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2008-10-09block: implement extended dev numbersTejun Heo
Implement extended device numbers. A block driver can tell block layer that it wants to use extended device numbers. After the usual minor space is used up, block layer automatically allocates devt's from EXT_BLOCK_MAJOR. Currently only one major number is allocated for this but as the allocation is strictly on-demand, ~1mil minor space under it should suffice unless the system actually has more than ~1mil partitions and if that ever happens adding more majors to the extended devt area is easy. Due to internal implementation issues, the first partition can't be allocated on the extended area. In other words, genhd->minors should at least be 1. This limitation will be lifted by later changes. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09block: fix diskstats accessTejun Heo
There are two variants of stat functions - ones prefixed with double underbars which don't care about preemption and ones without which disable preemption before manipulating per-cpu counters. It's unclear whether the underbarred ones assume that preemtion is disabled on entry as some callers don't do that. This patch unifies diskstats access by implementing disk_stat_lock() and disk_stat_unlock() which take care of both RCU (for partition access) and preemption (for per-cpu counter access). diskstats access should always be enclosed between the two functions. As such, there's no need for the versions which disables preemption. They're removed and double underbars ones are renamed to drop the underbars. As an extra argument is added, there's no danger of using the old version unconverted. disk_stat_lock() uses get_cpu() and returns the cpu index and all diskstat functions which access per-cpu counters now has @cpu argument to help RT. This change adds RCU or preemption operations at some places but also collapses several preemption ops into one at others. Overall, the performance difference should be negligible as all involved ops are very lightweight per-cpu ones. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09block: fix disk->part[] dereferencing raceTejun Heo
disk->part[] is protected by its matching bdev's lock. However, non-critical accesses like collecting stats and printing out sysfs and proc information used to be performed without any locking. As partitions can come and go dynamically, partitions can go away underneath those non-critical accesses. As some of those accesses are writes, this theoretically can lead to silent corruption. This patch fixes the race by using RCU for the partition array and dev reference counter to hold partitions. * Rename disk->part[] to disk->__part[] to make sure no one outside genhd layer proper accesses it directly. * Use RCU for disk->__part[] dereferencing. * Implement disk_{get|put}_part() which can be used to get and put partitions from gendisk respectively. * Iterators are implemented to help iterate through all partitions safely. * Functions which require RCU readlock are marked with _rcu suffix. * Use disk_put_part() in __blkdev_put() instead of directly putting the contained kobject. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09block: don't depend on consecutive minor spaceTejun Heo
* Implement disk_devt() and part_devt() and use them to directly access devt instead of computing it from ->major and ->first_minor. Note that all references to ->major and ->first_minor outside of block layer is used to determine devt of the disk (the part0) and as ->major and ->first_minor will continue to represent devt for the disk, converting these users aren't strictly necessary. However, convert them for consistency. * Implement disk_max_parts() to avoid directly deferencing genhd->minors. * Update bdget_disk() such that it doesn't assume consecutive minor space. * Move devt computation from register_disk() to add_disk() and make it the only one (all other usages use the initially determined value). These changes clean up the code and will help disk->part dereference fix and extended block device numbers. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09block: make variable and argument names more consistentTejun Heo
In hd_struct, @partno is used to denote partition number and a number of other places use @part to denote hd_struct. Functions use @part and @index instead. This causes confusion and makes it difficult to use consistent variable names for hd_struct. Always use @partno if a variable represents partition number. Also, print out functions use @f or @part for seq_file argument. Use @seqf uniformly instead. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09block: misc updatesTejun Heo
This patch makes the following misc updates in preparation for disk->part dereference fix and extended block devt support. * implment part_to_disk() * fix comment about gendisk->part indexing * rename get_part() to disk_map_sector() * don't use n which is always zero while printing disk information in diskstats_show() Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09block: update add_partition() error handlingTejun Heo
