- 11 2月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Brian Gerst 提交于
Some syscalls need to access the pt_regs structure, either to copy user register state or to modifiy it. This patch adds stubs to load the address of the pt_regs struct into the %eax register, and changes the syscalls to regparm(1) to receive the pt_regs pointer as the first argument. Signed-off-by: NBrian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Acked-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 10 2月, 2009 3 次提交
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由 Tejun Heo 提交于
Impact: stack protector for x86_32 Implement stack protector for x86_32. GDT entry 28 is used for it. It's set to point to stack_canary-20 and have the length of 24 bytes. CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR turns off CONFIG_X86_32_LAZY_GS and sets %gs to the stack canary segment on entry. As %gs is otherwise unused by the kernel, the canary can be anywhere. It's defined as a percpu variable. x86_32 exception handlers take register frame on stack directly as struct pt_regs. With -fstack-protector turned on, gcc copies the whole structure after the stack canary and (of course) doesn't copy back on return thus losing all changed. For now, -fno-stack-protector is added to all files which contain those functions. We definitely need something better. Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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由 Tejun Heo 提交于
Impact: pt_regs changed, lazy gs handling made optional, add slight overhead to SAVE_ALL, simplifies error_code path a bit On x86_32, %gs hasn't been used by kernel and handled lazily. pt_regs doesn't have place for it and gs is saved/loaded only when necessary. In preparation for stack protector support, this patch makes lazy %gs handling optional by doing the followings. * Add CONFIG_X86_32_LAZY_GS and place for gs in pt_regs. * Save and restore %gs along with other registers in entry_32.S unless LAZY_GS. Note that this unfortunately adds "pushl $0" on SAVE_ALL even when LAZY_GS. However, it adds no overhead to common exit path and simplifies entry path with error code. * Define different user_gs accessors depending on LAZY_GS and add lazy_save_gs() and lazy_load_gs() which are noop if !LAZY_GS. The lazy_*_gs() ops are used to save, load and clear %gs lazily. * Define ELF_CORE_COPY_KERNEL_REGS() which always read %gs directly. xen and lguest changes need to be verified. Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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由 Tejun Heo 提交于
Impact: cleanup Use .macro instead of cpp #define where approriate. This cleans up code and will ease future changes. Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 29 1月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Ingo Molnar 提交于
We are getting rid of subarchitecture support - move the hook files to asm/. (These are now stale and should be replaced with more explicit runtime mechanisms - but the transition is simpler this way.) Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 21 1月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Tejun Heo 提交于
Impact: less contention when issuing invalidate IPI, cleanup Make x86_32 use the same tlb code as 64bit. The 64bit code uses multiple IPI vectors for tlb shootdown to reduce contention. This patch makes x86_32 allocate the same 8 IPIs as x86_64 and share the code paths. Note that the usage of asmlinkage is inconsistent for x86_32 and 64 and calls for further cleanup. This has been noted with a FIXME comment in tlb_64.c. Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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- 13 1月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Ingo Molnar 提交于
This reverts commit e0c73175. This patch was wrong, as lockdep (and thus the irq state tracer) aren't nmi safe. People are already seeing lockdep warnings due to this. Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 03 12月, 2008 2 次提交
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由 Steven Rostedt 提交于
Impact: feature, let entry function decide to trace or not This patch lets the graph tracer entry function decide if the tracing should be done at the end as well. This requires all function graph entry functions return 1 if it should trace, or 0 if the return should not be traced. Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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由 Steven Rostedt 提交于
Impact: consistency change for function graph This patch makes function graph record the mcount caller address the same way the function tracer does. Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 27 11月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 Alexander van Heukelum 提交于
