While tracing using events with perf, if one enables the
lockdep:lock_acquire event, it will infect every other perf
trace events.
Basically, you can enable whatever set of trace events through
perf but if this event is part of the set, the only result we
can get is a long list of lock_acquire events of rcu read lock,
and only that.
This is because of a recursion inside perf.
1) When a trace event is triggered, it will fill a per cpu
buffer and submit it to perf.
2) Perf will commit this event but will also protect some data
using rcu_read_lock
3) A recursion appears: rcu_read_lock triggers a lock_acquire
event that will fill the per cpu event and then submit the
buffer to perf.
4) Perf detects a recursion and ignores it
5) Perf continues its work on the previous event, but its buffer
has been overwritten by the lock_acquire event, it has then
been turned into a lock_acquire event of rcu read lock
Such scenario also happens with lock_release with
rcu_read_unlock().
We could turn the rcu_read_lock() into __rcu_read_lock() to drop
the lock debugging from perf fast path, but that would make us
lose the rcu debugging and that doesn't prevent from other
possible kind of recursion from perf in the future.
This patch adds a recursion protection based on a counter on the
perf trace per cpu buffers to solve the problem.
-v2: Fixed lost whitespace, added reviewed-by tag
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1257477185-7838-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Conflicts:
tools/perf/Makefile
Merge reason:
- fix the conflict
- pick up the pr_*() infrastructure to queue up dependent patch
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Merge reason: to add event filter support we need the following
commits from the tracing tree:
3f6fe06: tracing/filters: Unify the regex parsing helpers
1889d20: tracing/filters: Provide basic regex support
737f453: tracing/filters: Cleanup useless headers
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block:
cciss: Add cciss_allow_hpsa module parameter
cciss: Fix multiple calls to pci_release_regions
blk-settings: fix function parameter kernel-doc notation
writeback: kill space in debugfs item name
writeback: account IO throttling wait as iowait
elv_iosched_store(): fix strstrip() misuse
cfq-iosched: avoid probable slice overrun when idling
cfq-iosched: apply bool value where we return 0/1
cfq-iosched: fix think time allowed for seekers
cfq-iosched: fix the slice residual sign
cfq-iosched: abstract out the 'may this cfqq dispatch' logic
block: use proper BLK_RW_ASYNC in blk_queue_start_tag()
block: Seperate read and write statistics of in_flight requests v2
block: get rid of kblock_schedule_delayed_work()
cfq-iosched: fix possible problem with jiffies wraparound
cfq-iosched: fix issue with rq-rq merging and fifo list ordering
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-fixes:
kbuild: revert "save ARCH & CROSS_COMPILE ..."
warn about use of uninstalled kernel headers
kbuild: mkcompile_h: trivial cleanups
kbuild: fix warning when domainname is not available
kbuild: Fix size_append issue for bzip2/lzma kernel
kbuild,scripts: use non-builtin echo for '-e'
kbuild: fix the binrpm-pkg target to work with KBUILD_OUTPUT set
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6:
PCI: Prevent AER driver from being loaded on non-root port PCIE devices
PCI: get larger bridge ranges when space is available
PCI: pci.c: fix kernel-doc notation
PCI quirk: TI XIO200a erroneously reports support for fast b2b transfers
PCI PM: Read device power state from register after updating it
PCI: remove pci_assign_resource_fixed()
PCI: PCIe portdrv: remove "-driver" from driver name
User applications frequently hit problems when they try to use
the kernel headers directly, rather than the exported headers.
This adds an explicit warning for this case, and points to
a URL holding an explanation of why this is wrong and what
to do about it.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6: (32 commits)
USB: serial: no unnecessary GFP_ATOMIC in oti6858
USB: serial: fix race between unthrottle and completion handler in visor
USB: serial: fix assumption that throttle/unthrottle cannot sleep
USB: serial: fix race between unthrottle and completion handler in symbolserial
USB: serial: fix race between unthrottle and completion handler in opticon
USB: ehci: Fix isoc scheduling boundary checking.
USB: storage: When a device returns no sense data, call it a Hardware Error
USB: small fix in error case of suspend in generic usbserial code
USB: visor: fix trivial accounting bug in visor driver
USB: Fix throttling in generic usbserial driver
USB: cp210x: Add support for the DW700 UART
USB: ipaq: fix oops when device is plugged in
USB: isp1362: fix build warnings on 64-bit systems
USB: gadget: imx_udc: Use resource size
USB: storage: iRiver P7 UNUSUAL_DEV patch
USB: musb: make HAVE_CLK support optional
USB: xhci: Fix dropping endpoints from the xHC schedule.
