Cleanups
Clean up compile warnings in kgdboc.c and x86/kernel/kgdb.c
Add module event hooks for simplified debugging with gdb
Fixes
Fix kdb to stop paging with 'q' on bta and dmesg
Fix for data that scrolls off the vga console due to line wrapping
when using the kdb pager
New
The debug core registers for kernel module events which allows a
kernel aware gdb to automatically load symbols and break on entry
to a kernel module
Allow kgdboc=kdb to setup kdb on the vga console
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Merge tag 'for_linus-3.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwessel/kgdb
Pull KGDB/KDB fixes and cleanups from Jason Wessel:
"Cleanups
- Clean up compile warnings in kgdboc.c and x86/kernel/kgdb.c
- Add module event hooks for simplified debugging with gdb
Fixes
- Fix kdb to stop paging with 'q' on bta and dmesg
- Fix for data that scrolls off the vga console due to line wrapping
when using the kdb pager
New
- The debug core registers for kernel module events which allows a
kernel aware gdb to automatically load symbols and break on entry
to a kernel module
- Allow kgdboc=kdb to setup kdb on the vga console"
* tag 'for_linus-3.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwessel/kgdb:
tty/console: fix warnings in drivers/tty/serial/kgdboc.c
kdb,vt_console: Fix missed data due to pager overruns
kdb: Fix dmesg/bta scroll to quit with 'q'
kgdboc: Accept either kbd or kdb to activate the vga + keyboard kdb shell
kgdb,x86: fix warning about unused variable
mips,kgdb: fix recursive page fault with CONFIG_KPROBES
kgdb: Add module event hooks
Pull perf updates from Ingo Molnar:
"This tree includes some late late perf items that missed the first
round:
tools:
- Bash auto completion improvements, now we can auto complete the
tools long options, tracepoint event names, etc, from Namhyung Kim.
- Look up thread using tid instead of pid in 'perf sched'.
- Move global variables into a perf_kvm struct, from David Ahern.
- Hists refactorings, preparatory for improved 'diff' command, from
Jiri Olsa.
- Hists refactorings, preparatory for event group viewieng work, from
Namhyung Kim.
- Remove double negation on optional feature macro definitions, from
Namhyung Kim.
- Remove several cases of needless global variables, on most
builtins.
- misc fixes
kernel:
- sysfs support for IBS on AMD CPUs, from Robert Richter.
- Support for an upcoming Intel CPU, the Xeon-Phi / Knights Corner
HPC blade PMU, from Vince Weaver.
- misc fixes"
* 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (46 commits)
perf: Fix perf_cgroup_switch for sw-events
perf: Clarify perf_cpu_context::active_pmu usage by renaming it to ::unique_pmu
perf/AMD/IBS: Add sysfs support
perf hists: Add more helpers for hist entry stat
perf hists: Move he->stat.nr_events initialization to a template
perf hists: Introduce struct he_stat
perf diff: Removing the total_period argument from output code
perf tool: Add hpp interface to enable/disable hpp column
perf tools: Removing hists pair argument from output path
perf hists: Separate overhead and baseline columns
perf diff: Refactor diff displacement possition info
perf hists: Add struct hists pointer to struct hist_entry
perf tools: Complete tracepoint event names
perf/x86: Add support for Intel Xeon-Phi Knights Corner PMU
perf evlist: Remove some unused methods
perf evlist: Introduce add_newtp method
perf kvm: Move global variables into a perf_kvm struct
perf tools: Convert to BACKTRACE_SUPPORT
perf tools: Long option completion support for each subcommands
perf tools: Complete long option names of perf command
...
Pull third pile of kernel_execve() patches from Al Viro:
"The last bits of infrastructure for kernel_thread() et.al., with
alpha/arm/x86 use of those. Plus sanitizing the asm glue and
do_notify_resume() on alpha, fixing the "disabled irq while running
task_work stuff" breakage there.
At that point the rest of kernel_thread/kernel_execve/sys_execve work
can be done independently for different architectures. The only
pending bits that do depend on having all architectures converted are
restrictred to fs/* and kernel/* - that'll obviously have to wait for
the next cycle.
I thought we'd have to wait for all of them done before we start
eliminating the longjump-style insanity in kernel_execve(), but it
turned out there's a very simple way to do that without flagday-style
changes."
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal:
alpha: switch to saner kernel_execve() semantics
arm: switch to saner kernel_execve() semantics
x86, um: convert to saner kernel_execve() semantics
infrastructure for saner ret_from_kernel_thread semantics
make sure that kernel_thread() callbacks call do_exit() themselves
make sure that we always have a return path from kernel_execve()
ppc: eeh_event should just use kthread_run()
don't bother with kernel_thread/kernel_execve for launching linuxrc
alpha: get rid of switch_stack argument of do_work_pending()
alpha: don't bother passing switch_stack separately from regs
alpha: take SIGPENDING/NOTIFY_RESUME loop into signal.c
alpha: simplify TIF_NEED_RESCHED handling
Pull timer core update from Thomas Gleixner:
- Bug fixes (one for a longstanding dead loop issue)
- Rework of time related vsyscalls
- Alarm timer updates
- Jiffies updates to remove compile time dependencies
* 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
timekeeping: Cast raw_interval to u64 to avoid shift overflow
timers: Fix endless looping between cascade() and internal_add_timer()
time/jiffies: bring back unconditional LATCH definition
time: Convert x86_64 to using new update_vsyscall
time: Only do nanosecond rounding on GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL_OLD systems
time: Introduce new GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL
time: Convert CONFIG_GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL to CONFIG_GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL_OLD
time: Move update_vsyscall definitions to timekeeper_internal.h
time: Move timekeeper structure to timekeeper_internal.h for vsyscall changes
jiffies: Remove compile time assumptions about CLOCK_TICK_RATE
jiffies: Kill unused TICK_USEC_TO_NSEC
alarmtimer: Rename alarmtimer_remove to alarmtimer_dequeue
alarmtimer: Remove unused helpers & defines
alarmtimer: Use hrtimer per-alarm instead of per-base
alarmtimer: Implement minimum alarm interval for allowing suspend
When compiling without CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA the following
compiler warning is generated:
arch/x86/kernel/kgdb.c: In function 'kgdb_arch_set_breakpoint':
arch/x86/kernel/kgdb.c:749: warning: unused variable 'opc'
The variable instantiation needs to be inside the #ifdef to
make the warning go away.
Reported-by: Thiago Rafael Becker <trbecker@trbecker.org>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Pull pile 2 of execve and kernel_thread unification work from Al Viro:
"Stuff in there: kernel_thread/kernel_execve/sys_execve conversions for
several more architectures plus assorted signal fixes and cleanups.
There'll be more (in particular, real fixes for the alpha
do_notify_resume() irq mess)..."
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal: (43 commits)
alpha: don't open-code trace_report_syscall_{enter,exit}
Uninclude linux/freezer.h
m32r: trim masks
avr32: trim masks
tile: don't bother with SIGTRAP in setup_frame
microblaze: don't bother with SIGTRAP in setup_rt_frame()
mn10300: don't bother with SIGTRAP in setup_frame()
frv: no need to raise SIGTRAP in setup_frame()
x86: get rid of duplicate code in case of CONFIG_VM86
unicore32: remove pointless test
h8300: trim _TIF_WORK_MASK
parisc: decide whether to go to slow path (tracesys) based on thread flags
parisc: don't bother looping in do_signal()
parisc: fix double restarts
bury the rest of TIF_IRET
sanitize tsk_is_polling()
bury _TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK
unicore32: unobfuscate _TIF_WORK_MASK
mips: NOTIFY_RESUME is not needed in TIF masks
mips: merge the identical "return from syscall" per-ABI code
...
Conflicts:
arch/arm/include/asm/thread_info.h
Pull generic execve() changes from Al Viro:
"This introduces the generic kernel_thread() and kernel_execve()
functions, and switches x86, arm, alpha, um and s390 over to them."
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal: (26 commits)
s390: convert to generic kernel_execve()
s390: switch to generic kernel_thread()
s390: fold kernel_thread_helper() into ret_from_fork()
s390: fold execve_tail() into start_thread(), convert to generic sys_execve()
um: switch to generic kernel_thread()
x86, um/x86: switch to generic sys_execve and kernel_execve
x86: split ret_from_fork
alpha: introduce ret_from_kernel_execve(), switch to generic kernel_execve()
alpha: switch to generic kernel_thread()
alpha: switch to generic sys_execve()
arm: get rid of execve wrapper, switch to generic execve() implementation
arm: optimized current_pt_regs()
arm: introduce ret_from_kernel_execve(), switch to generic kernel_execve()
arm: split ret_from_fork, simplify kernel_thread() [based on patch by rmk]
generic sys_execve()
generic kernel_execve()
new helper: current_pt_regs()
preparation for generic kernel_thread()
um: kill thread->forking
um: let signal_delivered() do SIGTRAP on singlestepping into handler
...
Add sysfs format entries for AMD IBS PMUs:
# find /sys/bus/event_source/devices/ibs_*/format
/sys/bus/event_source/devices/ibs_fetch/format
/sys/bus/event_source/devices/ibs_fetch/format/rand_en
/sys/bus/event_source/devices/ibs_op/format
/sys/bus/event_source/devices/ibs_op/format/cnt_ctl
This allows to specify following IBS options:
$ perf record -e ibs_fetch/rand_en=1/GH ...
$ perf record -e ibs_op/cnt_ctl=1/GH ...
Option cnt_ctl is only enabled if the IBS_CAPS_OPCNT bit is set in IBS
cpuid feature flags (AMD family 10h RevC and above).
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1347447584-28405-1-git-send-email-robert.richter@amd.com
[ Added small readability improvements. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Merge tag 'kvm-3.7-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm
Pull KVM updates from Avi Kivity:
"Highlights of the changes for this release include support for vfio
level triggered interrupts, improved big real mode support on older
Intels, a streamlines guest page table walker, guest APIC speedups,
PIO optimizations, better overcommit handling, and read-only memory."
* tag 'kvm-3.7-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (138 commits)
KVM: s390: Fix vcpu_load handling in interrupt code
KVM: x86: Fix guest debug across vcpu INIT reset
KVM: Add resampling irqfds for level triggered interrupts
KVM: optimize apic interrupt delivery
KVM: MMU: Eliminate pointless temporary 'ac'
KVM: MMU: Avoid access/dirty update loop if all is well
KVM: MMU: Eliminate eperm temporary
KVM: MMU: Optimize is_last_gpte()
KVM: MMU: Simplify walk_addr_generic() loop
KVM: MMU: Optimize pte permission checks
KVM: MMU: Update accessed and dirty bits after guest pagetable walk
KVM: MMU: Move gpte_access() out of paging_tmpl.h
KVM: MMU: Optimize gpte_access() slightly
KVM: MMU: Push clean gpte write protection out of gpte_access()
KVM: clarify kvmclock documentation
KVM: make processes waiting on vcpu mutex killable
KVM: SVM: Make use of asm.h
KVM: VMX: Make use of asm.h
KVM: VMX: Make lto-friendly
KVM: x86: lapic: Clean up find_highest_vector() and count_vectors()
...
Conflicts:
arch/s390/include/asm/processor.h
arch/x86/kvm/i8259.c
The following patch adds perf_event support for the Xeon-Phi
PMU, as documented in the "Intel Xeon Phi Coprocessor (codename:
Knights Corner) Performance Monitoring Units" manual.
Even though it is a co-processor, a Phi runs a full Linux
environment and can support performance counters.
This is just barebones support, it does not add support for
interesting new features such as the SPFLT intruction that
allows starting/stopping events without entering the kernel.
The PMU internally is just like that of an original Pentium, but
a "P6-like" MSR interface is provided. The interface is
different enough from a real P6 that it's not easy (or
practical) to re-use the code in perf_event_p6.c
Acked-by: Lawrence F Meadows <lawrence.f.meadows@intel.com>
Acked-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Cc: eranian@gmail.com
Cc: Lawrence F <lawrence.f.meadows@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.02.1209261405320.8398@vincent-weaver-1.um.maine.edu
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Partition the header include path flags into two sets, one for kernelspace
builds and one for userspace builds.
Add the following directories to build after the ordinary include directories
so that #include will pick up the UAPI header directly if the kernel header
has been moved there.
The userspace set (represented by the USERINCLUDE make variable) contains:
-I $(srctree)/arch/$(hdr-arch)/include/uapi
-I arch/$(hdr-arch)/include/generated/uapi
-I $(srctree)/include/uapi
-I include/generated/uapi
-include $(srctree)/include/linux/kconfig.h
and the kernelspace set (represented by the LINUXINCLUDE make variable)
contains:
-I $(srctree)/arch/$(hdr-arch)/include
-I arch/$(hdr-arch)/include/generated
-I $(srctree)/include
-I include --- if not building in the source tree
plus everything in the USERINCLUDE set.
Then use USERINCLUDE in building the x86 boot code.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Pull x86/smap support from Ingo Molnar:
"This adds support for the SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention) CPU
feature on Intel CPUs: a hardware feature that prevents unintended
user-space data access from kernel privileged code.
