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2008-12-12Merge branch 'sched/core' into cpus4096Ingo Molnar
Conflicts: include/linux/ftrace.h kernel/sched.c
2008-12-12sched: add missing arch_update_cpu_topology() callHeiko Carstens
arch_reinit_sched_domains() used to call arch_update_cpu_topology() via arch_init_sched_domains(). This call got lost with e761b7725234276a802322549cee5255305a0930 ("cpu hotplug, sched: Introduce cpu_active_map and redo sched domain managment (take 2)". So we might end up with outdated and missing cpus in the cpu core maps (architecture used to call arch_reinit_sched_domains if cpu topology changed). This adds a call to arch_update_cpu_topology in partition_sched_domains which gets called whenever scheduling domains get updated. Which is what is supposed to happen when cpu topology changes. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-12sched: let arch_update_cpu_topology indicate if topology changedHeiko Carstens
Change arch_update_cpu_topology so it returns 1 if the cpu topology changed and 0 if it didn't change. This will be useful for the next patch which adds a call to this function in partition_sched_domains. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-12Merge branch 'tracing/fastboot' into cpus4096Ingo Molnar
2008-12-12Merge commit 'v2.6.28-rc8' into sched/coreIngo Molnar
2008-12-10Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: sched: CPU remove deadlock fix
2008-12-10fix mapping_writably_mapped()Hugh Dickins
Lee Schermerhorn noticed yesterday that I broke the mapping_writably_mapped test in 2.6.7! Bad bad bug, good good find. The i_mmap_writable count must be incremented for VM_SHARED (just as i_writecount is for VM_DENYWRITE, but while holding the i_mmap_lock) when dup_mmap() copies the vma for fork: it has its own more optimal version of __vma_link_file(), and I missed this out. So the count was later going down to 0 (dangerous) when one end unmapped, then wrapping negative (inefficient) when the other end unmapped. The only impact on x86 would have been that setting a mandatory lock on a file which has at some time been opened O_RDWR and mapped MAP_SHARED (but not necessarily PROT_WRITE) across a fork, might fail with -EAGAIN when it should succeed, or succeed when it should fail. But those architectures which rely on flush_dcache_page() to flush userspace modifications back into the page before the kernel reads it, may in some cases have skipped the flush after such a fork - though any repetitive test will soon wrap the count negative, in which case it will flush_dcache_page() unnecessarily. Fix would be a two-liner, but mapping variable added, and comment moved. Reported-by: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-12-10KSYM_SYMBOL_LEN fixesHugh Dickins
Miles Lane tailing /sys files hit a BUG which Pekka Enberg has tracked to my 966c8c12dc9e77f931e2281ba25d2f0244b06949 sprint_symbol(): use less stack exposing a bug in slub's list_locations() - kallsyms_lookup() writes a 0 to namebuf[KSYM_NAME_LEN-1], but that was beyond the end of page provided. The 100 slop which list_locations() allows at end of page looks roughly enough for all the other stuff it might print after the symbol before it checks again: break out KSYM_SYMBOL_LEN earlier than before. Latencytop and ftrace and are using KSYM_NAME_LEN buffers where they need KSYM_SYMBOL_LEN buffers, and vmallocinfo a 2*KSYM_NAME_LEN buffer where it wants a KSYM_SYMBOL_LEN buffer: fix those before anyone copies them. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: ftrace.h needs module.h] Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc Miles Lane <miles.lane@gmail.com> Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-12-10relayfs: fix infinite loop with splice()Tom Zanussi
Running kmemtraced, which uses splice() on relayfs, causes a hard lock on x86-64 SMP. As described by Tom Zanussi: It looks like you hit the same problem as described here: commit 8191ecd1d14c6914c660dfa007154860a7908857 splice: fix infinite loop in generic_file_splice_read() relay uses the same loop but it never got noticed or fixed. Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Tested-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-12-09sched: CPU remove deadlock fixBrian King
