- 14 May, 2010 11 commits
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Steven Rostedt authored
The filter_active and enable both use an int (4 bytes each) to set a single flag. We can save 4 bytes per event by combining the two into a single integer. text data bss dec hex filename 4913961 1088356 861512 6863829 68bbd5 vmlinux.orig 4894944 1018052 861512 6774508 675eec vmlinux.id 4894871 1012292 861512 6768675 674823 vmlinux.flags This gives us another 5K in savings. The modification of both the enable and filter fields are done under the event_mutex, so it is still safe to combine the two. Note: Although Mathieu gave his Acked-by, he would like it documented that the reads of flags are not protected by the mutex. The way the code works, these reads will not break anything, but will have a residual effect. Since this behavior is the same even before this patch, describing this situation is left to another patch, as this patch does not change the behavior, but just brought it to Mathieu's attention. v2: Updated the event trace self test to for this change. Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Steven Rostedt authored
Now that the trace_event structure is embedded in the ftrace_event_call structure, there is no need for the ftrace_event_call id field. The id field is the same as the trace_event type field. Removing the id and re-arranging the structure brings down the tracepoint footprint by another 5K. text data bss dec hex filename 4913961 1088356 861512 6863829 68bbd5 vmlinux.orig 4895024 1023812 861512 6780348 6775bc vmlinux.print 4894944 1018052 861512 6774508 675eec vmlinux.id Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Steven Rostedt authored
Currently, every event has its own trace_event structure. This is fine since the structure is needed anyway. But the print function structure (trace_event_functions) is now separate. Since the output of the trace event is done by the class (with the exception of events defined by DEFINE_EVENT_PRINT), it makes sense to have the class define the print functions that all events in the class can use. This makes a bigger deal with the syscall events since all syscall events use the same class. The savings here is another 30K. text data bss dec hex filename 4913961 1088356 861512 6863829 68bbd5 vmlinux.orig 4900382 1048964 861512 6810858 67ecea vmlinux.init 4900446 1049028 861512 6810986 67ed6a vmlinux.preprint 4895024 1023812 861512 6780348 6775bc vmlinux.print To accomplish this, and to let the class know what event is being printed, the event structure is embedded in the ftrace_event_call structure. This should not be an issues since the event structure was created for each event anyway. Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Steven Rostedt authored
Multiple events may use the same method to print their data. Instead of having all events have a pointer to their print funtions, the trace_event structure now points to a trace_event_functions structure that will hold the way to print ouf the event. The event itself is now passed to the print function to let the print function know what kind of event it should print. This opens the door to consolidating the way several events print their output. text data bss dec hex filename 4913961 1088356 861512 6863829 68bbd5 vmlinux.orig 4900382 1048964 861512 6810858 67ecea vmlinux.init 4900446 1049028 861512 6810986 67ed6a vmlinux.preprint This change slightly increases the size but is needed for the next change. v3: Fix the branch tracer events to handle this change. v2: Fix the new function graph tracer event calls to handle this change. Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Steven Rostedt authored
The raw_init function pointer in the event is used to initialize various kinds of events. The type of initialization needed is usually classed to the kind of event it is. Two events with the same class will always have the same initialization function, so it makes sense to move this to the class structure. Perhaps even making a special system structure would work since the initialization is the same for all events within a system. But since there's no system structure (yet), this will just move it to the class. text data bss dec hex filename 4913961 1088356 861512 6863829 68bbd5 vmlinux.orig 4900375 1053380 861512 6815267 67fe23 vmlinux.fields 4900382 1048964 861512 6810858 67ecea vmlinux.init The text grew very slightly, but this is a constant growth that happened with the changing of the C files that call the init code. The bigger savings is the data which will be saved the more events share a class. Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Steven Rostedt authored
Move the defined fields from the event to the class structure. Since the fields of the event are defined by the class they belong to, it makes sense to have the class hold the information instead of the individual events. The events of the same class would just hold duplicate information. After this change the size of the kernel dropped another 3K: text data bss dec hex filename 4913961 1088356 861512 6863829 68bbd5 vmlinux.orig 4900252 1057412 861512 6819176 680d68 vmlinux.regs 4900375 1053380 861512 6815267 67fe23 vmlinux.fields Although the text increased, this was mainly due to the C files having to adapt to the change. This is a constant increase, where new tracepoints will not increase the Text. But the big drop is in the data size (as well as needed allocations to hold the fields). This will give even more savings as more tracepoints are created. Note, if just TRACE_EVENT()s are used and not DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS() with several DEFINE_EVENT()s, then the savings will be lost. But we are pushing developers to consolidate events with DEFINE_EVENT() so this should not be an issue. The kprobes define a unique class to every new event, but are dynamic so it should not be a issue. The syscalls however have a single class but the fields for the individual events are different. The syscalls use a metadata to define the fields. I moved the fields list from the event to the metadata and added a "get_fields()" function to the class. This function is used to find the fields. For normal events and kprobes, get_fields() just returns a pointer to the fields list_head in the class. For syscall events, it returns the fields list_head in the metadata for the event. v2: Fixed the syscall fields. The syscall metadata needs a list of fields for both enter and exit. Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Steven Rostedt authored
