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Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)
5ae0bf5972 ftrace: Fix locking in register_ftrace_function_probe()
The iteration of the ftrace function list and the call to
ftrace_match_record() need to be protected by the ftrace_lock.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-05-09 20:15:30 -04:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)
da511bf33e tracing: Add helper function trace_create_new_event() to remove duplicate code
Both __trace_add_new_event() and __trace_early_add_new_event() do
basically the same thing, except that __trace_add_new_event() does
a little more.

Instead of having duplicate code between the two functions, add
a helper function trace_create_new_event() that both can use.
This will help against having bugs fixed in one function but not
the other.

Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-05-09 20:14:49 -04:00
Masami Hiramatsu
1cf4c0732d tracing: Modify soft-mode only if there's no other referrer
Modify soft-mode flag only if no other soft-mode referrer
(currently only the ftrace triggers) by using a reference
counter in each ftrace_event_file.

Without this fix, adding and removing several different
enable/disable_event triggers on the same event clear
soft-mode bit from the ftrace_event_file. This also
happens with a typo of glob on setting triggers.

e.g.

 # echo vfs_symlink:enable_event:net:netif_rx > set_ftrace_filter
 # cat events/net/netif_rx/enable
 0*
 # echo typo_func:enable_event:net:netif_rx > set_ftrace_filter
 # cat events/net/netif_rx/enable
 0
 # cat set_ftrace_filter
 #### all functions enabled ####
 vfs_symlink:enable_event:net:netif_rx:unlimited

As above, we still have a trigger, but soft-mode is gone.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130509054429.30398.7464.stgit@mhiramat-M0-7522

Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: David Sharp <dhsharp@google.com>
Cc: Hiraku Toyooka <hiraku.toyooka.gu@hitachi.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-05-09 20:14:25 -04:00
Masami Hiramatsu
30052170dc tracing: Indicate enabled soft-mode in enable file
Indicate enabled soft-mode event as "1*" in "enable" file
for each event, because it can be soft-disabled when disable_event
trigger is hit.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130509054426.30398.28202.stgit@mhiramat-M0-7522

Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-05-09 20:14:07 -04:00
Masami Hiramatsu
cce2c8f267 tracing/kprobes: Fix to increment return event probe hit-count
Fix to increment probe hit-count for function return event.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130509054424.30398.34058.stgit@mhiramat-M0-7522

Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@intel.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-05-09 20:13:51 -04:00
Masami Hiramatsu
3f2367ba7c ftrace: Cleanup regex_lock and ftrace_lock around hash updating
Cleanup regex_lock and ftrace_lock locking points around
ftrace_ops hash update code.

The new rule is that regex_lock protects ops->*_hash
read-update-write code for each ftrace_ops. Usually,
hash update is done by following sequence.

1. allocate a new local hash and copy the original hash.
2. update the local hash.
3. move(actually, copy) back the local hash to ftrace_ops.
4. update ftrace entries if needed.
5. release the local hash.

This makes regex_lock protect #1-#4, and ftrace_lock
to protect #3, #4 and adding and removing ftrace_ops from the
ftrace_ops_list. The ftrace_lock protects #3 as well because
the move functions update the entries too.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130509054421.30398.83411.stgit@mhiramat-M0-7522

Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-05-09 20:11:48 -04:00
Masami Hiramatsu
f04f24fb7e ftrace, kprobes: Fix a deadlock on ftrace_regex_lock
Fix a deadlock on ftrace_regex_lock which happens when setting
an enable_event trigger on dynamic kprobe event as below.

----
sh-2.05b# echo p vfs_symlink > kprobe_events
sh-2.05b# echo vfs_symlink:enable_event:kprobes:p_vfs_symlink_0 > set_ftrace_filter

=============================================
[ INFO: possible recursive locking detected ]
3.9.0+ #35 Not tainted
---------------------------------------------
sh/72 is trying to acquire lock:
 (ftrace_regex_lock){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff810ba6c1>] ftrace_set_hash+0x81/0x1f0

but task is already holding lock:
 (ftrace_regex_lock){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff810b7cbd>] ftrace_regex_write.isra.29.part.30+0x3d/0x220

other info that might help us debug this:
 Possible unsafe locking scenario:

       CPU0
       ----
  lock(ftrace_regex_lock);
  lock(ftrace_regex_lock);

