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<title>linux-toradex.git/include/linux/perf_event.h, branch v5.10-rc3</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>perf/core: Pull pmu::sched_task() into perf_event_context_sched_out()</title>
<updated>2020-09-10T09:19:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kan Liang</name>
<email>kan.liang@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-08-21T19:57:53+00:00</published>
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The pmu::sched_task() is a context switch callback. It passes the
cpuctx-&gt;task_ctx as a parameter to the lower code. To find the
cpuctx-&gt;task_ctx, the current code iterates a cpuctx list.
The same context will iterated in perf_event_context_sched_out() soon.
Share the cpuctx-&gt;task_ctx can avoid the unnecessary iteration of the
cpuctx list.

The pmu::sched_task() is also required for the optimization case for
equivalent contexts.

The task_ctx_sched_out() will eventually disable and reenable the PMU
when schedule out events. Add perf_pmu_disable() and perf_pmu_enable()
around task_ctx_sched_out() don't break anything.

Drop the cpuctx-&gt;ctx.lock for the pmu::sched_task(). The lock is for
per-CPU context, which is not necessary for the per-task context
schedule.

No one uses sched_cb_entry, perf_sched_cb_usages, sched_cb_list, and
perf_pmu_sched_task() any more.

Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang &lt;kan.liang@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200821195754.20159-2-kan.liang@linux.intel.com
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The pmu::sched_task() is a context switch callback. It passes the
cpuctx-&gt;task_ctx as a parameter to the lower code. To find the
cpuctx-&gt;task_ctx, the current code iterates a cpuctx list.
The same context will iterated in perf_event_context_sched_out() soon.
Share the cpuctx-&gt;task_ctx can avoid the unnecessary iteration of the
cpuctx list.

The pmu::sched_task() is also required for the optimization case for
equivalent contexts.

The task_ctx_sched_out() will eventually disable and reenable the PMU
when schedule out events. Add perf_pmu_disable() and perf_pmu_enable()
around task_ctx_sched_out() don't break anything.

Drop the cpuctx-&gt;ctx.lock for the pmu::sched_task(). The lock is for
per-CPU context, which is not necessary for the per-task context
schedule.

No one uses sched_cb_entry, perf_sched_cb_usages, sched_cb_list, and
perf_pmu_sched_task() any more.

Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang &lt;kan.liang@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200821195754.20159-2-kan.liang@linux.intel.com
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<entry>
<title>perf/x86/intel: Support per-thread RDPMC TopDown metrics</title>
<updated>2020-08-18T14:34:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kan Liang</name>
<email>kan.liang@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-07-23T17:11:14+00:00</published>
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Starts from Ice Lake, the TopDown metrics are directly available as
fixed counters and do not require generic counters. Also, the TopDown
metrics can be collected per thread. Extend the RDPMC usage to support
per-thread TopDown metrics.

The RDPMC index of the PERF_METRICS will be output if RDPMC users ask
for the RDPMC index of the metrics events.

To support per thread RDPMC TopDown, the metrics and slots counters have
to be saved/restored during the context switching.

The last_period and period_left are not used in the counting mode. Use
the fields for saved_metric and saved_slots.

Signed-off-by: Kan Liang &lt;kan.liang@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200723171117.9918-12-kan.liang@linux.intel.com
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Starts from Ice Lake, the TopDown metrics are directly available as
fixed counters and do not require generic counters. Also, the TopDown
metrics can be collected per thread. Extend the RDPMC usage to support
per-thread TopDown metrics.

The RDPMC index of the PERF_METRICS will be output if RDPMC users ask
for the RDPMC index of the metrics events.

To support per thread RDPMC TopDown, the metrics and slots counters have
to be saved/restored during the context switching.

The last_period and period_left are not used in the counting mode. Use
the fields for saved_metric and saved_slots.

