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The current Tree SRCU implementation schedules a workqueue for every
srcu_data covered by a given leaf srcu_node structure having callbacks,
even if only one of those srcu_data structures actually contains
callbacks. This is clearly inefficient for workloads that don't feature
callbacks everywhere all the time. This commit therefore adds an array
of masks that are used by the leaf srcu_node structures to track exactly
which srcu_data structures contain callbacks.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
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When iterating through a map, we need to find a key that does not exist
in the map so map_get_next_key will give us the first key of the map.
This often requires a lot of guessing in production systems.
This patch makes map_get_next_key return the first key when the key
pointer in the parameter is NULL.
Signed-off-by: Teng Qin <qinteng@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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When parsing for the <module:name> format, we use strchr() to look for
the separator, when we know that the module name can't be longer than
MODULE_NAME_LEN. Enforce the same using strnchr().
Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@redhat.com>
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Now that also the last in-tree user of the xdp_adjust_head bit has
been removed, we can remove the flag from struct bpf_prog altogether.
This, at the same time, also makes sure that any future driver for
XDP comes with bpf_xdp_adjust_head() support right away.
A rejection based on this flag would also mean that tail calls
couldn't be used with such driver as per c2002f983767 ("bpf: fix
checking xdp_adjust_head on tail calls") fix, thus lets not allow
for it in the first place.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull irq fix from Thomas Gleixner:
"The (hopefully) final fix for the irq affinity spreading logic"
* 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
genirq/affinity: Fix calculating vectors to assign
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu into core/rcu
Pull RCU updates from Paul E. McKenney:
- Documentation updates.
- Miscellaneous fixes.
- Parallelize SRCU callback handling (plus overlapping patches).
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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There are no users outside of signal.c so make the function static so
the compiler and other developers have that information.
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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Both conflict were simple overlapping changes.
In the kaweth case, Eric Dumazet's skb_cow() bug fix overlapped the
conversion of the driver in net-next to use in-netdev stats.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Modify do_prlimit to call security_task_setrlimit passing the task
whose rlimit we are changing not the tsk->group_leader.
In general this should not matter as the lsms implementing
security_task_setrlimit apparmor and selinux both examine the
task->cred to see what should be allowed on the destination task.
That task->cred is shared between tasks created with CLONE_THREAD
unless thread keyrings are in play, in which case both apparmor and
selinux create duplicate security contexts.
So the only time when it will matter which thread is passed to
security_task_setrlimit is if one of the threads of a process performs
an operation that changes only it's credentials. At which point if a
thread has done that we don't want to hide that information from the
lsms.
So fix the call of security_task_setrlimit. With the removal
of tsk->group_leader this makes the code slightly faster,
more comprehensible and maintainable.
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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We are not supposed to add new entries to this thing
any more.
Thanks to Eric Dumazet for noticing this.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Constants used for tuning are generally a bad idea, especially as hardware
changes over time. Replace the constant 2 jiffies with sysctl variable
netdev_budget_usecs to enable sysadmins to tune the softirq processing.
Also document the variable.
For example, a very fast machine might tune this to 1000 microseconds,
while my regression testing 486DX-25 needs it to be 4000 microseconds on
a nearly idle network to prevent time_squeeze from being incremented.
Version 2: changed jiffies to microseconds for predictable units.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Whitehead <tedheadster@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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into HEAD
doc.2017.04.12a: Documentation updates
fixes.2017.04.19a: Miscellaneous fixes
srcu.2017.04.21a: Parallelize SRCU callback handling
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Currently, a call to schedule() acts as a Tasks RCU quiescent state
only if a context switch actually takes place. However, just the
call to schedule() guarantees that the calling task has moved off of
whatever tracing trampoline that it might have been one previously.
This commit therefore plumbs schedule()'s "preempt" parameter into
rcu_note_context_switch(), which then records the Tasks RCU quiescent
state, but only if this call to schedule() was -not- due to a preemption.
To avoid adding overhead to the common-case context-switch path,
this commit hides the rcu_note_context_switch() check under an existing
non-common-case check.
Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Although Tree SRCU does reduce delays when there is at least one
synchronize_srcu_expedited() invocation pending, srcu_schedule_cbs_snp()
still waits for SRCU_INTERVAL before invoking callbacks. Since
synchronize_srcu_expedited() now posts a callback and waits for
that callback to do a wakeup, this destroys the expedited nature of
synchronize_srcu_expedited(). This destruction became apparent to
Marc Zyngier in the guise of a guest-OS bootup slowdown from five
seconds to no fewer than forty seconds.
This commit therefore invokes callbacks immediately at the end of the
grace period when there is at least one synchronize_srcu_expedited()
invocation pending. This brought Marc's guest-OS bootup times back
into the realm of reason.
Reported-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
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Peter Zijlstra proposed using SRCU to reduce mmap_sem contention [1,2],
however, there are workloads that could result in a high volume of
concurrent invocations of call_srcu(), which with current SRCU would
result in excessive lock contention on the srcu_struct structure's
->queue_lock, which protects SRCU's callback lists. This commit therefore
moves SRCU to per-CPU callback lists, thus greatly reducing contention.
Because a given SRCU instance no longer has a single centralized callback
list, starting grace periods and invoking callbacks are both more complex
than in the single-list Classic SRCU implementation. Starting grace
periods and handling callbacks are now handled using an srcu_node tree
that is in some ways similar to the rcu_node trees used by RCU-bh,
RCU-preempt, and RCU-sched (for example, the srcu_node tree shape is
controlled by exactly the same Kconfig options and boot parameters that
control the shape of the rcu_node tree).
In addition, the old per-CPU srcu_array structure is now named srcu_data
and contains an rcu_segcblist structure named ->srcu_cblist for its
callbacks (and a spinlock to protect this). The srcu_struct gets
an srcu_gp_seq that is used to associate callback segments with the
corresponding completion-time grace-period number. These completion-time
grace-period numbers are propagated up the srcu_node tree so that the
grace-period workqueue handler can determine whether additional grace
periods are needed on the one hand and where to look for callbacks that
are ready to be invoked.
The srcu_barrier() function must now wait on all instances of the per-CPU
->srcu_cblist. Because each ->srcu_cblist is protected by ->lock,
srcu_barrier() can remotely add the needed callbacks. In theory,
it could also remotely start grace periods, but in practice doing so
is complex and racy. And interestingly enough, it is never necessary
for srcu_barrier() to start a grace period because srcu_barrier() only
enqueues a callback when a callback is already present--and it turns out
that a grace period has to have already been started for this pre-existing
callback. Furthermore, it is only the callback that srcu_barrier()
needs to wait on, not any particular grace period. Therefore, a new
rcu_segcblist_entrain() function enqueues the srcu_barrier() function's
callback into the same segment occupied by the last pre-existing callback
in the list. The special case where all the pre-existing callbacks are
on a different list (because they are in the process of being invoked)
is handled by enqueuing srcu_barrier()'s callback into the RCU_DONE_TAIL
segment, relying on the done-callbacks check that takes place after all
callbacks are inovked.
Note that the readers use the same algorithm as before. Note that there
is a separate srcu_idx that tells the readers what counter to increment.
This unfortunately cannot be combined with srcu_gp_seq because they
need to be incremented at different times.
This commit introduces some ugly #ifdefs in rcutorture. These will go
away when I feel good enough about Tree SRCU to ditch Classic SRCU.
Some crude performance comparisons, courtesy of a quickly hacked rcuperf
asynchronous-grace-period capability:
Callback Queuing Overhead
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# CPUS Classic SRCU Tree SRCU
------ ------------ ---------
2 0.349 us 0.342 us
16 31.66 us 0.4 us
41 --------- 0.417 us
The times are the 90th percentiles, a statistic that was chosen to reject
the overheads of the occasional srcu_barrier() call needed to avoid OOMing
the test machine. The rcuperf test hangs when running Classic SRCU at 41
CPUs, hence the line of dashes. Despite the hacks to both the rcuperf code
and that statistics, this is a convincing demonstration of Tree SRCU's
performance and scalability advantages.
[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/309030/
[2] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/5108281/
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[ paulmck: Fix initialization if synchronize_srcu_expedited() called first. ]
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Per Dan's static checker warning, the code that returns NULL was removed
in 2010, so this patch updates the comments and fixes the code
assumptions.
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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Have the stacktrace function trigger probe trigger stack traces within the
instance that they were added to in the set_ftrace_filter.
># cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing
># mkdir instances/foo
># cd instances/foo
># echo schedule:stacktrace:1 > set_ftrace_filter
># cat trace
# tracer: nop
#
# entries-in-buffer/entries-written: 1/1 #P:4
#
# _-----=> irqs-off
# / _----=> need-resched
# | / _---=> hardirq/softirq
# || / _--=> preempt-depth
# ||| / delay
# TASK-PID CPU# |||| TIMESTAMP FUNCTION
# | | | |||| | |
<idle>-0 [001] .N.2 202.585010: <stack trace>
=>
=> schedule
=> schedule_preempt_disabled
=> do_idle
=> cpu_startup_entry
=> start_secondary
=> verify_cpu
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Have the traceon/off function probe triggers affect only the instance they
are set in. This required making the trace_on/off accessible for other files
in the tracing directory.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Modify the snapshot probe trigger to work with instances. This way the
snapshot function trigger will only affect the instance that it is added to
in the set_ftrace_filter file.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Pass around the local trace_array that is the descriptor for tracing
instances, when enabling and disabling probes. This by default sets the
enable/disable of event probe triggers to work with instances.
The other probes will need some more work to get them working with
instances.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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With the redesign of the registration and execution of the function probes
(triggers), data can now be passed from the setup of the probe to the probe
callers that are specific to the trace_array it is on. Although, all probes
still only affect the toplevel trace array, this change will allow for
instances to have their own probes separated from other instances and the
top array.
That is, something like the stacktrace probe can be set to trace only in an
instance and not the toplevel trace array. This isn't implement yet, but
this change sets the ground work for the change.
When a probe callback is triggered (someone writes the probe format into
set_ftrace_filter), it calls register_ftrace_function_probe() passing in
init_data that will be used to initialize the probe. Then for every matching
function, register_ftrace_function_probe() will call the probe_ops->init()
function with the init data that was passed to it, as well as an address to
a place holder that is associated with the probe and the instance. The first
occurrence will have a NULL in the pointer. The init() function will then
initialize it. If other probes are added, or more functions are part of the
probe, the place holder will be passed to the init() function with the place
holder data that it was initialized to the last time.
Then this place_holder is passed to each of the other probe_ops functions,
where it can be used in the function callback. When the probe_ops free()
function is called, it can be called either with the rip of the function
that is being removed from the probe, or zero, indicating that there are no
more functions attached to the probe, and the place holder is about to be
freed. This gives the probe_ops a way to free the data it assigned to the
place holder if it was allocade during the first init call.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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In order to eventually have each trace_array instance have its own unique
set of function probes (triggers), the trace array needs to hold the ops and
the filters for the probes.
This is the first step to accomplish this. Instead of having the private
data of the probe ops point to the trace_array, create a separate list that
the trace_array holds. There's only one private_data for a probe, we need
one per trace_array. The probe ftrace_ops will be dynamically created for
each instance, instead of being static.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Pass the trace_array associated to a ftrace_probe_ops into the probe_ops
func(), init() and free() functions. The trace_array is the descriptor that
describes a tracing instance. This will help create the infrastructure that
will allow having function probes unique to tracing instances.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Add a link list to the trace_array to hold func probes that are registered.
Currently, all function probes are the same for all instances as it was
before, that is, only the top level trace_array holds the function probes.
