1. 14 12月, 2009 2 次提交
  2. 02 12月, 2009 7 次提交
  3. 13 10月, 2009 1 次提交
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      net: Introduce recvmmsg socket syscall · a2e27255
      Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 提交于
      Meaning receive multiple messages, reducing the number of syscalls and
      net stack entry/exit operations.
      
      Next patches will introduce mechanisms where protocols that want to
      optimize this operation will provide an unlocked_recvmsg operation.
      
      This takes into account comments made by:
      
      . Paul Moore: sock_recvmsg is called only for the first datagram,
        sock_recvmsg_nosec is used for the rest.
      
      . Caitlin Bestler: recvmmsg now has a struct timespec timeout, that
        works in the same fashion as the ppoll one.
      
        If the underlying protocol returns a datagram with MSG_OOB set, this
        will make recvmmsg return right away with as many datagrams (+ the OOB
        one) it has received so far.
      
      . Rémi Denis-Courmont & Steven Whitehouse: If we receive N < vlen
        datagrams and then recvmsg returns an error, recvmmsg will return
        the successfully received datagrams, store the error and return it
        in the next call.
      
      This paves the way for a subsequent optimization, sk_prot->unlocked_recvmsg,
      where we will be able to acquire the lock only at batch start and end, not at
      every underlying recvmsg call.
      Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      a2e27255
  4. 24 9月, 2009 1 次提交
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      fs: change sys_truncate length parameter type · 4fd8da8d
      Heiko Carstens 提交于
      For this system call user space passes a signed long length parameter,
      while the kernel side takes an unsigned long parameter and converts it
      later to signed long again.
      
      This has led to bugs in compat wrappers see e.g.  dd90bbd5 "powerpc: Add
      compat_sys_truncate".  The s390 compat wrapper for this functions is
      broken as well since it also performs zero extension instead of sign
      extension for the length parameter.
      
      In addition if hpa comes up with an automated way of generating
      compat wrappers it would generate a wrong one here.
      
      So change the length parameter from unsigned long to long.
      
      Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
      Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
      Signed-off-by: NHeiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      4fd8da8d
  5. 21 9月, 2009 1 次提交
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      perf: Do the big rename: Performance Counters -> Performance Events · cdd6c482
      Ingo Molnar 提交于
      Bye-bye Performance Counters, welcome Performance Events!
      
      In the past few months the perfcounters subsystem has grown out its
      initial role of counting hardware events, and has become (and is
      becoming) a much broader generic event enumeration, reporting, logging,
      monitoring, analysis facility.
      
      Naming its core object 'perf_counter' and naming the subsystem
      'perfcounters' has become more and more of a misnomer. With pending
      code like hw-breakpoints support the 'counter' name is less and
      less appropriate.
      
      All in one, we've decided to rename the subsystem to 'performance
      events' and to propagate this rename through all fields, variables
      and API names. (in an ABI compatible fashion)
      
      The word 'event' is also a bit shorter than 'counter' - which makes
      it slightly more convenient to write/handle as well.
      
      Thanks goes to Stephane Eranian who first observed this misnomer and
      suggested a rename.
      
      User-space tooling and ABI compatibility is not affected - this patch
      should be function-invariant. (Also, defconfigs were not touched to
      keep the size down.)
      
      This patch has been generated via the following script:
      
        FILES=$(find * -type f | grep -vE 'oprofile|[^K]config')
      
        sed -i \
          -e 's/PERF_EVENT_/PERF_RECORD_/g' \
          -e 's/PERF_COUNTER/PERF_EVENT/g' \
          -e 's/perf_counter/perf_event/g' \
          -e 's/nb_counters/nb_events/g' \
          -e 's/swcounter/swevent/g' \
          -e 's/tpcounter_event/tp_event/g' \
          $FILES
      
        for N in $(find . -name perf_counter.[ch]); do
          M=$(echo $N | sed 's/perf_counter/perf_event/g')
          mv $N $M
        done
      
        FILES=$(find . -name perf_event.*)
      
        sed -i \
          -e 's/COUNTER_MASK/REG_MASK/g' \
          -e 's/COUNTER/EVENT/g' \
          -e 's/\<event\>/event_id/g' \
          -e 's/counter/event/g' \
          -e 's/Counter/Event/g' \
          $FILES
      
      ... to keep it as correct as possible. This script can also be
      used by anyone who has pending perfcounters patches - it converts
      a Linux kernel tree over to the new naming. We tried to time this
      change to the point in time where the amount of pending patches
      is the smallest: the end of the merge window.
      
      Namespace clashes were fixed up in a preparatory patch - and some
      stylistic fallout will be fixed up in a subsequent patch.
      
      ( NOTE: 'counters' are still the proper terminology when we deal
        with hardware registers - and these sed scripts are a bit
        over-eager in renaming them. I've undone some of that, but
        in case there's something left where 'counter' would be
        better than 'event' we can undo that on an individual basis
        instead of touching an otherwise nicely automated patch. )
      Suggested-by: NStephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
      Acked-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Acked-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Reviewed-by: NArjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
      Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
      Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
      Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
      Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
      Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
      Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
      LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      cdd6c482
  6. 18 9月, 2009 1 次提交
  7. 31 8月, 2009 1 次提交
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      tracing/filters: Defer pred allocation · 8e254c1d
      Li Zefan 提交于
      init_preds() allocates about 5392 bytes of memory (on x86_32) for
      a TRACE_EVENT. With my config, at system boot total memory occupied
      is:
      
      	5392 * (642 + 15) == 3459KB
      
      642 == cat available_events | wc -l
      15 == number of dirs in events/ftrace
      
      That's quite a lot, so we'd better defer memory allocation util
      it's needed, that's when filter is used.
      Signed-off-by: NLi Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
      Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
      Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
      LKML-Reference: <4A9B8EA5.6020700@cn.fujitsu.com>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      8e254c1d
  8. 27 8月, 2009 1 次提交
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      tracing: Ftrace dynamic ftrace_event_call support · bd1a5c84
      Masami Hiramatsu 提交于
      Add dynamic ftrace_event_call support to ftrace. Trace engines can add
      new ftrace_event_call to ftrace on the fly. Each operator function of
      the call takes an ftrace_event_call data structure as an argument,
      because these functions may be shared among several ftrace_event_calls.
      
      Changes from v13:
       - Define remove_subsystem_dir() always (revirt a2ca5e03), because
         trace_remove_event_call() uses it.
       - Modify syscall tracer because of ftrace_event_call change.
      
      [fweisbec@gmail.com: Fixed conflict against latest tracing/core]
      Signed-off-by: NMasami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
      Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
      Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
      Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
      Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
      Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com>
      Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
      Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
      Cc: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
      Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
      Cc: Przemysław Pawełczyk <przemyslaw@pawelczyk.it>
      Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
      Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
      Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
      Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
      LKML-Reference: <20090813203453.31965.71901.stgit@localhost.localdomain>
      Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      bd1a5c84
  9. 19 8月, 2009 2 次提交
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      tracing/syscalls: Add filtering support · 540b7b8d
      Li Zefan 提交于
      Add filtering support for syscall events:
      
       # echo 'mode == 0666' > events/syscalls/sys_enter_open
       # echo 'ret == 0' > events/syscalls/sys_exit_open
       # echo 1 > events/syscalls/sys_enter_open
       # echo 1 > events/syscalls/sys_exit_open
       # cat trace
       ...
         modprobe-3084 [001] 117.463140: sys_open(filename: 917d3e8, flags: 0, mode: 1b6)
         modprobe-3084 [001] 117.463176: sys_open -> 0x0
             less-3086 [001] 117.510455: sys_open(filename: 9c6bdb8, flags: 8000, mode: 1b6)
         sendmail-2574 [001] 122.145840: sys_open(filename: b807a365, flags: 0, mode: 1b6)
       ...
      Signed-off-by: NLi Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
      Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
      Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      LKML-Reference: <4A8BAFCB.1040006@cn.fujitsu.com>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      540b7b8d
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      tracing/syscalls: Add fields format for exit events · 10a5b66f
      Li Zefan 提交于
      Add "format" file for syscall exit events:
      
       # cat events/syscalls/sys_exit_open/format
       name: sys_exit_open
       ID: 344
       format:
               field:unsigned short common_type;       offset:0;       size:2;
               field:unsigned char common_flags;       offset:2;       size:1;
               field:unsigned char common_preempt_count;       offset:3;       size:1;
               field:int common_pid;   offset:4;       size:4;
               field:int common_tgid;  offset:8;       size:4;
      
               field:int nr;   offset:12;      size:4;
               field:unsigned long ret;        offset:16;      size:4;
      Signed-off-by: NLi Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
      Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
      Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      LKML-Reference: <4A8BAF61.3060307@cn.fujitsu.com>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      10a5b66f
  10. 12 8月, 2009 4 次提交
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      tracing: Add fields format definition for syscall events · dc4ddb4c
      Frederic Weisbecker 提交于
      Define the format of the syscall trace fields to parse the binary
      values from a raw trace using the syscall events "format" file.
      