entry_32.S is now the only user of KPROBE_ENTRY / KPROBE_END, treewide. This patch reorders entry_64.S and explicitly generates a separate section for functions that need the protection. The generated code before and after the patch is equal. The KPROBE_ENTRY and KPROBE_END macro's are removed too. Signed-off-by: NAlexander van Heukelum <heukelum@fastmail.fm> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 26 11月, 2008 3 次提交
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由 Steven Rostedt 提交于
Impact: more efficient code for ftrace graph tracer This patch uses the dynamic patching, when available, to patch the function graph code into the kernel. This patch will ease the way for letting both function tracing and function graph tracing run together. Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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由 Ingo Molnar 提交于
fix return-tracer => graph-tracer namespace rename fallout. Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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由 Frederic Weisbecker 提交于
Impact: cleanup This patch changes the name of the "return function tracer" into function-graph-tracer which is a more suitable name for a tracing which makes one able to retrieve the ordered call stack during the code flow. Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Acked-by: NSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 24 11月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 jia zhang 提交于
Impact: improve backtrace quality avoid the confusion in call trace because of the lack of padding at the tail of function. When do_exit gets called, the return address behind call instruction is pushed into stack. If something get wrong in do_exit, for x86_64, the entry "kernel_execve +0x00/0xXX" rather than "child_rip +0xYY/0xZZ" is in the call trace. That looks confusing, so add a u2d to make the return address still part of the original call site. (This also catches any instances of us returning from that function somehow.) Signed-off-by: Njia zhang <jia.zhang2008@gmail.com> Acked-by: NAlexander van Heukelum <heukelum@fastmail.fm> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 16 11月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 Frederic Weisbecker 提交于
This patch adds the support for dynamic tracing on the function return tracer. The whole difference with normal dynamic function tracing is that we don't need to hook on a particular callback. The only pro that we want is to nop or set dynamically the calls to ftrace_caller (which is ftrace_return_caller here). Some security checks ensure that we are not trying to launch dynamic tracing for return tracing while normal function tracing is already running. An example of trace with getnstimeofday set as a filter: ktime_get_ts+0x22/0x50 -> getnstimeofday (2283 ns) ktime_get_ts+0x22/0x50 -> getnstimeofday (1396 ns) ktime_get_ts+0x22/0x50 -> getnstimeofday (1382 ns) ktime_get_ts+0x22/0x50 -> getnstimeofday (1825 ns) ktime_get_ts+0x22/0x50 -> getnstimeofday (1426 ns) ktime_get_ts+0x22/0x50 -> getnstimeofday (1464 ns) ktime_get_ts+0x22/0x50 -> getnstimeofday (1524 ns) ktime_get_ts+0x22/0x50 -> getnstimeofday (1382 ns) ktime_get_ts+0x22/0x50 -> getnstimeofday (1382 ns) ktime_get_ts+0x22/0x50 -> getnstimeofday (1434 ns) ktime_get_ts+0x22/0x50 -> getnstimeofday (1464 ns) ktime_get_ts+0x22/0x50 -> getnstimeofday (1502 ns) ktime_get_ts+0x22/0x50 -> getnstimeofday (1404 ns) ktime_get_ts+0x22/0x50 -> getnstimeofday (1397 ns) ktime_get_ts+0x22/0x50 -> getnstimeofday (1051 ns) ktime_get_ts+0x22/0x50 -> getnstimeofday (1314 ns) ktime_get_ts+0x22/0x50 -> getnstimeofday (1344 ns) ktime_get_ts+0x22/0x50 -> getnstimeofday (1163 ns) ktime_get_ts+0x22/0x50 -> getnstimeofday (1390 ns) ktime_get_ts+0x22/0x50 -> getnstimeofday (1374 ns) Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 13 11月, 2008 2 次提交
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由 Frederic Weisbecker 提交于
Impact: Optimize a bit the function return tracer This patch changes the calling convention of prepare_ftrace_return to pass its arguments by register. This will optimize it a bit and prepare it to support dynamic tracing. Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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由 H. Peter Anvin 提交于
Older versions of gas don't implement the C-style != operator, they instead want the Pascal-style <> operator. Change != to <> so we don't break compilation with those old versions of gas. Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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- 12 11月, 2008 2 次提交
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由 H. Peter Anvin 提交于
Shrink the IRQ stubs on 32 bits down to just over four bytes per (we fit seven into a 32-byte chunk.) This shrinks the total icache consumption of the IRQ stubs down to an even kilobyte, if all of them are in active use. The downside is that we end up with a double jump, which could have a negative effect on some pipelines. The double jump is always inside the same cacheline on any modern chips (the exception being 486/Elan/Geode which have only 16-byte cachelines, but are unlikely to have too many interrupt sources.) To get the most effect, cache-align the IRQ stubs. Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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由 H. Peter Anvin 提交于
