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Linus Torvalds 1557d33007 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/sysctl-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/sysctl-2.6: (43 commits)
  security/tomoyo: Remove now unnecessary handling of security_sysctl.
  security/tomoyo: Add a special case to handle accesses through the internal proc mount.
  sysctl: Drop & in front of every proc_handler.
  sysctl: Remove CTL_NONE and CTL_UNNUMBERED
  sysctl: kill dead ctl_handler definitions.
  sysctl: Remove the last of the generic binary sysctl support
  sysctl net: Remove unused binary sysctl code
  sysctl security/tomoyo: Don't look at ctl_name
  sysctl arm: Remove binary sysctl support
  sysctl x86: Remove dead binary sysctl support
  sysctl sh: Remove dead binary sysctl support
  sysctl powerpc: Remove dead binary sysctl support
  sysctl ia64: Remove dead binary sysctl support
  sysctl s390: Remove dead sysctl binary support
  sysctl frv: Remove dead binary sysctl support
  sysctl mips/lasat: Remove dead binary sysctl support
  sysctl drivers: Remove dead binary sysctl support
  sysctl crypto: Remove dead binary sysctl support
  sysctl security/keys: Remove dead binary sysctl support
  sysctl kernel: Remove binary sysctl logic
  ...
2009-12-08 07:38:50 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 607781762e Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (31 commits)
  rcu: Make RCU's CPU-stall detector be default
  rcu: Add expedited grace-period support for preemptible RCU
  rcu: Enable fourth level of TREE_RCU hierarchy
  rcu: Rename "quiet" functions
  rcu: Re-arrange code to reduce #ifdef pain
  rcu: Eliminate unneeded function wrapping
  rcu: Fix grace-period-stall bug on large systems with CPU hotplug
  rcu: Eliminate __rcu_pending() false positives
  rcu: Further cleanups of use of lastcomp
  rcu: Simplify association of forced quiescent states with grace periods
  rcu: Accelerate callback processing on CPUs not detecting GP end
  rcu: Mark init-time-only rcu_bootup_announce() as __init
  rcu: Simplify association of quiescent states with grace periods
  rcu: Rename dynticks_completed to completed_fqs
  rcu: Enable synchronize_sched_expedited() fastpath
  rcu: Remove inline from forward-referenced functions
  rcu: Fix note_new_gpnum() uses of ->gpnum
  rcu: Fix synchronization for rcu_process_gp_end() uses of ->completed counter
  rcu: Prepare for synchronization fixes: clean up for non-NO_HZ handling of ->completed counter
  rcu: Cleanup: balance rcu_irq_enter()/rcu_irq_exit() calls
  ...
2009-12-05 09:52:14 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 3e72b810e3 Merge branch 'core-locking-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'core-locking-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  mutex: Fix missing conditions to build mutex_spin_on_owner()
  mutex: Better control mutex adaptive spinning config
  locking, task_struct: Reduce size on TRACE_IRQFLAGS and 64bit
  locking: Use __[SPIN|RW]_LOCK_UNLOCKED in [spin|rw]_lock_init()
  locking: Remove unused prototype
  locking: Reduce ifdefs in kernel/spinlock.c
  locking: Make inlining decision Kconfig based
2009-12-05 09:49:59 -08:00
Rusty Russell f066a4f6df param: don't complain about unused module parameters.
Jon confirms that recent modprobe will look in /proc/cmdline, so these
cmdline options can still be used.

See http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14164

Reported-by: Adam Williamson <awilliam@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-02 15:40:07 -08:00
Randy Dunlap e9438e3193 sysfs: fix SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 prompt
The SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 says "remove" older, deprecated features, but it
actually enables them, so correct this confusing, backwards text.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-01 16:32:20 -08:00
David Howells f13a48bd79 SLOW_WORK: Move slow_work's proc file to debugfs
Move slow_work's debugging proc file to debugfs.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Requested-and-acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-01 08:20:31 -08:00
David Howells 8fba10a42d SLOW_WORK: Allow the work items to be viewed through a /proc file
Allow the executing and queued work items to be viewed through a /proc file
for debugging purposes.  The contents look something like the following:

    THR PID   ITEM ADDR        FL MARK  DESC
    === ===== ================ == ===== ==========
      0  3005 ffff880023f52348  a 952ms FSC: OBJ17d3: LOOK
      1  3006 ffff880024e33668  2 160ms FSC: OBJ17e5 OP60d3b: Write1/Store fl=2
      2  3165 ffff8800296dd180  a 424ms FSC: OBJ17e4: LOOK
      3  4089 ffff8800262c8d78  a 212ms FSC: OBJ17ea: CRTN
      4  4090 ffff88002792bed8  2 388ms FSC: OBJ17e8 OP60d36: Write1/Store fl=2
      5  4092 ffff88002a0ef308  2 388ms FSC: OBJ17e7 OP60d2e: Write1/Store fl=2
      6  4094 ffff88002abaf4b8  2 132ms FSC: OBJ17e2 OP60d4e: Write1/Store fl=2
      7  4095 ffff88002bb188e0  a 388ms FSC: OBJ17e9: CRTN
    vsq     - ffff880023d99668  1 308ms FSC: OBJ17e0 OP60f91: Write1/EnQ fl=2
    vsq     - ffff8800295d1740  1 212ms FSC: OBJ16be OP4d4b6: Write1/EnQ fl=2
    vsq     - ffff880025ba3308  1 160ms FSC: OBJ179a OP58dec: Write1/EnQ fl=2
    vsq     - ffff880024ec83e0  1 160ms FSC: OBJ17ae OP599f2: Write1/EnQ fl=2
    vsq     - ffff880026618e00  1 160ms FSC: OBJ17e6 OP60d33: Write1/EnQ fl=2
    vsq     - ffff880025a2a4b8  1 132ms FSC: OBJ16a2 OP4d583: Write1/EnQ fl=2
    vsq     - ffff880023cbe6d8  9 212ms FSC: OBJ17eb: LOOK
    vsq     - ffff880024d37590  9 212ms FSC: OBJ17ec: LOOK
    vsq     - ffff880027746cb0  9 212ms FSC: OBJ17ed: LOOK
    vsq     - ffff880024d37ae8  9 212ms FSC: OBJ17ee: LOOK
    vsq     - ffff880024d37cb0  9 212ms FSC: OBJ17ef: LOOK
    vsq     - ffff880025036550  9 212ms FSC: OBJ17f0: LOOK
    vsq     - ffff8800250368e0  9 212ms FSC: OBJ17f1: LOOK
    vsq     - ffff880025036aa8  9 212ms FSC: OBJ17f2: LOOK

