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Ingo Molnar
cbe2f5a6e8 tracing: allow tracing of suspend/resume & hibernation code again
Impact: widen function-tracing to suspend+resume (and hibernation) sequences

Now that the ftrace kernel thread is gone, we can allow tracing
during suspend/resume again.

So revert these two commits:

  f42ac38c5 "ftrace: disable tracing for suspend to ram"
  41108eb10 "ftrace: disable tracing for hibernation"

This should be tested very carefully, as it could interact with
altneratives instruction patching, etc.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-23 10:48:44 +01:00
Török Edwin
b54d3de9f3 tracing: identify which executable object the userspace address belongs to
Impact: modify+improve the userstacktrace tracing visualization feature

Store thread group leader id, and use it to lookup the address in the
process's map. We could have looked up the address on thread's map,
but the thread might not exist by the time we are called. The process
might not exist either, but if you are reading trace_pipe, that is
unlikely.

Example usage:

 mount -t debugfs nodev /sys/kernel/debug
 cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing
 echo userstacktrace >iter_ctrl
 echo sym-userobj >iter_ctrl
 echo sched_switch >current_tracer
 echo 1 >tracing_enabled
 cat trace_pipe >/tmp/trace&
 .... run application ...
 echo 0 >tracing_enabled
 cat /tmp/trace

You'll see stack entries like:

   /lib/libpthread-2.7.so[+0xd370]

You can convert them to function/line using:

   addr2line -fie /lib/libpthread-2.7.so 0xd370

Or:

   addr2line -fie /usr/lib/debug/libpthread-2.7.so 0xd370

For non-PIC/PIE executables this won't work:

   a.out[+0x73b]

You need to run the following: addr2line -fie a.out 0x40073b
(where 0x400000 is the default load address of a.out)

Signed-off-by: Török Edwin <edwintorok@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-23 09:45:42 +01:00
Török Edwin
02b67518e2 tracing: add support for userspace stacktraces in tracing/iter_ctrl
Impact: add new (default-off) tracing visualization feature

Usage example:

 mount -t debugfs nodev /sys/kernel/debug
 cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing
 echo userstacktrace >iter_ctrl
 echo sched_switch >current_tracer
 echo 1 >tracing_enabled
 .... run application ...
 echo 0 >tracing_enabled

Then read one of 'trace','latency_trace','trace_pipe'.

To get the best output you can compile your userspace programs with
frame pointers (at least glibc + the app you are tracing).

Signed-off-by: Török Edwin <edwintorok@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-23 09:25:15 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
82f60f0bc8 tracing/function-return-tracer: clean up task start/exit callbacks
Impact: cleanup

Eliminate #ifdefs in core code by using empty inline functions.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-23 09:19:35 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker
f201ae2356 tracing/function-return-tracer: store return stack into task_struct and allocate it dynamically
Impact: use deeper function tracing depth safely

Some tests showed that function return tracing needed a more deeper depth
of function calls. But it could be unsafe to store these return addresses
to the stack.

So these arrays will now be allocated dynamically into task_struct of current
only when the tracer is activated.

Typical scheme when tracer is activated:
- allocate a return stack for each task in global list.
- fork: allocate the return stack for the newly created task
- exit: free return stack of current
- idle init: same as fork

I chose a default depth of 50. I don't have overruns anymore.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-23 09:17:26 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
a0a70c735e Merge branches 'tracing/profiling', 'tracing/options' and 'tracing/urgent' into tracing/core 2008-11-23 09:10:32 +01:00
Li Zefan
b0788caf7a lockdep: consistent alignement for lockdep info
Impact: prettify /proc/lockdep_info

Just feel odd that not all lines of lockdep info are aligned.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-21 08:59:40 +01:00
Vegard Nossum
957ad0166e sched: update comment for move_task_off_dead_cpu
Impact: cleanup

This commit:

commit f7b4cddcc5
Author: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Date:   Tue Oct 16 23:30:56 2007 -0700

    do CPU_DEAD migrating under read_lock(tasklist) instead of write_lock_irq(ta

    Currently move_task_off_dead_cpu() is called under
    write_lock_irq(tasklist).  This means it can't use task_lock() which is
    needed to improve migrating to take task's ->cpuset into account.

    Change the code to call move_task_off_dead_cpu() with irqs enabled, and
    change migrate_live_tasks() to use read_lock(tasklist).

...forgot to update the comment in front of move_task_off_dead_cpu.

Reference: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/6/23/135

Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-21 08:57:28 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
fc02e90c34 Merge commit 'v2.6.28-rc6' into sched/core 2008-11-21 08:57:04 +01:00
Liming Wang
522a110b42 function tracing: fix wrong position computing of stack_trace
Impact: make output of stack_trace complete if buffer overruns

When read buffer overruns, the output of stack_trace isn't complete.

When printing records with seq_printf in t_show, if the read buffer
has overruned by the current record, then this record won't be
printed to user space through read buffer, it will just be dropped in
this printing.

When next printing, t_start should return the "*pos"th record, which
is the one dropped by previous printing, but it just returns
(m->private + *pos)th record.

Here we use a more sane method to implement seq_operations which can
be found in kernel code. Thus we needn't initialize m->private.

About testing, it's not easy to overrun read buffer, but we can use
seq_printf to print more padding bytes in t_show, then it's easy to
check whether or not records are lost.

This commit has been tested on both condition of overrun and non
overrun.

Signed-off-by: Liming Wang <liming.wang@windriver.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-21 08:49:52 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
95763dd52b 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:
  ftrace: fix dyn ftrace filter selection
  ftrace: make filtered functions effective on setting
  ftrace: fix set_ftrace_filter
  trace: introduce missing mutex_unlock()
  tracing: kernel/trace/trace.c: introduce missing kfree()
2008-11-20 13:11:21 -08:00
Li Zefan
33d283bef2 cgroups: fix a serious bug in cgroupstats
Try this, and you'll get oops immediately:
 # cd Documentation/accounting/
 # gcc -o getdelays getdelays.c
 # mount -t cgroup -o debug xxx /mnt
 # ./getdelays -C /mnt/tasks

Because a normal file's dentry->d_fsdata is a pointer to struct cftype,
not struct cgroup.

After the patch, it returns EINVAL if we try to get cgroupstats
from a normal file.

Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>		[2.6.25.x, 2.6.26.x, 2.6.27.x]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-11-19 18:50:00 -08:00
Hugh Dickins
966c8c12dc sprint_symbol(): use less stack
sprint_symbol(), itself used when dumping stacks, has been wasting 128
bytes of stack: lookup the symbol directly into the buffer supplied by the
caller, instead of using a locally declared namebuf.

