linux-toradex.git/kernel/profile.c, branch v2.6.20.21

[PATCH] fix "kvm: add vm exit profiling"

2007-01-23T15:52:05+00:00

export profile_hits() on !SMP too.

Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Avi Kivity 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] KVM: add VM-exit profiling

2007-01-12T02:18:21+00:00

This adds the profile=kvm boot option, which enables KVM to profile VM
exits.

Use: "readprofile -m ./System.map | sort -n" to see the resulting
output:

   [...]
   18246 serial_out                               148.3415
   18945 native_flush_tlb                         378.9000
   23618 serial_in                                212.7748
   29279 __spin_unlock_irq                        622.9574
   43447 native_apic_write                        2068.9048
   52702 enable_8259A_irq                         742.2817
   54250 vgacon_scroll                             89.3740
   67394 ide_inb                                  6126.7273
   79514 copy_page_range                           98.1654
   84868 do_wp_page                                86.6000
  140266 pit_read                                 783.6089
  151436 ide_outb                                 25239.3333
  152668 native_io_delay                          21809.7143
  174783 mask_and_ack_8259A                       783.7803
  362404 native_set_pte_at                        36240.4000
 1688747 total                                      0.5009

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 
Acked-by: Avi Kivity 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] profiling: fix sched profiling typo

2007-01-06T07:55:22+00:00

Fix sched profiling typo, introduced by the sleep profiling patch.  This
bug caused profile=sched to not work.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] struct seq_operations and struct file_operations constification

2006-12-07T16:39:46+00:00

 - move some file_operations structs into the .rodata section

 - move static strings from policy_types[] array into the .rodata section

 - fix generic seq_operations usages, so that those structs may be defined
   as "const" as well

[akpm@osdl.org: couple of fixes]
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] hotplug CPU: clean up hotcpu_notifier() use

2006-12-07T16:39:39+00:00

There was lots of #ifdef noise in the kernel due to hotcpu_notifier(fn,
prio) not correctly marking 'fn' as used in the !HOTPLUG_CPU case, and thus
generating compiler warnings of unused symbols, hence forcing people to add
#ifdefs.

the compiler can skip truly unused functions just fine:

    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
 1624412  728710 3674856 6027978  5bfaca vmlinux.before
 1624412  728710 3674856 6027978  5bfaca vmlinux.after

[akpm@osdl.org: topology.c fix]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] sleep profiling

2006-12-07T16:39:36+00:00

Implement prof=sleep profiling.  TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE sleeps will be taken
as a profile hit, and every millisecond spent sleeping causes a profile-hit
for the call site that initiated the sleep.

Sample readprofile output on i386:

   306 ps2_sendbyte                               1.3973
   432 call_usermodehelper_keys                   1.9548
   484 ps2_command                                0.6453
   790 __driver_attach                            4.7879
  1593 msleep                                    44.2500
  3976 sync_buffer                               64.1290
  4076 do_lookup                                 12.4648
  8587 sync_page                                122.6714
 20820 total                                      0.0067

(NOTE: architectures need to check whether get_wchan() can be called from
deep within the wakeup path.)

akpm: we need to mark more functions __sched.  lock_sock(), msleep(), others..

akpm: the contention in do_lookup() is a surprise.  Presumably doing disk
reads for directory contents while holding i_mutex.

[akpm@osdl.org: various fixes]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] profile: fix uaccess handling

2006-12-07T16:39:33+00:00

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] bitmap: parse input from kernel and user buffers

2006-10-11T18:14:22+00:00

lib/bitmap.c:bitmap_parse() is a library function that received as input a
user buffer.  This seemed to have originated from the way the write_proc
function of the /proc filesystem operates.

This has been reworked to not use kmalloc and eliminates a lot of
get_user() overhead by performing one access_ok before using __get_user().

We need to test if we are in kernel or user space (is_user) and access the
buffer differently.  We cannot use __get_user() to access kernel addresses
in all cases, for example in architectures with separate address space for
kernel and user.

This function will be useful for other uses as well; for example, taking
input for /sysfs instead of /proc, so it was changed to accept kernel
buffers.  We have this use for the Linux UWB project, as part as the
upcoming bandwidth allocator code.

Only a few routines used this function and they were changed too.

Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre 
Signed-off-by: Inaky Perez-Gonzalez 
Cc: Paul Jackson 
Cc: Joe Korty 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

IRQ: Maintain regs pointer globally rather than passing to IRQ handlers

2006-10-05T14:10:12+00:00

Maintain a per-CPU global "struct pt_regs *" variable which can be used instead
of passing regs around manually through all ~1800 interrupt handlers in the
Linux kernel.

The regs pointer is used in few places, but it potentially costs both stack
space and code to pass it around.  On the FRV arch, removing the regs parameter
from all the genirq function results in a 20% speed up of the IRQ exit path
(ie: from leaving timer_interrupt() to leaving do_IRQ()).

Where appropriate, an arch may override the generic storage facility and do
something different with the variable.  On FRV, for instance, the address is
maintained in GR28 at all times inside the kernel as part of general exception
handling.

Having looked over the code, it appears that the parameter may be handed down
through up to twenty or so layers of functions.  Consider a USB character
device attached to a USB hub, attached to a USB controller that posts its
interrupts through a cascaded auxiliary interrupt controller.  A character
device driver may want to pass regs to the sysrq handler through the input
layer which adds another few layers of parameter passing.

I've build this code with allyesconfig for x86_64 and i386.  I've runtested the
main part of the code on FRV and i386, though I can't test most of the drivers.
I've also done partial conversion for powerpc and MIPS - these at least compile
with minimal configurations.

This will affect all archs.  Mostly the changes should be relatively easy.
Take do_IRQ(), store the regs pointer at the beginning, saving the old one:

	struct pt_regs *old_regs = set_irq_regs(regs);

And put the old one back at the end:

	set_irq_regs(old_regs);

Don't pass regs through to generic_handle_irq() or __do_IRQ().

In timer_interrupt(), this sort of change will be necessary:

	-	update_process_times(user_mode(regs));
	-	profile_tick(CPU_PROFILING, regs);
	+	update_process_times(user_mode(get_irq_regs()));
	+	profile_tick(CPU_PROFILING);

I'd like to move update_process_times()'s use of get_irq_regs() into itself,
except that i386, alone of the archs, uses something other than user_mode().

Some notes on the interrupt handling in the drivers:

 (*) input_dev() is now gone entirely.  The regs pointer is no longer stored in
     the input_dev struct.

 (*) finish_unlinks() in drivers/usb/host/ohci-q.c needs checking.  It does
     something different depending on whether it's been supplied with a regs
     pointer or not.

 (*) Various IRQ handler function pointers have been moved to type
     irq_handler_t.

Signed-Off-By: David Howells 
(cherry picked from 1b16e7ac850969f38b375e511e3fa2f474a33867 commit)

[PATCH] Profiling: require buffer allocation on the correct node

2006-09-26T15:48:50+00:00

Profiling really suffers with off node buffers.  Fail if no memory is
available on the nodes.  The profiling code can deal with these failures
should they occur.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds