linux-toradex.git/scripts/recordmcount.pl, branch v4.11-rc3

scripts/spelling.txt: add "swith" pattern and fix typo instances

2017-02-28T02:43:46+00:00

Fix typos and add the following to the scripts/spelling.txt:

  swith||switch
  swithable||switchable
  swithed||switched
  swithing||switching

While we are here, fix the "update" to "updates" in the touched hunk in
drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/wmm.c.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1481573103-11329-2-git-send-email-yamada.masahiro@socionext.com
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

nmi_backtrace: generate one-line reports for idle cpus

2016-10-08T01:46:30+00:00

When doing an nmi backtrace of many cores, most of which are idle, the
output is a little overwhelming and very uninformative.  Suppress
messages for cpus that are idling when they are interrupted and just
emit one line, "NMI backtrace for N skipped: idling at pc 0xNNN".

We do this by grouping all the cpuidle code together into a new
.cpuidle.text section, and then checking the address of the interrupted
PC to see if it lies within that section.

This commit suitably tags x86 and tile idle routines, and only adds in
the minimal framework for other architectures.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1472487169-14923-5-git-send-email-cmetcalf@mellanox.com
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf 
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Tested-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Tested-by: Daniel Thompson  [arm]
Tested-by: Petr Mladek 
Cc: Aaron Tomlin 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" 
Cc: Russell King 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

scripts/recordmcount.c: account for .softirqentry.text

2016-09-28T23:19:02+00:00

be7635e7287e ("arch, ftrace: for KASAN put hard/soft IRQ entries into
separate sections") added .softirqentry.text section, but it was not added
to recordmcount.  So functions in the section are untracable.  Add the
section to scripts/recordmcount.c and scripts/recordmcount.pl.

Fixes: be7635e7287e ("arch, ftrace: for KASAN put hard/soft IRQ entries into separate sections")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1474902626-73468-1-git-send-email-dvyukov@google.com
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Vyukov 
Acked-by: Steve Rostedt 
Cc: 	[4.6+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

scripts/recordmcount.pl: support data in text section on powerpc

2016-01-13T01:35:41+00:00

If a text section starts out with a data blob before the first
function start label, disassembly parsing doing in recordmcount.pl
gets confused on powerpc, leading to creation of corrupted module
objects.

This was not a problem so far since the compiler would never create
such text sections.  However, this has changed with a recent change
in GCC 6 to support distances of > 2GB between a function and its
assoicated TOC in the ELFv2 ABI, exposing this problem.

There is already code in recordmcount.pl to handle such data blobs
on the sparc64 platform.  This patch uses the same method to handle
those on powerpc as well.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt 
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Weigand 
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux

2015-02-12T01:42:32+00:00

Pull s390 updates from Martin Schwidefsky:

 - The remaining patches for the z13 machine support: kernel build
   option for z13, the cache synonym avoidance, SMT support,
   compare-and-delay for spinloops and the CES5S crypto adapater.

 - The ftrace support for function tracing with the gcc hotpatch option.
   This touches common code Makefiles, Steven is ok with the changes.

 - The hypfs file system gets an extension to access diagnose 0x0c data
   in user space for performance analysis for Linux running under z/VM.

 - The iucv hvc console gets wildcard spport for the user id filtering.

 - The cacheinfo code is converted to use the generic infrastructure.

 - Cleanup and bug fixes.

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux: (42 commits)
  s390/process: free vx save area when releasing tasks
  s390/hypfs: Eliminate hypfs interval
  s390/hypfs: Add diagnose 0c support
  s390/cacheinfo: don't use smp_processor_id() in preemptible context
  s390/zcrypt: fixed domain scanning problem (again)
  s390/smp: increase maximum value of NR_CPUS to 512
  s390/jump label: use different nop instruction
  s390/jump label: add sanity checks
  s390/mm: correct missing space when reporting user process faults
  s390/dasd: cleanup profiling
  s390/dasd: add locking for global_profile access
  s390/ftrace: hotpatch support for function tracing
  ftrace: let notrace function attribute disable hotpatching if necessary
  ftrace: allow architectures to specify ftrace compile options
  s390: reintroduce diag 44 calls for cpu_relax()
  s390/zcrypt: Add support for new crypto express (CEX5S) adapter.
  s390/zcrypt: Number of supported ap domains is not retrievable.
  s390/spinlock: add compare-and-delay to lock wait loops
  s390/tape: remove redundant if statement
  s390/hvc_iucv: add simple wildcard matches to the iucv allow filter
  ...