Don't generate interrupt stubs for interrupt vectors below FIRST_EXTERNAL_VECTOR, and make the table of interrupt vectors (interrupt[]) __initconst. Both of these changes both conserve memory and improve consistency with 64 bits. Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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- 11 11月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 Frederic Weisbecker 提交于
Impact: add infrastructure for function-return tracing Add low level support for ftrace return tracing. This plug-in stores return addresses on the thread_info structure of the current task. The index of the current return address is initialized when the task is the first one (init) and when a process forks (the child). It is not needed when a task does a sys_execve because after this syscall, it still needs to return on the kernel functions it called. Note that the code of return_to_handler has been suggested by Steven Rostedt as almost all of the ideas of improvements in this V3. For purpose of security, arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c is not traced because __switch_to() changes the current task during its execution. That could cause inconsistency in the stored return address of this function even if I didn't have any crash after testing with tracing on this function enabled. Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 06 11月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 Steven Rostedt 提交于
Impact: quick start and stop of function tracer This patch adds a way to disable the function tracer quickly without the need to run kstop_machine. It adds a new variable called function_trace_stop which will stop the calls to functions from mcount when set. This is just an on/off switch and does not handle recursion like preempt_disable(). It's main purpose is to help other tracers/debuggers start and stop tracing fuctions without the need to call kstop_machine. The config option HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACE_MCOUNT_TEST is added for archs that implement the testing of the function_trace_stop in the mcount arch dependent code. Otherwise, the test is done in the C code. x86 is the only arch at the moment that supports this. Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 22 10月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 Andi Kleen 提交于
Running machine checks with interrupt on is a extremly bad idea. The machine check handler only runs when the system is broken and needs to finish as quickly as possible. Remove the respective bogus post 2.6.27 regression and call the machine check vector directly again. This removes only code. Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> [Cherry-picked from x86/mce] Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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- 21 10月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 Steven Rostedt 提交于
Due to confusion between the ftrace infrastructure and the gcc profiling tracer "ftrace", this patch renames the config options from FTRACE to FUNCTION_TRACER. The other two names that are offspring from FTRACE DYNAMIC_FTRACE and FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD will stay the same. This patch was generated mostly by script, and partially by hand. Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 16 10月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 Yinghai Lu 提交于
so we can merge io_apic_32.c and io_apic_64.c v2: Use cpu_online_map as target cpus for bigsmp, just like 64-bit is doing. Also remove some unused TARGET_CPUS macro. v3: need to check if desc is null in smp_irq_move_cleanup also migration needs to reset vector too, so copy __target_IO_APIC_irq from 64bit. (the duplication will go away once the two files are unified.) Signed-off-by: NYinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 14 10月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 Steven Rostedt 提交于
x86 now sets up the mcount locations through the build and no longer needs to record the ip when the function is executed. This patch changes the initial mcount to simply return. There's no need to do any other work. If the ftrace start up test fails, the original mcount will be what everything will use, so having this as fast as possible is a good thing. Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 13 10月, 2008 6 次提交
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由 Alexander van Heukelum 提交于
At this point interrupts are off, so let's inform the tracing code of that fact before calling into C. Signed-off-by: NAlexander van Heukelum <heukelum@fastmail.fm> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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由 Alexander van Heukelum 提交于
