Impact: clean up
Now that ftrace_lock is a mutex, there is no reason to have three
different mutexes protecting similar data. All the mutex paths
are not in hot paths, so having a mutex to cover more data is
not a problem.
This patch removes the ftrace_sysctl_lock and ftrace_start_lock
and uses the ftrace_lock to protect the locations that were protected
by these locks. By doing so, this change also removes some of
the lock nesting that was taking place.
There are still more mutexes in ftrace.c that can probably be
consolidated, but they can be dealt with later. We need to be careful
about the way the locks are nested, and by consolidating, we can cause
a recursive deadlock.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Impact: clean up
The older versions of ftrace required doing the ftrace list
search under atomic context. Now all the calls are in non-atomic
context. There is no reason to keep the ftrace_lock as a spinlock.
This patch converts it to a mutex.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Allow for other tracers to add their own commands for function
selection. This interface gives a trace the ability to name a
command for function selection. Right now it is pretty limited
in what it offers, but this is a building step for more features.
The :mod: command is converted to this interface and also serves
as a template for other implementations.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Impact: fix to prevent empty set_ftrace_filter and no ftrace output
The function filter is used to only trace a given set of functions.
The filter is enabled when a function name is echoed into the
set_ftrace_filter file. But if the name has a typo and the function
is not found, the filter is enabled, but no function is listed.
This makes a confusing situation where set_ftrace_filter is empty
but no functions ever get enabled for tracing.
For example:
# cat /debug/tracing/set_ftrace_filter
#### all functions enabled ####
# echo bad_name > set_ftrace_filter
# cat /debug/tracing/set_ftrace_filter
# echo function > current_tracer
# cat trace
# tracer: nop
#
# TASK-PID CPU# TIMESTAMP FUNCTION
# | | | | |
This patch changes that to only enable filtering if a function
is set to be filtered on. Now, the filter is not enabled if
a bad name is echoed into set_ftrace_filter.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
This patch adds a "command" syntax to the function filtering files:
/debugfs/tracing/set_ftrace_filter
/debugfs/tracing/set_ftrace_notrace
Of the format: <function>:<command>:<parameter>
The command is optional, and dependent on the command, so are
the parameters.
echo do_fork > set_ftrace_filter
Will only trace 'do_fork'.
echo 'sched_*' > set_ftrace_filter
Will only trace functions starting with the letters 'sched_'.
echo '*:mod:ext3' > set_ftrace_filter
Will trace only the ext3 module functions.
echo '*write*:mod:ext3' > set_ftrace_notrace
Will prevent the ext3 functions with the letters 'write' in
the name from being traced.
echo '!*_allocate:mod:ext3' > set_ftrace_filter
Will remove the functions in ext3 that end with the letters
'_allocate' from the ftrace filter.
Although this patch implements the 'command' format, only the
'mod' command is supported. More commands to follow.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Impact: clean up
ftrace_match_records does a lot of things that other features
can use. This patch breaks up ftrace_match_records and pulls
out ftrace_setup_glob and ftrace_match_record.
ftrace_setup_glob prepares a simple glob expression for use with
ftrace_match_record. ftrace_match_record compares a single record
with a glob type.
Breaking this up will allow for more features to run on individual
records.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Impact: clean up
ftrace_match is too generic of a name. What it really does is
search all records and matches the records with the given string,
and either sets or unsets the functions to be traced depending
on if the parameter 'enable' is set or not.
This allows us to make another function called ftrace_match that
can be used to test a single record.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Impact: clean up
To iterate over all the functions that dynamic trace knows about
it requires two for loops. One to iterate over the pages and the
other to iterate over the records within the page.
There are several duplications of these loops in ftrace.c. This
patch creates the macros do_for_each_ftrace_rec and
while_for_each_ftrace_rec to handle this logic, and removes the
duplicate code.
