- remove __{,test_and_}{set,clear,change}_bit() and test_bit()
- remove ffz()
- remove __ffs()
- remove sched_find_first_bit()
- remove ffs()
- remove generic_fls()
- remove generic_fls64()
- remove generic_hweight{32,16,8}()
- remove find_{next,first}{,_zero}_bit()
- remove ext2_{set,clear,test,find_first_zero,find_next_zero}_bit()
- remove ext2_{set,clear}_bit_atomic()
- remove minix_{test,set,test_and_clear,test,find_first_zero}_bit()
Signed-off-by: NAkinobu Mita <mita@miraclelinux.com>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

- remove __{,test_and_}{set,clear,change}_bit() and test_bit()
- remove __ffs()
- remove find_{next,first}{,_zero}_bit()
- remove generic_hweight{32,16,8}()
- remove sched_find_first_bit()
- remove generic_ffs()
- remove ext2_{set,clear,test,find_first_zero,find_next_zero}_bit()
- remove ext2_{set,clear}_bit_atomic()
- remove minix_{test,set,test_and_clear,test,find_first_zero}_bit()
- remove generic_fls()
- remove generic_fls64()
Signed-off-by: NAkinobu Mita <mita@miraclelinux.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Richard Curnow <rc@rc0.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

- remove __{,test_and_}{set,clear,change}_bit() and test_bit()
- remove find_{next,first}{,_zero}_bit()
- remove generic_ffs()
- remove generic_hweight{32,16,8}()
- remove sched_find_first_bit()
- remove ext2_{set,clear,test,find_first_zero,find_next_zero}_bit()
- remove ext2_{set,clear}_bit_atomic()
- remove minix_{test,set,test_and_clear,test,find_first_zero}_bit()
- remove generic_fls()
- remove generic_fls64()
Signed-off-by: NAkinobu Mita <mita@miraclelinux.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Kazumoto Kojima <kkojima@rr.iij4u.or.jp>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

- remove generic_ffs()
- remove generic_fls()
- remove generic_fls64()
- remove generic_hweight{64,32,16,8}()
- remove minix_{test,set,test_and_clear,test,find_first_zero}_bit()
Signed-off-by: NAkinobu Mita <mita@miraclelinux.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

- remove __{,test_and_}{set,clear,change}_bit() and test_bit()
- remove generic_fls64()
- remove generic_hweight{64,32,16,8}()
- remove sched_find_first_bit()
Signed-off-by: NAkinobu Mita <mita@miraclelinux.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

- remove __{,test_and_}{set,clear,change}_bit() and test_bit()
- remove ffz()
- remove generic_fls64()
- remove generic_hweight{32,16,8}()
- remove generic_hweight64()
- remove sched_find_first_bit()
- remove find_{next,first}{,_zero}_bit()
- remove ext2_{set,clear,test,find_first_zero,find_next_zero}_bit()
Signed-off-by: NAkinobu Mita <mita@miraclelinux.com>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

- remove __{,test_and_}{set,clear,change}_bit() and test_bit()

- unless defined(CONFIG_CPU_MIPS32) or defined(CONFIG_CPU_MIPS64)

  - remove __ffs()
  - remove ffs()
  - remove ffz()
  - remove fls()

- remove fls64()
- remove find_{next,first}{,_zero}_bit()
- remove sched_find_first_bit()
- remove generic_hweight64()
- remove generic_hweight{32,16,8}()
- remove ext2_{set,clear,test,find_first_zero,find_next_zero}_bit()
- remove ext2_{set,clear}_bit_atomic()
- remove minix_{test,set,test_and_clear,test,find_first_zero}_bit()
Signed-off-by: NAkinobu Mita <mita@miraclelinux.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

- remove ffs()
- remove __ffs()
- remove sched_find_first_bit()
- remove ffz()
- remove find_{next,first}{,_zero}_bit()
- remove generic_hweight()
- remove minix_{test,set,test_and_clear,test,find_first_zero}_bit()
- remove generic_fls()
- remove generic_fls64()
Signed-off-by: NAkinobu Mita <mita@miraclelinux.com>
Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Build fix for ppc
Signed-off-by: NAkinobu Mita <mita@miraclelinux.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

- remove generic_fls64()
- remove sched_find_first_bit()
- remove generic_hweight()
- remove ext2_{set,clear,test,find_first_zero,find_next_zero}_bit()
Signed-off-by: NAkinobu Mita <mita@miraclelinux.com>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

- remove __{,test_and_}{set,clear,change}_bit() and test_bit()
- remove ffz()
- remove find_{next,first}{,_zero}_bit()
- remove __ffs()
- remove generic_fls()
- remove generic_fls64()
- remove sched_find_first_bit()
- remove generic_ffs()
- remove generic_hweight{32,16,8}()
- remove ext2_{set,clear,test,find_first_zero,find_next_zero}_bit()
- remove ext2_{set,clear}_bit_atomic()
- remove minix_{test,set,test_and_clear,test,find_first_zero}_bit()
Signed-off-by: NAkinobu Mita <mita@miraclelinux.com>
Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

- remove generic_fls64()
- remove find_{next,first}{,_zero}_bit()
- remove ext2_{set,clear,test,find_first_zero,find_next_zero}_bit()
- remove minix_{test,set,test_and_clear,test,find_first_zero}_bit()
- remove sched_find_first_bit()
Signed-off-by: NAkinobu Mita <mita@miraclelinux.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

- remove generic_fls64()
- remove sched_find_first_bit()
- remove generic_hweight{32,16,8}()
- remove ext2_{set,clear,test,find_first_zero,find_next_zero}_bit()
- remove minix_{test,set,test_and_clear,test,find_first_zero}_bit()
Signed-off-by: NAkinobu Mita <mita@miraclelinux.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

- remove generic_ffs()
- remove find_{next,first}{,_zero}_bit()
- remove sched_find_first_bit()
- remove generic_hweight{32,16,8}()
- remove ext2_{set,clear,test,find_first_zero,find_next_zero}_bit()
- remove ext2_{set,clear}_bit_atomic()
- remove minix_{test,set,test_and_clear,test,find_first_zero}_bit()
- remove generic_fls()
- remove generic_fls64()
Signed-off-by: NAkinobu Mita <mita@miraclelinux.com>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

- remove ffz()
- remove find_{next,first}{,_zero}_bit()
- remove generic_ffs()
- remove __ffs()
- remove generic_fls64()
- remove sched_find_first_bit()
- remove generic_hweight{32,16,8}()
- remove ext2_{set,clear,test,find_first_zero,find_next_zero}_bit()
- remove minix_{test,set,test_and_clear,test,find_first_zero}_bit()
Signed-off-by: NAkinobu Mita <mita@miraclelinux.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

- remove __{,test_and_}{set,clear,change}_bit() and test_bit()
- remove generic_fls()
- remove generic_fls64()
- remove generic_hweight{32,16,8}()
- remove find_{next,first}{,_zero}_bit()
- remove ext2_{set,clear,test,find_first_zero,find_next_zero}_bit()
- remove minix_{test,set,test_and_clear,test,find_first_zero}_bit()
- remove sched_find_first_bit()
Signed-off-by: NAkinobu Mita <mita@miraclelinux.com>
Acked-by: NMikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

- remove __{,test_and_}{set,clear,change}_bit() and test_bit()
- remove ffz()
- remove __ffs()
- remove generic_fls()
- remove generic_fls64()
- remove generic_ffs()
- remove sched_find_first_bit()
- remove generic_hweight{32,16,8}()
Signed-off-by: NAkinobu Mita <mita@miraclelinux.com>
Cc: Ian Molton <spyro@f2s.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

- remove __{,test_and_}{set,clear,change}_bit() and test_bit()

- if __LINUX_ARM_ARCH__ < 5

  - remove ffz()
  - remove __ffs()
  - remove generic_fls()
  - remove generic_ffs()

- remove generic_fls64()
- remove sched_find_first_bit()
- remove generic_hweight{32,16,8}()
Signed-off-by: NAkinobu Mita <mita@miraclelinux.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

- unless defined(__alpha_cix__) and defined(__alpha_fix__)

  - remove generic_fls()
  - remove generic_hweight{64,32,16,8}()

- remove generic_fls64()
- remove find_{next,first}{,_zero}_bit()
- remove ext2_{set,clear,test,find_first_zero,find_next_zero}_bit()
- remove minix_{test,set,test_and_clear,test,find_first_zero}_bit()
Signed-off-by: NAkinobu Mita <mita@miraclelinux.com>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

__set_bit() --> cpu_set() cleanup
Signed-off-by: NAkinobu Mita <mita@miraclelinux.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Use config options instead of gcc builtin definition to tell the use of
instruction set extensions (CIX and FIX).

This is introduced to tell the kbuild system the use of opmized hweight*()
routines on alpha architecture.
Signed-off-by: NAkinobu Mita <mita@miraclelinux.com>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Build fix for user mode linux.
Signed-off-by: NAkinobu Mita <mita@miraclelinux.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

s/fucntion/function/ typo fixes
Signed-off-by: NAkinobu Mita <mita@miraclelinux.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Fix warning messages triggered by bitops code consolidation patches.
cxn_bitmap is the array of unsigned long.  '&' is unnesesary for the argument
of *_bit() routins.
Signed-off-by: NAkinobu Mita <mita@miraclelinux.com>
Acked-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Provide proper kprobes fault handling, if a user-specified pre/post handlers
tries to access user address space, through copy_from_user(), get_user() etc.

The user-specified fault handler gets called only if the fault occurs while
executing user-specified handlers.  In such a case user-specified handler is
allowed to fix it first, later if the user-specifed fault handler does not fix
it, we try to fix it by calling fix_exception().

The user-specified handler will not be called if the fault happens when single
stepping the original instruction, instead we reset the current probe and
allow the system page fault handler to fix it up.

I could not test this patch for sparc64.
Signed-off-by: NPrasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Provide proper kprobes fault handling, if a user-specified pre/post handlers
tries to access user address space, through copy_from_user(), get_user() etc.

The user-specified fault handler gets called only if the fault occurs while
executing user-specified handlers.  In such a case user-specified handler is
allowed to fix it first, later if the user-specifed fault handler does not fix
it, we try to fix it by calling fix_exception().

The user-specified handler will not be called if the fault happens when single
stepping the original instruction, instead we reset the current probe and
allow the system page fault handler to fix it up.
Signed-off-by: NPrasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy<anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Provide proper kprobes fault handling, if a user-specified pre/post handlers
tries to access user address space, through copy_from_user(), get_user() etc.

The user-specified fault handler gets called only if the fault occurs while
executing user-specified handlers.  In such a case user-specified handler is
allowed to fix it first, later if the user-specifed fault handler does not fix
it, we try to fix it by calling fix_exception().

The user-specified handler will not be called if the fault happens when single
stepping the original instruction, instead we reset the current probe and
allow the system page fault handler to fix it up.
Signed-off-by: NPrasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Provide proper kprobes fault handling, if a user-specified pre/post handlers
tries to access user address space, through copy_from_user(), get_user() etc.

The user-specified fault handler gets called only if the fault occurs while
executing user-specified handlers.  In such a case user-specified handler is
allowed to fix it first, later if the user-specifed fault handler does not fix
it, we try to fix it by calling fix_exception().

The user-specified handler will not be called if the fault happens when single
stepping the original instruction, instead we reset the current probe and
allow the system page fault handler to fix it up.
Signed-off-by: NPrasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Provide proper kprobes fault handling, if a user-specified pre/post handlers
tries to access user address space, through copy_from_user(), get_user() etc.

The user-specified fault handler gets called only if the fault occurs while
executing user-specified handlers.  In such a case user-specified handler is
allowed to fix it first, later if the user-specifed fault handler does not fix
it, we try to fix it by calling fix_exception().

The user-specified handler will not be called if the fault happens when single
stepping the original instruction, instead we reset the current probe and
allow the system page fault handler to fix it up.
Signed-off-by: NPrasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Currently kprobe handler traps only happen in kernel space, so function
kprobe_exceptions_notify should skip traps which happen in user space.
This patch modifies this, and it is based on 2.6.16-rc4.
Signed-off-by: Nbibo mao <bibo.mao@intel.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: "Keshavamurthy, Anil S" <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Cc: <hiramatu@sdl.hitachi.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: NPrasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

When kretprobe probes the schedule() function, if the probed process exits
then schedule() will never return, so some kretprobe instances will never
be recycled.

In this patch the parent process will recycle retprobe instances of the
probed function and there will be no memory leak of kretprobe instances.
Signed-off-by: Nbibo mao <bibo.mao@intel.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <hiramatu@sdl.hitachi.co.jp>
Cc: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

In normal operation, kretprobe makes a target function return to trampoline
code.  A kprobe (called trampoline_probe) has been inserted in the trampoline
code.  When the kernel hits this kprobe, it calls kretprobe's handler and it
returns to the original return address.

Kretprobe-booster removes the trampoline_probe.  It allows the trampoline code
to call kretprobe's handler directly instead of invoking kprobe.  The
trampoline code returns to the original return address.

(changelog from Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com> - thanks ;))
Signed-off-by: NMasami Hiramatsu <hiramatu@sdl.hitachi.co.jp>
Cc: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.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: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Current kprobe copies the original instruction at the probe point and replaces
it with a breakpoint instruction (int3).  When the kernel hits the probe
point, kprobe handler is invoked.  And the copied instruction is single-step
executed on the copied buffer (not on the original address) by kprobe.  After
that, the kprobe checks registers and modify it (if need) as if the
instructions was executed on the original address.

My proposal is based on the fact there are many instructions which do NOT
require the register modification after the single-step execution.  When the
copied instruction is a kind of them, kprobe just jumps back to the next
instruction after single-step execution.  If so, why don't we execute those
instructions directly?

With kprobe-booster patch, kprobes will execute a copied instruction directly
and (if need) jump back to original code.  This direct execution is executed
when the kprobe don't have both post_handler and break_handler, and the copied
instruction can be executed directly.

I sorted instructions which can be executed directly or not;

- Call instructions are NG(can not be executed directly).
  We should correct the return address pushed into top of stack.
- Indirect instructions except for absolute indirect-jumps
  are NG. Those instructions changes EIP randomly. We should
  check EIP and correct it.
- Instructions that change EIP beyond the range of the
  instruction buffer are NG.
- Instructions that change EIP to tail 5 bytes of the
  instruction buffer (it is the size of a jump instruction).
  We must write a jump instruction which backs to original
  kernel code in the instruction buffer.
- Break point instruction is NG. We should not touch EIP and
  pass to other handlers.
- Absolute direct/indirect jumps are OK.- Conditional Jumps are NG.
- Halt and software-interruptions are NG. Because it will stay on
  the instruction buffer of kprobes.
- Prefixes are NG.
- Unknown/reserved opcode is NG.
- Other 1 byte instructions are OK. But those instructions need a
  jump back code.
- 2 bytes instructions are mapped sparsely. So, in this release,
  this patch don't boost those instructions.

>From Intel's IA-32 opcode map described in IA-32 Intel Architecture Software
Developer's Manual Vol.2 B, I determined that following opcodes are not
boostable.

- 0FH (2byte escape)
- 70H - 7FH (Jump on condition)
- 9AH (Call) and 9CH (Pushf)
- C0H-C1H (Grp 2: includes reserved opcode)
- C6H-C7H (Grp11: includes reserved opcode)
- CCH-CEH (Software-interrupt)
- D0H-D3H (Grp2: includes reserved opcode)
- D6H (Reserved)
- D8H-DFH (Coprocessor)
- E0H-E3H (loop/conditional jump)
- E8H (Call)
- F0H-F3H (Prefixes and reserved)
- F4H (Halt)
- F6H-F7H (Grp3: includes reserved opcode)
- FEH-FFH(Grp4,5: includes reserved opcode)

Kprobe-booster checks whether target instruction can be boosted (can be
executed directly) at arch_copy_kprobe() function.  If the target instruction
can be boosted, it clears "boostable" flag.  If not, it sets "boostable" flag
-1.  This is disabled status.  In resume_execution() function, If "boostable"
flag is cleared, kprobe-booster measures the size of the target instruction
and sets "boostable" flag 1.

In kprobe_handler(), kprobe checks the "boostable" flag.  If the flag is 1, it
resets current kprobe and executes instruction buffer directly instead of
single stepping.

When unregistering a boosted kprobe, it calls synchronize_sched()
after "int3" is removed. So we can ensure followings after
the synchronize_sched() called.
- interrupt handlers are finished on all CPUs.
- instruction buffer is not executed on all CPUs.
And we can release the boosted kprobe safely.

And also, on preemptible kernel, the booster is not enabled where the kernel
preemption is enabled.  So, there are no preempted threads on the instruction
buffer.

The description of kretprobe-booster:
====================================

In the normal operation, kretprobe make a target function return to trampoline
code.  And a kprobe (called trampoline_probe) have been inserted at the
trampoline code.  When the kernel hits this kprobe, it calls kretprobe's
handler and it returns to original return address.

Kretprobe-booster patch removes the trampoline_probe.  It allows the
trampoline code to call kretprobe's handler directly instead of invoking
kprobe.  And tranpoline code returns to original return address.

This new trampoline code stores and restores registers, so the kretprobe
handler is still able to access those registers.

Current kprobe has about 1.3 usec/probe(*) overhead, and kprobe-booster patch
reduces it to 0.6 usec/probe(*).  Also current kretprobe has about 2.0
usec/probe(*) overhead.  Kprobe-booster patch reduces it to 1.3 usec/probe(*),
and the combination of both kprobe-booster patch and kretprobe-booster patch
reduces it to 0.9 usec/probe(*).

