linux-toradex.git/drivers/oprofile, branch v2.6.27.3

powerpc/cell/oprofile: Avoid double vfree of profile buffer

2008-08-26T00:24:46+00:00

If an error occurs on opcontrol start, the event and per cpu buffers
are released.  If later opcontrol shutdown is called then the free
function will be called again to free buffers that no longer
exist.  This results in a kernel oops.  The following changes
prevent the call to delete buffers that don't exist.

Signed-off-by: Carl Love 
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann 
Acked-by: Robert Richter 
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras

oprofile: don't request cache line alignment for cpu_buffer

2008-05-15T02:11:12+00:00

Alignment was previously requested because cpu_buffer was an [NR_CPUS]
array, to avoid cache line sharing between CPUS.

After commit 608dfddd845da5ab6accef70154c8910529699f7 (oprofile: change
cpu_buffer from array to per_cpu variable ), we dont need to force an
alignement anymore since cpu_buffer sits in per_cpu zone.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Cc: Mike Travis 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

oprofile: change cpu_buffer from array to per_cpu variable

2008-04-28T15:58:31+00:00

Change cpu_buffer from array to per_cpu variable in oprofile functions.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Cc: Philippe Elie 
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

d_path: Make get_dcookie() use a struct path argument

2008-02-15T05:17:08+00:00

get_dcookie() is always called with a dentry and a vfsmount from a struct
path.  Make get_dcookie() take it directly as an argument.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck 
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Cc: Al Viro 
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" 
Cc: Neil Brown 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

oProfile: oops when profile_pc() returns ~0LU

2007-11-15T02:45:37+00:00

Instruction pointer returned by profile_pc() can be a random value.  This
break the assumption than we can safely set struct op_sample.eip field to a
magic value to signal to the per-cpu buffer reader side special event like
task switch ending up in a segfault in get_task_mm() when profile_pc()
return ~0UL.  Fixed by sanitizing the sampled eip and reject/log invalid
eip.

Problem reported by Sami Farin, patch tested by him.

Signed-off-by: Philippe Elie 
Tested-by: Sami Farin 
Cc: 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[CELL] oprofile: add support to OProfile for profiling CELL BE SPUs

2007-07-20T19:42:24+00:00

From: Maynard Johnson 

This patch updates the existing arch/powerpc/oprofile/op_model_cell.c
to add in the SPU profiling capabilities.  In addition, a 'cell' subdirectory
was added to arch/powerpc/oprofile to hold Cell-specific SPU profiling code.
Exports spu_set_profile_private_kref and spu_get_profile_private_kref which
are used by OProfile to store private profile information in spufs data
structures.

Also incorporated several fixes from other patches (rrn).  Check pointer
returned from kzalloc.  Eliminated unnecessary cast.  Better error
handling and cleanup in the related area.  64-bit unsigned long parameter
was being demoted to 32-bit unsigned int and eventually promoted back to
unsigned long.

Signed-off-by: Carl Love 
Signed-off-by: Maynard Johnson 
Signed-off-by: Bob Nelson 
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann 
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras

Detach sched.h from mm.h

2007-05-21T16:18:19+00:00

First thing mm.h does is including sched.h solely for can_do_mlock() inline
function which has "current" dereference inside. By dealing with can_do_mlock()
mm.h can be detached from sched.h which is good. See below, why.

This patch
a) removes unconditional inclusion of sched.h from mm.h
b) makes can_do_mlock() normal function in mm/mlock.c
c) exports can_do_mlock() to not break compilation
d) adds sched.h inclusions back to files that were getting it indirectly.
e) adds less bloated headers to some files (asm/signal.h, jiffies.h) that were
   getting them indirectly

Net result is:
a) mm.h users would get less code to open, read, preprocess, parse, ... if
   they don't need sched.h
b) sched.h stops being dependency for significant number of files:
   on x86_64 allmodconfig touching sched.h results in recompile of 4083 files,
   after patch it's only 3744 (-8.3%).

Cross-compile tested on

	all arm defconfigs, all mips defconfigs, all powerpc defconfigs,
	alpha alpha-up
	arm
	i386 i386-up i386-defconfig i386-allnoconfig
	ia64 ia64-up
	m68k
	mips
	parisc parisc-up
	powerpc powerpc-up
	s390 s390-up
	sparc sparc-up
	sparc64 sparc64-up
	um-x86_64
	x86_64 x86_64-up x86_64-defconfig x86_64-allnoconfig

as well as my two usual configs.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] oprofile: fix potential deadlock on oprofilefs_lock

2007-03-28T20:58:02+00:00

nmi_cpu_setup() is called from hardirq context and acquires oprofilefs_lock.
alloc_event_buffer() and oprofilefs_ulong_from_user() acquire this lock
without disabling irqs, which could deadlock.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] mark struct file_operations const 5

2007-02-12T17:48:45+00:00

Many struct file_operations in the kernel can be "const".  Marking them const
moves these to the .rodata section, which avoids false sharing with potential
dirty data.  In addition it'll catch accidental writes at compile time to
these shared resources.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] struct path: convert oprofile

2006-12-08T16:28:48+00:00

Signed-off-by: Josef Sipek 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds