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Peter Zijlstra
e360adbe29 irq_work: Add generic hardirq context callbacks
Provide a mechanism that allows running code in IRQ context. It is
most useful for NMI code that needs to interact with the rest of the
system -- like wakeup a task to drain buffers.

Perf currently has such a mechanism, so extract that and provide it as
a generic feature, independent of perf so that others may also
benefit.

The IRQ context callback is generated through self-IPIs where
possible, or on architectures like powerpc the decrementer (the
built-in timer facility) is set to generate an interrupt immediately.

Architectures that don't have anything like this get to do with a
callback from the timer tick. These architectures can call
irq_work_run() at the tail of any IRQ handlers that might enqueue such
work (like the perf IRQ handler) to avoid undue latencies in
processing the work.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
[ various fixes ]
Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <1287036094.7768.291.camel@yhuang-dev>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-10-18 19:58:50 +02:00
Stephane Eranian
ba0cef3d14 perf_events: Fix bogus AMD64 generic TLB events
PERF_COUNT_HW_CACHE_DTLB:READ:MISS had a bogus umask value of 0 which
counts nothing. Needed to be 0x7 (to count all possibilities).

PERF_COUNT_HW_CACHE_ITLB:READ:MISS had a bogus umask value of 0 which
counts nothing. Needed to be 0x3 (to count all possibilities).

Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> # as far back as it applies
LKML-Reference: <4cb85478.41e9d80a.44e2.3f00@mx.google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-10-18 19:58:48 +02:00
Masami Hiramatsu
3caa37519c x86: Use __stop_machine() in text_poke_smp()
Use __stop_machine() in text_poke_smp() because the caller
must get online_cpus before calling text_poke_smp(), but
stop_machine() do it again. We don't need it.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: 2nddept-manager@sdl.hitachi.co.jp
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
LKML-Reference: <20101014031036.4100.83989.stgit@ltc236.sdl.hitachi.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-10-14 08:55:28 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
7cd2541cf2 Merge commit 'v2.6.36-rc7' into perf/core
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/kernel/module.c

Merge reason: Resolve the conflict, pick up fixes.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-10-08 10:46:27 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
39c12be86a 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 trace scripting: Fix extern struct definitions
  perf ui hist browser: Fix segfault on 'a' for annotate
  perf tools: Fix build breakage
  perf, x86: Handle in flight NMIs on P4 platform
  oprofile, ARM: Release resources on failure
  oprofile: Add Support for Intel CPU Family 6 / Model 29
2010-10-05 11:57:37 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
5336377d62 modules: Fix module_bug_list list corruption race
With all the recent module loading cleanups, we've minimized the code
that sits under module_mutex, fixing various deadlocks and making it
possible to do most of the module loading in parallel.

However, that whole conversion totally missed the rather obscure code
that adds a new module to the list for BUG() handling.  That code was
doubly obscure because (a) the code itself lives in lib/bugs.c (for
dubious reasons) and (b) it gets called from the architecture-specific
"module_finalize()" rather than from generic code.

Calling it from arch-specific code makes no sense what-so-ever to begin
with, and is now actively wrong since that code isn't protected by the
module loading lock any more.

So this commit moves the "module_bug_{finalize,cleanup}()" calls away
from the arch-specific code, and into the generic code - and in the
process protects it with the module_mutex so that the list operations
are now safe.

Future fixups:
 - move the module list handling code into kernel/module.c where it
   belongs.
 - get rid of 'module_bug_list' and just use the regular list of modules
   (called 'modules' - imagine that) that we already create and maintain
   for other reasons.

Reported-and-tested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-05 11:29:27 -07:00
Andi Kleen
c62f981f93 perf, gcc-4.6: Fix set but unused variable
Just dead code I believe.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: andi@firstfloor.org
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-10-05 09:48:07 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
00e8976200 Merge branch 'perf/urgent' into perf/core
Conflicts:
	tools/perf/util/ui/browsers/hists.c

Merge reason: fix the conflict and merge in changes for dependent patch.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-10-05 09:47:14 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
5a4bbd01c8 Merge branch 'fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq
* 'fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq:
  [CPUFREQ] Fix memory leaks in pcc_cpufreq_do_osc
  [CPUFREQ] acpi-cpufreq: add missing __percpu markup
2010-10-04 11:14:21 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
f4a3330d76 Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86, hpet: Fix bogus error check in hpet_assign_irq()
  x86, irq: Plug memory leak in sparse irq
  x86, cpu: After uncapping CPUID, re-run CPU feature detection
2010-10-01 15:02:41 -07:00
Thomas Gleixner
0219896228 x86, hpet: Fix bogus error check in hpet_assign_irq()
create_irq() returns -1 if the interrupt allocation failed, but the
code checks for irq == 0.

Use create_irq_nr() instead.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com>
LKML-Reference: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1009282310360.2416@localhost6.localdomain6>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2010-09-30 15:57:35 -07:00
Thomas Gleixner
1cf180c94e x86, irq: Plug memory leak in sparse irq
free_irq_cfg() is not freeing the cpumask_vars in irq_cfg. Fixing this
triggers a use after free caused by the fact that copying struct
irq_cfg is done with memcpy, which copies the pointer not the cpumask.

Fix both places.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1009282052570.2416@localhost6.localdomain6>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2010-09-30 15:57:35 -07:00
Pekka Enberg
3682930623 [CPUFREQ] Fix memory leaks in pcc_cpufreq_do_osc
If acpi_evaluate_object() function call doesn't fail, we must kfree()
output.buffer before returning from pcc_cpufreq_do_osc().

Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2010-09-30 16:14:23 -04:00
Namhyung Kim
86cf147494 [CPUFREQ] acpi-cpufreq: add missing __percpu markup
acpi_perf_data is a percpu pointer but was missing __percpu markup.
Add it.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2010-09-30 16:14:22 -04:00
Cyrill Gorcunov
03e22198d2 perf, x86: Handle in flight NMIs on P4 platform
Stephane reported we've forgot to guard the P4 platform
against spurious in-flight performance IRQs. Fix it.

This fixes potential spurious 'dazed and confused' NMI
messages.

Reported-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Cc: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <1285815698-4298-1-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-09-30 09:17:59 +02:00
Namhyung Kim
bd126b23a2 ACPI: add missing __percpu markup in arch/x86/kernel/acpi/cstate.c
cpu_cstate_entry is a percpu pointer
but was missing __percpu markup.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2010-09-28 21:38:20 -04:00
H. Peter Anvin
d900329e20 x86, cpu: After uncapping CPUID, re-run CPU feature detection
After uncapping the CPUID level, we need to also re-run the CPU
feature detection code.

This resolves kernel bugzilla 16322.

Reported-by: boris64 <bugzilla.kernel.org@boris64.net>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> v2.6.29..2.6.35
LKML-Reference: <tip-@git.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2010-09-28 16:33:14 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
6a6aa2b7e4 Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86/amd-iommu: Fix rounding-bug in __unmap_single
  x86/amd-iommu: Work around S3 BIOS bug
  x86/amd-iommu: Set iommu configuration flags in enable-loop
  x86, setup: Fix earlyprintk=serial,0x3f8,115200
  x86, setup: Fix earlyprintk=serial,ttyS0,115200
2010-09-27 12:22:21 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
f0619343ce 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, x86: Catch spurious interrupts after disabling counters
  tracing/x86: Don't use mcount in kvmclock.c
  tracing/x86: Don't use mcount in pvclock.c
2010-09-27 12:21:48 -07:00
Jan Beulich
a46590533a x86/hwmon: fix initialization of coretemp
Using cpuid_eax() to determine feature availability on other than
the current CPU is invalid. And feature availability should also be
checked in the hotplug code path.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Cc: Rudolf Marek <r.marek@assembler.cz>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@ericsson.com>
2010-09-24 11:44:19 -07:00
Robert Richter
63e6be6d98 perf, x86: Catch spurious interrupts after disabling counters
Some cpus still deliver spurious interrupts after disabling a
counter. This caused 'undelivered NMI' messages. This patch
fixes this. Introduced by:

  4177c42: perf, x86: Try to handle unknown nmis with an enabled PMU

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: gorcunov@gmail.com <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: ying.huang@intel.com <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: ming.m.lin@intel.com <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Cc: yinghai@kernel.org <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: andi@firstfloor.org <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: eranian@google.com <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <20100915162034.GO13563@erda.amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-09-24 12:21:41 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
7329cf0201 Merge branch 'amd-iommu/2.6.36' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/joro/linux-2.6-iommu into x86/urgent 2010-09-24 11:19:53 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
a5a2bad55d Merge branch 'tip/perf/core' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into perf/core 2010-09-24 09:12:05 +02:00
Joerg Roedel
04e0463e08 x86/amd-iommu: Fix rounding-bug in __unmap_single
In the __unmap_single function the dma_addr is rounded down
to a page boundary before the dma pages are unmapped. The
address is later also used to flush the TLB entries for that
mapping. But without the offset into the dma page the amount
of pages to flush might be miscalculated in the TLB flushing
path. This patch fixes this bug by using the original
address to flush the TLB.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
2010-09-23 16:26:20 +02:00
Joerg Roedel
4c894f47bb x86/amd-iommu: Work around S3 BIOS bug
This patch adds a workaround for an IOMMU BIOS problem to
the AMD IOMMU driver. The result of the bug is that the
IOMMU does not execute commands anymore when the system
comes out of the S3 state resulting in system failure. The
bug in the BIOS is that is does not restore certain hardware
specific registers correctly. This workaround reads out the
contents of these registers at boot time and restores them
on resume from S3. The workaround is limited to the specific
IOMMU chipset where this problem occurs.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
2010-09-23 16:26:03 +02:00
Joerg Roedel
e9bf519711 x86/amd-iommu: Set iommu configuration flags in enable-loop
This patch moves the setting of the configuration and
feature flags out out the acpi table parsing path and moves
it into the iommu-enable path. This is needed to reliably
fix resume-from-s3.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
2010-09-23 16:24:50 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
258af47479 tracing/x86: Don't use mcount in kvmclock.c
The guest can use the paravirt clock in kvmclock.c which is used
by sched_clock(), which in turn is used by the tracing mechanism
for timestamps, which leads to infinite recursion.

Disable mcount/tracing for kvmclock.o.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-09-22 23:01:19 -04:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
9ecd4e1689 tracing/x86: Don't use mcount in pvclock.c
When using a paravirt clock, pvclock.c can be used by sched_clock(),
which in turn is used by the tracing mechanism for timestamps,
which leads to infinite recursion.

Disable mcount/tracing for pvclock.o.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
LKML-Reference: <4C9A9A3F.4040201@goop.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-09-22 23:00:50 -04:00
Jason Baron
d9f5ab7b1c jump label: x86 support
add x86 support for jump label. I'm keeping this patch separate so its clear
to arch maintainers what was required for x86 support this new feature.
Hopefully, it wouldn't be too painful for other archs.

Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <f838f49f40fbea0254036194be66dc48b598dcea.1284733808.git.jbaron@redhat.com>

[ cleaned up some formatting ]

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-09-22 16:33:03 -04:00
Jason Baron
4c3ef6d793 jump label: Add jump_label_text_reserved() to reserve jump points
Add a jump_label_text_reserved(void *start, void *end), so that other
pieces of code that want to modify kernel text, can first verify that
jump label has not reserved the instruction.

Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <06236663a3a7b1c1f13576bb9eccb6d9c17b7bfe.1284733808.git.jbaron@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-09-22 16:30:46 -04:00
Jason Baron
bf5438fca2 jump label: Base patch for jump label
base patch to implement 'jump labeling'. Based on a new 'asm goto' inline
assembly gcc mechanism, we can now branch to labels from an 'asm goto'
statment. This allows us to create a 'no-op' fastpath, which can subsequently
be patched with a jump to the slowpath code. This is useful for code which
might be rarely used, but which we'd like to be able to call, if needed.
Tracepoints are the current usecase that these are being implemented for.

Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <ee8b3595967989fdaf84e698dc7447d315ce972a.1284733808.git.jbaron@redhat.com>

[ cleaned up some formating ]

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-09-22 16:29:41 -04:00
Ingo Molnar
90edf27fb8 Merge branch 'linus' into perf/core
Conflicts:
	kernel/hw_breakpoint.c

Merge reason: resolve the conflict.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-09-22 18:45:01 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
87ac6fa26e 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:
  hw breakpoints: Fix pid namespace bug
  x86: Fix instruction breakpoint encoding
  oprofile: Add Support for Intel CPU Family 6 / Model 22 (Intel Celeron 540)
  kprobes: Fix Kconfig dependency
2010-09-21 13:21:42 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
7ed569206e Merge commit 'v2.6.36-rc5' into perf/core
Merge reason: Pick up the latest fixes in -rc5.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-09-21 13:55:11 +02:00
Jason Baron
fa6f2cc770 jump label: Make text_poke_early() globally visible
Make text_poke_early available outside of alternative.c. The jump label
patchset wants to make use of it in order to set up the optimal no-op
sequences at run-time.

Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <04cfddf2ba77bcabfc3e524f1849d871d6a1cf9d.1284733808.git.jbaron@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-09-20 18:19:51 -04:00
Jason Baron
f49aa44856 jump label: Make dynamic no-op selection available outside of ftrace
Move Steve's code for finding the best 5-byte no-op from ftrace.c to
alternative.c. The idea is that other consumers (in this case jump label)
want to make use of that code.

Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <96259ae74172dcac99c0020c249743c523a92e18.1284733808.git.jbaron@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-09-20 18:19:39 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
a5b617368c Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86: hpet: Work around hardware stupidity
  x86, build: Disable -fPIE when compiling with CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR=y
  x86, cpufeature: Suppress compiler warning with gcc 3.x
  x86, UV: Fix initialization of max_pnode
2010-09-16 19:38:08 -07:00
Frederic Weisbecker
89e45aac42 x86: Fix instruction breakpoint encoding
Lengths and types of breakpoints are encoded in a half byte
into CPU registers. However when we extract these values
and store them, we add a high half byte part to them: 0x40 to the
length and 0x80 to the type.
When that gets reloaded to the CPU registers, the high part
is masked.

While making the instruction breakpoints available for perf,
I zapped that high part on instruction breakpoint encoding
and that broke the arch -> generic translation used by ptrace
instruction breakpoints. Writing dr7 to set an inst breakpoint
was then failing.

There is no apparent reason for these high parts so we could get
rid of them altogether. That's an invasive change though so let's
do that later and for now fix the problem by restoring that inst
breakpoint high part encoding in this sole patch.

Reported-by: Kelvie Wong <kelvie@ieee.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
2010-09-17 03:24:13 +02:00
Namhyung Kim
6abded71d7 kprobes: Remove __dummy_buf
Remove __dummy_buf which is needed for kallsyms_lookup only.
use kallsysm_lookup_size_offset instead.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
LKML-Reference: <1284512670-2369-5-git-send-email-namhyung@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-09-15 10:44:02 +02:00
Namhyung Kim
6376b22975 kprobes: Make functions static
Make following (internal) functions static to make sparse
happier :-)

 * get_optimized_kprobe: only called from static functions
 * kretprobe_table_unlock: _lock function is static
 * kprobes_optinsn_template_holder: never called but holding asm code

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
LKML-Reference: <1284512670-2369-4-git-send-email-namhyung@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-09-15 10:44:01 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
3aabae7d9d Merge branch 'tip/perf/core' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into perf/core 2010-09-15 10:27:31 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner
54ff7e595d x86: hpet: Work around hardware stupidity
This more or less reverts commits 08be979 (x86: Force HPET
readback_cmp for all ATI chipsets) and 30a564be (x86, hpet: Restrict
read back to affected ATI chipsets) to the status of commit 8da854c
(x86, hpet: Erratum workaround for read after write of HPET
comparator).

The delta to commit 8da854c is mostly comments and the change from
WARN_ONCE to printk_once as we know the call path of this function
already.

This needs really in depth explanation:

First of all the HPET design is a complete failure. Having a counter
compare register which generates an interrupt on matching values
forces the software to do at least one superfluous readback of the
counter register.

While it is nice in theory to program "absolute" time events it is
practically useless because the timer runs at some absurd frequency
which can never be matched to real world units. So we are forced to
calculate a relative delta and this forces a readout of the actual
counter value, adding the delta and programming the compare
register. When the delta is small enough we run into the danger that
we program a compare value which is already in the past. Due to the
compare for equal nature of HPET we need to read back the counter
value after writing the compare rehgister (btw. this is necessary for
absolute timeouts as well) to make sure that we did not miss the timer
event. We try to work around that by setting the minimum delta to a
value which is larger than the theoretical time which elapses between
the counter readout and the compare register write, but that's only
true in theory. A NMI or SMI which hits between the readout and the
write can easily push us beyond that limit. This would result in
waiting for the next HPET timer interrupt until the 32bit wraparound
of the counter happens which takes about 306 seconds.

So we designed the next event function to look like:

   match = read_cnt() + delta;
   write_compare_ref(match);
   return read_cnt() < match ? 0 : -ETIME;

At some point we got into trouble with certain ATI chipsets. Even the
above "safe" procedure failed. The reason was that the write to the
compare register was delayed probably for performance reasons. The
theory was that they wanted to avoid the synchronization of the write
with the HPET clock, which is understandable. So the write does not
hit the compare register directly instead it goes to some intermediate
register which is copied to the real compare register in sync with the
HPET clock. That opens another window for hitting the dreaded "wait
for a wraparound" problem.

To work around that "optimization" we added a read back of the compare
register which either enforced the update of the just written value or
just delayed the readout of the counter enough to avoid the issue. We
unfortunately never got any affirmative info from ATI/AMD about this.

One thing is sure, that we nuked the performance "optimization" that
way completely and I'm pretty sure that the result is worse than
before some HW folks came up with those.

Just for paranoia reasons I added a check whether the read back
compare register value was the same as the value we wrote right
before. That paranoia check triggered a couple of years after it was
added on an Intel ICH9 chipset. Venki added a workaround (commit
8da854c) which was reading the compare register twice when the first
check failed. We considered this to be a penalty in general and
restricted the readback (thus the wasted CPU cycles) to the known to
be affected ATI chipsets.

This turned out to be a utterly wrong decision. 2.6.35 testers
experienced massive problems and finally one of them bisected it down
to commit 30a564be which spured some further investigation.

Finally we got confirmation that the write to the compare register can
be delayed by up to two HPET clock cycles which explains the problems
nicely. All we can do about this is to go back to Venki's initial
workaround in a slightly modified version.

Just for the record I need to say, that all of this could have been
avoided if hardware designers and of course the HPET committee would
have thought about the consequences for a split second. It's out of my
comprehension why designing a working timer is so hard. There are two
ways to achieve it:

 1) Use a counter wrap around aware compare_reg <= counter_reg
    implementation instead of the easy compare_reg == counter_reg

    Downsides:

	- It needs more silicon.

	- It needs a readout of the counter to apply a relative
	  timeout. This is necessary as the counter does not run in
	  any useful (and adjustable) frequency and there is no
	  guarantee that the counter which is used for timer events is
	  the same which is used for reading the actual time (and
	  therefor for calculating the delta)

    Upsides:

	- None

  2) Use a simple down counter for relative timer events

    Downsides:

	- Absolute timeouts are not possible, which is not a problem
	  at all in the context of an OS and the expected
	  max. latencies/jitter (also see Downsides of #1)

   Upsides:

	- It needs less or equal silicon.

	- It works ALWAYS

	- It is way faster than a compare register based solution (One
	  write versus one write plus at least one and up to four
	  reads)

I would not be so grumpy about all of this, if I would not have been
ignored for many years when pointing out these flaws to various
hardware folks. I really hate timers (at least those which seem to be
designed by janitors).

Though finally we got a reasonable explanation plus a solution and I
want to thank all the folks involved in chasing it down and providing
valuable input to this.

Bisected-by: Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk>
Reported-by: Artur Skawina <art.08.09@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Damien Wyart <damien.wyart@free.fr>
Reported-by: John Drescher <drescherjm@gmail.com>
Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Acked-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2010-09-15 00:55:13 +02:00
Stephane Eranian
b0b2072df3 perf_events: Fix BTS interrupt handling to avoid being dazed by NMI (v2)
Fix a bug introduced with commit de725de and the change in the
meaning of the return value of intel_pmu_handle_irq(). With the
current code, when you are using the BTS, you get 'dazed by NMI'
each time the BTS buffer fills up.

BTS does interrupt on the PMU vector, thus NMI. You need to take
this into account in the return value of the function.

This version fixes initial patch which was missing changes to
perf_event_intel_ds.c.

Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Acked-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: davem@davemloft.net
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: perfmon2-devel@lists.sf.net
Cc: eranian@gmail.com
Cc: robert.richter@amd.com
LKML-Reference: <4c8a1686.aae9d80a.5aa4.5e35@mx.google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-09-13 08:43:40 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
5ee5e97ee9 x86, tsc: Fix a preemption leak in restore_sched_clock_state()
A real life genuine preemption leak..

Reported-and-tested-by: Jeff Chua <jeff.chua.linux@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-09-10 18:17:45 -07:00
Jack Steiner
36ac4b987b x86, UV: Fix initialization of max_pnode
Fix calculation of "max_pnode" for systems where the the highest
blade has neither cpus or memory. (And, yes, although rare this
does occur).

Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100910150808.GA19802@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-09-10 17:15:49 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
15ac9a395a perf: Remove the sysfs bits
Neither the overcommit nor the reservation sysfs parameter were
actually working, remove them as they'll only get in the way.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: paulus <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-09-09 20:46:31 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
a4eaf7f146 perf: Rework the PMU methods
Replace pmu::{enable,disable,start,stop,unthrottle} with
pmu::{add,del,start,stop}, all of which take a flags argument.

The new interface extends the capability to stop a counter while
keeping it scheduled on the PMU. We replace the throttled state with
the generic stopped state.

This also allows us to efficiently stop/start counters over certain
code paths (like IRQ handlers).

It also allows scheduling a counter without it starting, allowing for
a generic frozen state (useful for rotating stopped counters).

The stopped state is implemented in two different ways, depending on
how the architecture implemented the throttled state:

 1) We disable the counter:
    a) the pmu has per-counter enable bits, we flip that
    b) we program a NOP event, preserving the counter state

 2) We store the counter state and ignore all read/overflow events

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: paulus <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: stephane eranian <eranian@googlemail.com>
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Cc: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Cc: Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Deng-Cheng Zhu <dengcheng.zhu@gmail.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Michael Cree <mcree@orcon.net.nz>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-09-09 20:46:30 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
33696fc0d1 perf: Per PMU disable
Changes perf_disable() into perf_pmu_disable().

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: paulus <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: stephane eranian <eranian@googlemail.com>
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Cc: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Cc: Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Deng-Cheng Zhu <dengcheng.zhu@gmail.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Michael Cree <mcree@orcon.net.nz>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-09-09 20:46:29 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
24cd7f54a0 perf: Reduce perf_disable() usage
Since the current perf_disable() usage is only an optimization,
remove it for now. This eases the removal of the __weak
hw_perf_enable() interface.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: paulus <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: stephane eranian <eranian@googlemail.com>
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Cc: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Cc: Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Deng-Cheng Zhu <dengcheng.zhu@gmail.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Michael Cree <mcree@orcon.net.nz>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-09-09 20:46:29 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
b0a873ebbf perf: Register PMU implementations
Simple registration interface for struct pmu, this provides the
infrastructure for removing all the weak functions.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: paulus <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: stephane eranian <eranian@googlemail.com>
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Cc: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Cc: Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Deng-Cheng Zhu <dengcheng.zhu@gmail.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Michael Cree <mcree@orcon.net.nz>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-09-09 20:46:28 +02:00