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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/suspend-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/suspend-2.6:
PM / Runtime: Add runtime PM statistics (v3)
PM / Runtime: Make runtime_status attribute not debug-only (v. 2)
PM: Do not use dynamically allocated objects in pm_wakeup_event()
PM / Suspend: Fix ordering of calls in suspend error paths
PM / Hibernate: Fix snapshot error code path
PM / Hibernate: Fix hibernation_platform_enter()
pm_qos: Get rid of the allocation in pm_qos_add_request()
pm_qos: Reimplement using plists
plist: Add plist_last
PM: Make it possible to avoid races between wakeup and system sleep
PNPACPI: Add support for remote wakeup
PM: describe kernel policy regarding wakeup defaults (v. 2)
PM / Hibernate: Fix typos in comments in kernel/power/swap.c
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Comment in unregister_trace_probe() says probe_lock will be held when it
gets called. However there is a case where it might called without the
probe_lock being held. Also since we are traversing the probe_list and
deleting an element from the probe_list, probe_lock should be held.
This was first pointed in uprobes traceevent review by Frederic
Weisbecker here. (http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/5/12/106)
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <20100630084548.GA10325@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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usleep_range is a finer precision implementations of msleep
and is designed to be a drop-in replacement for udelay where
a precise sleep / busy-wait is unnecessary.
Since an easy interface to hrtimers could lead to an undesired
proliferation of interrupts, we provide only a "range" API,
forcing the caller to think about an acceptable tolerance on
both ends and hopefully avoiding introducing another interrupt.
INTRO
As discussed here ( http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/3/250 ), msleep(1) is not
precise enough for many drivers (yes, sleep precision is an unfair notion,
but consistently sleeping for ~an order of magnitude greater than requested
is worth fixing). This patch adds a usleep API so that udelay does not have
to be used. Obviously not every udelay can be replaced (those in atomic
contexts or being used for simple bitbanging come to mind), but there are
many, many examples of
mydriver_write(...)
/* Wait for hardware to latch */
udelay(100)
in various drivers where a busy-wait loop is neither beneficial nor
necessary, but msleep simply does not provide enough precision and people
are using a busy-wait loop instead.
CONCERNS FROM THE RFC
Why is udelay a problem / necessary? Most callers of udelay are in device/
driver initialization code, which is serial...
As I see it, there is only benefit to sleeping over a delay; the
notion of "refactoring" areas that use udelay was presented, but
I see usleep as the refactoring. Consider i2c, if the bus is busy,
you need to wait a bit (say 100us) before trying again, your
current options are:
* udelay(100)
* msleep(1) <-- As noted above, actually as high as ~20ms
on some platforms, so not really an option
* Manually set up an hrtimer to try again in 100us (which
is what usleep does anyway...)
People choose the udelay route because it is EASY; we need to
provide a better easy route.
Device / driver / boot code is *currently* serial, but every few
months someone makes noise about parallelizing boot, and IMHO, a
little forward-thinking now is one less thing to worry about
if/when that ever happens
udelay's could be preempted
Sure, but if udelay plans on looping 1000 times, and it gets
preempted on loop 200, whenever it's scheduled again, it is
going to do the next 800 loops.
Is the interruptible case needed?
Probably not, but I see usleep as a very logical parallel to msleep,
so it made sense to include the "full" API. Processors are getting
faster (albeit not as quickly as they are becoming more parallel),
so if someone wanted to be interruptible for a few usecs, why not
let them? If this is a contentious point, I'm happy to remove it.
OTHER THOUGHTS
I believe there is also value in exposing the usleep_range option; it gives
the scheduler a lot more flexibility and allows the programmer to express
his intent much more clearly; it's something I would hope future driver
writers will take advantage of.
To get the results in the NUMBERS section below, I literally s/udelay/usleep
the kernel tree; I had to go in and undo the changes to the USB drivers, but
everything else booted successfully; I find that extremely telling in and
of itself -- many people are using a delay API where a sleep will suit them
just fine.
