linux/kernel/events/core.c, branch v3.10

perf: Fix mmap() accounting hole

2013-06-19T10:44:13Z

Vince's fuzzer once again found holes. This time it spotted a leak in the locked page accounting. When an event had redirected output and its close() was the last reference to the buffer we didn't have a vm context to undo accounting. Change the code to destroy the buffer on the last munmap() and detach all redirected events at that time. This provides us the right context to undo the vm accounting. Reported-and-tested-by: Vince Weaver Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130604084421.GI8923@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net Cc: Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf: Fix perf mmap bugs

2013-05-28T09:05:08Z

Vince reported a problem found by his perf specific trinity fuzzer. Al noticed 2 problems with perf's mmap(): - it has issues against fork() since we use vma->vm_mm for accounting. - it has an rb refcount leak on double mmap(). We fix the issues against fork() by using VM_DONTCOPY; I don't think there's code out there that uses this; we didn't hear about weird accounting problems/crashes. If we do need this to work, the previously proposed VM_PINNED could make this work. Aside from the rb reference leak spotted by Al, Vince's example prog was indeed doing a double mmap() through the use of perf_event_set_output(). This exposes another problem, since we now have 2 events with one buffer, the accounting gets screwy because we account per event. Fix this by making the buffer responsible for its own accounting. Reported-by: Vince Weaver Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Al Viro Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130528085548.GA12193@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf: Factor out auxiliary events notification

2013-05-07T11:17:29Z

Add perf_event_aux() function to send out all types of auxiliary events - mmap, task, comm events. For each type there's match and output functions defined and used as callbacks during perf_event_aux processing. This way we can centralize the pmu/context iterating and event matching logic. Also since lot of the code was duplicated, this patch reduces the .text size about 2kB on my setup: snipped output from 'objdump -x kernel/events/core.o' before: Idx Name Size 0 .text 0000d313 after: Idx Name Size 0 .text 0000cad3 Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Corey Ashford Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Cc: Borislav Petkov Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1367857638-27631-3-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf: Fix EXIT event notification

2013-05-07T11:17:28Z

The perf_event_task_ctx() function needs to be called with preemption disabled, since it's checking for currently scheduled cpu against event cpu. We disable preemption for task related perf event context if there's one defined, leaving up to the chance which cpu it gets scheduled in. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Corey Ashford Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Stephane Eranian Cc: Borislav Petkov Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1367857638-27631-2-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

Merge commit '8700c95adb03' into timers/nohz

2013-05-02T15:54:19Z

The full dynticks tree needs the latest RCU and sched upstream updates in order to fix some dependencies. Merge a common upstream merge point that has these updates. Conflicts: include/linux/perf_event.h kernel/rcutree.h kernel/rcutree_plugin.h Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker

Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2013-04-30T14:41:01Z

Pull perf updates from Ingo Molnar: "Features: - Add "uretprobes" - an optimization to uprobes, like kretprobes are an optimization to kprobes. "perf probe -x file sym%return" now works like kretprobes. By Oleg Nesterov. - Introduce per core aggregation in 'perf stat', from Stephane Eranian. - Add memory profiling via PEBS, from Stephane Eranian. - Event group view for 'annotate' in --stdio, --tui and --gtk, from Namhyung Kim. - Add support for AMD NB and L2I "uncore" counters, by Jacob Shin. - Add Ivy Bridge-EP uncore support, by Zheng Yan - IBM zEnterprise EC12 oprofile support patchlet from Robert Richter. - Add perf test entries for checking breakpoint overflow signal handler issues, from Jiri Olsa. - Add perf test entry for for checking number of EXIT events, from Namhyung Kim. - Add perf test entries for checking --cpu in record and stat, from Jiri Olsa. - Introduce perf stat --repeat forever, from Frederik Deweerdt. - Add --no-demangle to report/top, from Namhyung Kim. - PowerPC fixes plus a couple of cleanups/optimizations in uprobes and trace_uprobes, by Oleg Nesterov. Various fixes and refactorings: - Fix dependency of the python binding wrt libtraceevent, from Naohiro Aota. - Simplify some perf_evlist methods and to allow 'stat' to share code with 'record' and 'trace', by Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo. - Remove dead code in related to libtraceevent integration, from Namhyung Kim. - Revert "perf sched: Handle PERF_RECORD_EXIT events" to get 'perf sched lat' back working, by Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo - We don't use Newt anymore, just plain libslang, by Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo. - Kill a bunch of die() calls, from Namhyung Kim. - Fix build on non-glibc systems due to libio.h absence, from Cody P Schafer. - Remove some perf_session and tracing dead code, from David Ahern. - Honor parallel jobs, fix from Borislav Petkov - Introduce tools/lib/lk library, initially just removing duplication among tools/perf and tools/vm. from Borislav Petkov ... and many more I missed to list, see the shortlog and git log for more details." * 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (136 commits) perf/x86/intel/P4: Robistify P4 PMU types perf/x86/amd: Fix AMD NB and L2I "uncore" support perf/x86/amd: Remove old-style NB counter support from perf_event_amd.c perf/x86: Check all MSRs before passing hw check perf/x86/amd: Add support for AMD NB and L2I "uncore" counters perf/x86/intel: Add Ivy Bridge-EP uncore support perf/x86/intel: Fix SNB-EP CBO and PCU uncore PMU filter management perf/x86: Avoid kfree() in CPU_{STARTING,DYING} uprobes/perf: Avoid perf_trace_buf_prepare/submit if ->perf_events is empty uprobes/tracing: Don't pass addr=ip to perf_trace_buf_submit() uprobes/tracing: Change create_trace_uprobe() to support uretprobes uprobes/tracing: Make seq_printf() code uretprobe-friendly uprobes/tracing: Make register_uprobe_event() paths uretprobe-friendly uprobes/tracing: Make uprobe_{trace,perf}_print() uretprobe-friendly uprobes/tracing: Introduce is_ret_probe() and uretprobe_dispatcher() uprobes/tracing: Introduce uprobe_{trace,perf}_print() helpers uprobes/tracing: Generalize struct uprobe_trace_entry_head uprobes/tracing: Kill the pointless local_save_flags/preempt_count calls uprobes/tracing: Kill the pointless seq_print_ip_sym() call uprobes/tracing: Kill the pointless task_pt_regs() calls ...

Merge branch 'for-3.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup

2013-04-30T02:14:20Z

Pull cgroup updates from Tejun Heo: - Fixes and a lot of cleanups. Locking cleanup is finally complete. cgroup_mutex is no longer exposed to individual controlelrs which used to cause nasty deadlock issues. Li fixed and cleaned up quite a bit including long standing ones like racy cgroup_path(). - device cgroup now supports proper hierarchy thanks to Aristeu. - perf_event cgroup now supports proper hierarchy. - A new mount option "__DEVEL__sane_behavior" is added. As indicated by the name, this option is to be used for development only at this point and generates a warning message when used. Unfortunately, cgroup interface currently has too many brekages and inconsistencies to implement a consistent and unified hierarchy on top. The new flag is used to collect the behavior changes which are necessary to implement consistent unified hierarchy. It's likely that this flag won't be used verbatim when it becomes ready but will be enabled implicitly along with unified hierarchy. The option currently disables some of broken behaviors in cgroup core and also .use_hierarchy switch in memcg (will be routed through -mm), which can be used to make very unusual hierarchy where nesting is partially honored. It will also be used to implement hierarchy support for blk-throttle which would be impossible otherwise without introducing a full separate set of control knobs. This is essentially versioning of interface which isn't very nice but at this point I can't see any other options which would allow keeping the interface the same while moving towards hierarchy behavior which is at least somewhat sane. The planned unified hierarchy is likely to require some level of adaptation from userland anyway, so I think it'd be best to take the chance and update the interface such that it's supportable in the long term. Maintaining the existing interface does complicate cgroup core but shouldn't put too much strain on individual controllers and I think it'd be manageable for the foreseeable future. Maybe we'll be able to drop it in a decade. Fix up conflicts (including a semantic one adding a new #include to ppc that was uncovered by header the file changes) as per Tejun. * 'for-3.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup: (45 commits) cpuset: fix compile warning when CONFIG_SMP=n cpuset: fix cpu hotplug vs rebuild_sched_domains() race cpuset: use rebuild_sched_domains() in cpuset_hotplug_workfn() cgroup: restore the call to eventfd->poll() cgroup: fix use-after-free when umounting cgroupfs cgroup: fix broken file xattrs devcg: remove parent_cgroup. memcg: force use_hierarchy if sane_behavior cgroup: remove cgrp->top_cgroup cgroup: introduce sane_behavior mount option move cgroupfs_root to include/linux/cgroup.h cgroup: convert cgroupfs_root flag bits to masks and add CGRP_ prefix cgroup: make cgroup_path() not print double slashes Revert "cgroup: remove bind() method from cgroup_subsys." perf: make perf_event cgroup hierarchical cgroup: implement cgroup_is_descendant() cgroup: make sure parent won't be destroyed before its children cgroup: remove bind() method from cgroup_subsys. devcg: remove broken_hierarchy tag cgroup: remove cgroup_lock_is_held() ...

