linux/kernel/trace, branch v2.6.34

Merge branch 'master' into export-slabh

2010-04-05T02:37:28Z

Merge branch 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

2010-04-04T19:13:10Z

* 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: perf: Always build the powerpc perf_arch_fetch_caller_regs version perf: Always build the stub perf_arch_fetch_caller_regs version perf, probe-finder: Build fix on Debian perf/scripts: Tuple was set from long in both branches in python_process_event() perf: Fix 'perf sched record' deadlock perf, x86: Fix callgraphs of 32-bit processes on 64-bit kernels perf, x86: Fix AMD hotplug & constraint initialization x86: Move notify_cpu_starting() callback to a later stage x86,kgdb: Always initialize the hw breakpoint attribute perf: Use hot regs with software sched switch/migrate events perf: Correctly align perf event tracing buffer

perf: Correctly align perf event tracing buffer

2010-04-01T06:26:30Z

The trace event buffer used by perf to record raw sample events is typed as an array of char and may then not be aligned to 8 by alloc_percpu(). But we need it to be aligned to 8 in sparc64 because we cast this buffer into a random structure type built by the TRACE_EVENT() macro to store the traces. So if a random 64 bits field is accessed inside, it may be not under an expected good alignment. Use an array of long instead to force the appropriate alignment, and perform a compile time check to ensure the size in byte of the buffer is a multiple of sizeof(long) so that its actual size doesn't get shrinked under us. This fixes unaligned accesses reported while using perf lock in sparc 64. Suggested-by: David Miller Suggested-by: Tejun Heo Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: David Miller Cc: Steven Rostedt

include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h

2010-03-30T13:02:32Z

percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being included when building most .c files. percpu.h includes slab.h which in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies. percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed. Prepare for this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those headers directly instead of assuming availability. As this conversion needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is used as the basis of conversion. http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py The script does the followings. * Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that only the necessary includes are there. ie. if only gfp is used, gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h. * When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms to its surrounding. It's put in the include block which contains core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered - alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there doesn't seem to be any matching order. * If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the file. The conversion was done in the following steps. 1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h and ~3000 slab.h inclusions. The script emitted errors for ~400 files. 2. Each error was manually checked. Some didn't need the inclusion, some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or embedding .c file was more appropriate for others. This step added inclusions to around 150 files. 3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits from #2 to make sure no file was left behind. 4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed. e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually. 5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell. Most gfp.h inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros. Each slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as necessary. 6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h. 7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures were fixed. CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq). * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config. * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig * ia64 SMP allmodconfig * s390 SMP allmodconfig * alpha SMP allmodconfig * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig 8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as a separate patch and serve as bisection point. Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step 6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch. If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of the specific arch. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Lee Schermerhorn

ring-buffer: Add missing unlock

2010-03-29T19:23:24Z

In some error handling cases the lock is not unlocked. The return is converted to a goto, to share the unlock at the end of the function. A simplified version of the semantic patch that finds this problem is as follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) // @r exists@ expression E1; identifier f; @@ f (...) { <+... * spin_lock_irq (E1,...); ... when != E1 * return ...; ...+> } // Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall LKML-Reference: Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

tracing: Fix lockdep warning in global_clock()

2010-03-29T19:16:44Z

# echo 1 > events/enable # echo global > trace_clock ------------[ cut here ]------------ WARNING: at kernel/lockdep.c:3162 check_flags+0xb2/0x190() ... ---[ end trace 3f86734a89416623 ]--- possible reason: unannotated irqs-on. ... There's no reason to use the raw_local_irq_save() in trace_clock_global. The local_irq_save() version is fine, and does not cause the bug in lockdep. Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra Signed-off-by: Li Zefan LKML-Reference: <4BA97FA1.7030606@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

Merge branch 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

2010-03-26T22:10:13Z

* 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: ring-buffer: Do 8 byte alignment for 64 bit that can not handle 4 byte align

ring-buffer: Do 8 byte alignment for 64 bit that can not handle 4 byte align

2010-03-19T03:11:35Z

The ring buffer uses 4 byte alignment while recording events into the buffer, even on 64bit machines. This saves space when there are lots of events being recorded at 4 byte boundaries. The ring buffer has a zero copy method to write into the buffer, with the reserving of space and then committing it. This may cause problems when writing an 8 byte word into a 4 byte alignment (not 8). For x86 and PPC this is not an issue, but on some architectures this would cause an out-of-alignment exception. This patch uses CONFIG_HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS to determine if it is OK to use 4 byte alignments on 64 bit machines. If it is not, it forces the ring buffer event header to be 8 bytes and not 4, and will align the length of the data to be 8 byte aligned. This keeps the data payload at 8 byte alignments and will allow these machines to run without issue. The trick to this is that the header can be either 4 bytes or 8 bytes depending on the length of the data payload. The 4 byte header has a length field that supports up to 112 bytes. If the length of the data is more than 112, the length field is set to zero, and the actual length is stored in the next 4 bytes after the header. When CONFIG_HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS is not set, the code forces zero in the 4 byte header forcing the length to be stored in the 4 byte array, even with a small data load. It also forces the length of the data load to be 8 byte aligned. The combination of these two guarantee that the data is always at 8 byte alignment. Tested-by: Frederic Weisbecker (on sparc64) Reported-by: Frederic Weisbecker Acked-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

Merge branch 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

2010-03-18T23:52:46Z

* 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (35 commits) perf: Fix unexported generic perf_arch_fetch_caller_regs perf record: Don't try to find buildids in a zero sized file perf: export perf_trace_regs and perf_arch_fetch_caller_regs perf, x86: Fix hw_perf_enable() event assignment perf, ppc: Fix compile error due to new cpu notifiers perf: Make the install relative to DESTDIR if specified kprobes: Calculate the index correctly when freeing the out-of-line execution slot perf tools: Fix sparse CPU numbering related bugs perf_event: Fix oops triggered by cpu offline/online perf: Drop the obsolete profile naming for trace events perf: Take a hot regs snapshot for trace events perf: Introduce new perf_fetch_caller_regs() for hot regs snapshot perf/x86-64: Use frame pointer to walk on irq and process stacks lockdep: Move lock events under lockdep recursion protection perf report: Print the map table just after samples for which no map was found perf report: Add multiple event support perf session: Change perf_session post processing functions to take histogram tree perf session: Add storage for seperating event types in report perf session: Change add_hist_entry to take the tree root instead of session perf record: Add ID and to recorded event data when recording multiple events ...

perf: Fix unexported generic perf_arch_fetch_caller_regs

2010-03-17T11:26:49Z

perf_arch_fetch_caller_regs() is exported for the overriden x86 version, but not for the generic weak version. As a general rule, weak functions should not have their symbol exported in the same file they are defined. So let's export it on trace_event_perf.c as it is used by trace events only. This fixes: ERROR: ".perf_arch_fetch_caller_regs" [fs/xfs/xfs.ko] undefined! ERROR: ".perf_arch_fetch_caller_regs" [arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/spufs.ko] undefined! -v2: And also only build it if trace events are enabled. -v3: Fix changelog mistake Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Xiao Guangrong Cc: Paul Mackerras LKML-Reference: <1268697902-9518-1-git-send-regression-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar