- 25 5月, 2011 1 次提交
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由 Peter Zijlstra 提交于
In case other architectures require RCU freed page-tables to implement gup_fast() and software filled hashes and similar things, provide the means to do so by moving the logic into generic code. Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Requested-by: NDavid Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 10 4月, 2011 1 次提交
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由 Justin P. Mattock 提交于
Signed-off-by: NJustin P. Mattock <justinmattock@gmail.com> Acked-by: NSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Acked-by: NHeiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
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- 16 3月, 2011 1 次提交
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由 Robert Richter 提交于
Remove unused HAVE_HWSAMPLER config option. It is not used anymore, removing it. Also make some functions static and some coding style fixes. Signed-off-by: NRobert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
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- 15 2月, 2011 1 次提交
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由 Heinz Graalfs 提交于
This adds support for hardware based sampling on System z processors (models z10 and up). System z's hardware sampling is described in detail in: SA23-2260-01 "The Load-Program-Parameter and CPU-Measurement Facilities" The patch introduces - support for System z's hardware sampler in OProfile's kernel module - it adds functions that control all hardware sampling related operations as: - checking if hardware sampling feature is available, i.e.: on System z models z10 and up, in LPAR mode only, and authorised during LPAR activation - allocating memory for the hardware sampling feature - starting/stopping hardware sampling All functions required to start and stop hardware sampling have to be invoked by the oprofile kernel module as provided by the other patches of this patch set. In case hardware based sampling cannot be setup standard timer based sampling is used by OProfile. Applied with following changes: * enable compilation in Makefile Signed-off-by: NMahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NMaran Pakkirisamy <maranp@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NHeinz Graalfs <graalfs@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: NHeiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NRobert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
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- 05 1月, 2011 1 次提交
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由 Gerald Schaefer 提交于
The spinning mutex implementation uses cpu_relax() in busy loops as a compiler barrier. Depending on the architecture, cpu_relax() may do more than needed in this specific mutex spin loops. On System z we also give up the time slice of the virtual cpu in cpu_relax(), which prevents effective spinning on the mutex. This patch replaces cpu_relax() in the spinning mutex code with arch_mutex_cpu_relax(), which can be defined by each architecture that selects HAVE_ARCH_MUTEX_CPU_RELAX. The default is still cpu_relax(), so this patch should not affect other architectures than System z for now. Signed-off-by: NGerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1290437256.7455.4.camel@thinkpad> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 26 11月, 2010 1 次提交
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由 Gerald Schaefer 提交于
The spinning mutex implementation uses cpu_relax() in busy loops as a compiler barrier. Depending on the architecture, cpu_relax() may do more than needed in this specific mutex spin loops. On System z we also give up the time slice of the virtual cpu in cpu_relax(), which prevents effective spinning on the mutex. This patch replaces cpu_relax() in the spinning mutex code with arch_mutex_cpu_relax(), which can be defined by each architecture that selects HAVE_ARCH_MUTEX_CPU_RELAX. The default is still cpu_relax(), so this patch should not affect other architectures than System z for now. Signed-off-by: NGerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1290437256.7455.4.camel@thinkpad> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 30 10月, 2010 1 次提交
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由 Steven Rostedt 提交于
On i386 (not x86_64) early implementations of gcc would have a bug with asm goto causing it to produce code like the following: (This was noticed by Peter Zijlstra) 56 pushl 0 67 nopl jmp 0x6f popl jmp 0x8c 6f mov test je 0x8c 8c mov call *(%esp) The jump added in the asm goto skipped over the popl that matched the pushl 0, which lead up to a quick crash of the system when the jump was enabled. The nopl is defined in the asm goto () statement and when tracepoints are enabled, the nop changes to a jump to the label that was specified by the asm goto. asm goto is suppose to tell gcc that the code in the asm might jump to an external label. Here gcc obviously fails to make that work. The bug report for gcc is here: http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=46226 The bug only appears on x86 when not compiled with -maccumulate-outgoing-args. This option is always set on x86_64 and it is also the work around for a function graph tracer i386 bug. (See commit: 746357d6) This explains why the bug only showed up on i386 when function graph tracer was not enabled. This patch now adds a CONFIG_JUMP_LABEL option that is default off instead of using jump labels by default. When jump labels are enabled, the -maccumulate-outgoing-args will be used (causing a slightly larger kernel image on i386). This option will exist until we have a way to detect if the gcc compiler in use is safe to use on all configurations without the work around. Note, there exists such a test, but for now we will keep the enabling of jump label as a manual option. Archs that know the compiler is safe with asm goto, may choose to select JUMP_LABEL and enable it by default. Reported-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cause-discovered-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <1288028746.3673.11.camel@laptop> Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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- 23 9月, 2010 1 次提交