In the 'THR' column, executing items show the thread they're occupying and
queued threads indicate which queue they're on.  'PID' shows the process ID of
a slow-work thread that's executing something.  'FL' shows the work item flags.
'MARK' indicates how long since an item was queued or began executing.  Lastly,
the 'DESC' column permits the owner of an item to give some information.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2009-11-19 18:10:51 +00:00
Eric W. Biederman bb9074ff58 Merge commit 'v2.6.32-rc7'
Resolve the conflict between v2.6.32-rc7 where dn_def_dev_handler
gets a small bug fix and the sysctl tree where I am removing all
sysctl strategy routines.
2009-11-17 01:01:34 -08:00
Thomas Gleixner 6beb000923 locking: Make inlining decision Kconfig based
commit 892a7c67 (locking: Allow arch-inlined spinlocks) implements the
selection of which lock functions are inlined based on defines in
arch/.../spinlock.h: #define __always_inline__LOCK_FUNCTION

Despite of the name __always_inline__* the lock functions can be built
out of line depending on config options. Also if the arch does not set
some inline defines the generic code might set them; again depending on
config options.

This makes it unnecessary hard to figure out when and which lock
functions are inlined. Aside of that it makes it way harder and
messier for -rt to manipulate the lock functions.

Convert the inlining decision to CONFIG switches. Each lock function
is inlined depending on CONFIG_INLINE_*. The configs implement the
existing dependencies. The architecture code can select ARCH_INLINE_*
to signal that it wants the corresponding lock function inlined.
ARCH_INLINE_* is necessary as Kconfig ignores "depends on"
restrictions when a config element is selected.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
LKML-Reference: <20091109151428.504477141@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
2009-11-13 20:53:28 +01:00
Linus Torvalds 26a9ba160f Merge branch 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  perf tools: Fix permission checks
  perf_events: Fix some typo in the perf events config description
2009-11-11 11:29:34 -08:00
Eric W. Biederman 26a7034b40 sysctl: Reduce sys_sysctl to a compatibility wrapper around /proc/sys
To simply maintenance and to be able to remove all of the binary
sysctl support from various subsystems I have rewritten the binary
sysctl code as a compatibility wrapper around proc/sys.

The code is built around a hard coded table based on the table
in sysctl_check.c that lists all of our current binary sysctls
and provides enough information to convert from the sysctl
binary input into into ascii and back again.  New in this
patch is the realization that the only dynamic entries
that need to be handled have ifname as the asscii string
and ifindex as their ctl_name.

When a sys_sysctl is called the code now looks in the
translation table converting the binary name to the
path under /proc where the value is to be found.  Opens
that file, and calls into a format conversion wrapper
that calls fop->read and then fop->write as appropriate.

Since in practice the practically no one uses or tests
sys_sysctl rewritting the code to be beautiful is a little
silly.  The redeeming merit of this work is it allows us to
rip out all of the binary sysctl syscall support from
everywhere else in the tree.  Allowing us to remove
a lot of dead (after this patch) and barely maintained code.

In addition it becomes much easier to optimize the sysctl
implementation for being the backing store of /proc/sys,
without having to worry about sys_sysctl.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2009-11-11 00:42:05 -08:00
Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo dd77038d23 perf_events: Fix some typo in the perf events config description
Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@holoscopio.com>
Cc: trivial@kernel.org
LKML-Reference: <1256938346-8230-1-git-send-email-cascardo@holoscopio.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-02 16:53:35 +01:00
Kumar Gala 022382a561 powerpc: Minor cleanup to init/Kconfig
We dont need to depend on PPC64 explicitly as all powerpc platforms
(32-bit and 64-bit) define PPC now.

Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2009-10-27 16:42:41 +11:00
Paul E. McKenney 9b1d82fa16 rcu: "Tiny RCU", The Bloatwatch Edition
This patch is a version of RCU designed for !SMP provided for a
small-footprint RCU implementation.  In particular, the
implementation of synchronize_rcu() is extremely lightweight and
high performance. It passes rcutorture testing in each of the
four relevant configurations (combinations of NO_HZ and PREEMPT)
on x86.  This saves about 1K bytes compared to old Classic RCU
(which is no longer in mainline), and more than three kilobytes
compared to Hierarchical RCU (updated to 2.6.30):

	CONFIG_TREE_RCU:

	   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    filename
	    183       4       0     187     kernel/rcupdate.o
	   2783     520      36    3339     kernel/rcutree.o
				   3526 Total (vs 4565 for v7)

	CONFIG_TREE_PREEMPT_RCU:

	   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    filename
	    263       4       0     267     kernel/rcupdate.o
	   4594     776      52    5422     kernel/rcutree.o
	   			   5689 Total (6155 for v7)

	CONFIG_TINY_RCU:

	   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    filename
	     96       4       0     100     kernel/rcupdate.o
	    734      24       0     758     kernel/rcutiny.o
	    			    858 Total (vs 848 for v7)

The above is for x86.  Your mileage may vary on other platforms.
Further compression is possible, but is being procrastinated.

Changes from v7 (http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/10/9/388)

o	Apply Lai Jiangshan's review comments (aside from
might_sleep() 	in synchronize_sched(), which is covered by SMP builds).

o	Fix up expedited primitives.

Changes from v6 (http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/9/23/293).

o	Forward ported to put it into the 2.6.33 stream.

o	Added lockdep support.

o	Make lightweight rcu_barrier.

Changes from v5 (http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/6/23/12).

o	Ported to latest pre-2.6.32 merge window kernel.

	- Renamed rcu_qsctr_inc() to rcu_sched_qs().
	- Renamed rcu_bh_qsctr_inc() to rcu_bh_qs().
	- Provided trivial rcu_cpu_notify().
	- Provided trivial exit_rcu().
	- Provided trivial rcu_needs_cpu().
	- Fixed up the rcu_*_enter/exit() functions in linux/hardirq.h.

o	Removed the dependence on EMBEDDED, with a view to making
	TINY_RCU default for !SMP at some time in the future.

o	Added (trivial) support for expedited grace periods.

Changes from v4 (http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/5/2/91) include:

o	Squeeze the size down a bit further by removing the
	->completed field from struct rcu_ctrlblk.

o	This permits synchronize_rcu() to become the empty function.
	Previous concerns about rcutorture were unfounded, as
	rcutorture correctly handles a constant value from
	rcu_batches_completed() and rcu_batches_completed_bh().

Changes from v3 (http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/3/29/221) include:

o	Changed rcu_batches_completed(), rcu_batches_completed_bh()
	rcu_enter_nohz(), rcu_exit_nohz(), rcu_nmi_enter(), and
	rcu_nmi_exit(), to be static inlines, as suggested by David
	Howells.  Doing this saves about 100 bytes from rcutiny.o.
	(The numbers between v3 and this v4 of the patch are not directly
	comparable, since they are against different versions of Linux.)

Changes from v2 (http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/2/3/333) include:

o	Fix whitespace issues.

o	Change short-circuit "||" operator to instead be "+" in order
to 	fix performance bug noted by "kraai" on LWN.

		(http://lwn.net/Articles/324348/)

Changes from v1 (http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/1/13/440) include:

o	This version depends on EMBEDDED as well as !SMP, as suggested
	by Ingo.

o	Updated rcu_needs_cpu() to unconditionally return zero,
	permitting the CPU to enter dynticks-idle mode at any time.
	This works because callbacks can be invoked upon entry to
	dynticks-idle mode.

o	Paul is now OK with this being included, based on a poll at
the 	Kernel Miniconf at linux.conf.au, where about ten people said
	that they cared about saving 900 bytes on single-CPU systems.

o	Applies to both mainline and tip/core/rcu.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca
Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: avi@redhat.com
Cc: mtosatti@redhat.com
LKML-Reference: <12565226351355-git-send-email->
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-26 09:40:29 +01:00
Linus Torvalds f579bbcd9b Merge branch 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  futex: fix requeue_pi key imbalance
  futex: Fix typo in FUTEX_WAIT/WAKE_BITSET_PRIVATE definitions
  rcu: Place root rcu_node structure in separate lockdep class
  rcu: Make hot-unplugged CPU relinquish its own RCU callbacks
  rcu: Move rcu_barrier() to rcutree
  futex: Move exit_pi_state() call to release_mm()
  futex: Nullify robust lists after cleanup
  futex: Fix locking imbalance
  panic: Fix panic message visibility by calling bust_spinlocks(0) before dying
  rcu: Replace the rcu_barrier enum with pointer to call_rcu*() function
  rcu: Clean up code based on review feedback from Josh Triplett, part 4
  rcu: Clean up code based on review feedback from Josh Triplett, part 3
  rcu: Fix rcu_lock_map build failure on CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING=y
  rcu: Clean up code to address Ingo's checkpatch feedback
  rcu: Clean up code based on review feedback from Josh Triplett, part 2
  rcu: Clean up code based on review feedback from Josh Triplett
2009-10-08 12:16:35 -07:00
Peter Zijlstra 906010b213 perf_event: Provide vmalloc() based mmap() backing
Some architectures such as Sparc, ARM and MIPS (basically
everything with flush_dcache_page()) need to deal with dcache
aliases by carefully placing pages in both kernel and user maps.

These architectures typically have to use vmalloc_user() for this.

