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Steven Rostedt
71e308a239 function-graph: add stack frame test
In case gcc does something funny with the stack frames, or the return
from function code, we would like to detect that.

An arch may implement passing of a variable that is unique to the
function and can be saved on entering a function and can be tested
when exiting the function. Usually the frame pointer can be used for
this purpose.

This patch also implements this for x86. Where it passes in the stack
frame of the parent function, and will test that frame on exit.

There was a case in x86_32 with optimize for size (-Os) where, for a
few functions, gcc would align the stack frame and place a copy of the
return address into it. The function graph tracer modified the copy and
not the actual return address. On return from the funtion, it did not go
to the tracer hook, but returned to the parent. This broke the function
graph tracer, because the return of the parent (where gcc did not do
this funky manipulation) returned to the location that the child function
was suppose to. This caused strange kernel crashes.

This test detected the problem and pointed out where the issue was.

This modifies the parameters of one of the functions that the arch
specific code calls, so it includes changes to arch code to accommodate
the new prototype.

Note, I notice that the parsic arch implements its own push_return_trace.
This is now a generic function and the ftrace_push_return_trace should be
used instead. This patch does not touch that code.

Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-06-18 18:40:18 -04:00
Ingo Molnar
0d5959723e Merge branch 'linus' into x86/mce3
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_64.c
	arch/x86/kernel/irq.c

Merge reason: Resolve the conflicts above.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-11 23:31:52 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
940010c5a3 Merge branch 'linus' into perfcounters/core
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/kernel/irqinit.c
	arch/x86/kernel/irqinit_64.c
	arch/x86/kernel/traps.c
	arch/x86/mm/fault.c
	include/linux/sched.h
	kernel/exit.c
2009-06-11 17:55:42 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
8623661180 Merge branch 'tracing-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'tracing-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (244 commits)
  Revert "x86, bts: reenable ptrace branch trace support"
  tracing: do not translate event helper macros in print format
  ftrace/documentation: fix typo in function grapher name
  tracing/events: convert block trace points to TRACE_EVENT(), fix !CONFIG_BLOCK
  tracing: add protection around module events unload
  tracing: add trace_seq_vprint interface
  tracing: fix the block trace points print size
  tracing/events: convert block trace points to TRACE_EVENT()
  ring-buffer: fix ret in rb_add_time_stamp
  ring-buffer: pass in lockdep class key for reader_lock
  tracing: add annotation to what type of stack trace is recorded
  tracing: fix multiple use of __print_flags and __print_symbolic
  tracing/events: fix output format of user stack
  tracing/events: fix output format of kernel stack
  tracing/trace_stack: fix the number of entries in the header
  ring-buffer: discard timestamps that are at the start of the buffer
  ring-buffer: try to discard unneeded timestamps
  ring-buffer: fix bug in ring_buffer_discard_commit
  ftrace: do not profile functions when disabled
  tracing: make trace pipe recognize latency format flag
  ...
2009-06-10 19:53:40 -07:00
Andi Kleen
4ef702c10b x86: fix panic with interrupts off (needed for MCE)
For some time each panic() called with interrupts disabled
triggered the !irqs_disabled() WARN_ON in smp_call_function(),
producing ugly backtraces and confusing users.

This is a common situation with machine checks for example which
tend to call panic with interrupts disabled, but will also hit
in other situations e.g. panic during early boot.  In fact it
means that panic cannot be called in many circumstances, which
would be bad.

This all started with the new fancy queued smp_call_function,
which is then used by the shutdown path to shut down the other
CPUs.

On closer examination it turned out that the fancy RCU
smp_call_function() does lots of things not suitable in a panic
situation anyways, like allocating memory and relying on complex
system state.

I originally tried to patch this over by checking for panic
there, but it was quite complicated and the original patch
was also not very popular.  This also didn't fix some of the
underlying complexity problems.

The new code in post 2.6.29 tries to patch around this by
checking for oops_in_progress, but that is not enough to make
this fully safe and I don't think that's a real solution
because panic has to be reliable.

So instead use an own vector to reboot.  This makes the reboot
code extremly straight forward, which is definitely a big plus
in a panic situation where it is important to avoid relying on
too much kernel state.  The new simple code is also safe to be
called from interupts off region because it is very very simple.

There can be situations where it is important that panic
is reliable.  For example on a fatal machine check the panic
is needed to get the system up again and running as quickly
as possible.  So it's important that panic is reliable and
all function it calls simple.

This is why I came up with this simple vector scheme.
It's very hard to beat in simplicity.  Vectors are not
particularly precious anymore since all big systems are
using per CPU vectors.

Another possibility would have been to use an NMI similar
to kdump, but there is still the problem that NMIs don't
work reliably on some systems due to BIOS issues.  NMIs
would have been able to stop CPUs running with interrupts
off too.  In the sake of universal reliability I opted for
using a non NMI vector for now.

I put the reboot vector into the highest priority bucket of
the APIC vectors and moved the 64bit UV_BAU message down
instead into the next lower priority.

[ Impact: bug fix, fixes an old regression ]

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-06-03 14:45:35 -07:00
Andi Kleen
ccc3c3192a x86, mce: implement bootstrapping for machine check wakeups
Machine checks support waking up the mcelog daemon quickly.

The original wake up code for this was pretty ugly, relying on
a idle notifier and a special process flag. The reason it did
it this way is that the machine check handler is not subject
to normal interrupt locking rules so it's not safe
to call wake_up().  Instead it set a process flag
and then either did the wakeup in the syscall return
or in the idle notifier.

This patch adds a new "bootstraping" method as replacement.

The idea is that the handler checks if it's in a state where
it is unsafe to call wake_up(). If it's safe it calls it directly.
When it's not safe -- that is it interrupted in a critical
section with interrupts disables -- it uses a new "self IPI" to trigger
an IPI to its own CPU. This can be done safely because IPI
triggers are atomic with some care. The IPI is raised
once the interrupts are reenabled and can then safely call
wake_up().

When APICs are disabled the event is just queued and will be picked up
eventually by the next polling timer. I think that's a reasonable
compromise, since it should only happen quite rarely.

Contains fixes from Ying Huang.

[ solve conflict on irqinit, make it work on 32bit (entry_arch.h) - HS ]

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-06-03 14:44:05 -07:00
Yong Wang
a32881066e perf_counter/x86: Remove the IRQ (non-NMI) handling bits
Remove the IRQ (non-NMI) handling bits as NMI will be used always.

Signed-off-by: Yong Wang <yong.y.wang@intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090603051255.GA2791@ywang-moblin2.bj.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-03 09:53:34 +02:00
Andi Kleen
7856f6cce4 x86, mce: enable MCE_INTEL for 32bit new MCE
Enable the 64bit MCE_INTEL code (CMCI, thermal interrupts) for 32bit NEW_MCE.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-05-28 09:24:13 -07:00
Andi Kleen
5d7279268b x86, mce: use a call vector to call the 64bit mce handler
Allows to call different machine check handlers from the low
level machine check entry vector.

This is needed for later when it will be used for 32bit too.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-05-28 09:24:12 -07:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
6cac5a9246 xen/x86-64: fix breakpoints and hardware watchpoints
Native x86-64 uses the IST mechanism to run int3 and debug traps on
an alternative stack.  Xen does not do this, and so the frames were
being misinterpreted by the ptrace code.  This change special-cases
these two exceptions by using Xen variants which run on the normal
kernel stack properly.

Impact: avoid crash or bad data when IST trap is invoked under Xen
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
2009-05-08 15:51:03 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
44347d947f Merge branch 'linus' into tracing/core
Merge reason: tracing/core was on a .30-rc1 base and was missing out on
              on a handful of tracing fixes present in .30-rc5-almost.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-07 11:17:34 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
e7fd5d4b3d Merge branch 'linus' into perfcounters/core
Merge reason: This brach was on -rc1, refresh it to almost-rc4 to pick up
              the latest upstream fixes.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-29 14:47:05 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
0300e7f1a5 lockdep, x86: account for irqs enabled in paranoid_exit
I hit the check_flags error of lockdep:

 WARNING: at kernel/lockdep.c:2893 check_flags+0x1a7/0x1d0()
 [...]
 hardirqs last  enabled at (12567): [<ffffffff8026206a>] local_bh_enable+0xaa/0x110
 hardirqs last disabled at (12569): [<ffffffff80610c76>] int3+0x16/0x40
 softirqs last  enabled at (12566): [<ffffffff80514d2b>] lock_sock_nested+0xfb/0x110
 softirqs last disabled at (12568): [<ffffffff8058454e>] tcp_prequeue_process+0x2e/0xa0

The check_flags warning of lockdep tells me that lockdep thought interrupts
were disabled, but they were really enabled.

The numbers in the above parenthesis show the order of events:

 12566: softirqs last enabled:  lock_sock_nested
 12567: hardirqs last enabled:  local_bh_enable
 12568: softirqs last disabled: tcp_prequeue_process
 12566: hardirqs last disabled: int3

int3 is a breakpoint!

Examining this further, I have CONFIG_NET_TCPPROBE enabled which adds
break points into the kernel.

The paranoid_exit of the return of int3 does not account for enabling
interrupts on return to kernel. This code is a bit tricky since it
is also used by the nmi handler (when lockdep is off), and we must be
careful about the swapgs. We can not call kernel code after the swapgs
has been performed.

[ Impact: fix lockdep check_flags warning + self-turn-off ]

Acked-by: Peter Zijlsta <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-18 09:04:28 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
e71e99c294 x86, function-graph: only save return values on x86_64
Impact: speed up

The return to handler portion of the function graph tracer should only
need to save the return values. The caller already saved off the
registers that the callee can modify. The returning function already
saved the registers it modified. When we call our own trace function
it too will save the registers that the callee must restore.

There's no reason to save off anything more that the registers used
to return the values.

Note, I did a complete kernel build with this modification and the
function graph tracer running on x86_64.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-10 12:50:58 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
b6276f353b perf_counter: x86: self-IPI for pending work
Implement set_perf_counter_pending() with a self-IPI so that it will
run ASAP in a usable context.

For now use a second IRQ vector, because the primary vector pokes
the apic in funny ways that seem to confuse things.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090406094517.724626696@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-07 10:48:56 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
f541ae326f Merge branch 'linus' into perfcounters/core-v2
Merge reason: we have gathered quite a few conflicts, need to merge upstream

Conflicts:
	arch/powerpc/kernel/Makefile
	arch/x86/ia32/ia32entry.S
	arch/x86/include/asm/hardirq.h
	arch/x86/include/asm/unistd_32.h
	arch/x86/include/asm/unistd_64.h
	arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
	arch/x86/kernel/irq.c
	arch/x86/kernel/syscall_table_32.S
	arch/x86/mm/iomap_32.c
	include/linux/sched.h
	kernel/Makefile

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-06 09:02:57 +02:00
Jan Beulich
c2810188c1 x86-64: move save_paranoid into .kprobes.text
Impact: mark save_paranoid as non-kprobe-able code

This appears to be necessary as the function gets called from
kprobes-unsafe exception handling stubs (i.e. which themselves
live in .kprobes.text).

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
LKML-Reference: <49B8F44F.76E4.0078.0@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-12 11:57:46 +01:00
Jan Beulich
9fa7266c2f x86: remove leftover unwind annotations
Impact: cleanup

These got left in needlessly when ret_from_fork got simplified.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
LKML-Reference: <49B8F355.76E4.0078.0@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-12 11:50:39 +01:00
Dimitri Sivanich
acaabe795a x86: UV, SGI RTC: add generic system vector
This patch allocates a system interrupt vector for various platform
specific uses.

Signed-off-by: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090304185605.GA24419@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-04 20:25:37 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
8e818179eb Merge branch 'x86/core' into perfcounters/core
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c
	arch/x86/kernel/irqinit_32.c

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-26 13:02:23 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
a852cbfaaf Merge branches 'x86/acpi', 'x86/apic', 'x86/asm', 'x86/cleanups', 'x86/mm', 'x86/signal' and 'x86/urgent'; commit 'v2.6.29-rc6' into x86/core 2009-02-24 21:50:43 +01:00
Cyrill Gorcunov
bc8b2b9258 x86: head_64.S - use GLOBAL macro
Impact: cleanup

Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: heukelum@fastmail.fm
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-24 18:08:40 +01:00
Cyrill Gorcunov
b3baaa138c x86: entry_64.S - add missing ENDPROC
native_usergs_sysret64 is described as

	extern void native_usergs_sysret64(void)

so lets add ENDPROC here

Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: heukelum@fastmail.fm
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-24 18:08:39 +01:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
0341c14da4 x86: use _types.h headers in asm where available
In general, the only definitions that assembly files can use
are in _types.S headers (where available), so convert them.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
2009-02-13 11:35:01 -08:00
Ingo Molnar
b1864e9a1a Merge branch 'x86/core' into perfcounters/core
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/Kconfig
	arch/x86/kernel/apic.c
	arch/x86/kernel/setup_percpu.c
2009-02-13 09:49:38 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
95fd4845ed Merge commit 'v2.6.29-rc4' into perfcounters/core
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/kernel/setup_percpu.c
	arch/x86/mm/fault.c
	drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c
	kernel/irq/handle.c
2009-02-11 09:22:04 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
eca217b36e Merge branch 'x86/paravirt' into x86/apic
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/mach-voyager/voyager_smp.c
2009-02-09 12:16:59 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
9d45cf9e36 Merge branch 'x86/urgent' into x86/apic
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/mach-default/setup.c

Semantic merge:
	arch/x86/kernel/irqinit_32.c

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-05 22:30:01 +01:00
Martin Hicks
a67798cd7b x86: push old stack address on irqstack for unwinder
Impact: Fixes dumpstack and KDB on 64 bits

This re-adds the old stack pointer to the top of the irqstack to help
with unwinding.  It was removed in commit d99015b1ab
as part of the save_args out-of-line work.

Both dumpstack and KDB require this information.

Signed-off-by: Martin Hicks <mort@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-02-02 21:18:03 -08:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
b8aa287f77 x86: fix paravirt clobber in entry_64.S
Impact: Fix latent bug

The clobber is trying to say that anything except RDI is available for
clobbering, but actually clobbers everything.  This hasn't mattered
because the clobbers were basically ignored, but subsequent patches
will rely on them.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-01-30 14:51:44 -08:00
Ingo Molnar
74b6eb6b93 Merge branches 'x86/asm', 'x86/cleanups', 'x86/cpudetect', 'x86/debug', 'x86/doc', 'x86/header-fixes', 'x86/mm', 'x86/paravirt', 'x86/pat', 'x86/setup-v2', 'x86/subarch', 'x86/uaccess' and 'x86/urgent' into x86/core 2009-01-28 23:13:53 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
bfe2a3c3b5 Merge branch 'core/percpu' into perfcounters/core
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/include/asm/hardirq_32.h
	arch/x86/include/asm/hardirq_64.h

Semantic merge:
	arch/x86/include/asm/hardirq.h
	[ added apic_perf_irqs field. ]

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-23 10:20:15 +01:00
Nick Piggin
03b486322e x86: make UV support configurable
Make X86 SGI Ultraviolet support configurable. Saves about 13K of text size
on my modest config.

   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
6770537 1158680  694356 8623573  8395d5 vmlinux
6757492 1157664  694228 8609384  835e68 vmlinux.nouv

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-21 13:00:42 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
af37501c79 Merge branch 'core/percpu' into perfcounters/core
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/include/asm/pda.h

We merge tip/core/percpu into tip/perfcounters/core because of a
semantic and contextual conflict: the former eliminates the PDA,
while the latter extends it with apic_perf_irqs field.

Resolve the conflict by moving the new field to the irq_cpustat
structure on 64-bit too.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-18 18:15:49 +01:00
Brian Gerst
5689553076 x86-64: Move irqcount from PDA to per-cpu.
tj: s/irqcount/irq_count/

Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2009-01-19 00:38:58 +09:00
Brian Gerst
3d1e42a7cf x86-64: Move oldrsp from PDA to per-cpu.
tj: * in asm-offsets_64.c, pda.h inclusion shouldn't be removed as pda
      is still referenced in the file
    * s/oldrsp/old_rsp/

Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2009-01-19 00:38:58 +09:00
Brian Gerst
9af45651f1 x86-64: Move kernelstack from PDA to per-cpu.
Also clean up PER_CPU_VAR usage in xen-asm_64.S

tj: * remove now unused stack_thread_info()
    * s/kernelstack/kernel_stack/
    * added FIXME comment in xen-asm_64.S

Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2009-01-19 00:38:58 +09:00
Brian Gerst
26f80bd6a9 x86-64: Convert irqstacks to per-cpu
Move the irqstackptr variable from the PDA to per-cpu.  Make the
stacks themselves per-cpu, removing some specific allocation code.
Add a seperate flag (is_boot_cpu) to simplify the per-cpu boot
adjustments.

tj: * sprinkle some underbars around.

    * irq_stack_ptr is not used till traps_init(), no reason to
      initialize it early.  On SMP, just leaving it NULL till proper
      initialization in setup_per_cpu_areas() works.  Dropped
      is_boot_cpu and early irq_stack_ptr initialization.

    * do DECLARE/DEFINE_PER_CPU(char[IRQ_STACK_SIZE], irq_stack)
      instead of (char, irq_stack[IRQ_STACK_SIZE]).

Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2009-01-19 00:38:58 +09:00
Tejun Heo
9939ddaff5 x86: merge 64 and 32 SMP percpu handling
Now that pda is allocated as part of percpu, percpu doesn't need to be
accessed through pda.  Unify x86_64 SMP percpu access with x86_32 SMP
one.  Other than the segment register, operand size and the base of
percpu symbols, they behave identical now.

This patch replaces now unnecessary pda->data_offset with a dummy
field which is necessary to keep stack_canary at its place.  This
patch also moves per_cpu_offset initialization out of init_gdt() into
setup_per_cpu_areas().  Note that this change also necessitates
explicit per_cpu_offset initializations in voyager_smp.c.

With this change, x86_OP_percpu()'s are as efficient on x86_64 as on
x86_32 and also x86_64 can use assembly PER_CPU macros.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-16 14:19:58 +01:00
Benjamin LaHaise
7106a5ab89 x86-64: remove locked instruction from switch_to()
Impact: micro-optimization

The patch below removes an unnecessary locked instruction from
switch_to().  TIF_FORK is only ever set in copy_thread() on initial
process creation, and gets cleared during the first scheduling of the
process.  As such, it is safe to use an unlocked test for the flag
within switch_to().

Signed-off-by: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-11 05:05:33 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
e1df957670 Merge branch 'linus' into perfcounters/core
Conflicts:
	fs/exec.c
	include/linux/init_task.h

Simple context conflicts.
2008-12-29 09:45:15 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
b0f4b285d7 Merge branch 'tracing-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'tracing-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (241 commits)
  sched, trace: update trace_sched_wakeup()
  tracing/ftrace: don't trace on early stage of a secondary cpu boot, v3
  Revert "x86: disable X86_PTRACE_BTS"
  ring-buffer: prevent false positive warning
  ring-buffer: fix dangling commit race
  ftrace: enable format arguments checking
  x86, bts: memory accounting
  x86, bts: add fork and exit handling
  ftrace: introduce tracing_reset_online_cpus() helper
  tracing: fix warnings in kernel/trace/trace_sched_switch.c
  tracing: fix warning in kernel/trace/trace.c
  tracing/ring-buffer: remove unused ring_buffer size
  trace: fix task state printout
  ftrace: add not to regex on filtering functions
  trace: better use of stack_trace_enabled for boot up code
  trace: add a way to enable or disable the stack tracer
  x86: entry_64 - introduce FTRACE_ frame macro v2
  tracing/ftrace: add the printk-msg-only option
  tracing/ftrace: use preempt_enable_no_resched_notrace in ring_buffer_time_stamp()
  x86, bts: correctly report invalid bts records
  ...

