It was observed that on an Intel x86 system without the ARAT (Always
running APIC timer) feature and with fairly large number of CPUs as
well as CPUs coming in and out of intel_idle frequently, the lock
contention on the tick_broadcast_lock can become significant.
To reduce contention, the lock is put into its own cacheline and all
the cpumask_var_t variables are put into the __read_mostly section.
Running the SP benchmark of the NAS Parallel Benchmarks on a 4-socket
16-core 32-thread Nehalam system, the performance number improved
from 3353.94 Mop/s to 3469.31 Mop/s when this patch was applied on
a 4.9.6 kernel. This is a 3.4% improvement.
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Cc: "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1485799063-20857-1-git-send-email-longman@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Steven suggested to improve trace_print_hex_seq() a bit after commit
2acae0d5b0 ("trace: add variant without spacing in trace_print_hex_seq")
in two ways: i) by adding a kdoc comment for the helper function
itself and ii) by renaming 'spacing' argument into 'concatenate'
to better denote that we don't add spaces between each hex bytes.
Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Pull tracing fix from Steven Rostedt:
"Simple fix of s/static struct __init/static __init struct/"
* tag 'trace-v4.10-rc2-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace:
tracing/kprobes: Fix __init annotation
The modversion symbol CRCs are emitted as ELF symbols, which allows us
to easily populate the kcrctab sections by relying on the linker to
associate each kcrctab slot with the correct value.
This has a couple of downsides:
- Given that the CRCs are treated as memory addresses, we waste 4 bytes
for each CRC on 64 bit architectures,
- On architectures that support runtime relocation, a R_<arch>_RELATIVE
relocation entry is emitted for each CRC value, which identifies it
as a quantity that requires fixing up based on the actual runtime
load offset of the kernel. This results in corrupted CRCs unless we
explicitly undo the fixup (and this is currently being handled in the
core module code)
- Such runtime relocation entries take up 24 bytes of __init space
each, resulting in a x8 overhead in [uncompressed] kernel size for
CRCs.
Switching to explicit 32 bit values on 64 bit architectures fixes most
of these issues, given that 32 bit values are not treated as quantities
that require fixing up based on the actual runtime load offset. Note
that on some ELF64 architectures [such as PPC64], these 32-bit values
are still emitted as [absolute] runtime relocatable quantities, even if
the value resolves to a build time constant. Since relative relocations
are always resolved at build time, this patch enables MODULE_REL_CRCS on
powerpc when CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y, which turns the absolute CRC
references into relative references into .rodata where the actual CRC
value is stored.
So redefine all CRC fields and variables as u32, and redefine the
__CRC_SYMBOL() macro for 64 bit builds to emit the CRC reference using
inline assembler (which is necessary since 64-bit C code cannot use
32-bit types to hold memory addresses, even if they are ultimately
resolved using values that do not exceed 0xffffffff). To avoid
potential problems with legacy 32-bit architectures using legacy
toolchains, the equivalent C definition of the kcrctab entry is retained
for 32-bit architectures.
Note that this mostly reverts commit d4703aefdb ("module: handle ppc64
relocating kcrctabs when CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y")
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pull perf fixes from Ingo Molnar:
"Five kernel fixes:
- an mmap tracing ABI fix for certain mappings
- a use-after-free fix, found via KASAN
- three CPU hotplug related x86 PMU driver fixes"
* 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
perf/x86/intel/uncore: Make package handling more robust
perf/x86/intel/uncore: Clean up hotplug conversion fallout
perf/x86/intel/rapl: Make package handling more robust
perf/core: Fix PERF_RECORD_MMAP2 prot/flags for anonymous memory
perf/core: Fix use-after-free bug
We may already have a directory to put the blktrace stuff in if
1. The disk uses blk-mq
2. CONFIG_BLK_DEBUG_FS is enabled
3. We are tracing the whole disk and not a partition
Instead of hardcoding this very specific case, let's use the new
debugfs_lookup(). If the directory exists, we use it, otherwise we
create one and clean it up later.
Fixes: 07e4fead45 ("blk-mq: create debugfs directory tree")
Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
When I added the blk-mq debugging information to debugfs, I didn't
notice that blktrace also creates a "block" directory in debugfs. Make
them use the same dentry, now created in the core block code. Based on a
patch from Jens.
Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
clang complains about "__init" being attached to a struct name:
kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c:1375:15: error: '__section__' attribute only applies to functions and global variables
The intention must have been to mark the function as __init instead of
the type, so move the attribute there.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170201165826.2625888-1-arnd@arndb.de
Fixes: f18f97ac43 ("tracing/kprobes: Add a helper method to return number of probe hits")
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
We added the 'sched_rr_timeslice_ms' SCHED_RR tuning knob in this commit:
ce0dbbbb30 ("sched/rt: Add a tuning knob to allow changing SCHED_RR timeslice")
... which name suggests to users that it's in milliseconds, while in reality
it's being set in milliseconds but the result is shown in jiffies.
This is obviously confusing when HZ is not 1000, it makes it appear like the
value set failed, such as HZ=100:
root# echo 100 > /proc/sys/kernel/sched_rr_timeslice_ms
root# cat /proc/sys/kernel/sched_rr_timeslice_ms
10
Fix this to be milliseconds all around.
Signed-off-by: Shile Zhang <shile.zhang@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1485612049-20923-1-git-send-email-shile.zhang@nokia.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Waiman Long
Daniel Borkmann
Linus Torvalds
Ard Biesheuvel
David S. Miller
Omar Sandoval
Arnd Bergmann
Shile Zhang
Frederic Weisbecker