This patch removes the register functions of TRACE_EVENT() to enable and disable tracepoints. The registering of a event is now down directly in the trace_events.c file. The tracepoint_probe_register() is now called directly. The prototypes are no longer type checked, but this should not be an issue since the tracepoints are created automatically by the macros. If a prototype is incorrect in the TRACE_EVENT() macro, then other macros will catch it. The trace_event_class structure now holds the probes to be called by the callbacks. This removes needing to have each event have a separate pointer for the probe. To handle kprobes and syscalls, since they register probes in a different manner, a "reg" field is added to the ftrace_event_class structure. If the "reg" field is assigned, then it will be called for enabling and disabling of the probe for either ftrace or perf. To let the reg function know what is happening, a new enum (trace_reg) is created that has the type of control that is needed. With this new rework, the 82 kernel events and 618 syscall events has their footprint dramatically lowered: text data bss dec hex filename 4913961 1088356 861512 6863829 68bbd5 vmlinux.orig 4914025 1088868 861512 6864405 68be15 vmlinux.class 4918492 1084612 861512 6864616 68bee8 vmlinux.tracepoint 4900252 1057412 861512 6819176 680d68 vmlinux.regs The size went from 6863829 to 6819176, that's a total of 44K in savings. With tracepoints being continuously added, this is critical that the footprint becomes minimal. v5: Added #ifdef CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS around a reference to perf specific structure in trace_events.c. v4: Fixed trace self tests to check probe because regfunc no longer exists. v3: Updated to handle void *data in beginning of probe parameters. Also added the tracepoint: check_trace_callback_type_##call(). v2: Changed the callback probes to pass void * and typecast the value within the function. Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Steven Rostedt authored
This patch adds data to be passed to tracepoint callbacks. The created functions from DECLARE_TRACE() now need a mandatory data parameter. For example: DECLARE_TRACE(mytracepoint, int value, value) Will create the register function: int register_trace_mytracepoint((void(*)(void *data, int value))probe, void *data); As the first argument, all callbacks (probes) must take a (void *data) parameter. So a callback for the above tracepoint will look like: void myprobe(void *data, int value) { } The callback may choose to ignore the data parameter. This change allows callbacks to register a private data pointer along with the function probe. void mycallback(void *data, int value); register_trace_mytracepoint(mycallback, mydata); Then the mycallback() will receive the "mydata" as the first parameter before the args. A more detailed example: DECLARE_TRACE(mytracepoint, TP_PROTO(int status), TP_ARGS(status)); /* In the C file */ DEFINE_TRACE(mytracepoint, TP_PROTO(int status), TP_ARGS(status)); [...] trace_mytracepoint(status); /* In a file registering this tracepoint */ int my_callback(void *data, int status) { struct my_struct my_data = data; [...] } [...] my_data = kmalloc(sizeof(*my_data), GFP_KERNEL); init_my_data(my_data); register_trace_mytracepoint(my_callback, my_data); The same callback can also be registered to the same tracepoint as long as the data registered is different. Note, the data must also be used to unregister the callback: unregister_trace_mytracepoint(my_callback, my_data); Because of the data parameter, tracepoints declared this way can not have no args. That is: DECLARE_TRACE(mytracepoint, TP_PROTO(void), TP_ARGS()); will cause an error. If no arguments are needed, a new macro can be used instead: DECLARE_TRACE_NOARGS(mytracepoint); Since there are no arguments, the proto and args fields are left out. This is part of a series to make the tracepoint footprint smaller: text data bss dec hex filename 4913961 1088356 861512 6863829 68bbd5 vmlinux.orig 4914025 1088868 861512 6864405 68be15 vmlinux.class 4918492 1084612 861512 6864616 68bee8 vmlinux.tracepoint Again, this patch also increases the size of the kernel, but lays the ground work for decreasing it. v5: Fixed net/core/drop_monitor.c to handle these updates. v4: Moved the DECLARE_TRACE() DECLARE_TRACE_NOARGS out of the #ifdef CONFIG_TRACE_POINTS, since the two are the same in both cases. The __DECLARE_TRACE() is what changes. Thanks to Frederic Weisbecker for pointing this out. v3: Made all register_* functions require data to be passed and all callbacks to take a void * parameter as its first argument. This makes the calling functions comply with C standards. Also added more comments to the modifications of DECLARE_TRACE(). v2: Made the DECLARE_TRACE() have the ability to pass arguments and added a new DECLARE_TRACE_NOARGS() for tracepoints that do not need any arguments. Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Mathieu Desnoyers authored
This check is meant to be used by tracepoint users which do a direct cast of callbacks to (void *) for direct registration, thus bypassing the register_trace_##name and unregister_trace_##name checks. This permits to ensure that the callback type matches the function type at the call site, but without generating any code. Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> LKML-Reference: <20100430165959.GA25605@Krystal> CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> CC: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> CC: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> CC: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> CC: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> CC: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Steven Rostedt authored
This patch creates a ftrace_event_class struct that event structs point to. This class struct will be made to hold information to modify the events. Currently the class struct only holds the events system name. This patch slightly increases the size, but this change lays the ground work of other changes to make the footprint of tracepoints smaller. With 82 standard tracepoints, and 618 system call tracepoints (two tracepoints per syscall: enter and exit): text data bss dec hex filename 4913961 1088356 861512 6863829 68bbd5 vmlinux.orig 4914025 1088868 861512 6864405 68be15 vmlinux.class This patch also cleans up some stale comments in ftrace.h. v2: Fixed missing semi-colon in macro. Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Steven Rostedt authored
Merge branch 'sched/core' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip into trace/tip/tracing/core-4
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- 11 May, 2010 1 commit
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Changli Gao authored
epoll should not touch flags in wait_queue_t. This patch introduces a new function __add_wait_queue_exclusive(), for the users, who use wait queue as a LIFO queue. __add_wait_queue_tail_exclusive() is introduced too instead of add_wait_queue_exclusive_locked(). remove_wait_queue_locked() is removed, as it is a duplicate of __remove_wait_queue(), disliked by users, and with less users. Signed-off-by: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org> Cc: <containers@lists.linux-foundation.org> LKML-Reference: <1273214006-2979-1-git-send-email-xiaosuo@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 10 May, 2010 1 commit
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Li Zefan authored
This comment should have been removed together with uids_mutex when removing user sched. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Dhaval Giani <dhaval.giani@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <4BE77C6B.5010402@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 09 May, 2010 8 commits
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Arjan van de Ven authored
Pavel Machek pointed out that not all CPUs have an efficient idle at high frequency. Specifically, older Intel and various AMD cpus would get a higher powerusage when copying files from USB. Mike Chan pointed out that the same is true for various ARM chips as well. Thomas Renninger suggested to make this a sysfs tunable with a reasonable default. This patch adds a sysfs tunable for the new behavior, and uses a very simple function to determine a reasonable default, depending on the CPU vendor/type. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: davej@redhat.com LKML-Reference: <20100509082651.46914d04@infradead.org> [ minor tidyup ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Arjan van de Ven authored
The ondemand cpufreq governor uses CPU busy time (e.g. not-idle time) as a measure for scaling the CPU frequency up or down. If the CPU is busy, the CPU frequency scales up, if it's idle, the CPU frequency scales down. Effectively, it uses the CPU busy time as proxy variable for the more nebulous "how critical is performance right now" question. This algorithm falls flat on its face in the light of workloads where you're alternatingly disk and CPU bound, such as the ever popular "git grep", but also things like startup of programs and maildir using email clients... much to the chagarin of Andrew Morton. This patch changes the ondemand algorithm to count iowait time as busy, not idle, time. As shown in the breakdown cases above, iowait is performance critical often, and by counting iowait, the proxy variable becomes a more accurate representation of the "how critical is performance" question. The problem and fix are both verified with the "perf timechar" tool. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <20100509082606.3d9f00d0@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Arjan van de Ven authored
For the ondemand cpufreq governor, it is desired that the iowait time is microaccounted in a similar way as idle time is. This patch introduces the infrastructure to account and expose this information via the get_cpu_iowait_time_us() function. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix CONFIG_NO_HZ=n build] Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: davej@redhat.com LKML-Reference: <20100509082523.284feab6@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Arjan van de Ven authored
Now that the only user of ts->idle_lastupdate is update_ts_time_stats(), the entire field can be eliminated. In update_ts_time_stats(), idle_lastupdate is first set to "now", and a few lines later, the only user is an if() statement that assigns a variable either to "now" or to ts->idle_lastupdate, which has the value of "now" at that point. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: davej@redhat.com LKML-Reference: <20100509082439.2fab0b4f@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Arjan van de Ven authored
This patch folds the updating of the last_update_time into the update_ts_time_stats() function, and updates the callers. This allows for further cleanups that are done in the next patch. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: davej@redhat.com LKML-Reference: <20100509082403.60072967@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Arjan van de Ven authored