 *** DEADLOCK ***
----

To fix that, this introduces a finer regex_lock for each ftrace_ops.
ftrace_regex_lock is too big of a lock which protects all
filter/notrace_hash operations, but it doesn't need to be a global
lock after supporting multiple ftrace_ops because each ftrace_ops
has its own filter/notrace_hash.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130509054417.30398.84254.stgit@mhiramat-M0-7522

Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
[ Added initialization flag and automate mutex initialization for
  non ftrace.c ftrace_probes. ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-05-09 20:10:22 -04:00
Al Viro
c5ddd2024a switch compat_sys_sysctl to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-05-09 14:53:20 -04:00
Al Viro
91c2e0bcae unify compat fanotify_mark(2), switch to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-05-09 13:46:38 -04:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)
7c088b5120 ftrace: Have ftrace_regex_write() return either read or error
As ftrace_regex_write() reads the result of ftrace_process_regex()
which can sometimes return a positive number, only consider a
failure if the return is negative. Otherwise, it will skip possible
other registered probes and by returning a positive number that
wasn't read, it will confuse the user processes doing the writing.

Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-05-09 11:35:12 -04:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)
ff305ded9f tracing: Return error if register_ftrace_function_probe() fails for event_enable_func()
register_ftrace_function_probe() returns the number of functions
it registered, which can be zero, it can also return a negative number
if something went wrong. But event_enable_func() only checks for
the case that it didn't register anything, it needs to also check
for the case that something went wrong and return that error code
as well.

Added some comments about the code as well, to make it more
understandable.

Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-05-09 11:30:26 -04:00
Masami Hiramatsu
a5b85bd155 tracing: Don't succeed if event_enable_func did not register anything
Return 0 instead of the number of activated ftrace function probes if
event_enable_func succeeded and return an error code if it failed or
did not register any functions. But it currently returns the number
of registered functions and if it didn't register anything, it returns 0,
but that is considered success.

This also fixes the return value. As if it succeeds, it returns the
number of functions that were enabled, which is returned back to
the user in ftrace_regex_write (the write() return code). If only
one function is enabled, then the return code of the write is one,
and this can confuse the user program in thinking it only wrote 1
byte.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130509054413.30398.55650.stgit@mhiramat-M0-7522

Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
[ Rewrote change log to reflect that this fixes two bugs - SR ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-05-09 11:26:01 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
ebb3727779 Merge branch 'for-3.10/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block
Pull block driver updates from Jens Axboe:
 "It might look big in volume, but when categorized, not a lot of
  drivers are touched.  The pull request contains:

   - mtip32xx fixes from Micron.

   - A slew of drbd updates, this time in a nicer series.

   - bcache, a flash/ssd caching framework from Kent.

   - Fixes for cciss"

* 'for-3.10/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (66 commits)
  bcache: Use bd_link_disk_holder()
  bcache: Allocator cleanup/fixes
  cciss: bug fix to prevent cciss from loading in kdump crash kernel
  cciss: add cciss_allow_hpsa module parameter
  drivers/block/mg_disk.c: add CONFIG_PM_SLEEP to suspend/resume functions
  mtip32xx: Workaround for unaligned writes
  bcache: Make sure blocksize isn't smaller than device blocksize
  bcache: Fix merge_bvec_fn usage for when it modifies the bvm
  bcache: Correctly check against BIO_MAX_PAGES
  bcache: Hack around stuff that clones up to bi_max_vecs
  bcache: Set ra_pages based on backing device's ra_pages
  bcache: Take data offset from the bdev superblock.
  mtip32xx: mtip32xx: Disable TRIM support
  mtip32xx: fix a smatch warning
  bcache: Disable broken btree fuzz tester
  bcache: Fix a format string overflow
  bcache: Fix a minor memory leak on device teardown
  bcache: Documentation updates
  bcache: Use WARN_ONCE() instead of __WARN()
  bcache: Add missing #include <linux/prefetch.h>
  ...
2013-05-08 11:51:05 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
4de13d7aa8 Merge branch 'for-3.10/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block
Pull block core updates from Jens Axboe:

 - Major bit is Kents prep work for immutable bio vecs.

 - Stable candidate fix for a scheduling-while-atomic in the queue
   bypass operation.

 - Fix for the hang on exceeded rq->datalen 32-bit unsigned when merging
   discard bios.

 - Tejuns changes to convert the writeback thread pool to the generic
   workqueue mechanism.

 - Runtime PM framework, SCSI patches exists on top of these in James'
   tree.

 - A few random fixes.

* 'for-3.10/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (40 commits)
  relay: move remove_buf_file inside relay_close_buf
  partitions/efi.c: replace useless kzalloc's by kmalloc's
  fs/block_dev.c: fix iov_shorten() criteria in blkdev_aio_read()
  block: fix max discard sectors limit
  blkcg: fix "scheduling while atomic" in blk_queue_bypass_start
  Documentation: cfq-iosched: update documentation help for cfq tunables
  writeback: expose the bdi_wq workqueue
  writeback: replace custom worker pool implementation with unbound workqueue
  writeback: remove unused bdi_pending_list
  aoe: Fix unitialized var usage
  bio-integrity: Add explicit field for owner of bip_buf
  block: Add an explicit bio flag for bios that own their bvec
  block: Add bio_alloc_pages()
  block: Convert some code to bio_for_each_segment_all()
  block: Add bio_for_each_segment_all()
  bounce: Refactor __blk_queue_bounce to not use bi_io_vec
  raid1: use bio_copy_data()
  pktcdvd: Use bio_reset() in disabled code to kill bi_idx usage
  pktcdvd: use bio_copy_data()
  block: Add bio_copy_data()
  ...
2013-05-08 10:13:35 -07:00
Eric Paris
2a0b4be6dd audit: fix message spacing printing auid
The helper function didn't include a leading space, so it was jammed
against the previous text in the audit record.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2013-05-08 00:02:19 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
5af43c24ca Merge branch 'akpm' (incoming from Andrew)
Merge more incoming from Andrew Morton:

 - Various fixes which were stalled or which I picked up recently

 - A large rotorooting of the AIO code.  Allegedly to improve
   performance but I don't really have good performance numbers (I might
   have lost the email) and I can't raise Kent today.  I held this out
   of 3.9 and we could give it another cycle if it's all too late/scary.

I ended up taking only the first two thirds of the AIO rotorooting.  I
left the percpu parts and the batch completion for later.  - Linus

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (33 commits)
  aio: don't include aio.h in sched.h
  aio: kill ki_retry
  aio: kill ki_key
  aio: give shared kioctx fields their own cachelines
  aio: kill struct aio_ring_info
  aio: kill batch allocation
  aio: change reqs_active to include unreaped completions
  aio: use cancellation list lazily
  aio: use flush_dcache_page()
  aio: make aio_read_evt() more efficient, convert to hrtimers
  wait: add wait_event_hrtimeout()
  aio: refcounting cleanup
  aio: make aio_put_req() lockless
  aio: do fget() after aio_get_req()
  aio: dprintk() -> pr_debug()
  aio: move private stuff out of aio.h
  aio: add kiocb_cancel()
  aio: kill return value of aio_complete()
  char: add aio_{read,write} to /dev/{null,zero}
  aio: remove retry-based AIO
  ...
2013-05-07 20:49:51 -07:00
Kent Overstreet
a27bb332c0 aio: don't include aio.h in sched.h
Faster kernel compiles by way of fewer unnecessary includes.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix fallout]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build]
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
Cc: Zach Brown <zab@redhat.com>
Cc: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Asai Thambi S P <asamymuthupa@micron.com>
Cc: Selvan Mani <smani@micron.com>
Cc: Sam Bradshaw <sbradshaw@micron.com>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Reviewed-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-05-07 20:16:25 -07:00
Eric Paris
82d8da0d46 Revert "audit: move kaudit thread start from auditd registration to kaudit init"
This reverts commit 6ff5e45985.

Conflicts:
	kernel/audit.c

This patch was starting a kthread for all the time.  Since the follow on
patches that required it didn't get finished in 3.10 time, we shouldn't
ship this change in 3.10.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2013-05-07 22:27:21 -04:00
Eric W. Biederman
780a7654ce audit: Make testing for a valid loginuid explicit.
audit rule additions containing "-F auid!=4294967295" were failing
with EINVAL because of a regression caused by e1760bd.

Apparently some userland audit rule sets want to know if loginuid uid
has been set and are using a test for auid != 4294967295 to determine
that.

