linux-toradex.git/kernel/trace, branch v2.6.34.8 Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules ring-buffer: Fix typo of time extends per page 2011-01-06T23:08:11+00:00 Steven Rostedt srostedt@redhat.com 2010-10-12T16:06:43+00:00 c5d9ae74e289afd95b62d2f0a5646acb3d5b5e29 commit d01343244abdedd18303d0323b518ed9cdcb1988 upstream. Time stamps for the ring buffer are created by the difference between two events. Each page of the ring buffer holds a full 64 bit timestamp. Each event has a 27 bit delta stamp from the last event. The unit of time is nanoseconds, so 27 bits can hold ~134 milliseconds. If two events happen more than 134 milliseconds apart, a time extend is inserted to add more bits for the delta. The time extend has 59 bits, which is good for ~18 years. Currently the time extend is committed separately from the event. If an event is discarded before it is committed, due to filtering, the time extend still exists. If all events are being filtered, then after ~134 milliseconds a new time extend will be added to the buffer. This can only happen till the end of the page. Since each page holds a full timestamp, there is no reason to add a time extend to the beginning of a page. Time extends can only fill a page that has actual data at the beginning, so there is no fear that time extends will fill more than a page without any data. When reading an event, a loop is made to skip over time extends since they are only used to maintain the time stamp and are never given to the caller. As a paranoid check to prevent the loop running forever, with the knowledge that time extends may only fill a page, a check is made that tests the iteration of the loop, and if the iteration is more than the number of time extends that can fit in a page a warning is printed and the ring buffer is disabled (all of ftrace is also disabled with it). There is another event type that is called a TIMESTAMP which can hold 64 bits of data in the theoretical case that two events happen 18 years apart. This code has not been implemented, but the name of this event exists, as well as the structure for it. The size of a TIMESTAMP is 16 bytes, where as a time extend is only 8 bytes. The macro used to calculate how many time extends can fit on a page used the TIMESTAMP size instead of the time extend size cutting the amount in half. The following test case can easily trigger the warning since we only need to have half the page filled with time extends to trigger the warning: # cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/ # echo function > current_tracer # echo 'common_pid < 0' > events/ftrace/function/filter # echo > trace # echo 1 > trace_marker # sleep 120 # cat trace Enabling the function tracer and then setting the filter to only trace functions where the process id is negative (no events), then clearing the trace buffer to ensure that we have nothing in the buffer, then write to trace_marker to add an event to the beginning of a page, sleep for 2 minutes (only 35 seconds is probably needed, but this guarantees the bug), and then finally reading the trace which will trigger the bug. This patch fixes the typo and prevents the false positive of that warning. Reported-by: Hans J. Koch <hjk@linutronix.de> Tested-by: Hans J. Koch <hjk@linutronix.de> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> 
commit d01343244abdedd18303d0323b518ed9cdcb1988 upstream.

Time stamps for the ring buffer are created by the difference between
two events. Each page of the ring buffer holds a full 64 bit timestamp.
Each event has a 27 bit delta stamp from the last event. The unit of time
is nanoseconds, so 27 bits can hold ~134 milliseconds. If two events
happen more than 134 milliseconds apart, a time extend is inserted
to add more bits for the delta. The time extend has 59 bits, which
is good for ~18 years.

Currently the time extend is committed separately from the event.
If an event is discarded before it is committed, due to filtering,
the time extend still exists. If all events are being filtered, then
after ~134 milliseconds a new time extend will be added to the buffer.

This can only happen till the end of the page. Since each page holds
a full timestamp, there is no reason to add a time extend to the
beginning of a page. Time extends can only fill a page that has actual
data at the beginning, so there is no fear that time extends will fill
more than a page without any data.

When reading an event, a loop is made to skip over time extends
since they are only used to maintain the time stamp and are never
given to the caller. As a paranoid check to prevent the loop running
forever, with the knowledge that time extends may only fill a page,
a check is made that tests the iteration of the loop, and if the
iteration is more than the number of time extends that can fit in a page
a warning is printed and the ring buffer is disabled (all of ftrace
is also disabled with it).

There is another event type that is called a TIMESTAMP which can
hold 64 bits of data in the theoretical case that two events happen
18 years apart. This code has not been implemented, but the name
of this event exists, as well as the structure for it. The
size of a TIMESTAMP is 16 bytes, where as a time extend is only
8 bytes. The macro used to calculate how many time extends can fit on
a page used the TIMESTAMP size instead of the time extend size
cutting the amount in half.

The following test case can easily trigger the warning since we only
need to have half the page filled with time extends to trigger the
warning:

 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
 # echo function > current_tracer
 # echo 'common_pid < 0' > events/ftrace/function/filter
 # echo > trace
 # echo 1 > trace_marker
 # sleep 120
 # cat trace

Enabling the function tracer and then setting the filter to only trace
functions where the process id is negative (no events), then clearing
the trace buffer to ensure that we have nothing in the buffer,
then write to trace_marker to add an event to the beginning of a page,
sleep for 2 minutes (only 35 seconds is probably needed, but this
guarantees the bug), and then finally reading the trace which will
trigger the bug.

This patch fixes the typo and prevents the false positive of that warning.

Reported-by: Hans J. Koch <hjk@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Hans J. Koch <hjk@linutronix.de>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
tracing: t_start: reset FTRACE_ITER_HASH in case of seek/pread 2011-01-06T23:07:46+00:00 Chris Wright chrisw@sous-sol.org 2010-09-09T23:34:59+00:00 ed6c29b8a1a35463ec9fc6843543f0a19e0af158 commit df09162550fbb53354f0c88e85b5d0e6129ee9cc upstream. Be sure to avoid entering t_show() with FTRACE_ITER_HASH set without having properly started the iterator to iterate the hash. This case is degenerate and, as discovered by Robert Swiecki, can cause t_hash_show() to misuse a pointer. This causes a NULL ptr deref with possible security implications. Tracked as CVE-2010-3079. Cc: Robert Swiecki <swiecki@google.com> Cc: Eugene Teo <eugene@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> 
commit df09162550fbb53354f0c88e85b5d0e6129ee9cc upstream.

Be sure to avoid entering t_show() with FTRACE_ITER_HASH set without
having properly started the iterator to iterate the hash.  This case is
degenerate and, as discovered by Robert Swiecki, can cause t_hash_show()
to misuse a pointer.  This causes a NULL ptr deref with possible security
implications.  Tracked as CVE-2010-3079.

Cc: Robert Swiecki <swiecki@google.com>
Cc: Eugene Teo <eugene@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
tracing: Do not allow llseek to set_ftrace_filter 2011-01-06T23:07:45+00:00 Steven Rostedt srostedt@redhat.com 2010-09-08T15:20:37+00:00 af54da7460bd486c7df9727efcbcb7e9e1c490f3 commit 9c55cb12c1c172e2d51e85fbb5a4796ca86b77e7 upstream. Reading the file set_ftrace_filter does three things. 1) shows whether or not filters are set for the function tracer 2) shows what functions are set for the function tracer 3) shows what triggers are set on any functions 3 is independent from 1 and 2. The way this file currently works is that it is a state machine, and as you read it, it may change state. But this assumption breaks when you use lseek() on the file. The state machine gets out of sync and the t_show() may use the wrong pointer and cause a kernel oops. Luckily, this will only kill the app that does the lseek, but the app dies while holding a mutex. This prevents anyone else from using the set_ftrace_filter file (or any other function tracing file for that matter). A real fix for this is to rewrite the code, but that is too much for a -rc release or stable. This patch simply disables llseek on the set_ftrace_filter() file for now, and we can do the proper fix for the next major release. Reported-by: Robert Swiecki <swiecki@google.com> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Cc: Tavis Ormandy <taviso@google.com> Cc: Eugene Teo <eugene@redhat.com> Cc: vendor-sec@lst.de Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> 
commit 9c55cb12c1c172e2d51e85fbb5a4796ca86b77e7 upstream.

Reading the file set_ftrace_filter does three things.

1) shows whether or not filters are set for the function tracer
2) shows what functions are set for the function tracer
3) shows what triggers are set on any functions

3 is independent from 1 and 2.

The way this file currently works is that it is a state machine,
and as you read it, it may change state. But this assumption breaks
when you use lseek() on the file. The state machine gets out of sync
and the t_show() may use the wrong pointer and cause a kernel oops.

Luckily, this will only kill the app that does the lseek, but the app
dies while holding a mutex. This prevents anyone else from using the
set_ftrace_filter file (or any other function tracing file for that matter).

A real fix for this is to rewrite the code, but that is too much for
a -rc release or stable. This patch simply disables llseek on the
set_ftrace_filter() file for now, and we can do the proper fix for the
next major release.

Reported-by: Robert Swiecki <swiecki@google.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Cc: Tavis Ormandy <taviso@google.com>
Cc: Eugene Teo <eugene@redhat.com>
Cc: vendor-sec@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
tracing: Fix a race in function profile 2011-01-06T23:07:45+00:00 Li Zefan lizf@cn.fujitsu.com 2010-08-23T08:50:12+00:00 c1652827c8578296d0e6560793bbfc213da8e0b6 commit 3aaba20f26f58843e8f20611e5c0b1c06954310f upstream. While we are reading trace_stat/functionX and someone just disabled function_profile at that time, we can trigger this: divide error: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP ... EIP is at function_stat_show+0x90/0x230 ... This fix just takes the ftrace_profile_lock and checks if rec->counter is 0. If it's 0, we know the profile buffer has been reset. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> LKML-Reference: <4C723644.4040708@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> 
commit 3aaba20f26f58843e8f20611e5c0b1c06954310f upstream.

While we are reading trace_stat/functionX and someone just
disabled function_profile at that time, we can trigger this:

	divide error: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
	...
	EIP is at function_stat_show+0x90/0x230
	...

This fix just takes the ftrace_profile_lock and checks if
rec->counter is 0. If it's 0, we know the profile buffer
has been reset.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4C723644.4040708@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
tracing: Fix ring_buffer_read_page reading out of page boundary 2010-08-26T23:43:24+00:00 Huang Ying ying.huang@intel.com 2010-07-28T06:14:01+00:00 118fa53596b17db279814805f49d0c9202a929e1 commit 18fab912d4fa70133df164d2dcf3310be0c38c34 upstream. With the configuration: CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC=y and Shaohua's patch: [PATCH]x86: make spurious_fault check correct pte bit Function call graph trace with the following will trigger a page fault. # cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/ # echo function_graph > current_tracer # cat per_cpu/cpu1/trace_pipe_raw > /dev/null BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffff880006e99000 IP: [<ffffffff81085572>] rb_event_length+0x1/0x3f PGD 1b19063 PUD 1b1d063 PMD 3f067 PTE 6e99160 Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC last sysfs file: /sys/devices/virtual/net/lo/operstate CPU 1 Modules linked in: Pid: 1982, comm: cat Not tainted 2.6.35-rc6-aes+ #300 /Bochs RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff81085572>] [<ffffffff81085572>] rb_event_length+0x1/0x3f RSP: 0018:ffff880006475e38 EFLAGS: 00010006 RAX: 0000000000000ff0 RBX: ffff88000786c630 RCX: 000000000000001d RDX: ffff880006e98000 RSI: 0000000000000ff0 RDI: ffff880006e99000 RBP: ffff880006475eb8 R08: 000000145d7008bd R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 0000000000008000 R11: ffffffff815d9336 R12: ffff880006d08000 R13: ffff880006e605d8 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000018 FS: 00007f2b83e456f0(0000) GS:ffff880002100000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b CR2: ffff880006e99000 CR3: 00000000064a8000 CR4: 00000000000006e0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Process cat (pid: 1982, threadinfo ffff880006474000, task ffff880006e40770) Stack: ffff880006475eb8 ffffffff8108730f 0000000000000ff0 000000145d7008bd <0> ffff880006e98010 ffff880006d08010 0000000000000296 ffff88000786c640 <0> ffffffff81002956 0000000000000000 ffff8800071f4680 ffff8800071f4680 Call Trace: [<ffffffff8108730f>] ? ring_buffer_read_page+0x15a/0x24a [<ffffffff81002956>] ? return_to_handler+0x15/0x2f [<ffffffff8108a575>] tracing_buffers_read+0xb9/0x164 [<ffffffff810debfe>] vfs_read+0xaf/0x150 [<ffffffff81002941>] return_to_handler+0x0/0x2f [<ffffffff810248b0>] __bad_area_nosemaphore+0x17e/0x1a1 [<ffffffff81002941>] return_to_handler+0x0/0x2f [<ffffffff810248e6>] bad_area_nosemaphore+0x13/0x15 Code: 80 25 b2 16 b3 00 fe c9 c3 55 48 89 e5 f0 80 0d a4 16 b3 00 02 c9 c3 55 31 c0 48 89 e5 48 83 3d 94 16 b3 00 01 c9 0f 94 c0 c3 55 <8a> 0f 48 89 e5 83 e1 1f b8 08 00 00 00 0f b6 d1 83 fa 1e 74 27 RIP [<ffffffff81085572>] rb_event_length+0x1/0x3f RSP <ffff880006475e38> CR2: ffff880006e99000 ---[ end trace a6877bb92ccb36bb ]--- The root cause is that ring_buffer_read_page() may read out of page boundary, because the boundary checking is done after reading. This is fixed via doing boundary checking before reading. Reported-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> LKML-Reference: <1280297641.2771.307.camel@yhuang-dev> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> 
commit 18fab912d4fa70133df164d2dcf3310be0c38c34 upstream.

With the configuration: CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC=y and Shaohua's patch:

[PATCH]x86: make spurious_fault check correct pte bit

Function call graph trace with the following will trigger a page fault.

# cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
# echo function_graph > current_tracer
# cat per_cpu/cpu1/trace_pipe_raw > /dev/null

BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffff880006e99000
IP: [<ffffffff81085572>] rb_event_length+0x1/0x3f
PGD 1b19063 PUD 1b1d063 PMD 3f067 PTE 6e99160
Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
last sysfs file: /sys/devices/virtual/net/lo/operstate
CPU 1
Modules linked in:

Pid: 1982, comm: cat Not tainted 2.6.35-rc6-aes+ #300 /Bochs
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff81085572>]  [<ffffffff81085572>] rb_event_length+0x1/0x3f
RSP: 0018:ffff880006475e38  EFLAGS: 00010006
RAX: 0000000000000ff0 RBX: ffff88000786c630 RCX: 000000000000001d
RDX: ffff880006e98000 RSI: 0000000000000ff0 RDI: ffff880006e99000
RBP: ffff880006475eb8 R08: 000000145d7008bd R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000008000 R11: ffffffff815d9336 R12: ffff880006d08000
R13: ffff880006e605d8 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000018
FS:  00007f2b83e456f0(0000) GS:ffff880002100000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
CR2: ffff880006e99000 CR3: 00000000064a8000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Process cat (pid: 1982, threadinfo ffff880006474000, task ffff880006e40770)
Stack:
 ffff880006475eb8 ffffffff8108730f 0000000000000ff0 000000145d7008bd
<0> ffff880006e98010 ffff880006d08010 0000000000000296 ffff88000786c640
<0> ffffffff81002956 0000000000000000 ffff8800071f4680 ffff8800071f4680
Call Trace:
 [<ffffffff8108730f>] ? ring_buffer_read_page+0x15a/0x24a
 [<ffffffff81002956>] ? return_to_handler+0x15/0x2f
 [<ffffffff8108a575>] tracing_buffers_read+0xb9/0x164
 [<ffffffff810debfe>] vfs_read+0xaf/0x150
 [<ffffffff81002941>] return_to_handler+0x0/0x2f
 [<ffffffff810248b0>] __bad_area_nosemaphore+0x17e/0x1a1
 [<ffffffff81002941>] return_to_handler+0x0/0x2f
 [<ffffffff810248e6>] bad_area_nosemaphore+0x13/0x15
Code: 80 25 b2 16 b3 00 fe c9 c3 55 48 89 e5 f0 80 0d a4 16 b3 00 02 c9 c3 55 31 c0 48 89 e5 48 83 3d 94 16 b3 00 01 c9 0f 94 c0 c3 55 <8a> 0f 48 89 e5 83 e1 1f b8 08 00 00 00 0f b6 d1 83 fa 1e 74 27
RIP  [<ffffffff81085572>] rb_event_length+0x1/0x3f
 RSP <ffff880006475e38>
CR2: ffff880006e99000
---[ end trace a6877bb92ccb36bb ]---

The root cause is that ring_buffer_read_page() may read out of page
boundary, because the boundary checking is done after reading. This is
fixed via doing boundary checking before reading.

Reported-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <1280297641.2771.307.camel@yhuang-dev>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
tracing: Fix an unallocated memory access in function_graph 2010-08-26T23:43:23+00:00 Shaohua Li shaohua.li@intel.com 2010-07-27T08:06:34+00:00 19349f0ea9199816e06c0de3a4e66755ed50c3d1 commit 575570f02761bd680ba5731c1dfd4701062e7fb2 upstream. With CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, I observed an unallocated memory access in function_graph trace. It appears we find a small size entry in ring buffer, but we access it as a big size entry. The access overflows the page size and touches an unallocated page. Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> LKML-Reference: <1280217994.32400.76.camel@sli10-desk.sh.intel.com> [ Added a comment to explain the problem - SDR ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> 
commit 575570f02761bd680ba5731c1dfd4701062e7fb2 upstream.

With CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, I observed an unallocated memory access in
function_graph trace. It appears we find a small size entry in ring buffer,
but we access it as a big size entry. The access overflows the page size
and touches an unallocated page.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <1280217994.32400.76.camel@sli10-desk.sh.intel.com>
[ Added a comment to explain the problem - SDR ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Merge branch 'master' into export-slabh 2010-04-05T02:37:28+00:00 Tejun Heo tj@kernel.org 2010-04-05T02:37:28+00:00 336f5899d287f06d8329e208fc14ce50f7ec9698 






Merge branch 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
2010-04-04T19:13:10+00:00

Linus Torvalds
torvalds@linux-foundation.org

2010-04-04T19:13:10+00:00

8ce42c8b7fdf4fc008a6fc7349beb8f4dd5cb774

* 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  perf: Always build the powerpc perf_arch_fetch_caller_regs version
  perf: Always build the stub perf_arch_fetch_caller_regs version
  perf, probe-finder: Build fix on Debian
  perf/scripts: Tuple was set from long in both branches in python_process_event()
  perf: Fix 'perf sched record' deadlock
  perf, x86: Fix callgraphs of 32-bit processes on 64-bit kernels
  perf, x86: Fix AMD hotplug & constraint initialization
  x86: Move notify_cpu_starting() callback to a later stage
  x86,kgdb: Always initialize the hw breakpoint attribute
  perf: Use hot regs with software sched switch/migrate events
  perf: Correctly align perf event tracing buffer





* 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  perf: Always build the powerpc perf_arch_fetch_caller_regs version
  perf: Always build the stub perf_arch_fetch_caller_regs version
  perf, probe-finder: Build fix on Debian
  perf/scripts: Tuple was set from long in both branches in python_process_event()
  perf: Fix 'perf sched record' deadlock
  perf, x86: Fix callgraphs of 32-bit processes on 64-bit kernels
  perf, x86: Fix AMD hotplug & constraint initialization
  x86: Move notify_cpu_starting() callback to a later stage
  x86,kgdb: Always initialize the hw breakpoint attribute
  perf: Use hot regs with software sched switch/migrate events
  perf: Correctly align perf event tracing buffer







perf: Correctly align perf event tracing buffer
2010-04-01T06:26:30+00:00

Frederic Weisbecker
fweisbec@gmail.com

2010-03-22T23:08:59+00:00

eb1e79611cc9bfe21978230e3521e77ea2d7874a

The trace event buffer used by perf to record raw sample events
is typed as an array of char and may then not be aligned to 8
by alloc_percpu().