Impact: fix possible deadlock in CPU hot-remove path This patch fixes a possible deadlock scenario in the CPU remove path. migration_call grabs rq->lock, then wakes up everything on rq->migration_queue with the lock held. Then one of the tasks on the migration queue ends up calling tg_shares_up which then also tries to acquire the same rq->lock. [c000000058eab2e0] c000000000502078 ._spin_lock_irqsave+0x98/0xf0 [c000000058eab370] c00000000008011c .tg_shares_up+0x10c/0x20c [c000000058eab430] c00000000007867c .walk_tg_tree+0xc4/0xfc [c000000058eab4d0] c0000000000840c8 .try_to_wake_up+0xb0/0x3c4 [c000000058eab590] c0000000000799a0 .__wake_up_common+0x6c/0xe0 [c000000058eab640] c00000000007ada4 .complete+0x54/0x80 [c000000058eab6e0] c000000000509fa8 .migration_call+0x5fc/0x6f8 [c000000058eab7c0] c000000000504074 .notifier_call_chain+0x68/0xe0 [c000000058eab860] c000000000506568 ._cpu_down+0x2b0/0x3f4 [c000000058eaba60] c000000000506750 .cpu_down+0xa4/0x108 [c000000058eabb10] c000000000507e54 .store_online+0x44/0xa8 [c000000058eabba0] c000000000396260 .sysdev_store+0x3c/0x50 [c000000058eabc10] c0000000001a39b8 .sysfs_write_file+0x124/0x18c [c000000058eabcd0] c00000000013061c .vfs_write+0xd0/0x1bc [c000000058eabd70] c0000000001308a4 .sys_write+0x68/0x114 [c000000058eabe30] c0000000000086b4 syscall_exit+0x0/0x40 Signed-off-by: Brian King <brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-09[PATCH] fix broken timestamps in AVC generated by kernel threadsAl Viro
Timestamp in audit_context is valid only if ->in_syscall is set. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-12-09[patch 1/1] audit: remove excess kernel-docRandy Dunlap
Delete excess kernel-doc notation in kernel/auditsc.c: Warning(linux-2.6.27-git10//kernel/auditsc.c:1481): Excess function parameter or struct member 'tsk' description in 'audit_syscall_entry' Warning(linux-2.6.27-git10//kernel/auditsc.c:1564): Excess function parameter or struct member 'tsk' description in 'audit_syscall_exit' Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-12-09[PATCH] return records for fork() both to child and parentAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-12-09[PATCH] Audit: make audit=0 actually turn off auditEric Paris
Currently audit=0 on the kernel command line does absolutely nothing. Audit always loads and always uses its resources such as creating the kernel netlink socket. This patch causes audit=0 to actually disable audit. Audit will use no resources and starting the userspace auditd daemon will not cause the kernel audit system to activate. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-12-08tracing/function-graph-tracer: fix 'flags' variable mismatchIngo Molnar
this warning: kernel/trace/trace.c: In function ‘trace_vprintk’: kernel/trace/trace.c:3626: warning: ‘flags’ may be used uninitialized in this function shows some confusion about irq_flags / flags use here. We already have irq_flags so remove the extra flags variable. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-08sched: idle_balance() does not call load_balance_newidle()Vaidyanathan Srinivasan
Impact: fix SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLEand broaden its use load_balance_newidle() does not get called if SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE is set at higher level domain (3-CPU) and not in low level domain (2-MC). pulled_task is initialised to -1 and checked for non-zero which is always true if the lowest level sched_domain does not have SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE flag set. Signed-off-by: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-08tracing/function-graph-tracer: append the tracing_graph_flagFrederic Weisbecker
Impact: Provide a way to pause the function graph tracer As suggested by Steven Rostedt, the previous patch that prevented from spinlock function tracing shouldn't use the raw_spinlock to fix it. It's much better to follow lockdep with normal spinlock, so this patch adds a new flag for each task to make the function graph tracer able to be paused. We also can send an ftrace_printk whithout worrying of the irrelevant traced spinlock during insertion. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-08tracing/function-graph-tracer: turn tracing_selftest_running into an intFrederic Weisbecker
Impact: cleanup Apply some suggestions of Steven Rostedt: _turn tracing_selftest_running into a simple int (no need of an atomic_t) _set it __read_mostly _fix a comment style Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-08tracing/function-graph-tracer: introduce __notrace_funcgraph to filter ↵Frederic Weisbecker
