linux-toradex.git/kernel/events, branch v3.14.3

perf: Fix hotplug splat

2014-02-27T11:38:03+00:00

Drew Richardson reported that he could make the kernel go *boom* when hotplugging
while having perf events active.

It turned out that when you have a group event, the code in
__perf_event_exit_context() fails to remove the group siblings from
the context.

We then proceed with destroying and freeing the event, and when you
re-plug the CPU and try and add another event to that CPU, things go
*boom* because you've still got dead entries there.

Reported-by: Drew Richardson 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Will Deacon 
Cc: 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-k6v5wundvusvcseqj1si0oz0@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

Merge tag 'trace-3.14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace

2014-01-23T00:35:21+00:00

Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
 "This pull request has a new feature to ftrace, namely the trace event
  triggers by Tom Zanussi.  A trigger is a way to enable an action when
  an event is hit.  The actions are:

   o  trace on/off - enable or disable tracing
   o  snapshot     - save the current trace buffer in the snapshot
   o  stacktrace   - dump the current stack trace to the ringbuffer
   o  enable/disable events - enable or disable another event

  Namhyung Kim added updates to the tracing uprobes code.  Having the
  uprobes add support for fetch methods.

  The rest are various bug fixes with the new code, and minor ones for
  the old code"

* tag 'trace-3.14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (38 commits)
  tracing: Fix buggered tee(2) on tracing_pipe
  tracing: Have trace buffer point back to trace_array
  ftrace: Fix synchronization location disabling and freeing ftrace_ops
  ftrace: Have function graph only trace based on global_ops filters
  ftrace: Synchronize setting function_trace_op with ftrace_trace_function
  tracing: Show available event triggers when no trigger is set
  tracing: Consolidate event trigger code
  tracing: Fix counter for traceon/off event triggers
  tracing: Remove double-underscore naming in syscall trigger invocations
  tracing/kprobes: Add trace event trigger invocations
  tracing/probes: Fix build break on !CONFIG_KPROBE_EVENT
  tracing/uprobes: Add @+file_offset fetch method
  uprobes: Allocate ->utask before handler_chain() for tracing handlers
  tracing/uprobes: Add support for full argument access methods
  tracing/uprobes: Fetch args before reserving a ring buffer
  tracing/uprobes: Pass 'is_return' to traceprobe_parse_probe_arg()
  tracing/probes: Implement 'memory' fetch method for uprobes
  tracing/probes: Add fetch{,_size} member into deref fetch method
  tracing/probes: Move 'symbol' fetch method to kprobes
  tracing/probes: Implement 'stack' fetch method for uprobes
  ...

Merge branch 'perf/urgent' into perf/core

2014-01-16T08:33:30+00:00

Pick up the latest fixes, refresh the development tree.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf: Introduce a flag to enable close-on-exec in perf_event_open()

2014-01-12T09:16:59+00:00

Unlike recent modern userspace API such as:

  epoll_create1 (EPOLL_CLOEXEC), eventfd (EFD_CLOEXEC),
  fanotify_init (FAN_CLOEXEC), inotify_init1 (IN_CLOEXEC),
  signalfd (SFD_CLOEXEC), timerfd_create (TFD_CLOEXEC),
  or the venerable general purpose open (O_CLOEXEC),

perf_event_open() syscall lack a flag to atomically set FD_CLOEXEC
(eg. close-on-exec) flag on file descriptor it returns to userspace.

The present patch adds a PERF_FLAG_FD_CLOEXEC flag to allow
perf_event_open() syscall to atomically set close-on-exec.

Having this flag will enable userspace to remove the file descriptor
from the list of file descriptors being inherited across exec,
without the need to call fcntl(fd, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) and the
associated race condition between the current thread and another
thread calling fork(2) then execve(2).

Links:

 - Secure File Descriptor Handling (Ulrich Drepper, 2008)
   http://udrepper.livejournal.com/20407.html

 - Excuse me son, but your code is leaking !!! (Dan Walsh, March 2012)
   http://danwalsh.livejournal.com/53603.html

 - Notes in DMA buffer sharing: leak and security hole
   http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/dma-buf-sharing.txt?id=v3.13-rc3#n428

Signed-off-by: Yann Droneaud 
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: Al Viro 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/8c03f54e1598b1727c19706f3af03f98685d9fe6.1388952061.git.ydroneaud@opteya.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf/x86: Fix active_entry initialization

2014-01-12T09:16:07+00:00

This patch fixes a problem with the initialization of the
struct perf_event active_entry field. It is defined inside
an anonymous union and was initialized in perf_event_alloc()
using INIT_LIST_HEAD(). However at that time, we do not know
whether the event is going to use active_entry or hlist_entry (SW).
Or at last, we don't want to make that determination there.
The problem is that hlist and list_head are not initialized
the same way. One is okay with NULL (from kzmalloc), the other
needs to pointers to point to self.

This patch resolves this problem by dropping the union.
This will avoid problems later on, if someone starts using
active_entry or hlist_entry without verifying that they
actually overlap. This also solves the initialization
problem.

Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian 
Cc: ak@linux.intel.com
Cc: acme@redhat.com
Cc: jolsa@redhat.com
Cc: zheng.z.yan@intel.com
Cc: bp@alien8.de
Cc: vincent.weaver@maine.edu
Cc: maria.n.dimakopoulou@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1389176153-3128-2-git-send-email-eranian@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

uprobes: Allocate ->utask before handler_chain() for tracing handlers

2014-01-03T01:57:04+00:00

uprobe_trace_print() and uprobe_perf_print() need to pass the additional
info to call_fetch() methods, currently there is no simple way to do this.

current->utask looks like a natural place to hold this info, but we need
to allocate it before handler_chain().

This is a bit unfortunate, perhaps we will find a better solution later,
but this is simple and should work right now.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov 
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu 
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov 
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju 
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

perf: Fix PERF_EVENT_IOC_PERIOD to force-reset the period

2013-12-17T14:21:33+00:00

Vince Weaver reports that, on all architectures apart from ARM,
PERF_EVENT_IOC_PERIOD doesn't actually update the period until the next
event fires. This is counter-intuitive behaviour and is better dealt
with in the core code.

This patch ensures that the period is forcefully reset when dealing with
such a request in the core code. A subsequent patch removes the
equivalent hack from the ARM back-end.

Reported-by: Vince Weaver 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1385560479-11014-1-git-send-email-will.deacon@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf: Disable all pmus on unthrottling and rescheduling

2013-12-17T14:04:00+00:00

Currently, only one PMU in a context gets disabled during unthrottling
and event_sched_{out,in}(), however, events in one context may belong to
different pmus, which results in PMUs being reprogrammed while they are
still enabled.

This means that mixed PMU use [which is rare in itself] resulted in
potentially completely unreliable results: corrupted events, bogus
results, etc.

This patch temporarily disables PMUs that correspond to
each event in the context while these events are being modified.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin 
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1387196256-8030-1-git-send-email-alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf: Optimize ring-buffer write by depending on control dependencies

2013-12-11T14:53:22+00:00

Remove a full barrier from the ring-buffer write path by relying on
a control dependency to order a LOAD -> STORE scenario.

Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-8alv40z6ikk57jzbaobnxrjl@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf: Add active_entry list head to struct perf_event

2013-11-27T10:16:38+00:00

This patch adds a new field to the struct perf_event.
It is intended to be used to chain events which are
active (enabled). It helps in the hardware layer
for PMUs which do not have actual counter restrictions, i.e.,
free running read-only counters. Active events are chained
as opposed to being tracked via the counter they use.

To save space we use a union with hlist_entry as both
are mutually exclusive (suggested by Jiri Olsa).

Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian 
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: acme@redhat.com
Cc: jolsa@redhat.com
Cc: zheng.z.yan@intel.com
Cc: bp@alien8.de
Cc: maria.n.dimakopoulou@gmail.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1384275531-10892-2-git-send-email-eranian@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar