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14 years agoperf newt: Fix the 'A'/'a' shortcut for annotate
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo [Sat, 15 May 2010 23:45:31 +0000 (20:45 -0300)]
perf newt: Fix the 'A'/'a' shortcut for annotate

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
14 years agoperf newt: Make <- exit the ui_browser
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo [Sat, 15 May 2010 23:40:34 +0000 (20:40 -0300)]
perf newt: Make <- exit the ui_browser

Right now that means that pressing the left arrow willl make the symbol
annotation window to exit back to the main symbol histogram browser.

This is another improvement on the UI fastpath, i.e. just the arrows and
enter are enough for most browsing.

Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
14 years agoMerge branch 'perf' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux-2...
Ingo Molnar [Sat, 15 May 2010 06:39:09 +0000 (08:39 +0200)]
Merge branch 'perf' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux-2.6 into perf/core

14 years agox86, perf: P4 PMU - fix counters management logic
Cyrill Gorcunov [Fri, 14 May 2010 19:08:15 +0000 (23:08 +0400)]
x86, perf: P4 PMU - fix counters management logic

Jaswinder reported this #GP:

 |
 | Message from syslogd@ht at May 14 09:39:32 ...
 | kernel:[  314.908612] EIP: [<c100ccca>]
 | x86_perf_event_set_period+0x19d/0x1b2 SS:ESP 0068:edac3d70
 |

Ming has narrowed it down to a comparision issue
between arguments with different sizes and
signs. As result event index reached a wrong
value which in turn led to a GP fault.

At the same time it was found that p4_next_cntr
has broken logic and should return the counter
index only if it was not yet borrowed for
another event.

Reported-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderlinux@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Bisected-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Tested-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderlinux@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
CC: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
CC: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100514190815.GG13509@lenovo>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
14 years agoperf newt: Make <- zoom out filters
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo [Fri, 14 May 2010 23:05:21 +0000 (20:05 -0300)]
perf newt: Make <- zoom out filters

After we use the filters to zoom into DSOs or threads, we can use <-
(left arrow) to zoom out from the last filter applied.

It is still possible to zoom out of order by using the popup menu.

With this we now have the zoom out operation on the browsing fast path,
by allowing fast navigation using just the four arrors and the enter key
to expand collapse callchains.

Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
14 years agoperf report: Report number of events, not samples
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo [Fri, 14 May 2010 17:19:35 +0000 (14:19 -0300)]
perf report: Report number of events, not samples

Number of samples is meaningless after we switched to auto-freq, so
report the number of events, i.e. not the sum of the different periods,
but the number PERF_RECORD_SAMPLE emitted by the kernel.

While doing this I noticed that naming "count" to the sum of all the
event periods can be confusing, so rename it to .period, just like in
struct sample.data, so that we become more consistent.

This helps with the next step, that was to record in struct hist_entry
the number of sample events for each instance, we need that because we
use it to generate the number of events when applying filters to the
tree of hist entries like it is being done in the TUI report browser.

Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
14 years agoperf hist: Clarify events_stats fields usage
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo [Fri, 14 May 2010 16:16:55 +0000 (13:16 -0300)]
perf hist: Clarify events_stats fields usage

The events_stats.total field is too generic, rename it to .total_period,
and also add a comment explaining that it is the sum of all the .period
fields in samples, that is needed because we use auto-freq to avoid
sampling artifacts.

Ditto for events_stats.lost, that is the sum of all lost_event.lost
fields, i.e. the number of events the kernel dropped.

Looking at the users, builtin-sched.c can make use of these fields and
stop doing it again.

Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
14 years agoperf hist: Make event__totals per hists
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo [Fri, 14 May 2010 13:36:42 +0000 (10:36 -0300)]
perf hist: Make event__totals per hists

This is one more thing that started global but are more useful per hist
or per session.

Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
14 years agoperf trace scripts: Fix typos in perf-trace-python.txt
Kirill Smelkov [Thu, 13 May 2010 10:39:25 +0000 (14:39 +0400)]
perf trace scripts: Fix typos in perf-trace-python.txt

option option   -> option
special special -> special

Signed-off-by: Kirill Smelkov <kirr@mns.spb.ru>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1273747165-17242-1-git-send-email-kirr@mns.spb.ru>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
14 years agoperf tools: change event inheritance logic in stat and record
Stephane Eranian [Wed, 12 May 2010 08:40:01 +0000 (10:40 +0200)]
perf tools: change event inheritance logic in stat and record

By default, event inheritance across fork and pthread_create was on but the -i
option of stat and record, which enabled inheritance, led to believe it was off
by default.

This patch fixes this logic by inverting the meaning of the -i option.  By
default inheritance is on whether you attach to a process (-p), a thread (-t)
or start a process. If you pass -i, then you turn off inheritance. Turning off
inheritance if you don't need it, helps limit perf resource usage as well.

The patch also fixes perf stat -t xxxx and perf record -t xxxx which did not
start the counters.

Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <4bea9d2f.d60ce30a.0b5b.08e1@mx.google.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
14 years agoperf hist: Fix missing getline declaration
Frederic Weisbecker [Thu, 13 May 2010 17:47:16 +0000 (19:47 +0200)]
perf hist: Fix missing getline declaration

hist.c needs to include util.h so that it gets stdio.h
inclusion with __GNU_SOURCE defined.

Fixes:
util/hist.c: In function ‘hist_entry__parse_objdump_line’:
util/hist.c:931: erreur: implicit declaration of function ‘getline’
util/hist.c:931: erreur: nested extern declaration of ‘getline’

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: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1273772836-11533-1-git-send-regression-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
14 years agoperf hist: Fix hists__browse no-newt case
Frederic Weisbecker [Thu, 13 May 2010 17:22:58 +0000 (19:22 +0200)]
perf hist: Fix hists__browse no-newt case

Fix mistake in a parameter type of the no-newt hists__browse()
version.

Fixes:
builtin-report.c: In function ‘__cmd_report’:
builtin-report.c:314: erreur: incompatible type for argument 1 of ‘hists__browse’

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: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1273771378-8577-1-git-send-regression-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
14 years agox86, perf: P4 PMU -- use hash for p4_get_escr_idx()
Cyrill Gorcunov [Wed, 12 May 2010 17:42:42 +0000 (21:42 +0400)]
x86, perf: P4 PMU -- use hash for p4_get_escr_idx()

Linear search over all p4 MSRs should be fine if only
we would not use it in events scheduling routine which
is pretty time critical. Lets use hashes. It should speed
scheduling up significantly.

v2: Steven proposed to use more gentle approach than issue
    BUG on error, so we use WARN_ONCE now

Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100512174242.GA5190@lenovo>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
14 years agoMerge branch 'perf' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux-2...
Ingo Molnar [Wed, 12 May 2010 06:14:29 +0000 (08:14 +0200)]
Merge branch 'perf' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux-2.6 into perf/core

14 years agoperf report: Librarize the annotation code and use it in the newt browser
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo [Wed, 12 May 2010 02:18:06 +0000 (23:18 -0300)]
perf report: Librarize the annotation code and use it in the newt browser

Now we don't anymore use popen to run 'perf annotate' for the selected
symbol, instead we collect per address samplings when processing samples
in 'perf report' if we're using the newt browser, then we use this data
directly to do annotation.

Done this way we can actually traverse the objdump_line objects
directly, matching the addresses to the collected samples and colouring
them appropriately using lower level slang routines.

The new ui_browser class will be reused for the main, callchain aware,
histogram browser, when it will be made generic and don't assume that
the objects are always instances of the objdump_line class maintained
using list_heads.

Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
14 years agoperf ui: Add ui_helpline methods
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo [Tue, 11 May 2010 21:01:23 +0000 (18:01 -0300)]
perf ui: Add ui_helpline methods

Initially this was just to be able to have a printf like method to
prepare the formatted string and then pass to newtPushHelpLine, but as
we already have for ui_progress, etc, its a step in identifying a
restricted, highlevel set of widgets we can then have implementations
for multiple widget sets (GTK, etc).

Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
14 years agoperf symbols: allow forcing use of cplus_demangle
Kyle McMartin [Mon, 10 May 2010 20:43:35 +0000 (16:43 -0400)]
perf symbols: allow forcing use of cplus_demangle

For Fedora, I want to force perf to link against libiberty.a for
cplus_demangle, rather than libbfd.a for bfd_demangle due to licensing insanity
on binutils. (libiberty is LGPL2, libbfd is GPL3.)

If we just rely on autodetection, we'll end up with libbfd linked against us,
since they're both in binutils-static in the buildroot.

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
LKML-Reference: <20100510204335.GA7565@bombadil.infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
14 years agoperf probe: Check older elfutils and set NO_DWARF
Masami Hiramatsu [Tue, 11 May 2010 04:59:53 +0000 (00:59 -0400)]
perf probe: Check older elfutils and set NO_DWARF

Check whether elfutils is older than 0.138 (from which version checking
routine has been introduced). And if so, set NO_DWARF because it is hard
to check the API dependency without version checking.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
LKML-Reference: <20100511045953.9913.19485.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
14 years agoperf hist: Adopt filter by dso and by thread methods from the newt browser
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo [Tue, 11 May 2010 14:10:15 +0000 (11:10 -0300)]
perf hist: Adopt filter by dso and by thread methods from the newt browser

Those are really not specific to the newt code, can be used by other UI
frontends.

Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
14 years agoperf, powerpc: Implement group scheduling transactional APIs
Lin Ming [Sat, 8 May 2010 10:28:41 +0000 (20:28 +1000)]
perf, powerpc: Implement group scheduling transactional APIs

[paulus@samba.org: Set cpuhw->event[i]->hw.config in
power_pmu_commit_txn.]

Signed-off-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20100508102841.GA10650@brick.ozlabs.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
14 years agoperf: Fix exit() vs event-groups
Peter Zijlstra [Tue, 11 May 2010 14:19:10 +0000 (16:19 +0200)]
perf: Fix exit() vs event-groups

Corey reported that the value scale times of group siblings are not
updated when the monitored task dies.

The problem appears to be that we only update the group leader's
time values, fix it by updating the whole group.

Reported-by: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> # .34.x
LKML-Reference: <1273588935.1810.6.camel@laptop>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
14 years agoperf: Fix exit() vs PERF_FORMAT_GROUP
Peter Zijlstra [Tue, 11 May 2010 09:51:53 +0000 (11:51 +0200)]
perf: Fix exit() vs PERF_FORMAT_GROUP

Both Stephane and Corey reported that PERF_FORMAT_GROUP didn't
work as expected if the task the counters were attached to quit
before the read() call.

The cause is that we unconditionally destroy the grouping when
we remove counters from their context. Fix this by splitting off
the group destroy from the list removal such that
perf_event_remove_from_context() does not do this and change
perf_event_release() to do so.

Reported-by: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reported-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> # .34.x
LKML-Reference: <1273571513.5605.3527.camel@twins>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
14 years agoRevert "perf: Fix exit() vs PERF_FORMAT_GROUP"
Ingo Molnar [Tue, 11 May 2010 06:31:49 +0000 (08:31 +0200)]
Revert "perf: Fix exit() vs PERF_FORMAT_GROUP"

This reverts commit 4fd38e4595e2f6c9d27732c042a0e16b2753049c.

It causes various crashes and hangs when events are activated.

The cause is not fully understood yet but we need to revert it
because the effects are severe.

Reported-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Reported-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
14 years agoperf/trace/scripting: syscall-counts script cleanup
Tom Zanussi [Mon, 10 May 2010 04:47:00 +0000 (23:47 -0500)]
perf/trace/scripting: syscall-counts script cleanup

A small fix for the syscall counts script:

 - silence the match output in the shell script

Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
LKML-Reference: <1273466820-9330-10-git-send-email-tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
14 years agoperf/trace/scripting: syscall-counts-by-pid script cleanup
Tom Zanussi [Mon, 10 May 2010 04:46:59 +0000 (23:46 -0500)]
perf/trace/scripting: syscall-counts-by-pid script cleanup

A small fix for the syscall counts by pid script:

- silence the match output in the shell script

Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
LKML-Reference: <1273466820-9330-9-git-send-email-tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
14 years agoperf/trace/scripting: failed-syscalls-by-pid script cleanup
Tom Zanussi [Mon, 10 May 2010 04:46:58 +0000 (23:46 -0500)]
perf/trace/scripting: failed-syscalls-by-pid script cleanup

A small fixe for the failed syscalls by pid script:

 - silence the match output in the shell script

Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
LKML-Reference: <1273466820-9330-8-git-send-email-tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
14 years agoperf/trace/scripting: don't show script start/stop messages by default
Tom Zanussi [Mon, 10 May 2010 04:46:57 +0000 (23:46 -0500)]
perf/trace/scripting: don't show script start/stop messages by default

Only print the script start/stop messages in verbose mode - users
normally don't care and it just clutters up the output.

Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
LKML-Reference: <1273466820-9330-7-git-send-email-tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
14 years agoperf/trace/scripting: workqueue-stats script cleanup
Tom Zanussi [Mon, 10 May 2010 04:46:56 +0000 (23:46 -0500)]
perf/trace/scripting: workqueue-stats script cleanup

Some minor fixes for the workqueue-stats script:

 - Fix nuisance 'use of uninitialized value' warnings

Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
LKML-Reference: <1273466820-9330-6-git-send-email-tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
14 years agoperf/trace/scripting: wakeup-latency script cleanup
Tom Zanussi [Mon, 10 May 2010 04:46:55 +0000 (23:46 -0500)]
perf/trace/scripting: wakeup-latency script cleanup

Some minor fixes for the wakeup-latency script:

 - Fix nuisance 'use of uninitialized value' warnings

 - Avoid divide-by-zero error

Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
LKML-Reference: <1273466820-9330-5-git-send-email-tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
14 years agoperf/trace/scripting: rwtop script cleanup
Tom Zanussi [Mon, 10 May 2010 04:46:54 +0000 (23:46 -0500)]
perf/trace/scripting: rwtop script cleanup

A couple of fixes for the rwtop script:

- printing the totals and clearing the hashes in the signal handler
  eventually leads to various random and serious problems when running
  the rwtop script continuously.  Moving the print_totals() calls to
  the event handlers solves that problem, and the event handlers are
  invoked frequently enough that it doesn't affect the timeliness of
  the output.

- Fix nuisance 'use of uninitialized value' warnings

Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Message-Id: <1273466820-9330-4-git-send-email-tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
14 years agoperf/trace/scripting: rw-by-pid script cleanup
Tom Zanussi [Mon, 10 May 2010 04:46:53 +0000 (23:46 -0500)]
perf/trace/scripting: rw-by-pid script cleanup

Some minor fixes for the rw-by-pid script:

- Fix nuisance 'use of uninitialized value' warnings

- Change the failed read/write sections to sort by error counts

Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
LKML-Reference: <1273466820-9330-3-git-send-email-tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
14 years agoperf/trace/scripting: failed-syscalls script cleanup
Tom Zanussi [Mon, 10 May 2010 04:46:52 +0000 (23:46 -0500)]
perf/trace/scripting: failed-syscalls script cleanup

A couple small fixes for the failed syscalls script:

- The script description says it can be restricted to a specific comm,
  make it so.

