linux-toradex.git/include/trace, branch v3.0.79

tracing: Don't call page_to_pfn() if page is NULL

2012-10-02T16:47:27+00:00

commit 85f2a2ef1d0ab99523e0b947a2b723f5650ed6aa upstream.

When allocating memory fails, page is NULL. page_to_pfn() will
cause the kernel panicked if we don't use sparsemem vmemmap.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/505AB1FF.8020104@cn.fujitsu.com

Acked-by: Mel Gorman 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim 
Signed-off-by: Wen Congyang 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

random: add tracepoints for easier debugging and verification

2012-08-15T19:04:13+00:00

commit 00ce1db1a634746040ace24c09a4e3a7949a3145 upstream.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm: change isolate mode from #define to bitwise type

2012-08-01T19:27:16+00:00

commit 4356f21d09283dc6d39a6f7287a65ddab61e2808 upstream.

Stable note: Not tracked in Bugzilla. This patch makes later patches
	easier to apply but has no other impact.

Change ISOLATE_XXX macro with bitwise isolate_mode_t type.  Normally,
macro isn't recommended as it's type-unsafe and making debugging harder as
symbol cannot be passed throught to the debugger.

Quote from Johannes
" Hmm, it would probably be cleaner to fully convert the isolation mode
into independent flags.  INACTIVE, ACTIVE, BOTH is currently a
tri-state among flags, which is a bit ugly."

This patch moves isolate mode from swap.h to mmzone.h by memcontrol.h

Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim 
Cc: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Cc: Rik van Riel 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

vmscan: add shrink_slab tracepoints

2012-08-01T19:26:55+00:00

commit 095760730c1047c69159ce88021a7fa3833502c8 upstream.

Stable note: This patch makes later patches easier to apply but otherwise
        has little to justify it. It is a diagnostic patch that was part
        of a series addressing excessive slab shrinking after GFP_NOFS
        failures. There is detailed information on the series' motivation
        at https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/6/2/42 .

It is impossible to understand what the shrinkers are actually doing
without instrumenting the code, so add a some tracepoints to allow
insight to be gained.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro 
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman

writeback: fix dereferencing NULL bdi->dev on trace_writeback_queue

2012-02-20T20:48:11+00:00

commit 977b7e3a52a7421ad33a393a38ece59f3d41c2fa upstream.

When a SD card is hot removed without umount, del_gendisk() will call
bdi_unregister() without destroying/freeing it. This leaves the bdi in
the bdi->dev = NULL, bdi->wb.task = NULL, bdi->bdi_list removed state.

When sync(2) gets the bdi before bdi_unregister() and calls
bdi_queue_work() after the unregister, trace_writeback_queue will be
dereferencing the NULL bdi->dev. Fix it with a simple test for NULL.

LKML-reference: http://lkml.org/lkml/2012/1/18/346
Reported-by: Rabin Vincent 
Tested-by: Namjae Jeon 
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4

2011-06-21T17:22:35+00:00

* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4:
  jbd2: Fix oops in jbd2_journal_remove_journal_head()
  jbd2: Remove obsolete parameters in the comments for some jbd2 functions
  ext4: fixed tracepoints cleanup
  ext4: use FIEMAP_EXTENT_LAST flag for last extent in fiemap
  ext4: Fix max file size and logical block counting of extent format file
  ext4: correct comments for ext4_free_blocks()

Merge branch 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

2011-06-19T15:56:56+00:00

* 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  rcu: Move RCU_BOOST #ifdefs to header file
  rcu: use softirq instead of kthreads except when RCU_BOOST=y
  rcu: Use softirq to address performance regression
  rcu: Simplify curing of load woes

vmscan: implement swap token priority aging

2011-06-16T03:03:59+00:00

While testing for memcg aware swap token, I observed a swap token was
often grabbed an intermittent running process (eg init, auditd) and they
never release a token.

Why?

Some processes (eg init, auditd, audispd) wake up when a process exiting.
And swap token can be get first page-in process when a process exiting
makes no swap token owner.  Thus such above intermittent running process
often get a token.

And currently, swap token priority is only decreased at page fault path.
Then, if the process sleep immediately after to grab swap token, the swap
token priority never be decreased.  That's obviously undesirable.

This patch implement very poor (and lightweight) priority aging.  It only
be affect to the above corner case and doesn't change swap tendency
workload performance (eg multi process qsbench load)

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro 
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel 
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

vmscan: implement swap token trace

2011-06-16T03:03:59+00:00

This is useful for observing swap token activity.

example output:

             zsh-1845  [000]   598.962716: update_swap_token_priority:
mm=ffff88015eaf7700 old_prio=1 new_prio=0
          memtoy-1830  [001]   602.033900: update_swap_token_priority:
mm=ffff880037a45880 old_prio=947 new_prio=949
          memtoy-1830  [000]   602.041509: update_swap_token_priority:
mm=ffff880037a45880 old_prio=949 new_prio=951
          memtoy-1830  [000]   602.051959: update_swap_token_priority:
mm=ffff880037a45880 old_prio=951 new_prio=953
          memtoy-1830  [000]   602.052188: update_swap_token_priority:
mm=ffff880037a45880 old_prio=953 new_prio=955
          memtoy-1830  [001]   602.427184: put_swap_token:
token_mm=ffff880037a45880
             zsh-1789  [000]   602.427281: replace_swap_token:
old_token_mm=          (null) old_prio=0 new_token_mm=ffff88015eaf7018
new_prio=2
             zsh-1789  [001]   602.433456: update_swap_token_priority:
mm=ffff88015eaf7018 old_prio=2 new_prio=4
             zsh-1789  [000]   602.437613: update_swap_token_priority:
mm=ffff88015eaf7018 old_prio=4 new_prio=6
             zsh-1789  [000]   602.443924: update_swap_token_priority:
mm=ffff88015eaf7018 old_prio=6 new_prio=8
             zsh-1789  [000]   602.451873: update_swap_token_priority:
mm=ffff88015eaf7018 old_prio=8 new_prio=10
             zsh-1789  [001]   602.462639: update_swap_token_priority:
mm=ffff88015eaf7018 old_prio=10 new_prio=12

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro 
Acked-by: Rik van Riel
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

rcu: Use softirq to address performance regression

2011-06-14T22:25:39+00:00

Commit a26ac2455ffcf3(rcu: move TREE_RCU from softirq to kthread)
introduced performance regression. In an AIM7 test, this commit degraded
performance by about 40%.

The commit runs rcu callbacks in a kthread instead of softirq. We observed
high rate of context switch which is caused by this. Out test system has
64 CPUs and HZ is 1000, so we saw more than 64k context switch per second
which is caused by RCU's per-CPU kthread.  A trace showed that most of
the time the RCU per-CPU kthread doesn't actually handle any callbacks,
but instead just does a very small amount of work handling grace periods.
This means that RCU's per-CPU kthreads are making the scheduler do quite
a bit of work in order to allow a very small amount of RCU-related
processing to be done.

Alex Shi's analysis determined that this slowdown is due to lock
contention within the scheduler.  Unfortunately, as Peter Zijlstra points
out, the scheduler's real-time semantics require global action, which
means that this contention is inherent in real-time scheduling.  (Yes,
perhaps someone will come up with a workaround -- otherwise, -rt is not
going to do well on large SMP systems -- but this patch will work around
this issue in the meantime.  And "the meantime" might well be forever.)

This patch therefore re-introduces softirq processing to RCU, but only
for core RCU work.  RCU callbacks are still executed in kthread context,
so that only a small amount of RCU work runs in softirq context in the
common case.  This should minimize ksoftirqd execution, allowing us to
skip boosting of ksoftirqd for CONFIG_RCU_BOOST=y kernels.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li 
Tested-by: "Alex,Shi" 
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney