- 13 Aug, 2009 9 commits
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Peter Zijlstra authored
A bug in (9f498cc5: perf_counter: Full task tracing) makes profiling multi-threaded apps it go belly up. [ output as: (PID:TID):(PPID:PTID) ] # ./perf report -D | grep FORK 0x4b0 [0x18]: PERF_EVENT_FORK: (3237:3237):(3236:3236) 0xa10 [0x18]: PERF_EVENT_FORK: (3237:3238):(3236:3236) 0xa70 [0x18]: PERF_EVENT_FORK: (3237:3239):(3236:3236) 0xad0 [0x18]: PERF_EVENT_FORK: (3237:3240):(3236:3236) 0xb18 [0x18]: PERF_EVENT_FORK: (3237:3241):(3236:3236) Shows us that the test (27d028de perf report: Update for the new FORK/EXIT events) in builtin-report.c: /* * A thread clone will have the same PID for both * parent and child. */ if (thread == parent) return 0; Will clearly fail. The problem is that perf_counter_fork() reports the actual parent, instead of the cloning thread. Fixing that (with the below patch), yields: # ./perf report -D | grep FORK 0x4c8 [0x18]: PERF_EVENT_FORK: (1590:1590):(1589:1589) 0xbd8 [0x18]: PERF_EVENT_FORK: (1590:1591):(1590:1590) 0xc80 [0x18]: PERF_EVENT_FORK: (1590:1592):(1590:1590) 0x3338 [0x18]: PERF_EVENT_FORK: (1590:1593):(1590:1590) 0x66b0 [0x18]: PERF_EVENT_FORK: (1590:1594):(1590:1590) Which both makes more sense and doesn't confuse perf report anymore. Reported-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: paulus@samba.org Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> LKML-Reference: <1250172882.5241.62.camel@twins> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Peter Zijlstra authored
perf_pending_counter() is called from IRQ context and will call perf_counter_disable(), however perf_counter_disable() uses smp_call_function_single() which doesn't fancy being used with IRQs disabled due to IPI deadlocks. Fix this by making it use the local __perf_counter_disable() call and teaching the counter_sched_out() code about pending disables as well. This should cover the case where a counter migrates before the pending queue gets processed. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Corey J Ashford <cjashfor@us.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: stephane eranian <eranian@googlemail.com> LKML-Reference: <20090813103655.244097721@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Peter Zijlstra authored
Replace PERF_SAMPLE_GROUP with PERF_SAMPLE_READ and introduce PERF_FORMAT_GROUP to deal with group reads in a more generic way. This allows you to get group reads out of read() as well. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Corey J Ashford <cjashfor@us.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: stephane eranian <eranian@googlemail.com> LKML-Reference: <20090813103655.117411814@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Peter Zijlstra authored
perf_swcounter_is_counting() uses a lock, which means we cannot use swcounters from NMI or when holding that particular lock, this is unintended. The below removes the lock, this opens up race window, but not worse than the swcounters already experience due to RCU traversal of the context in perf_swcounter_ctx_event(). This also fixes the hard lockups while opening a lockdep tracepoint counter. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: stephane eranian <eranian@googlemail.com> Cc: Corey J Ashford <cjashfor@us.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <1250149915.10001.66.camel@twins> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo authored
We're interested in just those symbols/DSOs, so filter out the unresolved ones. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> LKML-Reference: <20090812211957.GE3495@ghostprotocols.net> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Frederic Weisbecker authored
While we can enable the perf sample records per tracepoint counter, we may also want to enable this option for every tracepoint counters to open, so that we don't need to add a :record flag for all of them. Add the -R, --raw-samples options for this purpose. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> LKML-Reference: <1250152039-7284-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Frederic Weisbecker authored
Add a new flag field while opening a tracepoint perf counter: -e tracepoint_subsystem:tracepoint_name:flags This is intended to be generic although for now it only supports the r[e[c[o[r[d]]]]] flag: ./perf record -e workqueue:workqueue_insertion:record ./perf record -e workqueue:workqueue_insertion:r will have the same effect: enabling the raw samples record for the given tracepoint counter. In the future, we may want to support further flags, separated by commas. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> LKML-Reference: <1250152039-7284-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar authored
Provide weak aliases for hw_perf_counter_setup_online(). This is used by the BTS patches (for v2.6.32), but it interacts with fixes so propagate this upstream. (it has no effect as of yet) Also export perf_counter_output() to architecture code. Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo authored
When /sys/kernel/debug is mounted the list can be imense, so use the pager like the other tools. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> LKML-Reference: <20090812174459.GB3495@ghostprotocols.net> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 12 Aug, 2009 6 commits
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Ingo Molnar authored