s390/ftrace: hotpatch support for function tracing

2015-01-29T08:19:25+00:00

Make use of gcc's hotpatch support to generate better code for ftrace
function tracing.
The generated code now contains only a six byte nop in each function
prologue instead of a 24 byte code block which will be runtime patched to
support function tracing.
With the new code generation the runtime overhead for supporting function
tracing is close to zero, while the original code did show a significant
performance impact.

Acked-by: Steven Rostedt 
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens 
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky

scripts/recordmcount.pl: There is no -m32 gcc option on Super-H anymore

2015-01-19T17:10:47+00:00

Compiling SH with gcc-4.8 fails due to the -m32 option not being
supported.

From http://buildd.debian-ports.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=linux&arch=sh4&ver=3.16.7-ckt4-1&stamp=1421425783

      CC      init/main.o
    gcc-4.8: error: unrecognized command line option '-m32'
    ld: cannot find init/.tmp_mc_main.o: No such file or directory
    objcopy: 'init/.tmp_mx_main.o': No such file
    rm: cannot remove 'init/.tmp_mx_main.o': No such file or directory
    rm: cannot remove 'init/.tmp_mc_main.o': No such file or directory

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1421537778-29001-1-git-send-email-kernel@mkarcher.dialup.fu-berlin.de
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/54BCBDD4.10102@physik.fu-berlin.de

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Matt Fleming 
Reported-by: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz 
Signed-off-by: Michael Karcher 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

s390/ftrace,kprobes: allow to patch first instruction

2014-10-27T12:27:27+00:00

If the function tracer is enabled, allow to set kprobes on the first
instruction of a function (which is the function trace caller):

If no kprobe is set handling of enabling and disabling function tracing
of a function simply patches the first instruction. Either it is a nop
(right now it's an unconditional branch, which skips the mcount block),
or it's a branch to the ftrace_caller() function.

If a kprobe is being placed on a function tracer calling instruction
we encode if we actually have a nop or branch in the remaining bytes
after the breakpoint instruction (illegal opcode).
This is possible, since the size of the instruction used for the nop
and branch is six bytes, while the size of the breakpoint is only
two bytes.
Therefore the first two bytes contain the illegal opcode and the last
four bytes contain either "0" for nop or "1" for branch. The kprobes
code will then execute/simulate the correct instruction.

Instruction patching for kprobes and function tracer is always done
with stop_machine(). Therefore we don't have any races where an
instruction is patched concurrently on a different cpu.
Besides that also the program check handler which executes the function
trace caller instruction won't be executed concurrently to any
stop_machine() execution.

This allows to keep full fault based kprobes handling which generates
correct pt_regs contents automatically.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens 
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky

s390/ftrace: remove 31 bit ftrace support

2014-10-09T07:14:18+00:00

31 bit and 64 bit diverge more and more and it is rather painful
to keep both parts running.
To make things simpler just remove the 31 bit support which nobody
uses anyway.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens 
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky

ftrace: Add arm64 support to recordmcount

2014-05-29T08:04:31+00:00

Recordmcount utility under scripts is run, after compiling each object,
to find out all the locations of calling _mcount() and put them into
specific seciton named __mcount_loc.
Then linker collects all such information into a table in the kernel image
(between __start_mcount_loc and __stop_mcount_loc) for later use by ftrace.

This patch adds arm64 specific definitions to identify such locations.
There are two types of implementation, C and Perl. On arm64, only C version
is used to build the kernel now that CONFIG_HAVE_C_RECORDMCOUNT is on.
But Perl version is also maintained.

This patch also contains a workaround just in case where a header file,
elf.h, on host machine doesn't have definitions of EM_AARCH64 nor
R_AARCH64_ABS64. Without them, compiling C version of recordmcount will
fail.

Acked-by: Will Deacon 
Signed-off-by: AKASHI Takahiro 
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon