linux/tools, branch v4.5

Merge branch 'libnvdimm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm

2016-02-26T02:54:53Z

Pull libnvdimm fixes from Dan Williams: - Two fixes for compatibility with the ACPI 6.1 specification. Without these fixes multi-interface DIMMs will fail to be probed, and address range scrub commands to find memory errors will give results that the kernel will mis-interpret. For multi-interface DIMMs Linux will accept either the original 6.0 implementation or 6.1. For address range scrub we'll only support 6.1 since ACPI formalized this DSM differently than the original example [1] implemented in v4.2. The expectation is that production systems will only ever ship the ACPI 6.1 address range scrub command definition. - The wider async address range scrub work targeting 4.6 discovered that the original synchronous implementation in 4.5 is not sizing its return buffer correctly. - Arnd caught that my recent fix to the size of the pfn_t flags missed updating the flags variable used in the pmem driver. - Toshi found that we mishandle the memremap() return value in devm_memremap(). * 'libnvdimm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm: nvdimm: use 'u64' for pfn flags devm_memremap: Fix error value when memremap failed nfit: update address range scrub commands to the acpi 6.1 format libnvdimm, tools/testing/nvdimm: fix 'ars_status' output buffer sizing nfit: fix multi-interface dimm handling, acpi6.1 compatibility

Merge tag 'trace-fixes-v4.5-rc5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace

2016-02-22T22:09:18Z

Pull tracing fixes from Steven Rostedt: "Two more small fixes. One is by Yang Shi who added a READ_ONCE_NOCHECK() to the scan of the stack made by the stack tracer. As the stack tracer scans the entire kernel stack, KASAN triggers seeing it as a "stack out of bounds" error. As the scan is looking at the contents of the stack from parent functions. The NOCHECK() tells KASAN that this is done on purpose, and is not some kind of stack overflow. The second fix is to the ftrace selftests, to retrieve the PID of executed commands from the shell with '$!' and not by parsing 'jobs'" * tag 'trace-fixes-v4.5-rc5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: tracing, kasan: Silence Kasan warning in check_stack of stack_tracer ftracetest: Fix instance test to use proper shell command for pids

libnvdimm, tools/testing/nvdimm: fix 'ars_status' output buffer sizing

2016-02-19T23:21:52Z

Use the output length specified in the command to size the receive buffer rather than the arbitrary 4K limit. This bug was hiding the fact that the ndctl implementation of ndctl_bus_cmd_new_ars_status() was not specifying an output buffer size. Cc: Cc: Vishal Verma Signed-off-by: Dan Williams

ftracetest: Fix instance test to use proper shell command for pids

2016-02-19T17:11:21Z

The ftracetest instance test used parsing of the "jobs" output to find the pid of the subshell that is executed previously. But this is not portable to all major shells that may run these tests. The proper way to get the pid of the subshell is the shell command "$!". This will return the pid of the previously executed command. Use that instead, otherwise the test does not work in all environments. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20151211143617.65f4d7a1@gandalf.local.home Reported-by: Michael Ellerman Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

Merge tag 'efi-urgent' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mfleming/efi into x86/urgent

2016-02-16T12:14:57Z

Pull EFI fixes from Matt Fleming: * Prevent accidental deletion of EFI variables through efivarfs that may brick machines. We use a whitelist of known-safe variables to allow things like installing distributions to work out of the box, and instead restrict vendor-specific variable deletion by making non-whitelist variables immutable (Peter Jones) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

efi: Make efivarfs entries immutable by default

2016-02-10T16:25:52Z

"rm -rf" is bricking some peoples' laptops because of variables being used to store non-reinitializable firmware driver data that's required to POST the hardware. These are 100% bugs, and they need to be fixed, but in the mean time it shouldn't be easy to *accidentally* brick machines. We have to have delete working, and picking which variables do and don't work for deletion is quite intractable, so instead make everything immutable by default (except for a whitelist), and make tools that aren't quite so broad-spectrum unset the immutable flag. Signed-off-by: Peter Jones Tested-by: Lee, Chun-Yi Acked-by: Matthew Garrett Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming

Merge tag 'perf-urgent-for-mingo-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux into perf/urgent

2016-02-04T07:56:54Z

Pull perf/urgent fix from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo: - Fix 'perf stat' interval output values (Jiri Olsa) Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

Merge tag 'perf-urgent-for-mingo' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux into perf/urgent

2016-02-04T07:55:00Z

Pull perf/urgent fixes from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo: - tracepoint_error() can receive e=NULL, robustify it, fixes a problem noticed with a very specific combination: Machine with Intel PT (e.g. Broadwell), kernel with no perf_event_attr.context_switch feature (e.g. 4.2) and unreadable tracefs (for instance !root users), making the fallback from perf_event_attr.context_switch to the sched:sched_switch tracepoint to fail reading its info from tracefs, fix it. (Adrian Hunter) - Fix segfault in intel PT, by making it follow the 'struct thread' lifetime cycle checking expectations, noticed for instance, when processing perf.data files with Intel PT data using 'perf script' and when exiting 'perf report' (Adrian Hunter) - Fix CFI usage from .eh_frame and .debug_frame, which sometimes requires that we fallback from .eh_frame to .debug_frame in architectures such as PowerPC (Hemant Kumar) Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf stat: Fix interval output values

2016-02-03T22:39:52Z

We broke interval data displays with commit: 3f416f22d1e2 ("perf stat: Do not clean event's private stats") This commit removed stats cleaning, which is important for '-r' option to carry counters data over the whole run. But it's necessary to clean it for interval mode, otherwise the displayed value is avg of all previous values. Before: $ perf stat -e cycles -a -I 1000 record # time counts unit events 1.000240796 75,216,287 cycles 2.000512791 107,823,524 cycles $ perf stat report # time counts unit events 1.000240796 75,216,287 cycles 2.000512791 91,519,906 cycles Now: $ perf stat report # time counts unit events 1.000240796 75,216,287 cycles 2.000512791 107,823,524 cycles Notice the second value being bigger (91,.. < 107,..). This could be easily verified by using perf script which displays raw stat data: $ perf script CPU THREAD VAL ENA RUN TIME EVENT 0 -1 23855779 1000209530 1000209530 1000240796 cycles 1 -1 33340397 1000224964 1000224964 1000240796 cycles 2 -1 15835415 1000226695 1000226695 1000240796 cycles 3 -1 2184696 1000228245 1000228245 1000240796 cycles 0 -1 97014312 2000514533 2000514533 2000512791 cycles 1 -1 46121497 2000543795 2000543795 2000512791 cycles 2 -1 32269530 2000543566 2000543566 2000512791 cycles 3 -1 7634472 2000544108 2000544108 2000512791 cycles The sum of the first 4 values is the first interval aggregated value: 23855779 + 33340397 + 15835415 + 2184696 = 75,216,287 The sum of the second 4 values minus first value is the second interval aggregated value: 97014312 + 46121497 + 32269530 + 7634472 - 75216287 = 107,823,524 Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: David Ahern Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1454485436-20639-1-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf probe: Search both .eh_frame and .debug_frame sections for probe location

2016-02-02T16:30:16Z

'perf probe' through debuginfo__find_probes() in util/probe-finder.c checks for the functions' frame descriptions in either .eh_frame section of an ELF or the .debug_frame. The check is based on whether either one of these sections is present. Depending on distro, toolchain defaults, architetcutre, build flags, etc., CFI might be found in either .eh_frame and/or .debug_frame. Sometimes, it may happen that, .eh_frame, even if present, may not be complete and may miss some descriptions. Therefore, to be sure, to find the CFI covering an address we will always have to investigate both if available. For e.g., in powerpc, this may happen: $ gcc -g bin.c -o bin $ objdump --dwarf ./bin <1><145>: Abbrev Number: 7 (DW_TAG_subprogram) <146> DW_AT_external : 1 <146> DW_AT_name : (indirect string, offset: 0x9e): main <14a> DW_AT_decl_file : 1 <14b> DW_AT_decl_line : 39 <14c> DW_AT_prototyped : 1 <14c> DW_AT_type : <0x57> <150> DW_AT_low_pc : 0x100007b8 If the .eh_frame and .debug_frame are checked for the same binary, we will find that, .eh_frame (although present) doesn't contain a description for "main" function. But, .debug_frame has a description: 000000d8 00000024 00000000 FDE cie=00000000 pc=100007b8..10000838 DW_CFA_advance_loc: 16 to 100007c8 DW_CFA_def_cfa_offset: 144 DW_CFA_offset_extended_sf: r65 at cfa+16 ... Due to this (since, perf checks whether .eh_frame is present and goes on searching for that address inside that frame), perf is unable to process the probes: # perf probe -x ./bin main Failed to get call frame on 0x100007b8 Error: Failed to add events. To avoid this issue, we need to check both the sections (.eh_frame and .debug_frame), which is done in this patch. Note that, we can always force everything into both .eh_frame and .debug_frame by: $ gcc bin.c -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -fno-dwarf2-cfi-asm -g -o bin Signed-off-by: Hemant Kumar Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Cc: Mark Wielaard Cc: Naveen N. Rao Cc: Srikar Dronamraju Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1454426806-13974-1-git-send-email-hemant@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo