1. 10 Apr, 2017 5 commits
  2. 07 Apr, 2017 1 commit
    • Steven Rostedt (VMware)'s avatar
      ftrace: Add use of synchronize_rcu_tasks() with dynamic trampolines · 0598e4f0
      Steven Rostedt (VMware) authored
      The function tracer needs to be more careful than other subsystems when it
      comes to freeing data. Especially if that data is actually executable code.
      When a single function is traced, a trampoline can be dynamically allocated
      which is called to jump to the function trace callback. When the callback is
      no longer needed, the dynamic allocated trampoline needs to be freed. This
      is where the issues arise. The dynamically allocated trampoline must not be
      used again. As function tracing can trace all subsystems, including
      subsystems that are used to serialize aspects of freeing (namely RCU), it
      must take extra care when doing the freeing.
      
      Before synchronize_rcu_tasks() was around, there was no way for the function
      tracer to know that nothing was using the dynamically allocated trampoline
      when CONFIG_PREEMPT was enabled. That's because a task could be indefinitely
      preempted while sitting on the trampoline. Now with synchronize_rcu_tasks(),
      it will wait till all tasks have either voluntarily scheduled (not on the
      trampoline) or goes into userspace (not on the trampoline). Then it is safe
      to free the trampoline even with CONFIG_PREEMPT set.
      Acked-by: default avatar"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      0598e4f0
  3. 04 Apr, 2017 1 commit
    • Alban Crequy's avatar
      tracing/kprobes: expose maxactive for kretprobe in kprobe_events · 696ced4f
      Alban Crequy authored
      When a kretprobe is installed on a kernel function, there is a maximum
      limit of how many calls in parallel it can catch (aka "maxactive"). A
      kernel module could call register_kretprobe() and initialize maxactive
      (see example in samples/kprobes/kretprobe_example.c).
      
      But that is not exposed to userspace and it is currently not possible to
      choose maxactive when writing to /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/kprobe_events
      
      The default maxactive can be as low as 1 on single-core with a
      non-preemptive kernel. This is too low and we need to increase it not
      only for recursive functions, but for functions that sleep or resched.
      
      This patch updates the format of the command that can be written to
      kprobe_events so that maxactive can be optionally specified.
      
      I need this for a bpf program attached to the kretprobe of
      inet_csk_accept, which can sleep for a long time.
      
      This patch includes a basic selftest:
      
      > # ./ftracetest -v  test.d/kprobe/
      > === Ftrace unit tests ===
      > [1] Kprobe dynamic event - adding and removing	[PASS]
      > [2] Kprobe dynamic event - busy event check	[PASS]
      > [3] Kprobe dynamic event with arguments	[PASS]
      > [4] Kprobes event arguments with types	[PASS]
      > [5] Kprobe dynamic event with function tracer	[PASS]
      > [6] Kretprobe dynamic event with arguments	[PASS]
      > [7] Kretprobe dynamic event with maxactive	[PASS]
      >
      > # of passed:  7
      > # of failed:  0
      > # of unresolved:  0
      > # of untested:  0
      > # of unsupported:  0
      > # of xfailed:  0
      > # of undefined(test bug):  0
      
      BugLink: https://github.com/iovisor/bcc/issues/1072
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1491215782-15490-1-git-send-email-alban@kinvolk.ioAcked-by: default avatarMasami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAlban Crequy <alban@kinvolk.io>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      696ced4f
  4. 03 Apr, 2017 1 commit
    • Steven Rostedt (VMware)'s avatar
      ftrace: Have init/main.c call ftrace directly to free init memory · b80f0f6c
      Steven Rostedt (VMware) authored
      Relying on free_reserved_area() to call ftrace to free init memory proved to
      not be sufficient. The issue is that on x86, when debug_pagealloc is
      enabled, the init memory is not freed, but simply set as not present. Since
      ftrace was uninformed of this, starting function tracing still tries to
      update pages that are not present according to the page tables, causing
      ftrace to bug, as well as killing the kernel itself.
      
      Instead of relying on free_reserved_area(), have init/main.c call ftrace
      directly just before it frees the init memory. Then it needs to use
      __init_begin and __init_end to know where the init memory location is.
      Looking at all archs (and testing what I can), it appears that this should
      work for each of them.
      Reported-by: default avatarkernel test robot <xiaolong.ye@intel.com>
      Reported-by: default avatarFengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      b80f0f6c
  5. 31 Mar, 2017 5 commits
    • Steven Rostedt (VMware)'s avatar
      ftrace: Create separate t_func_next() to simplify the function / hash logic · 5bd84629
      Steven Rostedt (VMware) authored
      I noticed that if I use dd to read the set_ftrace_filter file that the first
      hash command is repeated.
      
       # cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing
       # echo schedule > set_ftrace_filter
       # echo do_IRQ >> set_ftrace_filter
       # echo schedule:traceoff >> set_ftrace_filter
       # echo do_IRQ:traceoff >> set_ftrace_filter
      
       # cat set_ftrace_filter
       schedule
       do_IRQ
       schedule:traceoff:unlimited
       do_IRQ:traceoff:unlimited
      
       # dd if=set_ftrace_filter bs=1
       schedule
       do_IRQ
       schedule:traceoff:unlimited
       schedule:traceoff:unlimited
       do_IRQ:traceoff:unlimited
       98+0 records in
       98+0 records out
       98 bytes copied, 0.00265011 s, 37.0 kB/s
      
      This is due to the way t_start() calls t_next() as well as the seq_file
      calls t_next() and the state is slightly different between the two. Namely,
      t_start() will call t_next() with a local "pos" variable.
      
      By separating out the function listing from t_next() into its own function,
      we can have better control of outputting the functions and the hash of
      triggers. This simplifies the code.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      5bd84629
    • Steven Rostedt (VMware)'s avatar
      ftrace: Update func_pos in t_start() when all functions are enabled · 43ff926a
      Steven Rostedt (VMware) authored
      If all functions are enabled, there's a comment displayed in the file to
      denote that:
      
        # cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing
        # cat set_ftrace_filter
       #### all functions enabled ####
      
      If a function trigger is set, those are displayed as well:
      
        # echo schedule:traceoff >> /debug/tracing/set_ftrace_filter
        # cat set_ftrace_filter
       #### all functions enabled ####
       schedule:traceoff:unlimited
      
      But if you read that file with dd, the output can change:
      
        # dd if=/debug/tracing/set_ftrace_filter bs=1
       #### all functions enabled ####
       32+0 records in
       32+0 records out
       32 bytes copied, 7.0237e-05 s, 456 kB/s
      
      This is because the "pos" variable is updated for the comment, but func_pos
      is not. "func_pos" is used by the triggers (or hashes) to know how many
      functions were printed and it bases its index from the pos - func_pos.
      func_pos should be 1 to count for the comment printed. But since it is not,
      t_hash_start() thinks that one trigger was already printed.
      
      The cat gets to t_hash_start() via t_next() and not t_start() which updates
      both pos and func_pos.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      43ff926a
    • Steven Rostedt (VMware)'s avatar
      ftrace: Return NULL at end of t_start() instead of calling t_hash_start() · 2d71d989
      Steven Rostedt (VMware) authored
      The loop in t_start() of calling t_next() will call t_hash_start() if the
      pos is beyond the functions and enters the hash items. There's no reason to
      check if p is NULL and call t_hash_start(), as that would be redundant.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      2d71d989
    • Steven Rostedt (VMware)'s avatar
      ftrace: Assign iter->hash to filter or notrace hashes on seq read · c20489da
      Steven Rostedt (VMware) authored
      Instead of testing if the hash to use is the filter_hash or the notrace_hash
      at each iteration, do the test at open, and set the iter->hash to point to
      the corresponding filter or notrace hash. Then use that directly instead of
      testing which hash needs to be used each iteration.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      c20489da
    • Steven Rostedt (VMware)'s avatar
      ftrace: Clean up __seq_open_private() return check · c1bc5919
      Steven Rostedt (VMware) authored
      The return status check of __seq_open_private() is rather strange:
      
      	iter = __seq_open_private();
      	if (iter) {
      		/* do stuff */
      	}
      
      	return iter ? 0 : -ENOMEM;
      
