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Thomas Liu
2bf4969032 SELinux: Convert avc_audit to use lsm_audit.h
Convert avc_audit in security/selinux/avc.c to use lsm_audit.h,
for better maintainability.

 - changed selinux to use common_audit_data instead of
    avc_audit_data
 - eliminated code in avc.c and used code from lsm_audit.h instead.

Had to add a LSM_AUDIT_NO_AUDIT to lsm_audit.h so that avc_audit
can call common_lsm_audit and do the pre and post callbacks without
doing the actual dump.  This makes it so that the patched version
behaves the same way as the unpatched version.

Also added a denied field to the selinux_audit_data private space,
once again to make it so that the patched version behaves like the
unpatched.

I've tested and confirmed that AVCs look the same before and after
this patch.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Liu <tliu@redhat.com>
Acked-by:  Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2009-08-17 08:37:18 +10:00
James Morris
f322abf83f security: update documentation for security_request_module
Update documentation for security_request_module to indicate
return value, as suggested by Serge Hallyn.

Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2009-08-14 11:19:29 +10:00
Eric Paris
25354c4fee SELinux: add selinux_kernel_module_request
This patch adds a new selinux hook so SELinux can arbitrate if a given
process should be allowed to trigger a request for the kernel to try to
load a module.  This is a different operation than a process trying to load
a module itself, which is already protected by CAP_SYS_MODULE.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2009-08-14 11:18:40 +10:00
Eric Paris
9188499cdb security: introducing security_request_module
Calling request_module() will trigger a userspace upcall which will load a
new module into the kernel.  This can be a dangerous event if the process
able to trigger request_module() is able to control either the modprobe
binary or the module binary.  This patch adds a new security hook to
request_module() which can be used by an LSM to control a processes ability
to call request_module().

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2009-08-14 11:18:37 +10:00
Eric Paris
a8f80e8ff9 Networking: use CAP_NET_ADMIN when deciding to call request_module
The networking code checks CAP_SYS_MODULE before using request_module() to
try to load a kernel module.  While this seems reasonable it's actually
weakening system security since we have to allow CAP_SYS_MODULE for things
like /sbin/ip and bluetoothd which need to be able to trigger module loads.
CAP_SYS_MODULE actually grants those binaries the ability to directly load
any code into the kernel.  We should instead be protecting modprobe and the
modules on disk, rather than granting random programs the ability to load code
directly into the kernel.  Instead we are going to gate those networking checks
on CAP_NET_ADMIN which still limits them to root but which does not grant
those processes the ability to load arbitrary code into the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2009-08-14 11:18:34 +10:00
James Morris
8b4bfc7feb Merge branch 'master' into next 2009-08-11 08:33:01 +10:00
Linus Torvalds
85dfd81dc5 pty: fix data loss when stopped (^S/^Q)
Commit d945cb9cc ("pty: Rework the pty layer to use the normal buffering
logic") dropped the test for 'tty->stopped' in pty_write_room(), which
then causes the n_tty line discipline thing to not throttle the data
properly when the tty is stopped.

So instead of pausing the write due to the tty being stopped, the ldisc
layer would go ahead and push it down to the pty.  The pty write()
routine would then refuse to take the data (because it _did_ check
'stopped'), and the data wouldn't actually be written.

This whole stopped test should eventually be moved into the tty ldisc
layer rather than have low-level tty drivers care about these things,
but right now the fix is to just re-instate the missing pty 'stopped'
handling.

Reported-and-tested-by: Artur Skawina <art.08.09@gmail.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-08-10 13:31:18 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
d00aa6695b Merge branch 'perfcounters-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'perfcounters-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (27 commits)
  perf_counter: Zero dead bytes from ftrace raw samples size alignment
  perf_counter: Subtract the buffer size field from the event record size
  perf_counter: Require CAP_SYS_ADMIN for raw tracepoint data
  perf_counter: Correct PERF_SAMPLE_RAW output
  perf tools: callchain: Fix bad rounding of minimum rate
  perf_counter tools: Fix libbfd detection for systems with libz dependency
  perf: "Longum est iter per praecepta, breve et efficax per exempla"
  perf_counter: Fix a race on perf_counter_ctx
  perf_counter: Fix tracepoint sampling to be part of generic sampling
  perf_counter: Work around gcc warning by initializing tracepoint record unconditionally
  perf tools: callchain: Fix sum of percentages to be 100% by displaying amount of ignored chains in fractal mode
  perf tools: callchain: Fix 'perf report' display to be callchain by default
  perf tools: callchain: Fix spurious 'perf report' warnings: ignore empty callchains
  perf record: Fix the -A UI for empty or non-existent perf.data
  perf util: Fix do_read() to fail on EOF instead of busy-looping
  perf list: Fix the output to not include tracepoints without an id
  perf_counter/powerpc: Fix oops on cpus without perf_counter hardware support
  perf stat: Fix tool option consistency: rename -S/--scale to -c/--scale
  perf report: Add debug help for the finding of symbol bugs - show the symtab origin (DSO, build-id, kernel, etc)
  perf report: Fix per task mult-counter stat reporting
  ...
2009-08-10 11:48:51 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
cec36911b5 Merge branch 'irq-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'irq-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86/irq: Fix move_irq_desc() for nodes without ram
2009-08-10 11:21:13 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
a3263969b0 Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86: Fix serialization in pit_expect_msb()
2009-08-10 11:11:40 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
9b8f013a83 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6:
  PCI hotplug: SGI hotplug: do not use hotplug_slot_attr
  PCI hotplug: SGI hotplug: fix build failure
2009-08-10 11:00:37 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
b6e61eef4f x86: Fix serialization in pit_expect_msb()
Wei Chong Tan reported a fast-PIT-calibration corner-case:

| pit_expect_msb() is vulnerable to SMI disturbance corner case
| in some platforms which causes /proc/cpuinfo to show wrong
| CPU MHz value when quick_pit_calibrate() jumps to success
| section.

I think that the real issue isn't even an SMI - but the fact
that in the very last iteration of the loop, there's no
serializing instruction _after_ the last 'rdtsc'. So even in
the absense of SMI's, we do have a situation where the cycle
counter was read without proper serialization.

The last check should be done outside the outer loop, since
_inside_ the outer loop, we'll be testing that the PIT has
the right MSB value has the right value in the next iteration.

So only the _last_ iteration is special, because that's the one
that will not check the PIT MSB value any more, and because the
final 'get_cycles()' isn't serialized.

In other words:

 - I'd like to move the PIT MSB check to after the last
   iteration, rather than in every iteration

 - I think we should comment on the fact that it's also a
   serializing instruction and so 'fences in' the TSC read.

Here's a suggested replacement.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Reported-by: "Tan, Wei Chong" <wei.chong.tan@intel.com>
Tested-by: "Tan, Wei Chong" <wei.chong.tan@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <B28277FD4E0F9247A3D55704C440A140D5D683F3@pgsmsx504.gar.corp.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-10 19:56:57 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
9bcf73f482 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6:
  mm_for_maps: take ->cred_guard_mutex to fix the race with exec
  mm_for_maps: shift down_read(mmap_sem) to the caller
  mm_for_maps: simplify, use ptrace_may_access()
2009-08-10 09:00:47 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
2c661a669b Merge branch 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc
* 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc:
  powerpc/dma: pci_set_dma_mask() shouldn't fail if mask fits in RAM
2009-08-10 08:59:56 -07:00
Jaswinder Singh Rajput
04e35357e2 MN10300: includecheck fix: mn10300, pci.h
Fix the following 'make includecheck' warning:

  arch/mn10300/include/asm/pci.h: linux/mm.h is included more than once.

Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-08-10 08:54:27 -07:00
Figo.zhang
5e2f89b5d5 mempool.c: clean up type-casting
clean up type-casting twice.  "size_t" is typedef as "unsigned long" in
64-bit system, and "unsigned int" in 32-bit system, and the intermediate
cast to 'long' is pointless.