Right now, get_cpu_idle_time_us() only reports the idle statistics upto the point the CPU entered last idle; not what is valid right now. This patch adds an update of the idle statistics to get_cpu_idle_time_us(), so that calling this function always returns statistics that are accurate at the point of the call. This includes resetting the start of the idle time for accounting purposes to avoid double accounting. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: davej@redhat.com LKML-Reference: <20100509082323.2d2f1945@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Arjan van de Ven authored
Currently, two places update the idle statistics (and more to come later in this series). This patch creates a helper function for updating these statistics. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: davej@redhat.com LKML-Reference: <20100509082245.163e67ed@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Arjan van de Ven authored
The exported function get_cpu_idle_time_us() has no comment describing it; add a kerneldoc comment Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: davej@redhat.com LKML-Reference: <20100509082208.7cb721f0@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 08 May, 2010 2 commits
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Tejun Heo authored
When !CONFIG_SMP, cpu_stop functions weren't defined at all which could lead to build failures if UP code uses cpu_stop facility. Add dummy cpu_stop implementation for UP. The waiting variants execute the work function directly with preempt disabled and stop_one_cpu_nowait() schedules a workqueue work. Makefile and ifdefs around stop_machine implementation are updated to accomodate CONFIG_SMP && !CONFIG_STOP_MACHINE case. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 07 May, 2010 3 commits
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Peter Zijlstra authored
struct rq isn't visible outside of sched.o so its near useless to expose the pointer, also there are no users of it, so remove it. Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1272997616.1642.207.camel@laptop> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar authored
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Paul E. McKenney authored
If synchronize_sched_expedited() is ever to be called from within kernel/sched.c in a !SMP PREEMPT kernel, the !SMP implementation needs a barrier(). Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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- 06 May, 2010 5 commits
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Paul E. McKenney authored
The memory barriers must be in the SMP case, not in the !SMP case. Also add a barrier after the atomic_inc() in order to ensure that other CPUs see post-synchronize_sched_expedited() actions as following the expedited grace period. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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Tejun Heo authored
The paranoid check which verifies that the cpu_stop callback is actually called on all online cpus is completely superflous. It's guaranteed by cpu_stop facility and if it didn't work as advertised other things would go horribly wrong and trying to recover using synchronize_sched() wouldn't be very meaningful. Kill the paranoid check. Removal of this feature is done as a separate step so that it can serve as a bisection point if something actually goes wrong. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com> Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>
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Tejun Heo authored
Currently migration_thread is serving three purposes - migration pusher, context to execute active_load_balance() and forced context switcher for expedited RCU synchronize_sched. All three roles are hardcoded into migration_thread() and determining which job is scheduled is slightly messy. This patch kills migration_thread and replaces all three uses with cpu_stop. The three different roles of migration_thread() are splitted into three separate cpu_stop callbacks - migration_cpu_stop(), active_load_balance_cpu_stop() and synchronize_sched_expedited_cpu_stop() - and each use case now simply asks cpu_stop to execute the callback as necessary. synchronize_sched_expedited() was implemented with private preallocated resources and custom multi-cpu queueing and waiting logic, both of which are provided by cpu_stop. synchronize_sched_expedited_count is made atomic and all other shared resources along with the mutex are dropped. synchronize_sched_expedited() also implemented a check to detect cases where not all the callback got executed on their assigned cpus and fall back to synchronize_sched(). If called with cpu hotplug blocked, cpu_stop already guarantees that and the condition cannot happen; otherwise, stop_machine() would break. However, this patch preserves the paranoid check using a cpumask to record on which cpus the stopper ran so that it can serve as a bisection point if something actually goes wrong theree. Because the internal execution state is no longer visible, rcu_expedited_torture_stats() is removed. This patch also renames cpu_stop threads to from "stopper/%d" to "migration/%d". The names of these threads ultimately don't matter and there's no reason to make unnecessary userland visible changes. With this patch applied, stop_machine() and sched now share the same resources. stop_machine() is faster without wasting any resources and sched migration users are much cleaner. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com> Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>
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Tejun Heo authored