      It makes much more sense to do the return of failure right away:
      
      	iter = __seq_open_private();
      	if (!iter)
      		return -ENOMEM;
      
      	/* do stuff */
      
      	return 0;
      
      This clean up will make updates to this code a bit nicer.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      c1bc5919
  6. 28 Mar, 2017 1 commit
    • Steven Rostedt (VMware)'s avatar
      ftrace/x86: Do no run CPU sync when there is only one CPU online · 2b87965a
      Steven Rostedt (VMware) authored
      Moving enabling of function tracing to early boot, even before scheduling is
      enabled, means that it is not safe to enable interrupts. When function
      tracing was enabled at boot up, it use to happen after scheduling and the
      other CPUs were brought up. That required running a sync across all CPUs
      when modifying the function hook locations in the code. To do the
      synchronization, interrupts had to be enabled. Now function tracing can be
      started before the other CPUs are brought up, and enabling interrupts in
      that case is dangerous. As only tho boot CPU is active, there is no reason
      to run the synchronization. If the online CPU count is one, do not bother
      doing the synchronization. This removes the need to enable interrupts.
      
      Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
      Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      2b87965a
  7. 25 Mar, 2017 4 commits
    • Steven Rostedt (VMware)'s avatar
      tracing: Move trace_handle_return() out of line · af0009fc
      Steven Rostedt (VMware) authored
      Currently trace_handle_return() looks like this:
      
       static inline enum print_line_t trace_handle_return(struct trace_seq *s)
       {
              return trace_seq_has_overflowed(s) ?
                      TRACE_TYPE_PARTIAL_LINE : TRACE_TYPE_HANDLED;
       }
      
      Where trace_seq_overflowed(s) is:
      
       static inline bool trace_seq_has_overflowed(struct trace_seq *s)
       {
      	return s->full || seq_buf_has_overflowed(&s->seq);
       }
      
      And seq_buf_has_overflowed(&s->seq) is:
      
       static inline bool
       seq_buf_has_overflowed(struct seq_buf *s)
       {
      	return s->len > s->size;
       }
      
      Making trace_handle_return() into:
      
       return (s->full || (s->seq->len > s->seq->size)) ?
                 TRACE_TYPE_PARTIAL_LINE :
                 TRACE_TYPE_HANDLED;
      
      One would think this is not an issue to keep as an inline. But because this
      is used in the TRACE_EVENT() macro, it is extended for every tracepoint in
      the system. Taking a look at a single tracepoint x86_irq_vector (was the
      first one I randomly chosen). As trace_handle_return is used in the
      TRACE_EVENT() macro of trace_raw_output_##call() we disassemble
      trace_raw_output_x86_irq_vector and do a diff:
      
      - is the original
      + is the out-of-line code
      
      I removed identical lines that were different just due to different
      addresses.
      
      --- /tmp/irq-vec-orig	2017-03-16 09:12:48.569384851 -0400
      +++ /tmp/irq-vec-ool	2017-03-16 09:13:39.378153385 -0400
      @@ -6,27 +6,23 @@
              53                      push   %rbx
              48 89 fb                mov    %rdi,%rbx
              4c 8b a7 c0 20 00 00    mov    0x20c0(%rdi),%r12
              e8 f7 72 13 00          callq  ffffffff81155c80 <trace_raw_output_prep>
              83 f8 01                cmp    $0x1,%eax
              74 05                   je     ffffffff8101e993 <trace_raw_output_x86_irq_vector+0x23>
              5b                      pop    %rbx
              41 5c                   pop    %r12
              5d                      pop    %rbp
              c3                      retq
              41 8b 54 24 08          mov    0x8(%r12),%edx
      -       48 8d bb 98 10 00 00    lea    0x1098(%rbx),%rdi
      +       48 81 c3 98 10 00 00    add    $0x1098,%rbx
      -       48 c7 c6 7b 8a a0 81    mov    $0xffffffff81a08a7b,%rsi
      +       48 c7 c6 ab 8a a0 81    mov    $0xffffffff81a08aab,%rsi
      -       e8 c5 85 13 00          callq  ffffffff81156f70 <trace_seq_printf>
      