SOME ATTEMPTS AT NUMBERS
It turns out that calculating quantifiable benefit on this is challenging,
so instead I will simply present the current state of things, and I hope
this to be sufficient:
How many udelay calls are there in 2.6.35-rc5?
udealy(ARG) >= | COUNT
1000 | 319
500 | 414
100 | 1146
20 | 1832
I am working on Android, so that is my focus for this. The following table
is a modified usleep that simply printk's the amount of time requested to
sleep; these tests were run on a kernel with udelay >= 20 --> usleep
"boot" is power-on to lock screen
"power collapse" is when the power button is pushed and the device suspends
"resume" is when the power button is pushed and the lock screen is displayed
(no touchscreen events or anything, just turning on the display)
"use device" is from the unlock swipe to clicking around a bit; there is no
sd card in this phone, so fail loading music, video, camera
ACTION | TOTAL NUMBER OF USLEEP CALLS | NET TIME (us)
boot | 22 | 1250
power-collapse | 9 | 1200
resume | 5 | 500
use device | 59 | 7700
The most interesting category to me is the "use device" field; 7700us of
busy-wait time that could be put towards better responsiveness, or at the
least less power usage.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Pannuto <ppannuto@codeaurora.org>
Cc: apw@canonical.com
Cc: corbet@lwn.net
Cc: arjan@linux.intel.com
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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This reverts commit 22b8f15c2f7130bb0386f548428df2ffd4e81903 to merge
an advanced version.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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In some cases (for instance with kernel threads) it may be desireable to
use on-stack deferrable timers to get their power saving benefits. Add
interfaces to support this for the IPS driver.
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
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Historically, Linux has tried to make the regular timer tick on the
various CPUs not happen at the same time, to avoid contention on
xtime_lock.
Nowadays, with the tickless kernel, this contention no longer happens
since time keeping and updating are done differently. In addition,
this skew is actually hurting power consumption in a measurable way on
many-core systems.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100727210210.58d3118c@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Conflicts:
tools/perf/Makefile
tools/perf/util/hist.c
Merge reason: Resolve the conflicts and update to latest upstream.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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tracepoint call
We use synchronize_sched() to ensure a tracepoint won't be called
while/after we release the perf buffers it references.
But the tracepoint API has its own API for that:
tracepoint_synchronize_unregister(). Use it instead as it's
self-explanatory and eases maintainance.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
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A function that copies the padata cpumasks to a user buffer
is a bit error prone. The cpumask can change any time so we
can't be sure to have the right cpumask when using this function.
A user who is interested in the padata cpumasks should register
to the padata cpumask notifier chain instead. Users of
padata_get_cpumask are already updated, so we can remove it.
Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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We pass a pointer to the new padata cpumasks to the cpumask_change_notifier
chain. So users can access the cpumasks without the need of an extra
padata_get_cpumask function.
Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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padata_set_cpumask needs to be protected by a lock. We make
__padata_set_cpumasks unlocked and static. So this function
can be used by the exported and locked padata_set_cpumask and
padata_set_cpumasks functions.
Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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We rename padata_alloc to padata_alloc_possible because this
function allocates a padata_instance and uses the cpu_possible
mask for parallel and serial workers. Also we rename __padata_alloc
to padata_alloc to avoid to export underlined functions. Underlined
functions are considered to be private to padata. Users are updated
accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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It's possible for get_task_cred() as it currently stands to 'corrupt' a set of
credentials by incrementing their usage count after their replacement by the
task being accessed.
What happens is that get_task_cred() can race with commit_creds():
TASK_1 TASK_2 RCU_CLEANER
-->get_task_cred(TASK_2)
rcu_read_lock()
__cred = __task_cred(TASK_2)
-->commit_creds()
old_cred = TASK_2->real_cred
TASK_2->real_cred = ...
put_cred(old_cred)
call_rcu(old_cred)
[__cred->usage == 0]
get_cred(__cred)
[__cred->usage == 1]
rcu_read_unlock()
-->put_cred_rcu()
[__cred->usage == 1]
panic()
However, since a tasks credentials are generally not changed very often, we can
reasonably make use of a loop involving reading the creds pointer and using
atomic_inc_not_zero() to attempt to increment it if it hasn't already hit zero.