I expect the combination of both patches can reduce half of a probing
overhead.

Performance numbers strongly depend on the processor model.

Andrew Morton wrote:
> These preempt tricks look rather nasty.  Can you please describe what the
> problem is, precisely?  And how this code avoids it?  Perhaps we can find
> something cleaner.

The problem is how to remove the copied instructions of the
kprobe *safely* on the preemptable kernel (CONFIG_PREEMPT=y).

Kprobes basically executes the following actions;

(1)int3
(2)preempt_disable()
(3)kprobe_prehandler()
(4)copied instructioin(single step)
(5)kprobe_posthandler()
(6)preempt_enable()
(7)return to the original code

During the execution of copied instruction, preemption is
disabled (from step (2) to (6)).
When unregistering the probes, Kprobe waits for RCU
quiescent state by using synchronize_sched() after removing
int3 instruction.
Thus we can ensure the copied instruction is not executed.

On the other hand, kprobe-booster executes the following actions;

(1)int3
(2)preempt_disable()
(3)kprobe_prehandler()
(4)preempt_enable()             <-- this one is added by my patch
(5)copied instruction(direct execution)
(6)jmp back to the original code

The problem is that we have no way to prevent preemption on
step (5) or (6). We cannot call preempt_disable() after step (6),
because there are no rooms to do that. Thus, some other
processes may be preempted at step(5) or (6) on preemptable kernel.
And I couldn't find the easy way to ensure that other processes'
stack do *not* have the address of them. (I thought some way
to do that, but those are very costly.)

So currently, I simply boost the kprobe only when the probe
point is already preemption disabled.

> Also, the patch adds a preempt_enable() but I don't see a corresponding
> preempt_disable().  Am I missing something?

It is corresponding to the preempt_disable() in the top of
kprobe_handler().
I copied the code of kprobe_handler() here:

static int __kprobes kprobe_handler(struct pt_regs *regs)
{
        struct kprobe *p;
        int ret = 0;
        kprobe_opcode_t *addr = NULL;
        unsigned long *lp;
        struct kprobe_ctlblk *kcb;

        /*
         * We don't want to be preempted for the entire
         * duration of kprobe processing
         */
        preempt_disable();             <-- HERE
        kcb = get_kprobe_ctlblk();
Signed-off-by: NMasami Hiramatsu <hiramatu@sdl.hitachi.co.jp>
Cc: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.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>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Clean up kprobe's resume_execute() for i386 arch.
Signed-off-by: NMasami Hiramatsu <hiramatu@sdl.hitachi.co.jp>
Cc: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.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>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Coverity found an over-run @ line 364 of efi.c

This is due to the loop checking the size correctly, then adding a '\0'
after possibly hitting the end of the array.

Ensure the loop exits with one space left in the array.
Signed-off-by: NDarren Jenkins <darrenrjenkins@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Create compat_sys_adjtimex and use it an all appropriate places.
Signed-off-by: NStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

We had a copy of the compatibility version of struct timex in each 64 bit
architecture.  This patch just creates a global one and replaces all the
usages of the old ones.
Signed-off-by: NStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: NKyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
Acked-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Acked-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Semaphore to mutex conversion.

The conversion was generated via scripts, and the result was validated
automatically via a script as well.
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Acked-by: NAlasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Cc: Adam Belay <ambx1@neo.rr.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Here's a patch that fixes EFI boot for x86 on 2.6.16-rc5-mm3.  The
off-by-one is admittedly my fault, but the other two fix up the rest.

Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Cc: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Cc: "Tolentino, Matthew E" <matthew.e.tolentino@intel.com>
Cc: "Brown, Len" <len.brown@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Almost all users of the table addresses from the EFI system table want
physical addresses.  So rather than doing the pa->va->pa conversion, just keep
physical addresses in struct efi.

This fixes a DMI bug: the efi structure contained the physical SMBIOS address
on x86 but the virtual address on ia64, so dmi_scan_machine() used ioremap()
on a virtual address on ia64.

This is essentially the same as an earlier patch by Matt Tolentino:
	http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=112130292316281&w=2
except that this changes all table addresses, not just ACPI addresses.

Matt's original patch was backed out because it caused MCAs on HP sx1000
systems.  That problem is resolved by the ioremap() attribute checking added
for ia64.
Signed-off-by: NBjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Cc: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Cc: "Tolentino, Matthew E" <matthew.e.tolentino@intel.com>
Cc: "Brown, Len" <len.brown@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Acked-by: N"Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>