I believe the name != buffer strcpy() is obsolete: the design here dates
from when module symbol lookup pointed into a supposedly const but sadly
volatile table; nowadays it copies, but an uncalled strcpy() looks better
here than the risk of a recursive BUG_ON().

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-11-19 18:49:58 -08:00
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
3fa59dfbc3 cgroup: fix potential deadlock in pre_destroy
As Balbir pointed out, memcg's pre_destroy handler has potential deadlock.

It has following lock sequence.

	cgroup_mutex (cgroup_rmdir)
	    -> pre_destroy -> mem_cgroup_pre_destroy-> force_empty
		-> cpu_hotplug.lock. (lru_add_drain_all->
				      schedule_work->
                                      get_online_cpus)

But, cpuset has following.
	cpu_hotplug.lock (call notifier)
		-> cgroup_mutex. (within notifier)

Then, this lock sequence should be fixed.

Considering how pre_destroy works, it's not necessary to holding
cgroup_mutex() while calling it.

As a side effect, we don't have to wait at this mutex while memcg's
force_empty works.(it can be long when there are tons of pages.)

Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-11-19 18:49:58 -08:00
Miao Xie
f481891fdc cpuset: update top cpuset's mems after adding a node
After adding a node into the machine, top cpuset's mems isn't updated.

By reviewing the code, we found that the update function

  cpuset_track_online_nodes()

was invoked after node_states[N_ONLINE] changes.  It is wrong because
N_ONLINE just means node has pgdat, and if node has/added memory, we use
N_HIGH_MEMORY.  So, We should invoke the update function after
node_states[N_HIGH_MEMORY] changes, just like its commit says.

This patch fixes it.  And we use notifier of memory hotplug instead of
direct calling of cpuset_track_online_nodes().

Signed-off-by: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-11-19 18:49:58 -08:00
Ulrich Drepper
de11defebf reintroduce accept4
Introduce a new accept4() system call.  The addition of this system call
matches analogous changes in 2.6.27 (dup3(), evenfd2(), signalfd4(),
inotify_init1(), epoll_create1(), pipe2()) which added new system calls
that differed from analogous traditional system calls in adding a flags
argument that can be used to access additional functionality.

The accept4() system call is exactly the same as accept(), except that
it adds a flags bit-mask argument.  Two flags are initially implemented.
(Most of the new system calls in 2.6.27 also had both of these flags.)

SOCK_CLOEXEC causes the close-on-exec (FD_CLOEXEC) flag to be enabled
for the new file descriptor returned by accept4().  This is a useful
security feature to avoid leaking information in a multithreaded
program where one thread is doing an accept() at the same time as
another thread is doing a fork() plus exec().  More details here:
http://udrepper.livejournal.com/20407.html "Secure File Descriptor Handling",
Ulrich Drepper).

The other flag is SOCK_NONBLOCK, which causes the O_NONBLOCK flag
to be enabled on the new open file description created by accept4().
(This flag is merely a convenience, saving the use of additional calls
fcntl(F_GETFL) and fcntl (F_SETFL) to achieve the same result.

Here's a test program.  Works on x86-32.  Should work on x86-64, but
I (mtk) don't have a system to hand to test with.

It tests accept4() with each of the four possible combinations of
SOCK_CLOEXEC and SOCK_NONBLOCK set/clear in 'flags', and verifies
that the appropriate flags are set on the file descriptor/open file
description returned by accept4().

I tested Ulrich's patch in this thread by applying against 2.6.28-rc2,
and it passes according to my test program.

/* test_accept4.c

  Copyright (C) 2008, Linux Foundation, written by Michael Kerrisk
       <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>

  Licensed under the GNU GPLv2 or later.
*/
#define _GNU_SOURCE
#include <unistd.h>
#include <sys/syscall.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <netinet/in.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>

#define PORT_NUM 33333

#define die(msg) do { perror(msg); exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } while (0)

/**********************************************************************/

/* The following is what we need until glibc gets a wrapper for
  accept4() */

/* Flags for socket(), socketpair(), accept4() */
#ifndef SOCK_CLOEXEC
#define SOCK_CLOEXEC    O_CLOEXEC
#endif
#ifndef SOCK_NONBLOCK
#define SOCK_NONBLOCK   O_NONBLOCK
#endif

#ifdef __x86_64__
#define SYS_accept4 288
#elif __i386__
#define USE_SOCKETCALL 1
#define SYS_ACCEPT4 18
#else
#error "Sorry -- don't know the syscall # on this architecture"
#endif

static int
accept4(int fd, struct sockaddr *sockaddr, socklen_t *addrlen, int flags)
{
   printf("Calling accept4(): flags = %x", flags);
   if (flags != 0) {
       printf(" (");
       if (flags & SOCK_CLOEXEC)
           printf("SOCK_CLOEXEC");
       if ((flags & SOCK_CLOEXEC) && (flags & SOCK_NONBLOCK))
           printf(" ");
       if (flags & SOCK_NONBLOCK)
           printf("SOCK_NONBLOCK");
       printf(")");
   }
   printf("\n");

#if USE_SOCKETCALL
   long args[6];

   args[0] = fd;
   args[1] = (long) sockaddr;
   args[2] = (long) addrlen;
   args[3] = flags;

   return syscall(SYS_socketcall, SYS_ACCEPT4, args);
#else
   return syscall(SYS_accept4, fd, sockaddr, addrlen, flags);
#endif
}