In practice that is a horrible way to ask if a value has been set,
because it relies on subtle implementation details and will break
every time the uid implementation in the kernel changes.

So add a clean way to test if the audit loginuid has been set, and
silently convert the old idiom to the cleaner and more comprehensible
new idiom.

Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.7
Reported-By: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Tested-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2013-05-07 22:27:15 -04:00
Jiri Olsa
52d857a878 perf: Factor out auxiliary events notification
Add perf_event_aux() function to send out all types of
auxiliary events - mmap, task, comm events. For each type
there's match and output functions defined and used as
callbacks during perf_event_aux processing.

This way we can centralize the pmu/context iterating and
event matching logic. Also since lot of the code was
duplicated, this patch reduces the .text size about 2kB
on my setup:

  snipped output from 'objdump -x kernel/events/core.o'

  before:
  Idx Name          Size
    0 .text         0000d313

  after:
  Idx Name          Size
    0 .text         0000cad3

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1367857638-27631-3-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-05-07 13:17:29 +02:00
Jiri Olsa
524eff183f perf: Fix EXIT event notification
The perf_event_task_ctx() function needs to be called with
preemption disabled, since it's checking for currently
scheduled cpu against event cpu.

We disable preemption for task related perf event context
if there's one defined, leaving up to the chance which cpu
it gets scheduled in.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1367857638-27631-2-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-05-07 13:17:28 +02:00
Paul Gortmaker
8527632dc9 sched: Move update_load_*() methods from sched.h to fair.c
These inlines are only used by kernel/sched/fair.c so they do
not need to be present in the main kernel/sched/sched.h file.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1366398650-31599-3-git-send-email-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-05-07 13:14:51 +02:00
Paul Gortmaker
45ceebf776 sched: Factor out load calculation code from sched/core.c --> sched/proc.c
This large chunk of load calculation code can be easily divorced
from the main core.c scheduler file, with only a couple
prototypes and externs added to a kernel/sched header.

Some recent commits expanded the code and the documentation of
it, making it large enough to warrant separation.  For example,
see:

  556061b, "sched/nohz: Fix rq->cpu_load[] calculations"
  5aaa0b7, "sched/nohz: Fix rq->cpu_load calculations some more"
  5167e8d, "sched/nohz: Rewrite and fix load-avg computation -- again"

More importantly, it helps reduce the size of the main
sched/core.c by yet another significant amount (~600 lines).

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1366398650-31599-2-git-send-email-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-05-07 13:14:50 +02:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
5fe0c1f2f0 irqdomain: Allow quiet failure mode
Some interrupt controllers refuse to map interrupts marked as
"protected" by firwmare. Since we try to map everyting in the
device-tree on some platforms, we end up with a lot of nasty
WARN's in the boot log for what is a normal situation on those
machines.

This defines a specific return code (-EPERM) from the host map()
callback which cause irqdomain to fail silently.

MPIC is updated to return this when hitting a protected source
printing only a single line message for diagnostic purposes.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2013-05-06 11:37:43 +10:00
Linus Torvalds
534c97b095 Merge branch 'timers-nohz-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull 'full dynticks' support from Ingo Molnar:
 "This tree from Frederic Weisbecker adds a new, (exciting! :-) core
  kernel feature to the timer and scheduler subsystems: 'full dynticks',
  or CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y.

  This feature extends the nohz variable-size timer tick feature from
  idle to busy CPUs (running at most one task) as well, potentially
  reducing the number of timer interrupts significantly.

  This feature got motivated by real-time folks and the -rt tree, but
  the general utility and motivation of full-dynticks runs wider than
  that:

   - HPC workloads get faster: CPUs running a single task should be able
     to utilize a maximum amount of CPU power.  A periodic timer tick at
     HZ=1000 can cause a constant overhead of up to 1.0%.  This feature
     removes that overhead - and speeds up the system by 0.5%-1.0% on
     typical distro configs even on modern systems.

   - Real-time workload latency reduction: CPUs running critical tasks
     should experience as little jitter as possible.  The last remaining
     source of kernel-related jitter was the periodic timer tick.

   - A single task executing on a CPU is a pretty common situation,
     especially with an increasing number of cores/CPUs, so this feature
     helps desktop and mobile workloads as well.

  The cost of the feature is mainly related to increased timer
  reprogramming overhead when a CPU switches its tick period, and thus
  slightly longer to-idle and from-idle latency.

  Configuration-wise a third mode of operation is added to the existing
  two NOHZ kconfig modes:

   - CONFIG_HZ_PERIODIC: [formerly !CONFIG_NO_HZ], now explicitly named
     as a config option.  This is the traditional Linux periodic tick
     design: there's a HZ tick going on all the time, regardless of
     whether a CPU is idle or not.

   - CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE: [formerly CONFIG_NO_HZ=y], this turns off the
     periodic tick when a CPU enters idle mode.

   - CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL: this new mode, in addition to turning off the
     tick when a CPU is idle, also slows the tick down to 1 Hz (one
     timer interrupt per second) when only a single task is running on a
     CPU.

  The .config behavior is compatible: existing !CONFIG_NO_HZ and
  CONFIG_NO_HZ=y settings get translated to the new values, without the
  user having to configure anything.  CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL is turned off by
  default.

  This feature is based on a lot of infrastructure work that has been
  steadily going upstream in the last 2-3 cycles: related RCU support
  and non-periodic cputime support in particular is upstream already.

  This tree adds the final pieces and activates the feature.  The pull
  request is marked RFC because:

   - it's marked 64-bit only at the moment - the 32-bit support patch is
     small but did not get ready in time.

   - it has a number of fresh commits that came in after the merge
     window.  The overwhelming majority of commits are from before the
     merge window, but still some aspects of the tree are fresh and so I
     marked it RFC.

   - it's a pretty wide-reaching feature with lots of effects - and
     while the components have been in testing for some time, the full
     combination is still not very widely used.  That it's default-off
     should reduce its regression abilities and obviously there are no
     known regressions with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y enabled either.

   - the feature is not completely idempotent: there is no 100%
     equivalent replacement for a periodic scheduler/timer tick.  In
     particular there's ongoing work to map out and reduce its effects
     on scheduler load-balancing and statistics.  This should not impact
     correctness though, there are no known regressions related to this
     feature at this point.

   - it's a pretty ambitious feature that with time will likely be
     enabled by most Linux distros, and we'd like you to make input on
     its design/implementation, if you dislike some aspect we missed.
     Without flaming us to crisp! :-)

  Future plans:

   - there's ongoing work to reduce 1Hz to 0Hz, to essentially shut off
     the periodic tick altogether when there's a single busy task on a
     CPU.  We'd first like 1 Hz to be exposed more widely before we go
     for the 0 Hz target though.

   - once we reach 0 Hz we can remove the periodic tick assumption from
     nr_running>=2 as well, by essentially interrupting busy tasks only
     as frequently as the sched_latency constraints require us to do -
     once every 4-40 msecs, depending on nr_running.

  I am personally leaning towards biting the bullet and doing this in
  v3.10, like the -rt tree this effort has been going on for too long -
  but the final word is up to you as usual.

  More technical details can be found in Documentation/timers/NO_HZ.txt"

* 'timers-nohz-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (39 commits)
  sched: Keep at least 1 tick per second for active dynticks tasks
  rcu: Fix full dynticks' dependency on wide RCU nocb mode
  nohz: Protect smp_processor_id() in tick_nohz_task_switch()
  nohz_full: Add documentation.
  cputime_nsecs: use math64.h for nsec resolution conversion helpers
  nohz: Select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN from full dynticks config
  nohz: Reduce overhead under high-freq idling patterns
  nohz: Remove full dynticks' superfluous dependency on RCU tree
  nohz: Fix unavailable tick_stop tracepoint in dynticks idle
  nohz: Add basic tracing
  nohz: Select wide RCU nocb for full dynticks
  nohz: Disable the tick when irq resume in full dynticks CPU
  nohz: Re-evaluate the tick for the new task after a context switch
  nohz: Prepare to stop the tick on irq exit
  nohz: Implement full dynticks kick
  nohz: Re-evaluate the tick from the scheduler IPI
  sched: New helper to prevent from stopping the tick in full dynticks
  sched: Kick full dynticks CPU that have more than one task enqueued.
  perf: New helper to prevent full dynticks CPUs from stopping tick
  perf: Kick full dynticks CPU if events rotation is needed
  ...
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