Signed-off-by: Figo.zhang <figo1802@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-08-10 08:31:16 -07:00
Ryusuke Konishi
1392e3b333 documentation: register ioctl entry of nilfs2
This will register the ioctl range used by nilfs2 file system to the
table listed in Documentation/ioctl/ioctl-number.txt.

Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-08-10 08:30:11 -07:00
Frederic Weisbecker
1853db0e02 perf_counter: Zero dead bytes from ftrace raw samples size alignment
After aligning the ftrace raw samples, there are dead bytes storing
random data from the stack. We don't want to leak these to userspace,
then zero these out.

Before:

	0x2de88 [0x50]: event: 9
	.
	. ... raw event: size 80 bytes
	.  0000:  09 00 00 00 01 00 50 00 d0 c7 00 81 ff ff ff ff  ......P........
	.  0010:  68 01 00 00 68 01 00 00 2c 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  h...h...,......
	.  0020:  2c 00 00 00 2b 00 01 02 68 01 00 00 68 01 00 00  ,...+...h...h..
	.  0030:  6b 6f 6e 64 65 6d 61 6e 64 2f 30 00 00 00 00 00  kondemand/0....
	.  0040:  68 01 00 00 40 7f 46 81 ff ff ff ff 00 10 1b 7f  h...@.F........
                                                      ^  ^  ^  ^
                                                         Leak

After:

	0x2d318 [0x50]: event: 9
	.
	. ... raw event: size 80 bytes
	.  0000:  09 00 00 00 01 00 50 00 d0 c7 00 81 ff ff ff ff  ......P........
	.  0010:  68 01 00 00 68 01 00 00 68 14 00 00 00 00 00 00  h...h...h......
	.  0020:  2c 00 00 00 2b 00 01 02 68 01 00 00 68 01 00 00  ,...+...h...h..
	.  0030:  6b 6f 6e 64 65 6d 61 6e 64 2f 30 00 00 00 00 00  kondemand/0....
	.  0040:  68 01 00 00 a0 80 46 81 ff ff ff ff 00 00 00 00  h.....F........
                                                      ^  ^  ^  ^
							 Fixed

Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
LKML-Reference: <1249915116-5210-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
2009-08-10 16:51:19 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
304703aba3 perf_counter: Subtract the buffer size field from the event record size
We compute the perf raw sample size by aligning the raw ftrace
event size plus the buffer size field itself. We do that
instead of aligning only the perf raw sample size, so that we
might economize some in some cases.

But this buffer size field is not stored in the perf raw
sample, we must then substract its size from the buffer once we
computed the alignment unless we may get a useless u32 field in
the buffer.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: 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>
LKML-Reference: <20090810141129.GA5124@nowhere>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-10 16:18:50 +02:00
Oleg Nesterov
704b836cbf mm_for_maps: take ->cred_guard_mutex to fix the race with exec
The problem is minor, but without ->cred_guard_mutex held we can race
with exec() and get the new ->mm but check old creds.

Now we do not need to re-check task->mm after ptrace_may_access(), it
can't be changed to the new mm under us.

Strictly speaking, this also fixes another very minor problem. Unless
security check fails or the task exits mm_for_maps() should never
return NULL, the caller should get either old or new ->mm.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2009-08-10 20:49:26 +10:00
Oleg Nesterov
00f89d2185 mm_for_maps: shift down_read(mmap_sem) to the caller
mm_for_maps() takes ->mmap_sem after security checks, this looks
strange and obfuscates the locking rules. Move this lock to its
single caller, m_start().

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2009-08-10 20:48:32 +10:00
Oleg Nesterov
13f0feafa6 mm_for_maps: simplify, use ptrace_may_access()
It would be nice to kill __ptrace_may_access(). It requires task_lock(),
but this lock is only needed to read mm->flags in the middle.

Convert mm_for_maps() to use ptrace_may_access(), this also simplifies
the code a little bit.

Also, we do not need to take ->mmap_sem in advance. In fact I think
mm_for_maps() should not play with ->mmap_sem at all, the caller should
take this lock.