Signed-off-by: Kan Liang &lt;kan.liang@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200723171117.9918-12-kan.liang@linux.intel.com
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf/core: Add a new PERF_EV_CAP_SIBLING event capability</title>
<updated>2020-08-18T14:34:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kan Liang</name>
<email>kan.liang@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-07-23T17:11:10+00:00</published>
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Current perf assumes that events in a group are independent. Close an
event doesn't impact the value of the other events in the same group.
If the closed event is a member, after the event closure, other events
are still running like a group. If the closed event is a leader, other
events are running as singleton events.

Add PERF_EV_CAP_SIBLING to allow events to indicate they require being
part of a group, and when the leader dies they cannot exist
independently.

Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang &lt;kan.liang@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200723171117.9918-8-kan.liang@linux.intel.com
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Current perf assumes that events in a group are independent. Close an
event doesn't impact the value of the other events in the same group.
If the closed event is a member, after the event closure, other events
are still running like a group. If the closed event is a leader, other
events are running as singleton events.

Add PERF_EV_CAP_SIBLING to allow events to indicate they require being
part of a group, and when the leader dies they cannot exist
independently.

Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kan Liang &lt;kan.liang@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200723171117.9918-8-kan.liang@linux.intel.com
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next</title>
<updated>2020-08-06T03:13:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-08-06T03:13:21+00:00</published>
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Pull networking updates from David Miller:

 1) Support 6Ghz band in ath11k driver, from Rajkumar Manoharan.

 2) Support UDP segmentation in code TSO code, from Eric Dumazet.

 3) Allow flashing different flash images in cxgb4 driver, from Vishal
    Kulkarni.

 4) Add drop frames counter and flow status to tc flower offloading,
    from Po Liu.

 5) Support n-tuple filters in cxgb4, from Vishal Kulkarni.

 6) Various new indirect call avoidance, from Eric Dumazet and Brian
    Vazquez.

 7) Fix BPF verifier failures on 32-bit pointer arithmetic, from
    Yonghong Song.

 8) Support querying and setting hardware address of a port function via
    devlink, use this in mlx5, from Parav Pandit.

 9) Support hw ipsec offload on bonding slaves, from Jarod Wilson.

10) Switch qca8k driver over to phylink, from Jonathan McDowell.

11) In bpftool, show list of processes holding BPF FD references to
    maps, programs, links, and btf objects. From Andrii Nakryiko.

12) Several conversions over to generic power management, from Vaibhav
    Gupta.

13) Add support for SO_KEEPALIVE et al. to bpf_setsockopt(), from Dmitry
    Yakunin.

14) Various https url conversions, from Alexander A. Klimov.

15) Timestamping and PHC support for mscc PHY driver, from Antoine
    Tenart.

16) Support bpf iterating over tcp and udp sockets, from Yonghong Song.

17) Support 5GBASE-T i40e NICs, from Aleksandr Loktionov.

18) Add kTLS RX HW offload support to mlx5e, from Tariq Toukan.

19) Fix the -&gt;ndo_start_xmit() return type to be netdev_tx_t in several
    drivers. From Luc Van Oostenryck.

20) XDP support for xen-netfront, from Denis Kirjanov.

21) Support receive buffer autotuning in MPTCP, from Florian Westphal.

22) Support EF100 chip in sfc driver, from Edward Cree.

23) Add XDP support to mvpp2 driver, from Matteo Croce.

24) Support MPTCP in sock_diag, from Paolo Abeni.

25) Commonize UDP tunnel offloading code by creating udp_tunnel_nic
    infrastructure, from Jakub Kicinski.

26) Several pci_ --&gt; dma_ API conversions, from Christophe JAILLET.

27) Add FLOW_ACTION_POLICE support to mlxsw, from Ido Schimmel.

28) Add SK_LOOKUP bpf program type, from Jakub Sitnicki.

29) Refactor a lot of networking socket option handling code in order to
    avoid set_fs() calls, from Christoph Hellwig.

30) Add rfc4884 support to icmp code, from Willem de Bruijn.

31) Support TBF offload in dpaa2-eth driver, from Ioana Ciornei.

32) Support XDP_REDIRECT in qede driver, from Alexander Lobakin.

