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Ingo Molnar
7b928c23fa ftrace: build fix
fix:

 In file included from init/main.c:65:
 include/linux/ftrace.h:166: error: expected ‘,' or ‘;' before ‘{' token
 make[1]: *** [init/main.o] Error 1
 make: *** [init/main.o] Error 2

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:35:29 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
3f5a54e371 ftrace: dump out ftrace buffers to console on panic
At OLS I had a lot of interest to be able to have the ftrace buffers
dumped on panic.  Usually one would expect to uses kexec and examine
the buffers after a new kernel is loaded. But sometimes the resources
do not permit kdump and kexec, so having an option to still see the
sequence of events up to the crash is very advantageous.

This patch adds the option to have the ftrace buffers dumped to the
console in the latency_trace format on a panic. When the option is set,
the default entries per CPU buffer are lowered to 16384, since the writing
to the serial (if that is the console) may take an awful long time
otherwise.

[
 Changes since -v1:
  Got alpine to send correctly (as well as spell check working).
  Removed config option.
  Moved the static variables into ftrace_dump itself.
  Gave printk a log level.
]

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:35:26 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
2f2c99dba2 ftrace: ftrace_printk doc moved
Based on Randy Dunlap's suggestion, the ftrace_printk kernel-doc belongs
with the ftrace_printk macro that should be used. Not with the
__ftrace_printk internal function.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:35:22 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
dd0e545f06 ftrace: printk formatting infrastructure
This patch adds a feature that can help kernel developers debug their
code using ftrace.

  int ftrace_printk(const char *fmt, ...);

This records into the ftrace buffer using printf formatting. The entry
size in the buffers are still a fixed length. A new type has been added
that allows for more entries to be used for a single recording.

The start of the print is still the same as the other entries.

It returns the number of characters written to the ftrace buffer.

For example:

Having a module with the following code:

static int __init ftrace_print_test(void)
{
        ftrace_printk("jiffies are %ld\n", jiffies);
        return 0;
}

Gives me:

  insmod-5441  3...1 7569us : ftrace_print_test: jiffies are 4296626666

for the latency_trace file and:

          insmod-5441  [03]  1959.370498: ftrace_print_test jiffies are 4296626666

for the trace file.

Note: Only the infrastructure should go into the kernel. It is to help
facilitate debugging for other kernel developers. Calls to ftrace_printk
is not intended to be left in the kernel, and should be frowned upon just
like scattering printks around in the code.

But having this easily at your fingertips helps the debugging go faster
and bugs be solved quicker.

Maybe later on, we can hook this with markers and have their printf format
be sucked into ftrace output.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:35:19 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
2e2ca155cd ftrace: new continue entry - separate out from trace_entry
Some tracers will need to work with more than one entry. In order to do this
the trace_entry structure was split into two fields. One for the start of
all entries, and one to continue an existing entry.

The trace_entry structure now has a "field" entry that consists of the previous
content of the trace_entry, and a "cont" entry that is just a string buffer
the size of the "field" entry.

Thanks to Andrew Morton for suggesting this idea.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:35:15 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
fed1939c64 ftrace: remove old pointers to mcount
When a mcount pointer is recorded into a table, it is used to add or
remove calls to mcount (replacing them with nops). If the code is removed
via removing a module, the pointers still exist.  At modifying the code
a check is always made to make sure the code being replaced is the code
expected. In-other-words, the code being replaced is compared to what
it is expected to be before being replaced.

There is a very small chance that the code being replaced just happens
to look like code that calls mcount (very small since the call to mcount
is relative). To remove this chance, this patch adds ftrace_release to
allow module unloading to remove the pointers to mcount within the module.

Another change for init calls is made to not trace calls marked with
__init. The tracing can not be started until after init is done anyway.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:35:12 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
28614889bc ftrace: move notrace to compiler.h
The notrace define belongs in compiler.h so that it can be used in
init.h

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:35:08 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
a9fdda33cd ftrace: do not show freed records in available_filter_functions
Seems that freed records can appear in the available_filter_functions list.
This patch fixes that.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:35:05 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
732f3ca7d4 ftrace: use only 5 byte nops for x86
Mathieu Desnoyers revealed a bug in the original code. The nop that is
used to relpace the mcount caller can be a two part nop. This runs the
risk where a process can be preempted after executing the first nop, but
before the second part of the nop.

The ftrace code calls kstop_machine to keep multiple CPUs from executing
code that is being modified, but it does not protect against a task preempting
in the middle of a two part nop.

If the above preemption happens and the tracer is enabled, after the
kstop_machine runs, all those nops will be calls to the trace function.
If the preempted process that was preempted between the two nops is executed
again, it will execute half of the call to the trace function, and this
might crash the system.

This patch instead uses what both the latest Intel and AMD spec suggests.
That is the P6_NOP5 sequence of "0x0f 0x1f 0x44 0x00 0x00".

Note, some older CPUs and QEMU might fault on this nop, so this nop
is executed with fault handling first. If it detects a fault, it will then
use the code "0x66 0x66 0x66 0x66 0x90". If that faults, it will then
default to a simple "jmp 1f; .byte 0x00 0x00 0x00; 1:". The jmp is
not optimal but will do if the first two can not be executed.

TODO: Examine the cpuid to determine the nop to use.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:35:01 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
0a37605c22 ftrace: x86 mcount stub
x86 now sets up the mcount locations through the build and no longer
needs to record the ip when the function is executed. This patch changes
the initial mcount to simply return. There's no need to do any other work.
If the ftrace start up test fails, the original mcount will be what everything
will use, so having this as fast as possible is a good thing.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:34:58 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
e4b2b88661 ftrace: enable using mcount recording on x86
Enable the use of the __mcount_loc infrastructure on x86_64 and i386.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:34:54 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
29e71abf56 ftrace: rebuild everything on change to FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
When enabling or disabling CONFIG_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD, we want a full
kernel compile to handle the adding of the __mcount_loc sections.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:34:51 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
90d595fe5c ftrace: enable mcount recording for modules
This patch enables the loading of the __mcount_section of modules and
changing all the callers of mcount into nops.

The modification is done before the init_module function is called, so
again, we do not need to use kstop_machine to make these changes.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:34:47 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
68bf21aa15 ftrace: mcount call site on boot nops core
This is the infrastructure to the converting the mcount call sites
recorded by the __mcount_loc section into nops on boot. It also allows
for using these sites to enable tracing as normal. When the __mcount_loc
section is used, the "ftraced" kernel thread is disabled.

This uses the current infrastructure to record the mcount call sites
as well as convert them to nops. The mcount function is kept as a stub
on boot up and not converted to the ftrace_record_ip function. We use the
ftrace_record_ip to only record from the table.

This patch does not handle modules. That comes with a later patch.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:34:44 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
8da3821ba5 ftrace: create __mcount_loc section
This patch creates a section in the kernel called "__mcount_loc".
This will hold a list of pointers to the mcount relocation for
each call site of mcount.

For example:

objdump -dr init/main.o
[...]
Disassembly of section .text:

0000000000000000 <do_one_initcall>:
   0:   55                      push   %rbp
[...]
000000000000017b <init_post>:
 17b:   55                      push   %rbp
 17c:   48 89 e5                mov    %rsp,%rbp
 17f:   53                      push   %rbx
 180:   48 83 ec 08             sub    $0x8,%rsp
 184:   e8 00 00 00 00          callq  189 <init_post+0xe>
                        185: R_X86_64_PC32      mcount+0xfffffffffffffffc
[...]

We will add a section to point to each function call.

   .section __mcount_loc,"a",@progbits
[...]
   .quad .text + 0x185
[...]

The offset to of the mcount call site in init_post is an offset from
the start of the section, and not the start of the function init_post.
The mcount relocation is at the call site 0x185 from the start of the
.text section.

  .text + 0x185  == init_post + 0xa

We need a way to add this __mcount_loc section in a way that we do not
lose the relocations after final link.  The .text section here will
be attached to all other .text sections after final link and the
offsets will be meaningless.  We need to keep track of where these
.text sections are.

To do this, we use the start of the first function in the section.
do_one_initcall.  We can make a tmp.s file with this function as a reference
to the start of the .text section.

   .section __mcount_loc,"a",@progbits
[...]
   .quad do_one_initcall + 0x185
[...]

Then we can compile the tmp.s into a tmp.o

  gcc -c tmp.s -o tmp.o

And link it into back into main.o.

  ld -r main.o tmp.o -o tmp_main.o
  mv tmp_main.o main.o

But we have a problem.  What happens if the first function in a section
is not exported, and is a static function. The linker will not let
the tmp.o use it.  This case exists in main.o as well.

Disassembly of section .init.text:

0000000000000000 <set_reset_devices>:
   0:   55                      push   %rbp
   1:   48 89 e5                mov    %rsp,%rbp
   4:   e8 00 00 00 00          callq  9 <set_reset_devices+0x9>
                        5: R_X86_64_PC32        mcount+0xfffffffffffffffc

The first function in .init.text is a static function.

00000000000000a8 t __setup_set_reset_devices
000000000000105f t __setup_str_set_reset_devices
0000000000000000 t set_reset_devices

The lowercase 't' means that set_reset_devices is local and is not exported.
If we simply try to link the tmp.o with the set_reset_devices we end
up with two symbols: one local and one global.

 .section __mcount_loc,"a",@progbits
 .quad set_reset_devices + 0x10

00000000000000a8 t __setup_set_reset_devices
000000000000105f t __setup_str_set_reset_devices
0000000000000000 t set_reset_devices
                 U set_reset_devices

We still have an undefined reference to set_reset_devices, and if we try
to compile the kernel, we will end up with an undefined reference to
set_reset_devices, or even worst, it could be exported someplace else,
and then we will have a reference to the wrong location.

To handle this case, we make an intermediate step using objcopy.
We convert set_reset_devices into a global exported symbol before linking
it with tmp.o and set it back afterwards.

00000000000000a8 t __setup_set_reset_devices
000000000000105f t __setup_str_set_reset_devices
0000000000000000 T set_reset_devices

00000000000000a8 t __setup_set_reset_devices
000000000000105f t __setup_str_set_reset_devices
0000000000000000 T set_reset_devices

00000000000000a8 t __setup_set_reset_devices
000000000000105f t __setup_str_set_reset_devices
0000000000000000 t set_reset_devices

Now we have a section in main.o called __mcount_loc that we can place
somewhere in the kernel using vmlinux.ld.S and access it to convert
all these locations that call mcount into nops before starting SMP
and thus, eliminating the need to do this with kstop_machine.

Note, A well documented perl script (scripts/recordmcount.pl) is used
to do all this in one location.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:34:40 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
8b1fa1d7b2 ftrace: mark lapic_wd_event() notrace
it can be called in the NMI path:

[    0.645999] calling  ftrace_dynamic_init+0x0/0xd6
[    0.647521] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[    0.647521] WARNING: at kernel/trace/ftrace.c:348 ftrace_record_ip+0x4e/0x252()
[    0.647521] Modules linked in:
[    0.647521] Pid: 15, comm: kstop1 Not tainted 2.6.27-rc1-tip #22686
[    0.647521]
[    0.647521] Call Trace:
[    0.647521]  <NMI>  [<ffffffff8024593f>] warn_on_slowpath+0x5d/0x84
[    0.647521]  [<ffffffff80220b99>] ? lapic_wd_event+0xb/0x5c
[    0.647521]  [<ffffffff80287b3b>] ftrace_record_ip+0x4e/0x252
[    0.647521]  [<ffffffff80211274>] mcount_call+0x5/0x31
[    0.647521]  [<ffffffff80220b9e>] ? lapic_wd_event+0x10/0x5c
[    0.647521]  [<ffffffff8083f3ec>] nmi_watchdog_tick+0x19d/0x1ad
[    0.647521]  [<ffffffff8083e875>] default_do_nmi+0x75/0x1e3
[    0.647521]  [<ffffffff8083f0b3>] do_nmi+0x5d/0x94
[    0.647521]  [<ffffffff8083e2d2>] nmi+0xa2/0xc2
[    0.647521]  [<ffffffff802b48c3>] ? check_bytes_and_report+0x11/0xcc
[    0.647521]  <<EOE>>  [<ffffffff80211274>] ? mcount_call+0x5/0x31
[    0.647521]  [<ffffffff802b49df>] check_object+0x61/0x1b0
[    0.647521]  [<ffffffff802b502a>] __slab_free+0x169/0x2ae
[    0.647521]  [<ffffffff80242dbf>] ? __cleanup_sighand+0x25/0x27
[    0.647521]  [<ffffffff80242dbf>] ? __cleanup_sighand+0x25/0x27
[    0.647521]  [<ffffffff802b60cd>] kmem_cache_free+0x85/0xb9
[    0.647521]  [<ffffffff80242dbf>] __cleanup_sighand+0x25/0x27
[    0.647521]  [<ffffffff80247b3d>] release_task+0x256/0x339
[    0.647521]  [<ffffffff802490b4>] do_exit+0x764/0x7ef
[    0.647521]  [<ffffffff8027624c>] __xchg+0x0/0x38
[    0.647521]  [<ffffffff8027619a>] ? stop_cpu+0x0/0xb2
[    0.647521]  [<ffffffff8027619a>] ? stop_cpu+0x0/0xb2
[    0.647521]  [<ffffffff8025922f>] kthread+0x4e/0x7b
[    0.647521]  [<ffffffff80212979>] child_rip+0xa/0x11
[    0.647521]  [<ffffffff80211c17>] ? restore_args+0x0/0x30
[    0.647521]  [<ffffffff802283a5>] ? native_load_tls+0x14/0x2e
[    0.647521]  [<ffffffff802591e1>] ? kthread+0x0/0x7b
[    0.647521]  [<ffffffff8021296f>] ? child_rip+0x0/0x11
[    0.647521]
[    0.647521] ---[ end trace 4eaa2a86a8e2da22 ]---
[    0.672032] initcall ftrace_dynamic_init+0x0/0xd6 returned 0 after 19 msecs

also mark it no-kprobes while at it.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:34:36 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
36dcd67ae9 ftrace: ignore functions that cannot be kprobe-ed
kprobes already has an extensive list of annotations for functions
that should not be instrumented. Add notrace annotations to these
functions as well.

This is particularly useful for functions called by the NMI path.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:34:22 +02:00
Mathieu Desnoyers
9795302acf tracepoints: use TABLE_SIZE macro
Steven Rostedt suggested:

| Wouldn't it look nicer to have: (TRACEPOINT_TABLE_SIZE - 1) ?

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:34:07 +02:00
Pekka Paalanen
611b159768 x86: fix mmiotrace 8-bit register decoding
When SIL, DIL, BPL or SPL registers were used in MMIO, the datum
was extracted from AH, BH, CH, or DH, which are incorrect.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi>
Cc: "Vegard Nossum" <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Cc: "Steven Rostedt" <srostedt@redhat.com>
Cc: proski@gnu.org
Cc: "Pekka Enberg"
	<penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:33:50 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
5f87f11218 tracing: clean up tracepoints kconfig structure
do not expose users to CONFIG_TRACEPOINTS - tracers can select it
just fine.

update ftrace to select CONFIG_TRACEPOINTS.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:33:32 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
cf569a9322 sched: clean up tracepoints
make it a bit more structured hence more readable.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:33:14 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
fa340d9c05 tracing: disable tracepoints by default
while it's arguably low overhead, we dont enable new features by default.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:32:56 +02:00
Mathieu Desnoyers
b07c3f193a ftrace: port to tracepoints
Porting the trace_mark() used by ftrace to tracepoints. (cleanup)

Changelog :
- Change error messages : marker -> tracepoint

[ mingo@elte.hu: conflict resolutions ]
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Acked-by: 'Peter Zijlstra' <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:32:26 +02:00
Mathieu Desnoyers
0a16b60758 tracing, sched: LTTng instrumentation - scheduler
Instrument the scheduler activity (sched_switch, migration, wakeups,
wait for a task, signal delivery) and process/thread
creation/destruction (fork, exit, kthread stop). Actually, kthread
creation is not instrumented in this patch because it is architecture
dependent. It allows to connect tracers such as ftrace which detects
scheduling latencies, good/bad scheduler decisions. Tools like LTTng can
export this scheduler information along with instrumentation of the rest
of the kernel activity to perform post-mortem analysis on the scheduler
activity.

About the performance impact of tracepoints (which is comparable to
markers), even without immediate values optimizations, tests done by
Hideo Aoki on ia64 show no regression. His test case was using hackbench
on a kernel where scheduler instrumentation (about 5 events in code
scheduler code) was added. See the "Tracepoints" patch header for
performance result detail.

Changelog :

- Change instrumentation location and parameter to match ftrace
  instrumentation, previously done with kernel markers.

[ mingo@elte.hu: conflict resolutions ]
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Acked-by: 'Peter Zijlstra' <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:30:52 +02:00
Mathieu Desnoyers
4a0897526b tracing: tracepoints, samples
Tracepoint example code under samples/.

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Acked-by: 'Peter Zijlstra' <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:29:05 +02:00
Mathieu Desnoyers
24b8d831d5 tracing: tracepoints, documentation
Documentation of tracepoint usage.