       === here's the start of the main difference ===
      
      +       48 89 df                mov    %rbx,%rdi
      +       e8 62 7e 13 00          callq  ffffffff81156810 <trace_seq_printf>
      -       8b 93 b8 20 00 00       mov    0x20b8(%rbx),%edx
      -       31 c0                   xor    %eax,%eax
      -       85 d2                   test   %edx,%edx
      -       75 11                   jne    ffffffff8101e9c8 <trace_raw_output_x86_irq_vector+0x58>
      -       48 8b 83 a8 20 00 00    mov    0x20a8(%rbx),%rax
      -       48 39 83 a0 20 00 00    cmp    %rax,0x20a0(%rbx)
      -       0f 93 c0                setae  %al
      +       48 89 df                mov    %rbx,%rdi
      +       e8 4a c5 12 00          callq  ffffffff8114af00 <trace_handle_return>
              5b                      pop    %rbx
      -       0f b6 c0                movzbl %al,%eax
      
       === end ===
      
              41 5c                   pop    %r12
              5d                      pop    %rbp
              c3                      retq
      
      If you notice, the original has 22 bytes of text more than the out of line
      version. As this is for every TRACE_EVENT() defined in the system, this can
      become quite large.
      
         text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
      8690305	5450490	1298432	15439227	 eb957b	vmlinux-orig
      8681725	5450490	1298432	15430647	 eb73f7	vmlinux-handle
      
      This change has a total of 8580 bytes in savings.
      
       $ objdump -dr /tmp/vmlinux-orig | grep '^[0-9a-f]* <trace_raw_output' | wc -l
      324
      
      That's 324 tracepoints. But this does not include modules (which contain
      many more tracepoints). For an allyesconfig build:
      
       $ objdump -dr vmlinux-allyes-orig | grep '^[0-9a-f]* <trace_raw_output' | wc -l
      1401
      
      That's 1401 tracepoints giving us:
      
         text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
      137920629       140221067       53264384        331406080       13c0db00 vmlinux-allyes-orig
      137827709       140221067       53264384        331313160       13bf7008 vmlinux-allyes-handle
      
      92920 bytes in savings!!!
      
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170315021431.13107-2-andi@firstfloor.orgReported-by: default avatarAndi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      af0009fc
    • Steven Rostedt (VMware)'s avatar
      ftrace: Allow for function tracing to record init functions on boot up · 42c269c8
      Steven Rostedt (VMware) authored
      Adding a hook into free_reserve_area() that informs ftrace that boot up init
      text is being free, lets ftrace safely remove those init functions from its
      records, which keeps ftrace from trying to modify text that no longer
      exists.
      
      Note, this still does not allow for tracing .init text of modules, as
      modules require different work for freeing its init code.
      
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1488502497.7212.24.camel@linux.intel.com
      
      Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
      Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
      Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
      Requested-by: default avatarTodd Brandt <todd.e.brandt@linux.intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      42c269c8
    • Steven Rostedt (VMware)'s avatar
      ftrace: Have function tracing start in early boot up · dbeafd0d
      Steven Rostedt (VMware) authored
      Register the function tracer right after the tracing buffers are initialized
      in early boot up. This will allow function tracing to begin early if it is
      enabled via the kernel command line.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      dbeafd0d
    • Steven Rostedt (VMware)'s avatar
      tracing: Postpone tracer start-up tests till the system is more robust · 9afecfbb
      Steven Rostedt (VMware) authored
      As tracing can now be enabled very early in boot up, even before some
      critical system services (like scheduling), do not run the tracer selftests
      until after early_initcall() is performed. If a tracer is registered before
      such time, it is saved off in a list and the test is run when the system is
      able to handle more diverse functions.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      9afecfbb
  8. 24 Mar, 2017 2 commits
  9. 20 Mar, 2017 5 commits
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Linux 4.11-rc3 · 97da3854
      Linus Torvalds authored
      97da3854
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      mm/swap: don't BUG_ON() due to uninitialized swap slot cache · 452b94b8
      Linus Torvalds authored
      This BUG_ON() triggered for me once at shutdown, and I don't see a
      reason for the check.  The code correctly checks whether the swap slot
      cache is usable or not, so an uninitialized swap slot cache is not
      actually problematic afaik.
      
      I've temporarily just switched the BUG_ON() to a WARN_ON_ONCE(), since
      I'm not sure why that seemingly pointless check was there.  I suspect
      the real fix is to just remove it entirely, but for now we'll warn about
      it but not bring the machine down.
      
      Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
      Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
      Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
      Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      452b94b8
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge tag 'powerpc-4.11-5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux · a07a6e41
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Pull more powerpc fixes from Michael Ellerman:
       "A couple of minor powerpc fixes for 4.11:
      
         - wire up statx() syscall
      
         - don't print a warning on memory hotplug when HPT resizing isn't
           available
      
        Thanks to: David Gibson, Chandan Rajendra"
      
      * tag 'powerpc-4.11-5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux:
        powerpc/pseries: Don't give a warning when HPT resizing isn't available
        powerpc: Wire up statx() syscall
      a07a6e41
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'parisc-4.11-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux · 4571bc5a
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Pull parisc fixes from Helge Deller:
      
       - Mikulas Patocka added support for R_PARISC_SECREL32 relocations in
         modules with CONFIG_MODVERSIONS.
      
       - Dave Anglin optimized the cache flushing for vmap ranges.
      
       - Arvind Yadav provided a fix for a potential NULL pointer dereference
         in the parisc perf code (and some code cleanups).
      
       - I wired up the new statx system call, fixed some compiler warnings
         with the access_ok() macro and fixed shutdown code to really halt a
         system at shutdown instead of crashing & rebooting.
      
      * 'parisc-4.11-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux:
        parisc: Fix system shutdown halt
        parisc: perf: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference
        parisc: Avoid compiler warnings with access_ok()
        parisc: Wire up statx system call
        parisc: Optimize flush_kernel_vmap_range and invalidate_kernel_vmap_range
        parisc: support R_PARISC_SECREL32 relocation in modules
      4571bc5a
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nab/target-pending · 8aa34172
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Pull SCSI target fixes from Nicholas Bellinger:
       "The bulk of the changes are in qla2xxx target driver code to address
        various issues found during Cavium/QLogic's internal testing (stable
        CC's included), along with a few other stability and smaller
        miscellaneous improvements.
      
        There are also a couple of different patch sets from Mike Christie,
        which have been a result of his work to use target-core ALUA logic
        together with tcm-user backend driver.
      
        Finally, a patch to address some long standing issues with
        pass-through SCSI export of TYPE_TAPE + TYPE_MEDIUM_CHANGER devices,
        which will make folks using physical (or virtual) magnetic tape happy"
      
      * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nab/target-pending: (28 commits)
        qla2xxx: Update driver version to 9.00.00.00-k
        qla2xxx: Fix delayed response to command for loop mode/direct connect.
        qla2xxx: Change scsi host lookup method.
        qla2xxx: Add DebugFS node to display Port Database
        qla2xxx: Use IOCB interface to submit non-critical MBX.
        qla2xxx: Add async new target notification
        qla2xxx: Export DIF stats via debugfs
        qla2xxx: Improve T10-DIF/PI handling in driver.
        qla2xxx: Allow relogin to proceed if remote login did not finish
        qla2xxx: Fix sess_lock & hardware_lock lock order problem.
        qla2xxx: Fix inadequate lock protection for ABTS.
        qla2xxx: Fix request queue corruption.
        qla2xxx: Fix memory leak for abts processing
        qla2xxx: Allow vref count to timeout on vport delete.
        tcmu: Convert cmd_time_out into backend device attribute
        tcmu: make cmd timeout configurable
        tcmu: add helper to check if dev was configured
        target: fix race during implicit transition work flushes
        target: allow userspace to set state to transitioning
        target: fix ALUA transition timeout handling
        ...
      8aa34172
  10. 19 Mar, 2017 15 commits