d805dda4 tried to fix error case handling in add_partition() but had a few problems. * disk->part[] entry is set early and left dangling if operation fails. * Once device initialized, the last put_device() is responsible for freeing all the resources. The failure path freed part_stats and p regardless of put_device() causing double free. * holders subdir holds reference to the disk device, so failure path should remove it to release resources properly which was missing. This patch fixes the above problems and while at it move partition slot busy check into add_partition() for completeness and inlines holders subdirectory creation. Using separate function for it just obfuscates the code. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Abdel Benamrouche <draconux@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09block: allow deleting zero length partitionTejun Heo
delete_partition() was noop for zero length partition. As the addition code allows creating zero lenght partition and deletion is assumed to always succeed, this causes memory leak for zero length partitions. Allow zero length partitions to end their meaningless lives. While at it, allow deleting zero lenght partition via BLKPG_DEL_PARTITION ioctl too. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09block: use class_dev_iterator instead of class_for_each_device()Tejun Heo
Recent block_class iteration updates 5c6f35c5..27f3025 converted all class device iteration to class_for_each_device() and class_find_device(), which are correct but pain in the ass to use. This pach converts them to newly introduced class_dev_iterator so that they can use more natural control structures instead of separate callbacks and struct to pass parameters to them. This results in smaller and easier code. This patch also restores the original behavior of not printing header in /proc/partitions if there's no partition to print. This is trivial but still user-visible behavior. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09block: don't grab block_class_lock unnecessarilyTejun Heo
block_class_lock protects major_names array and bdev_map and doesn't have anything to do with block class devices. Don't grab them while iterating over block class devices. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09block: fix partition info printoutsTejun Heo
Recent block_class iteration updates 5c6f35c5..27f3025 broke partition info printouts. * printk_all_partitions(): Partition print out stops when it meets a partition hole. Partition printing inner loop should continue instead of exiting on empty partition slot. * /proc/partitions and /proc/diskstats: If all information can't be read in single read(), the information is truncated. This is because find_start() doesn't actually update the counter containing the initial seek. It runs to the end and ends up always reporting EOF on the second read. This patch fixes both problems. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09driver-core: use klist for class device list and implement iteratorTejun Heo
Iterating over entries using callback usually isn't too fun especially when the entry being iterated over can't be manipulated freely. This patch converts class->p->class_devices to klist and implements class device iterator so that the users can freely build their own control structure. The users are also free to call back into class code without worrying about locking. class_for_each_device() and class_find_device() are converted to use the new iterators, so their users don't have to worry about locking anymore either. Note: This depends on klist-dont-iterate-over-deleted-entries patch because class_intf->add/remove_dev() depends on proper synchronization with device removal. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09klist: don't iterate over deleted entriesTejun Heo
A klist entry is kept on the list till all its current iterations are finished; however, a new iteration after deletion also iterates over deleted entries as long as their reference count stays above zero. This causes problems for cases where there are users which iterate over the list while synchronized against list manipulations and natuarally expect already deleted entries to not show up during iteration. This patch implements dead flag which gets set on deletion so that iteration can skip already deleted entries. The dead flag piggy backs on the lowest bit of knode->n_klist and only visible to klist implementation proper. While at it, drop klist_iter->i_head as it's redundant and doesn't offer anything in semantics or performance wise as klist_iter->i_klist is dereferenced on every iteration anyway. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09Add some block/ source files to the kernel-api docbook. Fix kernel-doc ↵Randy Dunlap
notation in them as needed. Fix changed function parameter names. Fix typos/spellos. In comments, change REQ_SPECIAL to REQ_TYPE_SPECIAL and REQ_BLOCK_PC to REQ_TYPE_BLOCK_PC. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09block: make bi_phys_segments an unsigned int instead of shortJens Axboe
raid5 can overflow with more than 255 stripes, and we can increase it to an int for free on both 32 and 64-bit archs due to the padding. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09block: raid fixups for removal of bi_hw_segmentsJens Axboe
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09drop vmerge accountingMikulas Patocka
Remove hw_segments field from struct bio and struct request. Without virtual merge accounting they have no purpose. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09block: drop virtual merging accountingMikulas Patocka
Remove virtual merge accounting. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09block: update documentation for deadline fifo_batch tunableAaron Carroll
Update the description of fifo_batch to match the current implementation, and include a description of how to tune it. Signed-off-by: Aaron Carroll <aaronc@gelato.unsw.edu.au> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09deadline-iosched: non-functional fixesAaron Carroll
* convert goto to simpler while loop; * use rq_end_sector() instead of computing manually; * fix false comments; * remove spurious whitespace; * convert rq_rb_root macro to an inline function. Signed-off-by: Aaron Carroll <aaronc@gelato.unsw.edu.au> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09deadline-iosched: allow non-sequential batchingAaron Carroll
Deadline currently only batches sector-contiguous requests, so except for a few circumstances (e.g. requests in a single direction), it is essentially first come first served. This is bad for throughput, so change it to CSCAN, which means requests in a batch do not need to be sequential and are issued in increasing sector order. Signed-off-by: Aaron Carroll <aaronc@gelato.unsw.edu.au> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09virtio_blk: use a wrapper function to access io context information of IO ↵Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao
requests struct request has an ioprio member but it is never updated because currently bios do not hold io context information. The implication of this is that virtio_blk ends up passing useless information to the backend driver. That said, some IO schedulers such as CFQ do store io context information in struct request, but use private members for that, which means that that information cannot be directly accessed in a IO scheduler-independent way. This patch adds a function to obtain the ioprio of a request. We should avoid accessing ioprio directly and use this function instead, so that its users do not have to care about future changes in block layer structures or what the currently active IO controller is. This patch does not introduce any functional changes but paves the way for future clean-ups and enhancements. Signed-off-by: Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao <fernando@oss.ntt.co.jp> Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09Kill REQ_TYPE_FLUSHDavid Woodhouse
It was only used by ps3disk, and it should probably have been REQ_TYPE_LINUX_BLOCK + REQ_LB_OP_FLUSH. Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09Allow elevators to sort/merge discard requestsDavid Woodhouse
But blkdev_issue_discard() still emits requests which are interpreted as soft barriers, because naïve callers might otherwise issue subsequent writes to those same sectors, which might cross on the queue (if they're reallocated quickly enough). Callers still _can_ issue non-barrier discard requests, but they have to take care of queue ordering for themselves. Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09Add BLKDISCARD ioctl to allow userspace to discard sectorsDavid Woodhouse
We may well want mkfs tools to use this to mark the whole device as unwanted before they format it, for example. The ioctl takes a pair of uint64_ts, which are start offset and length in _bytes_. Although at the moment it might make sense for them both to be in 512-byte sectors, I don't want to limit the ABI to that. Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09Use WRITE_BARRIER in blkdev_issue_flush(), not (1<<BIO_RW_BARRIER)OGAWA Hirofumi
Barriers should be submitted with the WRITE flag set. Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09blktrace: simplify flags handling in __blk_add_traceDavid Woodhouse
Let the compiler see what's going on, and it can all get a lot simpler. On PPC64 this reduces the size of the code calculating these bits by about 60%. On x86_64 it's less of a win -- only 40%. Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09blktrace: support discard requestsDavid Woodhouse
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09Support 'discard sectors' operation.David Woodhouse
We can benefit from knowing that the file system no longer cares about the contents of certain sectors, by throwing them away immediately and then never having to garbage collect them, and using the extra free space to make our operations more efficient. Do so. Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09Support 'discard sectors' operation in translation layer support coreDavid Woodhouse
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09Let the block device know when sectors can be discardedDavid Woodhouse
[hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp: discard _after_ checking for corrupt chains] Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com> Acked-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09Add 'discard' request handlingDavid Woodhouse
Some block devices benefit from a hint that they can forget the contents of certain sectors. Add basic support for this to the block core, along with a 'blkdev_issue_discard()' helper function which issues such requests. The caller doesn't get to provide an end_io functio, since blkdev_issue_discard() will automatically split the request up into multiple bios if appropriate. Neither does the function wait for completion -- it's expected that callers won't care about when, or even _if_, the request completes. It's only a hint to the device anyway. By definition, the file system doesn't _care_ about these sectors any more. [With feedback from OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> and Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com] Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09Fix up comments about matching flags between bio and rqDavid Woodhouse
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09highmem: use bio_has_data() in the bounce pathJens Axboe
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09block: use bio_has_data() in the IO completion pathJens Axboe
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09block: use bio_has_data() to check for data carrying bioJens Axboe
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09block: add bio_has_data() to detect whether a bio carries data or notJens Axboe
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09SG_IO block filter whitelist missing MMC SET READ AHEAD commandxiphmont@xiph.org
I have another request for the block filter SG_IO command whitelist, specifically the MMC streaming command set SET READ AHEAD command. The command applies only to MMC CDROM/DVDROM drives with the streaming optional feature set. The command is useful to cdparanoia in that it allows explicit cache control side effects that are, on many drives, cdparanoia's most efficient way to flush/disable the media cache on cdrom drives. I am aware of no reason why it should not be accessible from usespace. Also note that the command is already fully accessible through the SCSI-native version of the SG_IO ioctl as well as the traditional SG interface. The command is only being refused on block devices. That means that on a typical stock distro, the command is available through /dev/sg* but not /dev/scd* although both are typically available and accessible. Filtering the command is not providing any protection, only a confusing inconsistency. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-08Merge branch 'upstream' of git://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-linusLinus Torvalds
* 'upstream' of git://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-linus: [MIPS] Sibyte: Register PIO PATA device only for Swarm and Litte Sur
2008-10-08Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: tcp: Fix tcp_hybla zero congestion window growth with small rho and large cwnd. net: Fix netdev_run_todo dead-lock tcp: Fix possible double-ack w/ user dma net: only invoke dev->change_rx_flags when device is UP netrom: Fix sock_orphan() use in nr_release ax25: Quick fix for making sure unaccepted sockets get destroyed. Revert "ax25: Fix std timer socket destroy handling." [Bluetooth] Add reset quirk for A-Link BlueUSB21 dongle [Bluetooth] Add reset quirk for new Targus and Belkin dongles [Bluetooth] Fix double frees on error paths of btusb and bpa10x drivers
2008-10-08[MIPS] Sibyte: Register PIO PATA device only for Swarm and Litte SurRalf Baechle
Symbol name spaghetti which is too complicated to cleanup on this stage of the release cycle breaks the build on BCM1480 platforms. Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2008-10-07tcp: Fix tcp_hybla zero congestion window growth with small rho and large cwnd.Daniele Lacamera
Because of rounding, in certain conditions, i.e. when in congestion avoidance state rho is smaller than 1/128 of the current cwnd, TCP Hybla congestion control starves and the cwnd is kept constant forever. This patch forces an increment by one segment after #send_cwnd calls without increments(newreno behavior). Signed-off-by: Daniele Lacamera <root@danielinux.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-10-07net: Fix netdev_run_todo dead-lockHerbert Xu
