When khungtaskd detects hung tasks, it prints out
backtraces from a number of those tasks.
Limiting the number of backtraces being printed
out can result in the user not seeing the information
necessary to debug the issue. The hung_task_warnings
sysctl controls this feature.
This patch makes it possible for hung_task_warnings
to accept a special value to print an unlimited
number of backtraces when khungtaskd detects hung
tasks.
The special value is -1. To use this value it is
necessary to change types from ulong to int.
Signed-off-by: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: oleg@redhat.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1390239253-24030-3-git-send-email-atomlin@redhat.com
[ Build warning fix. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Fix UV call into kgdb to depend only on whether KGDB is defined
and not both KGDB and KDB. This allows the power nmi command to
use the gdb remote connection if enabled. Note new action of
'kgdb' needs to be set as well to indicate user wants to wait
for gdb to be connected. If it's set to 'kdb' then an error
message is displayed if KDB is not configured.
Also note that if both KGDB and KDB are enabled, then the action
of 'kgdb' or 'kdb' has no affect on which is used. See the KGDB
documentation for further information.
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: Hedi Berriche <hedi@sgi.com>
Cc: Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com>
Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140114162551.635540667@asylum.americas.sgi.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
A couple of years ago all the "L: lkml" email list entries in
MAINTAINERS were removed and replaced with a 'the rest' entry
at the end of the file - under the theory that this is unnecessary
duplication and that people would find it intuitive:
b5472cddbe MAINTAINERS: remove L: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org from all but "THE REST"
So it turns out that it's all but intuitive, not all people
use scripts/get_maintainer.pl to extract maintainer contact info,
some people read the MAINTAINERS file and see the lack of 'L:' entries
of various lkml-only subsystems and are sending patches to the
maintainers only, without Cc:-ing lkml. They arguably have a point.
In hindsight removing all the "L: lkml" entries was probably not
an overly good idea, not all mechanic duplication should be eliminated:
in files read by humans it's useful to have 'at a glance' summary for
all email addresses important to a subsystem's maintenance, in a single
place, without too many imported rules and assumptions.
So, to make the lkml fallback really apparent, add back 'L: lkml'
entries to all subsystem entries whose workflow I'm involved in.
This should at minimum be a per subsystem policy thing.
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-lhzlymtgmmv5bMuwsb5zyoYo@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Pull x32 uapi changes from Peter Anvin:
"This is the first few of a set of patches by H.J. Lu to make the
kernel uapi headers usable for x32, as required by some non-glibc
libcs.
These particular patches make the stat and statfs structures usable"
* 'x86-x32-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86, x32: Use __kernel_long_t for __statfs_word
x86, x32: Use __kernel_long_t/__kernel_ulong_t in x86-64 stat.h
Pull x86 cpufeature and mpx updates from Peter Anvin:
"This includes the basic infrastructure for MPX (Memory Protection
Extensions) support, but does not include MPX support itself. It is,
however, a prerequisite for KVM support for MPX, which I believe will
be pushed later this merge window by the KVM team.
This includes moving the functionality in
futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic() into a new function in uaccess.h so it
can be reused - this will be used by the final MPX patches.