Johannes Stezenbach reported that his Pentium-M based laptop does not have the local APIC enabled by default, and hence perfcounters do not get initialized. Add a fallback for this case: allow non-sampled counters and return with an error on sampled counters. This allows 'perf stat' to work out of box - and allows 'perf top' and 'perf record' to fall back on a hrtimer based sampling method. ( Passing 'lapic' on the boot line will allow hardware sampling to occur - but if the APIC is disabled permanently by the hardware then this fallback still allows more systems to use perfcounters. ) Also decouple perfcounter support from X86_LOCAL_APIC. -v2: fix typo breaking counters on all other systems ... Reported-by: Johannes Stezenbach <js@sig21.net> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Jens Axboe authored
perf top supports a -C for setting the profile CPU, but perf record does not. This adds the same option for perf record, allowing the user to specify a specific target profile CPU. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <20090812091801.GC12579@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo authored
It is better than showing the map addr, this way at least we know that we can't get the symtabs because the DSO was deleted (system update) while an app still used such DSO. Yeah, don't do that, but if you do, you'll figure it out quicker this way. [acme@doppio linux-2.6-tip]$ perf report | head -15 # Samples: 3796 # # Overhead Command Shared Object Symbol # ........ ....... ................................................................... ...... # 23.55% pidgin /lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0.2000.4.#prelink#.Pd98lu (deleted) [.] 0x00000000038844 21.55% pidgin /lib64/libpthread-2.10.1.so.#prelink#.AFwK8Q (deleted) [.] 0x0000000000a42d 10.85% pidgin [kernel] [.] vread_hpet 7.85% pidgin /lib64/libgobject-2.0.so.0.2000.4.#prelink#.o1vpU7 (deleted) [.] 0x00000000014de8 3.35% pidgin /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so (deleted) [.] 0x0000000007a875 3.19% pidgin /lib64/libdbus-1.so.3.4.0.#prelink#.6mwgZP (deleted) [.] 0x0000000001d254 3.06% pidgin /usr/lib64/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0.1600.5.#prelink#.511hAl (deleted) [.] 0x000000002334e7 2.90% pidgin /usr/lib64/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0.1600.5.#prelink#.5qlMo1 (deleted) [.] 0x00000000037b2d 1.84% pidgin [kernel] [k] do_sys_poll 1.45% pidgin /usr/lib64/libX11.so.6.2.0.#prelink#.iR59Rx (deleted) [.] 0x0000000004c751 [acme@doppio linux-2.6-tip]$ Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Luis Claudio R. Gonçalves <lclaudio@redhat.com> Cc: Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <20090811200436.GA3478@ghostprotocols.net> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo authored
In old binutils we can't access bfd_demangle(), use cplus_demangle() just like oprofile. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Luis Claudio R. Gonçalves <lclaudio@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <20090811192211.GG18061@ghostprotocols.net> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo authored
This made it easier to find the firefox threading related bug. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <20090811192138.GE18061@ghostprotocols.net> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo authored
Noticed when trying to record events for a firefox thread. We were synthesizing both .tid and .pid with the pid passed via --pid. Fix it by reading /proc/PID/status and getting the tgid to use in .pid, .tid gets the specified "pid". Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> LKML-Reference: <20090811192200.GF18061@ghostprotocols.net> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 11 Aug, 2009 2 commits
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Ingo Molnar authored
Johannes Stezenbach reported that 'perf stat' does not count cache-miss and cache-references events on his Pentium-M based laptop. This is because we left them blank in p6_perfmon_event_map[], fill them in. Reported-by: Johannes Stezenbach <js@sig21.net> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar authored
Instead of this garbled bootup on UP Pentium-M systems: [ 0.015048] Performance Counters: [ 0.016004] no Local APIC, try rebooting with lapicno PMU driver, software counters only. Print: [ 0.015050] Performance Counters: [ 0.016004] no APIC, boot with the "lapic" boot parameter to force-enable it. [ 0.017003] no PMU driver, software counters only. Cf: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 10 Aug, 2009 19 commits
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Linus Torvalds authored
Commit d945cb9c ("pty: Rework the pty layer to use the normal buffering logic") dropped the test for 'tty->stopped' in pty_write_room(), which then causes the n_tty line discipline thing to not throttle the data properly when the tty is stopped. So instead of pausing the write due to the tty being stopped, the ldisc layer would go ahead and push it down to the pty. The pty write() routine would then refuse to take the data (because it _did_ check 'stopped'), and the data wouldn't actually be written. This whole stopped test should eventually be moved into the tty ldisc layer rather than have low-level tty drivers care about these things, but right now the fix is to just re-instate the missing pty 'stopped' handling. Reported-and-tested-by: Artur Skawina <art.08.09@gmail.com> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Linus Torvalds authored
