linux-toradex.git/kernel/events, branch v3.17.8

uprobes, x86: Fix _TIF_UPROBE vs _TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME

2014-12-06T23:57:16+00:00

commit 82975bc6a6df743b9a01810fb32cb65d0ec5d60b upstream.

x86 call do_notify_resume on paranoid returns if TIF_UPROBE is set but
not on non-paranoid returns.  I suspect that this is a mistake and that
the code only works because int3 is paranoid.

Setting _TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME in the uprobe code was probably a workaround
for the x86 bug.  With that bug fixed, we can remove _TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME
from the uprobes code.

Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov 
Acked-by: Srikar Dronamraju 
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov 
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

perf: Fix unclone_ctx() vs. locking

2014-11-14T18:10:23+00:00

commit 211de6eba8960521e2be450a7d07db85fba4604c upstream.

The idiot who did 4a1c0f262f88 ("perf: Fix lockdep warning on process exit")
forgot to pay attention and fix all similar cases. Do so now.

In particular, unclone_ctx() must be called while holding ctx->lock,
therefore all such sites are broken for the same reason. Pull the
put_ctx() call out from under ctx->lock.

Reported-by: Sasha Levin 
Probably-also-reported-by: Vince Weaver 
Fixes: 4a1c0f262f88 ("perf: Fix lockdep warning on process exit")
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: Sasha Levin 
Cc: Cong Wang 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140930172308.GI4241@worktop.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

perf: fix perf bug in fork()

2014-10-02T23:28:44+00:00

Oleg noticed that a cleanup by Sylvain actually uncovered a bug; by
calling perf_event_free_task() when failing sched_fork() we will not yet
have done the memset() on ->perf_event_ctxp[] and will therefore try and
'free' the inherited contexts, which are still in use by the parent
process.  This is bad..

Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov 
Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov 
Reported-by: Sylvain 'ythier' Hitier 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

perf: Fix a race condition in perf_remove_from_context()

2014-09-09T04:53:42+00:00

We saw a kernel soft lockup in perf_remove_from_context(),
it looks like the `perf` process, when exiting, could not go
out of the retry loop. Meanwhile, the target process was forking
a child. So either the target process should execute the smp
function call to deactive the event (if it was running) or it should
do a context switch which deactives the event.

It seems we optimize out a context switch in perf_event_context_sched_out(),
and what's more important, we still test an obsolete task pointer when
retrying, so no one actually would deactive that event in this situation.
Fix it directly by reloading the task pointer in perf_remove_from_context().

This should cure the above soft lockup.

Signed-off-by: Cong Wang 
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1409696840-843-1-git-send-email-xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

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

2014-08-24T23:16:55+00:00

Pull perf fixes from Ingo Molnar:
 "A kprobes and a perf compat ioctl fix"

* 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  perf: Handle compat ioctl
  kprobes: Skip kretprobe hit in NMI context to avoid deadlock

perf: Handle compat ioctl

2014-08-20T07:42:13+00:00

When running a 32-bit userspace on a 64-bit kernel (eg. i386
application on x86_64 kernel or 32-bit arm userspace on arm64
kernel) some of the perf ioctls must be treated with special
care, as they have a pointer size encoded in the command.

For example, PERF_EVENT_IOC_ID in 32-bit world will be encoded
as 0x80042407, but 64-bit kernel will expect 0x80082407. In
result the ioctl will fail returning -ENOTTY.

This patch solves the problem by adding code fixing up the
size as compat_ioctl file operation.

Reported-by: Drew Richardson 
Signed-off-by: Pawel Moll 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1402671812-9078-1-git-send-email-pawel.moll@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

mm: memcontrol: rewrite charge API

2014-08-08T22:57:17+00:00

These patches rework memcg charge lifetime to integrate more naturally
with the lifetime of user pages.  This drastically simplifies the code and
reduces charging and uncharging overhead.  The most expensive part of
charging and uncharging is the page_cgroup bit spinlock, which is removed
entirely after this series.

Here are the top-10 profile entries of a stress test that reads a 128G
sparse file on a freshly booted box, without even a dedicated cgroup (i.e.
 executing in the root memcg).  Before:

    15.36%              cat  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] copy_user_generic_string
    13.31%              cat  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] memset
    11.48%              cat  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] do_mpage_readpage
     4.23%              cat  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] get_page_from_freelist
     2.38%              cat  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] put_page
     2.32%              cat  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] __mem_cgroup_commit_charge
     2.18%          kswapd0  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] __mem_cgroup_uncharge_common
     1.92%          kswapd0  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] shrink_page_list
     1.86%              cat  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] __radix_tree_lookup
     1.62%              cat  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] __pagevec_lru_add_fn

After:

    15.67%           cat  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] copy_user_generic_string
    13.48%           cat  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] memset
    11.42%           cat  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] do_mpage_readpage
     3.98%           cat  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] get_page_from_freelist
     2.46%           cat  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] put_page
     2.13%       kswapd0  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] shrink_page_list
     1.88%           cat  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] __radix_tree_lookup
     1.67%           cat  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] __pagevec_lru_add_fn
     1.39%       kswapd0  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] free_pcppages_bulk
     1.30%           cat  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] kfree

As you can see, the memcg footprint has shrunk quite a bit.

   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
  37970    9892     400   48262    bc86 mm/memcontrol.o.old
  35239    9892     400   45531    b1db mm/memcontrol.o

This patch (of 4):

The memcg charge API charges pages before they are rmapped - i.e.  have an
actual "type" - and so every callsite needs its own set of charge and
uncharge functions to know what type is being operated on.  Worse,
uncharge has to happen from a context that is still type-specific, rather
than at the end of the page's lifetime with exclusive access, and so
requires a lot of synchronization.

Rewrite the charge API to provide a generic set of try_charge(),
commit_charge() and cancel_charge() transaction operations, much like
what's currently done for swap-in:

  mem_cgroup_try_charge() attempts to reserve a charge, reclaiming
  pages from the memcg if necessary.

  mem_cgroup_commit_charge() commits the page to the charge once it
  has a valid page->mapping and PageAnon() reliably tells the type.

  mem_cgroup_cancel_charge() aborts the transaction.

This reduces the charge API and enables subsequent patches to
drastically simplify uncharging.

As pages need to be committed after rmap is established but before they
are added to the LRU, page_add_new_anon_rmap() must stop doing LRU
additions again.  Revive lru_cache_add_active_or_unevictable().

[hughd@google.com: fix shmem_unuse]
[hughd@google.com: Add comments on the private use of -EAGAIN]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner 
Acked-by: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Tejun Heo 
Cc: Vladimir Davydov 
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins 
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge tag 'v3.16-rc7' into perf/core, to merge in the latest fixes before applying new changes

2014-07-28T08:00:33+00:00

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

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

2014-07-27T16:57:16+00:00

Pull perf fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
 "A bunch of fixes for perf and kprobes:
   - revert a commit that caused a perf group regression
   - silence dmesg spam
   - fix kprobe probing errors on ia64 and ppc64
   - filter kprobe faults from userspace
   - lockdep fix for perf exit path
   - prevent perf #GP in KVM guest
   - correct perf event and filters"

* 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  kprobes: Fix "Failed to find blacklist" probing errors on ia64 and ppc64
  kprobes/x86: Don't try to resolve kprobe faults from userspace
  perf/x86/intel: Avoid spamming kernel log for BTS buffer failure
  perf/x86/intel: Protect LBR and extra_regs against KVM lying
  perf: Fix lockdep warning on process exit
  perf/x86/intel/uncore: Fix SNB-EP/IVT Cbox filter mappings
  perf/x86/intel: Use proper dTLB-load-misses event on IvyBridge
  perf: Revert ("perf: Always destroy groups on exit")

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

2014-07-16T20:10:27+00:00

Pull perf fixes from Ingo Molnar:
 "Tooling fixes and an Intel PMU driver fixlet"

* 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  perf: Do not allow optimized switch for non-cloned events
  perf/x86/intel: ignore CondChgd bit to avoid false NMI handling
  perf symbols: Get kernel start address by symbol name
  perf tools: Fix segfault in cumulative.callchain report