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由 Jason Baron 提交于
base patch to implement 'jump labeling'. Based on a new 'asm goto' inline assembly gcc mechanism, we can now branch to labels from an 'asm goto' statment. This allows us to create a 'no-op' fastpath, which can subsequently be patched with a jump to the slowpath code. This is useful for code which might be rarely used, but which we'd like to be able to call, if needed. Tracepoints are the current usecase that these are being implemented for. Acked-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: NJason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <ee8b3595967989fdaf84e698dc7447d315ce972a.1284733808.git.jbaron@redhat.com> [ cleaned up some formating ] Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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- 14 9月, 2010 1 次提交
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由 Masami Hiramatsu 提交于
Fix Kconfig dependency among Kprobes, optprobe and kallsyms. Kprobes uses kallsyms_lookup for finding target function and checking instruction boundary, thus CONFIG_KPROBES should select CONFIG_KALLSYMS. Optprobe is an optional feature which is supported on x86 arch, and it also uses kallsyms_lookup for checking instructions in the target function. Since KALLSYMS_ALL just adds symbols of kernel variables, it doesn't need to select KALLSYMS_ALL. Signed-off-by: NMasami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>, Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Cc: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: akpm <akpm@linux-foundation.org> LKML-Reference: <20100913102541.20260.85700.stgit@ltc236.sdl.hitachi.co.jp> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 16 5月, 2010 2 次提交
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由 Frederic Weisbecker 提交于
This new config is deemed to simplify even more the lockup detector dependencies and can make it easier to bring a smooth sorting between archs that support the new generic lockup detector and those that still have their own, especially for those that are in the middle of this migration. Instead of checking whether we have CONFIG_LOCKUP_DETECTOR + CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS_NMI each time an arch wants to know if it needs to build its own lockup detector, take a shortcut with this new config. It is enabled only if the hardlockup detection part of the whole lockup detector is on. Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
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由 Frederic Weisbecker 提交于
CONFIG_PERF_EVENT_NMI is something that need to be enabled from the arch. This is fine on x86 as PERF_EVENTS is builtin but if other archs select it, they will need to handle the PERF_EVENTS dependency. Instead, handle the dependency in the generic layer: - archs need to tell what they support through HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI - Enable magically PERF_EVENTS_NMI if we have PERF_EVENTS and HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI. Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
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- 01 5月, 2010 1 次提交
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由 Frederic Weisbecker 提交于
There are two outstanding fashions for archs to implement hardware breakpoints. The first is to separate breakpoint address pattern definition space between data and instruction breakpoints. We then have typically distinct instruction address breakpoint registers and data address breakpoint registers, delivered with separate control registers for data and instruction breakpoints as well. This is the case of PowerPc and ARM for example. The second consists in having merged breakpoint address space definition between data and instruction breakpoint. Address registers can host either instruction or data address and the access mode for the breakpoint is defined in a control register. This is the case of x86 and Super H. This patch adds a new CONFIG_HAVE_MIXED_BREAKPOINTS_REGS config that archs can select if they belong to the second case. Those will have their slot allocation merged for instructions and data breakpoints. The others will have a separate slot tracking between data and instruction breakpoints. Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Acked-by: NPaul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: K. Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 16 3月, 2010 1 次提交
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由 Masami Hiramatsu 提交于
Hide CONFIG_OPTPROBES and set if the arch supports optimized kprobes (IOW, HAVE_OPTPROBES=y), since this option doesn't change the major behavior of kprobes, and workarounds for minor changes are documented. Signed-off-by: NMasami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Cc: systemtap <systemtap@sources.redhat.com> Cc: DLE <dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net> Cc: Dieter Ries <mail@dieterries.net> Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> Cc: Peter 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> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <20100315170054.31593.3153.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 26 2月, 2010 4 次提交
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由 Robert Richter 提交于
OProfile support for IBS is now for several versions in the kernel. The feature is stable now and the code can be activated permanently. As a side effect IBS now works also on nosmp configs. Signed-off-by: NRobert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
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由 Robert Richter 提交于
OProfile is already used for a long time and no longer experimental. Signed-off-by: NRobert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
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由 Robert Richter 提交于
The commit 1155de47 ring-buffer: Make it generally available already made ring-buffer available without the TRACING option enabled. This patch removes the TRACING dependency from oprofile. Fixes also oprofile configuration on ia64. The patch also applies to the 2.6.32-stable kernel. Reported-by: NTony Jones <tonyj@suse.de> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: NRobert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
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由 Masami Hiramatsu 提交于
Introduce kprobes jump optimization arch-independent parts. Kprobes uses breakpoint instruction for interrupting execution flow, on some architectures, it can be replaced by a jump instruction and interruption emulation code. This gains kprobs' performance drastically. To enable this feature, set CONFIG_OPTPROBES=y (default y if the arch supports OPTPROBE). Changes in v9: - Fix a bug to optimize probe when enabling. - Check nearby probes can be optimize/unoptimize when disarming/arming kprobes, instead of registering/unregistering. This will help kprobe-tracer because most of probes on it are usually disabled. Changes in v6: - Cleanup coding style for readability. - Add comments around get/put_online_cpus(). Changes in v5: - Use get_online_cpus()/put_online_cpus() for avoiding text_mutex deadlock. Signed-off-by: NMasami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Cc: systemtap <systemtap@sources.redhat.com> Cc: DLE <dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net> Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com> Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@ksplice.com> Cc: Tim Abbott <tabbott@ksplice.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <compudj@krystal.dyndns.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <20100225133407.6725.81992.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 23 2月, 2010 1 次提交
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由 Heiko Carstens 提交于
So that arch developers know how to implement it without the need to dig into changelogs. Reported-by: NMike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NHeiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Acked-by: NMasami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: "David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> LKML-Reference: <20100218132521.GB2406@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> [added reference to ptrace.h in the config help] Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
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- 17 2月, 2010 1 次提交
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由 Heiko Carstens 提交于
KPROBES_EVENT actually depends on the regs and stack access API (b1cf540f) and not on x86. So introduce a new config option which architectures can select if they have the API implemented and switch x86. Signed-off-by: NHeiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Acked-by: NMasami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <20100210162517.GB6933@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
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- 18 12月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Frederic Weisbecker 提交于
The kbuild's select command doesn't propagate through the config dependencies. Hence the current rules of hardware breakpoint's config can't ensure perf can never be disabled under us. We have: config X86 selects HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINTS config HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINTS select PERF_EVENTS config PERF_EVENTS [...] x86 will select the breakpoints but that won't propagate to perf events. The user can still disable the latter, but it is necessary for the breakpoints. What we need is: - x86 selects HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINTS and PERF_EVENTS - HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINTS depends on PERF_EVENTS so that we ensure PERF_EVENTS is enabled and frozen for x86. This fixes the following kind of build errors: In file included from arch/x86/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c:31: include/linux/hw_breakpoint.h: In function 'hw_breakpoint_addr': include/linux/hw_breakpoint.h:39: error: 'struct perf_event' has no member named 'attr' v2: Select also ANON_INODES from x86, required for perf Reported-by: NCyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com> Reported-by: NMichal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz> Reported-by: NAndrew Randrianasulu <randrik_a@yahoo.com> Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <1261010034-7786-1-git-send-regression-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 08 11月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Frederic Weisbecker 提交于
This patch rebase the implementation of the breakpoints API on top of perf events instances. Each breakpoints are now perf events that handle the register scheduling, thread/cpu attachment, etc.. The new layering is now made as follows: ptrace kgdb ftrace perf syscall \ | / / \ | / / / Core breakpoint API / / | / | / Breakpoints perf events | | Breakpoints PMU ---- Debug Register constraints handling (Part of core breakpoint API) | | Hardware debug registers Reasons of this rewrite: - Use the centralized/optimized pmu registers scheduling, implying an easier arch integration - More powerful register handling: perf attributes (pinned/flexible events, exclusive/non-exclusive, tunable period, etc...) Impact: - New perf ABI: the hardware breakpoints counters - Ptrace breakpoints setting remains tricky and still needs some per thread breakpoints references. Todo (in the order): - Support breakpoints perf counter events for perf tools (ie: implement perf_bpcounter_event()) - Support from perf tools Changes in v2: - Follow the perf "event " rename - The ptrace regression have been fixed (ptrace breakpoint perf events weren't released when a task ended) - Drop the struct hw_breakpoint and store generic fields in perf_event_attr. - Separate core and arch specific headers, drop asm-generic/hw_breakpoint.h and create linux/hw_breakpoint.h - Use new generic len/type for breakpoint - Handle off case: when breakpoints api is not supported by an arch Changes in v3: - Fix broken CONFIG_KVM, we need to propagate the breakpoint api changes to kvm when we exit the guest and restore the bp registers to the host. Changes in v4: - Drop the hw_breakpoint_restore() stub as it is only used by KVM - EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL hw_breakpoint_restore() as KVM can be built as a module - Restore the breakpoints unconditionally on kvm guest exit: TIF_DEBUG_THREAD doesn't anymore cover every cases of running breakpoints and vcpu->arch.switch_db_regs might not always be set when the guest used debug registers. (Waiting for a reliable optimization) Changes in v5: - Split-up the asm-generic/hw-breakpoint.h moving to linux/hw_breakpoint.h into a separate patch - Optimize the breakpoints restoring while switching from kvm guest to host. We only want to restore the state if we have active breakpoints to the host, otherwise we don't care about messed-up address registers. - Add asm/hw_breakpoint.h to Kbuild - Fix bad breakpoint type in trace_selftest.c Changes in v6: - Fix wrong header inclusion in trace.h (triggered a build error with CONFIG_FTRACE_SELFTEST Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
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- 02 10月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Avi Kivity 提交于
Add a general per-cpu notifier that is called whenever the kernel is about to return to userspace. The notifier uses a thread_info flag and existing checks, so there is no impact on user return or context switch fast paths. This will be used initially to speed up KVM task switching by lazily updating MSRs. Signed-off-by: NAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <1253342422-13811-1-git-send-email-avi@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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- 18 9月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Christian Borntraeger 提交于
commit 85bac32c ring-buffer: only enable ring_buffer_swap_cpu when needed broke oprofile (at least on s390, but likely on all platforms). this patch lets oprofile select RING_BUFER_ALLOW_SWAP to make ring_buffer_swap_cpu usable for oprofile. Signed-off-by: NChristian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <200909162156.49239.borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com> Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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- 20 7月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Jason Yeh 提交于
The number of hardware counters is limited. The multiplexing feature enables OProfile to gather more events than counters are provided by the hardware. This is realized by switching between events at an user specified time interval. A new file (/dev/oprofile/time_slice) is added for the user to specify the timer interval in ms. If the number of events to profile is higher than the number of hardware counters available, the patch will schedule a work queue that switches the event counter and re-writes the different sets of values into it. The switching mechanism needs to be implemented for each architecture to support multiplexing. This patch only implements AMD CPU support, but multiplexing can be easily extended for other models and architectures. There are follow-on patches that rework parts of this patch. Signed-off-by: NJason Yeh <jason.yeh@amd.com> Signed-off-by: NRobert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
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- 19 6月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Peter Oberparleiter 提交于
Enable the use of GCC's coverage testing tool gcov [1] with the Linux kernel. gcov may be useful for: * debugging (has this code been reached at all?) * test improvement (how do I change my test to cover these lines?) * minimizing kernel configurations (do I need this option if the associated code is never run?) The profiling patch incorporates the following changes: * change kbuild to include profiling flags * provide functions needed by profiling code * present profiling data as files in debugfs Note that on some architectures, enabling gcc's profiling option "-fprofile-arcs" for the entire kernel may trigger compile/link/ run-time problems, some of which are caused by toolchain bugs and others which require adjustment of architecture code. For this reason profiling the entire kernel is initially restricted to those architectures for which it is known to work without changes. This restriction can be lifted once an architecture has been tested and found compatible with gcc's profiling. Profiling of single files or directories is still available on all platforms (see config help text). [1] http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Gcov.htmlSigned-off-by: NPeter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: Li Wei <W.Li@Sun.COM> Cc: Michael Ellerman <michaele@au1.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heicars2@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <mschwid2@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 03 6月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 K.Prasad 提交于
This patch introduces the generic Hardware Breakpoint interfaces for both user and kernel space requests. This core Api handles the hardware breakpoints through new helpers. It handles the user-space breakpoints and kernel breakpoints in front of arch implementation. One can choose kernel wide breakpoints using the following helpers and passing them a generic struct hw_breakpoint: - register_kernel_hw_breakpoint() - unregister_kernel_hw_breakpoint() - modify_kernel_hw_breakpoint() On the other side, you can choose per task breakpoints. - register_user_hw_breakpoint() - unregister_user_hw_breakpoint() - modify_user_hw_breakpoint() [ fweisbec@gmail.com: fix conflict against perfcounter ] Original-patch-by: NAlan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Signed-off-by: NK.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: NAlan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
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- 10 4月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Heiko Carstens 提交于
Impact: performance regression fix for s390 The adaptive spinning mutexes will not always do what one would expect on virtualized architectures like s390. Especially the cpu_relax() loop in mutex_spin_on_owner might hurt if the mutex holding cpu has been scheduled away by the hypervisor. We would end up in a cpu_relax() loop when there is no chance that the state of the mutex changes until the target cpu has been scheduled again by the hypervisor. For that reason we should change the default behaviour to no-spin on s390. We do have an instruction which allows to yield the current cpu in favour of a different target cpu. Also we have an instruction which allows us to figure out if the target cpu is physically backed. However we need to do some performance tests until we can come up with a solution that will do the right thing on s390. Signed-off-by: NHeiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Acked-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <20090409184834.7a0df7b2@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 06 3月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Ingo Molnar 提交于
Clean up menu structure, introduce TRACING_SUPPORT switch that signals whether an architecture supports various instrumentation mechanisms. 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 Joerg Roedel 提交于
Impact: add a Kconfig entry for DMA-API debugging Signed-off-by: NJoerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
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- 14 1月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Heiko Carstens 提交于
From: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> By selecting HAVE_SYSCALL_WRAPPERS architectures can activate system call wrappers in order to sign extend system call arguments. All architectures where the ABI defines that the caller of a function has to perform sign extension probably need this. Reported-by: NChristian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Acked-by: NRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by: NMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NHeiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
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- 12 12月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 Ingo Molnar 提交于
Impact: build fix OProfile now depends on the ring buffer infrastructure: arch/x86/oprofile/built-in.o: In function `oprofile_add_ibs_sample': : undefined reference to `ring_buffer_unlock_commit' Select TRACING and RING_BUFFER when oprofile is enabled. Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 01 12月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 Christoph Hellwig 提交于
All architectures now use the generic compat_sys_ptrace, as should every new architecture that needs 32bit compat (if we'll ever get another). Remove the now superflous __ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_SYS_PTRACE define, and also kill a comment about __ARCH_SYS_PTRACE that was added after __ARCH_SYS_PTRACE was already gone. Signed-off-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Acked-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 28 10月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 Jesper Dangaard Brouer 提交于
Fixes screwing up text output when doing a make oldconfig and viewing help text of "OProfile AMD IBS support". When the terminal is not using an UTF8 locale / LANG. "make config" breaks terminal output and its not possible to continue. (Change added by changeset 852402cc Tue Jul 22 21:09:06 2008) Signed-off-by: NJesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@comx.dk> Signed-off-by: NRobert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
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- 17 10月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 Jan Beulich 提交于
Using "def_bool n" is pointless, simply using bool here appears more appropriate. Further, retaining such options that don't have a prompt and aren't selected by anything seems also at least questionable. Signed-off-by: NJan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 16 10月, 2008 5 次提交
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由 Ingo Molnar 提交于
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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由 Thomas Gleixner 提交于
Revert the dynarray changes. They need more thought and polishing. Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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由 Yinghai Lu 提交于
Ingo said sparse_irq is some intrusive. need to make it selectable to make it simple, remove irq_desc as parameter in some functions. (ack, eoi, set_affinity). may need to make member if irq_chip to take irq_desc, or struct irq later. Signed-off-by: NYinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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由 Yinghai Lu 提交于
add CONFIG_HAVE_SPARSE_IRQ to for use condensed array. Get rid of irq_desc[] array assumptions. Preallocate 32 irq_desc, and irq_desc() will try to get more. ( No change in functionality is expected anywhere, except the odd build failure where we missed a code site or where a crossing commit itroduces new irq_desc[] usage. ) v2: according to Eric, change get_irq_desc() to irq_desc() Signed-off-by: NYinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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由 Yinghai Lu 提交于
Signed-off-by: NYinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 27 7月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 Roland McGrath 提交于
This adds the generic HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK kconfig item. Each arch should add to some Kconfig file: select HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK if the arch code uses all the latest hooks to enable newfangled tracing and debugging code. The comment in arch/Kconfig lists all the prerequisite arch support. When all these are available, setting HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK will allow enabling any new features that depend on the modern arch interfaces. Signed-off-by: NRoland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Reviewed-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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