At this point interrupts are off, so let's inform the tracing code of that fact before calling into C. Signed-off-by: NAlexander van Heukelum <heukelum@fastmail.fm> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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由 Alexander van Heukelum 提交于
At this point interrupts are off, so let's inform the tracing code of that fact before calling into C. Signed-off-by: NAlexander van Heukelum <heukelum@fastmail.fm> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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由 Alexander van Heukelum 提交于
Many exceptions use the same code path via the label 'error_code' in entry_32.S. At this point interrupts are off, so let's inform the tracing code of that fact before calling into C. Signed-off-by: NAlexander van Heukelum <heukelum@fastmail.fm> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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由 Alexander van Heukelum 提交于
Handle machine check exception with interrupt initially off. Signed-off-by: NAlexander van Heukelum <heukelum@fastmail.fm> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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由 Alexander van Heukelum 提交于
Handle no coprocessor exception with interrupt initially off. device_not_available in entry_32.S calls either math_state_restore or math_emulate. This patch adds an extra indirection to be able to re-enable interrupts explicitly in traps_32.c Signed-off-by: NAlexander van Heukelum <heukelum@fastmail.fm> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 24 7月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 Roland McGrath 提交于
This adds fast paths for 32-bit syscall entry and exit when TIF_SYSCALL_AUDIT is set, but no other kind of syscall tracing. These paths does not need to save and restore all registers as the general case of tracing does. Avoiding the iret return path when syscall audit is enabled helps performance a lot. Signed-off-by: NRoland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
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- 19 7月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 Jan Beulich 提交于
Signed-off-by: NJan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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- 17 7月, 2008 2 次提交
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由 Roland McGrath 提交于
This unifies and cleans up the syscall tracing code on i386 and x86_64. Using a single function for entry and exit tracing on 32-bit made the do_syscall_trace() into some terrible spaghetti. The logic is clear and simple using separate syscall_trace_enter() and syscall_trace_leave() functions as on 64-bit. The unification adds PTRACE_SYSEMU and PTRACE_SYSEMU_SINGLESTEP support on x86_64, for 32-bit ptrace() callers and for 64-bit ptrace() callers tracing either 32-bit or 64-bit tasks. It behaves just like 32-bit. Changing syscall_trace_enter() to return the syscall number shortens all the assembly paths, while adding the SYSEMU feature in a simple way. Signed-off-by: NRoland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
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由 Roland McGrath 提交于
This unifies the treatment of TIF_SINGLESTEP on i386 and x86_64. The bit is now excluded from _TIF_WORK_MASK on i386 as it has been on x86_64. This means the do_notify_resume() path using it is never used, so TIF_SINGLESTEP is not cleared on returning to user mode. Both now leave TIF_SINGLESTEP set when returning to user, so that it's already set on an int $0x80 system call entry. This removes the need for testing TF on the system_call path. Doing it this way fixes the regression for PTRACE_SINGLESTEP into a sigreturn syscall, introduced by commit 1e2e99f0. The clear_TF_reenable case that sets TIF_SINGLESTEP can only happen on a non-exception kernel entry, i.e. sysenter/syscall instruction. That will always get to the syscall exit tracing path. Signed-off-by: NRoland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
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- 12 7月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 Glauber Costa 提交于
The RING0_INT_FRAME macro defines a CFI_STARTPROC. So we should really be using CFI_ENDPROC after it. Signed-off-by: NGlauber Costa <gcosta@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 08 7月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 Jeremy Fitzhardinge 提交于