perf: New helper to prevent full dynticks CPUs from stopping tick

2013-04-22T17:59:39Z

Provide a new helper that help full dynticks CPUs to prevent from stopping their tick in case there are events in the local rotation list. This way we make sure that perf_event_task_tick() is serviced on demand. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Chris Metcalf Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: Geoff Levand Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef Cc: Hakan Akkan Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Kevin Hilman Cc: Li Zhong Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Paul E. McKenney Cc: Paul Gortmaker Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Stephane Eranian Cc: Jiri Olsa

perf: Kick full dynticks CPU if events rotation is needed

2013-04-22T17:59:37Z

Kick the current CPU's tick by sending it a self IPI when an event is queued on the rotation list and it is the first element inserted. This makes sure that perf_event_task_tick() works on full dynticks CPUs. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Chris Metcalf Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: Geoff Levand Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef Cc: Hakan Akkan Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Kevin Hilman Cc: Li Zhong Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Paul E. McKenney Cc: Paul Gortmaker Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Stephane Eranian Cc: Jiri Olsa

events: Protect access via task_subsys_state_check()

2013-04-21T09:21:39Z

The following RCU splat indicates lack of RCU protection: [ 953.267649] =============================== [ 953.267652] [ INFO: suspicious RCU usage. ] [ 953.267657] 3.9.0-0.rc6.git2.4.fc19.ppc64p7 #1 Not tainted [ 953.267661] ------------------------------- [ 953.267664] include/linux/cgroup.h:534 suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage! [ 953.267669] [ 953.267669] other info that might help us debug this: [ 953.267669] [ 953.267675] [ 953.267675] rcu_scheduler_active = 1, debug_locks = 0 [ 953.267680] 1 lock held by glxgears/1289: [ 953.267683] #0: (&sig->cred_guard_mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [] .prepare_bprm_creds+0x34/0xa0 [ 953.267700] [ 953.267700] stack backtrace: [ 953.267704] Call Trace: [ 953.267709] [c0000001f0d1b6e0] [c000000000016e30] .show_stack+0x130/0x200 (unreliable) [ 953.267717] [c0000001f0d1b7b0] [c0000000001267f8] .lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0x138/0x180 [ 953.267724] [c0000001f0d1b840] [c0000000001d43a4] .perf_event_comm+0x4c4/0x690 [ 953.267731] [c0000001f0d1b950] [c00000000027f6e4] .set_task_comm+0x84/0x1f0 [ 953.267737] [c0000001f0d1b9f0] [c000000000280414] .setup_new_exec+0x94/0x220 [ 953.267744] [c0000001f0d1ba70] [c0000000002f665c] .load_elf_binary+0x58c/0x19b0 ... This commit therefore adds the required RCU read-side critical section to perf_event_comm(). Reported-by: Adam Jackson Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl Cc: paulus@samba.org Cc: acme@ghostprotocols.net Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130419190124.GA8638@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Tested-by: Gustavo Luiz Duarte