1. 12 2月, 2013 31 次提交
  2. 01 2月, 2013 7 次提交
  3. 31 1月, 2013 2 次提交
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      MIPS: Function tracer: Fix broken function tracing · 58b69401
      Al Cooper 提交于
      Function tracing is currently broken for all 32 bit MIPS platforms.
      When tracing is enabled, the kernel immediately hangs on boot.
      This is a result of commit b732d439
      that changes the kernel/trace/Kconfig file so that is no longer
      forces FRAME_POINTER when FUNCTION_TRACING is enabled.
      
      MIPS frame pointers are generally considered to be useless because
      they cannot be used to unwind the stack. Unfortunately the MIPS
      function tracing code has bugs that are masked by the use of frame
      pointers. This commit fixes the bugs so that MIPS frame pointers
      don't need to be enabled.
      
      The bugs are a result of the odd calling sequence used to call the trace
      routine. This calling sequence is inserted into every traceable function
      when the tracing CONFIG option is enabled. This sequence is generated
      for 32bit MIPS platforms by the compiler via the "-pg" flag.
      
      Part of the sequence is "addiu sp,sp,-8" in the delay slot after every
      call to the trace routine "_mcount" (some legacy thing where 2 arguments
      used to be pushed on the stack). The _mcount routine is expected to
      adjust the sp by +8 before returning.  So when not disabled, the original
      jalr and addiu will be there, so _mcount has to adjust sp.
      
      The problem is that when tracing is disabled for a function, the
      "jalr _mcount" instruction is replaced with a nop, but the
      "addiu sp,sp,-8" is still executed and the stack pointer is left
      trashed. When frame pointers are enabled the problem is masked
      because any access to the stack is done through the frame
      pointer and the stack pointer is restored from the frame pointer when
      the function returns.
      
      This patch writes two nops starting at the address of the "jalr _mcount"
      instruction whenever tracing is disabled. This means that the
      "addiu sp,sp.-8" will be converted to a nop along with the "jalr".  When
      disabled, there will be two nops.
      
      This is SMP safe because the first time this happens is during
      ftrace_init() which is before any other processor has been started.
      Subsequent calls to enable/disable tracing when other CPUs ARE running
      will still be safe because the enable will only change the first nop
      to a "jalr" and the disable, while writing 2 nops, will only be changing
      the "jalr". This patch also stops using stop_machine() to call the
      tracer enable/disable routines and calls them directly because the
      routines are SMP safe.
      
      When the kernel first boots we have to be able to handle the gcc
      generated jalr, addui sequence until ftrace_init gets a chance to run
      and change the sequence. At this point mcount just adjusts the stack
      and returns. When ftrace_init runs, we convert the jalr/addui to nops.
      Then whenever tracing is enabled we convert the first nop to a "jalr
      mcount+8". The mcount+8 entry point skips the stack adjust.
      
      [ralf@linux-mips.org: Folded in  Steven Rostedt's build fix.]
      Signed-off-by: NAl Cooper <alcooperx@gmail.com>
      Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
      Cc: ddaney.cavm@gmail.com
      Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
      Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
      Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/4806/
      Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/4841/Signed-off-by: NRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
      58b69401
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      dm: fix write same requests counting · fe7af2d3
      Alasdair G Kergon 提交于
      When processing write same requests, fix dm to send the configured
      number of WRITE SAME requests to the target rather than the number of
      discards, which is not always the same.
      
      Device-mapper WRITE SAME support was introduced by commit
      23508a96 ("dm: add WRITE SAME support").
      Signed-off-by: NAlasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
      Acked-by: NMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
      fe7af2d3