/**********************************************************************/

static int
do_test(int lfd, struct sockaddr_in *conn_addr,
       int closeonexec_flag, int nonblock_flag)
{
   int connfd, acceptfd;
   int fdf, flf, fdf_pass, flf_pass;
   struct sockaddr_in claddr;
   socklen_t addrlen;

   printf("=======================================\n");

   connfd = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0);
   if (connfd == -1)
       die("socket");
   if (connect(connfd, (struct sockaddr *) conn_addr,
               sizeof(struct sockaddr_in)) == -1)
       die("connect");

   addrlen = sizeof(struct sockaddr_in);
   acceptfd = accept4(lfd, (struct sockaddr *) &claddr, &addrlen,
                      closeonexec_flag | nonblock_flag);
   if (acceptfd == -1) {
       perror("accept4()");
       close(connfd);
       return 0;
   }

   fdf = fcntl(acceptfd, F_GETFD);
   if (fdf == -1)
       die("fcntl:F_GETFD");
   fdf_pass = ((fdf & FD_CLOEXEC) != 0) ==
              ((closeonexec_flag & SOCK_CLOEXEC) != 0);
   printf("Close-on-exec flag is %sset (%s); ",
           (fdf & FD_CLOEXEC) ? "" : "not ",
           fdf_pass ? "OK" : "failed");

   flf = fcntl(acceptfd, F_GETFL);
   if (flf == -1)
       die("fcntl:F_GETFD");
   flf_pass = ((flf & O_NONBLOCK) != 0) ==
              ((nonblock_flag & SOCK_NONBLOCK) !=0);
   printf("nonblock flag is %sset (%s)\n",
           (flf & O_NONBLOCK) ? "" : "not ",
           flf_pass ? "OK" : "failed");

   close(acceptfd);
   close(connfd);

   printf("Test result: %s\n", (fdf_pass && flf_pass) ? "PASS" : "FAIL");
   return fdf_pass && flf_pass;
}

static int
create_listening_socket(int port_num)
{
   struct sockaddr_in svaddr;
   int lfd;
   int optval;

   memset(&svaddr, 0, sizeof(struct sockaddr_in));
   svaddr.sin_family = AF_INET;
   svaddr.sin_addr.s_addr = htonl(INADDR_ANY);
   svaddr.sin_port = htons(port_num);

   lfd = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0);
   if (lfd == -1)
       die("socket");

   optval = 1;
   if (setsockopt(lfd, SOL_SOCKET, SO_REUSEADDR, &optval,
                  sizeof(optval)) == -1)
       die("setsockopt");

   if (bind(lfd, (struct sockaddr *) &svaddr,
            sizeof(struct sockaddr_in)) == -1)
       die("bind");

   if (listen(lfd, 5) == -1)
       die("listen");

   return lfd;
}

int
main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
   struct sockaddr_in conn_addr;
   int lfd;
   int port_num;
   int passed;

   passed = 1;

   port_num = (argc > 1) ? atoi(argv[1]) : PORT_NUM;

   memset(&conn_addr, 0, sizeof(struct sockaddr_in));
   conn_addr.sin_family = AF_INET;
   conn_addr.sin_addr.s_addr = htonl(INADDR_LOOPBACK);
   conn_addr.sin_port = htons(port_num);

   lfd = create_listening_socket(port_num);

   if (!do_test(lfd, &conn_addr, 0, 0))
       passed = 0;
   if (!do_test(lfd, &conn_addr, SOCK_CLOEXEC, 0))
       passed = 0;
   if (!do_test(lfd, &conn_addr, 0, SOCK_NONBLOCK))
       passed = 0;
   if (!do_test(lfd, &conn_addr, SOCK_CLOEXEC, SOCK_NONBLOCK))
       passed = 0;

   close(lfd);

   exit(passed ? EXIT_SUCCESS : EXIT_FAILURE);
}

[mtk.manpages@gmail.com: rewrote changelog, updated test program]
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Cc: <linux-api@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-11-19 18:49:57 -08:00
Ken Chen
ec4e0e2fe0 sched: fix inconsistency when redistribute per-cpu tg->cfs_rq shares
Impact: make load-balancing more consistent

In the update_shares() path leading to tg_shares_up(), the calculation of
per-cpu cfs_rq shares is rather erratic even under moderate task wake up
rate.  The problem is that the per-cpu tg->cfs_rq load weight used in the
sd_rq_weight aggregation and actual redistribution of the cfs_rq->shares
are collected at different time.  Under moderate system load, we've seen
quite a bit of variation on the cfs_rq->shares and ultimately wildly
affects sched_entity's load weight.

This patch caches the result of initial per-cpu load weight when doing the
sum calculation, and then pass it down to update_group_shares_cpu() for
redistributing per-cpu cfs_rq shares.  This allows consistent total cfs_rq
shares across all CPUs. It also simplifies the rounding and zero load
weight check.

Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenchen@google.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-19 18:39:37 +01:00
Andrew Morton
60a5151320 profiling: clean up profile_nop()
Impact: cleanup

No point in inlining this.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-19 10:19:16 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
9676e73a9e Merge branches 'tracing/ftrace' and 'tracing/urgent' into tracing/core
Conflicts:
	kernel/trace/ftrace.c

[ We conflicted here because we backported a few fixes to
  tracing/urgent - which has different internal APIs. ]
2008-11-19 10:04:25 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
86fa2f6067 ftrace: fix selftest locking
Impact: fix self-test boot crash

Self-test failure forgot to re-lock the BKL - crashing the next
initcall:

Testing tracer irqsoff: .. no entries found ..FAILED!
initcall init_irqsoff_tracer+0x0/0x11 returned 0 after 3906 usecs
calling  init_mmio_trace+0x0/0xf @ 1
------------[ cut here ]------------
Kernel BUG at c0c0a915 [verbose debug info unavailable]
invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
last sysfs file:

Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted (2.6.28-rc5-tip #53704)
EIP: 0060:[<c0c0a915>] EFLAGS: 00010286 CPU: 1
EIP is at unlock_kernel+0x10/0x2b
EAX: ffffffff EBX: 00000000 ECX: 00000000 EDX: f7030000
ESI: c12da19c EDI: 00000000 EBP: f7039f54 ESP: f7039f54
 DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0000 SS: 0068
Process swapper (pid: 1, ti=f7038000 task=f7030000 task.ti=f7038000)
Stack:
 f7039f6c c0164d30 c013fed8 a7d8d7b4 00000000 00000000 f7039f74 c12fb78a
 f7039fd0 c0101132 c12fb77d 00000000 6f727200 6f632072 2d206564 c1002031
 0000000f f7039fa2 f7039fb0 3531b171 00000000 00000000 0000002f c12ca480
Call Trace:
 [<c0164d30>] ? register_tracer+0x66/0x13f
 [<c013fed8>] ? ktime_get+0x19/0x1b
 [<c12fb78a>] ? init_mmio_trace+0xd/0xf
 [<c0101132>] ? do_one_initcall+0x4a/0x111
 [<c12fb77d>] ? init_mmio_trace+0x0/0xf
 [<c015c7e6>] ? init_irq_proc+0x46/0x59
 [<c12e851d>] ? kernel_init+0x104/0x152
 [<c12e8419>] ? kernel_init+0x0/0x152
 [<c01038b7>] ? kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10
Code: 58 14 43 75 0a b8 00 9b 2d c1 e8 51 43 7a ff 64 a1 00 a0 37 c1 89 58 14 5b 5d c3 55 64 8b 15 00 a0 37 c1 83 7a 14 00 89 e5 79 04 <0f> 0b eb fe 8b 42 14 48 85 c0 89 42 14 79 0a b8 00 9b 2d c1 e8
EIP: [<c0c0a915>] unlock_kernel+0x10/0x2b SS:ESP 0068:f7039f54
---[ end trace a7919e7f17c0a725 ]---
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!

