- 11 Nov, 2008 8 commits
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Frederic Weisbecker authored
Impact: add infrastructure for function-return tracing Add low level support for ftrace return tracing. This plug-in stores return addresses on the thread_info structure of the current task. The index of the current return address is initialized when the task is the first one (init) and when a process forks (the child). It is not needed when a task does a sys_execve because after this syscall, it still needs to return on the kernel functions it called. Note that the code of return_to_handler has been suggested by Steven Rostedt as almost all of the ideas of improvements in this V3. For purpose of security, arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c is not traced because __switch_to() changes the current task during its execution. That could cause inconsistency in the stored return address of this function even if I didn't have any crash after testing with tracing on this function enabled. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar authored
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Steven Rostedt authored
This patch replaces most of the BUG_ONs in the ring_buffer code with RB_WARN_ON variants. It adds some more variants as needed for the replacement. This lets the buffer die nicely and still warn the user. One BUG_ON remains in the code, and that is because it detects a bad pointer passed in by the calling function, and not a bug by the ring buffer code itself. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Steven Rostedt authored
Impact: stop ftrace_special from recursion The ftrace_special is used to help debug areas of the kernel. Because of this, if it is put in certain locations, the fact that it allows recursion can become a problem if the kernel developer using does not realize that. This patch changes ftrace_special to not allow recursion into itself to make it more robust. It also changes from preempt disable interrupts disable to prevent any loss of trace entries. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar authored
Conflicts: kernel/trace/trace.c
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Ingo Molnar authored
Merge branch 'devel' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into tracing/urgent
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Steven Rostedt authored
Impact: removal of unnecessary looping The lockless part of the ring buffer allows for reentry into the code from interrupts. A timestamp is taken, a test is preformed and if it detects that an interrupt occurred that did tracing, it tries again. The problem arises if the timestamp code itself causes a trace. The detection will detect this and loop again. The difference between this and an interrupt doing tracing, is that this will fail every time, and cause an infinite loop. Currently, we test if the loop happens 1000 times, and if so, it will produce a warning and disable the ring buffer. The problem with this approach is that it makes it difficult to perform some types of tracing (tracing the timestamp code itself). Each trace entry has a delta timestamp from the previous entry. If a trace entry is reserved but and interrupt occurs and traces before the previous entry is commited, the delta timestamp for that entry will be zero. This actually makes sense in terms of tracing, because the interrupt entry happened before the preempted entry was commited, so one may consider the two happening at the same time. The order is still preserved in the buffer. With this idea, instead of trying to get a new timestamp if an interrupt made it in between the timestamp and the test, the entry could simply make the delta zero and continue. This will prevent interrupts or tracers in the timer code from causing the above loop. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
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Steven Rostedt authored
Impact: fix for bug on resize This patch addresses the bug found here: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11996 When ftrace converted to the new unified trace buffer, the resizing of the buffer was not protected as much as it was originally. If tracing is performed while the resize occurs, then the buffer can be corrupted. This patch disables all ftrace buffer modifications before a resize takes place. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
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- 10 Nov, 2008 8 commits
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6: ALSA: hda - Make the HP EliteBook 8530p use AD1884A model laptop ALSA: gusextreme: Fix build errors ALSA: hdsp: check for iobox and upload firmware during ioctl ALSA: HDSP: check for io box before uploading firmware ALSA: hda - Add another HP model (6730s) for AD1884A alsa: fix snd_BUG_on() and friends ALSA: hda - Add a quirk for MEDION MD96630 ALSA: hda - Limit the number of GPIOs show in proc
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Takashi Iwai authored
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Travis Place authored
Added a QUIRK to patch_analog.c for the HP Elitebook 8530p (IDs 0x103c:0x30e7) to use AD1884A model 'laptop' by default. Playback and Capture confirmed working. Signed-off-by: Travis Place <wishie@wishie.net> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
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Tejun Heo authored
This patch reverts the following three commits which convert libata to use block layer tagging. 43a49cbd e013e13b 2fca5ccf Although using block layer tagging is the right direction, due to the tight coupling among tag number, data structure allocation and hardware command slot allocation, libata doesn't work correctly with the current conversion. The biggest problem is guaranteeing that tag 0 is always used for non-NCQ commands. Due to the way blk-tag is implemented and how SCSI starts and finishes requests, such guarantee can't be made. I'm not sure whether this would actually break any low level driver but it doesn't look like a good idea to break such assumption given the frailty of ATA controllers. So, for the time being, keep using the old dumb in-libata qc allocation. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Jens Axobe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Ville Syrjala authored
gusextreme depends on opl3 support. Add the approriate select to Kconfig. Also remove the unnecessary hwdep select. Relevant build errors: ERROR: "snd_opl3_hwdep_new" [sound/isa/gus/snd-gusextreme.ko] undefined! ERROR: "snd_opl3_create" [sound/isa/gus/snd-gusextreme.ko] undefined! Signed-off-by: Ville Syrjala <syrjala@sci.fi> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
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Linus Torvalds authored
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Arjan van de Ven authored
It's showing up as regressions; disabling it very likely just papers over an underlying issue, but time is running out for 2.6.28, lets get back to this for 2.6.29 Fixes: #11826 and #11893 Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-fixesLinus Torvalds authored
* 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-fixes: kbuild: Fixup deb-pkg target to generate separate firmware deb
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- 09 Nov, 2008 13 commits
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Jonathan McDowell authored
The below is a simplistic fix for "make deb-pkg"; it splits the firmware out to a linux-firmware-image package and adds an (unversioned) Suggests to the linux package for this firmware. Signed-Off-By: Jonathan McDowell <noodles@earth.li> Acked-by: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
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Linus Torvalds authored
The "Exclude staging drivers" question is there so that we don't build staging drivers for allyesconfig or allnoconfig settings, but it's very irritating when you've already said "no" to staging drivers earlier. There is absolutely no point in declining twice - once you've declined the staging drivers, you're done. So make the second question depend on the first question having been answered in the affirmative. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linuxLinus Torvalds authored
* 'for-2.6.28' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux: Fix nfsd truncation of readdir results
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tipLinus Torvalds authored
* 'cpus4096' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: cpumask: introduce new API, without changing anything, v3 cpumask: new API, v2 cpumask: introduce new API, without changing anything
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Doug Nazar authored
Commit 8d7c4203 "nfsd: fix failure to set eof in readdir in some situations" introduced a bug: on a directory in an exported ext3 filesystem with dir_index unset, a READDIR will only return about 250 entries, even if the directory was larger. Bisected it back to this commit; reverting it fixes the problem. It turns out that in this case ext3 reads a block at a time, then returns from readdir, which means we can end up with buf.full==0 but with more entries in the directory still to be read. Before 8d7c4203 (but after c002a6c7 "Optimise NFS readdir hack slightly"), this would cause us to return the READDIR result immediately, but with the eof bit unset. That could cause a performance regression (because the client would need more roundtrips to the server to read the whole directory), but no loss in correctness, since the cleared eof bit caused the client to send another readdir. After 8d7c4203, the setting of the eof bit made this a correctness problem. So, move nfserr_eof into the loop and remove the buf.full check so that we loop until buf.used==0. The following seems to do the right thing and reduces the network traffic since we don't return a READDIR result until the buffer is full. Tested on an empty directory & large directory; eof is properly sent and there are no more short buffers. Signed-off-by: Doug Nazar <nazard@dragoninc.ca> Cc: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
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Rusty Russell authored
Impact: cleanup Clean up based on feedback from Andrew Morton and others: - change to inline functions instead of macros - add __init to bootmem method - add a missing debug check Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Miklos Szeredi authored
Previously I assumed that the receive queues of candidates don't change during the GC. This is only half true, nothing can be received from the queues (see comment in unix_gc()), but buffers could be added through the other half of the socket pair, which may still have file descriptors referring to it. This can result in inc_inflight_move_tail() erronously increasing the "inflight" counter for a unix socket for which dec_inflight() wasn't previously called. This in turn can trigger the "BUG_ON(total_refs < inflight_refs)" in a later garbage collection run. Fix this by only manipulating the "inflight" counter for sockets which are candidates themselves. Duplicating the file references in unix_attach_fds() is also needed to prevent a socket becoming a candidate for GC while the skb that contains it is not yet queued. Reported-by: Andrea Bittau <a.bittau@cs.ucl.ac.uk> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> CC: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Nicolas Pitre authored
Currently, all existing users of cnt32_to_63() are fine since the CPU architectures where it is used don't do read access reordering, and user mode preemption is disabled already. It is nevertheless a good idea to better elaborate usage requirements wrt preemption, and use an explicit memory barrier on SMP to avoid different CPUs accessing the counter value in the wrong order. On UP a simple compiler barrier is sufficient. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@marvell.com> Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/drzeus/mmcLinus Torvalds authored
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/drzeus/mmc: mmc: struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(), dev_set_name() mmc: increase SD write timeout for crappy cards
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Takashi Iwai authored
Use menuconfig instead of flat configs so that you can disable/enable regulator items with one selection. Also, use depends instead of reverse selections to make life easier, too. Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Liam Girdwood <lrg@slimlogic.co.uk>
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Tim Blechmann authored
currently, the error message when trying to run hdspmixer or hdspconf if the breakout box is not connected is somehow misleading, since it asks the user to upload the firmware. this patch adds a test, whether the breakout box is connected and tries to upload the firmware in the case, that it is not present, e.g. because of power failures of the breakout box. [Minor coding-style fixes by tiwai] Signed-off-by: Tim Blechmann <tim@klingt.org> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
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Tim Blechmann authored
currently the hdsp driver tries to upload the firmware, even if the io box is not connected. this patch adds a check for the io box before trying to upload the firmware. thus instead of messages complaining about the fifo status and firmware loading failure, the driver gives a message that no multiface or digiface is connected. [A minor coding-style fix by tiwai] Signed-off-by: Tim Blechmann <tim@klingt.org> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
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Michel Marti authored
Added model=laptop for another HP machine (103c:3614) with AD1884A codec. Signed-off-by: Michel Marti <mma@objectxp.com> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
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- 08 Nov, 2008 11 commits
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Kay Sievers authored
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-Off-By: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Pierre Ossman <drzeus@drzeus.cx>
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Pierre Ossman authored
It seems that some cards are slightly out of spec and occasionally will not be able to complete a write in the alloted 250 ms [1]. Incease the timeout slightly to allow even these cards to function properly. [1] http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/9/23/390Signed-off-by: Pierre Ossman <drzeus@drzeus.cx>
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Linus Torvalds authored
Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: sched: optimize sched_clock() a bit sched: improve sched_clock() performance
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Linus Torvalds authored
Merge branch 'oprofile-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'oprofile-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: oprofile: Fix p6 counter overflow check Cell OProfile: Incorrect local array size in activate spu profiling function Revert "Cell OProfile: Incorrect local array size in activate spu profiling function" oprofile: fix memory ordering Cell OProfile: Incorrect local array size in activate spu profiling function Change UTF8 chars in Kconfig help text about Oprofile AMD barcelona
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging-2.6: Staging: make usbip depend on CONFIG_NET Staging: only build the tree if we really want to
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Rafael J. Wysocki authored
Fix the __pfn_to_page(pfn) macro so that it doesn't evaluate its argument twice in the CONFIG_DISCONTIGMEM=y case, because 'pfn' may be a result of a funtion call having side effects. For example, the hibernation code applies pfn_to_page(pfn) to the result of a function returning the pfn corresponding to the next set bit in a bitmap and the current bit position is modified on each call. This leads to "interesting" failures for CONFIG_DISCONTIGMEM=y due to the current behavior of __pfn_to_page(pfn). Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Ingo Molnar authored
sched_clock() uses cycles_2_ns() needlessly - which is an irq-disabling variant of __cycles_2_ns(). Most of the time sched_clock() is called with irqs disabled already. The few places that call it with irqs enabled need to be updated. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar authored
in scheduler-intense workloads native_read_tsc() overhead accounts for 20% of the system overhead: 659567 system_call 41222.9375 686796 schedule 435.7843 718382 __switch_to 665.1685 823875 switch_mm 4526.7857 1883122 native_read_tsc 55385.9412 9761990 total 2.8468 this is large part due to the rdtsc_barrier() that is done before and after reading the TSC. But sched_clock() is not a precise clock in the GTOD sense, using such barriers is completely pointless. So remove the barriers and only use them in vget_cycles(). This improves lat_ctx performance by about 5%. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Steven Rostedt authored
Impact: change in trace output Because the trace buffers are per cpu ring buffers, the start of the trace can be confusing. If one CPU is very active at the end of the trace, its history will not go as far back as the other CPU traces. This means that output for a particular CPU may not appear for the first part of a trace. To help annotate what is happening, and to prevent any more confusion, this patch adds a line that annotates the start of a CPU buffer output. For example: automount-3495 [001] 184.596443: dnotify_parent <-vfs_write [...] automount-3495 [001] 184.596449: dput <-path_put automount-3496 [002] 184.596450: down_read_trylock <-do_page_fault [...] sshd-3497 [001] 184.597069: up_read <-do_page_fault <idle>-0 [000] 184.597074: __exit_idle <-exit_idle [...] automount-3496 [002] 184.597257: filemap_fault <-__do_fault <idle>-0 [003] 184.597261: exit_idle <-smp_apic_timer_interrupt Note, parsers of a trace output should always ignore any lines that start with a '#'. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Steven Rostedt authored
Impact: preemptoff not tested in selftest Due to the BKL not being preemptable anymore, the selftest of the preemptoff code can not be tested. It requires that it is called with preemption enabled, but since the BKL is held, that is no longer the case. This patch simply skips those tests if it detects that the context is not preemptable. The following will now show up in the tests: Testing tracer preemptoff: can not test ... force PASSED Testing tracer preemptirqsoff: can not test ... force PASSED When the BKL is removed, or it becomes preemptable once again, then the tests will be performed. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Matt Fleming authored
Impact: add alignment option for recordmcount.pl script Align the __mcount_loc sections so that architectures with strict alignment requirements need not worry about performing unaligned accesses. This fixes an issue where I was seeing unaligned accesses, which are not supported on our architecture (the results of an unaligned access are undefined). Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matthew.fleming@imgtec.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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