aboutsummaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
AgeCommit message (Collapse)Author
2009-08-12Remove zero-length file drivers/mtd/maps/sbc8240.cJeff Garzik
It was "deleted" in commit 2bf961b7ccd69e108ac435c67e2b0522b403c578 Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
2009-08-11Merge branch 'release' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/fyu/linux-2.6 * 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/fyu/linux-2.6: arch/ia64/kernel/iosapic: missing test after ioremap() ia64/topology.c: exit cache_add_dev when kobject_init_and_add fails arch/ia64/Makefile: Remove -mtune=merced in IA64 kernel build IA64: includecheck fix: ia64, pgtable.h IA64: includecheck fix: ia64, ia64_ksyms.c ia64: boolean __test_and_clear_bit Bug Fix arch/ia64/kernel/pci-dma.c: fix recursive dma_supported() call in iommu_dma_supported()
2009-08-11arch/ia64/kernel/iosapic: missing test after ioremap()Roel Kluin
Missing test after ioremap() Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com> Acked-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
2009-08-11ia64/topology.c: exit cache_add_dev when kobject_init_and_add failsFenghua Yu
Make cache_add_dev exit sysfs when kobject_init_and_add returns an error. Signed-off-by: Xiaotian Feng <dfeng@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
2009-08-11arch/ia64/Makefile: Remove -mtune=merced in IA64 kernel buildFenghua Yu
Between GCC version 3.4.0 and 4.3.3 (including 3.4.0 and 4.3.3), -mtune=merced is implemented in GCC. Starting from 4.4.0, -mtune=merced is deprecated. Even implemented in versions between 3.4.0 and 4.3.3, the -mtune=merced feature has been broken in some of the versions. For example, GCC 4.1.2 reports interanl tuning function errors during kernel building with -mtune=merced. Or GCC Bugzilla 16130 reports another -mtune=merced issue on GCC 3.4.1. So I would remove the -mtune=merced from IA64 kernel build. Without this option, kernel on Merced will remain the same except losing an unstable and out-of-date performance tunning feature. Since GCC version 3.4.0, -mtune=mckinley has been implemented. The -mtune=mckinley option functions the same as mtune=itanium2. And mtune=itanium2 is the default option. So we don't need to add mtune=mckinley either since its been the default option in any GCC version which implements this option. Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
2009-08-11IA64: includecheck fix: ia64, pgtable.hJaswinder Singh Rajput
fix the following 'make includecheck' warning: arch/ia64/include/asm/pgtable.h: asm/processor.h is included more than once. Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com> Acked-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
2009-08-11IA64: includecheck fix: ia64, ia64_ksyms.cJaswinder Singh Rajput
fix the following 'make includecheck' warning: arch/ia64/kernel/ia64_ksyms.c: asm/page.h is included more than once. Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com> Acked-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
2009-08-11ia64: boolean __test_and_clear_bitJohannes Weiner
__test_and_clear_bit() returns a bitfield with the tested-for bit set. Make it consistent with the other bitops - of ia64 but also every other architecture - and return a boolean value. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
2009-08-11Bug Fix arch/ia64/kernel/pci-dma.c: fix recursive dma_supported() call in ↵Fenghua Yu
iommu_dma_supported() In commit 160c1d8e40866edfeae7d68816b7005d70acf391, dma_ops->dma_supported = iommu_dma_supported; This dma_ops->dma_supported is first called in platform_dma_init() during kernel boot. Then dma_ops->dma_supported will be called recursively in iommu_dma_supported. Kernel can not boot because kernel can not get out of iommu_dma_supported until it runs out of stack memory. Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
2009-08-10Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
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: SELinux: fix memory leakage in /security/selinux/hooks.c
2009-08-11SELinux: fix memory leakage in /security/selinux/hooks.cJames Morris
Fix memory leakage in /security/selinux/hooks.c The buffer always needs to be freed here; we either error out or allocate more memory. Reported-by: iceberg <strakh@ispras.ru> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
2009-08-10PM / Driver Core: Kill dev_pm_ops platform warning for nowMagnus Damm
Commit 783ea7d4eeefe895f2731fe73ac951e94418927b (Driver Core: Rework platform suspend/resume, print warning) added a warning message printed for platform drivers that use the legacy PM callbacks rather than struct dev_pm_ops. Unfortunately, this resulted in some confusion and made some people try to convert drivers by replacing the old callbacks with struct dev_pm_ops in automatic way, which generally is not a good idea. Remove the platform device runtime dev_pm_ops warning for now, because it's annoying to users and it's not really necessary right now. [rjw: Modified the changelog to be more informative.] Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <damm@igel.co.jp> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
2009-08-10pty: fix data loss when stopped (^S/^Q)Linus Torvalds
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>
2009-08-10Merge branch 'perfcounters-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
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 ...