It's turned on automatically when possible.
This, in combination with SMEP, makes it even harder to exploit kernel
bugs such as NULL pointer dereferences."
Fix up trivial conflict in arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S due to newly added
includes right next to each other.
* 'x86-smap-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86, smep, smap: Make the switching functions one-way
x86, suspend: On wakeup always initialize cr4 and EFER
x86-32: Start out eflags and cr4 clean
x86, smap: Do not abuse the [f][x]rstor_checking() functions for user space
x86-32, smap: Add STAC/CLAC instructions to 32-bit kernel entry
x86, smap: Reduce the SMAP overhead for signal handling
x86, smap: A page fault due to SMAP is an oops
x86, smap: Turn on Supervisor Mode Access Prevention
x86, smap: Add STAC and CLAC instructions to control user space access
x86, uaccess: Merge prototypes for clear_user/__clear_user
x86, smap: Add a header file with macros for STAC/CLAC
x86, alternative: Add header guards to <asm/alternative-asm.h>
x86, alternative: Use .pushsection/.popsection
x86, smap: Add CR4 bit for SMAP
x86-32, mm: The WP test should be done on a kernel page
Pull x86/microcode changes from Ingo Molnar:
"The biggest changes are to AMD microcode patching: add code for
caching all microcode patches which belong to the current family on
which we're running, in the kernel.
We look up the patch needed for each core from the cache at
patch-application time instead of holding a single patch per-system"
* 'x86-microcode-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86, microcode, AMD: Fix use after free in free_cache()
x86, microcode, AMD: Rewrite patch application procedure
x86, microcode, AMD: Add a small, per-family patches cache
x86, microcode, AMD: Add reverse equiv table search
x86, microcode: Add a refresh firmware flag to ->request_microcode_fw
x86, microcode, AMD: Read CPUID(1).EAX on the correct cpu
x86, microcode, AMD: Check before applying a patch
x86, microcode, AMD: Remove useless get_ucode_data wrapper
x86, microcode: Straighten out Kconfig text
x86, microcode: Cleanup cpu hotplug notifier callback
x86, microcode: Drop uci->mc check on resume path
x86, microcode: Save an indentation level in reload_for_cpu
Pull x86/platform changes from Ingo Molnar:
"This cleans up some Xen-induced pagetable init code uglies, by
generalizing new platform callbacks and state: x86_init.paging.*"
* 'x86-platform-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86: Document x86_init.paging.pagetable_init()
x86: xen: Cleanup and remove x86_init.paging.pagetable_setup_done()
x86: Move paging_init() call to x86_init.paging.pagetable_init()
x86: Rename pagetable_setup_start() to pagetable_init()
x86: Remove base argument from x86_init.paging.pagetable_setup_start
Pull x86/mm changes from Ingo Molnar:
"The biggest change is new TLB partial flushing code for AMD CPUs.
(The v3.6 kernel had the Intel CPU side code, see commits
e0ba94f14f74..effee4b9b3b.)
There's also various other refinements around the TLB flush code"
* 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86: Distinguish TLB shootdown interrupts from other functions call interrupts
x86/mm: Fix range check in tlbflush debugfs interface
x86, cpu: Preset default tlb_flushall_shift on AMD
x86, cpu: Add AMD TLB size detection
x86, cpu: Push TLB detection CPUID check down
x86, cpu: Fixup tlb_flushall_shift formatting
Pull x86/MCE update from Ingo Molnar:
"Various MCE robustness enhancements.
One of the changes adds CMCI (Corrected Machine Check Interrupt) poll
mode on Intel Nehalem+ CPUs, which mode is automatically entered when
the rate of messages is too high - and exited once the storm is over.
An MCE events storm will roughly look like this:
[ 5342.740616] mce: [Hardware Error]: Machine check events logged
[ 5342.746501] mce: [Hardware Error]: Machine check events logged
[ 5342.757971] CMCI storm detected: switching to poll mode
[ 5372.674957] CMCI storm subsided: switching to interrupt mode
This should make such events more survivable"
* 'x86-mce-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/mce: Provide boot argument to honour bios-set CMCI threshold
x86, MCE: Remove unused defines
x86, mce: Enable MCA support by default
x86/mce: Add CMCI poll mode
x86/mce: Make cmci_discover() quiet
x86: mce: Remove the frozen cases in the hotplug code
x86: mce: Split timer init
x86: mce: Serialize mce injection
x86: mce: Disable preemption when calling raise_local()
Pull x86/fpu update from Ingo Molnar:
"The biggest change is the addition of the non-lazy (eager) FPU saving
support model and enabling it on CPUs with optimized xsaveopt/xrstor
FPU state saving instructions.