Fixed up trivial conflict in scripts/recordmcount.pl due to SH bits
being already partly merged by the SH merge.
2008-12-28 12:21:10 -08:00
Cyrill Gorcunov
d680fe4477 x86: entry_64 - introduce FTRACE_ frame macro v2
Impact: clean up

Itroduce MCOUNT_SAVE/RESTORE_FRAME which allow us to
save a number of lines on source level.

Also fix a comment in ftrace.h.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-17 00:26:38 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
241771ef01 performance counters: x86 support
Implement performance counters for x86 Intel CPUs.

It's simplified right now: the PERFMON CPU feature is assumed,
which is available in Core2 and later Intel CPUs.

The design is flexible to be extended to more CPU types as well.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-08 15:47:15 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
e49dc19c6a ftrace: function graph return for function entry
Impact: feature, let entry function decide to trace or not

This patch lets the graph tracer entry function decide if the tracing
should be done at the end as well. This requires all function graph
entry functions return 1 if it should trace, or 0 if the return should
not be traced.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-03 08:56:26 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
bb4304c71c ftrace: have function graph use mcount caller address
Impact: consistency change for function graph

This patch makes function graph record the mcount caller address
the same way the function tracer does.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-03 08:56:22 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker
48d68b20d0 tracing/function-graph-tracer: support for x86-64
Impact: extend and enable the function graph tracer to 64-bit x86

This patch implements the support for function graph tracer under x86-64.
Both static and dynamic tracing are supported.

This causes some small CPP conditional asm on arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c I
wanted to use probe_kernel_read/write to make the return address
saving/patching code more generic but it causes tracing recursion.

That would be perhaps useful to implement a notrace version of these
function for other archs ports.

Note that arch/x86/process_64.c is not traced, as in X86-32. I first
thought __switch_to() was responsible of crashes during tracing because I
believed current task were changed inside but that's actually not the
case (actually yes, but not the "current" pointer).

So I will have to investigate to find the functions that harm here, to
enable tracing of the other functions inside (but there is no issue at
this time, while process_64.c stays out of -pg flags).

A little possible race condition is fixed inside this patch too. When the
tracer allocate a return stack dynamically, the current depth is not
initialized before but after. An interrupt could occur at this time and,
after seeing that the return stack is allocated, the tracer could try to
trace it with a random uninitialized depth. It's a prevention, even if I
hadn't problems with it.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Tim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-02 09:47:48 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
5b3eec0c80 x86: ret_from_fork - get rid of jump back
Impact: remove dead code

If we take a closer look at the rff_trace/rff_action ret_from_fork code,
we have to realize that it does all the wrong things: for example it
checks the TIF flag - while later on jumping back to the ret-from-syscall
path - duplicating the check needlessly.

But checking for _TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE is completely unnecessary here because
we clear that flag for every freshly forked task. So the whole "tracing"
code here, for which there is a out of line jump optimization that makes
it even harder to read, is in reality completely dead code ...

Reported-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Tested-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
2008-11-28 15:01:46 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
3bdae4f464 Merge branch 'x86/debug' into x86/irq
We merge this branch because x86/debug touches code that we started
cleaning up in x86/irq. The two branches started out independent,
but as unexpected amount of activity went into x86/irq, they became
dependent. Resolve that by this cross-merge.
2008-11-28 15:00:48 +01:00
Cyrill Gorcunov
9f1e87ea3e x86: entry_64.S - trivial: space, comments fixup
Impact: cleanup

Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-28 14:53:48 +01:00