If successful, we can safely return the credentials in the knowledge that, even
if the task we're accessing has released them, they haven't gone to the RCU
cleanup code.
We then change task_state() in procfs to use get_task_cred() rather than
calling get_cred() on the result of __task_cred(), as that suffers from the
same problem.
Without this change, a BUG_ON in __put_cred() or in put_cred_rcu() can be
tripped when it is noticed that the usage count is not zero as it ought to be,
for example:
kernel BUG at kernel/cred.c:168!
invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP
last sysfs file: /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run
CPU 0
Pid: 2436, comm: master Not tainted 2.6.33.3-85.fc13.x86_64 #1 0HR330/OptiPlex
745
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff81069881>] [<ffffffff81069881>] __put_cred+0xc/0x45
RSP: 0018:ffff88019e7e9eb8 EFLAGS: 00010202
RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: ffff880161514480 RCX: 00000000ffffffff
RDX: 00000000ffffffff RSI: ffff880140c690c0 RDI: ffff880140c690c0
RBP: ffff88019e7e9eb8 R08: 00000000000000d0 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000040 R12: ffff880140c690c0
R13: ffff88019e77aea0 R14: 00007fff336b0a5c R15: 0000000000000001
FS: 00007f12f50d97c0(0000) GS:ffff880007400000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f8f461bc000 CR3: 00000001b26ce000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Process master (pid: 2436, threadinfo ffff88019e7e8000, task ffff88019e77aea0)
Stack:
ffff88019e7e9ec8 ffffffff810698cd ffff88019e7e9ef8 ffffffff81069b45
<0> ffff880161514180 ffff880161514480 ffff880161514180 0000000000000000
<0> ffff88019e7e9f28 ffffffff8106aace 0000000000000001 0000000000000246
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff810698cd>] put_cred+0x13/0x15
[<ffffffff81069b45>] commit_creds+0x16b/0x175
[<ffffffff8106aace>] set_current_groups+0x47/0x4e
[<ffffffff8106ac89>] sys_setgroups+0xf6/0x105
[<ffffffff81009b02>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
Code: 48 8d 71 ff e8 7e 4e 15 00 85 c0 78 0b 8b 75 ec 48 89 df e8 ef 4a 15 00
48 83 c4 18 5b c9 c3 55 8b 07 8b 07 48 89 e5 85 c0 74 04 <0f> 0b eb fe 65 48 8b
04 25 00 cc 00 00 48 3b b8 58 04 00 00 75
RIP [<ffffffff81069881>] __put_cred+0xc/0x45
RSP <ffff88019e7e9eb8>
---[ end trace df391256a100ebdd ]---
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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A small number of users of IRQF_TIMER are using it for the implied no
suspend behaviour on interrupts which are not timer interrupts.
Therefore add a new IRQF_NO_SUSPEND flag, rename IRQF_TIMER to
__IRQF_TIMER and redefine IRQF_TIMER in terms of these new flags.
Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
Cc: linux-input@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Cc: devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org
LKML-Reference: <1280398595-29708-1-git-send-email-ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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The xtime cleanup missed the kgdb access to xtime. Fix it.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Add a new kernel API to attach a task to current task's cgroup
in all the active hierarchies.
Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
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The command
echo "file ec.c +p" >/sys/kernel/debug/dynamic_debug/control
causes an oops.
Move the call to ddebug_remove_module() down into free_module(). In this
way it should be called from all error paths. Currently, we are missing
the remove if the module init routine fails.
Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Tested-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> [2.6.32+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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To properly handle clocksources that change frequencies
at the clocksource->enable() point, this patch adds
a method that will update the clocksource's mult/shift and
max_idle_ns values.
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <1279068988-21864-12-git-send-email-johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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This patch makes xtime and wall_to_monotonic static, as planned in
Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt. This will allow for
further cleanups to the timekeeping core.
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <1279068988-21864-10-git-send-email-johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Provides an accessor function to replace hrtimer.c's
direct access of wall_to_monotonic.