special functions Impact: trace more functions When the function graph tracer is configured, three more files are not traced to prevent only four functions to be traced. And this impacts the normal function tracer too. arch/x86/kernel/process_64/32.c: I had crashes when I let this file traced. After some debugging, I saw that the "current" task point was changed inside__swtich_to(), ie: "write_pda(pcurrent, next_p);" inside process_64.c Since the tracer store the original return address of the function inside current, we had crashes. Only __switch_to() has to be excluded from tracing. kernel/module.c and kernel/extable.c: Because of a function used internally by the function graph tracer: __kernel_text_address() To let the other functions inside these files to be traced, this patch introduces the __notrace_funcgraph function prefix which is __notrace if function graph tracer is configured and nothing if not. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-08sched: fix sd_parent_degenerate on non-numa smp machineKen Chen
Impact: optimize the sched domains tree some more The addition of SD_SERIALIZE flag added to SD_NODE_INIT prevented top level dummy numa sched_domain to be properly degenerated on non-numa smp machine. The reason is that in sd_parent_degenerate(), it found that the child and parent does not have comon sched_domain flags due to SD_SERIALIZE. However, for non-numa smp box, the top level is a dummy with a single sched_group. Filter out SD_SERIALIZE if it is on non-numa machine to properly degenerate top level node sched_domain. this will cut back some of the sd domain walk in the load balancer code. Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenchen@google.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-08Merge branch 'sched/urgent' into sched/coreIngo Molnar
2008-12-08tracing/function-graph-tracer: implement a print_headers functionFrederic Weisbecker
Impact: provide trace headers to explain a bit the output This patch implements the print_headers callback for the function graph tracer. These headers are output according to the current trace options. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-05ftrace: use init_struct_pid as swapper pidSteven Rostedt
Impact: clean up Using (struct pid *)-1 as the pointer for ftrace_swapper_pid is a little confusing for others. This patch uses the address of the actual init pid structure instead. This change is only for clarity. It does not affect the code itself. Hopefully soon the swapper tasks will all have their own pid structure and then we can clean up the code a bit more. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-05tracing/ftrace: provide the macro task_curr_ret_stack()Frederic Weisbecker
Impact: cleanup As suggested by Steven Rostedt, this patch provide a new macro task_curr_ret_stack() to move the cpp conditionnal CONFIG into the linux/ftrace.h headers. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-05tracing/ftrace: fix the check of ftrace_trace_taskFrederic Weisbecker
Impact: fix default empty traces on function-graph-tracer The actual ftrace_trace_task() checks if ftrace_pid_trace is allocated and return 1 if it is true. If it is NULL, it will check the bit of pid tracing flag for the current task (which are not set by default). So by default, a task is not traced. Actually all tasks should be traced by default and filter_by_pid when ftrace_pid_trace is allocated. The appropriate condition should be to return 1 if filter_by_pid is set. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Acke-dby: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-05tracing/ftrace: don't insert TRACE_PRINT during selftestsFrederic Weisbecker
Impact: fix tracer selfstests false results After setting a ftrace_printk somewhere in th kernel, I saw the Function tracer selftest failing. When a selftest occurs, the ring buffer is lurked to see if some entries were inserted. But concurrent insertion such as ftrace_printk could occured at the same time and could give false positive or negative results. This patch prevent prevent from TRACE_PRINT entries insertion during selftests. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-05Merge branches 'tracing/ftrace', 'tracing/function-graph-tracer' and ↵Ingo Molnar
'tracing/urgent' into tracing/core
2008-12-04Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/bdev * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/bdev: [PATCH] fix bogus argument of blkdev_put() in pktcdvd [PATCH 2/2] documnt FMODE_ constants [PATCH 1/2] kill FMODE_NDELAY_NOW [PATCH] clean up blkdev_get a little bit [PATCH] Fix block dev compat ioctl handling [PATCH] kill obsolete temporary comment in swsusp_close()
2008-12-04Merge branch 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: time: catch xtime_nsec underflows and fix them posix-cpu-timers: fix clock_gettime with CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID
2008-12-04Merge branch 'core-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: check_hung_task(): unsigned sysctl_hung_task_warnings cannot be less than 0 documentation: local_ops fix on_each_cpu
2008-12-04[PATCH] kill obsolete temporary comment in swsusp_close()Al Viro
it had been put there to mark the call of blkdev_put() that needed proper argument propagated to it; later patch in the same series had done just that. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-12-04tracing/function-graph-tracer: handle ftrace_printk entriesFrederic Weisbecker
Handle the TRACE_PRINT entries from the function grapg tracer and output them as a C comment just below the function that called it, as if it was a comment inside this function. Example with an ftrace_printk inside might_sleep() function: void __might_sleep(char *file, int line) { static unsigned long prev_jiffy; /* ratelimiting */ ftrace_printk("Hi I'm a comment in might_sleep() :-)"); A chunk of a resulting trace: 0) | _reiserfs_free_block() { 0) | reiserfs_read_bitmap_block() { 0) | __bread() { 0) | __getblk() { 0) | __find_get_block() { 0) 0.698 us | mark_page_accessed(); 0) 2.267 us | } 0) | __might_sleep() { 0) | /* Hi I'm a comment in might_sleep() :-) */ 0) 1.321 us | } 0) 5.872 us | } 0) 7.313 us | } 0) 8.718 us | } And this patch brings two minor fixes: - The newline after a switch-out task has disappeared - The "|" sign just before the cpu number on task-switch has been deleted. 0) 0.616 us | pick_next_task_rt(); 0) 1.457 us | _spin_trylock(); 0) 0.653 us | _spin_unlock(); 0) 0.728 us | _spin_trylock(); 0) 0.631 us | _spin_unlock(); 0) 0.729 us | native_load_sp0(); 0) 0.593 us | native_load_tls(); ------------------------------------------ 0) cat-2834 => migrati-3 ------------------------------------------ 0) | finish_task_switch() { 0) 0.841 us | _spin_unlock_irq(); 0) 0.616 us | post_schedule_rt(); 0) 3.882 us | } Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-04ftrace: avoid duplicated function when writing set_graph_functionLiming Wang
Impact: fix a bug in function filter setting when writing function to set_graph_function, we should check whether it has existed in set_graph_function to avoid duplicating. Signed-off-by: Liming Wang <liming.wang@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-04tracing: fix typo and missing inline functionIngo Molnar
Impact: fix build bugs Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-04ftrace: add ability to only trace swapper tasksSteven Rostedt
Impact: new feature This patch lets the swapper tasks of all CPUS be filtered by the set_ftrace_pid file. If '0' is echoed into this file, then all the idle tasks (aka swapper) is flagged to be traced. This affects all CPU idle tasks. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-04ftrace: use struct pidSteven Rostedt
Impact: clean up, extend PID filtering to PID namespaces Eric Biederman suggested using the struct pid for filtering on pids in the kernel. This patch is based off of a demonstration of an implementation that Eric sent me in an email. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-04ftrace: trace single pid for function graph tracerSteven Rostedt
Impact: New feature This patch makes the changes to set_ftrace_pid apply to the function graph tracer. # echo $$ > /debugfs/tracing/set_ftrace_pid # echo function_graph > /debugfs/tracing/current_tracer Will cause only the current task to be traced. Note, the trace flags are also inherited by child processes, so the children of the shell will also be traced. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-04ftrace: use task struct trace flag to filter on pidSteven Rostedt
Impact: clean up Use the new task struct trace flags to determine if a process should be traced or not. Note: this moves the searching of the pid to the slow path of setting the pid field. This needs to be converted to the pid name space. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-04ftrace: graph of a single functionSteven Rostedt