Merge branch 'perfcounters-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'perfcounters-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (27 commits) perf_counter: Zero dead bytes from ftrace raw samples size alignment perf_counter: Subtract the buffer size field from the event record size perf_counter: Require CAP_SYS_ADMIN for raw tracepoint data perf_counter: Correct PERF_SAMPLE_RAW output perf tools: callchain: Fix bad rounding of minimum rate perf_counter tools: Fix libbfd detection for systems with libz dependency perf: "Longum est iter per praecepta, breve et efficax per exempla" perf_counter: Fix a race on perf_counter_ctx perf_counter: Fix tracepoint sampling to be part of generic sampling perf_counter: Work around gcc warning by initializing tracepoint record unconditionally perf tools: callchain: Fix sum of percentages to be 100% by displaying amount of ignored chains in fractal mode perf tools: callchain: Fix 'perf report' display to be callchain by default perf tools: callchain: Fix spurious 'perf report' warnings: ignore empty callchains perf record: Fix the -A UI for empty or non-existent perf.data perf util: Fix do_read() to fail on EOF instead of busy-looping perf list: Fix the output to not include tracepoints without an id perf_counter/powerpc: Fix oops on cpus without perf_counter hardware support perf stat: Fix tool option consistency: rename -S/--scale to -c/--scale perf report: Add debug help for the finding of symbol bugs - show the symtab origin (DSO, build-id, kernel, etc) perf report: Fix per task mult-counter stat reporting ...
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Linus Torvalds authored
Merge branch 'irq-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'irq-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: x86/irq: Fix move_irq_desc() for nodes without ram
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Linus Torvalds authored
Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: x86: Fix serialization in pit_expect_msb()
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6: PCI hotplug: SGI hotplug: do not use hotplug_slot_attr PCI hotplug: SGI hotplug: fix build failure
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Linus Torvalds authored
Wei Chong Tan reported a fast-PIT-calibration corner-case: | pit_expect_msb() is vulnerable to SMI disturbance corner case | in some platforms which causes /proc/cpuinfo to show wrong | CPU MHz value when quick_pit_calibrate() jumps to success | section. I think that the real issue isn't even an SMI - but the fact that in the very last iteration of the loop, there's no serializing instruction _after_ the last 'rdtsc'. So even in the absense of SMI's, we do have a situation where the cycle counter was read without proper serialization. The last check should be done outside the outer loop, since _inside_ the outer loop, we'll be testing that the PIT has the right MSB value has the right value in the next iteration. So only the _last_ iteration is special, because that's the one that will not check the PIT MSB value any more, and because the final 'get_cycles()' isn't serialized. In other words: - I'd like to move the PIT MSB check to after the last iteration, rather than in every iteration - I think we should comment on the fact that it's also a serializing instruction and so 'fences in' the TSC read. Here's a suggested replacement. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Reported-by: "Tan, Wei Chong" <wei.chong.tan@intel.com> Tested-by: "Tan, Wei Chong" <wei.chong.tan@intel.com> LKML-Reference: <B28277FD4E0F9247A3D55704C440A140D5D683F3@pgsmsx504.gar.corp.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Linus Torvalds authored
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6 * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6: mm_for_maps: take ->cred_guard_mutex to fix the race with exec mm_for_maps: shift down_read(mmap_sem) to the caller mm_for_maps: simplify, use ptrace_may_access()
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpcLinus Torvalds authored
* 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: powerpc/dma: pci_set_dma_mask() shouldn't fail if mask fits in RAM
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Jaswinder Singh Rajput authored
Fix the following 'make includecheck' warning: arch/mn10300/include/asm/pci.h: linux/mm.h is included more than once. Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Figo.zhang authored
clean up type-casting twice. "size_t" is typedef as "unsigned long" in 64-bit system, and "unsigned int" in 32-bit system, and the intermediate cast to 'long' is pointless. Signed-off-by: Figo.zhang <figo1802@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Ryusuke Konishi authored
This will register the ioctl range used by nilfs2 file system to the table listed in Documentation/ioctl/ioctl-number.txt. Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Frederic Weisbecker authored