This will allow wall_to_monotonic to be made static as
planned in Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <1279068988-21864-9-git-send-email-johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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update_vsyscall() did not provide the wall_to_monotoinc offset,
so arch specific implementations tend to reference wall_to_monotonic
directly. This limits future cleanups in the timekeeping core, so
this patch fixes the update_vsyscall interface to provide
wall_to_monotonic, allowing wall_to_monotonic to be made static
as planned in Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <1279068988-21864-7-git-send-email-johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Now that all arches have been converted over to use generic time via
clocksources or arch_gettimeoffset(), we can remove the GENERIC_TIME
config option and simplify the generic code.
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <1279068988-21864-4-git-send-email-johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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After accidentally misusing timespec_add_safe, I wanted to make sure
we don't accidently trip over that issue again, so I created a simple
timespec_add() function which we can use to replace the instances
of timespec_add_safe() that don't want the overflow detection.
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <1279068988-21864-3-git-send-email-johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Now that we allow to change the cpumasks from userspace, we have
to check for valid cpumasks in padata_do_parallel. This patch adds
the necessary check. This fixes a division by zero crash if the
parallel cpumask contains no active cpu.
Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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The cpumask separation work assumes the cpumask dependend recources
present regardless of valid or invalid cpumasks. With this patch
we allocate the cpumask dependend recources in any case. This fixes
two NULL pointer dereference crashes in padata_replace and in
padata_get_cpumask.
Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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The counting of the cpu index got lost with a recent commit.
This patch restores it. This fixes a hang of the parallel worker
threads on cpu hotplug.
Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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According to Oleg Nesterov:
We can move copy_to_user(created_timer_id) down after
"if (timer_event_spec)" block too. (but before CLOCK_DISPATCH(),
of course).
Signed-off-by: Andrey Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrey Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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usleep[_range] are finer precision implementations of msleep
and are designed to be drop-in replacements for udelay where
a precise sleep / busy-wait is unnecessary. They also allow
an easy interface to specify slack when a precise (ish)
wakeup is unnecessary to help minimize wakeups
Signed-off-by: Patrick Pannuto <ppannuto@codeaurora.org>
Cc: akinobu.mita@gmail.com
Cc: sboyd@codeaurora.org
Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <4C44CDD2.1070708@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Steal some text from 6e453a67510 "Add support for deferrable timers". A
reader shouldn't have to dig through the git logs for the basic
description of a deferrable timer.
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Cc: johnstul@us.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into perf/core
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We need to add one to the strlen() return because of the NULL
character. The type->name here generally comes from the kernel and I
don't think any of them come close to being MAX_TRACER_SIZE (100)
characters long so this is basically a cleanup.
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100710100644.GV19184@bicker>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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The kdb code should not toggle the sysrq state in case an end user
wants to try and resume the normal kernel execution.
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
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Immediately following an exit from the kdb shell the kgdb_connected
variable should be set to zero, unless there are breakpoints planted.
If the kgdb_connected variable is not zeroed out with kdb, it is
impossible to turn off kdb.
This patch is merely a work around for now, the real fix will check
for the breakpoints.
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
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In the process of merging kdb to the mainline, the kdb lsmod command
stopped printing the base load address of kernel modules. This is
needed for using kdb in conjunction with external tools such as gdb.
Simply restore the functionality by adding a kdb_printf for the base
load address of the kernel modules.
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
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The gdbserial protocol handler should return an empty packet instead
of an error string when ever it responds to a command it does not
implement.
The problem cases come from a debugger client sending
qTBuffer, qTStatus, qSearch, qSupported.
The incorrect response from the gdbstub leads the debugger clients to
not function correctly. Recent versions of gdb will not detach correctly as a result of this behavior.
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Dongdong Deng <dongdong.deng@windriver.com>
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Without this patch the "ll" linked-list traversal command won't
terminate when you hit q/Q.
Signed-off-by: Martin Hicks <mort@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
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The sched_child_runs_first value in /proc/sched_debug is
currently displayed using a macro meant to split ns time values.
This patch uses the correct macro to display it as a plain
decimal value.
Signed-off-by: Josh Hunt <johunt@akamai.com>
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: juhlenko@akamai.com
Cc: efault@gmx.de
LKML-Reference: <1279567876-25418-1-git-send-email-johunt@akamai.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Merge reason: Move from the -rc3 to the almost-rc6 base.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/random-tracing into perf/core
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Merge reason: Pick up the latest perf fixes.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt says
buffer_size_kb:
This sets or displays the number of kilobytes each CPU
buffer can hold. The tracer buffers are the same size
for each CPU. The displayed number is the size of the
CPU buffer and not total size of all buffers. The
trace buffers are allocated in pages (blocks of memory
that the kernel uses for allocation, usually 4 KB in size).
If the last page allocated has room for more bytes
than requested, the rest of the page will be used,
making the actual allocation bigger than requested.
( Note, the size may not be a multiple of the page size
due to buffer management overhead. )
This can only be updated when the current_tracer
is set to "nop".
But it's incorrect. currently total memory consumption is
'buffer_size_kb x CPUs x 2'.
Why two times difference is there? because ftrace implicitly allocate
the buffer for max latency too.
That makes sad result when admin want to use large buffer. (If admin
want full logging and makes detail analysis). example, If admin
have 24 CPUs machine and write 200MB to buffer_size_kb, the system
consume ~10GB memory (200MB x 24 x 2). umm.. 5GB memory waste is
usually unacceptable.
Fortunatelly, almost all users don't use max latency feature.
The max latency buffer can be disabled easily.
This patch shrink buffer size of the max latency buffer if
unnecessary.
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100701104554.DA2D.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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__print_flags() and __print_symbolic() use percpu trace_seq:
1) Its memory is allocated at compile time, it wastes memory if we don't use tracing.
2) It is percpu data and it wastes more memory for multi-cpus system.
3) It disables preemption when it executes its core routine
"trace_seq_printf(s, "%s: ", #call);" and introduces latency.
So we move this trace_seq to struct trace_iterator.
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4C078350.7090106@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Reorder structure to remove 8 bytes of padding on 64 bit builds.
This shrinks the size to 128 bytes so allowing allocation from a smaller
slab & needed one fewer cache lines.
Signed-off-by: Richard Kennedy <richard@rsk.demon.co.uk>
LKML-Reference: <1269516456.2054.8.camel@localhost>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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We found that even enabling a single trace event that will rarely be
triggered can add big overhead to context switch.
(lmbench context switch test)
-------------------------------------------------
2p/0K 2p/16K 2p/64K 8p/16K 8p/64K 16p/16K 16p/64K
ctxsw ctxsw ctxsw ctxsw ctxsw ctxsw ctxsw
------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------- -------
2.19 2.3 2.21 2.56 2.13 2.54 2.07
2.39 2.51 2.35 2.75 2.27 2.81 2.24
The overhead is 6% ~ 11%.
It's because when a trace event is enabled 3 tracepoints (sched_switch,
sched_wakeup, sched_wakeup_new) will be activated to map pid to cmdname.
We'd like to avoid this overhead, so add a trace option '(no)record-cmd'
to allow to disable cmdline recording.
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4C2D57F4.2050204@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Convert a few calls from kfree_skb to consume_skb
Noticed while I was working on dropwatch that I was detecting lots of internal
skb drops in several places. While some are legitimate, several were not,
freeing skbs that were at the end of their life, rather than being discarded due
to an error. This patch converts those calls sites from using kfree_skb to
consume_skb, which quiets the in-kernel drop_monitor code from detecting them as
drops. Tested successfully by myself
Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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The default for llseek will change to no_llseek,
so the tracing debugfs files need to add explicit
.llseek assignments. Since we're dealing with regular
files from a VFS perspective, use generic_file_llseek.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <1278538820-1392-10-git-send-email-arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
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Special traces type was only used by sysprof. Lets remove it now
that sysprof ftrace plugin has been dropped.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Soeren Sandmann <sandmann@daimi.au.dk>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
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The sysprof ftrace plugin doesn't seem to be seriously used
somewhere. There is a branch in the sysprof tree that makes
an interface to it, but the real sysprof tool uses either its
own module or perf events.
Drop the sysprof ftrace plugin then, as it's mostly useless.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Soeren Sandmann <sandmann@daimi.au.dk>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
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