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<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>ring-buffer: fix dangling commit race</title>
<updated>2009-01-18T18:43:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt</name>
<email>srostedt@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-12-23T16:32:24+00:00</published>
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commit a8ccf1d6f60e3e6ae63122e02378cd4d40dd4aac upstream.

Impact: fix stuck trace-buffers

If an interrupt comes in during the rb_set_commit_to_write and
pushes the tail page forward just at the right time, the commit
updates will miss the adding of the interrupt data. This will
cause the commit pointer to cease from moving forward.

Thanks to Jiaying Zhang for finding this race.

Reported-by: Jiaying Zhang &lt;jiayingz@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;srostedt@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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commit a8ccf1d6f60e3e6ae63122e02378cd4d40dd4aac upstream.

Impact: fix stuck trace-buffers

If an interrupt comes in during the rb_set_commit_to_write and
pushes the tail page forward just at the right time, the commit
updates will miss the adding of the interrupt data. This will
cause the commit pointer to cease from moving forward.

Thanks to Jiaying Zhang for finding this race.

Reported-by: Jiaying Zhang &lt;jiayingz@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;srostedt@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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<entry>
<title>ring-buffer: prevent false positive warning</title>
<updated>2009-01-18T18:43:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt</name>
<email>srostedt@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-12-23T16:32:25+00:00</published>
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commit 98db8df777438e16ad0f44a0fba05ebbdb73db8d upstream.

Impact: eliminate false WARN_ON message

If an interrupt goes off after the setting of the local variable
tail_page and before incrementing the write index of that page,
the interrupt could push the commit forward to the next page.

Later a check is made to see if interrupts pushed the buffer around
the entire ring buffer by comparing the next page to the last commited
page. This can produce a false positive if the interrupt had pushed
the commit page forward as stated above.

Thanks to Jiaying Zhang for finding this race.

Reported-by: Jiaying Zhang &lt;jiayingz@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;srostedt@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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commit 98db8df777438e16ad0f44a0fba05ebbdb73db8d upstream.

Impact: eliminate false WARN_ON message

If an interrupt goes off after the setting of the local variable
tail_page and before incrementing the write index of that page,
the interrupt could push the commit forward to the next page.

Later a check is made to see if interrupts pushed the buffer around
the entire ring buffer by comparing the next page to the last commited
page. This can produce a false positive if the interrupt had pushed
the commit page forward as stated above.

Thanks to Jiaying Zhang for finding this race.

Reported-by: Jiaying Zhang &lt;jiayingz@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;srostedt@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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<entry>
<title>ftrace: prevent recursion</title>
<updated>2008-11-27T09:11:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Lai Jiangshan</name>
<email>laijs@cn.fujitsu.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-11-27T02:21:46+00:00</published>
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Impact: prevent unnecessary stack recursion

if the resched flag was set before we entered, then don't reschedule.

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan &lt;laijs@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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Impact: prevent unnecessary stack recursion

if the resched flag was set before we entered, then don't reschedule.

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan &lt;laijs@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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<entry>
<title>x86, mmiotrace: fix buffer overrun detection</title>
<updated>2008-11-23T19:33:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Pekka Paalanen</name>
<email>pq@iki.fi</email>
</author>
<published>2008-11-23T19:24:30+00:00</published>
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Impact: fix mmiotrace overrun tracing

When ftrace framework moved to use the ring buffer facility, the buffer
overrun detection was broken after 2.6.27 by commit

| commit 3928a8a2d98081d1bc3c0a84a2d70e29b90ecf1c
| Author: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
| Date:   Mon Sep 29 23:02:41 2008 -0400
|
|     ftrace: make work with new ring buffer
|
|     This patch ports ftrace over to the new ring buffer.

The detection is now fixed by using the ring buffer API.