But this lays the ground work to have function probes be attached to
individual instances, and having the event trigger only affect events in the
given instance. But that work is still to be done.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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If the ftrace_hash_move_and_update_ops() fails, and an ops->free() function
exists, then it needs to be called on all the ops that were added by this
registration.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Now that the function probes have their own ftrace_ops, there's no reason to
continue using the ftrace_func_hash to find which probe to call in the
function callback. The ops that is passed in to the function callback is
part of the probe_ops to call.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Have the function probes have their own ftrace_ops, and remove the
trace_probe_ops. This simplifies some of the ftrace infrastructure code.
Individual entries for each function is still allocated for the use of the
output for set_ftrace_filter, but they will be removed soon too.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Currently unregister_ftrace_function_probe_func() is a void function. It
does not give any feedback if an error occurred or no item was found to
remove and nothing was done.
Change it to return status and success if it removed something. Also update
the callers to return that feedback to the user.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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The processes of updating a ops filter_hash is a bit complex, and requires
setting up an old hash to perform the update. This is done exactly the same
in two locations for the same reasons. Create a helper function that does it
in one place.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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No users of the function probes uses the data field anymore. Remove it, and
change the init function to take a void *data parameter instead of a
void **data, because the init will just get the data that the registering
function was received, and there's no state after it is called.
The other functions for ftrace_probe_ops still take the data parameter, but
it will currently only be passed NULL. It will stay as a parameter for
future data to be passed to these functions.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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None of the probe users uses the data field anymore of the entry. They all
have their own print() function. Remove showing the data field in the
generic function as the data field will be going away.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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There are no users of unregister_ftrace_function_probe_all(). The only probe
function that is used is unregister_ftrace_function_probe_func(). Rename the
internal static function __unregister_ftrace_function_probe() to
unregister_ftrace_function_probe_func() and make it global.
Also remove the PROBE_TEST_FUNC as it would be always set.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Nothing calls unregister_ftrace_function_probe(). Remove it as well as the
flag PROBE_TEST_DATA, as this function was the only one to set it.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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As the data pointer for individual ips will soon be removed and no longer
passed to the callback function probe handlers, convert the rest of the function
trigger counters over to the new ftrace_func_mapper helper functions.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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As the data pointer for individual ips will soon be removed and no longer
passed to the callback function probe handlers, convert the snapshot
trigger counter over to the new ftrace_func_mapper helper functions.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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In order to move the ops to the function probes directly, they need a way to
map function ips to their own data without depending on the infrastructure
of the function probes, as the data field will be going away.
New helper functions are added that are based on the ftrace_hash code.
ftrace_func_mapper functions are there to let the probes map ips to their
data. These can be allocated by the probe ops, and referenced in the
function callbacks.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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In preparation to cleaning up the probe function registration code, the
"data" parameter will eventually be removed from the probe->func() call.
Instead it will receive its own "ops" function, in which it can set up its
own data that it needs to map.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Nothing uses "flags" in the ftrace_func_probe descriptor. Remove it.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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As nothing outside the tracing directory uses the function command mechanism,
I'm moving the prototypes out of the include/linux/ftrace.h and into the
local kernel/trace/trace.h header. I plan on making them hook to the
trace_array structure which is local to kernel/trace, and I do not want to
expose it to the rest of the kernel. This requires that the command functions
must also be local to tracing. But luckily nothing else uses them.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace
Pull two more ftrace fixes from Steven Rostedt:
"While continuing my development, I uncovered two more small bugs.
One is a race condition when enabling the snapshot function probe
trigger. It enables the probe before allocating the snapshot, and if
the probe triggers first, it stops tracing with a warning that the
snapshot buffer was not allocated.
The seconds is that the snapshot file should show how to use it when
it is empty. But a bug fix from long ago broke the "is empty" test and
the snapshot file no longer displays the help message"
* tag 'trace-v4.11-rc5-5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace:
ring-buffer: Have ring_buffer_iter_empty() return true when empty
tracing: Allocate the snapshot buffer before enabling probe
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Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <Bart.VanAssche@sandisk.com>
Acked-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
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Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
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A function in kernel/bpf/syscall.c which got a bug fix in 'net'
was moved to kernel/bpf/verifier.c in 'net-next'.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Pick up upstream fixes to avoid conflicts with pending patches.
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The vectors_per_node is calculated from the remaining available vectors.
The current vector starts after pre_vectors, so we need to subtract that
from the current to properly account for the number of remaining vectors
to assign.
Fixes: 3412386b531 ("irq/affinity: Fix extra vecs calculation")
Reported-by: Andrei Vagin <avagin@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1492645870-13019-1-git-send-email-keith.busch@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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commit 239aeba76409 ("perf powerpc: Fix kprobe and kretprobe handling with
kallsyms on ppc64le") changed how we use the offset field in struct kprobe on
ABIv2. perf now offsets from the global entry point if an offset is specified
and otherwise chooses the local entry point.
Fix the same in kernel for kprobe API users. We do this by extending
kprobe_lookup_name() to accept an additional parameter to indicate the offset
specified with the kprobe registration. If offset is 0, we return the local
function entry and return the global entry point otherwise.
With:
# cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
# echo "p _do_fork" >> kprobe_events
# echo "p _do_fork+0x10" >> kprobe_events
before this patch:
# cat ../kprobes/list
c0000000000d0748 k _do_fork+0x8 [DISABLED]
c0000000000d0758 k _do_fork+0x18 [DISABLED]
c0000000000412b0 k kretprobe_trampoline+0x0 [OPTIMIZED]
and after:
# cat ../kprobes/list
c0000000000d04c8 k _do_fork+0x8 [DISABLED]
c0000000000d04d0 k _do_fork+0x10 [DISABLED]
c0000000000412b0 k kretprobe_trampoline+0x0 [OPTIMIZED]
Acked-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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The macro is now pretty long and ugly on powerpc. In the light of further
changes needed here, convert it to a __weak variant to be over-ridden with a
nicer looking function.
Suggested-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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Skip preparing optprobe if the probe is ftrace-based, since anyway, it
must not be optimized (or already optimized by ftrace).
Tested-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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timer_migration sysctl acts as a boolean switch, so the allowed values
should be restricted to 0 and 1.
Add the necessary extra fields to the sysctl table entry to enforce that.
[ tglx: Rewrote changelog ]
Signed-off-by: Myungho Jung <mhjungk@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1492640690-3550-1-git-send-email-mhjungk@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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I noticed that reading the snapshot file when it is empty no longer gives a
status. It suppose to show the status of the snapshot buffer as well as how
to allocate and use it. For example:
># cat snapshot
# tracer: nop
#
#
# * Snapshot is allocated *
#
# Snapshot commands:
# echo 0 > snapshot : Clears and frees snapshot buffer
# echo 1 > snapshot : Allocates snapshot buffer, if not already allocated.
# Takes a snapshot of the main buffer.
# echo 2 > snapshot : Clears snapshot buffer (but does not allocate or free)
# (Doesn't have to be '2' works with any number that
# is not a '0' or '1')
But instead it just showed an empty buffer:
># cat snapshot
# tracer: nop
#
# entries-in-buffer/entries-written: 0/0 #P:4
#
# _-----=> irqs-off
# / _----=> need-resched
# | / _---=> hardirq/softirq
# || / _--=> preempt-depth
# ||| / delay
# TASK-PID CPU# |||| TIMESTAMP FUNCTION
# | | | |||| | |
What happened was that it was using the ring_buffer_iter_empty() function to
see if it was empty, and if it was, it showed the status. But that function
was returning false when it was empty. The reason was that the iter header
page was on the reader page, and the reader page was empty, but so was the
buffer itself. The check only tested to see if the iter was on the commit
page, but the commit page was no longer pointing to the reader page, but as
all pages were empty, the buffer is also.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 651e22f2701b ("ring-buffer: Always reset iterator to reader page")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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