- silence the match output in the shell script

Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
LKML-Reference: <1273466820-9330-2-git-send-email-tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
14 years agoperf hist: Calculate max_sym name len and nr_entries
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo [Mon, 10 May 2010 16:57:51 +0000 (13:57 -0300)]
perf hist: Calculate max_sym name len and nr_entries

Better done when we are adding entries, be it initially of when we're
re-sorting the histograms.

Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
14 years agoperf hist: Introduce hists class and move lots of methods to it
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo [Mon, 10 May 2010 16:04:11 +0000 (13:04 -0300)]
perf hist: Introduce hists class and move lots of methods to it

In cbbc79a we introduced support for multiple events by introducing a
new "event_stat_id" struct and then made several perf_session methods
receive a point to it instead of a pointer to perf_session, and kept the
event_stats and hists rb_tree in perf_session.

While working on the new newt based browser, I realised that it would be
better to introduce a new class, "hists" (short for "histograms"),
renaming the "event_stat_id" struct and the perf_session methods that
were really "hists" methods, as they manipulate only struct hists
members, not touching anything in the other perf_session members.

Other optimizations, such as calculating the maximum lenght of a symbol
name present in an hists instance will be possible as we add them,
avoiding a re-traversal just for finding that information.

The rationale for the name "hists" to replace "event_stat_id" is that we
may have multiple sets of hists for the same event_stat id, as, for
instance, the 'perf diff' tool has, so event stat id is not what
characterizes what this struct and the functions that manipulate it do.

Cc: Eric B Munson <ebmunson@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
14 years agoperf session: create_kernel_maps should use ->host_machine
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo [Mon, 10 May 2010 15:51:05 +0000 (12:51 -0300)]
perf session: create_kernel_maps should use ->host_machine

Using machines__create_kernel_maps(..., HOST_KERNEL_ID) it would create
another machine instance for the host machine, and since 1f626bc we have
it out of the machines rb_tree.

Fix it by using machine__create_kernel_maps(&self->host_machine)
directly.

Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
14 years agoperf callchains: Use zalloc to allocate objects
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo [Mon, 10 May 2010 13:56:50 +0000 (10:56 -0300)]
perf callchains: Use zalloc to allocate objects

Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
14 years agoperf newt: Use newtAddComponent()
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo [Mon, 10 May 2010 13:51:25 +0000 (10:51 -0300)]
perf newt: Use newtAddComponent()

Instead of newtAddComponents(just-one-entry, NULL), that is not needed
if, like in this browser, we're adding just one component at a time.

Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
14 years agoMerge branch 'perf/test' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic...
Ingo Molnar [Mon, 10 May 2010 06:20:19 +0000 (08:20 +0200)]
Merge branch 'perf/test' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/random-tracing into perf/core

14 years agoperf report: Allow limiting the number of entries to print in callchains
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo [Sun, 9 May 2010 23:28:10 +0000 (20:28 -0300)]
perf report: Allow limiting the number of entries to print in callchains

Works by adding a third parameter to the '-g' argument, after the graph
type and minimum percentage, for example:

[root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# perf report -g fractal,0.5,2

Will show only the first two symbols where at least 0.5% of the samples
took place.

All the other symbols that don't fall outside these constraints will be
put together in the last entry, prefixed with "[...]" and the total
percentage for them.

Suggested-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
14 years agoperf session: Embed the host machine data on perf_session
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo [Sun, 9 May 2010 22:57:08 +0000 (19:57 -0300)]
perf session: Embed the host machine data on perf_session

We have just one host on a given session, and that is the most common
setup right now, so embed a ->host_machine struct machine instance
directly in the perf_session class, check if we're looking for it before
going to the rb_tree.

This also fixes a problem found when we try to process old perf.data
files where we didn't have MMAP events for the kernel and modules and
thus don't create the kernel maps, do it in event__preprocess_sample if
it wasn't already.

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: Zhang, Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
14 years agoperf symbols: Check if a struct machine instance was found
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo [Mon, 10 May 2010 00:14:07 +0000 (21:14 -0300)]
perf symbols: Check if a struct machine instance was found

Which can happen when processing old files that had no fake kernel MMAP,
events.

That shouldn't result in perf_session__create_kernel_maps not being
called, this will be fixed in a followup patch, for now do these checks
to avoid segfaulting.

Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
14 years agoperf symbols: Consider unresolved DSOs in the dso__col_widt calculation
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo [Sun, 9 May 2010 19:07:01 +0000 (16:07 -0300)]
perf symbols: Consider unresolved DSOs in the dso__col_widt calculation

By using BITS_PER_LONG / 4, that is the number of chars that will be
used in such cases as the DSO "name".

Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
14 years agoperf lock: Drop "-a" option from cmd_record() default arguments set
Hitoshi Mitake [Sat, 8 May 2010 08:10:29 +0000 (17:10 +0900)]
perf lock: Drop "-a" option from cmd_record() default arguments set

This patch drops "-a" from the default arguments passed to
perf record by perf lock.

If a user wants to do a system wide record of lock events,
        perf lock record -a <program> <argument> ...
is enough for this purpose.

This can reduce the size of the perf.data file.

% sudo ./perf lock record whoami
root
[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.439 MB perf.data (~19170 samples) ]
% sudo ./perf lock record -a whoami   # with -a option
root
[ perf record: Woken up 0 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 48.962 MB perf.data (~2139197 samples) ]

Signed-off-by: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: Message-Id: <1273306229-5216-1-git-send-email-mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
14 years agoperf hist: Simplify the insertion of new hist_entry instances
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo [Sun, 9 May 2010 16:02:23 +0000 (13:02 -0300)]
perf hist: Simplify the insertion of new hist_entry instances

And with that fix at least one bug:

The first hit for an entry, the one that calls malloc to create a new
instance in __perf_session__add_hist_entry, wasn't adding the count to
the per cpumode (PERF_RECORD_MISC_USER, etc) total variable.

Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
14 years agoperf report: Fix leak of resolved callchains array on error path
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo [Sun, 9 May 2010 15:01:05 +0000 (12:01 -0300)]
perf report: Fix leak of resolved callchains array on error path

Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
14 years agoperf callchain: Move validate_callchain to callchain lib
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo [Sun, 9 May 2010 14:47:13 +0000 (11:47 -0300)]
perf callchain: Move validate_callchain to callchain lib

Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
14 years agoperf/live-mode: Handle payload-less events
Tom Zanussi [Wed, 5 May 2010 05:27:40 +0000 (00:27 -0500)]
perf/live-mode: Handle payload-less events

Some events, such as the PERF_RECORD_FINISHED_ROUND event consist of
only an event header and no data.  In this case, a 0-length payload
will be read, and the 0 return value will be wrongly interpreted as an
'unexpected end of event stream'.

This patch allows for proper handling of data-less events by skipping
0-length reads.

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1273038527.6383.51.camel@tropicana>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
14 years agotracing: Factorize lock events in a lock class
Frederic Weisbecker [Sat, 8 May 2010 04:36:02 +0000 (06:36 +0200)]
tracing: Factorize lock events in a lock class

lock_acquired, lock_contended and lock_release now share the
same prototype and format. Let's factorize them into a lock
event class.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
14 years agotracing: Drop the nested field from lock_release event
Frederic Weisbecker [Sat, 8 May 2010 04:24:25 +0000 (06:24 +0200)]
tracing: Drop the nested field from lock_release event

Drop the nested field as we don't use it. Every nested state can
be computed from a state machine on post processing already.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
14 years agotracing: Drop lock_acquired waittime field
Frederic Weisbecker [Sat, 8 May 2010 04:16:11 +0000 (06:16 +0200)]
tracing: Drop lock_acquired waittime field

Drop the waittime field from the lock_acquired event, we can
calculate it by substracting the lock_acquired event timestamp
with the matching lock_acquire one.

It is not needed and takes useless space in the traces.

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: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
14 years agoperf lock: Always check min AND max wait time
Frederic Weisbecker [Fri, 7 May 2010 00:33:42 +0000 (02:33 +0200)]
perf lock: Always check min AND max wait time

When a lock is acquired after beeing contended, we update the
wait time statistics for the given lock.
But if the min wait time is updated, we don't check the max wait
time. This is wrong because the first time we update the wait time,
we want to update both min and max wait time.

Before:
Name   acquired  contended total wait (ns)   max wait (ns)   min wait (ns)
key          8          1           21656           0           21656

After:
Name   acquired  contended total wait (ns)   max wait (ns)   min wait (ns)
key          8          1           21656           21656           21656

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: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
14 years agoperf: Fix perf lock bad rate
Frederic Weisbecker [Thu, 6 May 2010 02:55:22 +0000 (04:55 +0200)]
perf: Fix perf lock bad rate

Fix the cast made to get the bad rate. It is made in the result
instead of the operands. We need the operands to be cast in double,
otherwise the result will always be zero.

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: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
14 years agoperf: Humanize lock flags in perf lock
Frederic Weisbecker [Wed, 5 May 2010 21:57:25 +0000 (23:57 +0200)]
perf: Humanize lock flags in perf lock

Use an enum instead of plain constants for lock flags.

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: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
14 years agoperf: Cleanup perf lock broken states
Frederic Weisbecker [Wed, 5 May 2010 21:47:28 +0000 (23:47 +0200)]
perf: Cleanup perf lock broken states

Use enum to get a human view of bad_hist indexes and
put bad histogram output in its own function.

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: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
14 years agoperf lock: Add "info" subcommand for dumping misc information
Hitoshi Mitake [Mon, 3 May 2010 05:12:00 +0000 (14:12 +0900)]
perf lock: Add "info" subcommand for dumping misc information

This adds the "info" subcommand to perf lock which can be used
to dump metadata like threads or addresses of lock instances.
"map" was removed because info should do the work for it.

This will be useful not only for debugging but also for ordinary
analyzing.

v2: adding example of usage
% sudo ./perf lock info -t
 | Thread ID: comm
 |   0: swapper
 |         1: init
 |        18: migration/5
 |        29: events/2
 |        32: events/5
 |        33: events/6
...

% sudo ./perf lock info -m
| Address of instance: name of class
|  0xffff8800b95adae0: &(&sighand->siglock)->rlock
|  0xffff8800bbb41ae0: &(&sighand->siglock)->rlock
|  0xffff8800bf165ae0: &(&sighand->siglock)->rlock
|  0xffff8800b9576a98: &p->cred_guard_mutex
|  0xffff8800bb890a08: &(&p->alloc_lock)->rlock
|  0xffff8800b9522a08: &(&p->alloc_lock)->rlock
|  0xffff8800bb8aaa08: &(&p->alloc_lock)->rlock
|  0xffff8800bba72a08: &(&p->alloc_lock)->rlock
|  0xffff8800bf18ea08: &(&p->alloc_lock)->rlock
|  0xffff8800b8a0d8a0: &(&ip->i_lock)->mr_lock
|  0xffff88009bf818a0: &(&ip->i_lock)->mr_lock
|  0xffff88004c66b8a0: &(&ip->i_lock)->mr_lock
|  0xffff8800bb6478a0: &(shost->host_lock)->rlock

v3: fixed some problems Frederic pointed out
 * better rbtree tracking in dump_threads()
 * removed printf() and used pr_info() and pr_debug()

Signed-off-by: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <1272863520-16179-1-git-send-email-mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
14 years agoperf: Provide a new deterministic events reordering algorithm
Frederic Weisbecker [Mon, 3 May 2010 13:14:33 +0000 (15:14 +0200)]
perf: Provide a new deterministic events reordering algorithm

The current events reordering algorithm is based on a heuristic that
gets broken once we deal with a very fast flow of events.

Indeed the time period based flushing is not suitable anymore
in the following case, assuming we have a flush period of two
seconds.

    CPU 0           |        CPU 1
                    |
  cnt1 timestamps   |      cnt1 timestamps
                    |
    0               |         0
    1               |         1
    2               |         2
    3               |         3
    [...]           |        [...]
    4 seconds later

If we spend too much time to read the buffers (case of a lot of
events to record in each buffers or when we have a lot of CPU buffers
to read), in the next pass the CPU 0 buffer could contain a slice
of several seconds of events. We'll read them all and notice we've
reached the period to flush. In the above example we flush the first
half of the CPU 0 buffer, then we read the CPU 1 buffer where we
have events that were on the flush slice and then the reordering
fails.

It's simple to reproduce with:

perf lock record perf bench sched messaging

To solve this, we use a new solution that doesn't rely on an
heuristical time slice period anymore but on a deterministic basis
based on how perf record does its job.

perf record saves the buffers through passes. A pass is a tour
on every buffers from every CPUs. This is made in order: for
each CPU we read the buffers of every counters. So the more
buffers we visit, the later will be the timstamps of their events.

When perf record finishes a pass it records a
PERF_RECORD_FINISHED_ROUND pseudo event.
We record the max timestamp t found in the pass n. Assuming these
timestamps are monotonic across cpus, we know that if a buffer
still has events with timestamps below t, they will be all available
and then read in the pass n + 1.
Hence when we start to read the pass n + 2, we can safely flush every
events with timestamps below t.

      ============ PASS n =================
         CPU 0         |   CPU 1
                       |
      cnt1 timestamps  |   cnt2 timestamps
            1          |         2
            2          |         3
            -          |         4  <--- max recorded

      ============ PASS n + 1 ==============
         CPU 0         |   CPU 1
                       |
      cnt1 timestamps  |   cnt2 timestamps
            3          |         5
            4          |         6
            5          |         7 <---- max recorded

        Flush every events below timestamp 4

      ============ PASS n + 2 ==============
         CPU 0         |   CPU 1
                       |
      cnt1 timestamps  |   cnt2 timestamps
            6          |         8
            7          |         9
            -          |         10

        Flush every events below timestamp 7
        etc...

It also works on perf.data versions that don't have
PERF_RECORD_FINISHED_ROUND pseudo events. The difference is that
the events will be only flushed in the end of the perf.data
processing. It will then consume more memory and scale less with
large perf.data files.

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: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
14 years agoperf: Introduce a new "round of buffers read" pseudo event
Frederic Weisbecker [Sun, 2 May 2010 20:05:29 +0000 (22:05 +0200)]
perf: Introduce a new "round of buffers read" pseudo event

In order to provide a more rubust and deterministic reordering
algorithm, we need to know when we reach a point where we just
did a pass through over every counter buffers to read every thing
they had.

This patch introduces a new PERF_RECORD_FINISHED_ROUND pseudo event
that only consist in an event header and doesn't need to contain
anything.

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: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
14 years agoperf report: Document '--call-graph' better for usage
Pekka Enberg [Sat, 8 May 2010 15:33:03 +0000 (18:33 +0300)]
perf report: Document '--call-graph' better for usage

This patch improves 'perf report -h' output for the
'--call-graph' command line option by enumerating the
different output types.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1273332783-4268-1-git-send-email-penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
14 years agokprobes: Move enable/disable_kprobe() out from debugfs code
Masami Hiramatsu [Tue, 27 Apr 2010 22:33:12 +0000 (18:33 -0400)]
kprobes: Move enable/disable_kprobe() out from debugfs code

Move enable/disable_kprobe() API out from debugfs related code,
because these interfaces are not related to debugfs interface.