When mmiotrace detects a buffer overrun, it will report the number of
lost events. People reading an mmiotrace log must know if something was
missed, otherwise the data may not make sense.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Paalanen &lt;pq@iki.fi&gt;
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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Impact: fix mmiotrace overrun tracing

When ftrace framework moved to use the ring buffer facility, the buffer
overrun detection was broken after 2.6.27 by commit

| commit 3928a8a2d98081d1bc3c0a84a2d70e29b90ecf1c
| Author: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
| Date:   Mon Sep 29 23:02:41 2008 -0400
|
|     ftrace: make work with new ring buffer
|
|     This patch ports ftrace over to the new ring buffer.

The detection is now fixed by using the ring buffer API.

When mmiotrace detects a buffer overrun, it will report the number of
lost events. People reading an mmiotrace log must know if something was
missed, otherwise the data may not make sense.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Paalanen &lt;pq@iki.fi&gt;
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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<entry>
<title>function tracing: fix wrong position computing of stack_trace</title>
<updated>2008-11-21T07:49:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Liming Wang</name>
<email>liming.wang@windriver.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-11-21T03:00:18+00:00</published>
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Impact: make output of stack_trace complete if buffer overruns

When read buffer overruns, the output of stack_trace isn't complete.

When printing records with seq_printf in t_show, if the read buffer
has overruned by the current record, then this record won't be
printed to user space through read buffer, it will just be dropped in
this printing.

When next printing, t_start should return the "*pos"th record, which
is the one dropped by previous printing, but it just returns
(m-&gt;private + *pos)th record.

Here we use a more sane method to implement seq_operations which can
be found in kernel code. Thus we needn't initialize m-&gt;private.

About testing, it's not easy to overrun read buffer, but we can use
seq_printf to print more padding bytes in t_show, then it's easy to
check whether or not records are lost.

This commit has been tested on both condition of overrun and non
overrun.

Signed-off-by: Liming Wang &lt;liming.wang@windriver.com&gt;
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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Impact: make output of stack_trace complete if buffer overruns

When read buffer overruns, the output of stack_trace isn't complete.

When printing records with seq_printf in t_show, if the read buffer
has overruned by the current record, then this record won't be
printed to user space through read buffer, it will just be dropped in
this printing.

When next printing, t_start should return the "*pos"th record, which
is the one dropped by previous printing, but it just returns
(m-&gt;private + *pos)th record.

Here we use a more sane method to implement seq_operations which can
be found in kernel code. Thus we needn't initialize m-&gt;private.

About testing, it's not easy to overrun read buffer, but we can use
seq_printf to print more padding bytes in t_show, then it's easy to
check whether or not records are lost.

This commit has been tested on both condition of overrun and non
overrun.

Signed-off-by: Liming Wang &lt;liming.wang@windriver.com&gt;
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'tip/urgent' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into tracing/urgent</title>
<updated>2008-11-19T08:00:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@elte.hu</email>
</author>
<published>2008-11-19T08:00:50+00:00</published>
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<entry>
<title>ftrace: fix dyn ftrace filter selection</title>
<updated>2008-11-19T05:19:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt</name>
<email>srostedt@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-11-19T01:33:02+00:00</published>
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Impact: clean up and fix for dyn ftrace filter selection

The previous logic of the dynamic ftrace selection of enabling
or disabling functions was complex and incorrect. This patch simplifies
the code and corrects the usage. This simplification also makes the
code more robust.

Here is the correct logic:

  Given a function that can be traced by dynamic ftrace:

  If the function is not to be traced, disable it if it was enabled.
  (this is if the function is in the set_ftrace_notrace file)

  (filter is on if there exists any functions in set_ftrace_filter file)

  If the filter is on, and we are enabling functions:
    If the function is in set_ftrace_filter, enable it if it is not
      already enabled.
    If the function is not in set_ftrace_filter, disable it if it is not
      already disabled.

  Otherwise, if the filter is off and we are enabling function tracing:
    Enable the function if it is not already enabled.

  Otherwise, if we are disabling function tracing:
    Disable the function if it is not already disabled.

This code now sets or clears the ENABLED flag in the record, and at the
end it will enable the function if the flag is set, or disable the function
if the flag is cleared.

