Fix the error in spelling the config option for hw-breakpoints and fix
the build issue that follows.
Signed-off by: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
We were printing 64 bits of DSISR in show_regs even though it is 32 bit.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Currently, when CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING is enabled, we use the
PURR register for measuring the user and system time used by
processes, as well as other related times such as hardirq and
softirq times. This turns out to be quite confusing for users
because it means that a program will often be measured as taking
less time when run on a multi-threaded processor (SMT2 or SMT4 mode)
than it does when run on a single-threaded processor (ST mode), even
though the program takes longer to finish. The discrepancy is
accounted for as stolen time, which is also confusing, particularly
when there are no other partitions running.
This changes the accounting to use the timebase instead, meaning that
the reported user and system times are the actual number of real-time
seconds that the program was executing on the processor thread,
regardless of which SMT mode the processor is in. Thus a program will
generally show greater user and system times when run on a
multi-threaded processor than on a single-threaded processor.
On pSeries systems on POWER5 or later processors, we measure the
stolen time (time when this partition wasn't running) using the
hypervisor dispatch trace log. We check for new entries in the
log on every entry from user mode and on every transition from
kernel process context to soft or hard IRQ context (i.e. when
account_system_vtime() gets called). So that we can correctly
distinguish time stolen from user time and time stolen from system
time, without having to check the log on every exit to user mode,
we store separate timestamps for exit to user mode and entry from
user mode.
On systems that have a SPURR (POWER6 and POWER7), we read the SPURR
in account_system_vtime() (as before), and then apportion the SPURR
ticks since the last time we read it between scaled user time and
scaled system time according to the relative proportions of user
time and system time over the same interval. This avoids having to
read the SPURR on every kernel entry and exit. On systems that have
PURR but not SPURR (i.e., POWER5), we do the same using the PURR
rather than the SPURR.
This disables the DTL user interface in /sys/debug/kernel/powerpc/dtl
for now since it conflicts with the use of the dispatch trace log
by the time accounting code.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Simple cleanup by moving arch_sd_sibling_asym_packing from process.c to
smp.c to save an #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
No functionality change.
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
I'm sick of seeing ppc64_runlatch_off in our profiles, so inline it
into the callers. To avoid a mess of circular includes I didn't add
it as an inline function.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Acked-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Use is_32bit_task() helper to test 32 bit binary.
Signed-off-by: Denis Kirjanov <dkirjanov@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Make do_execve() take a const filename pointer so that kernel_execve() compiles
correctly on ARM:
arch/arm/kernel/sys_arm.c:88: warning: passing argument 1 of 'do_execve' discards qualifiers from pointer target type
This also requires the argv and envp arguments to be consted twice, once for
the pointer array and once for the strings the array points to. This is
because do_execve() passes a pointer to the filename (now const) to
copy_strings_kernel(). A simpler alternative would be to cast the filename
pointer in do_execve() when it's passed to copy_strings_kernel().
do_execve() may not change any of the strings it is passed as part of the argv
or envp lists as they are some of them in .rodata, so marking these strings as
const should be fine.
Further kernel_execve() and sys_execve() need to be changed to match.
This has been test built on x86_64, frv, arm and mips.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Mark arguments to certain system calls as being const where they should be but
aren't. The list includes:
(*) The filename arguments of various stat syscalls, execve(), various utimes
syscalls and some mount syscalls.
(*) The filename arguments of some syscall helpers relating to the above.
(*) The buffer argument of various write syscalls.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (27 commits)
sched: Use correct macro to display sched_child_runs_first in /proc/sched_debug
sched: No need for bootmem special cases
sched: Revert nohz_ratelimit() for now
sched: Reduce update_group_power() calls
sched: Update rq->clock for nohz balanced cpus
sched: Fix spelling of sibling
sched, cpuset: Drop __cpuexit from cpu hotplug callbacks
sched: Fix the racy usage of thread_group_cputimer() in fastpath_timer_check()
sched: run_posix_cpu_timers: Don't check ->exit_state, use lock_task_sighand()
sched: thread_group_cputime: Simplify, document the "alive" check
sched: Remove the obsolete exit_state/signal hacks
sched: task_tick_rt: Remove the obsolete ->signal != NULL check
sched: __sched_setscheduler: Read the RLIMIT_RTPRIO value lockless
sched: Fix comments to make them DocBook happy
sched: Fix fix_small_capacity
powerpc: Exclude arch_sd_sibiling_asym_packing() on UP
powerpc: Enable asymmetric SMT scheduling on POWER7
sched: Add asymmetric group packing option for sibling domain
sched: Fix capacity calculations for SMT4
sched: Change nohz idle load balancing logic to push model
...
Our handling of debug interrupts on Book3E 64-bit is not quite
the way it should be just yet. This is a workaround to let gdb
work at least for now. We ensure that when context switching,
we set the appropriate DBCR0 value for the new task. We also
make sure that we turn off MSR[DE] within the kernel, and set
it as part of the bits that get set when going back to userspace.
In the long run, we will probably set the userspace DBCR0 on the
exception exit code path and ensure we have some proper kernel
value to set on the way into the kernel, a bit like ppc32 does,
but that will take more work.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
No logic changes, only spelling.
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <15249.1277776921@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Implement perf-events based hw-breakpoint interfaces for PowerPC
64-bit server (Book III S) processors. This allows access to a
given location to be used as an event that can be counted or
profiled by the perf_events subsystem.
This is done using the DABR (data breakpoint register), which can
also be used for process debugging via ptrace. When perf_event
hw_breakpoint support is configured in, the perf_event subsystem
manages the DABR and arbitrates access to it, and ptrace then
creates a perf_event when it is requested to set a data breakpoint.
[Adopted suggestions from Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> to
- emulate_step() all system-wide breakpoints and single-step only the
per-task breakpoints
- perform arch-specific cleanup before unregistration through
arch_unregister_hw_breakpoint()
]
Signed-off-by: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Irq stacks provide an essential protection from stack overflows through
external interrupts, at the cost of two additionals stacks per CPU.
Enable them unconditionally to simplify the kernel build and prevent
people from accidentally disabling them.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Only SMP systems care about load-balance features, plus this
saves some .text space on UP and also fixes the build.
Reported-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
LKML-Reference: <tip-76cbd8a8f8b0dddbff89a6708bd5bd13c0d21a00@git.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The POWER7 core has dynamic SMT mode switching which is controlled by
the hypervisor. There are 3 SMT modes:
SMT1 uses thread 0
SMT2 uses threads 0 & 1
SMT4 uses threads 0, 1, 2 & 3
When in any particular SMT mode, all threads have the same performance
as each other (ie. at any moment in time, all threads perform the same).
The SMT mode switching works such that when linux has threads 2 & 3 idle
and 0 & 1 active, it will cede (H_CEDE hypercall) threads 2 and 3 in the
idle loop and the hypervisor will automatically switch to SMT2 for that
core (independent of other cores). The opposite is not true, so if
threads 0 & 1 are idle and 2 & 3 are active, we will stay in SMT4 mode.
Similarly if thread 0 is active and threads 1, 2 & 3 are idle, we'll go
into SMT1 mode.
If we can get the core into a lower SMT mode (SMT1 is best), the threads
will perform better (since they share less core resources). Hence when
we have idle threads, we want them to be the higher ones.
This adds a feature bit for asymmetric packing to powerpc and then
enables it on POWER7.
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
LKML-Reference: <20100608045702.31FB5CC8C7@localhost.localdomain>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
476 requires an isync after loading MMU and debug related SPR's. Some of
these are in performance-critical paths and may need to be optimized, but
initially, we're playing it safe.
Signed-off-by: Torez Smith <lnxtorez@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
powerpc/booke: Add support for advanced debug registers
From: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Based on patches originally written by Torez Smith.
This patch defines context switch and trap related functionality
for BookE specific Debug Registers. It adds support to ptrace()
for setting and getting BookE related Debug Registers
Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Torez Smith <lnxtorez@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: David Gibson <dwg@au1.ibm.com>
Cc: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj@br.ibm.com>
Cc: Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman@br.ibm.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev list <Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
powerpc/booke: Introduce new CONFIG options for advanced debug registers
From: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Introduce new config options to simplify the ifdefs pertaining to the
advanced debug registers for booke and 40x processors:
CONFIG_PPC_ADV_DEBUG_REGS - boolean: true for dac-based processors
CONFIG_PPC_ADV_DEBUG_IACS - number of IAC registers
CONFIG_PPC_ADV_DEBUG_DACS - number of DAC registers
CONFIG_PPC_ADV_DEBUG_DVCS - number of DVC registers
CONFIG_PPC_ADV_DEBUG_DAC_RANGE - DAC ranges supported
Beginning conservatively, since I only have the facilities to test 440
hardware. I believe all 40x and booke platforms support at least 2 IAC
and 2 DAC registers. For 440, 4 IAC and 2 DVC registers are enabled, as
well as the DAC ranges.
Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: David Gibson <dwg@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Here are the powerpc bits to remove TIF_ABI_PENDING now that
set_personality() is called at the appropriate place in exec.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Fix the following 3 issues:
arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c: In function 'arch_randomize_brk':
arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c:1183: error: 'mmu_highuser_ssize' undeclared (first use in this function)
arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c:1183: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c:1183: error: for each function it appears in.)
arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c:1183: error: 'MMU_SEGSIZE_1T' undeclared (first use in this function)
In file included from arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c:60:
arch/powerpc/include/asm/mmu-hash64.h:132: error: redefinition of 'struct mmu_psize_def'
arch/powerpc/include/asm/mmu-hash64.h:159: error: expected identifier or '(' before numeric constant
arch/powerpc/include/asm/mmu-hash64.h:396: error: conflicting types for 'mm_context_t'
arch/powerpc/include/asm/mmu-book3e.h:184: error: previous declaration of 'mm_context_t' was here
cc1: warnings being treated as errors
arch/powerpc/kernel/pci_64.c: In function 'pcibios_unmap_io_space':
arch/powerpc/kernel/pci_64.c💯 error: unused variable 'res'
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
When the function graph tracer is enabled, it replaces the return address
with a hook back to the tracer. This makes back traces see the hook instead
of the actual return address.
The current code also shows the real address by checking if the return
address jumps to the return_to_handler. If it is, is also prints out
the saved real return address.
On powerpc64, some modules may return to mod_return_to_handler, which
is not checked. This patch will also show the real address if a return
is to mod_return_to_handler as well.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
If we are using 1TB segments and we are allowed to randomise the heap, we can
put it above 1TB so it is backed by a 1TB segment. Otherwise the heap will be
in the bottom 1TB which always uses 256MB segments and this may result in a
performance penalty.
This functionality is disabled when heap randomisation is turned off:
echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
which may be useful when trying to allocate the maximum amount of 16M or 16G
pages.
On a microbenchmark that repeatedly touches 32GB of memory with a stride of
256MB + 4kB (designed to stress 256MB segments while still mapping nicely into
the L1 cache), we see the improvement:
Force malloc to use heap all the time:
# export MALLOC_MMAP_MAX_=0 MALLOC_TRIM_THRESHOLD_=-1
Disable heap randomization:
# echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
# time ./test
12.51s
Enable heap randomization:
# echo 2 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
# time ./test
1.70s
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Currently, a single ifdef covers SLB related bits and more generic ppc64
related bits, split this in two separate ifdef's since 64-bit BookE will
need one but not the other.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
For some reason we've had an explicit KERN_INFO for GPR dumps. With
recent changes we get output like:
<6>GPR00: 00000000 ef855eb0 ef858000 00000001 000000d0 f1000000 ffbc8000 ffffffff
The KERN_INFO is causing the <6>. Don't see any reason to keep it
around.
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
This is a random collection of added ifdef's around portions of
code that only mak sense on server processors. Using either
CONFIG_PPC_STD_MMU_64 or CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S as seems appropriate.
This is meant to make the future merging of Book3E 64-bit support
easier.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Randomise ELF_ET_DYN_BASE, which is used when loading position independent
executables.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Randomise the lower bits of the stack address. More randomisation is good for
security but the scatter can also help with SMT threads that share an L1. A
quick test case shows this working:
int main()
{
int sp;
printf("%x\n", (unsigned long)&sp & 4095);
}
before:
80
80
80
80
80
after:
610
490
300
6b0
d80
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
This is a port of the function graph tracer that was written by
Frederic Weisbecker for the x86.
This only works for PPC64 at the moment and only for static tracing.
PPC32 and dynamic function graph tracing support will come later.
The trace produces a visual calling of functions:
# tracer: function_graph
#
# CPU DURATION FUNCTION CALLS
# | | | | | | |
0) 2.224 us | }
0) ! 271.024 us | }
0) ! 320.080 us | }
0) ! 324.656 us | }
0) ! 329.136 us | }
0) | .put_prev_task_fair() {
0) | .update_curr() {
0) 2.240 us | .update_min_vruntime();
0) 6.512 us | }
0) 2.528 us | .__enqueue_entity();
0) + 15.536 us | }
0) | .pick_next_task_fair() {
0) 2.032 us | .__pick_next_entity();
0) 2.064 us | .__clear_buddies();
0) | .set_next_entity() {
0) 2.672 us | .__dequeue_entity();
0) 6.864 us | }
Geoff Lavand tested on PS3.
Tested-by: Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@am.sony.com>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
The cpu time spent by the idle process actually doing something is
currently accounted as idle time. This is plain wrong, the architectures
that support VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING=y can do better: distinguish between the
time spent doing nothing and the time spent by idle doing work. The first
is accounted with account_idle_time and the second with account_system_time.
The architectures that use the account_xxx_time interface directly and not
the account_xxx_ticks interface now need to do the check for the idle
process in their arch code. In particular to improve the system vs true
idle time accounting the arch code needs to measure the true idle time
instead of just testing for the idle process.
To improve the tick based accounting as well we would need an architecture
primitive that can tell us if the pt_regs of the interrupted context
points to the magic instruction that halts the cpu.
In addition idle time is no more added to the stime of the idle process.
