The commit (in linux-tip) c2931e05ec
( ftrace: return an error when setting a nonexistent tracer )
added useful code that would error when a bad tracer was written into
the current_tracer file.
But this had a bug if the amount written was more than the amount read by
that code. The first iteration would set the tracer correctly, but since
it did not consume the rest of what was written (usually whitespace), the
userspace utility would continue to write what was not consumed. This
second iteration would fail to find a tracer and return -EINVAL. Funny
thing is that the tracer would have already been set.
This patch just consumes all the data that is written to the file.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: fix lockdep lock-api-caller output when irqsoff tracing is enabled
81d68a96 "ftrace: trace irq disabled critical timings" added wrappers around
trace_hardirqs_on/off_caller. However these functions use
__builtin_return_address(0) to figure out which function actually disabled
or enabled irqs. The result is that we save the ips of trace_hardirqs_on/off
instead of the real caller. Not very helpful.
However since the patch from Steven the ip already gets passed. So use that
and get rid of __builtin_return_address(0) in these two functions.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
When we failed to get tasklist_lock eventually (count equals 0),
we should only print " ignoring it.\n", and not print
" locked it.\n" needlessly.
Signed-off-by: Qinghuang Feng <qhfeng.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: build fix on Alpha
When tracing is enabled, some arch have included <linux/irqflags.h>
on their <asm/system.h> but others like alpha or m68k don't.
Build error on alpha:
kernel/trace/trace.c: In function 'tracing_cpumask_write':
kernel/trace/trace.c:2145: error: implicit declaration of function 'raw_local_irq_disable'
kernel/trace/trace.c:2162: error: implicit declaration of function 'raw_local_irq_enable'
Tested on Alpha through a cross-compiler (should correct a similar issue on m68k).
Reported-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: build fix
If the boot tracer is selected but not the sched_switch,
there will be a build failure:
kernel/built-in.o: In function `boot_trace_init':
trace_boot.c:(.text+0x5ee38): undefined reference to `sched_switch_trace'
kernel/built-in.o: In function `disable_boot_trace':
(.text+0x5eee1): undefined reference to `tracing_stop_cmdline_record'
kernel/built-in.o: In function `enable_boot_trace':
(.text+0x5ef11): undefined reference to `tracing_start_cmdline_record'
This patch fixes it.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: fix kernel crash that can trigger during tracing
If we try to remove a probe that has not been already registered,
the tracepoint_entry_remove_probe() function will dereference a NULL
pointer.
Check the probe before removing it to avoid crashes.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
A powerpc ppc64_defconfig build produces these warnings:
kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c: In function 'rb_add_time_stamp':
kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c:969: warning: format '%llu' expects type 'long long unsigned int', but argument 2 has type 'u64'
kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c:969: warning: format '%llu' expects type 'long long unsigned int', but argument 3 has type 'u64'
kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c:969: warning: format '%llu' expects type 'long long unsigned int', but argument 4 has type 'u64'
Just cast the u64s to unsigned long long like we do everywhere else.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
/scratch/sfr/next/kernel/cgroup.c: In function 'cgroup_tasks_start':
/scratch/sfr/next/kernel/cgroup.c:2107: warning: unused variable 'i'
Introduced in commit cc31edceee "cgroups:
convert tasks file to use a seq_file with shared pid array".
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This reverts commit a802dd0eb5 by moving
the call to init_workqueues() back where it belongs - after SMP has been
initialized.
It also moves stop_machine_init() - which needs workqueues - to a later
phase using a core_initcall() instead of early_initcall(). That should
satisfy all ordering requirements, and was apparently the reason why
init_workqueues() was moved to be too early.
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
this warning:
kernel/trace/ftrace.c:189: warning: ‘frozen_record_count’ defined but not used
triggers because frozen_record_count is only used in the KCONFIG_MARKERS
case. Move the variable it there.
Alas, this frozen-record facility seems to have little use. The
frozen_record_count variable is not used by anything, nor the flags.
So this section might need a bit of dead-code-removal care as well.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Since we moved wakeup preemption back to virtual time, it makes sense to move
the buddy stuff back as well. The purpose of the buddy scheduling is to allow
a quickly scheduling pair of tasks to run away from the group as far as a
regular busy task would be allowed under wakeup preemption.
This has the advantage that the pair can ping-pong for a while, enjoying
cache-hotness. Without buddy scheduling other tasks would interleave destroying
the cache.
Also, it saves a word in cfs_rq.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The advantage is that vruntime based wakeup preemption has a better
conceptual model. Here wakeup_gran = 0 means: preempt when 'fair'.
Therefore wakeup_gran is the granularity of unfairness we allow in order
to make progress.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Mysql+oltp and pgsql+oltp peaks are still shifted right. The below puts
the peaks back to 1 client/server pair per core.
Use the avg_overlap information to weaken the sync hint.
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Mike noticed the current min_vruntime tracking can go wrong and skip the
current task. If the only remaining task in the tree is a nice 19 task
with huge vruntime, new tasks will be inserted too far to the right too,
causing some interactibity issues.
min_vruntime can only change due to the leftmost entry disappearing
(dequeue_entity()), or by the leftmost entry being incremented past the
next entry, which elects a new leftmost (__update_curr())
Due to the current entry not being part of the actual tree, we have to
compare the leftmost tree entry with the current entry, and take the
leftmost of these two.
So create a update_min_vruntime() function that takes computes the
leftmost vruntime in the system (either tree of current) and increases
the cfs_rq->min_vruntime if the computed value is larger than the
previously found min_vruntime. And call this from the two sites we've
identified that can change min_vruntime.
Reported-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
In one of the group load balancer patches:
commit 408ed066b1
Author: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Date: Fri Jun 27 13:41:28 2008 +0200
Subject: sched: hierarchical load vs find_busiest_group
The following change:
- if (max_load - this_load + SCHED_LOAD_SCALE_FUZZ >=
+ if (max_load - this_load + 2*busiest_load_per_task >=
busiest_load_per_task * imbn) {
made the condition always true, because imbn is [1,2].
Therefore, remove the 2*, and give the it a fair chance.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup, small kernel text size reduction, no functionality changed
reserve_region_with_split() calls in to __reserve_region_with_split(),
which is an __init function. The only caller of reserve_region_with_split()
is an __init function, so make it __init too.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Move free_module_param_attrs() into the CONFIG_MODULES section, since
it's only used inside there. Thus avoiding the warning
kernel/params.c:514: warning: 'free_module_param_attrs' defined but not used
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
fix:
kernel/trace/ftrace.c: In function 'ftrace_release':
kernel/trace/ftrace.c:271: error: implicit declaration of function 'ftrace_release_hash'
release_hash is not needed without dftraced.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The ftrace hash was used by the ftrace_daemon code. The record ip function
would place the calling address (ip) into the hash. The daemon would later
read the hash and modify that code.
The hash complicates the code. This patch removes it.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The arch dependent function ftrace_mcount_set was only used by the daemon
start up code. This patch removes it.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The ftrace daemon is complex and error prone. This patch strips it out
of the code.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Add ftrace warn on to disable ftrace as well as report a warning.
[ Thanks to Andrew Morton for suggesting using the WARN_ON return value ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
When an anomaly is detected, we need a way to completely disable
ftrace. Right now we have two functions: ftrace_kill and ftrace_kill_atomic.
The ftrace_kill tries to do it in a "nice" way by converting everything
back to a nop.
The "nice" way is dangerous itself, so this patch removes it and only
has the "atomic" version, which is all that is needed.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Have the ftrace_modify_code return error values:
-EFAULT on error of reading the address
-EINVAL if what is read does not match what it expected
-EPERM if the write fails to update after a successful match.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The pages of a buffer was originally pointing to the page struct, it
now points to the page address. The freeing of the page still uses
the page frame free "__free_page" instead of the correct free_page to
the address.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
a patch from Henrik Austad did this:
>> Do not declare select_task_rq as part of sched_class when CONFIG_SMP is
>> not set.