This fixes a compiler warning.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: systemtap <systemtap@sources.redhat.com>
Cc: DLE <dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net>
LKML-Reference: <20100427223312.2322.60512.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
14 years agox86, perf: P4 PMU -- check for proper event index in RAW events
Cyrill Gorcunov [Sat, 8 May 2010 11:25:54 +0000 (15:25 +0400)]
x86, perf: P4 PMU -- check for proper event index in RAW events

RAW events are special and we should be ready for user passing
in insane event index values.

Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100508112717.315897547@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
14 years agox86, perf: P4 PMU -- Get rid of redundant check for array index
Cyrill Gorcunov [Sat, 8 May 2010 11:25:53 +0000 (15:25 +0400)]
x86, perf: P4 PMU -- Get rid of redundant check for array index

The caller already has done such a check.
And it was wrong anyway, it had to be '>=' rather than '>'

Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100508112717.130386882@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
14 years agox86, perf: P4 PMU -- protect sensible procedures from preemption
Cyrill Gorcunov [Sat, 8 May 2010 11:25:52 +0000 (15:25 +0400)]
x86, perf: P4 PMU -- protect sensible procedures from preemption

Steven reported:

|
| I'm getting:
|
| Pid: 3477, comm: perf Not tainted 2.6.34-rc6 #2727
| Call Trace:
|  [<ffffffff811c7565>] debug_smp_processor_id+0xd5/0xf0
|  [<ffffffff81019874>] p4_hw_config+0x2b/0x15c
|  [<ffffffff8107acbc>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x12b/0x14f
|  [<ffffffff81019143>] hw_perf_event_init+0x468/0x7be
|  [<ffffffff810782fd>] ? debug_mutex_init+0x31/0x3c
|  [<ffffffff810c68b2>] T.850+0x273/0x42e
|  [<ffffffff810c6cab>] sys_perf_event_open+0x23e/0x3f1
|  [<ffffffff81009e6a>] ? sysret_check+0x2e/0x69
|  [<ffffffff81009e32>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
|
| When running perf record in latest tip/perf/core
|

Due to the fact that p4 counters are shared between HT threads
we synthetically divide the whole set of counters into two
non-intersected subsets. And while we're "borrowing" counters
from these subsets we should not be preempted (well, strictly
speaking in p4_hw_config we just pre-set reference to the
subset which allow to save some cycles in schedule routine
if it happens on the same cpu). So use get_cpu/put_cpu pair.

Also p4_pmu_schedule_events should use smp_processor_id rather
than raw_ version. This allow us to catch up preemption issue
(if there will ever be).

Reported-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Tested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100508112716.963478928@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
14 years agox86, perf: P4 PMU -- configure predefined events
Cyrill Gorcunov [Sat, 8 May 2010 11:39:52 +0000 (15:39 +0400)]
x86, perf: P4 PMU -- configure predefined events

If an event is not RAW we should not exit p4_hw_config
early but call x86_setup_perfctr as well.

Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
14 years agoperf_event: Make software events work again
Paul Mackerras [Sat, 8 May 2010 10:58:00 +0000 (20:58 +1000)]
perf_event: Make software events work again

Commit 6bde9b6ce0127e2a56228a2071536d422be31336 ("perf: Add
group scheduling transactional APIs") added code to allow a
group to be scheduled in a single transaction.  However, it
introduced a bug in handling events whose pmu does not implement
transactions -- at the end of scheduling in the events in the
group, in the non-transactional case the code now falls through
to the group_error label, and proceeds to unschedule all the
events in the group and return failure.

This fixes it by returning 0 (success) in the non-transactional
case.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: eranian@gmail.com
LKML-Reference: <20100508105800.GB10650@brick.ozlabs.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
14 years agoMerge branch 'perf' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux-2...
Ingo Molnar [Sat, 8 May 2010 08:02:57 +0000 (10:02 +0200)]
Merge branch 'perf' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux-2.6 into perf/core

14 years agoperf list: Improve the raw hw event descriptor documentation
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo [Fri, 7 May 2010 17:07:05 +0000 (14:07 -0300)]
perf list: Improve the raw hw event descriptor documentation

It was x86 specific and imcomplete at that, improve the situation by
making it clear where the example provided applies and by adding the
URLs for the Intel and AMD manuals where this is discussed in depth.

Acked-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Reported-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
14 years agoperf, x86: implement group scheduling transactional APIs
Lin Ming [Fri, 23 Apr 2010 05:56:12 +0000 (13:56 +0800)]
perf, x86: implement group scheduling transactional APIs

Convert to the transactional PMU API and remove the duplication of
group_sched_in().

Reviewed-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1272002172.5707.61.camel@minggr.sh.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
14 years agoperf: Add group scheduling transactional APIs
Lin Ming [Fri, 23 Apr 2010 05:56:00 +0000 (13:56 +0800)]
perf: Add group scheduling transactional APIs

Add group scheduling transactional APIs to struct pmu.
These APIs will be implemented in arch code, based on Peter's idea as
below.

> the idea behind hw_perf_group_sched_in() is to not perform
> schedulability tests on each event in the group, but to add the group
> as a whole and then perform one test.
>
> Of course, when that test fails, you'll have to roll-back the whole
> group again.
>
> So start_txn (or a better name) would simply toggle a flag in the pmu
> implementation that will make pmu::enable() not perform the
> schedulablilty test.
>
> Then commit_txn() will perform the schedulability test (so note the
> method has to have a !void return value.
>
> This will allow us to use the regular
> kernel/perf_event.c::group_sched_in() and all the rollback code.
> Currently each hw_perf_group_sched_in() implementation duplicates all
> the rolllback code (with various bugs).

->start_txn:
Start group events scheduling transaction, set a flag to make
pmu::enable() not perform the schedulability test, it will be performed
at commit time.

->commit_txn:
Commit group events scheduling transaction, perform the group
schedulability as a whole

->cancel_txn:
Stop group events scheduling transaction, clear the flag so
pmu::enable() will perform the schedulability test.

Reviewed-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1272002160.5707.60.camel@minggr.sh.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
14 years agoperf, x86: Improve the PEBS ABI
Peter Zijlstra [Thu, 8 Apr 2010 21:03:20 +0000 (23:03 +0200)]
perf, x86: Improve the PEBS ABI

Rename perf_event_attr::precise to perf_event_attr::precise_ip and
widen it to 2 bits. This new field describes the required precision of
the PERF_SAMPLE_IP field:

  0 - SAMPLE_IP can have arbitrary skid
  1 - SAMPLE_IP must have constant skid
  2 - SAMPLE_IP requested to have 0 skid
  3 - SAMPLE_IP must have 0 skid

And modify the Intel PEBS code accordingly. The PEBS implementation
now supports up to precise_ip == 2, where we perform the IP fixup.

Also s/PERF_RECORD_MISC_EXACT/&_IP/ to clarify its meaning, this bit
should be set for each PERF_SAMPLE_IP field known to match the actual
instruction triggering the event.