2009-08-10Merge branch 'irq-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
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
2009-08-10Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
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()
2009-08-10Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
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
2009-08-10x86: Fix serialization in pit_expect_msb()Linus Torvalds
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>
2009-08-10Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
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()
2009-08-10Merge branch 'merge' of ↵Linus Torvalds
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
2009-08-10MN10300: includecheck fix: mn10300, pci.hJaswinder Singh Rajput
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>
2009-08-10mempool.c: clean up type-castingFigo.zhang
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>
2009-08-10documentation: register ioctl entry of nilfs2Ryusuke Konishi
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>
2009-08-10perf_counter: Zero dead bytes from ftrace raw samples size alignmentFrederic Weisbecker
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>
2009-08-10perf_counter: Subtract the buffer size field from the event record sizeFrederic Weisbecker
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>
2009-08-10mm_for_maps: take ->cred_guard_mutex to fix the race with execOleg Nesterov
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>
2009-08-10mm_for_maps: shift down_read(mmap_sem) to the callerOleg Nesterov
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>
2009-08-10mm_for_maps: simplify, use ptrace_may_access()Oleg Nesterov
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>
2009-08-10perf_counter: Require CAP_SYS_ADMIN for raw tracepoint dataPeter Zijlstra
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>
2009-08-10perf_counter: Correct PERF_SAMPLE_RAW outputPeter Zijlstra
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>
2009-08-10powerpc/dma: pci_set_dma_mask() shouldn't fail if mask fits in RAMBenjamin Herrenschmidt
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>
2009-08-09Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.infradead.org/ubi-2.6Linus Torvalds
* '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
2009-08-09Merge branch 'kvm-updates/2.6.31' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvmLinus Torvalds
* '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
2009-08-09Merge branch 'drm-fixes' of ↵Linus Torvalds
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
2009-08-09Merge branch 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
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()
2009-08-09Merge branch 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
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
2009-08-09Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
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
2009-08-09Merge branch 'core-fixes-for-linus-2' of ↵Linus Torvalds
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()
2009-08-09perf tools: callchain: Fix bad rounding of minimum rateFrederic Weisbecker
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>
2009-08-09perf_counter tools: Fix libbfd detection for systems with libz dependencyMike Galbraith
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>
2009-08-09perf: "Longum est iter per praecepta, breve et efficax per exempla"Carlos R. Mafra
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>
2009-08-09perf_counter: Fix a race on perf_counter_ctxPeter Zijlstra
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 9f498cc5be7e013d8d6e4c616980ed0ffc8680d2 (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>
2009-08-09perf_counter: Fix tracepoint sampling to be part of generic samplingFrederic Weisbecker
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>
2009-08-09perf_counter: Work around gcc warning by initializing tracepoint record ↵Frederic Weisbecker
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>
2009-08-09perf tools: callchain: Fix sum of percentages to be 100% by displaying ↵Frederic Weisbecker
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>
2009-08-09perf tools: callchain: Fix 'perf report' display to be callchain by defaultFrederic Weisbecker
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>
2009-08-09perf tools: callchain: Fix spurious 'perf report' warnings: ignore empty ↵Frederic Weisbecker
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>
2009-08-09perf record: Fix the -A UI for empty or non-existent perf.dataPierre Habouzit
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>
2009-08-09perf util: Fix do_read() to fail on EOF instead of busy-loopingPierre Habouzit
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>
2009-08-09perf list: Fix the output to not include tracepoints without an idPeter Zijlstra
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>