'll just use whatever default event the tools use. But for more obscure PMU events that have no cross-architecture generic events the above syntax is more usable and a bit more structured than specifying hex numbers." * 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (41 commits) perf tools: Remove auto-generated bison/flex files perf annotate: Fix off by one symbol hist size allocation and hit accounting perf tools: Add missing ref-cycles event back to event parser perf annotate: addr2line wants addresses in same format as objdump perf probe: Finder fails to resolve function name to address tracing: Fix ent_size in trace output perf symbols: Handle NULL dso in dso__name_len perf symbols: Do not include libgen.h perf tools: Fix bug in raw sample parsing perf tools: Fix display of first level of callchains perf tools: Switch module.h into export.h perf: Move mmap page data_head offset assertion out of header perf: Fix mmap_page capabilities and docs perf diff: Fix to work with new hists design perf tools: Fix modifier to be applied on correct events perf tools: Fix various casting issues for 32 bits perf tools: Simplify event_read_id exit path tracing: Fix ftrace stack trace entries tracing: Move the tracing_on/off() declarations into CONFIG_TRACING perf report: Add a simple GTK2-based 'perf report' browser ...
2012-03-29Merge branch 'x86-x32-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-19/+2
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull x32 support for x86-64 from Ingo Molnar: "This tree introduces the X32 binary format and execution mode for x86: 32-bit data space binaries using 64-bit instructions and 64-bit kernel syscalls. This allows applications whose working set fits into a 32 bits address space to make use of 64-bit instructions while using a 32-bit address space with shorter pointers, more compressed data structures, etc." Fix up trivial context conflicts in arch/x86/{Kconfig,vdso/vma.c} * 'x86-x32-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (71 commits) x32: Fix alignment fail in struct compat_siginfo x32: Fix stupid ia32/x32 inversion in the siginfo format x32: Add ptrace for x32 x32: Switch to a 64-bit clock_t x32: Provide separate is_ia32_task() and is_x32_task() predicates x86, mtrr: Use explicit sizing and padding for the 64-bit ioctls x86/x32: Fix the binutils auto-detect x32: Warn and disable rather than error if binutils too old x32: Only clear TIF_X32 flag once x32: Make sure TS_COMPAT is cleared for x32 tasks fs: Remove missed ->fds_bits from cessation use of fd_set structs internally fs: Fix close_on_exec pointer in alloc_fdtable x32: Drop non-__vdso weak symbols from the x32 VDSO x32: Fix coding style violations in the x32 VDSO code x32: Add x32 VDSO support x32: Allow x32 to be configured x32: If configured, add x32 system calls to system call tables x32: Handle process creation x32: Signal-related system calls x86: Add #ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT to <asm/sys_ia32.h> ...
2012-03-26Merge branch 'linus' into perf/urgentIngo Molnar1-66/+6
Merge reason: we need to fix a non-trivial merge conflict. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2012-03-24Merge tag 'bug-for-3.4' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-62/+0
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux Pull <linux/bug.h> cleanup from Paul Gortmaker: "The changes shown here are to unify linux's BUG support under the one <linux/bug.h> file. Due to historical reasons, we have some BUG code in bug.h and some in kernel.h -- i.e. the support for BUILD_BUG in linux/kernel.h predates the addition of linux/bug.h, but old code in kernel.h wasn't moved to bug.h at that time. As a band-aid, kernel.h was including <asm/bug.h> to pseudo link them. This has caused confusion[1] and general yuck/WTF[2] reactions. Here is an example that violates the principle of least surprise: CC lib/string.o lib/string.c: In function 'strlcat': lib/string.c:225:2: error: implicit declaration of function 'BUILD_BUG_ON' make[2]: *** [lib/string.o] Error 1 $ $ grep linux/bug.h lib/string.c #include <linux/bug.h> $ We've included <linux/bug.h> for the BUG infrastructure and yet we still get a compile fail! [We've not kernel.h for BUILD_BUG_ON.] Ugh - very confusing for someone who is new to kernel development. With the above in mind, the goals of this changeset are: 1) find and fix any include/*.h files that were relying on the implicit presence of BUG code. 2) find and fix any C files that were consuming kernel.h and hence relying on implicitly getting some/all BUG code. 3) Move the BUG related code living in kernel.h to <linux/bug.h> 4) remove the asm/bug.h from kernel.h to finally break the chain. During development, the order was more like 3-4, build-test, 1-2. But to ensure that git history for bisect doesn't get needless build failures introduced, the commits have been reorderd to fix the problem areas in advance. [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/1/3/90 [2] https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/1/17/414" Fix up conflicts (new radeon file, reiserfs header cleanups) as per Paul and linux-next. * tag 'bug-for-3.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux: kernel.h: doesn't explicitly use bug.h, so don't include it. bug: consolidate BUILD_BUG_ON with other bug code BUG: headers with BUG/BUG_ON etc. need linux/bug.h bug.h: add include of it to various implicit C users lib: fix implicit users of kernel.h for TAINT_WARN spinlock: macroize assert_spin_locked to avoid bug.h dependency x86: relocate get/set debugreg fcns to include/asm/debugreg.