So clean up the flow a bit.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-19 10:00:15 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
3ac3ba0b39 Merge branch 'linus' into sched/core
Conflicts:
	kernel/Makefile
2008-11-19 09:44:37 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
6d5b43a67a Merge branch 'tip/urgent' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into tracing/urgent 2008-11-19 09:00:50 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
32464779a1 ftrace: fix dyn ftrace filter selection
Impact: clean up and fix for dyn ftrace filter selection

The previous logic of the dynamic ftrace selection of enabling
or disabling functions was complex and incorrect. This patch simplifies
the code and corrects the usage. This simplification also makes the
code more robust.

Here is the correct logic:

  Given a function that can be traced by dynamic ftrace:

  If the function is not to be traced, disable it if it was enabled.
  (this is if the function is in the set_ftrace_notrace file)

  (filter is on if there exists any functions in set_ftrace_filter file)

  If the filter is on, and we are enabling functions:
    If the function is in set_ftrace_filter, enable it if it is not
      already enabled.
    If the function is not in set_ftrace_filter, disable it if it is not
      already disabled.

  Otherwise, if the filter is off and we are enabling function tracing:
    Enable the function if it is not already enabled.

  Otherwise, if we are disabling function tracing:
    Disable the function if it is not already disabled.

This code now sets or clears the ENABLED flag in the record, and at the
end it will enable the function if the flag is set, or disable the function
if the flag is cleared.

The parameters for the function that does the above logic is also
simplified. Instead of passing in confusing "new" and "old" where
they might be swapped if the "enabled" flag is not set. The old logic
even had one of the above always NULL and had to be filled in. The new
logic simply passes in one parameter called "nop". A "call" is calculated
in the code, and at the end of the logic, when we know we need to either
disable or enable the function, we can then use the "nop" and "call"
properly.

This code is more robust than the previous version.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-19 00:19:47 -05:00
Steven Rostedt
8204327831 ftrace: make filtered functions effective on setting
Impact: fix filter selection to apply when set

It can be confusing when the set_filter_functions is set (or cleared)
and the functions being recorded by the dynamic tracer does not
match.

This patch causes the code to be updated if the function tracer is
enabled and the filter is changed.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-19 00:18:54 -05:00
Steven Rostedt
f10ed36ec1 ftrace: fix set_ftrace_filter
Impact: fix of output of set_ftrace_filter

The commit "ftrace: do not show freed records in
             available_filter_functions"

Removed a bit too much from the set_ftrace_filter code, where we now see
all functions in the set_ftrace_filter file even when we set a filter.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-19 00:17:45 -05:00
Heiko Carstens
a22506347d ftrace: preemptoff selftest not working
Impact: fix preemptoff and preemptirqsoff tracer self-tests

I was wondering why the preemptoff and preemptirqsoff tracer selftests
don't work on s390. After all its just that they get called from
non-preemptible context:

kernel_init() will execute all initcalls, however the first line in
kernel_init() is lock_kernel(), which causes the preempt_count to be
increased. Any later calls to add_preempt_count() (especially those
from the selftests) will therefore not result in a call to
trace_preempt_off() since the check below in add_preempt_count()
will be false:

        if (preempt_count() == val)
                trace_preempt_off(CALLER_ADDR0, get_parent_ip(CALLER_ADDR1));

Hence the trace buffer will be empty.

Fix this by releasing the BKL during the self-tests.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-18 21:54:50 +01:00
Vegard Nossum
641d2f63cf trace: introduce missing mutex_unlock()
Impact: fix tracing buffer mutex leak in case of allocation failure

This error was spotted by this semantic patch:

  http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/mut.html

It looks correct as far as I can tell. Please review.

Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-18 21:37:15 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
5177dc3f2b Merge branch 'linus' into tracing/urgent 2008-11-18 21:37:07 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
7f0f598a00 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block:
  block: hold extra reference to bio in blk_rq_map_user_iov()
  relay: fix cpu offline problem
  Release old elevator on change elevator
  block: fix boot failure with CONFIG_DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT=y and nash
  block/md: fix md autodetection
  block: make add_partition() return pointer to hd_struct
  block: fix add_partition() error path
2008-11-18 08:07:51 -08:00
Arjan van de Ven
a6a0c4ca7e suspend: use WARN not WARN_ON to print the message
By using WARN(), kerneloops.org can collect which component is causing
the delay and make statistics about that. suspend_test_finish() is
currently the number 2 item but unless we can collect who's causing
it we're not going to be able to fix the hot topic ones..

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-11-18 08:07:36 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
72b51a6b4d 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:
  kernel/profile.c: fix section mismatch warning
  function tracing: fix wrong pos computing when read buffer has been fulfilled
  tracing: fix mmiotrace resizing crash
  ring-buffer: no preempt for sched_clock()
  ring-buffer: buffer record on/off switch
2008-11-18 08:06:35 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
8c60bfb066 Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  cpuset: fix regression when failed to generate sched domains
  sched, signals: fix the racy usage of ->signal in account_group_xxx/run_posix_cpu_timers
  sched: fix kernel warning on /proc/sched_debug access
  sched: correct sched-rt-group.txt pathname in init/Kconfig
2008-11-18 08:06:21 -08:00
Julia Lawall
0bb943c7a2 tracing: kernel/trace/trace.c: introduce missing kfree()
Impact: fix memory leak

Error handling code following a kzalloc should free the allocated data.

The semantic match that finds the problem is as follows:
(http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/)

// <smpl>
@r exists@
local idexpression x;
statement S;
expression E;
identifier f,l;
position p1,p2;
expression *ptr != NULL;
@@

(
if ((x@p1 = \(kmalloc\|kzalloc\|kcalloc\)(...)) == NULL) S
|
x@p1 = \(kmalloc\|kzalloc\|kcalloc\)(...);
...
if (x == NULL) S
)
<... when != x
     when != if (...) { <+...x...+> }
x->f = E
...>
(
 return \(0\|<+...x...+>\|ptr\);
|
 return@p2 ...;
)

@script:python@
p1 << r.p1;
p2 << r.p2;
@@

print "* file: %s kmalloc %s return %s" % (p1[0].file,p1[0].line,p2[0].line)
// </smpl>

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-18 16:59:58 +01:00
Lai Jiangshan
98ba4031ab relay: fix cpu offline problem
relay_open() will close allocated buffers when failed.
but if cpu offlined, some buffer will not be closed.
this patch fixed it.

and did cleanup for relay_reset() too.