Reimplement stop_machine using cpu_stop. As cpu stoppers are guaranteed to be available for all online cpus, stop_machine_create/destroy() are no longer necessary and removed. With resource management and synchronization handled by cpu_stop, the new implementation is much simpler. Asking the cpu_stop to execute the stop_cpu() state machine on all online cpus with cpu hotplug disabled is enough. stop_machine itself doesn't need to manage any global resources anymore, so all per-instance information is rolled into struct stop_machine_data and the mutex and all static data variables are removed. The previous implementation created and destroyed RT workqueues as necessary which made stop_machine() calls highly expensive on very large machines. According to Dimitri Sivanich, preventing the dynamic creation/destruction makes booting faster more than twice on very large machines. cpu_stop resources are preallocated for all online cpus and should have the same effect. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>
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Tejun Heo authored
Implement a simplistic per-cpu maximum priority cpu monopolization mechanism. A non-sleeping callback can be scheduled to run on one or multiple cpus with maximum priority monopolozing those cpus. This is primarily to replace and unify RT workqueue usage in stop_machine and scheduler migration_thread which currently is serving multiple purposes. Four functions are provided - stop_one_cpu(), stop_one_cpu_nowait(), stop_cpus() and try_stop_cpus(). This is to allow clean sharing of resources among stop_cpu and all the migration thread users. One stopper thread per cpu is created which is currently named "stopper/CPU". This will eventually replace the migration thread and take on its name. * This facility was originally named cpuhog and lived in separate files but Peter Zijlstra nacked the name and thus got renamed to cpu_stop and moved into stop_machine.c. * Better reporting of preemption leak as per Peter's suggestion. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>
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- 05 May, 2010 2 commits
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Thiago Farina authored
kernel/trace/trace_output.c:256:24: warning: Using plain integer as NULL pointer Signed-off-by: Thiago Farina <tfransosi@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <1264349038-1766-3-git-send-email-tfransosi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Steven Rostedt authored
When more than one header is included under CREATE_TRACE_POINTS the DECLARE_TRACE() macro is not defined back to its original meaning and the second include will fail to initialize the TRACE_EVENT() and DECLARE_TRACE() correctly. To fix this the tracepoint.h file moves the define of DECLARE_TRACE() out of the #ifdef _LINUX_TRACEPOINT_H protection (just like the define of the TRACE_EVENT()). This way the define_trace.h will undef the DECLARE_TRACE() at the end and allow new headers to start from scratch. This patch also requires fixing the include/events/napi.h It currently uses DECLARE_TRACE() and should be converted to a TRACE_EVENT() format. But I'll leave that change to the authors of that file. But since the napi.h file depends on using the CREATE_TRACE_POINTS and does not define its own DEFINE_TRACE() it must use the define_trace.h method instead. Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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- 04 May, 2010 3 commits
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Li Zefan authored
Make it clear that event-list is a comma separated list of events. Reported-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> LKML-Reference: <4B2F154C.2060503@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Borislav Petkov authored
Wrap open-coded WARN_ONCE functionality into the equivalent macro. Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> LKML-Reference: <20100502060354.GA5281@liondog.tnic> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Steven Rostedt authored
The ftrace.h file contains several functions as macros when the functions are disabled due to config options. This patch converts most of them to static inlines. There are two exceptions: register_ftrace_function() and unregister_ftrace_function() This is because their parameter "ops" must not be evaluated since code using the function is allowed to #ifdef out the creation of the parameter. This also fixes an error caused by recent changes: kernel/trace/trace_irqsoff.c: In function 'start_irqsoff_tracer': kernel/trace/trace_irqsoff.c:571: error: expected expression before 'do' Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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- 30 Apr, 2010 4 commits
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Linus Torvalds authored
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwessel/linux-2.6-kgdbLinus Torvalds authored
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwessel/linux-2.6-kgdb: kgdb: don't needlessly skip PAGE_USER test for Fsl booke
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git://oss.sgi.com/xfs/xfsLinus Torvalds authored
* 'for-linus' of git://oss.sgi.com/xfs/xfs: xfs: add a shrinker to background inode reclaim
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Wufei authored
The bypassing of this test is a leftover from 2.4 vintage kernels, and is no longer appropriate, or even used by KGDB. Currently KGDB uses probe_kernel_write() for all access to memory via the KGDB core, so it can simply be deleted. This fixes CVE-2010-1446. CC: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> CC: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> CC: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Wufei <fei.wu@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
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