With or without this patch, without ->cred_guard_mutex held we can race
with exec() and get the new ->mm but check old creds.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2009-08-10 20:47:42 +10:00
Peter Zijlstra
a4e95fc2cb perf_counter: Require CAP_SYS_ADMIN for raw tracepoint data
Raw tracepoint data contains various kernel internals and
data from other users, so restrict this to CAP_SYS_ADMIN.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1249896452.17467.75.camel@twins>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-10 11:33:09 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
a044560c3a perf_counter: Correct PERF_SAMPLE_RAW output
PERF_SAMPLE_* output switches should unconditionally output the
correct format, as they are the only way to unambiguously parse
the PERF_EVENT_SAMPLE data.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1249896447.17467.74.camel@twins>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-10 11:33:09 +02:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
b2f2e8fee3 powerpc/dma: pci_set_dma_mask() shouldn't fail if mask fits in RAM
On an iMac G5, the b43 driver is failing to initialise because trying to
set the dma mask to 30-bit fails. Even though there's only 512MiB of RAM
in the machine anyway:
	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=514787

We should probably let it succeed if the available RAM in the system
doesn't exceed the requested limit.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2009-08-10 16:36:38 +10:00
Oleg Nesterov
896a6de40e mm_for_maps: take ->cred_guard_mutex to fix the race with exec
The problem is minor, but without ->cred_guard_mutex held we can race
with exec() and get the new ->mm but check old creds.

Now we do not need to re-check task->mm after ptrace_may_access(), it
can't be changed to the new mm under us.

Strictly speaking, this also fixes another very minor problem. Unless
security check fails or the task exits mm_for_maps() should never
return NULL, the caller should get either old or new ->mm.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2009-08-10 12:21:08 +10:00
Oleg Nesterov
d3c8660233 mm_for_maps: shift down_read(mmap_sem) to the caller
mm_for_maps() takes ->mmap_sem after security checks, this looks
strange and obfuscates the locking rules. Move this lock to its
single caller, m_start().

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2009-08-10 12:21:06 +10:00
Eric Paris
47d439e9fb security: define round_hint_to_min in !CONFIG_SECURITY
Fix the header files to define round_hint_to_min() and to define
mmap_min_addr_handler() in the !CONFIG_SECURITY case.

Built and tested with !CONFIG_SECURITY

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2009-08-10 11:00:39 +10:00
Linus Torvalds
f4b9a98868 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.infradead.org/ubi-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.infradead.org/ubi-2.6:
  UBI: compatible fallback in absense of sequence numbers
  UBI: fix double free on error path
2009-08-09 14:58:34 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
17d11ba149 Merge branch 'kvm-updates/2.6.31' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm
* 'kvm-updates/2.6.31' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm:
  KVM: Avoid redelivery of edge interrupt before next edge
  KVM: MMU: limit rmap chain length
  KVM: ia64: fix build failures due to ia64/unsigned long mismatches
  KVM: Make KVM_HPAGES_PER_HPAGE unsigned long to avoid build error on powerpc
  KVM: fix ack not being delivered when msi present
  KVM: s390: fix wait_queue handling
  KVM: VMX: Fix locking imbalance on emulation failure
  KVM: VMX: Fix locking order in handle_invalid_guest_state
  KVM: MMU: handle n_free_mmu_pages > n_alloc_mmu_pages in kvm_mmu_change_mmu_pages
  KVM: SVM: force new asid on vcpu migration
  KVM: x86: verify MTRR/PAT validity
  KVM: PIT: fix kpit_elapsed division by zero
  KVM: Fix KVM_GET_MSR_INDEX_LIST
2009-08-09 14:58:21 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
fb1ee451e6 Merge branch 'drm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6
* 'drm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6:
  drm/i915: silence vblank warnings
  drm: silence pointless vblank warning.
  drm: When adding probed modes, preserve duplicate mode types
2009-08-09 14:58:09 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
2e9b11afdb Merge branch 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  posix_cpu_timers_exit_group(): Do not use thread_group_cputimer()
2009-08-09 14:57:41 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
95d0ad049c Merge branch 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  perf_counter: Fix/complete ftrace event records sampling
  perf_counter, ftrace: Fix perf_counter integration
  tracing/filters: Always free pred on filter_add_subsystem_pred() failure
  tracing/filters: Don't use pred on alloc failure
  ring-buffer: Fix memleak in ring_buffer_free()
  tracing: Fix recordmcount.pl to handle sections with only weak functions
  ring-buffer: Fix advance of reader in rb_buffer_peek()
  tracing: do not use functions starting with .L in recordmcount.pl
  ring-buffer: do not disable ring buffer on oops_in_progress
  ring-buffer: fix check of try_to_discard result
2009-08-09 14:57:26 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
413dd8768a Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86: fix buffer overflow in efi_init()
  x86: Add quirk to make Apple MacBookPro5,1 use reboot=pci
  x86: Fix MSI-X initialization by using online_mask for x2apic target_cpus
  x86: Fix VMI && stack protector
2009-08-09 14:57:09 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
713e3e1875 Merge branch 'core-fixes-for-linus-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'core-fixes-for-linus-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  lockdep: Fix typos in documentation
  lockdep: Fix file mode of lock_stat
  rtmutex: Avoid deadlock in rt_mutex_start_proxy_lock()
2009-08-09 14:56:51 -07:00
Frederic Weisbecker
c0a8865e32 perf tools: callchain: Fix bad rounding of minimum rate
Sometimes we get callchain branches that have a rate under the
limit given by the user.

