1. 11 12月, 2009 2 次提交
  2. 10 12月, 2009 2 次提交
  3. 02 12月, 2009 1 次提交
  4. 24 11月, 2009 1 次提交
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      sched, x86: Optimize branch hint in __switch_to() · a3a1de0c
      Tim Blechmann 提交于
      Branch hint profiling on my nehalem machine showed 96%
      incorrect branch hints:
      
        6548732 174664120  96 __switch_to                    process_64.c
          406
        6548745 174565593  96 __switch_to                    process_64.c
          410
      Signed-off-by: NTim Blechmann <tim@klingt.org>
      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: <4B0BBB93.3080307@klingt.org>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      a3a1de0c
  5. 08 11月, 2009 1 次提交
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      hw-breakpoints: Rewrite the hw-breakpoints layer on top of perf events · 24f1e32c
      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>
      24f1e32c
  6. 04 11月, 2009 1 次提交
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      x86, fs: Fix x86 procfs stack information for threads on 64-bit · 89240ba0
      Stefani Seibold 提交于
      This patch fixes two issues in the procfs stack information on
      x86-64 linux.
      
      The 32 bit loader compat_do_execve did not store stack
      start. (this was figured out by Alexey Dobriyan).
      
      The stack information on a x64_64 kernel always shows 0 kbyte
      stack usage, because of a missing implementation of the KSTK_ESP
      macro which always returned -1.
      
      The new implementation now returns the right value.
      Signed-off-by: NStefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
      Cc: Americo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
      Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
      Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      LKML-Reference: <1257240160.4889.24.camel@wall-e>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      89240ba0
  7. 03 11月, 2009 1 次提交
  8. 10 10月, 2009 2 次提交
  9. 04 8月, 2009 1 次提交
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      x86, percpu: Collect hot percpu variables into one cacheline · bdf977b3
      Tejun Heo 提交于
      On x86_64, percpu variables current_task and kernel_stack are used for
      get_current() and current_thread_info() respectively and thus are
      often used close to each other.  Move definition of current_task to
      kernel/cpu/common.c right above kernel_stack definition and align it
      to cacheline so that they always fall into the same cacheline.  Two
      percpu variables defined there together - irq_stack_ptr and irq_count
      - are also pretty hot and will benefit from sharing the cacheline.
      
      For consistency, current_task definition for x86_32 is also moved to
      kernel/cpu/common.c.
      
      Putting current_task and kernel_stack into the same cacheline was
      suggested by Linus Torvalds.
      Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
      bdf977b3
  10. 18 6月, 2009 2 次提交
  11. 03 6月, 2009 1 次提交
  12. 12 5月, 2009 2 次提交
  13. 07 4月, 2009 1 次提交
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      x86, ds: add leakage warning · 2311f0de
      Markus Metzger 提交于
      Add a warning in case a debug store context is not removed before
      the task it is attached to is freed.
      
      Remove the old warning at thread exit. It is too early.
      
      Declare the debug store context field in thread_struct unconditionally.
      
      Remove ds_copy_thread() and ds_exit_thread() and do the work directly
      in process*.c.
      Signed-off-by: NMarkus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
      Cc: roland@redhat.com
      Cc: eranian@googlemail.com
      Cc: oleg@redhat.com
      Cc: juan.villacis@intel.com
      Cc: ak@linux.jf.intel.com
      LKML-Reference: <20090403144601.254472000@intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      2311f0de
  14. 03 4月, 2009 1 次提交
  15. 30 3月, 2009 2 次提交
  16. 02 3月, 2009 1 次提交
  17. 11 2月, 2009 1 次提交
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      x86: fix x86_32 stack protector bugs · 5c79d2a5
      Tejun Heo 提交于
      Impact: fix x86_32 stack protector
      
      Brian Gerst found out that %gs was being initialized to stack_canary
      instead of stack_canary - 20, which basically gave the same canary
      value for all threads.  Fixing this also exposed the following bugs.
      
      * cpu_idle() didn't call boot_init_stack_canary()
      
      * stack canary switching in switch_to() was being done too late making
        the initial run of a new thread use the old stack canary value.
      
      Fix all of them and while at it update comment in cpu_idle() about
      calling boot_init_stack_canary().
      Reported-by: NBrian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      5c79d2a5
  18. 05 2月, 2009 1 次提交
  19. 20 1月, 2009 2 次提交
  20. 18 1月, 2009 4 次提交
  21. 20 12月, 2008 1 次提交
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      x86, bts: add fork and exit handling · bf53de90
      Markus Metzger 提交于
      Impact: introduce new ptrace facility
      
      Add arch_ptrace_untrace() function that is called when the tracer
      detaches (either voluntarily or when the tracing task dies);
      ptrace_disable() is only called on a voluntary detach.
      
      Add ptrace_fork() and arch_ptrace_fork(). They are called when a
      traced task is forked.
      
      Clear DS and BTS related fields on fork.
      
      Release DS resources and reclaim memory in ptrace_untrace(). This
      releases resources already when the tracing task dies. We used to do
      that when the traced task dies.
      Signed-off-by: NMarkus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      bf53de90
  22. 12 12月, 2008 1 次提交
  23. 08 12月, 2008 1 次提交
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      tracing/function-graph-tracer: introduce __notrace_funcgraph to filter special functions · 8b96f011
      Frederic Weisbecker 提交于
      Impact: trace more functions
      
      When the function graph tracer is configured, three more files are not
      traced to prevent only four functions to be traced. And this impacts the
      normal function tracer too.
      
      arch/x86/kernel/process_64/32.c:
      
      I had crashes when I let this file traced. After some debugging, I saw
      that the "current" task point was changed inside__swtich_to(), ie:
      "write_pda(pcurrent, next_p);" inside process_64.c Since the tracer store
      the original return address of the function inside current, we had
      crashes. Only __switch_to() has to be excluded from tracing.
      
      kernel/module.c and kernel/extable.c:
      
      Because of a function used internally by the function graph tracer:
      __kernel_text_address()
      
      To let the other functions inside these files to be traced, this patch
      introduces the __notrace_funcgraph function prefix which is __notrace if
      function graph tracer is configured and nothing if not.
      Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      8b96f011
  24. 22 10月, 2008 1 次提交
  25. 13 10月, 2008 1 次提交
  26. 12 10月, 2008 1 次提交
  27. 23 9月, 2008 1 次提交
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      x86: prevent stale state of c1e_mask across CPU offline/online · 4faac97d
      Thomas Gleixner 提交于
      Impact: hang which happens across CPU offline/online on AMD C1E systems.
      
      When a CPU goes offline then the corresponding bit in the broadcast
      mask is cleared. For AMD C1E enabled CPUs we do not reenable the
      broadcast when the CPU comes online again as we do not clear the
      corresponding bit in the c1e_mask, which keeps track which CPUs
      have been switched to broadcast already. So on those !$@#& machines
      we never switch back to broadcasting after a CPU offline/online cycle.
      
      Clear the bit when the CPU plays dead.
      Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      4faac97d
  28. 05 9月, 2008 1 次提交
  29. 25 8月, 2008 2 次提交