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-11-18 15:08:56 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker
0231022cc3 tracing/function-return-tracer: add the overrun field
Impact: help to find the better depth of trace

We decided to arbitrary define the depth of function return trace as
"20". Perhaps this is not enough. To help finding an optimal depth, we
measure now the overrun: the number of functions that have been missed
for the current thread. By default this is not displayed, we have to
do set a particular flag on the return tracer: echo overrun >
/debug/tracing/trace_options And the overrun will be printed on the
right.

As the trace shows below, the current 20 depth is not enough.

update_wall_time+0x37f/0x8c0 -> update_xtime_cache (345 ns) (Overruns: 2838)
update_wall_time+0x384/0x8c0 -> clocksource_get_next (1141 ns) (Overruns: 2838)
do_timer+0x23/0x100 -> update_wall_time (3882 ns) (Overruns: 2838)
tick_do_update_jiffies64+0xbf/0x160 -> do_timer (5339 ns) (Overruns: 2838)
tick_sched_timer+0x6a/0xf0 -> tick_do_update_jiffies64 (7209 ns) (Overruns: 2838)
vgacon_set_cursor_size+0x98/0x120 -> native_io_delay (2613 ns) (Overruns: 274)
vgacon_cursor+0x16e/0x1d0 -> vgacon_set_cursor_size (33151 ns) (Overruns: 274)
set_cursor+0x5f/0x80 -> vgacon_cursor (36432 ns) (Overruns: 274)
con_flush_chars+0x34/0x40 -> set_cursor (38790 ns) (Overruns: 274)
release_console_sem+0x1ec/0x230 -> up (721 ns) (Overruns: 274)
release_console_sem+0x225/0x230 -> wake_up_klogd (316 ns) (Overruns: 274)
con_flush_chars+0x39/0x40 -> release_console_sem (2996 ns) (Overruns: 274)
con_write+0x22/0x30 -> con_flush_chars (46067 ns) (Overruns: 274)
n_tty_write+0x1cc/0x360 -> con_write (292670 ns) (Overruns: 274)
smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x2a/0x90 -> native_apic_mem_write (330 ns) (Overruns: 274)
irq_enter+0x17/0x70 -> idle_cpu (413 ns) (Overruns: 274)
smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x2f/0x90 -> irq_enter (1525 ns) (Overruns: 274)
ktime_get_ts+0x40/0x70 -> getnstimeofday (465 ns) (Overruns: 274)
ktime_get_ts+0x60/0x70 -> set_normalized_timespec (436 ns) (Overruns: 274)
ktime_get+0x16/0x30 -> ktime_get_ts (2501 ns) (Overruns: 274)
hrtimer_interrupt+0x77/0x1a0 -> ktime_get (3439 ns) (Overruns: 274)

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-18 11:11:00 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker
0619faf657 tracing/ftrace: make nop tracer using tracer flags
Impact: give an example on how to use specific tracer flags

This patch propose to use the nop tracer to provide an
example for using the tracer's custom flags implementation.

V2: replace structures and defines just after the headers includes for
    cleanliness.
V3: replace defines by enum values.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Steven Noonan <steven@uplinklabs.net>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-18 11:10:59 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker
adf9f19574 tracing/ftrace: implement a set_flag callback for tracers
Impact: give a way to send specific messages to tracers

The current implementation of tracing uses some flags to control the
output of general tracers. But we have no way to implement custom
flags handling for a specific tracer. This patch proposes a new
callback for the struct tracer which called set_flag and a structure
that represents a 32 bits variable flag.

A tracer can implement a struct tracer_flags on which it puts the
initial value of the flag integer. Than it can place a range of flags
with their name and their flag mask on the flag integer. The structure
that implement a single flag is called struct tracer_opt.

These custom flags will be available through the trace_options file
like the general tracing flags. Changing their value is done like the
other general flags. For example if you have a flag that calls "foo",
you can activate it by writing "foo" or "nofoo" on trace_options.

Note that the set_flag callback is optional and is only needed if you
want the flags changing to be signaled to your tracer and let it to
accept or refuse their assignment.

V2: Some arrangements in coding style....

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-18 11:10:58 +01:00
James Morris
f3a5c54701 Merge branch 'master' into next
Conflicts:
	fs/cifs/misc.c

Merge to resolve above, per the patch below.

Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>

diff --cc fs/cifs/misc.c
index ec36410,addd1dc..0000000
--- a/fs/cifs/misc.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/misc.c
@@@ -347,13 -338,13 +338,13 @@@ header_assemble(struct smb_hdr *buffer
  		/*  BB Add support for establishing new tCon and SMB Session  */
  		/*      with userid/password pairs found on the smb session   */
  		/*	for other target tcp/ip addresses 		BB    */
 -				if (current->fsuid != treeCon->ses->linux_uid) {
 +				if (current_fsuid() != treeCon->ses->linux_uid) {
  					cFYI(1, ("Multiuser mode and UID "
  						 "did not match tcon uid"));
- 					read_lock(&GlobalSMBSeslock);
- 					list_for_each(temp_item, &GlobalSMBSessionList) {
- 						ses = list_entry(temp_item, struct cifsSesInfo, cifsSessionList);
+ 					read_lock(&cifs_tcp_ses_lock);
+ 					list_for_each(temp_item, &treeCon->ses->server->smb_ses_list) {
+ 						ses = list_entry(temp_item, struct cifsSesInfo, smb_ses_list);
 -						if (ses->linux_uid == current->fsuid) {
 +						if (ses->linux_uid == current_fsuid()) {
  							if (ses->server == treeCon->ses->server) {
  								cFYI(1, ("found matching uid substitute right smb_uid"));
  								buffer->Uid = ses->Suid;
2008-11-18 18:52:37 +11:00
Ingo Molnar
5a209c2d58 Merge branches 'tracing/branch-tracer' and 'tracing/urgent' into tracing/core 2008-11-18 08:52:13 +01:00
Rakib Mullick
e270219f43 kernel/profile.c: fix section mismatch warning
Impact: fix section mismatch warning in kernel/profile.c

Here, profile_nop function has been called from a non-init function
create_hash_tables(void). Which generetes a section mismatch warning.
Previously, create_hash_tables(void) was a init function. So, removing
__init from create_hash_tables(void) requires profile_nop to be
non-init.

This patch makes profile_nop function inline and fixes the
following warning:

 WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x6ebb6): Section mismatch in reference from
 the function create_hash_tables() to the function
 .init.text:profile_nop()
 The function create_hash_tables() references
 the function __init profile_nop().
 This is often because create_hash_tables lacks a __init
 annotation or the annotation of profile_nop is wrong.

Signed-off-by: Rakib Mullick <rakib.mullick@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-18 08:49:24 +01:00
Li Zefan
700018e0a7 cpuset: fix regression when failed to generate sched domains
Impact: properly rebuild sched-domains on kmalloc() failure

When cpuset failed to generate sched domains due to kmalloc()
failure, the scheduler should fallback to the single partition
'fallback_doms' and rebuild sched domains, but now it only
destroys but not rebuilds sched domains.

The regression was introduced by:

| commit dfb512ec48
| Author: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>
| Date:   Fri Aug 29 13:11:41 2008 -0700
|
|    sched: arch_reinit_sched_domains() must destroy domains to force rebuild

After the above commit, partition_sched_domains(0, NULL, NULL) will
only destroy sched domains and partition_sched_domains(1, NULL, NULL)
will create the default sched domain.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-18 08:44:51 +01:00
Kumar Gala
65ecc14a30 Remove -mno-spe flags as they dont belong
For some unknown reason at Steven Rostedt added in disabling of the SPE
instruction generation for e500 based PPC cores in commit
6ec562328f.

We are removing it because:

1. It generates e500 kernels that don't work
2. its not the correct set of flags to do this
3. we handle this in the arch/powerpc/Makefile already
4. its unknown in talking to Steven why he did this

Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Tested-and-Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-11-17 13:24:35 -08:00
Oleg Nesterov
ad133ba3dc sched, signals: fix the racy usage of ->signal in account_group_xxx/run_posix_cpu_timers
Impact: fix potential NULL dereference

Contrary to ad474caca3 changelog, other
acct_group_xxx() helpers can be called after exit_notify() by timer tick.
Thanks to Roland for pointing out this. Somehow I missed this simple fact
when I read the original patch, and I am afraid I confused Frank during
the discussion. Sorry.

Fortunately, these helpers work with current, we can check ->exit_state
to ensure that ->signal can't go away under us.

Also, add the comment and compiler barrier to account_group_exec_runtime(),
to make sure we load ->signal only once.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-17 16:49:35 +01:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V
0c726da983 tracing: branch tracer, fix writing to trace/trace_options
Impact: fix trace_options behavior

writing to trace/trace_options use the index of the array
to find the value of the flag. With branch tracer flag
defined conditionally, this breaks writing to trace_options
with branch tracer disabled.

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-17 12:07:27 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
3f8e402f34 Merge branches 'tracing/branch-tracer', 'tracing/ftrace', 'tracing/function-return-tracer', 'tracing/tracepoints' and 'tracing/urgent' into tracing/core 2008-11-17 09:36:22 +01:00
Rusty Russell
e14c8bf863 stop_machine: fix race with return value (fixes Bug #11989)
Bug #11989: Suspend failure on NForce4-based boards due to chanes in
stop_machine

We should not access active.fnret outside the lock; in theory the next
stop_machine could overwrite it.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Tested-by: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-11-16 15:09:52 -08:00
Ingo Molnar
227a837567 markers/tracpoints: fix non-modular build
fix:

 kernel/marker.c: In function 'marker_module_notify':
 kernel/marker.c:905: error: 'MODULE_STATE_COMING' undeclared (first use in this function)
 [...]

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-16 09:52:03 +01:00
Mathieu Desnoyers
7e066fb870 tracepoints: add DECLARE_TRACE() and DEFINE_TRACE()
Impact: API *CHANGE*. Must update all tracepoint users.

Add DEFINE_TRACE() to tracepoints to let them declare the tracepoint
structure in a single spot for all the kernel. It helps reducing memory
consumption, especially when declaring a lot of tracepoints, e.g. for
kmalloc tracing.

*API CHANGE WARNING*: now, DECLARE_TRACE() must be used in headers for
tracepoint declarations rather than DEFINE_TRACE(). This is the sane way
to do it. The name previously used was misleading.

Updates scheduler instrumentation to follow this API change.

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-16 09:01:36 +01:00
Mathieu Desnoyers
32f8574277 tracepoints: use modules notifiers
Impact: cleanup

Use module notifiers for tracepoint updates rather than adding a hook in
module.c.

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-16 09:01:35 +01:00
Mathieu Desnoyers
de0baf9ad6 tracepoints: fix disable
Impact: fix race

Set the probe array pointer to NULL when the tracepoint is disabled.
The probe array point not being NULL could generate a race condition
where the reader would dereference a freed pointer.

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-16 09:01:31 +01:00
Mathieu Desnoyers
c1df1bd2c4 markers: auto enable tracepoints (new API : trace_mark_tp())
Impact: new API

Add a new API trace_mark_tp(), which declares a marker within a
tracepoint probe. When the marker is activated, the tracepoint is
automatically enabled.

No branch test is used at the marker site, because it would be a
duplicate of the branch already present in the tracepoint.

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-16 09:01:29 +01:00
Mathieu Desnoyers
a419246ac7 markers: use module notifier
Impact: cleanup

Use module notifiers instead of adding a hook in module.c.

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-16 09:01:28 +01:00
Mathieu Desnoyers
021aeb057f markers: use rcu_*_sched_notrace and notrace
Make marker critical code use notrace to make sure they can be used as an
ftrace callback.

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-16 09:01:27 +01:00
Mathieu Desnoyers
2bdba316c9 markers: fix unregister
Impact: fix marker registers/unregister race

get_marker() can return a NULL entry because the mutex is released in
the middle of those functions. Make sure we check to see if it has been
concurrently removed.

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-16 09:01:26 +01:00
walimis
5821e1b74f function tracing: fix wrong pos computing when read buffer has been fulfilled
Impact: make output of available_filter_functions complete

phenomenon:

The first value of dyn_ftrace_total_info is not equal with
`cat available_filter_functions | wc -l`, but they should be equal.

root cause:

When printing functions with seq_printf in t_show, if the read buffer
is just overflowed by current function record, then this function
won't be printed to user space through read buffer, it will
just be dropped. So we can't see this function printing.

So, every time the last function to fill the read buffer, if overflowed,
will be dropped.

This also applies to set_ftrace_filter if set_ftrace_filter has
more bytes than read buffer.

fix:

Through checking return value of seq_printf, if less than 0, we know
this function doesn't be printed. Then we decrease position to force
this function to be printed next time, in next read buffer.

Another little fix is to show correct allocating pages count.

Signed-off-by: walimis <walimisdev@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-16 08:32:05 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
29d7b90c15 sched: fix kernel warning on /proc/sched_debug access
Luis Henriques reported that with CONFIG_PREEMPT=y + CONFIG_PREEMPT_DEBUG=y +
CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG=y + CONFIG_LATENCYTOP=y enabled, the following warning
triggers when using latencytop:

> [  775.663239] BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [00000000] code: latencytop/6585
> [  775.663303] caller is native_sched_clock+0x3a/0x80
> [  775.663314] Pid: 6585, comm: latencytop Tainted: G        W 2.6.28-rc4-00355-g9c7c354 #1
> [  775.663322] Call Trace:
> [  775.663343]  [<ffffffff803a94e4>] debug_smp_processor_id+0xe4/0xf0
> [  775.663356]  [<ffffffff80213f7a>] native_sched_clock+0x3a/0x80
> [  775.663368]  [<ffffffff80213e19>] sched_clock+0x9/0x10
> [  775.663381]  [<ffffffff8024550d>] proc_sched_show_task+0x8bd/0x10e0
> [  775.663395]  [<ffffffff8034466e>] sched_show+0x3e/0x80
> [  775.663408]  [<ffffffff8031039b>] seq_read+0xdb/0x350
> [  775.663421]  [<ffffffff80368776>] ? security_file_permission+0x16/0x20
> [  775.663435]  [<ffffffff802f4198>] vfs_read+0xc8/0x170
> [  775.663447]  [<ffffffff802f4335>] sys_read+0x55/0x90
> [  775.663460]  [<ffffffff8020c67a>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
> ...

This breakage was caused by me via:

  7cbaef9: sched: optimize sched_clock() a bit

Change the calls to cpu_clock().

Reported-by: Luis Henriques <henrix@sapo.pt>
2008-11-16 08:07:15 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker
e7d3737ea1 tracing/function-return-tracer: support for dynamic ftrace on function return tracer
This patch adds the support for dynamic tracing on the function return tracer.
The whole difference with normal dynamic function tracing is that we don't need
to hook on a particular callback. The only pro that we want is to nop or set
dynamically the calls to ftrace_caller (which is ftrace_return_caller here).

Some security checks ensure that we are not trying to launch dynamic tracing for
return tracing while normal function tracing is already running.

An example of trace with getnstimeofday set as a filter:

ktime_get_ts+0x22/0x50 -> getnstimeofday (2283 ns)
ktime_get_ts+0x22/0x50 -> getnstimeofday (1396 ns)
ktime_get_ts+0x22/0x50 -> getnstimeofday (1382 ns)
ktime_get_ts+0x22/0x50 -> getnstimeofday (1825 ns)
ktime_get_ts+0x22/0x50 -> getnstimeofday (1426 ns)
ktime_get_ts+0x22/0x50 -> getnstimeofday (1464 ns)
ktime_get_ts+0x22/0x50 -> getnstimeofday (1524 ns)
ktime_get_ts+0x22/0x50 -> getnstimeofday (1382 ns)
ktime_get_ts+0x22/0x50 -> getnstimeofday (1382 ns)
ktime_get_ts+0x22/0x50 -> getnstimeofday (1434 ns)
ktime_get_ts+0x22/0x50 -> getnstimeofday (1464 ns)
ktime_get_ts+0x22/0x50 -> getnstimeofday (1502 ns)
ktime_get_ts+0x22/0x50 -> getnstimeofday (1404 ns)
ktime_get_ts+0x22/0x50 -> getnstimeofday (1397 ns)
ktime_get_ts+0x22/0x50 -> getnstimeofday (1051 ns)
ktime_get_ts+0x22/0x50 -> getnstimeofday (1314 ns)
ktime_get_ts+0x22/0x50 -> getnstimeofday (1344 ns)
ktime_get_ts+0x22/0x50 -> getnstimeofday (1163 ns)
ktime_get_ts+0x22/0x50 -> getnstimeofday (1390 ns)
ktime_get_ts+0x22/0x50 -> getnstimeofday (1374 ns)

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-16 07:57:38 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker
072b40a156 tracing/branch-tracer: fix a trace recursion on branch tracer
Impact: fix crash when enabling the branch-tracer

When the branch tracer inserts an event through
probe_likely_condition(), it calls local_irq_save() and then results
in a trace recursion.

local_irq_save() -> trace_hardirqs_off() -> trace_hardirqs_off_caller()
	-> unlikely()

The trace_branch.c file is protected by DISABLE_BRANCH_PROFILING but
that doesn't prevent from external call to functions that use
unlikely().

My box crashed each time I tried to set this tracer (sudden and hard
reboot).

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-16 07:55:59 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker
1c80025a49 tracing/ftrace: change the type of the init() callback
Impact: extend the ->init() method with the ability to fail

This bring a way to know if the initialization of a tracer successed.
A tracer must return 0 on success and a traditional error (ie:
-ENOMEM) if it fails.

If a tracer fails to init, it is free to print a detailed warn. The
tracing api will not and switch to a new tracer will just return the
error from the init callback.

Note: this will be used for the return tracer.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-16 07:55:23 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker
e6e7a65aab tracing/ftrace: fix unexpected -EINVAL when longest tracer name is set
Impact: fix confusing write() -EINVAL when changing the tracer

The following commit d9e540762f remade
alive the bug which made the set of a new tracer returning -EINVAL if
this is the longest name of tracer. This patch corrects it.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-16 07:53:39 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
ee02a2e5c8 ftrace: make filtered functions effective on setting
Impact: set filtered functions at time the filter is set

It can be confusing when the set_filter_functions is set (or cleared)
and the functions being recorded by the dynamic tracer does not
match.

This patch causes the code to be updated if the function tracer is
enabled and the filter is changed.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-16 07:37:46 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
982c350b9e ftrace: fix dyn ftrace filter
Impact: correct implementation of dyn ftrace filter

The old decisions made by the filter algorithm was complex and incorrect.
This lead to inconsistent enabling or disabling of functions when
the filter was used.