USB: xhci: Don't wait for a disable slot cmd when HC dies.
USB: xhci: Handle canceled URBs when HC dies.
USB: xhci: Stop debugging polling loop when HC dies.
...
After m68k's task_thread_info() doesn't refer to current,
it's possible to remove sched.h from interrupt.h and not break m68k!
Many thanks to Heiko Carstens for allowing this.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
This patch (as1295) fixes a recently-added bug in the USB serial core.
If certain kinds of errors occur during probing, the core may call a
serial driver's release method without previously calling the attach
method. This causes some drivers (io_ti in particular) to perform an
invalid memory access.
The patch adds a new flag to keep track of whether or not attach has
been called.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Tested-by: Jean-Denis Girard <jd.girard@sysnux.pf>
CC: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev:
pata_atp867x: add Power Management support
pata_atp867x: PIO support fixes
pata_atp867x: clarifications in timings calculations and cable detection
pata_atp867x: fix it to not claim MWDMA support
libata: fix incorrect link online check during probe
ahci: filter FPDMA non-zero offset enable for Aspire 3810T
libata: make gtf_filter per-dev
libata: implement more acpi filtering options
libata: cosmetic updates
ahci: display all AHCI 1.3 HBA capability flags (v2)
pata_ali: trivial fix of a very frequent spelling mistake
ahci: disable 64bit DMA by default on SB600s
* 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
futex: fix requeue_pi key imbalance
futex: Fix typo in FUTEX_WAIT/WAKE_BITSET_PRIVATE definitions
rcu: Place root rcu_node structure in separate lockdep class
rcu: Make hot-unplugged CPU relinquish its own RCU callbacks
rcu: Move rcu_barrier() to rcutree
futex: Move exit_pi_state() call to release_mm()
futex: Nullify robust lists after cleanup
futex: Fix locking imbalance
panic: Fix panic message visibility by calling bust_spinlocks(0) before dying
rcu: Replace the rcu_barrier enum with pointer to call_rcu*() function
rcu: Clean up code based on review feedback from Josh Triplett, part 4
rcu: Clean up code based on review feedback from Josh Triplett, part 3
rcu: Fix rcu_lock_map build failure on CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING=y
rcu: Clean up code to address Ingo's checkpatch feedback
rcu: Clean up code based on review feedback from Josh Triplett, part 2
rcu: Clean up code based on review feedback from Josh Triplett
* 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
tracing: user local buffer variable for trace branch tracer
tracing: fix warning on kernel/trace/trace_branch.c andtrace_hw_branches.c
ftrace: check for failure for all conversions
tracing: correct module boundaries for ftrace_release
tracing: fix transposed numbers of lock_depth and preempt_count
trace: Fix missing assignment in trace_ctxwake_*
tracing: Use free_percpu instead of kfree
tracing: Check total refcount before releasing bufs in profile_enable failure
* 'sparc-perf-events-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
mm, perf_event: Make vmalloc_user() align base kernel virtual address to SHMLBA
perf_event: Provide vmalloc() based mmap() backing
* 'perf-fixes-for-linus-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
perf_events: Make ABI definitions available to userspace
perf tools: elf_sym__is_function() should accept "zero" sized functions
tracing/syscalls: Use long for syscall ret format and field definitions
perf trace: Update eval_flag() flags array to match interrupt.h
perf trace: Remove unused code in builtin-trace.c
perf: Propagate term signal to child
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (40 commits)
ethoc: limit the number of buffers to 128
ethoc: use system memory as buffer
ethoc: align received packet to make IP header at word boundary
ethoc: fix buffer address mapping
ethoc: fix typo to compute number of tx descriptors
au1000_eth: Duplicate test of RX_OVERLEN bit in update_rx_stats()
netxen: Fix Unlikely(x) > y
pasemi_mac: ethtool get settings fix
add maintainer for network drop monitor kernel service
tg3: Fix phylib locking strategy
rndis_host: support ETHTOOL_GPERMADDR
ipv4: arp_notify address list bug
gigaset: add kerneldoc comments
gigaset: correct debugging output selection
gigaset: improve error recovery
gigaset: fix device ERROR response handling
gigaset: announce if built with debugging
gigaset: handle isoc frame errors more gracefully
gigaset: linearize skb
gigaset: fix reject/hangup handling
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