The actual MPX functionality (map management and so on) will be pushed
in a future merge window, when ready"
* 'x86/mpx' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/intel/mpx: Remove unused LWP structure
x86, mpx: Add MPX related opcodes to the x86 opcode map
x86: replace futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic() with user_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic
x86: add user_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic at uaccess.h
x86, xsave: Support eager-only xsave features, add MPX support
x86, cpufeature: Define the Intel MPX feature flag
Pull x86 kernel address space randomization support from Peter Anvin:
"This enables kernel address space randomization for x86"
* 'x86-kaslr-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86, kaslr: Clarify RANDOMIZE_BASE_MAX_OFFSET
x86, kaslr: Remove unused including <linux/version.h>
x86, kaslr: Use char array to gain sizeof sanity
x86, kaslr: Add a circular multiply for better bit diffusion
x86, kaslr: Mix entropy sources together as needed
x86/relocs: Add percpu fixup for GNU ld 2.23
x86, boot: Rename get_flags() and check_flags() to *_cpuflags()
x86, kaslr: Raise the maximum virtual address to -1 GiB on x86_64
x86, kaslr: Report kernel offset on panic
x86, kaslr: Select random position from e820 maps
x86, kaslr: Provide randomness functions
x86, kaslr: Return location from decompress_kernel
x86, boot: Move CPU flags out of cpucheck
x86, relocs: Add more per-cpu gold special cases
Pull leftover x86 fixes from Ingo Molnar:
"Two leftover fixes that did not make it into v3.13"
* 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86: Add check for number of available vectors before CPU down
x86, cpu, amd: Add workaround for family 16h, erratum 793
Pull x86 RAS changes from Ingo Molnar:
- SCI reporting for other error types not only correctable ones
- GHES cleanups
- Add the functionality to override error reporting agents as some
machines are sporting a new extended error logging capability which,
if done properly in the BIOS, makes a corresponding EDAC module
redundant
- PCIe AER tracepoint severity levels fix
- Error path correction for the mce device init
- MCE timer fix
- Add more flexibility to the error injection (EINJ) debugfs interface
* 'x86-ras-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86, mce: Fix mce_start_timer semantics
ACPI, APEI, GHES: Cleanup ghes memory error handling
ACPI, APEI: Cleanup alignment-aware accesses
ACPI, APEI, GHES: Do not report only correctable errors with SCI
ACPI, APEI, EINJ: Changes to the ACPI/APEI/EINJ debugfs interface
ACPI, eMCA: Combine eMCA/EDAC event reporting priority
EDAC, sb_edac: Modify H/W event reporting policy
EDAC: Add an edac_report parameter to EDAC
PCI, AER: Fix severity usage in aer trace event
x86, mce: Call put_device on device_register failure
Pull x86 mm changes from Ingo Molnar:
"A cleanup, a fix and ASLR support for hugetlb mappings"
* 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/mm/numa: Fix 32-bit kernel NUMA boot
x86/mm: Implement ASLR for hugetlb mappings
x86/mm: Unify pte_to_pgoff() and pgoff_to_pte() helpers
Pull x86 microcode loader updates from Ingo Molnar:
"There are two main changes in this tree:
- AMD microcode early loading fixes
- some microcode loader source files reorganization"
* 'x86-microcode-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86, microcode: Move to a proper location
x86, microcode, AMD: Fix early ucode loading
x86, microcode: Share native MSR accessing variants
x86, ramdisk: Export relocated ramdisk VA
Pull x86 EFI changes from Ingo Molnar:
"This consists of two main parts:
- New static EFI runtime services virtual mapping layout which is
groundwork for kexec support on EFI (Borislav Petkov)
- EFI kexec support itself (Dave Young)"
* 'x86-efi-kexec-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (24 commits)
x86/efi: parse_efi_setup() build fix
x86: ksysfs.c build fix
x86/efi: Delete superfluous global variables
x86: Reserve setup_data ranges late after parsing memmap cmdline
x86: Export x86 boot_params to sysfs
x86: Add xloadflags bit for EFI runtime support on kexec
x86/efi: Pass necessary EFI data for kexec via setup_data
efi: Export EFI runtime memory mapping to sysfs
efi: Export more EFI table variables to sysfs
x86/efi: Cleanup efi_enter_virtual_mode() function
x86/efi: Fix off-by-one bug in EFI Boot Services reservation
x86/efi: Add a wrapper function efi_map_region_fixed()
x86/efi: Remove unused variables in __map_region()
x86/efi: Check krealloc return value
x86/efi: Runtime services virtual mapping
x86/mm/cpa: Map in an arbitrary pgd
x86/mm/pageattr: Add last levels of error path
x86/mm/pageattr: Add a PUD error unwinding path
x86/mm/pageattr: Add a PTE pagetable populating function
x86/mm/pageattr: Add a PMD pagetable populating function
...
Pull x86 TLB detection update from Ingo Molnar:
"A single change that extends our TLB cache size detection+reporting
code"
* 'x86-cpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86, cpu: Detect more TLB configuration
Pull x86 cleanups from Ingo Molnar:
"Misc cleanups"
* 'x86-cleanups-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86, cpu, amd: Fix a shadowed variable situation
um, x86: Fix vDSO build
x86: Delete non-required instances of include <linux/init.h>
x86, realmode: Pointer walk cleanups, pull out invariant use of __pa()
x86/traps: Clean up error exception handler definitions
Pull x86/build changes from Ingo Molnar:
"Misc smaller improvements"
* 'x86-build-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86, boot: Move intcall() to the .inittext section
x86, boot: Use .code16 instead of .code16gcc
x86, sparse: Do not force removal of __user when calling copy_to/from_user_nocheck()
Pull x86/asm changes from Ingo Molnar:
"Misc optimizations"
* 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86: Slightly tweak the access_ok() C variant for better code
x86: Replace assembly access_ok() with a C variant
x86-64, copy_user: Use leal to produce 32-bit results
x86-64, copy_user: Remove zero byte check before copy user buffer.
Pull scheduler changes from Ingo Molnar:
- Add the initial implementation of SCHED_DEADLINE support: a real-time
scheduling policy where tasks that meet their deadlines and
periodically execute their instances in less than their runtime quota
see real-time scheduling and won't miss any of their deadlines.
Tasks that go over their quota get delayed (Available to privileged
users for now)
- Clean up and fix preempt_enable_no_resched() abuse all around the
tree
- Do sched_clock() performance optimizations on x86 and elsewhere
- Fix and improve auto-NUMA balancing
- Fix and clean up the idle loop
- Apply various cleanups and fixes
* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (60 commits)
sched: Fix __sched_setscheduler() nice test
sched: Move SCHED_RESET_ON_FORK into attr::sched_flags
sched: Fix up attr::sched_priority warning
sched: Fix up scheduler syscall LTP fails
sched: Preserve the nice level over sched_setscheduler() and sched_setparam() calls
sched/core: Fix htmldocs warnings
sched/deadline: No need to check p if dl_se is valid
sched/deadline: Remove unused variables
sched/deadline: Fix sparse static warnings
m68k: Fix build warning in mac_via.h
sched, thermal: Clean up preempt_enable_no_resched() abuse
sched, net: Fixup busy_loop_us_clock()
sched, net: Clean up preempt_enable_no_resched() abuse
sched/preempt: Fix up missed PREEMPT_NEED_RESCHED folding
sched/preempt, locking: Rework local_bh_{dis,en}able()
sched/clock, x86: Avoid a runtime condition in native_sched_clock()
sched/clock: Fix up clear_sched_clock_stable()
sched/clock, x86: Use a static_key for sched_clock_stable
sched/clock: Remove local_irq_disable() from the clocks
sched/clock, x86: Rewrite cyc2ns() to avoid the need to disable IRQs
...
Pull perf updates from Ingo Molnar:
"Kernel side changes:
- Add Intel RAPL energy counter support (Stephane Eranian)
- Clean up uprobes (Oleg Nesterov)
- Optimize ring-buffer writes (Peter Zijlstra)
Tooling side changes, user visible:
- 'perf diff':
- Add column colouring improvements (Ramkumar Ramachandra)
- 'perf kvm':
- Add guest related improvements, including allowing to specify a
directory with guest specific /proc information (Dongsheng Yang)
- Add shell completion support (Ramkumar Ramachandra)
- Add '-v' option (Dongsheng Yang)
- Support --guestmount (Dongsheng Yang)
- 'perf probe':
- Support showing source code, asking for variables to be collected
at probe time and other 'perf probe' operations that use DWARF
information.
This supports only binaries with debugging information at this
time, detached debuginfo (aka debuginfo packages) support should
come in later patches (Masami Hiramatsu)
- 'perf record':
- Rename --no-delay option to --no-buffering, better reflecting its
purpose and freeing up '--delay' to take the place of
'--initial-delay', so that 'record' and 'stat' are consistent
(Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
- Default the -t/--thread option to no inheritance (Adrian Hunter)
- Make per-cpu mmaps the default (Adrian Hunter)
- 'perf report':
- Improve callchain processing performance (Frederic Weisbecker)
- Retain bfd reference to lookup source line numbers, greatly
optimizing, among other use cases, 'perf report -s srcline'
(Adrian Hunter)
- Improve callchain processing performance even more (Namhyung Kim)
- Add a perf.data file header window in the 'perf report' TUI,
associated with the 'i' hotkey, providing a counterpart to the
--header option in the stdio UI (Namhyung Kim)
- 'perf script':
- Add an option in 'perf script' to print the source line number
(Adrian Hunter)
- Add --header/--header-only options to 'script' and 'report', the
default is not tho show the header info, but as this has been the
default for some time, leave a single line explaining how to
obtain that information (Jiri Olsa)
- Add options to show comm, fork, exit and mmap PERF_RECORD_ events
(Namhyung Kim)
- Print callchains and symbols if they exist (David Ahern)
- 'perf timechart'
- Add backtrace support to CPU info
- Print pid along the name
- Add support for CPU topology
- Add new option --highlight'ing threads, be it by name or, if a
numeric value is provided, that run more than given duration
(Stanislav Fomichev)
- 'perf top':
- Make 'perf top -g' refer to callchains, for consistency with
other tools (David Ahern)
- 'perf trace':
- Handle old kernels where the "raw_syscalls" tracepoints were
called plain "syscalls" (David Ahern)
- Remove thread summary coloring, by Pekka Enberg.
- Honour -m option in 'trace', the tool was offering the option to
set the mmap size, but wasn't using it when doing the actual mmap
on the events file descriptors (Jiri Olsa)
- generic:
- Backport libtraceevent plugin support (trace-cmd repository, with
plugins for jbd2, hrtimer, kmem, kvm, mac80211, sched_switch,
function, xen, scsi, cfg80211 (Jiri Olsa)
- Print session information only if --stdio is given (Namhyung Kim)
Tooling side changes, developer visible (plumbing):
- Improve 'perf probe' exit path, release resources (Masami
Hiramatsu)
- Improve libtraceevent plugins exit path, allowing the registering
of an unregister handler to be called at exit time (Namhyung Kim)
- Add an alias to the build test makefile (make -C tools/perf
build-test) (Namhyung Kim)
- Get rid of die() and friends (good riddance!) in libtraceevent
(Namhyung Kim)
- Fix cross build problems related to pkgconfig and CROSS_COMPILE not
being propagated to the feature tests, leading to features being
tested in the host and then being enabled on the target (Mark
Rutland)
- Improve forked workload error reporting by sending the errno in the
signal data queueing integer field, using sigqueue and by doing the
signal setup in the evlist methods, removing open coded equivalents
in various tools (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
- Do more auto exit cleanup chores in the 'evlist' destructor, so
that the tools don't have to all do that sequence (Arnaldo Carvalho
de Melo)
- Pack 'struct perf_session_env' and 'struct trace' (Arnaldo Carvalho
de Melo)
- Add test for building detached source tarballs (Arnaldo Carvalho de
Melo)
- Move some header files (tools/perf/ to tools/include/ to make them
available to other tools/ dwelling codebases (Namhyung Kim)
- Move logic to warn about kptr_restrict'ed kernels to separate
function in 'report' (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
- Move hist browser selection code to separate function (Arnaldo
Carvalho de Melo)
- Move histogram entries collapsing to separate function (Arnaldo
Carvalho de Melo)
- Introduce evlist__for_each() & friends (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
- Automate setup of FEATURE_CHECK_(C|LD)FLAGS-all variables (Jiri
Olsa)
- Move arch setup into seprate Makefile (Jiri Olsa)
- Make libtraceevent install target quieter (Jiri Olsa)
- Make tests/make output more compact (Jiri Olsa)
- Ignore generated files in feature-checks (Chunwei Chen)
- Introduce pevent_filter_strerror() in libtraceevent, similar in
purpose to libc's strerror() function (Namhyung Kim)
- Use perf_data_file methods to write output file in 'record' and
'inject' (Jiri Olsa)
- Use pr_*() functions where applicable in 'report' (Namhyumg Kim)
- Add 'machine' 'addr_location' struct to have full picture (machine,
thread, map, symbol, addr) for a (partially) resolved address,
reducing function signatures (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
- Reduce code duplication in the histogram entry creation/insertion
(Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
- Auto allocate annotation histogram data structures (Arnaldo
Carvalho de Melo)
- No need to test against NULL before calling free, also set freed
memory in struct pointers to NULL, to help fixing use after free
bugs (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
- Rename some struct DSO binary_type related members and methods, to
clarify its purpose and need for differentiation (symtab_type, ie
one is about the files .text, CFI, etc, i.e. its binary contents,
and the other is about where the symbol table came from (Arnaldo
Carvalho de Melo)
- Convert to new topic libraries, starting with an API one (sysfs,
debugfs, etc), renaming liblk in the process (Borislav Petkov)
- Get rid of some more panic() like error handling in libtraceevent.
(Namhyung Kim)
- Get rid of panic() like calls in libtraceevent (Namyung Kim)
- Start carving out symbol parsing routines (perf, just moving
routines to topic files in tools/lib/symbol/, tools that want to
use it need to integrate it directly, ie no
tools/lib/symbol/Makefile is provided (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
- Assorted refactoring patches, moving code around and adding utility
evlist methods that will be used in the IPT patchset (Adrian
Hunter)
- Assorted mmap_pages handling fixes (Adrian Hunter)
- Several man pages typo fixes (Dongsheng Yang)
- Get rid of several die() calls in libtraceevent (Namhyung Kim)
- Use basename() in a more robust way, to avoid problems related to
different system library implementations for that function
(Stephane Eranian)
- Remove open coded management of short_name_allocated member (Adrian
Hunter)
- Several cleanups in the "dso" methods, constifying some parameters
and renaming some fields to clarify its purpose (Arnaldo Carvalho
de Melo)
- Add per-feature check flags, fixing libunwind related build
problems on some architectures (Jean Pihet)
- Do not disable source line lookup just because of one failure.
(Adrian Hunter)
- Several 'perf kvm' man page corrections (Dongsheng Yang)
- Correct the message in feature-libnuma checking, swowing the right
devel package names for various distros (Dongsheng Yang)
- Polish 'readn()' function and introduce its counterpart,
'writen()' (Jiri Olsa)
- Start moving timechart state from global variables to a 'perf_tool'
derived 'timechart' struct (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
... and lots of fixes and improvements I forgot to list"
* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (282 commits)
perf tools: Remove unnecessary callchain cursor state restore on unmatch
perf callchain: Spare double comparison of callchain first entry
perf tools: Do proper comm override error handling
perf symbols: Export elf_section_by_name and reuse
perf probe: Release all dynamically allocated parameters
perf probe: Release allocated probe_trace_event if failed
perf tools: Add 'build-test' make target
tools lib traceevent: Unregister handler when xen plugin is unloaded
tools lib traceevent: Unregister handler when scsi plugin is unloaded
tools lib traceevent: Unregister handler when jbd2 plugin is is unloaded
tools lib traceevent: Unregister handler when cfg80211 plugin is unloaded
tools lib traceevent: Unregister handler when mac80211 plugin is unloaded
tools lib traceevent: Unregister handler when sched_switch plugin is unloaded
tools lib traceevent: Unregister handler when kvm plugin is unloaded
tools lib traceevent: Unregister handler when kmem plugin is unloaded
tools lib traceevent: Unregister handler when hrtimer plugin is unloaded
tools lib traceevent: Unregister handler when function plugin is unloaded
tools lib traceevent: Add pevent_unregister_print_function()
tools lib traceevent: Add pevent_unregister_event_handler()
tools lib traceevent: fix pointer-integer size mismatch
...
Aaron Tomlin
Mike Travis
Ingo Molnar
Linus Torvalds