This new scheme allows for a PEBS mode that uses the buffer for more
than a single event.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
14 years agoperf, x86: Consolidate some code repetition
Peter Zijlstra [Thu, 8 Apr 2010 21:03:20 +0000 (23:03 +0200)]
perf, x86: Consolidate some code repetition

Remove some duplicated logic.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
14 years agoperf, x86: Remove PEBS SAMPLE_RAW support
Peter Zijlstra [Tue, 4 May 2010 14:30:21 +0000 (16:30 +0200)]
perf, x86: Remove PEBS SAMPLE_RAW support

Its broken, we really should get PERF_SAMPLE_REGS sorted.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
14 years agoperf, x86: Use weight instead of cmask in for_each_event_constraint()
Robert Richter [Tue, 13 Apr 2010 20:23:15 +0000 (22:23 +0200)]
perf, x86: Use weight instead of cmask in for_each_event_constraint()

There may exist constraints with a cmask set to zero. In this case
for_each_event_constraint() will not work properly. Now weight is used
instead of the cmask for loop exit detection. Weight is always a value
other than zero since the default contains the HWEIGHT from the
counter mask and in other cases a value of zero does not fit too.

This is in preparation of ibs event constraints that wont have a
cmask.

Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1271190201-25705-7-git-send-email-robert.richter@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
14 years agoperf, x86: Pass enable bit mask to __x86_pmu_enable_event()
Robert Richter [Tue, 13 Apr 2010 20:23:14 +0000 (22:23 +0200)]
perf, x86: Pass enable bit mask to __x86_pmu_enable_event()

To reuse this function for events with different enable bit masks,
this mask is part of the function's argument list now.

The function will be used later to control ibs events too.

Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1271190201-25705-6-git-send-email-robert.richter@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
14 years agoperf, x86: Call x86_setup_perfctr() from .hw_config()
Robert Richter [Tue, 13 Apr 2010 20:23:12 +0000 (22:23 +0200)]
perf, x86: Call x86_setup_perfctr() from .hw_config()

The perfctr setup calls are in the corresponding .hw_config()
functions now. This makes it possible to introduce config functions
for other pmu events that are not perfctr specific.

Also, all of a sudden the code looks much nicer.

Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1271190201-25705-4-git-send-email-robert.richter@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
14 years agoperf, x86: Move x86_setup_perfctr()
Robert Richter [Tue, 13 Apr 2010 20:23:11 +0000 (22:23 +0200)]
perf, x86: Move x86_setup_perfctr()

Move x86_setup_perfctr(), no other changes made.

Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1271190201-25705-3-git-send-email-robert.richter@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
14 years agoperf, x86: Move perfctr init code to x86_setup_perfctr()
Robert Richter [Tue, 13 Apr 2010 20:23:10 +0000 (22:23 +0200)]
perf, x86: Move perfctr init code to x86_setup_perfctr()

Split __hw_perf_event_init() to configure pmu events other than
perfctrs. Perfctr code is moved to a separate function
x86_setup_perfctr(). This and the following patches refactor the code.

Split in multiple patches for better review.

Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1271190201-25705-2-git-send-email-robert.richter@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
14 years agoperf: Annotate perf_event_read_group() vs perf_event_release_kernel()
Peter Zijlstra [Thu, 6 May 2010 13:42:53 +0000 (15:42 +0200)]
perf: Annotate perf_event_read_group() vs perf_event_release_kernel()

Stephane reported a lockdep warning while using PERF_FORMAT_GROUP.

The issue is that perf_event_read_group() takes faults while holding
the ctx->mutex, while perf_event_release_kernel() can be called from
munmap(). Which makes for an AB-BA deadlock.

Except we can never establish the deadlock because we'll only ever
call perf_event_release_kernel() after all file descriptors are dead
so there is no concurrency possible.

Reported-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
14 years agoMerge branch 'perf/urgent' into perf/core
Ingo Molnar [Fri, 7 May 2010 09:30:29 +0000 (11:30 +0200)]
Merge branch 'perf/urgent' into perf/core

Merge reason: Resolve patch dependency

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
14 years agoperf: Fix exit() vs PERF_FORMAT_GROUP
Peter Zijlstra [Thu, 6 May 2010 15:31:38 +0000 (17:31 +0200)]
perf: Fix exit() vs PERF_FORMAT_GROUP

Both Stephane and Corey reported that PERF_FORMAT_GROUP didn't work
as expected if the task the counters were attached to quit before
the read() call.

The cause is that we unconditionally destroy the grouping when we
remove counters from their context. Fix this by only doing this when
we free the counter itself.

Reported-by: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reported-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1273160566.5605.404.camel@twins>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
14 years agoperf: Fix check at end of event search
Dan Carpenter [Sat, 20 Mar 2010 14:39:11 +0000 (17:39 +0300)]
perf: Fix check at end of event search

The original code doesn't work because "call" is never NULL there.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100320143911.GF5331@bicker>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
14 years agoMerge branch 'zerolen' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/misc-2.6
Linus Torvalds [Wed, 5 May 2010 22:48:13 +0000 (15:48 -0700)]
Merge branch 'zerolen' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/misc-2.6

* 'zerolen' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/misc-2.6:
  [MTD] Remove zero-length files mtdbdi.c and internal.ho

14 years agoMerge branch 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzi...
Linus Torvalds [Wed, 5 May 2010 22:47:57 +0000 (15:47 -0700)]
Merge branch 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev

* 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev:
  pata_pcmcia / ide-cs: Fix bad hashes for Transcend and kingston IDs
  libata: Fix several inaccuracies in developer's guide

14 years ago[MTD] Remove zero-length files mtdbdi.c and internal.ho
Jeff Garzik [Wed, 5 May 2010 19:25:12 +0000 (15:25 -0400)]
[MTD] Remove zero-length files mtdbdi.c and internal.ho

Both were "removed" in commit a33eb6b91034c95b9b08576f68be170f995b2c7d.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
14 years agopata_pcmcia / ide-cs: Fix bad hashes for Transcend and kingston IDs
Kristoffer Ericson [Sun, 2 May 2010 19:48:24 +0000 (21:48 +0200)]
pata_pcmcia / ide-cs: Fix bad hashes for Transcend and kingston IDs

This patch fixes the bad hashes for one Kingston and one Transcend card.
Thanks to komuro for pointing this out.

Signed-off-by: Kristoffer Ericson <kristoffer.ericson@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
14 years agolibata: Fix several inaccuracies in developer's guide
Sergei Shtylyov [Wed, 5 May 2010 13:27:10 +0000 (17:27 +0400)]
libata: Fix several inaccuracies in developer's guide

Commit 6bfff31e77cfa1b13490337e5a4dbaa3407e83ac (libata: kill probe_ent
and related helpers) killed ata_device_add() but didn't remove references
to it from the libata developer's guide.

Commits 9363c3825ea9ad76561eb48a395349dd29211ed6 (libata: rename SFF
functions) and 5682ed33aae05d10a25c95633ef9d9c062825888 (libata: rename
SFF port ops) renamed the taskfile access methods but didn't update the
developer's guide.  Commit c9f75b04ed5ed65a058d18a8a8dda50632a96de8
(libata: kill ata_noop_dev_select()) didn't update the developer's
guide as well.

The guide also refers to the long gone ata_pio_data_xfer_noirq(),
ata_pio_data_xfer(), and ata_mmio_data_xfer() -- replace those by
the modern ata_sff_data_xfer_noirq(), ata_sff_data_xfer(), and
ata_sff_data_xfer32().

Also, remove the reference to non-existant ata_port_stop()...

Signed-off-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
14 years agoMerge branch 'slab-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penber...
Linus Torvalds [Wed, 5 May 2010 18:18:16 +0000 (11:18 -0700)]
Merge branch 'slab-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6

* 'slab-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6:
  slub: Fix bad boundary check in init_kmem_cache_nodes()

14 years agoslub: Fix bad boundary check in init_kmem_cache_nodes()
Zhang, Yanmin [Thu, 1 Apr 2010 09:32:30 +0000 (17:32 +0800)]
slub: Fix bad boundary check in init_kmem_cache_nodes()

Function init_kmem_cache_nodes is incorrect when checking upper limitation of
kmalloc_caches. The breakage was introduced by commit
91efd773c74bb26b5409c85ad755d536448e229c ("dma kmalloc handling fixes").

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
14 years agoMerge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris...
Linus Torvalds [Wed, 5 May 2010 16:06:24 +0000 (09:06 -0700)]
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6:
  KEYS: call_sbin_request_key() must write lock keyrings before modifying them
  KEYS: Use RCU dereference wrappers in keyring key type code
  KEYS: find_keyring_by_name() can gain access to a freed keyring

14 years agoMerge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq
Linus Torvalds [Wed, 5 May 2010 14:56:36 +0000 (07:56 -0700)]
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq:
  workqueue: flush_delayed_work: keep the original workqueue for re-queueing

14 years agoMerge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Linus Torvalds [Wed, 5 May 2010 14:55:07 +0000 (07:55 -0700)]
Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6:
  FEC: Fix kernel panic in fec_set_mac_address.
  ipv6: Fix default multicast hops setting.
  net: ep93xx_eth stops receiving packets
  drivers/net/phy: micrel phy driver
  dm9601: fix phy/eeprom write routine
  ppp_generic: handle non-linear skbs when passing them to pppd
  ppp_generic: pull 2 bytes so that PPP_PROTO(skb) is valid
  net: fix compile error due to double return type in SOCK_DEBUG
  net/usb: initiate sync sequence in sierra_net.c driver
  net/usb: remove default in Kconfig for sierra_net driver
  r8169: Fix rtl8169_rx_interrupt()
  e1000e: Fix oops caused by ASPM patch.
  net/sb1250: register mdio bus in probe
  sctp: Fix skb_over_panic resulting from multiple invalid parameter errors (CVE-2010-1173) (v4)
  p54pci: fix bugs in p54p_check_tx_ring

14 years agoMerge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6
Linus Torvalds [Wed, 5 May 2010 14:54:22 +0000 (07:54 -0700)]
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6:
  ALSA: hda: Fix 0 dB for Packard Bell models using Conexant CX20549 (Venice)
  ALSA: hda - Add quirk for Dell Inspiron 19T using a Conexant CX20582
  ALSA: take tu->qlock with irqs disabled
  ALSA: hda: Use olpc-xo-1_5 quirk for Toshiba Satellite P500-PSPGSC-01800T
  ALSA: hda: Use olpc-xo-1_5 quirk for Toshiba Satellite Pro T130-15F
  ALSA: hda - fix array indexing while creating inputs for Cirrus codecs
  ALSA: es968: fix wrong PnP dma index

14 years agoMerge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input
Linus Torvalds [Wed, 5 May 2010 14:53:18 +0000 (07:53 -0700)]
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input:
  Input: joydev - allow binding to button-only devices
  Input: elantech - ignore high bits in the position coordinates
  Input: elantech - allow forcing Elantech protocol
  Input: elantech - fix firmware version check
  Input: ati_remote - add some missing devices from lirc_atiusb
  Input: eeti_ts - cancel pending work when going to suspend
  Input: Add support of Synaptics Clickpad device
  Revert "Input: ALPS - add signature for HP Pavilion dm3 laptops"
  Input: psmouse - ignore parity error for basic protocols

14 years agoraid6: fix recovery performance regression
Dan Williams [Wed, 5 May 2010 03:41:56 +0000 (20:41 -0700)]
raid6: fix recovery performance regression

The raid6 recovery code should immediately drop back to the optimized
synchronous path when a p+q dma resource is not available.  Otherwise we
run the non-optimized/multi-pass async code in sync mode.

Verified with raid6test (NDISKS=255)

Applies to kernels >= 2.6.32.

Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Acked-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Reported-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
14 years agoperf tools: Fixup minor doc formatting issues
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo [Wed, 5 May 2010 14:23:27 +0000 (11:23 -0300)]
perf tools: Fixup minor doc formatting issues

Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
14 years agoperf list: Add explanation about raw hardware event descriptors
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo [Wed, 5 May 2010 14:20:05 +0000 (11:20 -0300)]
perf list: Add explanation about raw hardware event descriptors

Using explanation given by Ingo Molnar in the oprofile mailing list.

Suggested-by: Nick Black <dank@qemfd.net>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Nick Black <dank@qemfd.net>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
14 years agoperf/record: simplify TRACE_INFO tracepoint check
Tom Zanussi [Wed, 5 May 2010 03:20:16 +0000 (22:20 -0500)]
perf/record: simplify TRACE_INFO tracepoint check

Fix a couple of inefficiencies and redundancies related to
have_tracepoints() and its use when checking whether to write
TRACE_INFO.

First, there's no need to use get_tracepoints_path() in
have_tracepoints() - we really just want the part that checks whether
any attributes correspondo to tracepoints.

Second, we really don't care about raw_samples per se - tracepoints
are always raw_samples.  In any case, the have_tracepoints() check
should be sufficient to decide whether or not to write TRACE_INFO.

Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1273030770.6383.6.camel@tropicana>
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
14 years agoKEYS: call_sbin_request_key() must write lock keyrings before modifying them
David Howells [Fri, 30 Apr 2010 13:32:23 +0000 (14:32 +0100)]
KEYS: call_sbin_request_key() must write lock keyrings before modifying them

call_sbin_request_key() creates a keyring and then attempts to insert a link to
the authorisation key into that keyring, but does so without holding a write
lock on the keyring semaphore.

It will normally get away with this because it hasn't told anyone that the
keyring exists yet.  The new keyring, however, has had its serial number
published, which means it can be accessed directly by that handle.

This was found by a previous patch that adds RCU lockdep checks to the code
that reads the keyring payload pointer, which includes a check that the keyring
semaphore is actually locked.

Without this patch, the following command:

keyctl request2 user b a @s

will provoke the following lockdep warning is displayed in dmesg:

===================================================
[ INFO: suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage. ]
---------------------------------------------------
security/keys/keyring.c:727 invoked rcu_dereference_check() without protection!

other info that might help us debug this:

rcu_scheduler_active = 1, debug_locks = 0
2 locks held by keyctl/2076:
 #0:  (key_types_sem){.+.+.+}, at: [<ffffffff811a5b29>] key_type_lookup+0x1c/0x71
 #1:  (keyring_serialise_link_sem){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff811a6d1e>] __key_link+0x4d/0x3c5

stack backtrace:
Pid: 2076, comm: keyctl Not tainted 2.6.34-rc6-cachefs #54
Call Trace:
 [<ffffffff81051fdc>] lockdep_rcu_dereference+0xaa/0xb2
 [<ffffffff811a6d1e>] ? __key_link+0x4d/0x3c5
 [<ffffffff811a6e6f>] __key_link+0x19e/0x3c5
 [<ffffffff811a5952>] ? __key_instantiate_and_link+0xb1/0xdc
 [<ffffffff811a59bf>] ? key_instantiate_and_link+0x42/0x5f
 [<ffffffff811aa0dc>] call_sbin_request_key+0xe7/0x33b
 [<ffffffff8139376a>] ? mutex_unlock+0x9/0xb
 [<ffffffff811a5952>] ? __key_instantiate_and_link+0xb1/0xdc
 [<ffffffff811a59bf>] ? key_instantiate_and_link+0x42/0x5f
 [<ffffffff811aa6fa>] ? request_key_auth_new+0x1c2/0x23c
 [<ffffffff810aaf15>] ? cache_alloc_debugcheck_after+0x108/0x173
 [<ffffffff811a9d00>] ? request_key_and_link+0x146/0x300
 [<ffffffff810ac568>] ? kmem_cache_alloc+0xe1/0x118
 [<ffffffff811a9e45>] request_key_and_link+0x28b/0x300
 [<ffffffff811a89ac>] sys_request_key+0xf7/0x14a
 [<ffffffff81052c0b>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x10c/0x130
 [<ffffffff81394fb9>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_thunk+0x3a/0x3f
 [<ffffffff81001eeb>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
14 years agoKEYS: Use RCU dereference wrappers in keyring key type code
David Howells [Fri, 30 Apr 2010 13:32:18 +0000 (14:32 +0100)]
KEYS: Use RCU dereference wrappers in keyring key type code

The keyring key type code should use RCU dereference wrappers, even when it
holds the keyring's key semaphore.