However, on other architectures, vmalloc() is not needed and has
the downsides of being more restricted and slower than regular
allocations.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1254830228.21044.272.camel@laptop>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-06 14:21:50 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 94a8d5caba Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus: (39 commits)
  cpumask: Move deprecated functions to end of header.
  cpumask: remove unused deprecated functions, avoid accusations of insanity
  cpumask: use new-style cpumask ops in mm/quicklist.
  cpumask: use mm_cpumask() wrapper: x86
  cpumask: use mm_cpumask() wrapper: um
  cpumask: use mm_cpumask() wrapper: mips
  cpumask: use mm_cpumask() wrapper: mn10300
  cpumask: use mm_cpumask() wrapper: m32r
  cpumask: use mm_cpumask() wrapper: arm
  cpumask: Use accessors for cpu_*_mask: um
  cpumask: Use accessors for cpu_*_mask: powerpc
  cpumask: Use accessors for cpu_*_mask: mips
  cpumask: Use accessors for cpu_*_mask: m32r
  cpumask: remove arch_send_call_function_ipi
  cpumask: arch_send_call_function_ipi_mask: s390
  cpumask: arch_send_call_function_ipi_mask: powerpc
  cpumask: arch_send_call_function_ipi_mask: mips
  cpumask: arch_send_call_function_ipi_mask: m32r
  cpumask: arch_send_call_function_ipi_mask: alpha
  cpumask: remove obsolete topology_core_siblings and topology_thread_siblings: ia64
  ...
2009-09-23 18:14:11 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan 2bcd57ab61 headers: utsname.h redux
* remove asm/atomic.h inclusion from linux/utsname.h --
   not needed after kref conversion
 * remove linux/utsname.h inclusion from files which do not need it

NOTE: it looks like fs/binfmt_elf.c do not need utsname.h, however
due to some personality stuff it _is_ needed -- cowardly leave ELF-related
headers and files alone.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-23 18:13:10 -07:00
Rusty Russell 72d78d05cb cpumask: remove unused cpu_mask_all
It's only defined for NR_CPUS > BITS_PER_LONG; cpu_all_mask is always
defined (and const).

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-09-24 09:34:36 +09:30
Linus Torvalds c37efa9325 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-next
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-next: (30 commits)
  Use macros for .data.page_aligned section.
  Use macros for .bss.page_aligned section.
  Use new __init_task_data macro in arch init_task.c files.
  kbuild: Don't define ALIGN and ENTRY when preprocessing linker scripts.
  arm, cris, mips, sparc, powerpc, um, xtensa: fix build with bash 4.0
  kbuild: add static to prototypes
  kbuild: fail build if recordmcount.pl fails
  kbuild: set -fconserve-stack option for gcc 4.5
  kbuild: echo the record_mcount command
  gconfig: disable "typeahead find" search in treeviews
  kbuild: fix cc1 options check to ensure we do not use -fPIC when compiling
  checkincludes.pl: add option to remove duplicates in place
  markup_oops: use modinfo to avoid confusion with underscored module names
  checkincludes.pl: provide usage helper
  checkincludes.pl: close file as soon as we're done with it
  ctags: usability fix
  kernel hacking: move STRIP_ASM_SYMS from General
  gitignore usr/initramfs_data.cpio.bz2 and usr/initramfs_data.cpio.lzma
  kbuild: Check if linker supports the -X option
  kbuild: introduce ld-option
  ...

Fix trivial conflict in scripts/basic/fixdep.c
2009-09-23 15:37:02 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 1eba8f8438 rcu: Clean up code based on review feedback from Josh Triplett, part 2
These issues identified during an old-fashioned face-to-face code
review extending over many hours.

o	Add comments for tricky parts of code, and correct comments
	that have passed their sell-by date.

o	Get rid of the vestiges of rcu_init_sched(), which is no
	longer needed now that PREEMPT_RCU is gone.

o	Move the #include of rcutree_plugin.h to the end of
	rcutree.c, which means that, rather than having a random
	collection of forward declarations, the new set of forward
	declarations document the set of plugins.  The new home for
	this #include also allows __rcu_init_preempt() to move into
	rcutree_plugin.h.

o	Fix rcu_preempt_check_callbacks() to be static.

Suggested-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca
Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org
Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com
LKML-Reference: <12537246443924-git-send-email->
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
2009-09-23 19:46:29 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 746942d06a Merge branch 'sfi-release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-sfi-2.6
* 'sfi-release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-sfi-2.6:
  SFI: remove unneeded includes
  sfi: Remove unused code
  SFI: Hook PCI MMCONFIG
  x86: add arch-specific SFI support
  SFI: add capability to parse ACPI tables
  SFI: add platform-independent core support
  SFI: create linux/sfi.h
  SFI: Simple Firmware Interface - MAINTAINERS, Kconfig
2009-09-23 09:34:07 -07:00
Jan Beulich 4481374ce8 mm: replace various uses of num_physpages by totalram_pages
Sizing of memory allocations shouldn't depend on the number of physical
pages found in a system, as that generally includes (perhaps a huge amount
of) non-RAM pages.  The amount of what actually is usable as storage
should instead be used as a basis here.

Some of the calculations (i.e.  those not intending to use high memory)
should likely even use (totalram_pages - totalhigh_pages).

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 07:17:38 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 43c1266ce4 Merge branch 'perfcounters-rename-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'perfcounters-rename-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  perf: Tidy up after the big rename
  perf: Do the big rename: Performance Counters -> Performance Events
  perf_counter: Rename 'event' to event_id/hw_event
  perf_counter: Rename list_entry -> group_entry, counter_list -> group_list

Manually resolved some fairly trivial conflicts with the tracing tree in
include/trace/ftrace.h and kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c.
2009-09-21 09:15:07 -07:00
Linus Torvalds b8c7f1dc5c Merge branch 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  rcu: Fix whitespace inconsistencies
  rcu: Fix thinko, actually initialize full tree
  rcu: Apply results of code inspection of kernel/rcutree_plugin.h
  rcu: Add WARN_ON_ONCE() consistency checks covering state transitions
  rcu: Fix synchronize_rcu() for TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
  rcu: Simplify rcu_read_unlock_special() quiescent-state accounting
  rcu: Add debug checks to TREE_PREEMPT_RCU for premature grace periods
  rcu: Kconfig help needs to say that TREE_PREEMPT_RCU scales down
  rcutorture: Occasionally delay readers enough to make RCU force_quiescent_state
  rcu: Initialize multi-level RCU grace periods holding locks
  rcu: Need to update rnp->gpnum if preemptable RCU is to be reliable
2009-09-21 09:06:52 -07:00
Ingo Molnar 57c0c15b52 perf: Tidy up after the big rename
- provide compatibility Kconfig entry for existing PERF_COUNTERS .config's

 - provide courtesy copy of old perf_counter.h, for user-space projects

 - small indentation fixups

 - fix up MAINTAINERS

 - fix small x86 printout fallout

 - fix up small PowerPC comment fallout (use 'counter' as in register)

Reviewed-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-21 14:34:11 +02:00
Ingo Molnar cdd6c482c9 perf: Do the big rename: Performance Counters -> Performance Events
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: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Reviewed-by: Arjan 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: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-21 14:28:04 +02:00
Randy Dunlap 99657c7857 kernel hacking: move STRIP_ASM_SYMS from General
Sam suggested moving STRIP_ASM_SYMS into the Kernel hacking menu
from the General Setup menu.  It makes more sense there.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2009-09-20 12:27:42 +02:00
Len Brown c602c65b2f Merge branch 'linus' into sfi-release
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/kernel/setup.c
	drivers/acpi/power.c
	init/main.c

Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-09-19 00:11:26 -04:00
Christoph Hellwig fc5377668c tracing: Remove markers
Now that the last users of markers have migrated to the event
tracer we can kill off the (now orphan) support code.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090917173527.GA1699@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-18 21:22:08 +02:00
Paul E. McKenney bbe3eae8bb rcu: Kconfig help needs to say that TREE_PREEMPT_RCU scales down
To quote Valdis:

    This leaves somebody who has a laptop wondering which
    choice is best for a system with only one or two cores that
    has CONFIG_PREEMPT defined. One choice says it scales down
    nicely, the other explicitly has a 'depends on PREEMPT'
    attached to it...

So add "scales down nicely" to TREE_PREEMPT_RCU to match that of
TREE_RCU.

Suggested-by: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca
Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org
Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
LKML-Reference: <12528585112362-git-send-email->
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-18 00:05:53 +02:00
Linus Torvalds ab86e5765d Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6:
  Driver Core: devtmpfs - kernel-maintained tmpfs-based /dev
  debugfs: Modify default debugfs directory for debugging pktcdvd.
  debugfs: Modified default dir of debugfs for debugging UHCI.
  debugfs: Change debugfs directory of IWMC3200
  debugfs: Change debuhgfs directory of trace-events-sample.h
  debugfs: Fix mount directory of debugfs by default in events.txt
  hpilo: add poll f_op
  hpilo: add interrupt handler
  hpilo: staging for interrupt handling
  driver core: platform_device_add_data(): use kmemdup()
  Driver core: Add support for compatibility classes
  uio: add generic driver for PCI 2.3 devices
  driver-core: move dma-coherent.c from kernel to driver/base
  mem_class: fix bug
  mem_class: use minor as index instead of searching the array
  driver model: constify attribute groups
  UIO: remove 'default n' from Kconfig
  Driver core: Add accessor for device platform data
  Driver core: move dev_get/set_drvdata to drivers/base/dd.c
  Driver core: add new device to bus's list before probing
2009-09-16 08:27:10 -07:00
Kay Sievers 2b2af54a5b Driver Core: devtmpfs - kernel-maintained tmpfs-based /dev
Devtmpfs lets the kernel create a tmpfs instance called devtmpfs
very early at kernel initialization, before any driver-core device
is registered. Every device with a major/minor will provide a
device node in devtmpfs.

Devtmpfs can be changed and altered by userspace at any time,
and in any way needed - just like today's udev-mounted tmpfs.
Unmodified udev versions will run just fine on top of it, and will
recognize an already existing kernel-created device node and use it.
The default node permissions are root:root 0600. Proper permissions
and user/group ownership, meaningful symlinks, all other policy still
needs to be applied by userspace.

If a node is created by devtmps, devtmpfs will remove the device node
when the device goes away. If the device node was created by
userspace, or the devtmpfs created node was replaced by userspace, it
will no longer be removed by devtmpfs.

If it is requested to auto-mount it, it makes init=/bin/sh work
without any further userspace support. /dev will be fully populated
and dynamic, and always reflect the current device state of the kernel.
With the commonly used dynamic device numbers, it solves the problem
where static devices nodes may point to the wrong devices.

It is intended to make the initial bootup logic simpler and more robust,
by de-coupling the creation of the inital environment, to reliably run
userspace processes, from a complex userspace bootstrap logic to provide
a working /dev.

Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de>
Tested-By: Harald Hoyer <harald@redhat.com>
Tested-By: Scott James Remnant <scott@ubuntu.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-09-15 09:50:49 -07:00
Linus Torvalds ada3fa1505 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu: (46 commits)
  powerpc64: convert to dynamic percpu allocator
  sparc64: use embedding percpu first chunk allocator
  percpu: kill lpage first chunk allocator
  x86,percpu: use embedding for 64bit NUMA and page for 32bit NUMA
  percpu: update embedding first chunk allocator to handle sparse units
  percpu: use group information to allocate vmap areas sparsely
  vmalloc: implement pcpu_get_vm_areas()
  vmalloc: separate out insert_vmalloc_vm()
  percpu: add chunk->base_addr
  percpu: add pcpu_unit_offsets[]
  percpu: introduce pcpu_alloc_info and pcpu_group_info
  percpu: move pcpu_lpage_build_unit_map() and pcpul_lpage_dump_cfg() upward
  percpu: add @align to pcpu_fc_alloc_fn_t
  percpu: make @dyn_size mandatory for pcpu_setup_first_chunk()
  percpu: drop @static_size from first chunk allocators
  percpu: generalize first chunk allocator selection
  percpu: build first chunk allocators selectively
  percpu: rename 4k first chunk allocator to page
  percpu: improve boot messages
  percpu: fix pcpu_reclaim() locking
  ...

Fix trivial conflict as by Tejun Heo in kernel/sched.c
2009-09-15 09:39:44 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 774a694f8c Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (64 commits)
  sched: Fix sched::sched_stat_wait tracepoint field
  sched: Disable NEW_FAIR_SLEEPERS for now
  sched: Keep kthreads at default priority
  sched: Re-tune the scheduler latency defaults to decrease worst-case latencies
  sched: Turn off child_runs_first
  sched: Ensure that a child can't gain time over it's parent after fork()
  sched: enable SD_WAKE_IDLE
  sched: Deal with low-load in wake_affine()
  sched: Remove short cut from select_task_rq_fair()
  sched: Turn on SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE
  sched: Clean up topology.h
  sched: Fix dynamic power-balancing crash
  sched: Remove reciprocal for cpu_power
  sched: Try to deal with low capacity, fix update_sd_power_savings_stats()
  sched: Try to deal with low capacity
  sched: Scale down cpu_power due to RT tasks
  sched: Implement dynamic cpu_power
  sched: Add smt_gain
  sched: Update the cpu_power sum during load-balance
  sched: Add SD_PREFER_SIBLING
  ...
2009-09-11 13:23:18 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 7db905e636 rcu: Move end of special early-boot RCU operation earlier
Ingo was getting warnings from rcu_scheduler_starting()
indicating that context switches had occurred before RCU ended
its special early-boot handling of grace periods.

This is a dangerous condition, as it indicates that RCU might
have prematurely ended grace periods.  This exploratory fix
moves rcu_scheduler_starting() earlier in boot.

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-04 09:29:34 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 29e2035bdd Merge branch 'linus' into core/rcu
Merge reason: Avoid fuzz in init/main.c and update from rc6 to rc8.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-04 09:29:05 +02:00
Feng Tang 6ae6996a46 SFI: add platform-independent core support
drivers/sfi/sfi_core.c contains the generic SFI implementation.
It has a private header, sfi_core.h, for its own use and the
private use of future files in drivers/sfi/

Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-08-28 19:57:33 -04:00
Thomas Gleixner fa84e9eecf init: Move sched_clock_init after late_time_init
Some architectures initialize clocks and timers in late_time_init and
x86 wants to do the same to avoid FIXMAP hackery for calibrating the
TSC. That would result in undefined sched_clock readout and wreckaged
printk timestamps again. We probably have those already on archs which
do all their time/clock setup in late_time_init.

There is no harm to move that after late_time_init except that a few
more boot timestamps are stale. The scheduler is not active at that
point so no real wreckage is expected.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
2009-08-27 16:38:18 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 7d63e6359a Merge branch 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  tracing: Fix too large stack usage in do_one_initcall()
  tracing: handle broken names in ftrace filter
  ftrace: Unify effect of writing to trace_options and option/*
2009-08-25 11:23:43 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 6b3ef48adf rcu: Remove CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU
Now that CONFIG_TREE_PREEMPT_RCU is in place, there is no
further need for CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU.  Remove it, along with
whatever subtle bugs it may (or may not) contain.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca
Cc: josht@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
LKML-Reference: <125097461396-git-send-email->
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-23 10:32:40 +02:00
Paul E. McKenney f41d911f8c rcu: Merge preemptable-RCU functionality into hierarchical RCU
Create a kernel/rcutree_plugin.h file that contains definitions
for preemptable RCU (or, under the #else branch of the #ifdef,
empty definitions for the classic non-preemptable semantics).
These definitions fit into plugins defined in kernel/rcutree.c
for this purpose.

This variant of preemptable RCU uses a new algorithm whose
read-side expense is roughly that of classic hierarchical RCU
under CONFIG_PREEMPT. This new algorithm's update-side expense
is similar to that of classic hierarchical RCU, and, in absence
of read-side preemption or blocking, is exactly that of classic
hierarchical RCU.  Perhaps more important, this new algorithm
has a much simpler implementation, saving well over 1,000 lines
of code compared to mainline's implementation of preemptable
RCU, which will hopefully be retired in favor of this new
algorithm.

The simplifications are obtained by maintaining per-task
nesting state for running tasks, and using a simple
lock-protected algorithm to handle accounting when tasks block
within RCU read-side critical sections, making use of lessons
learned while creating numerous user-level RCU implementations
over the past 18 months.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca
Cc: josht@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
LKML-Reference: <12509746134003-git-send-email->
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-23 10:32:40 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 4a683bf94b tracing: Fix too large stack usage in do_one_initcall()
One of my testboxes triggered this nasty stack overflow crash
during SCSI probing:

[    5.874004] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[    5.875004] device: 'sda': device_add
[    5.878004] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000a0c
[    5.878004] IP: [<b1008321>] print_context_stack+0x81/0x110
[    5.878004] *pde = 00000000
[    5.878004] Thread overran stack, or stack corrupted
[    5.878004] Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
[    5.878004] last sysfs file:
[    5.878004]
[    5.878004] Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted (2.6.31-rc6-tip-01272-g9919e28-dirty #5685)
[    5.878004] EIP: 0060:[<b1008321>] EFLAGS: 00010083 CPU: 0
[    5.878004] EIP is at print_context_stack+0x81/0x110
[    5.878004] EAX: cf8a3000 EBX: cf8a3fe4 ECX: 00000049 EDX: 00000000
[    5.878004] ESI: b1cfce84 EDI: 00000000 EBP: cf8a3018 ESP: cf8a2ff4
[    5.878004]  DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0000 SS: 0068
[    5.878004] Process swapper (pid: 1, ti=cf8a2000 task=cf8a8000 task.ti=cf8a3000)
[    5.878004] Stack:
[    5.878004]  b1004867 fffff000 cf8a3ffc
[    5.878004] Call Trace:
[    5.878004]  [<b1004867>] ? kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10
[    5.878004] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000a0c
[    5.878004] IP: [<b1008321>] print_context_stack+0x81/0x110
[    5.878004] *pde = 00000000
[    5.878004] Thread overran stack, or stack corrupted
[    5.878004] Oops: 0000 [#2] PREEMPT SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC

The oops did not reveal any more details about the real stack
that we have and the system got into an infinite loop of
recursive pagefaults.

So i booted with CONFIG_STACK_TRACER=y and the 'stacktrace' boot
parameter. The box did not crash (timings/conditions probably
changed a tiny bit to trigger the catastrophic crash), but the
/debug/tracing/stack_trace file was rather revealing:

        Depth    Size   Location    (72 entries)
        -----    ----   --------
  0)     3704      52   __change_page_attr+0xb8/0x290
  1)     3652      24   __change_page_attr_set_clr+0x43/0x90
  2)     3628      60   kernel_map_pages+0x108/0x120
  3)     3568      40   prep_new_page+0x7d/0x130
  4)     3528      84   get_page_from_freelist+0x106/0x420
  5)     3444     116   __alloc_pages_nodemask+0xd7/0x550
  6)     3328      36   allocate_slab+0xb1/0x100
  7)     3292      36   new_slab+0x1c/0x160
  8)     3256      36   __slab_alloc+0x133/0x2b0
  9)     3220       4   kmem_cache_alloc+0x1bb/0x1d0
 10)     3216     108   create_object+0x28/0x250
 11)     3108      40   kmemleak_alloc+0x81/0xc0
 12)     3068      24   kmem_cache_alloc+0x162/0x1d0
 13)     3044      52   scsi_pool_alloc_command+0x29/0x70
 14)     2992      20   scsi_host_alloc_command+0x22/0x70
 15)     2972      24   __scsi_get_command+0x1b/0x90
 16)     2948      28   scsi_get_command+0x35/0x90
 17)     2920      24   scsi_setup_blk_pc_cmnd+0xd4/0x100
 18)     2896     128   sd_prep_fn+0x332/0xa70
 19)     2768      36   blk_peek_request+0xe7/0x1d0
 20)     2732      56   scsi_request_fn+0x54/0x520
 21)     2676      12   __generic_unplug_device+0x2b/0x40
 22)     2664      24   blk_execute_rq_nowait+0x59/0x80
 23)     2640     172   blk_execute_rq+0x6b/0xb0
 24)     2468      32   scsi_execute+0xe0/0x140
 25)     2436      64   scsi_execute_req+0x152/0x160
 26)     2372      60   scsi_vpd_inquiry+0x6c/0x90
 27)     2312      44   scsi_get_vpd_page+0x112/0x160
 28)     2268      52   sd_revalidate_disk+0x1df/0x320
 29)     2216      92   rescan_partitions+0x98/0x330
 30)     2124      52   __blkdev_get+0x309/0x350
 31)     2072       8   blkdev_get+0xf/0x20
 32)     2064      44   register_disk+0xff/0x120
 33)     2020      36   add_disk+0x6e/0xb0
 34)     1984      44   sd_probe_async+0xfb/0x1d0
 35)     1940      44   __async_schedule+0xf4/0x1b0
 36)     1896       8   async_schedule+0x12/0x20
 37)     1888      60   sd_probe+0x305/0x360
 38)     1828      44   really_probe+0x63/0x170
 39)     1784      36   driver_probe_device+0x5d/0x60
 40)     1748      16   __device_attach+0x49/0x50
 41)     1732      32   bus_for_each_drv+0x5b/0x80
 42)     1700      24   device_attach+0x6b/0x70
 43)     1676      16   bus_attach_device+0x47/0x60
 44)     1660      76   device_add+0x33d/0x400
 45)     1584      52   scsi_sysfs_add_sdev+0x6a/0x2c0
 46)     1532     108   scsi_add_lun+0x44b/0x460
 47)     1424     116   scsi_probe_and_add_lun+0x182/0x4e0
 48)     1308      36   __scsi_add_device+0xd9/0xe0
 49)     1272      44   ata_scsi_scan_host+0x10b/0x190
 50)     1228      24   async_port_probe+0x96/0xd0
 51)     1204      44   __async_schedule+0xf4/0x1b0
 52)     1160       8   async_schedule+0x12/0x20
 53)     1152      48   ata_host_register+0x171/0x1d0
 54)     1104      60   ata_pci_sff_activate_host+0xf3/0x230
 55)     1044      44   ata_pci_sff_init_one+0xea/0x100
 56)     1000      48   amd_init_one+0xb2/0x190
 57)      952       8   local_pci_probe+0x13/0x20
 58)      944      32   pci_device_probe+0x68/0x90
 59)      912      44   really_probe+0x63/0x170
 60)      868      36   driver_probe_device+0x5d/0x60
 61)      832      20   __driver_attach+0x89/0xa0
 62)      812      32   bus_for_each_dev+0x5b/0x80
 63)      780      12   driver_attach+0x1e/0x20
 64)      768      72   bus_add_driver+0x14b/0x2d0
 65)      696      36   driver_register+0x6e/0x150
 66)      660      20   __pci_register_driver+0x53/0xc0
 67)      640       8   amd_init+0x14/0x16
 68)      632     572   do_one_initcall+0x2b/0x1d0
 69)       60      12   do_basic_setup+0x56/0x6a
 70)       48      20   kernel_init+0x84/0xce
 71)       28      28   kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10

There's a lot of fat functions on that stack trace, but
the largest of all is do_one_initcall(). This is due to
the boot trace entry variables being on the stack.

Fixing this is relatively easy, initcalls are fundamentally
serialized, so we can move the local variables to file scope.

Note that this large stack footprint was present for a
couple of months already - what pushed my system over
the edge was the addition of kmemleak to the call-chain:

  6)     3328      36   allocate_slab+0xb1/0x100
  7)     3292      36   new_slab+0x1c/0x160
  8)     3256      36   __slab_alloc+0x133/0x2b0
  9)     3220       4   kmem_cache_alloc+0x1bb/0x1d0
 10)     3216     108   create_object+0x28/0x250
 11)     3108      40   kmemleak_alloc+0x81/0xc0
 12)     3068      24   kmem_cache_alloc+0x162/0x1d0
 13)     3044      52   scsi_pool_alloc_command+0x29/0x70

This pushes the total to ~3800 bytes, only a tiny bit
more was needed to corrupt the on-kernel-stack thread_info.

The fix reduces the stack footprint from 572 bytes
to 28 bytes.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-21 13:03:22 +02:00
Ingo Molnar fa08661af8 Merge commit 'v2.6.31-rc6' into core/rcu
Merge reason: the branch was on pre-rc1 .30, update to latest.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-15 18:56:13 +02:00
Tejun Heo 384be2b18a Merge branch 'percpu-for-linus' into percpu-for-next
Conflicts:
	arch/sparc/kernel/smp_64.c
	arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_counter.c
	arch/x86/kernel/setup_percpu.c
	drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_ondemand.c
	mm/percpu.c

Conflicts in core and arch percpu codes are mostly from commit
ed78e1e078dd44249f88b1dd8c76dafb39567161 which substituted many
num_possible_cpus() with nr_cpu_ids.  As for-next branch has moved all
the first chunk allocators into mm/percpu.c, the changes are moved
from arch code to mm/percpu.c.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2009-08-14 14:45:31 +09:00
Tejun Heo d6647bdf98 init: set nr_cpu_ids before setup_per_cpu_areas()
nr_cpu_ids is dependent only on cpu_possible_map and
setup_per_cpu_areas() already depends on cpu_possible_map and will use
nr_cpu_ids.  Initialize nr_cpu_ids before setting up percpu areas.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2009-08-14 12:56:54 +09:00
Ingo Molnar f26542600e perf_counter: Set the CONFIG_PERF_COUNTERS default to y if CONFIG_PROFILING=y
If user has already enabled profiling support in the kernel
(for oprofile, old-style profiling of ftrace) then offer up
perfcounters with a y default in interactive kconfig sessions.

Still keep it off by default otherwise.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-04 18:19:30 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 470a1396c2 tracing, perf_counter: Add help text to CONFIG_EVENT_PROFILE
Explain what tracepoint profiling sources are about.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
LKML-Reference: <1248856508.6987.3041.camel@twins>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-02 13:47:53 +02:00
Chris Wilson d4d7d0b954 perf_counter: Fix the tracepoint channel to perfcounters
Fix a missed rename in EVENT_PROFILE support so that it gets
built and allows tracepoint tracing from the 'perf' tool.

Fix a typo in the (never before built & enabled) portion in
perf_counter.c as well, and update that code to the
attr.config changes as well.

Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Ben Gamari <bgamari.foss@gmail.com>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <1246869094-21237-1-git-send-email-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-07-13 09:23:10 +02:00
Tejun Heo c43768cbb7 Merge branch 'master' into for-next
Pull linus#master to merge PER_CPU_DEF_ATTRIBUTES and alpha build fix
changes.  As alpha in percpu tree uses 'weak' attribute instead of
inline assembly, there's no need for __used attribute.

Conflicts:
	arch/alpha/include/asm/percpu.h
	arch/mn10300/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
	include/linux/percpu-defs.h
2009-07-04 07:13:18 +09:00