There are also various Sparse fixes"
Fix up trivial add-add conflict in arch/x86/kernel/traps.c
* 'x86-fpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86, kvm: fix kvm's usage of kernel_fpu_begin/end()
x86, fpu: remove cpu_has_xmm check in the fx_finit()
x86, fpu: make eagerfpu= boot param tri-state
x86, fpu: enable eagerfpu by default for xsaveopt
x86, fpu: decouple non-lazy/eager fpu restore from xsave
x86, fpu: use non-lazy fpu restore for processors supporting xsave
lguest, x86: handle guest TS bit for lazy/non-lazy fpu host models
x86, fpu: always use kernel_fpu_begin/end() for in-kernel FPU usage
x86, kvm: use kernel_fpu_begin/end() in kvm_load/put_guest_fpu()
x86, fpu: remove unnecessary user_fpu_end() in save_xstate_sig()
x86, fpu: drop_fpu() before restoring new state from sigframe
x86, fpu: Unify signal handling code paths for x86 and x86_64 kernels
x86, fpu: Consolidate inline asm routines for saving/restoring fpu state
x86, signal: Cleanup ifdefs and is_ia32, is_x32
Pull x86 debug update from Ingo Molnar:
"Various small enhancements"
* 'x86-debug-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/debug: Dump family, model, stepping of the boot CPU
x86/iommu: Use NULL instead of plain 0 for __IOMMU_INIT
x86/iommu: Drop duplicate const in __IOMMU_INIT
x86/fpu/xsave: Keep __user annotation in casts
x86/pci/probe_roms: Add missing __iomem annotation to pci_map_biosrom()
x86/signals: ia32_signal.c: add __user casts to fix sparse warnings
x86/vdso: Add __user annotation to VDSO32_SYMBOL
x86: Fix __user annotations in asm/sys_ia32.h
Pull x86/cpu and x86/cpufeature from Ingo Molnar:
"One tiny cleanup, and prepare for SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access
Prevention) support on x86"
* 'x86-cpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86: Remove the useless branch in c_start()
* 'x86-cpufeature-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86, cpufeature: Add feature bit for SMAP
Pull x86/asm changes from Ingo Molnar:
"The one change that stands out is the alternatives patching change
that prevents us from ever patching back instructions from SMP to UP:
this simplifies things and speeds up CPU hotplug.
Other than that it's smaller fixes, cleanups and improvements."
* 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86: Unspaghettize do_trap()
x86_64: Work around old GAS bug
x86: Use REP BSF unconditionally
x86: Prefer TZCNT over BFS
x86/64: Adjust types of temporaries used by ffs()/fls()/fls64()
x86: Drop unnecessary kernel_eflags variable on 64-bit
x86/smp: Don't ever patch back to UP if we unplug cpus
Pull x86/apic changes from Ingo Molnar:
"Smaller fixes and cleanups"
* 'x86-apic-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/api: Rename mp_register_lapic in a comment
x86/irq/i8259: Fix incorrect comment
x86: dt: Use linear irq domain for ioapic(s)
Pull perf fix from Ingo Molnar:
"Leftover perf/urgent fix from the v3.6 cycle"
* 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
perf/x86: Fix typo in uncore_pmu_to_box
Pull perf update from Ingo Molnar:
"Lots of changes in this cycle as well, with hundreds of commits from
over 30 contributors. Most of the activity was on the tooling side.
Higher level changes:
- New 'perf kvm' analysis tool, from Xiao Guangrong.
- New 'perf trace' system-wide tracing tool
- uprobes fixes + cleanups from Oleg Nesterov.
- Lots of patches to make perf build on Android out of box, from
Irina Tirdea
- Extend ftrace function tracing utility to be more dynamic for its
users. It allows for data passing to the callback functions, as
well as reading regs as if a breakpoint were to trigger at function
entry.
The main goal of this patch series was to allow kprobes to use
ftrace as an optimized probe point when a probe is placed on an
ftrace nop. With lots of help from Masami Hiramatsu, and going
through lots of iterations, we finally came up with a good
solution.
- Add cpumask for uncore pmu, use it in 'stat', from Yan, Zheng.
- Various tracing updates from Steve Rostedt
- Clean up and improve 'perf sched' performance by elliminating lots
of needless calls to libtraceevent.
- Event group parsing support, from Jiri Olsa
- UI/gtk refactorings and improvements from Namhyung Kim
- Add support for non-tracepoint events in perf script python, from
Feng Tang
- Add --symbols to 'script', similar to the one in 'report', from
Feng Tang.
Infrastructure enhancements and fixes:
- Convert the trace builtins to use the growing evsel/evlist
tracepoint infrastructure, removing several open coded constructs
like switch like series of strcmp to dispatch events, etc.
Basically what had already been showcased in 'perf sched'.
- Add evsel constructor for tracepoints, that uses libtraceevent just
to parse the /format events file, use it in a new 'perf test' to
make sure the libtraceevent format parsing regressions can be more
readily caught.
- Some strange errors were happening in some builds, but not on the
next, reported by several people, problem was some parser related
files, generated during the build, didn't had proper make deps, fix
from Eric Sandeen.
- Introduce struct and cache information about the environment where
a perf.data file was captured, from Namhyung Kim.
- Fix handling of unresolved samples when --symbols is used in
'report', from Feng Tang.
- Add union member access support to 'probe', from Hyeoncheol Lee.
- Fixups to die() removal, from Namhyung Kim.
- Render fixes for the TUI, from Namhyung Kim.
- Don't enable annotation in non symbolic view, from Namhyung Kim.
- Fix pipe mode in 'report', from Namhyung Kim.
- Move related stats code from stat to util/, will be used by the
'stat' kvm tool, from Xiao Guangrong.
- Remove die()/exit() calls from several tools.
- Resolve vdso callchains, from Jiri Olsa
- Don't pass const char pointers to basename, so that we can
unconditionally use libgen.h and thus avoid ifdef BIONIC lines,
from David Ahern
- Refactor hist formatting so that it can be reused with the GTK
browser, From Namhyung Kim
- Fix build for another rbtree.c change, from Adrian Hunter.
- Make 'perf diff' command work with evsel hists, from Jiri Olsa.
- Use the only field_sep var that is set up: symbol_conf.field_sep,
fix from Jiri Olsa.
- .gitignore compiled python binaries, from Namhyung Kim.
- Get rid of die() in more libtraceevent places, from Namhyung Kim.
- Rename libtraceevent 'private' struct member to 'priv' so that it
works in C++, from Steven Rostedt
- Remove lots of exit()/die() calls from tools so that the main perf
exit routine can take place, from David Ahern
- Fix x86 build on x86-64, from David Ahern.
- {int,str,rb}list fixes from Suzuki K Poulose
- perf.data header fixes from Namhyung Kim
- Allow user to indicate objdump path, needed in cross environments,
from Maciek Borzecki
- Fix hardware cache event name generation, fix from Jiri Olsa
- Add round trip test for sw, hw and cache event names, catching the
problem Jiri fixed, after Jiri's patch, the test passes
successfully.
- Clean target should do clean for lib/traceevent too, fix from David
Ahern
- Check the right variable for allocation failure, fix from Namhyung
Kim
- Set up evsel->tp_format regardless of evsel->name being set
already, fix from Namhyung Kim
- Oprofile fixes from Robert Richter.
- Remove perf_event_attr needless version inflation, from Jiri Olsa
- Introduce libtraceevent strerror like error reporting facility,
from Namhyung Kim
- Add pmu mappings to perf.data header and use event names from cmd
line, from Robert Richter
- Fix include order for bison/flex-generated C files, from Ben
Hutchings
- Build fixes and documentation corrections from David Ahern
- Assorted cleanups from Robert Richter
- Let O= makes handle relative paths, from Steven Rostedt
- perf script python fixes, from Feng Tang.
- Initial bash completion support, from Frederic Weisbecker
- Allow building without libelf, from Namhyung Kim.
- Support DWARF CFI based unwind to have callchains when %bp based
unwinding is not possible, from Jiri Olsa.
- Symbol resolution fixes, while fixing support PPC64 files with an
.opt ELF section was the end goal, several fixes for code that
handles all architectures and cleanups are included, from Cody
Schafer.
- Assorted fixes for Documentation and build in 32 bit, from Robert
Richter
- Cache the libtraceevent event_format associated to each evsel
early, so that we avoid relookups, i.e. calling pevent_find_event
repeatedly when processing tracepoint events.
[ This is to reduce the surface contact with libtraceevents and
make clear what is that the perf tools needs from that lib: so
far parsing the common and per event fields. ]
- Don't stop the build if the audit libraries are not installed, fix
from Namhyung Kim.
- Fix bfd.h/libbfd detection with recent binutils, from Markus
Trippelsdorf.
- Improve warning message when libunwind devel packages not present,
from Jiri Olsa"
* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (282 commits)
perf trace: Add aliases for some syscalls
perf probe: Print an enum type variable in "enum variable-name" format when showing accessible variables
perf tools: Check libaudit availability for perf-trace builtin
perf hists: Add missing period_* fields when collapsing a hist entry
perf trace: New tool
perf evsel: Export the event_format constructor
perf evsel: Introduce rawptr() method
perf tools: Use perf_evsel__newtp in the event parser
perf evsel: The tracepoint constructor should store sys:name
perf evlist: Introduce set_filter() method
perf evlist: Renane set_filters method to apply_filters
perf test: Add test to check we correctly parse and match syscall open parms
perf evsel: Handle endianity in intval method
perf evsel: Know if byte swap is needed
perf tools: Allow handling a NULL cpu_map as meaning "all cpus"
perf evsel: Improve tracepoint constructor setup
tools lib traceevent: Fix error path on pevent_parse_event
perf test: Fix build failure
trace: Move trace event enable from fs_initcall to core_initcall
tracing: Add an option for disabling markers
...
no need to have the call of do_notify_resume() + checks around it
duplicated for vm86 case - a bit of rearranging of ifdefs and we'll
have a perfectly fine copy to jump back to.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
32bit wrapper is lost on that; 64bit one is *not*, since
we need to arrange for full pt_regs on stack when we call
sys_execve() and we need to load callee-saved ones from
there afterwards.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
As TLB shootdown requests to other CPU cores are now using function call
interrupts, TLB shootdowns entry in /proc/interrupts is always shown as 0.
This behavior change was introduced by commit 52aec3308d ("x86/tlb:
replace INVALIDATE_TLB_VECTOR by CALL_FUNCTION_VECTOR").
This patch reverts TLB shootdowns entry in /proc/interrupts to count TLB
shootdowns separately from the other function call interrupts.
Signed-off-by: Tomoki Sekiyama <tomoki.sekiyama.qu@hitachi.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120926021128.22212.20440.stgit@hpxw
Acked-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
The ACPI spec doesn't provide for a way for the bios to pass down
recommended thresholds to the OS on a _per-bank_ basis. This patch adds
a new boot option, which if passed, tells Linux to use CMCI thresholds
set by the bios.
As fail-safe, we initialize threshold to 1 if some banks have not been
initialized by the bios and warn the user.
Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
There is no fundamental reason why we should switch SMEP and SMAP on
during early cpu initialization just to switch them off again. Now
with %eflags and %cr4 forced to be initialized to a clean state, we
only need the one-way enable. Also, make the functions inline to make
them (somewhat) harder to abuse.
This does mean that SMEP and SMAP do not get initialized anywhere near
as early. Even using early_param() instead of __setup() doesn't give
us control early enough to do this during the early cpu initialization
phase. This seems reasonable to me, because SMEP and SMAP should not
matter until we have userspace to protect ourselves from, but it does
potentially make it possible for a bug involving a "leak of
permissions to userspace" to get uncaught.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
We already have a flag word to indicate the existence of MISC_ENABLES,
so use the same flag word to indicate existence of cr4 and EFER, and
always restore them if they exist. That way if something passes a
nonzero value when the value *should* be zero, we will still
initialize it.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1348529239-17943-1-git-send-email-hpa@linux.intel.com
%cr4 is supposed to reflect a set of features into which the operating
system is opting in. If the BIOS or bootloader leaks bits here, this
is not desirable. Consider a bootloader passing in %cr4.pae set to a
legacy paging kernel, for example -- it will not have any immediate
effect, but the kernel would crash when turning paging on.
A similar argument applies to %eflags, and since we have to look for
%eflags.id being settable we can use a sequence which clears %eflags
as a side effect.
Note that we already do this for x86-64.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1348529239-17943-1-git-send-email-hpa@linux.intel.com
do_notify_resume() may be called on irq or exception
exit. But at that time the exception has already called
rcu_user_enter() and the irq has already called rcu_irq_exit().
Since it can use RCU read side critical section, we must call
rcu_user_exit() before doing anything there. Then we must call
back rcu_user_enter() after this function because we know we are
going to userspace from there.