The parameters for the function that does the above logic is also
simplified. Instead of passing in confusing "new" and "old" where
they might be swapped if the "enabled" flag is not set. The old logic
even had one of the above always NULL and had to be filled in. The new
logic simply passes in one parameter called "nop". A "call" is calculated
in the code, and at the end of the logic, when we know we need to either
disable or enable the function, we can then use the "nop" and "call"
properly.

This code is more robust than the previous version.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;srostedt@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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Impact: clean up and fix for dyn ftrace filter selection

The previous logic of the dynamic ftrace selection of enabling
or disabling functions was complex and incorrect. This patch simplifies
the code and corrects the usage. This simplification also makes the
code more robust.

Here is the correct logic:

  Given a function that can be traced by dynamic ftrace:

  If the function is not to be traced, disable it if it was enabled.
  (this is if the function is in the set_ftrace_notrace file)

  (filter is on if there exists any functions in set_ftrace_filter file)

  If the filter is on, and we are enabling functions:
    If the function is in set_ftrace_filter, enable it if it is not
      already enabled.
    If the function is not in set_ftrace_filter, disable it if it is not
      already disabled.

  Otherwise, if the filter is off and we are enabling function tracing:
    Enable the function if it is not already enabled.

  Otherwise, if we are disabling function tracing:
    Disable the function if it is not already disabled.

This code now sets or clears the ENABLED flag in the record, and at the
end it will enable the function if the flag is set, or disable the function
if the flag is cleared.

The parameters for the function that does the above logic is also
simplified. Instead of passing in confusing "new" and "old" where
they might be swapped if the "enabled" flag is not set. The old logic
even had one of the above always NULL and had to be filled in. The new
logic simply passes in one parameter called "nop". A "call" is calculated
in the code, and at the end of the logic, when we know we need to either
disable or enable the function, we can then use the "nop" and "call"
properly.

This code is more robust than the previous version.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;srostedt@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ftrace: make filtered functions effective on setting</title>
<updated>2008-11-19T05:18:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt</name>
<email>srostedt@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-11-19T04:57:14+00:00</published>
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Impact: fix filter selection to apply when set

It can be confusing when the set_filter_functions is set (or cleared)
and the functions being recorded by the dynamic tracer does not
match.

This patch causes the code to be updated if the function tracer is
enabled and the filter is changed.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;srostedt@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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Impact: fix filter selection to apply when set

It can be confusing when the set_filter_functions is set (or cleared)
and the functions being recorded by the dynamic tracer does not
match.

This patch causes the code to be updated if the function tracer is
enabled and the filter is changed.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;srostedt@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ftrace: fix set_ftrace_filter</title>
<updated>2008-11-19T05:17:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt</name>
<email>srostedt@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-11-08T03:36:02+00:00</published>
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Impact: fix of output of set_ftrace_filter

The commit "ftrace: do not show freed records in
             available_filter_functions"

Removed a bit too much from the set_ftrace_filter code, where we now see
all functions in the set_ftrace_filter file even when we set a filter.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;srostedt@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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Impact: fix of output of set_ftrace_filter

The commit "ftrace: do not show freed records in
             available_filter_functions"

Removed a bit too much from the set_ftrace_filter code, where we now see
all functions in the set_ftrace_filter file even when we set a filter.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;srostedt@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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<entry>
<title>trace: introduce missing mutex_unlock()</title>
<updated>2008-11-18T20:37:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vegard Nossum</name>
<email>vegard.nossum@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-11-18T18:22:13+00:00</published>
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Impact: fix tracing buffer mutex leak in case of allocation failure

This error was spotted by this semantic patch:

  http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/mut.html

It looks correct as far as I can tell. Please review.

Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum &lt;vegard.nossum@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;srostedt@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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Impact: fix tracing buffer mutex leak in case of allocation failure

This error was spotted by this semantic patch:

  http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/mut.html

It looks correct as far as I can tell. Please review.

Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum &lt;vegard.nossum@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;srostedt@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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