Benjamin Thery tracked down a bug that explains many instances of the error unregister_netdevice: waiting for %s to become free. Usage count = %d It turns out that netdev_run_todo can dead-lock with itself if a second instance of it is run in a thread that will then free a reference to the device waited on by the first instance. The problem is really quite silly. We were trying to create parallelism where none was required. As netdev_run_todo always follows a RTNL section, and that todo tasks can only be added with the RTNL held, by definition you should only need to wait for the very ones that you've added and be done with it. There is no need for a second mutex or spinlock. This is exactly what the following patch does. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-10-07Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/holtmann/bluetooth-2.6
2008-10-07tcp: Fix possible double-ack w/ user dmaAli Saidi
From: Ali Saidi <saidi@engin.umich.edu> When TCP receive copy offload is enabled it's possible that tcp_rcv_established() will cause two acks to be sent for a single packet. In the case that a tcp_dma_early_copy() is successful, copied_early is set to true which causes tcp_cleanup_rbuf() to be called early which can send an ack. Further along in tcp_rcv_established(), __tcp_ack_snd_check() is called and will schedule a delayed ACK. If no packets are processed before the delayed ack timer expires the packet will be acked twice. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-10-07net: only invoke dev->change_rx_flags when device is UPPatrick McHardy
Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@comx.dk> reported a bug when setting a VLAN device down that is in promiscous mode: When the VLAN device is set down, the promiscous count on the real device is decremented by one by vlan_dev_stop(). When removing the promiscous flag from the VLAN device afterwards, the promiscous count on the real device is decremented a second time by the vlan_change_rx_flags() callback. The root cause for this is that the ->change_rx_flags() callback is invoked while the device is down. The synchronization is meant to mirror the behaviour of the ->set_rx_mode callbacks, meaning the ->open function is responsible for doing a full sync on open, the ->close() function is responsible for doing full cleanup on ->stop() and ->change_rx_flags() is meant to do incremental changes while the device is UP. Only invoke ->change_rx_flags() while the device is UP to provide the intended behaviour. Tested-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <jdb@comx.dk> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-10-07SLOB: fix bogus ksize calculationMatt Mackall
SLOB's ksize calculation was braindamaged and generally harmlessly underreported the allocation size. But for very small buffers, it could in fact overreport them, leading code depending on krealloc to overrun the allocation and trample other data. Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Tested-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-07Revert "V4L/DVB (8904): cx88: add missing unlock_kernel"Linus Torvalds
This reverts commit 135aedc38e812b922aa56096f36a3d72ffbcf2fb, as requested by Hans Verkuil. It was a patch for 2.6.28 where the BKL was pushed down from v4l core to the drivers, not for 2.6.27! Requested-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org> Signed-of-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-06Linux 2.6.27-rc9Linus Torvalds
2008-10-06Marker depmod fix core kernel listMathieu Desnoyers
* Theodore Ts'o (tytso@mit.edu) wrote: > > I've been playing with adding some markers into ext4 to see if they > could be useful in solving some problems along with Systemtap. It > appears, though, that as of 2.6.27-rc8, markers defined in code which is > compiled directly into the kernel (i.e., not as modules) don't show up > in Module.markers: > > kvm_trace_entryexit arch/x86/kvm/kvm-intel %u %p %u %u %u %u %u %u > kvm_trace_handler arch/x86/kvm/kvm-intel %u %p %u %u %u %u %u %u > kvm_trace_entryexit arch/x86/kvm/kvm-amd %u %p %u %u %u %u %u %u > kvm_trace_handler arch/x86/kvm/kvm-amd %u %p %u %u %u %u %u %u > > (Note the lack of any of the kernel_sched_* markers, and the markers I > added for ext4_* and jbd2_* are missing as wel.) > > Systemtap apparently depends on in-kernel trace_mark being recorded in > Module.markers, and apparently it's been claimed that it used to be > there. Is this a bug in systemtap, or in how Module.markers is getting > built? And is there a file that contains the equivalent information > for markers located in non-modules code? I think the problem comes from "markers: fix duplicate modpost entry" (commit d35cb360c29956510b2fe1a953bd4968536f7216) Especially : - add_marker(mod, marker, fmt); + if (!mod->skip) + add_marker(mod, marker, fmt); } return; fail: Here is a fix that should take care if this problem. Thanks for the bug report! Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Tested-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> CC: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> CC: David Smith <dsmith@redhat.com> CC: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> CC: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> CC: Wenji Huang <wenji.huang@oracle.com> CC: Takashi Nishiie <t-nishiie@np.css.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>