This field now contains the system time of the idle process as it should
be. On systems without VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING this will always be zero as
every tick that occurs while idle is running will be accounted as idle
time.
This patch contains the necessary common code changes to be able to
distinguish idle system time and true idle time. The architectures with
support for VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING need some changes to exploit this.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
On my screen, when something crashes, I only have space for maybe 16
functions of the stack trace before the information above it scrolls
off the screen. It's easy to hack the kernel to print out only that
much, but it's harder to remember to do it. This introduces a config
option for it so that I can keep the setting in my config.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Now that arch/ppc is gone and CONFIG_PPC_MERGE is always set, remove
the dead code associated with !CONFIG_PPC_MERGE from arch/powerpc
and include/asm-powerpc.
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
* CONFIG_BOOKE is selected by CONFIG_44x so we dont need both
* Fixed a few comments
* Go back to only using DBCR0_IDM to determine if we are using
debug resources.
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
This patch implements support for HW based watchpoint via the
DBSR_DAC (Data Address Compare) facility of the BookE processors.
It does so by interfacing with the existing DABR breakpoint code
and adding the necessary bits and pieces for the new bits to
be properly set or cleared
Signed-off-by: Luis Machado <luisgpm@br.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
giveup_vsx didn't save the FPU and VMX regsiters. Change it to be
like giveup_fpr/altivec which save these registers.
Also update call sites where FPU and VMX are already saved to use the
original giveup_vsx (renamed to __giveup_vsx).
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
This changes the oops and backtrace code to use the new %pS
printk extension to print out symbols rather than manually
calling print_symbol.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Since Roland's ptrace cleanup starting with commit
f65255e8d5 ("[POWERPC] Use user_regset
accessors for FP regs"), the dump_task_* functions are no longer being
used.
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
This correctly hooks the VSX dump into Roland McGrath core file
infrastructure. It adds the VSX dump information as an additional elf
note in the core file (after talking more to the tool chain/gdb guys).
This also ensures the formats are consistent between signals, ptrace
and core files.
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
This patch extends the floating point save and restore code to use the
VSX load/stores when VSX is available. This will make FP context
save/restore marginally slower on FP only code, when VSX is available,
as it has to load/store 128bits rather than just 64bits.
Mixing FP, VMX and VSX code will get constant architected state.
The signals interface is extended to enable access to VSR 0-31
doubleword 1 after discussions with tool chain maintainers. Backward
compatibility is maintained.
The ptrace interface is also extended to allow access to VSR 0-31 full
registers.
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
We are going to change where the floating point registers are stored
in the thread_struct, so in preparation add some macros to access the
floating point registers. Update all code to use these new macros.
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
This makes it possible to use separate stacks for hard and soft IRQs
on 32-bit powerpc as well as on 64-bit. The code for 32-bit is just
the 32-bit analog of the 64-bit code.
* Added allocation and initialization of the irq stacks. We limit the
stacks to be in lowmem for ppc32.
* Implemented ppc32 versions of call_do_softirq() and call_handle_irq()
to switch the stack pointers
* Reworked how we do stack overflow detection. We now keep around the
limit of the stack in the thread_struct and compare against the limit
to see if we've overflowed. We can now use this on ppc64 if desired.
[ paulus@samba.org: Fixed bug on 6xx where we need to reload r9 with the
thread_info pointer. ]
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
The powerpc kernel stacks need to be naturally aligned, as they
contain the thread info at the bottom, which is obtained by
clearing the low bits of the stack pointer.
However, when using 64K pages, the stack is smaller than a page,
so we use kmalloc to allocate it, but that doesn't provide the
alignment guarantee we need.
It appeared to work so far... until one enables SLUB debugging
which then returns unaligned pointers. Ooops...
This fixes it by using a slab cache with enforced alignment. It
relies on my previous patch that adds a thread_info_cache_init()
callback.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Acked-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
This moves various definitions used all over the place to parse stack
frames to ptrace.h so only one definition is needed.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
There is a bug in the powerpc DABR (data access breakpoint) handling,
which can result in us missing breakpoints if several threads are trying
to break on the same address.
The circumstances are that do_page_fault() calls do_dabr(), this clears
the DABR (sets it to 0) and sets up the signal which will report to
userspace that the DABR was hit. The do_signal() code will restore the DABR
value on the way out to userspace.
If we reschedule before calling do_signal(), __switch_to() will check the
cached DABR value and compare it to the new thread's value, if they match
we don't set the DABR in hardware.
So if two threads have the same DABR value, and we schedule from one to
the other after taking the interrupt for the first thread hitting the DABR,
the second thread will run without the DABR set in hardware.
The cleanest fix is to move the cache update into set_dabr(), that way we
can't forget to do it.
Reported-by: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
K.Prasad