33) Support PCI relaxed ordering in mlx5 driver, from Aya Levin.

34) Support TCP syncookies in MPTCP, from Flowian Westphal.

35) Fix several tricky cases of PMTU handling wrt. briding, from Stefano
    Brivio.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (2056 commits)
  net: thunderx: initialize VF's mailbox mutex before first usage
  usb: hso: remove bogus check for EINPROGRESS
  usb: hso: no complaint about kmalloc failure
  hso: fix bailout in error case of probe
  ip_tunnel_core: Fix build for archs without _HAVE_ARCH_IPV6_CSUM
  selftests/net: relax cpu affinity requirement in msg_zerocopy test
  mptcp: be careful on subflow creation
  selftests: rtnetlink: make kci_test_encap() return sub-test result
  selftests: rtnetlink: correct the final return value for the test
  net: dsa: sja1105: use detected device id instead of DT one on mismatch
  tipc: set ub-&gt;ifindex for local ipv6 address
  ipv6: add ipv6_dev_find()
  net: openvswitch: silence suspicious RCU usage warning
  Revert "vxlan: fix tos value before xmit"
  ptp: only allow phase values lower than 1 period
  farsync: switch from 'pci_' to 'dma_' API
  wan: wanxl: switch from 'pci_' to 'dma_' API
  hv_netvsc: do not use VF device if link is down
  dpaa2-eth: Fix passing zero to 'PTR_ERR' warning
  net: macb: Properly handle phylink on at91sam9x
  ...
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Pull networking updates from David Miller:

 1) Support 6Ghz band in ath11k driver, from Rajkumar Manoharan.

 2) Support UDP segmentation in code TSO code, from Eric Dumazet.

 3) Allow flashing different flash images in cxgb4 driver, from Vishal
    Kulkarni.

 4) Add drop frames counter and flow status to tc flower offloading,
    from Po Liu.

 5) Support n-tuple filters in cxgb4, from Vishal Kulkarni.

 6) Various new indirect call avoidance, from Eric Dumazet and Brian
    Vazquez.

 7) Fix BPF verifier failures on 32-bit pointer arithmetic, from
    Yonghong Song.

 8) Support querying and setting hardware address of a port function via
    devlink, use this in mlx5, from Parav Pandit.

 9) Support hw ipsec offload on bonding slaves, from Jarod Wilson.

10) Switch qca8k driver over to phylink, from Jonathan McDowell.

11) In bpftool, show list of processes holding BPF FD references to
    maps, programs, links, and btf objects. From Andrii Nakryiko.

12) Several conversions over to generic power management, from Vaibhav
    Gupta.

13) Add support for SO_KEEPALIVE et al. to bpf_setsockopt(), from Dmitry
    Yakunin.

14) Various https url conversions, from Alexander A. Klimov.

15) Timestamping and PHC support for mscc PHY driver, from Antoine
    Tenart.

16) Support bpf iterating over tcp and udp sockets, from Yonghong Song.

17) Support 5GBASE-T i40e NICs, from Aleksandr Loktionov.

18) Add kTLS RX HW offload support to mlx5e, from Tariq Toukan.

19) Fix the -&gt;ndo_start_xmit() return type to be netdev_tx_t in several
    drivers. From Luc Van Oostenryck.

20) XDP support for xen-netfront, from Denis Kirjanov.

21) Support receive buffer autotuning in MPTCP, from Florian Westphal.

22) Support EF100 chip in sfc driver, from Edward Cree.

23) Add XDP support to mvpp2 driver, from Matteo Croce.

24) Support MPTCP in sock_diag, from Paolo Abeni.

25) Commonize UDP tunnel offloading code by creating udp_tunnel_nic
    infrastructure, from Jakub Kicinski.

26) Several pci_ --&gt; dma_ API conversions, from Christophe JAILLET.

27) Add FLOW_ACTION_POLICE support to mlxsw, from Ido Schimmel.

28) Add SK_LOOKUP bpf program type, from Jakub Sitnicki.

29) Refactor a lot of networking socket option handling code in order to
    avoid set_fs() calls, from Christoph Hellwig.

30) Add rfc4884 support to icmp code, from Willem de Bruijn.

31) Support TBF offload in dpaa2-eth driver, from Ioana Ciornei.

32) Support XDP_REDIRECT in qede driver, from Alexander Lobakin.

33) Support PCI relaxed ordering in mlx5 driver, from Aya Levin.

34) Support TCP syncookies in MPTCP, from Flowian Westphal.

35) Fix several tricky cases of PMTU handling wrt. briding, from Stefano
    Brivio.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (2056 commits)
  net: thunderx: initialize VF's mailbox mutex before first usage
  usb: hso: remove bogus check for EINPROGRESS
  usb: hso: no complaint about kmalloc failure
  hso: fix bailout in error case of probe
  ip_tunnel_core: Fix build for archs without _HAVE_ARCH_IPV6_CSUM
  selftests/net: relax cpu affinity requirement in msg_zerocopy test
  mptcp: be careful on subflow creation
  selftests: rtnetlink: make kci_test_encap() return sub-test result
  selftests: rtnetlink: correct the final return value for the test
  net: dsa: sja1105: use detected device id instead of DT one on mismatch
  tipc: set ub-&gt;ifindex for local ipv6 address
  ipv6: add ipv6_dev_find()
  net: openvswitch: silence suspicious RCU usage warning
  Revert "vxlan: fix tos value before xmit"
  ptp: only allow phase values lower than 1 period
  farsync: switch from 'pci_' to 'dma_' API
  wan: wanxl: switch from 'pci_' to 'dma_' API
  hv_netvsc: do not use VF device if link is down
  dpaa2-eth: Fix passing zero to 'PTR_ERR' warning
  net: macb: Properly handle phylink on at91sam9x
  ...
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<entry>
<title>perf: &lt;linux/perf_event.h&gt;: drop a duplicated word</title>
<updated>2020-07-22T08:22:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Randy Dunlap</name>
<email>rdunlap@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-07-19T00:30:27+00:00</published>
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Drop the repeated word "the" in a comment.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200719003027.20798-1-rdunlap@infradead.org
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Drop the repeated word "the" in a comment.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200719003027.20798-1-rdunlap@infradead.org
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf/x86: Remove task_ctx_size</title>
<updated>2020-07-08T09:38:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kan Liang</name>
<email>kan.liang@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-07-03T12:49:24+00:00</published>
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A new kmem_cache method has replaced the kzalloc() to allocate the PMU
specific data. The task_ctx_size is not required anymore.

Signed-off-by: Kan Liang &lt;kan.liang@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1593780569-62993-19-git-send-email-kan.liang@linux.intel.com
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A new kmem_cache method has replaced the kzalloc() to allocate the PMU
specific data. The task_ctx_size is not required anymore.

Signed-off-by: Kan Liang &lt;kan.liang@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1593780569-62993-19-git-send-email-kan.liang@linux.intel.com
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<entry>
<title>perf/core: Use kmem_cache to allocate the PMU specific data</title>
<updated>2020-07-08T09:38:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kan Liang</name>
<email>kan.liang@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-07-03T12:49:22+00:00</published>
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Currently, the PMU specific data task_ctx_data is allocated by the
function kzalloc() in the perf generic code. When there is no specific
alignment requirement for the task_ctx_data, the method works well for
now. However, there will be a problem once a specific alignment
requirement is introduced in future features, e.g., the Architecture LBR
XSAVE feature requires 64-byte alignment. If the specific alignment
requirement is not fulfilled, the XSAVE family of instructions will fail
to save/restore the xstate to/from the task_ctx_data.

The function kzalloc() itself only guarantees a natural alignment. A
new method to allocate the task_ctx_data has to be introduced, which
has to meet the requirements as below:
- must be a generic method can be used by different architectures,
  because the allocation of the task_ctx_data is implemented in the
  perf generic code;
- must be an alignment-guarantee method (The alignment requirement is
  not changed after the boot);
- must be able to allocate/free a buffer (smaller than a page size)
  dynamically;
- should not cause extra CPU overhead or space overhead.

Several options were considered as below:
- One option is to allocate a larger buffer for task_ctx_data. E.g.,
    ptr = kmalloc(size + alignment, GFP_KERNEL);
    ptr &amp;= ~(alignment - 1);
  This option causes space overhead.
- Another option is to allocate the task_ctx_data in the PMU specific
  code. To do so, several function pointers have to be added. As a
  result, both the generic structure and the PMU specific structure
  will become bigger. Besides, extra function calls are added when
  allocating/freeing the buffer. This option will increase both the
  space overhead and CPU overhead.
- The third option is to use a kmem_cache to allocate a buffer for the
  task_ctx_data. The kmem_cache can be created with a specific alignment
  requirement by the PMU at boot time. A new pointer for kmem_cache has
  to be added in the generic struct pmu, which would be used to
  dynamically allocate a buffer for the task_ctx_data at run time.
  Although the new pointer is added to the struct pmu, the existing
  variable task_ctx_size is not required anymore. The size of the
  generic structure is kept the same.

The third option which meets all the aforementioned requirements is used
to replace kzalloc() for the PMU specific data allocation. A later patch
will remove the kzalloc() method and the related variables.

Signed-off-by: Kan Liang &lt;kan.liang@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1593780569-62993-17-git-send-email-kan.liang@linux.intel.com
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Currently, the PMU specific data task_ctx_data is allocated by the
function kzalloc() in the perf generic code. When there is no specific
alignment requirement for the task_ctx_data, the method works well for
now. However, there will be a problem once a specific alignment
requirement is introduced in future features, e.g., the Architecture LBR
XSAVE feature requires 64-byte alignment. If the specific alignment
requirement is not fulfilled, the XSAVE family of instructions will fail
to save/restore the xstate to/from the task_ctx_data.

The function kzalloc() itself only guarantees a natural alignment. A
new method to allocate the task_ctx_data has to be introduced, which
has to meet the requirements as below:
- must be a generic method can be used by different architectures,
  because the allocation of the task_ctx_data is implemented in the
  perf generic code;
- must be an alignment-guarantee method (The alignment requirement is
  not changed after the boot);
- must be able to allocate/free a buffer (smaller than a page size)
  dynamically;
- should not cause extra CPU overhead or space overhead.

Several options were considered as below:
- One option is to allocate a larger buffer for task_ctx_data. E.g.,
    ptr = kmalloc(size + alignment, GFP_KERNEL);
    ptr &amp;= ~(alignment - 1);
  This option causes space overhead.
- Another option is to allocate the task_ctx_data in the PMU specific
  code. To do so, several function pointers have to be added. As a
  result, both the generic structure and the PMU specific structure
  will become bigger. Besides, extra function calls are added when
  allocating/freeing the buffer. This option will increase both the
  space overhead and CPU overhead.
- The third option is to use a kmem_cache to allocate a buffer for the
  task_ctx_data. The kmem_cache can be created with a specific alignment
  requirement by the PMU at boot time. A new pointer for kmem_cache has
  to be added in the generic struct pmu, which would be used to
  dynamically allocate a buffer for the task_ctx_data at run time.
  Although the new pointer is added to the struct pmu, the existing
  variable task_ctx_size is not required anymore. The size of the
  generic structure is kept the same.

The third option which meets all the aforementioned requirements is used
to replace kzalloc() for the PMU specific data allocation. A later patch
will remove the kzalloc() method and the related variables.

Signed-off-by: Kan Liang &lt;kan.liang@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1593780569-62993-17-git-send-email-kan.liang@linux.intel.com
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf: Expose get/put_callchain_entry()</title>
<updated>2020-07-01T15:22:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Song Liu</name>
<email>songliubraving@fb.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-06-30T06:28:43+00:00</published>
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Sanitize and expose get/put_callchain_entry(). This would be used by bpf
stack map.

Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Song Liu &lt;songliubraving@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andriin@fb.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200630062846.664389-2-songliubraving@fb.com
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Sanitize and expose get/put_callchain_entry(). This would be used by bpf
stack map.

Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Song Liu &lt;songliubraving@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andriin@fb.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200630062846.664389-2-songliubraving@fb.com
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf: Add perf text poke event</title>
<updated>2020-06-15T12:09:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Adrian Hunter</name>
<email>adrian.hunter@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-05-12T12:19:08+00:00</published>
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Record (single instruction) changes to the kernel text (i.e.
self-modifying code) in order to support tracers like Intel PT and
ARM CoreSight.

A copy of the running kernel code is needed as a reference point (e.g.
from /proc/kcore). The text poke event records the old bytes and the
new bytes so that the event can be processed forwards or backwards.

The basic problem is recording the modified instruction in an
unambiguous manner given SMP instruction cache (in)coherence. That is,
when modifying an instruction concurrently any solution with one or
multiple timestamps is not sufficient:

	CPU0				CPU1
 0
 1	write insn A
 2					execute insn A
 3	sync-I$
 4

Due to I$, CPU1 might execute either the old or new A. No matter where
we record tracepoints on CPU0, one simply cannot tell what CPU1 will
have observed, except that at 0 it must be the old one and at 4 it
must be the new one.

To solve this, take inspiration from x86 text poking, which has to
solve this exact problem due to variable length instruction encoding
and I-fetch windows.

 1) overwrite the instruction with a breakpoint and sync I$

This guarantees that that code flow will never hit the target
instruction anymore, on any CPU (or rather, it will cause an
exception).

 2) issue the TEXT_POKE event

 3) overwrite the breakpoint with the new instruction and sync I$

Now we know that any execution after the TEXT_POKE event will either
observe the breakpoint (and hit the exception) or the new instruction.

So by guarding the TEXT_POKE event with an exception on either side;
we can now tell, without doubt, which instruction another CPU will
have observed.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter &lt;adrian.hunter@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200512121922.8997-2-adrian.hunter@intel.com
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Record (single instruction) changes to the kernel text (i.e.
self-modifying code) in order to support tracers like Intel PT and
ARM CoreSight.

A copy of the running kernel code is needed as a reference point (e.g.
from /proc/kcore). The text poke event records the old bytes and the
new bytes so that the event can be processed forwards or backwards.

The basic problem is recording the modified instruction in an
unambiguous manner given SMP instruction cache (in)coherence. That is,
when modifying an instruction concurrently any solution with one or
multiple timestamps is not sufficient:

	CPU0				CPU1
 0
 1	write insn A
 2					execute insn A
 3	sync-I$
 4

Due to I$, CPU1 might execute either the old or new A. No matter where
we record tracepoints on CPU0, one simply cannot tell what CPU1 will
have observed, except that at 0 it must be the old one and at 4 it
must be the new one.

To solve this, take inspiration from x86 text poking, which has to
solve this exact problem due to variable length instruction encoding
and I-fetch windows.

 1) overwrite the instruction with a breakpoint and sync I$

This guarantees that that code flow will never hit the target
instruction anymore, on any CPU (or rather, it will cause an
exception).

 2) issue the TEXT_POKE event

 3) overwrite the breakpoint with the new instruction and sync I$

Now we know that any execution after the TEXT_POKE event will either
observe the breakpoint (and hit the exception) or the new instruction.

So by guarding the TEXT_POKE event with an exception on either side;
we can now tell, without doubt, which instruction another CPU will
have observed.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter &lt;adrian.hunter@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200512121922.8997-2-adrian.hunter@intel.com
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next</title>
<updated>2020-06-03T23:27:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-06-03T23:27:18+00:00</published>
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Pull networking updates from David Miller:

 1) Allow setting bluetooth L2CAP modes via socket option, from Luiz
    Augusto von Dentz.

 2) Add GSO partial support to igc, from Sasha Neftin.

 3) Several cleanups and improvements to r8169 from Heiner Kallweit.

 4) Add IF_OPER_TESTING link state and use it when ethtool triggers a
    device self-test. From Andrew Lunn.

 5) Start moving away from custom driver versions, use the globally
    defined kernel version instead, from Leon Romanovsky.

 6) Support GRO vis gro_cells in DSA layer, from Alexander Lobakin.

 7) Allow hard IRQ deferral during NAPI, from Eric Dumazet.

 8) Add sriov and vf support to hinic, from Luo bin.

 9) Support Media Redundancy Protocol (MRP) in the bridging code, from
    Horatiu Vultur.

10) Support netmap in the nft_nat code, from Pablo Neira Ayuso.

11) Allow UDPv6 encapsulation of ESP in the ipsec code, from Sabrina
    Dubroca. Also add ipv6 support for espintcp.

12) Lots of ReST conversions of the networking documentation, from Mauro
    Carvalho Chehab.

13) Support configuration of ethtool rxnfc flows in bcmgenet driver,
    from Doug Berger.

14) Allow to dump cgroup id and filter by it in inet_diag code, from
    Dmitry Yakunin.

15) Add infrastructure to export netlink attribute policies to
    userspace, from Johannes Berg.

16) Several optimizations to sch_fq scheduler, from Eric Dumazet.

17) Fallback to the default qdisc if qdisc init fails because otherwise
    a packet scheduler init failure will make a device inoperative. From
    Jesper Dangaard Brouer.

18) Several RISCV bpf jit optimizations, from Luke Nelson.

19) Correct the return type of the -&gt;ndo_start_xmit() method in several
    drivers, it's netdev_tx_t but many drivers were using
    'int'. From Yunjian Wang.

20) Add an ethtool interface for PHY master/slave config, from Oleksij
    Rempel.

21) Add BPF iterators, from Yonghang Song.

22) Add cable test infrastructure, including ethool interfaces, from
    Andrew Lunn. Marvell PHY driver is the first to support this
    facility.

23) Remove zero-length arrays all over, from Gustavo A. R. Silva.

24) Calculate and maintain an explicit frame size in XDP, from Jesper
    Dangaard Brouer.

25) Add CAP_BPF, from Alexei Starovoitov.

26) Support terse dumps in the packet scheduler, from Vlad Buslov.

27) Support XDP_TX bulking in dpaa2 driver, from Ioana Ciornei.

28) Add devm_register_netdev(), from Bartosz Golaszewski.

29) Minimize qdisc resets, from Cong Wang.

30) Get rid of kernel_getsockopt and kernel_setsockopt in order to
    eliminate set_fs/get_fs calls. From Christoph Hellwig.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (2517 commits)
  selftests: net: ip_defrag: ignore EPERM
  net_failover: fixed rollback in net_failover_open()
  Revert "tipc: Fix potential tipc_aead refcnt leak in tipc_crypto_rcv"
  Revert "tipc: Fix potential tipc_node refcnt leak in tipc_rcv"
  vmxnet3: allow rx flow hash ops only when rss is enabled
  hinic: add set_channels ethtool_ops support
  selftests/bpf: Add a default $(CXX) value
  tools/bpf: Don't use $(COMPILE.c)
  bpf, selftests: Use bpf_probe_read_kernel
  s390/bpf: Use bcr 0,%0 as tail call nop filler
  s390/bpf: Maintain 8-byte stack alignment
  selftests/bpf: Fix verifier test
  selftests/bpf: Fix sample_cnt shared between two threads
  bpf, selftests: Adapt cls_redirect to call csum_level helper
  bpf: Add csum_level helper for fixing up csum levels
  bpf: Fix up bpf_skb_adjust_room helper's skb csum setting
  sfc: add missing annotation for efx_ef10_try_update_nic_stats_vf()
  crypto/chtls: IPv6 support for inline TLS
  Crypto/chcr: Fixes a coccinile check error
  Crypto/chcr: Fixes compilations warnings
  ...
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Pull networking updates from David Miller:

 1) Allow setting bluetooth L2CAP modes via socket option, from Luiz
    Augusto von Dentz.

 2) Add GSO partial support to igc, from Sasha Neftin.