But we need it to be aligned to 8 in sparc64 because we cast
this buffer into a random structure type built by the TRACE_EVENT()
macro to store the traces. So if a random 64 bits field is accessed
inside, it may be not under an expected good alignment.

Use an array of long instead to force the appropriate alignment, and
perform a compile time check to ensure the size in byte of the buffer
is a multiple of sizeof(long) so that its actual size doesn't get
shrinked under us.

This fixes unaligned accesses reported while using perf lock
in sparc 64.

Suggested-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Suggested-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>





The trace event buffer used by perf to record raw sample events
is typed as an array of char and may then not be aligned to 8
by alloc_percpu().

But we need it to be aligned to 8 in sparc64 because we cast
this buffer into a random structure type built by the TRACE_EVENT()
macro to store the traces. So if a random 64 bits field is accessed
inside, it may be not under an expected good alignment.

Use an array of long instead to force the appropriate alignment, and
perform a compile time check to ensure the size in byte of the buffer
is a multiple of sizeof(long) so that its actual size doesn't get
shrinked under us.

This fixes unaligned accesses reported while using perf lock
in sparc 64.

Suggested-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Suggested-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>







include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h
2010-03-30T13:02:32+00:00

Tejun Heo
tj@kernel.org

2010-03-24T08:04:11+00:00

5a0e3ad6af8660be21ca98a971cd00f331318c05

percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files.  percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.

percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed.  Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability.  As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.

  http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py

The script does the followings.

* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
  only the necessary includes are there.  ie. if only gfp is used,
  gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.

* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
  blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
  to its surrounding.  It's put in the include block which contains
  core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
  alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
  doesn't seem to be any matching order.

* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
  because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
  an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
  file.

The conversion was done in the following steps.

1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
   over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
   and ~3000 slab.h inclusions.  The script emitted errors for ~400
   files.

2. Each error was manually checked.  Some didn't need the inclusion,
   some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
   embedding .c file was more appropriate for others.  This step added
   inclusions to around 150 files.

3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
   from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.

4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
   e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
   APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.

5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
   editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
   files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell.  Most gfp.h
   inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
   wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros.  Each
   slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
   necessary.

6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.

7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
   were fixed.  CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
   distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
   more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
   build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).

   * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
   * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * ia64 SMP allmodconfig
   * s390 SMP allmodconfig
   * alpha SMP allmodconfig
   * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig

8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
   a separate patch and serve as bisection point.

Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>





percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files.  percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.

percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed.  Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability.  As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.

  http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py

The script does the followings.

* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
  only the necessary includes are there.  ie. if only gfp is used,
  gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.

* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
  blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
  to its surrounding.  It's put in the include block which contains
  core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
  alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
  doesn't seem to be any matching order.

* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
  because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
  an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
  file.

The conversion was done in the following steps.

1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
   over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
   and ~3000 slab.h inclusions.  The script emitted errors for ~400
   files.

2. Each error was manually checked.  Some didn't need the inclusion,
   some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
   embedding .c file was more appropriate for others.  This step added
   inclusions to around 150 files.

3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
   from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.

4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
   e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
   APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.

5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
   editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
   files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell.  Most gfp.h
   inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
   wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros.  Each
   slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
   necessary.

6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.

7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
   were fixed.  CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
   distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
   more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
   build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).

   * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
   * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * ia64 SMP allmodconfig
   * s390 SMP allmodconfig
   * alpha SMP allmodconfig
   * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig

8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
   a separate patch and serve as bisection point.

Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>