This patch adds the file: /debugfs/tracing/set_graph_function which can be used along with the function graph tracer. When this file is empty, the function graph tracer will act as usual. When the file has a function in it, the function graph tracer will only trace that function. For example: # echo blk_unplug > /debugfs/tracing/set_graph_function # cat /debugfs/tracing/trace [...] ------------------------------------------ | 2) make-19003 => kjournald-2219 ------------------------------------------ 2) | blk_unplug() { 2) | dm_unplug_all() { 2) | dm_get_table() { 2) 1.381 us | _read_lock(); 2) 0.911 us | dm_table_get(); 2) 1. 76 us | _read_unlock(); 2) + 12.912 us | } 2) | dm_table_unplug_all() { 2) | blk_unplug() { 2) 0.778 us | generic_unplug_device(); 2) 2.409 us | } 2) 5.992 us | } 2) 0.813 us | dm_table_put(); 2) + 29. 90 us | } 2) + 34.532 us | } You can add up to 32 functions into this file. Currently we limit it to 32, but this may change with later improvements. To add another function, use the append '>>': # echo sys_read >> /debugfs/tracing/set_graph_function # cat /debugfs/tracing/set_graph_function blk_unplug sys_read Using the '>' will clear out the function and write anew: # echo sys_write > /debug/tracing/set_graph_function # cat /debug/tracing/set_graph_function sys_write Note, if you have function graph running while doing this, the small time between clearing it and updating it will cause the graph to record all functions. This should not be an issue because after it sets the filter, only those functions will be recorded from then on. If you need to only record a particular function then set this file first before starting the function graph tracer. In the future this side effect may be corrected. The set_graph_function file is similar to the set_ftrace_filter but it does not take wild cards nor does it allow for more than one function to be set with a single write. There is no technical reason why this is the case, I just do not have the time yet to implement that. Note, dynamic ftrace must be enabled for this to appear because it uses the dynamic ftrace records to match the name to the mcount call sites. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-04Merge branches 'tracing/ftrace' and 'tracing/function-graph-tracer' into ↵Ingo Molnar
tracing/core
2008-12-04Merge commit 'v2.6.28-rc7' into tracing/coreIngo Molnar
2008-12-04time: catch xtime_nsec underflows and fix themjohn stultz
Impact: fix time warp bug Alex Shi, along with Yanmin Zhang have been noticing occasional time inconsistencies recently. Through their great diagnosis, they found that the xtime_nsec value used in update_wall_time was occasionally going negative. After looking through the code for awhile, I realized we have the possibility for an underflow when three conditions are met in update_wall_time(): 1) We have accumulated a second's worth of nanoseconds, so we incremented xtime.tv_sec and appropriately decrement xtime_nsec. (This doesn't cause xtime_nsec to go negative, but it can cause it to be small). 2) The remaining offset value is large, but just slightly less then cycle_interval. 3) clocksource_adjust() is speeding up the clock, causing a corrective amount (compensating for the increase in the multiplier being multiplied against the unaccumulated offset value) to be subtracted from xtime_nsec. This can cause xtime_nsec to underflow. Unfortunately, since we notify the NTP subsystem via second_overflow() whenever we accumulate a full second, and this effects the error accumulation that has already occured, we cannot simply revert the accumulated second from xtime nor move the second accumulation to after the clocksource_adjust call without a change in behavior. This leaves us with (at least) two options: 1) Simply return from clocksource_adjust() without making a change if we notice the adjustment would cause xtime_nsec to go negative. This would work, but I'm concerned that if a large adjustment was needed (due to the error being large), it may be possible to get stuck with an ever increasing error that becomes too large to correct (since it may always force xtime_nsec negative). This may just be paranoia on my part. 2) Catch xtime_nsec if it is negative, then add back the amount its negative to both xtime_nsec and the error. This second method is consistent with how we've handled earlier rounding issues, and also has the benefit that the error being added is always in the oposite direction also always equal or smaller then the correction being applied. So the risk of a corner case where things get out of control is lessened. This patch fixes bug 11970, as tested by Yanmin Zhang http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11970 Reported-by: alex.shi@intel.com Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: "Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com> Tested-by: "Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-03ftrace: fix race in function graph during forkSteven Rostedt
Impact: graph tracer race/crash fix There is a nasy race in startup of a new process running the function graph tracer. In fork.c: total_forks++; spin_unlock(&current->sighand->siglock); write_unlock_irq(&tasklist_lock); ftrace_graph_init_task(p); proc_fork_connector(p); cgroup_post_fork(p); return p; The new task is free to run as soon as the tasklist_lock is released. This is before the ftrace_graph_init_task. If the task does run it will be using the same ret_stack and curr_ret_stack as the parent. This will cause crashes that are difficult to debug. This patch moves the ftrace_graph_init_task to just after the alloc_pid code. This fixes the above race. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-03trace: fix output of stack traceSteven Rostedt
Impact: fix to output of stack trace If a function is not found in the stack of the stack tracer, the number printed is quite strange. This fixes the algorithm to handle missing functions better. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-03tracing/function-graph-tracer: enabled by defaultIngo Molnar
CONFIG_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER depends on FUNCTION_TRACER already, (turning it non-default) so it so making it default-n is pointless. So enable it by default - it's a nice extension of the function tracer. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-03check_hung_task(): unsigned sysctl_hung_task_warnings cannot be less than 0Roel Kluin
Impact: fix warnings-limit cutoff check for debug feature unsigned sysctl_hung_task_warnings cannot be less than 0 Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-03tracing/function-graph-tracer: improve duration outputFrederic Weisbecker
Impact: better trace output of duration for long calls The old duration output didn't exceeded 9999.999 us to fit the column and the nanosecs were always 3 numbers. As Ingo suggested, it's better to have the whole microseconds elapsed time and shift the nanosecs precision if needed to fit the maximum 7 numbers. And usec need more number, the case should be rare and important enough to break a bit the column alignment to show it. So, depending of the duration value, we now have these patterns: u.nnn us uu.nnn us uuu.nnn us uuuu.nnn us uuuuu.nn us uuuuuu.n us uuuuuuuu..... us Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-03tracing/function-graph-tracer: display unified style cmdline and pidFrederic Weisbecker
Impact: extend function-graph output: let one know which thread called a function This patch implements a helper function to print the couple cmdline/pid. Its output is provided during task switching and on each row if the new "funcgraph-proc" defualt-off option is set through trace_options file. The output is center aligned and never exceeds 14 characters. The cmdline is truncated over 7 chars. But note that if the pid exceeds 6 characters, the column will overflow (but the situation is abnormal). Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-03ftrace: function graph return for function entrySteven Rostedt
Impact: feature, let entry function decide to trace or not This patch lets the graph tracer entry function decide if the tracing should be done at the end as well. This requires all function graph entry functions return 1 if it should trace, or 0 if the return should not be traced. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-03ring-buffer: change "page" variable names to "bpage"Steven Rostedt
Impact: clean up Andrew Morton pointed out that the kernel convention of a variable named page should be of type page struct. The ring buffer uses a variable named "page" for a pointer to something else. This patch converts those to be called "bpage" (as in "buffer page"). Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>