      This is defined dynamically using the syscalls metadata.
      It prepares the export of syscall event raw records to perf
      counters.
      
      Example:
      
      $ cat /debug/tracing/events/syscalls/sys_enter_sched_getparam/format
      name: sys_enter_sched_getparam
      ID: 39
      format:
      	field:unsigned short common_type;	offset:0;	size:2;
      	field:unsigned char common_flags;	offset:2;	size:1;
      	field:unsigned char common_preempt_count;	offset:3;	size:1;
      	field:int common_pid;	offset:4;	size:4;
      	field:int common_tgid;	offset:8;	size:4;
      
      	field:pid_t pid;	offset:12;	size:8;
      	field:struct sched_param * param;	offset:20;	size:8;
      
      print fmt: "pid: 0x%08lx, param: 0x%08lx", ((unsigned long)(REC->pid)), ((unsigned long)(REC->param))
      Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.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>
      Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
      dc4ddb4c
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      tracing: Add perf counter support for syscalls tracing · f4b5ffcc
      Jason Baron 提交于
      The perf counter support is automated for usual trace events. But we
      have to define specific callbacks for this to handle syscalls trace
      events
      
      Make 'perf stat -e syscalls:sys_enter_blah' work with syscall style
      tracepoints.
      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>
      f4b5ffcc
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      tracing: Add individual syscalls tracepoint id support · 64c12e04
      Jason Baron 提交于
      The current state of syscalls tracepoints generates only one event id
      for every syscall events.
      
      This patch associates an id with each syscall trace event, so that we
      can identify each syscall trace event using the 'perf' tool.
      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>
      64c12e04
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      tracing: Add trace events for each syscall entry/exit · fb34a08c
      Jason Baron 提交于
      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>
      fb34a08c
  11. 07 7月, 2009 1 次提交
  12. 17 6月, 2009 1 次提交
  13. 12 6月, 2009 1 次提交
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      perf_counter: Add forward/backward attribute ABI compatibility · 974802ea
      Peter Zijlstra 提交于
      Provide for means of extending the perf_counter_attr in a 'natural' way.
      
      We allow growing the structure by appending fields at the end by specifying
      the full structure size inside it.
      
      When a new kernel sees a smaller (old) structure, it will 0 pad the tail.
      When an old kernel sees a larger (new) structure, it will verify the tail
      consists of 0s, otherwise fail.
      
      If we fail due to a size-mismatch, we return -E2BIG and write the kernel's
      native attribe size back into the provided structure.
      
      Furthermore, add some attribute verification, so that we'll fail counter
      creation when unknown bits are present (PERF_SAMPLE, PERF_FORMAT, or in
      the __reserved fields).
      
      (This ABI detail is introduced while keeping the existing syscall ABI.)
      Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      974802ea
  14. 03 6月, 2009 1 次提交
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      perf_counter: Rename perf_counter_hw_event => perf_counter_attr · 0d48696f
      Peter Zijlstra 提交于
      The structure isn't hw only and when I read event, I think about those
      things that fall out the other end. Rename the thing.
      Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
      Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
      Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@googlemail.com>
      LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      0d48696f
  15. 13 5月, 2009 1 次提交
  16. 21 4月, 2009 1 次提交
  17. 09 4月, 2009 1 次提交
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      tracing/syscalls: use a dedicated file header · 47788c58
      Frederic Weisbecker 提交于
      Impact: fix build warnings and possibe compat misbehavior on IA64
      
      Building a kernel on ia64 might trigger these ugly build warnings:
      
      CC      arch/ia64/ia32/sys_ia32.o
      In file included from arch/ia64/ia32/sys_ia32.c:55:
      arch/ia64/ia32/ia32priv.h:290:1: warning: "elf_check_arch" redefined
      In file included from include/linux/elf.h:7,
                       from include/linux/module.h:14,
                       from include/linux/ftrace.h:8,
                       from include/linux/syscalls.h:68,
                       from arch/ia64/ia32/sys_ia32.c:18:
      arch/ia64/include/asm/elf.h:19:1: warning: this is the location of the previous definition
      [...]
      
      sys_ia32.c includes linux/syscalls.h which in turn includes linux/ftrace.h
      to import the syscalls tracing prototypes.
      
      But including ftrace.h can pull too much things for a low level file,
      especially on ia64 where the ia32 private headers conflict with higher
      level headers.
      
      Now we isolate the syscall tracing headers in their own lightweight file.
      Reported-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
      Tested-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      Acked-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
      Cc: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com>
      Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
      Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
      Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
      Cc: Jiaying Zhang <jiayingz@google.com>
      Cc: Michael Rubin <mrubin@google.com>
      Cc: Martin Bligh <mbligh@google.com>
      Cc: Michael Davidson <md@google.com>
      LKML-Reference: <20090408184058.GB6017@nowhere>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      47788c58
  18. 05 4月, 2009 1 次提交
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      Make non-compat preadv/pwritev use native register size · 601cc11d
      Linus Torvalds 提交于
      Instead of always splitting the file offset into 32-bit 'high' and 'low'
      parts, just split them into the largest natural word-size - which in C
      terms is 'unsigned long'.
      
      This allows 64-bit architectures to avoid the unnecessary 32-bit
      shifting and masking for native format (while the compat interfaces will
      obviously always have to do it).
      
      This also changes the order of 'high' and 'low' to be "low first".  Why?
      Because when we have it like this, the 64-bit system calls now don't use
      the "pos_high" argument at all, and it makes more sense for the native
      system call to simply match the user-mode prototype.
      
      This results in a much more natural calling convention, and allows the
      compiler to generate much more straightforward code.  On x86-64, we now
      generate
      
              testq   %rcx, %rcx      # pos_l
              js      .L122   #,
              movq    %rcx, -48(%rbp) # pos_l, pos
      
      from the C source
      
              loff_t pos = pos_from_hilo(pos_h, pos_l);
      	...
              if (pos < 0)
                      return -EINVAL;
      
      and the 'pos_h' register isn't even touched.  It used to generate code
      like
      
              mov     %r8d, %r8d      # pos_low, pos_low
              salq    $32, %rcx       #, tmp71
              movq    %r8, %rax       # pos_low, pos.386
              orq     %rcx, %rax      # tmp71, pos.386
              js      .L122   #,
              movq    %rax, -48(%rbp) # pos.386, pos
      
      which isn't _that_ horrible, but it does show how the natural word size
      is just a more sensible interface (same arguments will hold in the user
      level glibc wrapper function, of course, so the kernel side is just half
      of the equation!)
      
      Note: in all cases the user code wrapper can again be the same. You can
      just do
      
      	#define HALF_BITS (sizeof(unsigned long)*4)
      	__syscall(PWRITEV, fd, iov, count, offset, (offset >> HALF_BITS) >> HALF_BITS);
      
      or something like that.  That way the user mode wrapper will also be
      nicely passing in a zero (it won't actually have to do the shifts, the
      compiler will understand what is going on) for the last argument.
      
      And that is a good idea, even if nobody will necessarily ever care: if
      we ever do move to a 128-bit lloff_t, this particular system call might
      be left alone.  Of course, that will be the least of our worries if we
      really ever need to care, so this may not be worth really caring about.
      
      [ Fixed for lost 'loff_t' cast noticed by Andrew Morton ]
      Acked-by: NGerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
      Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
      Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org
      Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>>
      Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      601cc11d
  19. 03 4月, 2009 1 次提交
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      preadv/pwritev: Add preadv and pwritev system calls. · f3554f4b
      Gerd Hoffmann 提交于
      This patch adds preadv and pwritev system calls.  These syscalls are a
      pretty straightforward combination of pread and readv (same for write).
      They are quite useful for doing vectored I/O in threaded applications.
      Using lseek+readv instead opens race windows you'll have to plug with
      locking.
      
      Other systems have such system calls too, for example NetBSD, check
      here: http://www.daemon-systems.org/man/preadv.2.html
      
      The application-visible interface provided by glibc should look like
      this to be compatible to the existing implementations in the *BSD family:
      
        ssize_t preadv(int d, const struct iovec *iov, int iovcnt, off_t offset);
        ssize_t pwritev(int d, const struct iovec *iov, int iovcnt, off_t offset);
      
      This prototype has one problem though: On 32bit archs is the (64bit)
      offset argument unaligned, which the syscall ABI of several archs doesn't
      allow to do.  At least s390 needs a wrapper in glibc to handle this.  As
      we'll need a wrappers in glibc anyway I've decided to push problem to
      glibc entriely and use a syscall prototype which works without
      arch-specific wrappers inside the kernel: The offset argument is
      explicitly splitted into two 32bit values.
      
      The patch sports the actual system call implementation and the windup in
      the x86 system call tables.  Other archs follow as separate patches.
      Signed-off-by: NGerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
      Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
      Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      Cc: <linux-api@vger.kernel.org>
      Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
      Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      f3554f4b
  20. 13 3月, 2009 1 次提交
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      tracing/syscalls: core infrastructure for syscalls tracing, enhancements · bed1ffca
      Frederic Weisbecker 提交于
      Impact: new feature
      
      This adds the generic support for syscalls tracing. This is
      currently exploited through a devoted tracer but other tracing
      engines can use it. (They just have to play with
      {start,stop}_ftrace_syscalls() and use the display callbacks
      unless they want to override them.)
      
      The syscalls prototypes definitions are abused here to steal
      some metadata informations:
      
      - syscall name, param types, param names, number of params
      
      The syscall addr is not directly saved during this definition
      because we don't know if its prototype is available in the
      namespace. But we don't really need it. The arch has just to
      build a function able to resolve the syscall number to its
      metadata struct.
      
      The current tracer prints the syscall names, parameters names
      and values (and their types optionally). Currently the value is
      a raw hex but higher level values diplaying is on my TODO list.
      Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      LKML-Reference: <1236955332-10133-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      bed1ffca
  21. 04 3月, 2009 1 次提交
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      perfcounters: provide expansion room in the ABI · 2743a5b0
      Paul Mackerras 提交于
      Impact: ABI change
      
      This expands several fields in the perf_counter_hw_event struct and adds
      a "flags" argument to the perf_counter_open system call, in order that
      features can be added in future without ABI changes.
      
      In particular the record_type field is expanded to 64 bits, and the
      space for flag bits has been expanded from 32 to 64 bits.
      
      This also adds some new fields:
      
      * read_format (64 bits) is intended to provide a way to specify what
        userspace wants to get back when it does a read() on a simple
        (non-interrupting) counter;
      
      * exclude_idle (1 bit) provides a way for userspace to ask that events
        that occur when the cpu is idle be excluded;
      
      * extra_config_len will provide a way for userspace to supply an
        arbitrary amount of extra machine-specific PMU configuration data
        immediately following the perf_counter_hw_event struct, to allow
        sophisticated users to program things such as instruction matching
        CAMs and address range registers;
      
      * __reserved_3 and __reserved_4 provide space for future expansion.
      Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      2743a5b0
  22. 26 2月, 2009 1 次提交
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      perfcounters: fix a few minor cleanliness issues · f3dfd265
      Paul Mackerras 提交于
      This fixes three issues noticed by Arnd Bergmann:
      
      - Add #ifdef __KERNEL__ and move some things around in perf_counter.h
        to make sure only the bits that userspace needs are exported to
        userspace.
      
      - Use __u64, __s64, __u32 types in the structs exported to userspace
        rather than u64, s64, u32.
      
      - Make the sys_perf_counter_open syscall available to the SPUs on
        Cell platforms.
      
      And one issue that I noticed in looking at the code again:
      
      - Wrap the perf_counter_open syscall with SYSCALL_DEFINE4 so we get
        the proper handling of int arguments on ppc64 (and some other 64-bit
        architectures).
      Reported-by: NArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
      Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      f3dfd265
  23. 12 2月, 2009 1 次提交
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      syscall define: fix uml compile bug · 6c597963
      Heiko Carstens 提交于
      With the new system call defines we get this on uml:
      
      arch/um/sys-i386/built-in.o: In function `sys_call_table':
      (.rodata+0x308): undefined reference to `sys_sigprocmask'
      
      Reason for this is that uml passes the preprocessor option
      -Dsigprocmask=kernel_sigprocmask to gcc when compiling the kernel.
      This causes SYSCALL_DEFINE3(sigprocmask, ...) to be expanded to
      SYSCALL_DEFINEx(3, kernel_sigprocmask, ...) and finally to a system
      call named sys_kernel_sigprocmask.  However sys_sigprocmask is missing
      because of this.
      
      To avoid macro expansion for the system call name just concatenate the
      name at first define instead of carrying it through severel levels.
      This was pointed out by Al Viro.
      Signed-off-by: NHeiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
      Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
      Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      Reviewed-by: NWANG Cong <wangcong@zeuux.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      6c597963
  24. 30 1月, 2009 1 次提交
  25. 14 1月, 2009 5 次提交