Say you launched:

 perf record -f -g -a ./hackbench 10
 perf report -g fractal,10.0

And you got:

2.33%       hackbench  [kernel]                  [k] _spin_lock_irqsave
                |
                |--78.57%-- remove_wait_queue
                |          poll_freewait
                |          do_sys_poll
                |          sys_poll
                |          sysenter_dispatch
                |          0xf7ffa430
                |          0x1ffadea3c
                |
                |--7.14%-- __up_read
                |          up_read
                |          do_page_fault
                |          page_fault
                |          0xf7ffa430
                |          0xa0df710000000a
                ...

It is abnormal to get a 7.14% branch whereas we passed a 10%
filter.

The problem is that we round down the minimum threshold. This
happens mostly when we have very low number of events. If the
total amount of your branch is 4 and you have a subranch of 3
events, filtering to 90% will be computed like follows:

  limit = 4 * 0.9;

The result is about 3.6, but the cast to integer will round
down to 3. It means that our filter is actually of 75%

We must then explicitly round up the minimum threshold.

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: acme@redhat.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: efault@gmx.de
LKML-Reference: <20090809024235.GA10146@nowhere>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-09 13:07:46 +02:00
Mike Galbraith
183f3b0887 perf_counter tools: Fix libbfd detection for systems with libz dependency
Due to a libz dependency in some distro's binutils package,
C++ demangle support isn't compiled in despite the necessary
libraries being available.

Fix this by adding a -lz link test to the dependency detection
rules.

Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1249733655.6929.5.camel@marge.simson.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-09 12:54:47 +02:00
Carlos R. Mafra
c24b513337 perf: "Longum est iter per praecepta, breve et efficax per exempla"
A few examples of how 'perf' can be used, from an e-mail by
Ingo Molnar http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/8/4/346.

Signed-off-by: Carlos R. Mafra <crmafra2@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
LKML-Reference: <20090805185334.GA4535@Pilar.aei.mpg.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-09 12:54:46 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
3a80b4a353 perf_counter: Fix a race on perf_counter_ctx
While extending perfcounters with BTS hw-tracing, Markus
Metzger managed to trigger this warning:

   [  995.557128] WARNING: at kernel/perf_counter.c:1191 __perf_counter_task_sched_out+0x48/0x6b()

triggers because commit
9f498cc5be (perf_counter: Full
task tracing) removed clearing of tsk->perf_counter_ctxp out
from under ctx->lock which introduced a race (against
perf_lock_task_context).

Move it back and deal with the exit notification by explicitly
passing along the former task context.

Reported-by: Markus T Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1249667341.17467.5.camel@twins>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-09 12:54:46 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
3a43ce68ae perf_counter: Fix tracepoint sampling to be part of generic sampling
Based on Peter's comments, make tracepoint sampling generic
just like all the other sampling bits are. This is a rename
with no code changes:

- PERF_SAMPLE_TP_RECORD to PERF_SAMPLE_RAW
- struct perf_tracepoint_record to perf_raw_record

We want the system in place that transport tracepoints raw
samples events into the perf ring buffer to be generalized and
usable by any type of counter.

Reported-by; Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.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>
LKML-Reference: <1249698400-5441-4-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-09 12:54:45 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
10b8e30660 perf_counter: Work around gcc warning by initializing tracepoint record unconditionally
Despite that the tracepoint record is always present when the
PERF_SAMPLE_TP_RECORD flag is set, gcc raises a warning,
thinking it might not be initialized:

  kernel/perf_counter.c: In function ‘perf_counter_output’:
  kernel/perf_counter.c:2650: warning: ‘tp’ may be used uninitialized in this function

Then, initialize it to NULL and always check if it's not NULL
before dereference it.

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.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>
LKML-Reference: <1249698400-5441-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-09 12:54:44 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
25446036cb perf tools: callchain: Fix sum of percentages to be 100% by displaying amount of ignored chains in fractal mode
When we filter the callchains below a given percentage, we
ignore them and the end result only shows entries that have an
upper percentage than the filter threshold.

It seems to users then that we have an imbalance in the
percentage, as if the sum inside a profiled branch doesn't
reach 100%.

Since in the past there have been real perf report bugs that
showed the same sypmtom, it would be nice to assure the user
that the data is perfect and trustable and it all sums up to
100.00%.

So fix this by displaying the remaining hits that have been
filtered but without more detail than their amount in each
branches. Example while filtering below 50%:

7.73%  [k] delay_tsc
                |
                |--98.22%-- __const_udelay
                |          |
                |          |--86.37%-- ath5k_hw_register_timeout
                |          |          ath5k_hw_noise_floor_calibration
                |          |          ath5k_hw_reset
                |          |          ath5k_reset
                |          |          ath5k_config
                |          |          ieee80211_hw_config
                |          |          |
                |          |          |--88.53%-- ieee80211_scan_work
                |          |          |          worker_thread
                |          |          |          kthread
                |          |          |          child_rip
                |          |           --11.47%-- [...]
                |           --13.63%-- [...]
                 --1.78%-- [...]

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
LKML-Reference: <1249690585-9145-4-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-09 12:54:43 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
b1a88349c3 perf tools: callchain: Fix 'perf report' display to be callchain by default
If we recorded with -g option to record the callchain, right now
we require a -g option to perf report as well - and people reported
this as unnecessary complication: the user already specified -g
once, no need to require it a second time.

So if the recording includes call-chains, display the callchain by
default from perf report.

( The user can override this default using "-g none" option from
  perf report. )

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
LKML-Reference: <1249690585-9145-3-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-09 12:54:42 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
b0efe213f8 perf tools: callchain: Fix spurious 'perf report' warnings: ignore empty callchains
When the callchain tree comes to insert an empty backtrace, it
raises a spurious warning about the fact we are inserting an
empty. This is spurious because the radix tree assumes it did
something wrong to reach this state. But it didn't, we just met
an empty callchain that has to be ignored.

This happens occasionally with certain types of call-chain
recordings. If it happens it's a big nuisance as perf report
output starts with thousands of warning lines.

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
LKML-Reference: <1249690585-9145-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-09 12:54:41 +02:00
Pierre Habouzit
266e0e2198 perf record: Fix the -A UI for empty or non-existent perf.data
1. Ignore the -A argument if there is no perf.data file
2. Treat an empty file like a non existent file.

Else, perf will try to read the perf.data header, and fail with
an error.

Treating an empty file like a non-existent file makes sense,
since an interupted (as in SIGKILLed) perf could leave such
files around, and you don't want to annoy the user with errors
for files with no data in it.

Signed-off-by: Pierre Habouzit <pierre.habouzit@intersec.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-09 12:54:40 +02:00
Pierre Habouzit
7eac7e9e72 perf util: Fix do_read() to fail on EOF instead of busy-looping
While toying with perf, I've noticed that perf record can
easily enter a busy loop when doing something as silly as:

    $ perf record -A ls

Yeah, do_read here really wants to read a known size, not being
able to should die(), not busy-loop ;)

That was the cause for the bug.

Signed-off-by: Pierre Habouzit <pierre.habouzit@intersec.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-09 12:54:39 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
ae07b63f4b perf list: Fix the output to not include tracepoints without an id
Stop perf list from displaying tracepoints without an id file,
those are special tracepoints that are not interfaced to
perfcounters so listing them is erroneous and passing them as
events will produce no output.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-09 12:54:38 +02:00
Paul Mackerras
f36a1a133a perf_counter/powerpc: Fix oops on cpus without perf_counter hardware support
If we have the powerpc perf_counter backend compiled in, but
the cpu we are running on is one where we don't support the
PMU, we currently oops in hw_perf_group_sched_in if we try to
use any counters, because ppmu is NULL in that case, and we
unconditionally dereference ppmu.

This fixes the problem by adding a check if ppmu is NULL at the
beginning of hw_perf_group_sched_in, and also at the beginning
of the other functions that get called from the perf_counter
core, i.e. hw_perf_disable, hw_perf_enable, and
hw_perf_counter_setup.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: benh@kernel.crashing.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-09 12:54:37 +02:00
Brice Goglin
b26bc5a7f8 perf stat: Fix tool option consistency: rename -S/--scale to -c/--scale
We want to use a coherent flag for -S/--stat across all tools,
so free up -S in perf stat.

Signed-off-by: Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@inria.fr>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-09 12:54:37 +02:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
94cb9e385d perf report: Add debug help for the finding of symbol bugs - show the symtab origin (DSO, build-id, kernel, etc)
Used with perf report --verbose:

[acme@doppio linux-2.6-tip]$ perf report -v | head -16
     5.17%  firefox  /usr/lib64/xulrunner-1.9.1/libxul.so   0x00000000005d8eee f [.] imgContainer::DrawFrameTo(gfxIImageFrame*, gfxIImageFrame*, nsRect&)
     2.56%  firefox  /lib64/libpthread-2.10.1.so            0x0000000000008e02 d [.] __pthread_mutex_lock_internal
     1.94%  firefox  /usr/lib64/xulrunner-1.9.1/libxul.so   0x0000000000d0af8f f [.] SearchTable
     1.75%  firefox  [kernel]                               0xffffffffff60013b k [.] vread_hpet
     1.63%  firefox  /lib64/libpthread-2.10.1.so            0x000000000000a404 d [.] __pthread_mutex_unlock
     1.47%  firefox  /usr/lib64/xulrunner-1.9.1/libmozjs.so 0x00000000000482ea f [.] js_Interpret
     1.42%  firefox  /usr/lib64/xulrunner-1.9.1/libmozjs.so 0x000000000003eda3 f [.] JS_CallTracer
     1.24%  firefox  [kernel]                               0xffffffff8102ca4a k [k] read_hpet
     1.16%  firefox  [kernel]                               0xffffffff810f3dd4 k [k] fget_light
     1.11%  firefox  /usr/lib64/xulrunner-1.9.1/libmozjs.so 0x00000000000567ff f [.] js_TraceObject
     0.98%  firefox  /usr/lib64/firefox-3.5.2/firefox       0x000000000000dd23 b [.] arena_ralloc
[acme@doppio linux-2.6-tip]$

The new field is just after the symbol address. To help in
figuring out symbol resolution bugs.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-09 12:54:36 +02:00