 3) Several cleanups and improvements to r8169 from Heiner Kallweit.

 4) Add IF_OPER_TESTING link state and use it when ethtool triggers a
    device self-test. From Andrew Lunn.

 5) Start moving away from custom driver versions, use the globally
    defined kernel version instead, from Leon Romanovsky.

 6) Support GRO vis gro_cells in DSA layer, from Alexander Lobakin.

 7) Allow hard IRQ deferral during NAPI, from Eric Dumazet.

 8) Add sriov and vf support to hinic, from Luo bin.

 9) Support Media Redundancy Protocol (MRP) in the bridging code, from
    Horatiu Vultur.

10) Support netmap in the nft_nat code, from Pablo Neira Ayuso.

11) Allow UDPv6 encapsulation of ESP in the ipsec code, from Sabrina
    Dubroca. Also add ipv6 support for espintcp.

12) Lots of ReST conversions of the networking documentation, from Mauro
    Carvalho Chehab.

13) Support configuration of ethtool rxnfc flows in bcmgenet driver,
    from Doug Berger.

14) Allow to dump cgroup id and filter by it in inet_diag code, from
    Dmitry Yakunin.

15) Add infrastructure to export netlink attribute policies to
    userspace, from Johannes Berg.

16) Several optimizations to sch_fq scheduler, from Eric Dumazet.

17) Fallback to the default qdisc if qdisc init fails because otherwise
    a packet scheduler init failure will make a device inoperative. From
    Jesper Dangaard Brouer.

18) Several RISCV bpf jit optimizations, from Luke Nelson.

19) Correct the return type of the -&gt;ndo_start_xmit() method in several
    drivers, it's netdev_tx_t but many drivers were using
    'int'. From Yunjian Wang.

20) Add an ethtool interface for PHY master/slave config, from Oleksij
    Rempel.

21) Add BPF iterators, from Yonghang Song.

22) Add cable test infrastructure, including ethool interfaces, from
    Andrew Lunn. Marvell PHY driver is the first to support this
    facility.

23) Remove zero-length arrays all over, from Gustavo A. R. Silva.

24) Calculate and maintain an explicit frame size in XDP, from Jesper
    Dangaard Brouer.

25) Add CAP_BPF, from Alexei Starovoitov.

26) Support terse dumps in the packet scheduler, from Vlad Buslov.

27) Support XDP_TX bulking in dpaa2 driver, from Ioana Ciornei.

28) Add devm_register_netdev(), from Bartosz Golaszewski.

29) Minimize qdisc resets, from Cong Wang.

30) Get rid of kernel_getsockopt and kernel_setsockopt in order to
    eliminate set_fs/get_fs calls. From Christoph Hellwig.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (2517 commits)
  selftests: net: ip_defrag: ignore EPERM
  net_failover: fixed rollback in net_failover_open()
  Revert "tipc: Fix potential tipc_aead refcnt leak in tipc_crypto_rcv"
  Revert "tipc: Fix potential tipc_node refcnt leak in tipc_rcv"
  vmxnet3: allow rx flow hash ops only when rss is enabled
  hinic: add set_channels ethtool_ops support
  selftests/bpf: Add a default $(CXX) value
  tools/bpf: Don't use $(COMPILE.c)
  bpf, selftests: Use bpf_probe_read_kernel
  s390/bpf: Use bcr 0,%0 as tail call nop filler
  s390/bpf: Maintain 8-byte stack alignment
  selftests/bpf: Fix verifier test
  selftests/bpf: Fix sample_cnt shared between two threads
  bpf, selftests: Adapt cls_redirect to call csum_level helper
  bpf: Add csum_level helper for fixing up csum levels
  bpf: Fix up bpf_skb_adjust_room helper's skb csum setting
  sfc: add missing annotation for efx_ef10_try_update_nic_stats_vf()
  crypto/chtls: IPv6 support for inline TLS
  Crypto/chcr: Fixes a coccinile check error
  Crypto/chcr: Fixes compilations warnings
  ...
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