After aligning the ftrace raw samples, there are dead bytes storing random data from the stack. We don't want to leak these to userspace, then zero these out. Before: 0x2de88 [0x50]: event: 9 . . ... raw event: size 80 bytes . 0000: 09 00 00 00 01 00 50 00 d0 c7 00 81 ff ff ff ff ......P........ . 0010: 68 01 00 00 68 01 00 00 2c 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 h...h...,...... . 0020: 2c 00 00 00 2b 00 01 02 68 01 00 00 68 01 00 00 ,...+...h...h.. . 0030: 6b 6f 6e 64 65 6d 61 6e 64 2f 30 00 00 00 00 00 kondemand/0.... . 0040: 68 01 00 00 40 7f 46 81 ff ff ff ff 00 10 1b 7f h...@.F........ ^ ^ ^ ^ Leak After: 0x2d318 [0x50]: event: 9 . . ... raw event: size 80 bytes . 0000: 09 00 00 00 01 00 50 00 d0 c7 00 81 ff ff ff ff ......P........ . 0010: 68 01 00 00 68 01 00 00 68 14 00 00 00 00 00 00 h...h...h...... . 0020: 2c 00 00 00 2b 00 01 02 68 01 00 00 68 01 00 00 ,...+...h...h.. . 0030: 6b 6f 6e 64 65 6d 61 6e 64 2f 30 00 00 00 00 00 kondemand/0.... . 0040: 68 01 00 00 a0 80 46 81 ff ff ff ff 00 00 00 00 h.....F........ ^ ^ ^ ^ Fixed Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> LKML-Reference: <1249915116-5210-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
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Frederic Weisbecker authored
We compute the perf raw sample size by aligning the raw ftrace event size plus the buffer size field itself. We do that instead of aligning only the perf raw sample size, so that we might economize some in some cases. But this buffer size field is not stored in the perf raw sample, we must then substract its size from the buffer once we computed the alignment unless we may get a useless u32 field in the buffer. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> LKML-Reference: <20090810141129.GA5124@nowhere> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Oleg Nesterov authored
The problem is minor, but without ->cred_guard_mutex held we can race with exec() and get the new ->mm but check old creds. Now we do not need to re-check task->mm after ptrace_may_access(), it can't be changed to the new mm under us. Strictly speaking, this also fixes another very minor problem. Unless security check fails or the task exits mm_for_maps() should never return NULL, the caller should get either old or new ->mm. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
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Oleg Nesterov authored
mm_for_maps() takes ->mmap_sem after security checks, this looks strange and obfuscates the locking rules. Move this lock to its single caller, m_start(). Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
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Oleg Nesterov authored
It would be nice to kill __ptrace_may_access(). It requires task_lock(), but this lock is only needed to read mm->flags in the middle. Convert mm_for_maps() to use ptrace_may_access(), this also simplifies the code a little bit. Also, we do not need to take ->mmap_sem in advance. In fact I think mm_for_maps() should not play with ->mmap_sem at all, the caller should take this lock. With or without this patch, without ->cred_guard_mutex held we can race with exec() and get the new ->mm but check old creds. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
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Peter Zijlstra authored
Raw tracepoint data contains various kernel internals and data from other users, so restrict this to CAP_SYS_ADMIN. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> LKML-Reference: <1249896452.17467.75.camel@twins> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Peter Zijlstra authored
PERF_SAMPLE_* output switches should unconditionally output the correct format, as they are the only way to unambiguously parse the PERF_EVENT_SAMPLE data. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> LKML-Reference: <1249896447.17467.74.camel@twins> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt authored
On an iMac G5, the b43 driver is failing to initialise because trying to set the dma mask to 30-bit fails. Even though there's only 512MiB of RAM in the machine anyway: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=514787 We should probably let it succeed if the available RAM in the system doesn't exceed the requested limit. Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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- 09 Aug, 2009 4 commits
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git://git.infradead.org/ubi-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* 'for-linus' of git://git.infradead.org/ubi-2.6: UBI: compatible fallback in absense of sequence numbers UBI: fix double free on error path
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvmLinus Torvalds authored
* 'kvm-updates/2.6.31' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: KVM: Avoid redelivery of edge interrupt before next edge KVM: MMU: limit rmap chain length KVM: ia64: fix build failures due to ia64/unsigned long mismatches KVM: Make KVM_HPAGES_PER_HPAGE unsigned long to avoid build error on powerpc KVM: fix ack not being delivered when msi present KVM: s390: fix wait_queue handling KVM: VMX: Fix locking imbalance on emulation failure KVM: VMX: Fix locking order in handle_invalid_guest_state KVM: MMU: handle n_free_mmu_pages > n_alloc_mmu_pages in kvm_mmu_change_mmu_pages KVM: SVM: force new asid on vcpu migration KVM: x86: verify MTRR/PAT validity KVM: PIT: fix kpit_elapsed division by zero KVM: Fix KVM_GET_MSR_INDEX_LIST
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* 'drm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6: drm/i915: silence vblank warnings drm: silence pointless vblank warning. drm: When adding probed modes, preserve duplicate mode types
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Linus Torvalds authored
Merge branch 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: posix_cpu_timers_exit_group(): Do not use thread_group_cputimer()
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