Peter observed:
> While a proper cleanup, could you do it by re-arranging the methods so
> as to not create an additional ifdef?
Do not declare select_task_rq and some other methods as part of sched_class
when CONFIG_SMP is not set.
Also gather those methods to avoid CONFIG_SMP mess.
Idea-by: Henrik Austad <henrik.austad@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Henrik Austad <henrik@austad.us>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
We seem to have plenty tracers, lets create a menu and not clutter
the already cluttered debug menu more.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This variable is only used in the source file, so make it static.
Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Using |= for updating a value which might be updated on several cpus
concurrently will not always work since we need to make sure that the
update happens atomically.
To fix this just use a write if the called function returns an error
code on a cpu. We end up writing the error code of an arbitrary cpu
if multiple ones fail but that should be sufficient.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Convert stop_machine to a workqueue based approach. Instead of using kernel
threads for stop_machine we now use a an rt workqueue to synchronize all
cpus.
This has the advantage that all needed per cpu threads are already created
when stop_machine gets called. And therefore a call to stop_machine won't
fail anymore. This is needed for s390 which needs a mechanism to synchronize
all cpus without allocating any memory.
As Rusty pointed out free_module() needs a non-failing stop_machine interface
as well.
As a side effect the stop_machine code gets simplified.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
create_rt_workqueue will create a real time prioritized workqueue.
This is needed for the conversion of stop_machine to a workqueue based
implementation.
This patch adds yet another parameter to __create_workqueue_key to tell
it that we want an rt workqueue.
However it looks like we rather should have something like "int type"
instead of singlethread, freezable and rt.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This allows them to be examined and set after boot, plus means they
actually give errors if they are misused (eg. panic=yes).
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
There are a lot of one-liner uses of __setup() in the kernel: they're
cumbersome and not queryable (definitely not settable) via /sys. Yet
it's ugly to simplify them to module_param(), because by default that
inserts a prefix of the module name (usually filename).
So, introduce a "core_param". The parameter gets no prefix, but
appears in /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ (if non-zero perms arg). I
thought about using the name "core", but that's more common than
"kernel". And if you create a module called "kernel", you will die
a horrible death.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Instead of insisting each new module_param sysfs entry is unique,
handle the case where it already exists (for builtin modules).
The current code assumes that all identical prefixes are together in
the section: true for normal uses, but not necessarily so if someone
overrides MODULE_PARAM_PREFIX. More importantly, it's not true with
the new "core_param()" code which uses "kernel" as a prefix.
This simplifies the caller for the builtin case, at a slight loss of
efficiency (we do the lookup every time to see if the directory
exists).
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
The kparam code tries to handle over-length parameter prefixes at
runtime. Not only would I bet this has never been tested, it's not
clear that truncating names is a good idea either.
So let's check at compile time. We need to move the #define to
moduleparam.h to do this, though.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Remove stop_machine during module load v2
module loading currently does a stop_machine on each module load to insert
the module into the global module lists. Especially on larger systems this
can be quite expensive.
It does that to handle concurrent lock lessmodule list readers
like kallsyms.
I don't think stop_machine() is actually needed to insert something
into a list though. There are no concurrent writers because the
module mutex is taken. And the RCU list functions know how to insert
a node into a list with the right memory ordering so that concurrent
readers don't go off into the wood.
So remove the stop_machine for the module list insert and just
do a list_add_rcu() instead.
Module removal will still do a stop_machine of course, it needs
that for other reasons.
v2: Revised readers based on Paul's comments. All readers that only
rely on disabled preemption need to be changed to list_for_each_rcu().
Done that. The others are ok because they have the modules mutex.
Also added a possible missing preempt disable for print_modules().