This complete support for userspace RCU extended quiescent state
in x86-64.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org>
Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>
Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@gmail.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@ti.com>
Cc: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Sven-Thorsten Dietrich <thebigcorporation@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
This way we can exit the RCU extended quiescent state before
we schedule a new task from irq/exception exit.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org>
Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>
Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@gmail.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@ti.com>
Cc: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Sven-Thorsten Dietrich <thebigcorporation@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Add necessary hooks to x86 exception for userspace
RCU extended quiescent state support.
This includes traps, page fault, debug exceptions, etc...
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org>
Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>
Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@gmail.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@ti.com>
Cc: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Sven-Thorsten Dietrich <thebigcorporation@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
There is some unnatural label based layout in this function.
Convert the unnecessary goto to readable conditional blocks.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Add syscall slow path hooks to notify syscall entry
and exit on CPUs that want to support userspace RCU
extended quiescent state.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org>
Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>
Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@gmail.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@ti.com>
Cc: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Sven-Thorsten Dietrich <thebigcorporation@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cleanup the label maze in this function. Having a
seperate function to first handle the traps that don't
generate a signal makes it easier to convert into
more readable conditional paths.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1348577479-2564-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com
[ Fixed 32-bit build failure. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
GAS in binutils(2.16.91) could not parse parentheses within
macro parameters unless fully parenthesized, and this is a
workaround to make old gas work without generating below errors:
arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S: Assembler messages:
arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S:387: Error: too many positional arguments
arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S:389: Error: too many positional arguments
[...]
Signed-off-by: Tao Guo <glorioustao@gmail.com>
Reluctantly-Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1348648102-12653-1-git-send-email-glorioustao@gmail.com
[ Jan argues that these old GAS versions are fragile - which is so, but lets give them a chance. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Commit 31d2092eb0 ("x86: move
mp_register_lapic_address to boot.c") renamed mp_register_lapic
to acpi_register_lapic. But mp_register_lapic remains in a
comment. So the patch rename it.
Signed-off-by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/50625239.3050403@jp.fujitsu.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
With SMAP, the [f][x]rstor_checking() functions are no longer usable
for user-space pointers by applying a simple __force cast. Instead,
create new [f][x]rstor_user() functions which do the proper SMAP
magic.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1343171129-2747-3-git-send-email-suresh.b.siddha@intel.com
Switch x86_64 to using sub-ns precise vsyscall
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
To help migrate archtectures over to the new update_vsyscall method,
redfine CONFIG_GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL as CONFIG_GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL_OLD
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Since users will need to include timekeeper_internal.h, move
update_vsyscall definitions to timekeeper_internal.h.
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
CLOCK_TICK_RATE is used to accurately caclulate exactly how
a tick will be at a given HZ.
This is useful, because while we'd expect NSEC_PER_SEC/HZ,
the underlying hardware will have some granularity limit,
so we won't be able to have exactly HZ ticks per second.
This slight error can cause timekeeping quality problems
when using the jiffies or other jiffies driven clocksources.
Thus we currently use compile time CLOCK_TICK_RATE value to
generate SHIFTED_HZ and NSEC_PER_JIFFIES, which we then use
to adjust the jiffies clocksource to correct this error.
Unfortunately though, since CLOCK_TICK_RATE is a compile
time value, and the jiffies clocksource is registered very
early during boot, there are a number of cases where there
are different possible hardware timers that have different
tick rates. This causes problems in cases like ARM where
there are numerous different types of hardware, each having
their own compile-time CLOCK_TICK_RATE, making it hard to
accurately support different hardware with a single kernel.
For the most part, this doesn't matter all that much, as not
too many systems actually utilize the jiffies or jiffies driven
clocksource. Usually there are other highres clocksources
who's granularity error is negligable.
Even so, we have some complicated calcualtions that we do
everywhere to handle these edge cases.
This patch removes the compile time SHIFTED_HZ value, and
introduces a register_refined_jiffies() function. This results
in the default jiffies clock as being assumed a perfect HZ
freq, and allows archtectures that care about jiffies accuracy
to call register_refined_jiffies() with the tick rate, specified
dynamically at boot.
This allows us, where necessary, to not have a compile time
CLOCK_TICK_RATE constant, simplifies the jiffies code, and
still provides a way to have an accurate jiffies clock.
NOTE: Since this patch does not add register_refinied_jiffies()
calls for every arch, it may cause time quality regressions
in some cases. Its likely these will not be noticable, but
if they are an issue, adding the following to the end of
setup_arch() should resolve the regression:
register_refinied_jiffies(CLOCK_TICK_RATE)
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Linus Torvalds