Don't conflate sysret and sysexit; they're different instructions with different semantics, and may be in use at the same time (at least within the same kernel, depending on whether its an Intel or AMD system). sysexit - just return to userspace, does no register restoration of any kind; must explicitly atomically enable interrupts. sysret - reloads flags from r11, so no need to explicitly enable interrupts on 64-bit, responsible for restoring usermode %gs Signed-off-by: NJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citirx.com> Cc: xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com> Cc: Stephen Tweedie <sct@redhat.com> Cc: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com> Cc: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 24 6月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 Abhishek Sagar 提交于
Record the address of the mcount call-site. Currently all archs except sparc64 record the address of the instruction following the mcount call-site. Some general cleanups are entailed. Storing mcount addresses in rec->ip enables looking them up in the kprobe hash table later on to check if they're kprobe'd. Signed-off-by: NAbhishek Sagar <sagar.abhishek@gmail.com> Cc: davem@davemloft.net Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 13 6月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 Peter Zijlstra 提交于
Andrew Morton wrote: > I've been seeing the below for a long time during suspend-to-ram on the Vaio. > > > PM: Syncing filesystems ... done. > PM: Preparing system for mem sleep > Freezing user space processes ... <4>------------[ cut here ]------------ > WARNING: at kernel/lockdep.c:2658 check_flags+0x4c/0x127() > Modules linked in: i915 drm ipw2200 sonypi ipv6 autofs4 hidp l2cap bluetooth sunrpc nf_conntrack_netbios_ns ipt_REJECT nf_conntrack_ipv4 xt_state nf_conntrack xt_tcpudp iptable_filter ip_tables x_tables acpi_cpufreq nvram ohci1394 ieee1394 ehci_hcd uhci_hcd sg joydev snd_hda_intel snd_seq_dummy sr_mod snd_seq_oss cdrom snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq snd_seq_device snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss ieee80211 pcspkr ieee80211_crypt snd_pcm i2c_i801 snd_timer i2c_core ide_pci_generic piix snd soundcore snd_page_alloc button ext3 jbd ide_disk ide_core [last unloaded: ipw2200] > Pid: 3250, comm: zsh Not tainted 2.6.26-rc5 #1 > [<c011c5f5>] warn_on_slowpath+0x41/0x6d > [<c01080e6>] ? native_sched_clock+0x82/0x96 > [<c013789c>] ? mark_held_locks+0x41/0x5c > [<c0315688>] ? _spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x36/0x58 > [<c0137a29>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xe6/0x10d > [<c0138637>] ? __lock_acquire+0xae3/0xb2b > [<c0313413>] ? schedule+0x39b/0x3b4 > [<c0135596>] check_flags+0x4c/0x127 > [<c01386b9>] lock_acquire+0x3a/0x86 > [<c0315075>] _spin_lock+0x26/0x53 > [<c0140660>] ? refrigerator+0x13/0xc3 > [<c0140660>] refrigerator+0x13/0xc3 > [<c012684a>] get_signal_to_deliver+0x3c/0x31e > [<c0102fe7>] do_notify_resume+0x91/0x6ee > [<c01359fd>] ? lock_release_holdtime+0x50/0x56 > [<c0315688>] ? _spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x36/0x58 > [<c0235d24>] ? read_chan+0x0/0x58c > [<c0137a29>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xe6/0x10d > [<c0315694>] ? _spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x42/0x58 > [<c0230afa>] ? tty_ldisc_deref+0x5c/0x63 > [<c0233104>] ? tty_read+0x66/0x98 > [<c014b3f0>] ? audit_syscall_exit+0x2aa/0x2c5 > [<c0109430>] ? do_syscall_trace+0x6b/0x16f > [<c0103a9c>] work_notifysig+0x13/0x1b > ======================= > ---[ end trace 25b49fe59a25afa5 ]--- > possible reason: unannotated irqs-off. > irq event stamp: 58919 > hardirqs last enabled at (58919): [<c0103afd>] syscall_exit_work+0x11/0x26 Joy - I so love entry.S Best I can make of it: syscall_exit_work resume_userspace DISABLE_INTERRUPTS (no TRACE_IRQS_OFF) work_pending work_notifysig do_notify_resume() do_signal() get_signal_to_deliver() try_to_freeze() refrigerator() task_lock() -> check_flags() -> BANG The normal path is: syscall_exit_work resume_userspace DISABLE_INTERRUPTS restore_all TRACE_IRQS_IRET iret No idea why that would not warn.. Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 24 5月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 Steven Rostedt 提交于
This patch replaces the indirect call to the mcount function pointer with a direct call that will be patched by the dynamic ftrace routines. On boot up, the mcount function calls the ftace_stub function. When the dynamic ftrace code is initialized, the ftrace_stub is replaced with a call to the ftrace_record_ip, which records the instruction pointers of the locations that call it. Later, the ftraced daemon will call kstop_machine and patch all the locations to nops. When a ftrace is enabled, the original calls to mcount will now be set top call ftrace_caller, which will do a direct call to the registered ftrace function. This direct call is also patched when the function that should be called is updated. All patching is performed by a kstop_machine routine to prevent any type of race conditions that is associated with modifying code on the fly. Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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