Layer Frederic's syscall tracer on tracepoints. We create trace events
via hooking into the SYSCALL_DEFINE macros. This allows us to
individually toggle syscall entry and exit points on/off.
Signed-off-by: NJason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: Jiaying Zhang <jiayingz@google.com>
Cc: Martin Bligh <mbligh@google.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>

add an optional void * pointer to 'ftrace_event_call' that is
passed in for regfunc and unregfunc.

This prepares for syscall tracepoints creation by passing the name of
the syscall we want to trace and then retrieve its number through our
arch syscall table.
Signed-off-by: NJason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: Jiaying Zhang <jiayingz@google.com>
Cc: Martin Bligh <mbligh@google.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>

Allow the return value of raw_init() trace event callback to bail us out
of creating a trace event file, in case we fail to register our
event.

Also, we plan to return -ENOSYS for syscall events that don't match any
syscalls listed in our arch tracing syscall table, we don't want to warn
in that case, we just want this event to be invisible in debugfs and
ignored.
Signed-off-by: NJason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: Jiaying Zhang <jiayingz@google.com>
Cc: Martin Bligh <mbligh@google.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>

update FTRACE_SYSCALL_MAX to the current number of syscalls

FTRACE_SYSCALL_MAX is a temporary solution to get the number of
syscalls supported by the arch until we find a more dynamic way
to get this number.
Signed-off-by: NJason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: Jiaying Zhang <jiayingz@google.com>
Cc: Martin Bligh <mbligh@google.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>

add two tracepoints in syscall exit and entry path, conditioned on
TIF_SYSCALL_FTRACE. Supports the syscall trace event code.
Signed-off-by: NJason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: Jiaying Zhang <jiayingz@google.com>
Cc: Martin Bligh <mbligh@google.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>

Introduce a new 'DECLARE_TRACE_WITH_CALLBACK()' macro, so that
tracepoints can associate an external register/unregister function.

This prepares for the syscalls tracer conversion to trace events. We
will need to perform arch level operations once a syscall event is
turned on/off, such as TIF flags setting, hence the need of such
specific callbacks.
Signed-off-by: NJason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: Jiaying Zhang <jiayingz@google.com>
Cc: Martin Bligh <mbligh@google.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>

Call arch_init_ftrace_syscalls at boot, so we can determine early the
set of syscalls for the syscall trace events.
Signed-off-by: NJason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: Jiaying Zhang <jiayingz@google.com>
Cc: Martin Bligh <mbligh@google.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>

Add a new function to support translating a syscall name to number at
runtime.
This allows the syscall event tracer to map syscall names to number.
Signed-off-by: NJason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: Jiaying Zhang <jiayingz@google.com>
Cc: Martin Bligh <mbligh@google.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>

set_tracer_flags() have a local variable named trace_flags which has
the same name than a global one in the same scope.
This leads to confusion, using tracer_flags should be better by its
meaning.

Changelog:
v1->v2: Simplified another patch in this patchset, no change in this
        patch.
Signed-off-by: NZhao Lei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>

Conflicts:
	kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c

We use the tracing/core version.
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Commit d945cb9c ("pty: Rework the pty layer to use the normal buffering
logic") dropped the test for 'tty->stopped' in pty_write_room(), which
then causes the n_tty line discipline thing to not throttle the data
properly when the tty is stopped.

So instead of pausing the write due to the tty being stopped, the ldisc
layer would go ahead and push it down to the pty.  The pty write()
routine would then refuse to take the data (because it _did_ check
'stopped'), and the data wouldn't actually be written.

This whole stopped test should eventually be moved into the tty ldisc
layer rather than have low-level tty drivers care about these things,
but right now the fix is to just re-instate the missing pty 'stopped'
handling.
Reported-and-tested-by: NArtur Skawina <art.08.09@gmail.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Merge branch 'perfcounters-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

* 'perfcounters-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (27 commits)
  perf_counter: Zero dead bytes from ftrace raw samples size alignment
  perf_counter: Subtract the buffer size field from the event record size
  perf_counter: Require CAP_SYS_ADMIN for raw tracepoint data
  perf_counter: Correct PERF_SAMPLE_RAW output
  perf tools: callchain: Fix bad rounding of minimum rate
  perf_counter tools: Fix libbfd detection for systems with libz dependency
  perf: "Longum est iter per praecepta, breve et efficax per exempla"
  perf_counter: Fix a race on perf_counter_ctx
  perf_counter: Fix tracepoint sampling to be part of generic sampling
  perf_counter: Work around gcc warning by initializing tracepoint record unconditionally
  perf tools: callchain: Fix sum of percentages to be 100% by displaying amount of ignored chains in fractal mode
  perf tools: callchain: Fix 'perf report' display to be callchain by default
  perf tools: callchain: Fix spurious 'perf report' warnings: ignore empty callchains
  perf record: Fix the -A UI for empty or non-existent perf.data
  perf util: Fix do_read() to fail on EOF instead of busy-looping
  perf list: Fix the output to not include tracepoints without an id
  perf_counter/powerpc: Fix oops on cpus without perf_counter hardware support
  perf stat: Fix tool option consistency: rename -S/--scale to -c/--scale
  perf report: Add debug help for the finding of symbol bugs - show the symtab origin (DSO, build-id, kernel, etc)
  perf report: Fix per task mult-counter stat reporting
  ...

Merge branch 'irq-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

* 'irq-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86/irq: Fix move_irq_desc() for nodes without ram

Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86: Fix serialization in pit_expect_msb()

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6:
  PCI hotplug: SGI hotplug: do not use hotplug_slot_attr
  PCI hotplug: SGI hotplug: fix build failure

Wei Chong Tan reported a fast-PIT-calibration corner-case:

| pit_expect_msb() is vulnerable to SMI disturbance corner case
| in some platforms which causes /proc/cpuinfo to show wrong
| CPU MHz value when quick_pit_calibrate() jumps to success
| section.

I think that the real issue isn't even an SMI - but the fact
that in the very last iteration of the loop, there's no
serializing instruction _after_ the last 'rdtsc'. So even in
the absense of SMI's, we do have a situation where the cycle
counter was read without proper serialization.

The last check should be done outside the outer loop, since
_inside_ the outer loop, we'll be testing that the PIT has
the right MSB value has the right value in the next iteration.

So only the _last_ iteration is special, because that's the one
that will not check the PIT MSB value any more, and because the
final 'get_cycles()' isn't serialized.

In other words:

 - I'd like to move the PIT MSB check to after the last
   iteration, rather than in every iteration

 - I think we should comment on the fact that it's also a
   serializing instruction and so 'fences in' the TSC read.

Here's a suggested replacement.
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Reported-by: N"Tan, Wei Chong" <wei.chong.tan@intel.com>
Tested-by: N"Tan, Wei Chong" <wei.chong.tan@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <B28277FD4E0F9247A3D55704C440A140D5D683F3@pgsmsx504.gar.corp.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

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:
  mm_for_maps: take ->cred_guard_mutex to fix the race with exec
  mm_for_maps: shift down_read(mmap_sem) to the caller
  mm_for_maps: simplify, use ptrace_may_access()

* 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc:
  powerpc/dma: pci_set_dma_mask() shouldn't fail if mask fits in RAM

Fix the following 'make includecheck' warning:

  arch/mn10300/include/asm/pci.h: linux/mm.h is included more than once.
Signed-off-by: NJaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

clean up type-casting twice.  "size_t" is typedef as "unsigned long" in
64-bit system, and "unsigned int" in 32-bit system, and the intermediate
cast to 'long' is pointless.
Signed-off-by: NFigo.zhang <figo1802@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

This will register the ioctl range used by nilfs2 file system to the
table listed in Documentation/ioctl/ioctl-number.txt.
Signed-off-by: NRyusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

After aligning the ftrace raw samples, there are dead bytes storing
random data from the stack. We don't want to leak these to userspace,
then zero these out.

Before:

	0x2de88 [0x50]: event: 9
	.
	. ... raw event: size 80 bytes
	.  0000:  09 00 00 00 01 00 50 00 d0 c7 00 81 ff ff ff ff  ......P........
	.  0010:  68 01 00 00 68 01 00 00 2c 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  h...h...,......
	.  0020:  2c 00 00 00 2b 00 01 02 68 01 00 00 68 01 00 00  ,...+...h...h..
	.  0030:  6b 6f 6e 64 65 6d 61 6e 64 2f 30 00 00 00 00 00  kondemand/0....
	.  0040:  68 01 00 00 40 7f 46 81 ff ff ff ff 00 10 1b 7f  h...@.F........
                                                      ^  ^  ^  ^
                                                         Leak

After:

	0x2d318 [0x50]: event: 9
	.
	. ... raw event: size 80 bytes
	.  0000:  09 00 00 00 01 00 50 00 d0 c7 00 81 ff ff ff ff  ......P........
	.  0010:  68 01 00 00 68 01 00 00 68 14 00 00 00 00 00 00  h...h...h......
	.  0020:  2c 00 00 00 2b 00 01 02 68 01 00 00 68 01 00 00  ,...+...h...h..
	.  0030:  6b 6f 6e 64 65 6d 61 6e 64 2f 30 00 00 00 00 00  kondemand/0....
	.  0040:  68 01 00 00 a0 80 46 81 ff ff ff ff 00 00 00 00  h.....F........
                                                      ^  ^  ^  ^
							 Fixed
Reported-by: NPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
LKML-Reference: <1249915116-5210-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>

We compute the perf raw sample size by aligning the raw ftrace
event size plus the buffer size field itself. We do that
instead of aligning only the perf raw sample size, so that we
might economize some in some cases.

But this buffer size field is not stored in the perf raw
sample, we must then substract its size from the buffer once we
computed the alignment unless we may get a useless u32 field in
the buffer.
Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: NPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <20090810141129.GA5124@nowhere>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

The problem is minor, but without ->cred_guard_mutex held we can race
with exec() and get the new ->mm but check old creds.

Now we do not need to re-check task->mm after ptrace_may_access(), it
can't be changed to the new mm under us.

Strictly speaking, this also fixes another very minor problem. Unless
security check fails or the task exits mm_for_maps() should never
return NULL, the caller should get either old or new ->mm.
Signed-off-by: NOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: NSerge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NJames Morris <jmorris@namei.org>

mm_for_maps() takes ->mmap_sem after security checks, this looks
strange and obfuscates the locking rules. Move this lock to its
single caller, m_start().
Signed-off-by: NOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: NSerge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NJames Morris <jmorris@namei.org>

It would be nice to kill __ptrace_may_access(). It requires task_lock(),
but this lock is only needed to read mm->flags in the middle.

Convert mm_for_maps() to use ptrace_may_access(), this also simplifies
the code a little bit.

Also, we do not need to take ->mmap_sem in advance. In fact I think
mm_for_maps() should not play with ->mmap_sem at all, the caller should
take this lock.

With or without this patch, without ->cred_guard_mutex held we can race
with exec() and get the new ->mm but check old creds.
Signed-off-by: NOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: NSerge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NJames Morris <jmorris@namei.org>

Raw tracepoint data contains various kernel internals and
data from other users, so restrict this to CAP_SYS_ADMIN.
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1249896452.17467.75.camel@twins>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

PERF_SAMPLE_* output switches should unconditionally output the
correct format, as they are the only way to unambiguously parse
the PERF_EVENT_SAMPLE data.
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1249896447.17467.74.camel@twins>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

On an iMac G5, the b43 driver is failing to initialise because trying to
set the dma mask to 30-bit fails. Even though there's only 512MiB of RAM
in the machine anyway:
	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=514787

We should probably let it succeed if the available RAM in the system
doesn't exceed the requested limit.
Signed-off-by: NDavid Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

* 'for-linus' of git://git.infradead.org/ubi-2.6:
  UBI: compatible fallback in absense of sequence numbers
  UBI: fix double free on error path

* 'kvm-updates/2.6.31' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm:
  KVM: Avoid redelivery of edge interrupt before next edge
  KVM: MMU: limit rmap chain length
  KVM: ia64: fix build failures due to ia64/unsigned long mismatches
  KVM: Make KVM_HPAGES_PER_HPAGE unsigned long to avoid build error on powerpc
  KVM: fix ack not being delivered when msi present
  KVM: s390: fix wait_queue handling
  KVM: VMX: Fix locking imbalance on emulation failure
  KVM: VMX: Fix locking order in handle_invalid_guest_state
  KVM: MMU: handle n_free_mmu_pages > n_alloc_mmu_pages in kvm_mmu_change_mmu_pages
  KVM: SVM: force new asid on vcpu migration
  KVM: x86: verify MTRR/PAT validity
  KVM: PIT: fix kpit_elapsed division by zero
  KVM: Fix KVM_GET_MSR_INDEX_LIST

* 'drm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6:
  drm/i915: silence vblank warnings
  drm: silence pointless vblank warning.
  drm: When adding probed modes, preserve duplicate mode types

Merge branch 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

* 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  posix_cpu_timers_exit_group(): Do not use thread_group_cputimer()

Merge branch 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

* 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  perf_counter: Fix/complete ftrace event records sampling
  perf_counter, ftrace: Fix perf_counter integration
  tracing/filters: Always free pred on filter_add_subsystem_pred() failure
  tracing/filters: Don't use pred on alloc failure
  ring-buffer: Fix memleak in ring_buffer_free()
  tracing: Fix recordmcount.pl to handle sections with only weak functions
  ring-buffer: Fix advance of reader in rb_buffer_peek()
  tracing: do not use functions starting with .L in recordmcount.pl
  ring-buffer: do not disable ring buffer on oops_in_progress
  ring-buffer: fix check of try_to_discard result

Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86: fix buffer overflow in efi_init()
  x86: Add quirk to make Apple MacBookPro5,1 use reboot=pci
  x86: Fix MSI-X initialization by using online_mask for x2apic target_cpus
  x86: Fix VMI && stack protector

Merge branch 'core-fixes-for-linus-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

* 'core-fixes-for-linus-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  lockdep: Fix typos in documentation
  lockdep: Fix file mode of lock_stat
  rtmutex: Avoid deadlock in rt_mutex_start_proxy_lock()

Sometimes we get callchain branches that have a rate under the
limit given by the user.

Say you launched:

 perf record -f -g -a ./hackbench 10
 perf report -g fractal,10.0

And you got:

2.33%       hackbench  [kernel]                  [k] _spin_lock_irqsave
                |
                |--78.57%-- remove_wait_queue
                |          poll_freewait
                |          do_sys_poll
                |          sys_poll
                |          sysenter_dispatch
                |          0xf7ffa430
                |          0x1ffadea3c
                |
                |--7.14%-- __up_read
                |          up_read
                |          do_page_fault
                |          page_fault
                |          0xf7ffa430
                |          0xa0df710000000a
                ...

It is abnormal to get a 7.14% branch whereas we passed a 10%
filter.

The problem is that we round down the minimum threshold. This
happens mostly when we have very low number of events. If the
total amount of your branch is 4 and you have a subranch of 3
events, filtering to 90% will be computed like follows:

  limit = 4 * 0.9;

The result is about 3.6, but the cast to integer will round
down to 3. It means that our filter is actually of 75%

We must then explicitly round up the minimum threshold.
Reported-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: acme@redhat.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: efault@gmx.de
LKML-Reference: <20090809024235.GA10146@nowhere>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Due to a libz dependency in some distro's binutils package,
C++ demangle support isn't compiled in despite the necessary
libraries being available.

Fix this by adding a -lz link test to the dependency detection
rules.
Signed-off-by: NMike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Acked-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1249733655.6929.5.camel@marge.simson.net>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

A few examples of how 'perf' can be used, from an e-mail by
Ingo Molnar http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/8/4/346.
Signed-off-by: NCarlos R. Mafra <crmafra2@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
LKML-Reference: <20090805185334.GA4535@Pilar.aei.mpg.de>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

While extending perfcounters with BTS hw-tracing, Markus
Metzger managed to trigger this warning:

   [  995.557128] WARNING: at kernel/perf_counter.c:1191 __perf_counter_task_sched_out+0x48/0x6b()

triggers because commit
9f498cc5 (perf_counter: Full
task tracing) removed clearing of tsk->perf_counter_ctxp out
from under ctx->lock which introduced a race (against
perf_lock_task_context).

Move it back and deal with the exit notification by explicitly
passing along the former task context.
Reported-by: NMarkus T Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1249667341.17467.5.camel@twins>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>