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Acked-by: 'Peter Zijlstra' <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:28:47 +02:00
Mathieu Desnoyers
97e1c18e8d tracing: Kernel Tracepoints
Implementation of kernel tracepoints. Inspired from the Linux Kernel
Markers. Allows complete typing verification by declaring both tracing
statement inline functions and probe registration/unregistration static
inline functions within the same macro "DEFINE_TRACE". No format string
is required. See the tracepoint Documentation and Samples patches for
usage examples.

Taken from the documentation patch :

"A tracepoint placed in code provides a hook to call a function (probe)
that you can provide at runtime. A tracepoint can be "on" (a probe is
connected to it) or "off" (no probe is attached). When a tracepoint is
"off" it has no effect, except for adding a tiny time penalty (checking
a condition for a branch) and space penalty (adding a few bytes for the
function call at the end of the instrumented function and adds a data
structure in a separate section).  When a tracepoint is "on", the
function you provide is called each time the tracepoint is executed, in
the execution context of the caller. When the function provided ends its
execution, it returns to the caller (continuing from the tracepoint
site).

You can put tracepoints at important locations in the code. They are
lightweight hooks that can pass an arbitrary number of parameters, which
prototypes are described in a tracepoint declaration placed in a header
file."

Addition and removal of tracepoints is synchronized by RCU using the
scheduler (and preempt_disable) as guarantees to find a quiescent state
(this is really RCU "classic"). The update side uses rcu_barrier_sched()
with call_rcu_sched() and the read/execute side uses
"preempt_disable()/preempt_enable()".

We make sure the previous array containing probes, which has been
scheduled for deletion by the rcu callback, is indeed freed before we
proceed to the next update. It therefore limits the rate of modification
of a single tracepoint to one update per RCU period. The objective here
is to permit fast batch add/removal of probes on _different_
tracepoints.

Changelog :
- Use #name ":" #proto as string to identify the tracepoint in the
  tracepoint table. This will make sure not type mismatch happens due to
  connexion of a probe with the wrong type to a tracepoint declared with
  the same name in a different header.
- Add tracepoint_entry_free_old.
- Change __TO_TRACE to get rid of the 'i' iterator.

Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> :
Tested on x86-64.

Performance impact of a tracepoint : same as markers, except that it
adds about 70 bytes of instructions in an unlikely branch of each
instrumented function (the for loop, the stack setup and the function
call). It currently adds a memory read, a test and a conditional branch
at the instrumentation site (in the hot path). Immediate values will
eventually change this into a load immediate, test and branch, which
removes the memory read which will make the i-cache impact smaller
(changing the memory read for a load immediate removes 3-4 bytes per
site on x86_32 (depending on mov prefixes), or 7-8 bytes on x86_64, it
also saves the d-cache hit).

About the performance impact of tracepoints (which is comparable to
markers), even without immediate values optimizations, tests done by
Hideo Aoki on ia64 show no regression. His test case was using hackbench
on a kernel where scheduler instrumentation (about 5 events in code
scheduler code) was added.

Quoting Hideo Aoki about Markers :

I evaluated overhead of kernel marker using linux-2.6-sched-fixes git
tree, which includes several markers for LTTng, using an ia64 server.

While the immediate trace mark feature isn't implemented on ia64, there
is no major performance regression. So, I think that we don't have any
issues to propose merging marker point patches into Linus's tree from
the viewpoint of performance impact.

I prepared two kernels to evaluate. The first one was compiled without
CONFIG_MARKERS. The second one was enabled CONFIG_MARKERS.

I downloaded the original hackbench from the following URL:
http://devresources.linux-foundation.org/craiger/hackbench/src/hackbench.c

I ran hackbench 5 times in each condition and calculated the average and
difference between the kernels.

    The parameter of hackbench: every 50 from 50 to 800
    The number of CPUs of the server: 2, 4, and 8

Below is the results. As you can see, major performance regression
wasn't found in any case. Even if number of processes increases,
differences between marker-enabled kernel and marker- disabled kernel
doesn't increase. Moreover, if number of CPUs increases, the differences
doesn't increase either.

Curiously, marker-enabled kernel is better than marker-disabled kernel
in more than half cases, although I guess it comes from the difference
of memory access pattern.

* 2 CPUs

Number of | without      | with         | diff     | diff    |
processes | Marker [Sec] | Marker [Sec] |   [Sec]  |   [%]   |
--------------------------------------------------------------
       50 |      4.811   |       4.872  |  +0.061  |  +1.27  |
      100 |      9.854   |      10.309  |  +0.454  |  +4.61  |
      150 |     15.602   |      15.040  |  -0.562  |  -3.6   |
      200 |     20.489   |      20.380  |  -0.109  |  -0.53  |
      250 |     25.798   |      25.652  |  -0.146  |  -0.56  |
      300 |     31.260   |      30.797  |  -0.463  |  -1.48  |
      350 |     36.121   |      35.770  |  -0.351  |  -0.97  |
      400 |     42.288   |      42.102  |  -0.186  |  -0.44  |
      450 |     47.778   |      47.253  |  -0.526  |  -1.1   |
      500 |     51.953   |      52.278  |  +0.325  |  +0.63  |
      550 |     58.401   |      57.700  |  -0.701  |  -1.2   |
      600 |     63.334   |      63.222  |  -0.112  |  -0.18  |
      650 |     68.816   |      68.511  |  -0.306  |  -0.44  |
      700 |     74.667   |      74.088  |  -0.579  |  -0.78  |
      750 |     78.612   |      79.582  |  +0.970  |  +1.23  |
      800 |     85.431   |      85.263  |  -0.168  |  -0.2   |
--------------------------------------------------------------

* 4 CPUs

Number of | without      | with         | diff     | diff    |
processes | Marker [Sec] | Marker [Sec] |   [Sec]  |   [%]   |
--------------------------------------------------------------
       50 |      2.586   |       2.584  |  -0.003  |  -0.1   |
      100 |      5.254   |       5.283  |  +0.030  |  +0.56  |
      150 |      8.012   |       8.074  |  +0.061  |  +0.76  |
      200 |     11.172   |      11.000  |  -0.172  |  -1.54  |
      250 |     13.917   |      14.036  |  +0.119  |  +0.86  |
      300 |     16.905   |      16.543  |  -0.362  |  -2.14  |
      350 |     19.901   |      20.036  |  +0.135  |  +0.68  |
      400 |     22.908   |      23.094  |  +0.186  |  +0.81  |
      450 |     26.273   |      26.101  |  -0.172  |  -0.66  |
      500 |     29.554   |      29.092  |  -0.461  |  -1.56  |
      550 |     32.377   |      32.274  |  -0.103  |  -0.32  |
      600 |     35.855   |      35.322  |  -0.533  |  -1.49  |
      650 |     39.192   |      38.388  |  -0.804  |  -2.05  |
      700 |     41.744   |      41.719  |  -0.025  |  -0.06  |
      750 |     45.016   |      44.496  |  -0.520  |  -1.16  |
      800 |     48.212   |      47.603  |  -0.609  |  -1.26  |
--------------------------------------------------------------

* 8 CPUs

Number of | without      | with         | diff     | diff    |
processes | Marker [Sec] | Marker [Sec] |   [Sec]  |   [%]   |
--------------------------------------------------------------
       50 |      2.094   |       2.072  |  -0.022  |  -1.07  |
      100 |      4.162   |       4.273  |  +0.111  |  +2.66  |
      150 |      6.485   |       6.540  |  +0.055  |  +0.84  |
      200 |      8.556   |       8.478  |  -0.078  |  -0.91  |
      250 |     10.458   |      10.258  |  -0.200  |  -1.91  |
      300 |     12.425   |      12.750  |  +0.325  |  +2.62  |
      350 |     14.807   |      14.839  |  +0.032  |  +0.22  |
      400 |     16.801   |      16.959  |  +0.158  |  +0.94  |
      450 |     19.478   |      19.009  |  -0.470  |  -2.41  |
      500 |     21.296   |      21.504  |  +0.208  |  +0.98  |
      550 |     23.842   |      23.979  |  +0.137  |  +0.57  |
      600 |     26.309   |      26.111  |  -0.198  |  -0.75  |
      650 |     28.705   |      28.446  |  -0.259  |  -0.9   |
      700 |     31.233   |      31.394  |  +0.161  |  +0.52  |
      750 |     34.064   |      33.720  |  -0.344  |  -1.01  |
      800 |     36.320   |      36.114  |  -0.206  |  -0.57  |
--------------------------------------------------------------

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Acked-by: 'Peter Zijlstra' <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:28:28 +02:00
Ron Mercer
4850137170 qlge: Fix page size ifdef test.
This ASIC does support all page sizes. For 4k and 8k page size the TX
control block needs an external scatter gather list.  For page sizes
larger than 8k the max frags is satisfied by the original TX control
block.

Signed-off-by: Ron Mercer <ron.mercer@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-10-13 22:55:59 -07:00
Mark Brown
d5d8d83773 ALSA: ASoC: Hide TLV320AIC26 configuration option for non-OpenFirwmare users
Make the visibility of the tristate conditional on having the OpenFirmware
helper code enabed so that users who can't use it don't see the visible
option. Kconfig ignores dependencies for select so other users are
unaffected.

Thanks to Takashi for the suggestion.

Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
2008-10-14 07:43:45 +02:00
Matthew Ranostay
d21995e3e3 ALSA: hda: fix nid variable warning
Fixed compiler warning with possible uninitialized variable 'nid'.

  CC [M]  /home/mranostay/git/alsa-driver/pci/hda/patch_sigmatel.o
/home/mranostay/git/alsa-driver/pci/hda/../../alsa-kernel/pci/hda/patch_sigmatel.c: In function
‘stac92xx_parse_auto_config’:
/home/mranostay/git/alsa-driver/pci/hda/../../alsa-kernel/pci/hda/patch_sigmatel.c:2815: warning: ‘nid’ may be used
uninitialized in this function

Signed-off-by: Matthew Ranostay <mranostay@embeddedalley.com>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
2008-10-14 07:42:55 +02:00
Liam Girdwood
b8d055a878 Input: wm97xx - update email address for Liam Girdwood
This updates the email address for Liam Girdwood as my old address is no
longer valid.

Signed-off-by: Liam Girdwood <lrg@slimlogic.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
2008-10-13 23:15:18 -04:00
Colin B Macdonald
5bd8a05e93 Input: i8042 - add Thinkpad R31 to nomux list
Thinkpad R31 needs i8042 nomux quirk.  Stops jittery jumping mouse
and random keyboard input. Fixes kernel bug #11723.  Cherry picked
from Ubuntu who have sometimes (on-again-off-again) had a fix in
their patched kernels.

Signed-off-by: Colin B Macdonald <cbm@m.fsf.org>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
2008-10-13 23:15:10 -04:00
Alan Cox
113aa838ec net: Rationalise email address: Network Specific Parts
Clean up the various different email addresses of mine listed in the code
to a single current and valid address. As Dave says his network merges
for 2.6.28 are now done this seems a good point to send them in where
they won't risk disrupting real changes.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-10-13 19:01:08 -07:00
Heiko Carstens
510149e319 dsa: fix compile bug on s390
git commit 45cec1bac0
"dsa: Need to select PHYLIB." causes this build bug on s390:

drivers/built-in.o: In function `phy_stop_interrupts':
/home/heicarst/linux-2.6/drivers/net/phy/phy.c:631: undefined reference to `free_irq'
/home/heicarst/linux-2.6/drivers/net/phy/phy.c:646: undefined reference to `enable_irq'
drivers/built-in.o: In function `phy_start_interrupts':
/home/heicarst/linux-2.6/drivers/net/phy/phy.c:601: undefined reference to `request_irq'
drivers/built-in.o: In function `phy_interrupt':
/home/heicarst/linux-2.6/drivers/net/phy/phy.c:528: undefined reference to `disable_irq_nosync'
drivers/built-in.o: In function `phy_change':
/home/heicarst/linux-2.6/drivers/net/phy/phy.c:674: undefined reference to `enable_irq'
/home/heicarst/linux-2.6/drivers/net/phy/phy.c:692: undefined reference to `disable_irq'

PHYLIB has alread a depend on !S390, however select PHYLIB at DSA overrides
that unfortunately. So add a depend on !S390 to DSA as well.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-10-13 18:58:48 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan
e7dc849494 netns: mib6 section fixlet
LD      net/ipv6/ipv6.o
WARNING: net/ipv6/ipv6.o(.text+0xd8): Section mismatch in reference from the function inet6_net_init() to the function .init.text:ipv6_init_mibs()

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-10-13 18:54:07 -07:00
Roland Dreier
eb8a4cb6df enic: Fix Kconfig headline description
I don't think the enic driver has anything to do with Mark Everett
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Man_Called_E).  Fix the Kconfig
description.

Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-10-13 18:53:05 -07:00
Martin Langer
bc0da3fcec de2104x: wrong MAC address fix
The de2104x returns sometimes a wrong MAC address. The wrong one is
like the original one, but it comes with an one byte shift. I found
this bug on an older alpha ev5 cpu. More details are available in Gentoo
bugreport #240718.

It seems the hardware is sometimes a little bit too slow for an
immediate access. This patch solves the problem by introducing a small
udelay.

Signed-off-by: Martin Langer <martin-langer@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-10-13 18:49:38 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan
ebe05d06a5 s390: claw compile fixlet
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-10-13 18:48:43 -07:00
Adrian Bunk
892871dcc3 net: export genphy_restart_aneg
This patch fixes the following build error caused by
commit ed94493fb3
(mv643xx_eth: convert to phylib):

<--  snip  -->

...
  Building modules, stage 2.
  MODPOST 1280 modules
ERROR: "genphy_restart_aneg" [drivers/net/mv643xx_eth.ko] undefined!
...
make[2]: *** [__modpost] Error 1

<--  snip  -->

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-10-13 18:48:09 -07:00
Divy Le Ray
a02d44a02b cxgb3: extend copyrights to 2008
Update copyright banner to 2008.

Signed-off-by: Divy Le Ray <divy@chelsio.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-10-13 18:47:30 -07:00
Divy Le Ray
fe642ebc2d cxgb3: update driver version
Add a field to the driver versioning info.
Update version to 1.1.0.

Signed-off-by: Divy Le Ray <divy@chelsio.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-10-13 18:47:02 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
78c36b15a0 net/phy: add missing kernel-doc
Fix kernel-doc warning, missing description:

Warning(lin2627-g3-kdocfixes//drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c:63): No description found for parameter 'd'

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-10-13 18:46:22 -07:00
Ilpo Järvinen
b4bb4ac8cb pktgen: fix skb leak in case of failure
Seems that skb goes into void unless something magic happened
in pskb_expand_head in case of failure.

Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi>
Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-10-13 18:43:59 -07:00
Adrian Bunk
9e9540b8f7 mISDN/dsp_cmx.c: fix size checks
The checks for ensuring that the array indices are inside the range
were flipped.

Reported-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-10-13 18:42:55 -07:00
Andrew Morton
6bff338bb6 misdn: use nonseekable_open()
The driver just sets ->llseek to NULL.  It should also clear FMODE_LSEEK to
tell the VFS that seeks are not supported.

Pointed out by Christoph Hellwig.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-10-13 18:42:07 -07:00
Kamalesh Babulal
b7c6bfb710 net: fix driver build errors due to missing net/ip6_checksum.h include
2.6.27-git2 kernel build fails with allyesconfig on powerpc with 
build error 

<introduced by commit 01f2e4ead2> 

CC    drivers/net/enic/enic_main.o
drivers/net/enic/enic_main.c: In function ‘enic_queue_wq_skb_tso’:
drivers/net/enic/enic_main.c:576: error: implicit declaration of function ‘csum_ipv6_magic’
make[3]: *** [drivers/net/enic/enic_main.o] Error 1

<introduced by commit c4e84bde1d>

drivers/net/qlge/qlge_main.c: In function ‘ql_tso’:
drivers/net/qlge/qlge_main.c:1862: error: implicit declaration of function ‘csum_ipv6_magic’
make[3]: *** [drivers/net/qlge/qlge_main.o] Error 1
  
<introduced by commit 95252236e7>

drivers/net/jme.c: In function ‘jme_tx_tso’:
drivers/net/jme.c:1784: error: implicit declaration of function ‘csum_ipv6_magic’
make[2]: *** [drivers/net/jme.o] Error 1

Signed-off-by: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ron Mercer <ron.mercer@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-10-13 18:41:01 -07:00
Tao Ma
936b883436 ocfs2: Refactor xattr list and remove ocfs2_xattr_handler().
According to Christoph Hellwig's advice, we really don't need
a ->list to handle one xattr's list. Just a map from index to
xattr prefix is enough. And I also refactor the old list method
with the reference from fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_xattr.c and the
xattr list method in btrfs.

Signed-off-by: Tao Ma <tao.ma@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
2008-10-13 17:02:45 -07:00
Tao Ma
2057e5c678 ocfs2: Calculate EA hash only by its suffix.
According to Christoph Hellwig's advice, the hash value of EA
is only calculated by its suffix.

Signed-off-by: Tao Ma <tao.ma@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
2008-10-13 17:02:44 -07:00
Mark Fasheh
99219aea68 ocfs2: Move trusted and user attribute support into xattr.c
Per Christoph Hellwig's suggestion - don't split these up. It's not like we
gained much by having the two tiny files around.

Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
2008-10-13 17:02:44 -07:00
Mark Fasheh
40daa16a34 ocfs2: Uninline ocfs2_xattr_name_hash()
This is too big to be inlined.

Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
2008-10-13 17:02:44 -07:00