Reported-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
14 years agoKEYS: find_keyring_by_name() can gain access to a freed keyring
Toshiyuki Okajima [Fri, 30 Apr 2010 13:32:13 +0000 (14:32 +0100)]
KEYS: find_keyring_by_name() can gain access to a freed keyring

find_keyring_by_name() can gain access to a keyring that has had its reference
count reduced to zero, and is thus ready to be freed.  This then allows the
dead keyring to be brought back into use whilst it is being destroyed.

The following timeline illustrates the process:

|(cleaner)                           (user)
|
| free_user(user)                    sys_keyctl()
|  |                                  |
|  key_put(user->session_keyring)     keyctl_get_keyring_ID()
|  || //=> keyring->usage = 0        |
|  |schedule_work(&key_cleanup_task)   lookup_user_key()
|  ||                                   |
|  kmem_cache_free(,user)               |
|  .                                    |[KEY_SPEC_USER_KEYRING]
|  .                                    install_user_keyrings()
|  .                                    ||
| key_cleanup() [<= worker_thread()]    ||
|  |                                    ||
|  [spin_lock(&key_serial_lock)]        |[mutex_lock(&key_user_keyr..mutex)]
|  |                                    ||
|  atomic_read() == 0                   ||
|  |{ rb_ease(&key->serial_node,) }     ||
|  |                                    ||
|  [spin_unlock(&key_serial_lock)]      |find_keyring_by_name()
|  |                                    |||
|  keyring_destroy(keyring)             ||[read_lock(&keyring_name_lock)]
|  ||                                   |||
|  |[write_lock(&keyring_name_lock)]    ||atomic_inc(&keyring->usage)
|  |.                                   ||| *** GET freeing keyring ***
|  |.                                   ||[read_unlock(&keyring_name_lock)]
|  ||                                   ||
|  |list_del()                          |[mutex_unlock(&key_user_k..mutex)]
|  ||                                   |
|  |[write_unlock(&keyring_name_lock)]  ** INVALID keyring is returned **
|  |                                    .
|  kmem_cache_free(,keyring)            .
|                                       .
|                                       atomic_dec(&keyring->usage)
v                                         *** DESTROYED ***
TIME

If CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG=y then we may see the following message generated:

=============================================================================
BUG key_jar: Poison overwritten
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

INFO: 0xffff880197a7e200-0xffff880197a7e200. First byte 0x6a instead of 0x6b
INFO: Allocated in key_alloc+0x10b/0x35f age=25 cpu=1 pid=5086
INFO: Freed in key_cleanup+0xd0/0xd5 age=12 cpu=1 pid=10
INFO: Slab 0xffffea000592cb90 objects=16 used=2 fp=0xffff880197a7e200 flags=0x200000000000c3
INFO: Object 0xffff880197a7e200 @offset=512 fp=0xffff880197a7e300

Bytes b4 0xffff880197a7e1f0:  5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
  Object 0xffff880197a7e200:  6a 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b jkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk

Alternatively, we may see a system panic happen, such as:

BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000001
IP: [<ffffffff810e61a3>] kmem_cache_alloc+0x5b/0xe9
PGD 6b2b4067 PUD 6a80d067 PMD 0
Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
last sysfs file: /sys/kernel/kexec_crash_loaded
CPU 1
...
Pid: 31245, comm: su Not tainted 2.6.34-rc5-nofixed-nodebug #2 D2089/PRIMERGY
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff810e61a3>]  [<ffffffff810e61a3>] kmem_cache_alloc+0x5b/0xe9
RSP: 0018:ffff88006af3bd98  EFLAGS: 00010002
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000001 RCX: ffff88007d19900b
RDX: 0000000100000000 RSI: 00000000000080d0 RDI: ffffffff81828430
RBP: ffffffff81828430 R08: ffff88000a293750 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000100000 R12: 00000000000080d0
R13: 00000000000080d0 R14: 0000000000000296 R15: ffffffff810f20ce
FS:  00007f97116bc700(0000) GS:ffff88000a280000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000000000000001 CR3: 000000006a91c000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Process su (pid: 31245, threadinfo ffff88006af3a000, task ffff8800374414c0)
Stack:
 0000000512e0958e 0000000000008000 ffff880037f8d180 0000000000000001
 0000000000000000 0000000000008001 ffff88007d199000 ffffffff810f20ce
 0000000000008000 ffff88006af3be48 0000000000000024 ffffffff810face3
Call Trace:
 [<ffffffff810f20ce>] ? get_empty_filp+0x70/0x12f
 [<ffffffff810face3>] ? do_filp_open+0x145/0x590
 [<ffffffff810ce208>] ? tlb_finish_mmu+0x2a/0x33
 [<ffffffff810ce43c>] ? unmap_region+0xd3/0xe2
 [<ffffffff810e4393>] ? virt_to_head_page+0x9/0x2d
 [<ffffffff81103916>] ? alloc_fd+0x69/0x10e
 [<ffffffff810ef4ed>] ? do_sys_open+0x56/0xfc
 [<ffffffff81008a02>] ? system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
Code: 0f 1f 44 00 00 49 89 c6 fa 66 0f 1f 44 00 00 65 4c 8b 04 25 60 e8 00 00 48 8b 45 00 49 01 c0 49 8b 18 48 85 db 74 0d 48 63 45 18 <48> 8b 04 03 49 89 00 eb 14 4c 89 f9 83 ca ff 44 89 e6 48 89 ef
RIP  [<ffffffff810e61a3>] kmem_cache_alloc+0x5b/0xe9

This problem is that find_keyring_by_name does not confirm that the keyring is
valid before accepting it.

Skipping keyrings that have been reduced to a zero count seems the way to go.
To this end, use atomic_inc_not_zero() to increment the usage count and skip
the candidate keyring if that returns false.

The following script _may_ cause the bug to happen, but there's no guarantee
as the window of opportunity is small:

#!/bin/sh
LOOP=100000
USER=dummy_user
/bin/su -c "exit;" $USER || { /usr/sbin/adduser -m $USER; add=1; }
for ((i=0; i<LOOP; i++))
do
/bin/su -c "echo '$i' > /dev/null" $USER
done
(( add == 1 )) && /usr/sbin/userdel -r $USER
exit

Note that the nominated user must not be in use.

An alternative way of testing this may be:

for ((i=0; i<100000; i++))
do
keyctl session foo /bin/true || break
done >&/dev/null

as that uses a keyring named "foo" rather than relying on the user and
user-session named keyrings.

Reported-by: Toshiyuki Okajima <toshi.okajima@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Toshiyuki Okajima <toshi.okajima@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
14 years agoperf report: Make dso__calc_col_width agree with hist_entry__dso_snprintf
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo [Tue, 4 May 2010 23:58:51 +0000 (20:58 -0300)]
perf report: Make dso__calc_col_width agree with hist_entry__dso_snprintf

The first was always using the ->long_name, while the later used
->short_name if verbose was not set, resulting in the dso column to be
much wider than needed most of the time.

Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>