- 18 3月, 2011 1 次提交
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由 Lucas De Marchi 提交于
They were generated by 'codespell' and then manually reviewed. Signed-off-by: NLucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi> Cc: trivial@kernel.org LKML-Reference: <1300389856-1099-3-git-send-email-lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 12 3月, 2011 1 次提交
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由 Alexander van Heukelum 提交于
The latest binutils (2.21.0.20110302/Ubuntu) breaks the build yet another time, under CONFIG_XEN=y due to a .size directive that refers to a slightly differently named (hence, to the now very strict and unforgiving assembler, non-existent) symbol. [ mingo: This unnecessary build breakage caused by new binutils version 2.21 gets escallated back several kernel releases spanning several years of Linux history, affecting over 130,000 upstream kernel commits (!), on CONFIG_XEN=y 64-bit kernels (i.e. essentially affecting all major Linux distro kernel configs). Git annotate tells us that this slight debug symbol code mismatch bug has been introduced in 2008 in commit 3d75e1b8: 3d75e1b8 (Jeremy Fitzhardinge 2008-07-08 15:06:49 -0700 1231) ENTRY(xen_do_hypervisor_callback) # do_hypervisor_callback(struct *pt_regs) The 'bug' is just a slight assymetry in ENTRY()/END() debug-symbols sequences, with lots of assembly code between the ENTRY() and the END(): ENTRY(xen_do_hypervisor_callback) # do_hypervisor_callback(struct *pt_regs) ... END(do_hypervisor_callback) Human reviewers almost never catch such small mismatches, and binutils never even warned about it either. This new binutils version thus breaks the Xen build on all upstream kernels since v2.6.27, out of the blue. This makes a straightforward Git bisection of all 64-bit Xen-enabled kernels impossible on such binutils, for a bisection window of over hundred thousand historic commits. (!) This is a major fail on the side of binutils and binutils needs to turn this show-stopper build failure into a warning ASAP. ] Signed-off-by: NAlexander van Heukelum <heukelum@fastmail.fm> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Cc: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Cc: H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com> LKML-Reference: <1299877178-26063-1-git-send-email-heukelum@fastmail.fm> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 09 3月, 2011 1 次提交
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由 Jiri Olsa 提交于
Put x86 entry code into a separate link section: .entry.text. Separating the entry text section seems to have performance benefits - caused by more efficient instruction cache usage. Running hackbench with perf stat --repeat showed that the change compresses the icache footprint. The icache load miss rate went down by about 15%: before patch: 19417627 L1-icache-load-misses ( +- 0.147% ) after patch: 16490788 L1-icache-load-misses ( +- 0.180% ) The motivation of the patch was to fix a particular kprobes bug that relates to the entry text section, the performance advantage was discovered accidentally. Whole perf output follows: - results for current tip tree: Performance counter stats for './hackbench/hackbench 10' (500 runs): 19417627 L1-icache-load-misses ( +- 0.147% ) 2676914223 instructions # 0.497 IPC ( +- 0.079% ) 5389516026 cycles ( +- 0.144% ) 0.206267711 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.138% ) - results for current tip tree with the patch applied: Performance counter stats for './hackbench/hackbench 10' (500 runs): 16490788 L1-icache-load-misses ( +- 0.180% ) 2717734941 instructions # 0.502 IPC ( +- 0.079% ) 5414756975 cycles ( +- 0.148% ) 0.206747566 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.137% ) Signed-off-by: NJiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com Cc: ananth@in.ibm.com Cc: davem@davemloft.net Cc: 2nddept-manager@sdl.hitachi.co.jp LKML-Reference: <20110307181039.GB15197@jolsa.redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 14 2月, 2011 1 次提交
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由 Shaohua Li 提交于
Add up to 32 invalidate_interrupt handlers. How many handlers are added depends on NUM_INVALIDATE_TLB_VECTORS. So if NUM_INVALIDATE_TLB_VECTORS is smaller than 32, we reduce code size. Signed-off-by: NShaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <1295232725.1949.708.camel@sli10-conroe> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 12 1月, 2011 1 次提交
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由 Gleb Natapov 提交于
When async PF capability is detected hook up special page fault handler that will handle async page fault events and bypass other page faults to regular page fault handler. Also add async PF handling to nested SVM emulation. Async PF always generates exit to L1 where vcpu thread will be scheduled out until page is available. Acked-by: NRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NGleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NMarcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
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- 08 1月, 2011 1 次提交
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由 Frederic Weisbecker 提交于
From the x86_64 low level interrupt handlers, the frame pointer is saved right after the partial pt_regs frame. rbp is not supposed to be part of the irq partial saved registers, but it only requires to extend the pt_regs frame by 8 bytes to do so, plus a tiny stack offset fixup on irq exit. This changes a bit the semantics or get_irq_entry() that is supposed to provide only the value of caller saved registers and the cpu saved frame. However it's a win for unwinders that can walk through stack frames on top of get_irq_regs() snapshots. A noticeable impact is that it makes perf events cpu-clock and task-clock events based callchains working on x86_64. Let's then save rbp into the irq pt_regs. As a result with: perf record -e cpu-clock perf bench sched messaging perf report --stdio Before: 20.94% perf [kernel.kallsyms] [k] lock_acquire | --- lock_acquire | |--44.01%-- __write_nocancel | |--43.18%-- __read | |--6.08%-- fork | create_worker | |--0.88%-- _dl_fixup | |--0.65%-- do_lookup_x | |--0.53%-- __GI___libc_read --4.67%-- [...] After: 19.23% perf [kernel.kallsyms] [k] __lock_acquire | --- __lock_acquire | |--97.74%-- lock_acquire | | | |--21.82%-- _raw_spin_lock | | | | | |--37.26%-- unix_stream_recvmsg | | | sock_aio_read | | | do_sync_read | | | vfs_read | | | sys_read | | | system_call | | | __read | | | | | |--24.09%-- unix_stream_sendmsg | | | sock_aio_write | | | do_sync_write | | | vfs_write | | | sys_write | | | system_call | | | __write_nocancel v2: Fix cfi annotations. Reported-by: NSoeren Sandmann Pedersen <sandmann@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com>
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- 18 11月, 2010 1 次提交
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由 Masami Hiramatsu 提交于
Prevent kprobes to probe on save_args() since this function will be called from breakpoint exception handler. That will cause infinit loop on breakpoint handling. Signed-off-by: NMasami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Cc: 2nddept-manager@sdl.hitachi.co.jp Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <20101118101655.2779.2816.stgit@ltc236.sdl.hitachi.co.jp> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 20 10月, 2010 1 次提交
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由 Jan Beulich 提交于
gas prior to (perhaps) 2.16.90 has problems with passing non- parenthesized expressions containing spaces to macros. Spaces, however, get inserted by cpp between any macro expanding to a number and a subsequent + or -. For the +, current x86 gas then removes the space again (future gas may not do so), but for the - the space gets retained and is then considered a separator between macro arguments. Fix the respective definitions for both the - and + cases, so that they neither contain spaces nor make cpp insert any (the latter by adding seemingly redundant parentheses). Signed-off-by: NJan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> LKML-Reference: <4CBDBEBA020000780001E05A@vpn.id2.novell.com> Cc: Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@fastmail.fm> Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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- 19 10月, 2010 1 次提交
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由 Peter Zijlstra 提交于
Provide a mechanism that allows running code in IRQ context. It is most useful for NMI code that needs to interact with the rest of the system -- like wakeup a task to drain buffers. Perf currently has such a mechanism, so extract that and provide it as a generic feature, independent of perf so that others may also benefit. The IRQ context callback is generated through self-IPIs where possible, or on architectures like powerpc the decrementer (the built-in timer facility) is set to generate an interrupt immediately. Architectures that don't have anything like this get to do with a callback from the timer tick. These architectures can call irq_work_run() at the tail of any IRQ handlers that might enqueue such work (like the perf IRQ handler) to avoid undue latencies in processing the work. Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: NKyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> Acked-by: NMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> [ various fixes ] Signed-off-by: NHuang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> LKML-Reference: <1287036094.7768.291.camel@yhuang-dev> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 03 9月, 2010 4 次提交
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由 Jan Beulich 提交于
... plus additionally introduce {push,pop}f{l,q}_cfi. All in the hope that the code becomes better readable this way (it gets quite a bit smaller in any case). Signed-off-by: NJan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Acked-by: NAlexander van Heukelum <heukelum@fastmail.fm> LKML-Reference: <4C7FBDA40200007800013FAF@vpn.id2.novell.com> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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由 Jan Beulich 提交于
... making the code a little less fragile. Also use pushq_cfi instead of raw CFI annotations in two more places, and add two missing annotations after stack pointer adjustments which got modified here anyway. Signed-off-by: NJan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Acked-by: NAlexander van Heukelum <heukelum@fastmail.fm> LKML-Reference: <4C7FBACF0200007800013F6A@vpn.id2.novell.com> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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由 Jan Beulich 提交于
As this isn't an exception or interrupt entry point, it doesn't have any of the hardware provide frame layouts active. Signed-off-by: NJan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Acked-by: NAlexander van Heukelum <heukelum@fastmail.fm> LKML-Reference: <4C7FBAA80200007800013F67@vpn.id2.novell.com> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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由 Jan Beulich 提交于
With the return address removed from the stack, these should really refer to their caller's register state. Signed-off-by: NJan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Acked-by: NAlexander van Heukelum <heukelum@fastmail.fm> LKML-Reference: <4C7FBA3D0200007800013F61@vpn.id2.novell.com> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 14 8月, 2010 1 次提交
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由 David Howells 提交于
Mark arguments to certain system calls as being const where they should be but aren't. The list includes: (*) The filename arguments of various stat syscalls, execve(), various utimes syscalls and some mount syscalls. (*) The filename arguments of some syscall helpers relating to the above. (*) The buffer argument of various write syscalls. Signed-off-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 02 8月, 2010 1 次提交
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由 Brian Gerst 提交于
Use a direct per-cpu reference for the IST instead of using a scratch register. Signed-off-by: NBrian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <1280594903-6341-1-git-send-email-brgerst@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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- 23 7月, 2010 1 次提交
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由 Sheng Yang 提交于
Set the callback to receive evtchns from Xen, using the callback vector delivery mechanism. The traditional way for receiving event channel notifications from Xen is via the interrupts from the platform PCI device. The callback vector is a newer alternative that allow us to receive notifications on any vcpu and doesn't need any PCI support: we allocate a vector exclusively to receive events, in the vector handler we don't need to interact with the vlapic, therefore we avoid a VMEXIT. Signed-off-by: NStefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com> Signed-off-by: NSheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: NJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
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- 22 7月, 2010 1 次提交
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由 Roland McGrath 提交于
In the CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL fast-path for x86 64-bit system calls, we can pass a bad return value and/or error indication for the system call to audit_syscall_exit(). This happens when TIF_NEED_RESCHED was set as the system call returned, so we went out to schedule() and came back to the exit-audit fast-path. The fix is to reload the user return value register from the pt_regs before using it for audit_syscall_exit(). Both the 32-bit kernel's fast path and the 64-bit kernel's 32-bit system call fast paths work slightly differently, so that they always leave the fast path entirely to reschedule and don't return there, so they don't have the analogous bugs. Reported-by: NAlexander Viro <aviro@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NRoland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
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- 11 12月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Brian Gerst 提交于
Prepare for merging with 32-bit. Signed-off-by: NBrian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <1260380084-3707-2-git-send-email-brgerst@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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- 06 12月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Frederic Weisbecker 提交于
While dumping a stacktrace, the end of the exception stack won't link the frame pointer to the previous stack. The interrupted stack will then be considered as unreliable and ignored by perf, as the frame pointer is unreliable itself. This happens because we overwrite the frame pointer that links to the interrupted frame with the address of the exception stack. This is done in order to reserve space inside. But rbp has been chosen here only because it is not a scratch register, so that the address of the exception stack remains in rbp after calling do_debug(), we can then release the exception stack space without the need to retrieve its address again. But we can pick another non-scratch register to do that, so that we preserve the link to the interrupted stack frame in the stacktraces. Just randomly choose r12. Every registers are saved just before and restored just after calling do_debug(). And r12 is not used in the middle, which makes it a perfect candidate. Example: perf record -g -a -c 1 -f -e mem:$(tasklist_lock_addr):rw Before: 44.18% [k] _raw_read_lock | | --- |--6.31%-- waitid | |--4.26%-- writev | |--3.63%-- __select | |--3.15%-- __waitpid | | | |--28.57%-- 0x8b52e00000139f | | | |--28.57%-- 0x8b52e0000013c6 | | | |--14.29%-- 0x7fde786dc000 | | | |--14.29%-- 0x62696c2f7273752f | | | --14.29%-- 0x1ea9df800000000 | |--3.00%-- __poll After: 43.94% [k] _raw_read_lock | --- _read_lock | |--60.53%-- send_sigio | __kill_fasync | kill_fasync | evdev_pass_event | evdev_event | input_pass_event | input_handle_event | input_event | synaptics_process_byte | psmouse_handle_byte | psmouse_interrupt | serio_interrupt | i8042_interrupt | handle_IRQ_event | handle_edge_irq | handle_irq | __irqentry_text_start | ret_from_intr | | | |--30.43%-- __select | | | |--17.39%-- 0x454f15 | | | |--13.04%-- __read | | | |--13.04%-- vread_hpet | | | |--13.04%-- _xcb_lock_io | | | --13.04%-- 0x7f630878ce87 Note: it does not only affect perf events but also other stacktraces in x86-64. They were considered as unreliable once we quit the debug stack frame. Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: "K. Prasad" <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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- 04 11月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Brian Gerst 提交于
This jump should be unconditional. Signed-off-by: NBrian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <1257274925-15713-1-git-send-email-brgerst@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 15 10月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Dimitri Sivanich 提交于
Signed-off-by: NDimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com> LKML-Reference: <20091014142257.GE11048@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 14 10月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Steven Rostedt 提交于
The function graph tracer replaces the return address with a hook to trace the exit of the function call. This hook will finish by returning to the real location the function should return to. But the current implementation uses a ret to jump to the real return location. This causes a imbalance between calls and ret. That is the original function does a call, the ret goes to the handler and then the handler does a ret without a matching call. Although the function graph tracer itself still breaks the branch predictor by replacing the original ret, by using a second ret and causing an imbalance, it breaks the predictor even more. This patch replaces the ret with a jmp to keep the calls and ret balanced. I tested this on one box and it showed a 1.7% increase in performance. Another box only showed a small 0.3% increase. But no box that I tested this on showed a decrease in performance by making this change. Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Acked-by: NMathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <20091013203425.042034383@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 13 10月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Brian Gerst 提交于
Move the handling of truncated %rip from an iret fault to the fault entry path. This allows x86-64 to use the standard search_extable() function. Signed-off-by: NBrian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> LKML-Reference: <1255357103-5418-1-git-send-email-brgerst@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 23 9月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Roland McGrath 提交于
If TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE or TIF_SINGLESTEP is set while inside a syscall, the path back to user mode should get to syscall_trace_leave. This does happen in most circumstances. The exception to this is on the 64-bit syscall fastpath, when no such flag was set on syscall entry and nothing else has punted it off the fastpath for exit. That one exit fastpath fails to check for _TIF_WORK_SYSCALL_EXIT flags. This makes the behavior inconsistent with what 32-bit tasks see and what the native 32-bit kernel always does, and what 64-bit tasks see in all cases where the iret path is taken anyhow. Perhaps the only example that is affected is a ptrace stop inside do_fork (for PTRACE_O_TRACE{CLONE,FORK,VFORK,VFORKDONE}). Other syscalls with internal ptrace stop points (execve) already take the iret exit path for unrelated reasons. Test cases for both PTRACE_SYSCALL and PTRACE_SINGLESTEP variants are at: http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/tests/ptrace-tests/tests/syscall-from-clone.c?cvsroot=systemtap http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/tests/ptrace-tests/tests/step-from-clone.c?cvsroot=systemtap There was no special benefit to the sysret path's special path to call do_notify_resume, because it always takes the iret exit path at the end. So this change just makes the sysret exit path join the iret exit path for all the signals and ptrace cases. The fastpath still applies to the plain syscall-audit and resched cases. Signed-off-by: NRoland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> CC: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
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- 21 9月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 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>
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- 13 9月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Jiri Olsa 提交于
Only 24 bytes needs to be reserved on the stack for the function graph tracer on x86_64. Signed-off-by: NJiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <20090729085837.GB4998@jolsa.lab.eng.brq.redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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- 30 8月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Masami Hiramatsu 提交于
Since nmi, debug and int3 returns to irq_return inside common_interrupt, probing this function will cause int3-loop, so it should be marked as __kprobes. Signed-off-by: NMasami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Acked-by: NAnanth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> LKML-Reference: <20090827172325.8246.40000.stgit@localhost.localdomain> Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
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- 19 6月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Steven Rostedt 提交于
In case gcc does something funny with the stack frames, or the return from function code, we would like to detect that. An arch may implement passing of a variable that is unique to the function and can be saved on entering a function and can be tested when exiting the function. Usually the frame pointer can be used for this purpose. This patch also implements this for x86. Where it passes in the stack frame of the parent function, and will test that frame on exit. There was a case in x86_32 with optimize for size (-Os) where, for a few functions, gcc would align the stack frame and place a copy of the return address into it. The function graph tracer modified the copy and not the actual return address. On return from the funtion, it did not go to the tracer hook, but returned to the parent. This broke the function graph tracer, because the return of the parent (where gcc did not do this funky manipulation) returned to the location that the child function was suppose to. This caused strange kernel crashes. This test detected the problem and pointed out where the issue was. This modifies the parameters of one of the functions that the arch specific code calls, so it includes changes to arch code to accommodate the new prototype. Note, I notice that the parsic arch implements its own push_return_trace. This is now a generic function and the ftrace_push_return_trace should be used instead. This patch does not touch that code. Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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- 04 6月, 2009 2 次提交
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由 Andi Kleen 提交于
For some time each panic() called with interrupts disabled triggered the !irqs_disabled() WARN_ON in smp_call_function(), producing ugly backtraces and confusing users. This is a common situation with machine checks for example which tend to call panic with interrupts disabled, but will also hit in other situations e.g. panic during early boot. In fact it means that panic cannot be called in many circumstances, which would be bad. This all started with the new fancy queued smp_call_function, which is then used by the shutdown path to shut down the other CPUs. On closer examination it turned out that the fancy RCU smp_call_function() does lots of things not suitable in a panic situation anyways, like allocating memory and relying on complex system state. I originally tried to patch this over by checking for panic there, but it was quite complicated and the original patch was also not very popular. This also didn't fix some of the underlying complexity problems. The new code in post 2.6.29 tries to patch around this by checking for oops_in_progress, but that is not enough to make this fully safe and I don't think that's a real solution because panic has to be reliable. So instead use an own vector to reboot. This makes the reboot code extremly straight forward, which is definitely a big plus in a panic situation where it is important to avoid relying on too much kernel state. The new simple code is also safe to be called from interupts off region because it is very very simple. There can be situations where it is important that panic is reliable. For example on a fatal machine check the panic is needed to get the system up again and running as quickly as possible. So it's important that panic is reliable and all function it calls simple. This is why I came up with this simple vector scheme. It's very hard to beat in simplicity. Vectors are not particularly precious anymore since all big systems are using per CPU vectors. Another possibility would have been to use an NMI similar to kdump, but there is still the problem that NMIs don't work reliably on some systems due to BIOS issues. NMIs would have been able to stop CPUs running with interrupts off too. In the sake of universal reliability I opted for using a non NMI vector for now. I put the reboot vector into the highest priority bucket of the APIC vectors and moved the 64bit UV_BAU message down instead into the next lower priority. [ Impact: bug fix, fixes an old regression ] Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: NHidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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由 Andi Kleen 提交于
Machine checks support waking up the mcelog daemon quickly. The original wake up code for this was pretty ugly, relying on a idle notifier and a special process flag. The reason it did it this way is that the machine check handler is not subject to normal interrupt locking rules so it's not safe to call wake_up(). Instead it set a process flag and then either did the wakeup in the syscall return or in the idle notifier. This patch adds a new "bootstraping" method as replacement. The idea is that the handler checks if it's in a state where it is unsafe to call wake_up(). If it's safe it calls it directly. When it's not safe -- that is it interrupted in a critical section with interrupts disables -- it uses a new "self IPI" to trigger an IPI to its own CPU. This can be done safely because IPI triggers are atomic with some care. The IPI is raised once the interrupts are reenabled and can then safely call wake_up(). When APICs are disabled the event is just queued and will be picked up eventually by the next polling timer. I think that's a reasonable compromise, since it should only happen quite rarely. Contains fixes from Ying Huang. [ solve conflict on irqinit, make it work on 32bit (entry_arch.h) - HS ] Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: NHidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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- 03 6月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Yong Wang 提交于
Remove the IRQ (non-NMI) handling bits as NMI will be used always. Signed-off-by: NYong Wang <yong.y.wang@intel.com> Cc: Peter 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: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <20090603051255.GA2791@ywang-moblin2.bj.intel.com> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 29 5月, 2009 2 次提交
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由 Andi Kleen 提交于
Enable the 64bit MCE_INTEL code (CMCI, thermal interrupts) for 32bit NEW_MCE. Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: NHidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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由 Andi Kleen 提交于
Allows to call different machine check handlers from the low level machine check entry vector. This is needed for later when it will be used for 32bit too. Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: NHidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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- 09 5月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Jeremy Fitzhardinge 提交于
Native x86-64 uses the IST mechanism to run int3 and debug traps on an alternative stack. Xen does not do this, and so the frames were being misinterpreted by the ptrace code. This change special-cases these two exceptions by using Xen variants which run on the normal kernel stack properly. Impact: avoid crash or bad data when IST trap is invoked under Xen Signed-off-by: NJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
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- 18 4月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Steven Rostedt 提交于
I hit the check_flags error of lockdep: WARNING: at kernel/lockdep.c:2893 check_flags+0x1a7/0x1d0() [...] hardirqs last enabled at (12567): [<ffffffff8026206a>] local_bh_enable+0xaa/0x110 hardirqs last disabled at (12569): [<ffffffff80610c76>] int3+0x16/0x40 softirqs last enabled at (12566): [<ffffffff80514d2b>] lock_sock_nested+0xfb/0x110 softirqs last disabled at (12568): [<ffffffff8058454e>] tcp_prequeue_process+0x2e/0xa0 The check_flags warning of lockdep tells me that lockdep thought interrupts were disabled, but they were really enabled. The numbers in the above parenthesis show the order of events: 12566: softirqs last enabled: lock_sock_nested 12567: hardirqs last enabled: local_bh_enable 12568: softirqs last disabled: tcp_prequeue_process 12566: hardirqs last disabled: int3 int3 is a breakpoint! Examining this further, I have CONFIG_NET_TCPPROBE enabled which adds break points into the kernel. The paranoid_exit of the return of int3 does not account for enabling interrupts on return to kernel. This code is a bit tricky since it is also used by the nmi handler (when lockdep is off), and we must be careful about the swapgs. We can not call kernel code after the swapgs has been performed. [ Impact: fix lockdep check_flags warning + self-turn-off ] Acked-by: NPeter Zijlsta <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 10 4月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Steven Rostedt 提交于
Impact: speed up The return to handler portion of the function graph tracer should only need to save the return values. The caller already saved off the registers that the callee can modify. The returning function already saved the registers it modified. When we call our own trace function it too will save the registers that the callee must restore. There's no reason to save off anything more that the registers used to return the values. Note, I did a complete kernel build with this modification and the function graph tracer running on x86_64. Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 07 4月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Peter Zijlstra 提交于
Implement set_perf_counter_pending() with a self-IPI so that it will run ASAP in a usable context. For now use a second IRQ vector, because the primary vector pokes the apic in funny ways that seem to confuse things. Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <20090406094517.724626696@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 12 3月, 2009 2 次提交
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由 Jan Beulich 提交于
Impact: mark save_paranoid as non-kprobe-able code This appears to be necessary as the function gets called from kprobes-unsafe exception handling stubs (i.e. which themselves live in .kprobes.text). Signed-off-by: NJan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> LKML-Reference: <49B8F44F.76E4.0078.0@novell.com> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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由 Jan Beulich 提交于
Impact: cleanup These got left in needlessly when ret_from_fork got simplified. Signed-off-by: NJan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> LKML-Reference: <49B8F355.76E4.0078.0@novell.com> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 05 3月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Dimitri Sivanich 提交于
This patch allocates a system interrupt vector for various platform specific uses. Signed-off-by: NDimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <20090304185605.GA24419@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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