While making this change, I also discovered and fixed a small
bug that one of the iterations should exit the loop after it found the
record it was searching for. This used a break when it should have
used a goto, since there were two loops it needed to break out
from. No real harm was done by this bug since it would only continue
to search the other records, and the code was in a slow path anyway.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Impact: clean up, make set_ftrace_filter less confusing
The set_ftrace_filter shows only the functions that will be traced.
But when it is empty, it will trace all functions. This can be a bit
confusing.
This patch makes set_ftrace_filter show:
#### all functions enabled ####
When all functions will be traced, and we do not filter only a select
few.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Impact: avoid corruption in system time accounting
Martin Schwidefsky told me that there was an issue with NMIs and
system accounting. The problem is that the accounting code is
not reentrant, and if an NMI goes off after an interrupt it can
corrupt the accounting.
For now, the best we can do is to treat NMIs like SMIs and they
are not accounted for.
This patch changes nmi_enter to not call __irq_enter and to do
the preempt-count and tracing calls directly.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Impact: clean up
While reviewing the ring buffer code, I thougth I saw a bug with
if (!__raw_spin_trylock(&cpu_buffer->lock))
goto out_unlock;
But I forgot that we use a variable "lock_taken" that is set if
the spinlock is taken, and only unlock it if that variable is set.
To avoid further confusion from other reviewers, this patch
renames the label out_unlock with out_reset, which is the more
appropriate name.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
To add a bit in the preempt_count to be set when in NMI context, we
found that some archs did not have enough bits to spare. This is
due to the hardirq_count being a mask that can hold NR_IRQS.
Some archs allow for over 16000 IRQs, and that would require a mask
of 14 bits. The sofitrq mask is 8 bits and the preempt disable mask
is also 8 bits. The PREEMP_ACTIVE bit is bit 30, and bit 31 would
make the preempt_count (which is type int) a negative number.
A negative preempt_count is a sign of failure.
Add them up 14+8+8+1+1 you get 32 bits. No room for the NMI bit.
But the hardirq_count is to track the number of nested IRQs, not
the number of total IRQs. This originally took the paranoid approach
of setting the max nesting to NR_IRQS. But when we have archs with
over 1000 IRQs, it is not practical to think they will ever all
nest on a single CPU. Not to mention that this would most definitely
cause a stack overflow.
This patch sets a max of 10 bits to be used for IRQ nesting.
I did a 'git grep HARDIRQ' to examine all users of HARDIRQ_BITS and
HARDIRQ_MASK, and found that making it a max of 10 would not hurt
anyone. I did find that the m68k expected it to be 8 bits, so
I allow for the archs to set the number to be less than 10.
I removed the setting of HARDIRQ_BITS from the archs that set it
to more than 10. This includes ALPHA, ia64 and avr32.
This will always allow room for the NMI bit, and if we need to allow
for NMI nesting, we have 4 bits to play with.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
A bug was introduced into write_cache_pages cyclic writeout by commit
31a12666d8 ("mm: write_cache_pages cyclic
fix"). The intention (and comments) is that we should cycle back and
look for more dirty pages at the beginning of the file if there is no
more work to be done.
But the !done condition was dropped from the test. This means that any
time the page writeout loop breaks (eg. due to nr_to_write == 0), we
will set index to 0, then goto again. This will set done_index to
index, then find done is set, so will proceed to the end of the
function. When updating mapping->writeback_index for cyclic writeout,
we now use done_index == 0, so we're always cycling back to 0.
This seemed to be causing random mmap writes (slapadd and iozone) to
start writing more pages from the LRU and writeout would slowdown, and
caused bugzilla entry
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12604
about Berkeley DB slowing down dramatically.
With this patch, iozone random write performance is increased nearly
5x on my system (iozone -B -r 4k -s 64k -s 512m -s 1200m on ext2).
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Reported-and-tested-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fix a problem that causes I/O to a disconnected (or partially initialized)
nbd device to hang indefinitely. To reproduce:
# ioctl NBD_SET_SIZE_BLOCKS /dev/nbd23 514048
# dd if=/dev/nbd23 of=/dev/null bs=4096 count=1
...hangs...
This can also occur when an nbd device loses its nbd-client/server
connection. Although we clear the queue of any outstanding I/Os after the
client/server connection fails, any additional I/Os that get queued later
will hang.
This bug may also be the problem reported in this bug report:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12277
Testing would need to be performed to determine if the two issues are the
same.
This problem was introduced by the new request handling thread code ("NBD:
allow nbd to be used locally", 3/2008), which entered into mainline around
2.6.25.
The fix, which is fairly simple, is to restore the check for lo->sock
being NULL in do_nbd_request. This causes I/O to an uninitialized nbd to
immediately fail with an I/O error, as it did prior to the introduction of
this bug.
Signed-off-by: Paul Clements <paul.clements@steeleye.com>
Reported-by: Jon Nelson <jnelson-kernel-bugzilla@jamponi.net>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> [2.6.26.x, 2.6.27.x, 2.6.28.x]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Christophe Saout reported [in precursor to:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=123209902707347&w=4]:
> Note that I also some a different issue with CONFIG_UNEVICTABLE_LRU.
> Seems like Xen tears down current->mm early on process termination, so
> that __get_user_pages in exit_mmap causes nasty messages when the
> process had any mlocked pages. (in fact, it somehow manages to get into
> the swapping code and produces a null pointer dereference trying to get
> a swap token)
Jeremy explained:
Yes. In the normal case under Xen, an in-use pagetable is "pinned",
meaning that it is RO to the kernel, and all updates must go via hypercall
(or writes are trapped and emulated, which is much the same thing). An
unpinned pagetable is not currently in use by any process, and can be
directly accessed as normal RW pages.
As an optimisation at process exit time, we unpin the pagetable as early
as possible (switching the process to init_mm), so that all the normal
pagetable teardown can happen with direct memory accesses.
This happens in exit_mmap() -> arch_exit_mmap(). The munlocking happens
a few lines below. The obvious thing to do would be to move
arch_exit_mmap() to below the munlock code, but I think we'd want to
call it even if mm->mmap is NULL, just to be on the safe side.
Thus, this patch:
exit_mmap() needs to unlock any locked vmas before calling arch_exit_mmap,
as the latter may switch the current mm to init_mm, which would cause the
former to fail.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Christophe Saout <christophe@saout.de>
Cc: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@eu.citrix.com>
Cc: Christophe Saout <christophe@saout.de>
Cc: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@hp.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> [2.6.28.x]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Since netmos 9835 with subids 0x1014(IBM):0x0299 is now bound with
serial/8250_pci, because it has no parallel ports and subdevice id isn't
in the expected form, return -ENODEV from probe function.
This is performed in netmos preinit_hook.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Commit dcf6a79dda ("write-back: fix
nr_to_write counter") fixed nr_to_write counter, but didn't set the break
condition properly.
If nr_to_write == 0 after being decremented it will loop one more time
before setting done = 1 and breaking the loop.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Acked-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
With the new system call defines we get this on uml:
arch/um/sys-i386/built-in.o: In function `sys_call_table':
(.rodata+0x308): undefined reference to `sys_sigprocmask'
Reason for this is that uml passes the preprocessor option
-Dsigprocmask=kernel_sigprocmask to gcc when compiling the kernel.
This causes SYSCALL_DEFINE3(sigprocmask, ...) to be expanded to
SYSCALL_DEFINEx(3, kernel_sigprocmask, ...) and finally to a system
call named sys_kernel_sigprocmask. However sys_sigprocmask is missing
because of this.
To avoid macro expansion for the system call name just concatenate the
name at first define instead of carrying it through severel levels.
This was pointed out by Al Viro.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Reviewed-by: WANG Cong <wangcong@zeuux.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Steven Rostedt
Ingo Molnar
Linus Torvalds
Nick Piggin
Kirill A. Shutemov
Ian Dall
Paul Clements
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Jiri Slaby
Federico Cuello
Heiko Carstens