[cc Paul McKenney for review. It's not RCU, but quite similar.]
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Linus' recent catch of stack overflow in load_module lead me to look
at the code. A couple of helpers to get a section address and get
objects from a section can help clean things up a little.
(And in case you're wondering, the stack size also dropped from 328 to
284 bytes).
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
commit fb02fbc14d (NOHZ: restart tick
device from irq_enter())
solves the problem of stale jiffies when long running softirqs happen
in a long idle sleep period, but it has a major thinko in it:
When the interrupt which came in _is_ the timer interrupt which should
expire ts->sched_timer then we cancel and rearm the timer _before_ it
gets expired in hrtimer_interrupt() to the next period. That means the
call back function is not called. This game can go on for ever :(
Prevent this by making sure to only rearm the timer when the expiry
time is more than one tick_period away. Otherwise keep it running as
it is either already expired or will expiry at the right point to
update jiffies.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Venkatesch Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
current rcu_barrier_bh() is like this:
void rcu_barrier_bh(void)
{
BUG_ON(in_interrupt());
/* Take cpucontrol mutex to protect against CPU hotplug */
mutex_lock(&rcu_barrier_mutex);
init_completion(&rcu_barrier_completion);
atomic_set(&rcu_barrier_cpu_count, 0);
/*
* The queueing of callbacks in all CPUs must be atomic with
* respect to RCU, otherwise one CPU may queue a callback,
* wait for a grace period, decrement barrier count and call
* complete(), while other CPUs have not yet queued anything.
* So, we need to make sure that grace periods cannot complete
* until all the callbacks are queued.
*/
rcu_read_lock();
on_each_cpu(rcu_barrier_func, (void *)RCU_BARRIER_BH, 1);
rcu_read_unlock();
wait_for_completion(&rcu_barrier_completion);
mutex_unlock(&rcu_barrier_mutex);
}
The inconsistency of the code and the comments show a bug here.
rcu_read_lock() cannot make sure that "grace periods for RCU_BH
cannot complete until all the callbacks are queued".
it only make sure that race periods for RCU cannot complete
until all the callbacks are queued.
so we must use rcu_read_lock_bh() for rcu_barrier_bh().
like this:
void rcu_barrier_bh(void)
{
......
rcu_read_lock_bh();
on_each_cpu(rcu_barrier_func, (void *)RCU_BARRIER_BH, 1);
rcu_read_unlock_bh();
......
}
and also rcu_barrier() rcu_barrier_sched() are implemented like this.
it will bring a lot of duplicate code. My patch uses another way to
fix this bug, please see the comment of my patch.
Thank Paul E. McKenney for he rewrote the comment.
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
If the member 'name' of the irq_desc structure happens to point to a
character string that is resident within a kernel module, problems ensue
if that module is rmmod'd (at which time dynamic_irq_cleanup() is called)
and then later show_interrupts() is called by someone.
It is also not a good thing if the character string resided in kmalloc'd
space that has been kfree'd (after having called dynamic_irq_cleanup()).
dynamic_irq_cleanup() fails to NULL the 'name' member and
show_interrupts() references it on a few architectures (like h8300, sh and
x86).
Signed-off-by: Dean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* get rid of fake struct file/struct dentry in __blkdev_get()
* merge __blkdev_get() and do_open()
* get rid of flags argument of blkdev_get()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Impact: fix boot hang on a G5
In set_irq_type() we want to pass the type rather than the current
interrupt state.
Signed-off-by: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortel.com>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Acked-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This fixes
kernel/kexec.c: In function 'crash_save_vmcoreinfo_init':
kernel/kexec.c:1374: error: 'vmlist' undeclared (first use in this function)
kernel/kexec.c:1374: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
kernel/kexec.c:1374: error: for each function it appears in.)
kernel/kexec.c:1410: error: invalid use of undefined type 'struct vm_struct'
make[1]: *** [kernel/kexec.o] Error 1
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Steven Rostedt