This patch simplifies that code and in doing so, corrects the usage
of the filters.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-16 07:37:17 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
20e5227e9f ftrace: allow NULL pointers in mcount_loc
Impact: make ftrace_convert_nops() more permissive

Due to the way different architecture linkers combine the data sections
of the mcount_loc (the section that lists all the locations that
call mcount), there may be zeros added in that section. This is usually
due to strange alignments that the linker performs, that pads in zeros.

This patch makes the conversion code to nops skip any pointer in
the mcount_loc section that is NULL.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-16 07:36:42 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
31e889098a ftrace: pass module struct to arch dynamic ftrace functions
Impact: allow archs more flexibility on dynamic ftrace implementations

Dynamic ftrace has largly been developed on x86. Since x86 does not
have the same limitations as other architectures, the ftrace interaction
between the generic code and the architecture specific code was not
flexible enough to handle some of the issues that other architectures
have.

Most notably, module trampolines. Due to the limited branch distance
that archs make in calling kernel core code from modules, the module
load code must create a trampoline to jump to what will make the
larger jump into core kernel code.

The problem arises when this happens to a call to mcount. Ftrace checks
all code before modifying it and makes sure the current code is what
it expects. Right now, there is not enough information to handle modifying
module trampolines.

This patch changes the API between generic dynamic ftrace code and
the arch dependent code. There is now two functions for modifying code:

  ftrace_make_nop(mod, rec, addr) - convert the code at rec->ip into
       a nop, where the original text is calling addr. (mod is the
       module struct if called by module init)

  ftrace_make_caller(rec, addr) - convert the code rec->ip that should
       be a nop into a caller to addr.

The record "rec" now has a new field called "arch" where the architecture
can add any special attributes to each call site record.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-16 07:36:02 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
d51ad7ac48 ftrace: replace raw_local_irq_save with local_irq_save
Impact: fix lockdep disabling itself when function tracing is enabled

The raw_local_irq_saves used in ftrace is causing problems with
lockdep. (it thinks the irq flags are out of sync and disables
itself with a warning)

The raw ops here are not needed, and the normal local_irq_save is fine.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-16 07:35:37 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
918c115410 ftrace: do not process freed records
Impact: keep from converting freed records

When the tracer is started or stopped, it converts all code pointed
to by the saved records into callers to ftrace or nops. When modules
are unloaded, their records are freed, but they still exist within
the record pages.

This patch changes the code to skip over freed records.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-16 07:30:17 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
b17e8a37a1 ftrace: disable ftrace on anomalies in trace start and stop
Impact: robust feature to disable ftrace on start or stop tracing on error

Currently only the initial conversion to nops will disable ftrace
on an anomaly. But if an anomaly happens on start or stopping of the
tracer, it will silently fail.

This patch adds a check there too, to disable ftrace and warn if the
conversion fails.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-16 07:30:07 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
f3c7ac40a9 ftrace: remove condition from ftrace_record_ip
Impact: let module functions be recorded when dyn ftrace not enabled

When dynamic ftrace had a daemon and a hash to record the locations
of mcount callers at run time, the recording needed to stop when
ftrace was disabled. But now that the recording is done at compile time
and the ftrace_record_ip is only called at boot up and when a module
is loaded, we no longer need to check if ftrace_enabled is set.
In fact, this breaks module load if it is not set because we skip
over module functions.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-16 07:29:53 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
c91add5fa6 Merge branches 'tracing/fastboot', 'tracing/ftrace' and 'tracing/urgent' into tracing/core 2008-11-16 07:28:46 +01:00
Al Viro
8f7b0ba1c8 Fix inotify watch removal/umount races
Inotify watch removals suck violently.

To kick the watch out we need (in this order) inode->inotify_mutex and
ih->mutex.  That's fine if we have a hold on inode; however, for all
other cases we need to make damn sure we don't race with umount.  We can
*NOT* just grab a reference to a watch - inotify_unmount_inodes() will
happily sail past it and we'll end with reference to inode potentially
outliving its superblock.

Ideally we just want to grab an active reference to superblock if we
can; that will make sure we won't go into inotify_umount_inodes() until
we are done.  Cleanup is just deactivate_super().

However, that leaves a messy case - what if we *are* racing with
umount() and active references to superblock can't be acquired anymore?
We can bump ->s_count, grab ->s_umount, which will almost certainly wait
until the superblock is shut down and the watch in question is pining
for fjords.  That's fine, but there is a problem - we might have hit the
window between ->s_active getting to 0 / ->s_count - below S_BIAS (i.e.
the moment when superblock is past the point of no return and is heading
for shutdown) and the moment when deactivate_super() acquires
->s_umount.

We could just do drop_super() yield() and retry, but that's rather
antisocial and this stuff is luser-triggerable.  OTOH, having grabbed
->s_umount and having found that we'd got there first (i.e.  that
->s_root is non-NULL) we know that we won't race with
inotify_umount_inodes().

So we could grab a reference to watch and do the rest as above, just
with drop_super() instead of deactivate_super(), right? Wrong.  We had
to drop ih->mutex before we could grab ->s_umount.  So the watch
could've been gone already.

That still can be dealt with - we need to save watch->wd, do idr_find()
and compare its result with our pointer.  If they match, we either have
the damn thing still alive or we'd lost not one but two races at once,
the watch had been killed and a new one got created with the same ->wd
at the same address.  That couldn't have happened in inotify_destroy(),
but inotify_rm_wd() could run into that.  Still, "new one got created"
is not a problem - we have every right to kill it or leave it alone,
whatever's more convenient.

So we can use idr_find(...) == watch && watch->inode->i_sb == sb as
"grab it and kill it" check.  If it's been our original watch, we are
fine, if it's a newcomer - nevermind, just pretend that we'd won the
race and kill the fscker anyway; we are safe since we know that its
superblock won't be going away.

And yes, this is far beyond mere "not very pretty"; so's the entire
concept of inotify to start with.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-11-15 12:26:44 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
8141c7f3e7 Move "exit_robust_list" into mm_release()
We don't want to get rid of the futexes just at exit() time, we want to
drop them when doing an execve() too, since that gets rid of the
previous VM image too.

Doing it at mm_release() time means that we automatically always do it
when we disassociate a VM map from the task.

Reported-by: pageexec@freemail.hu
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Brad Spengler <spender@grsecurity.net>
Cc: Alex Efros <powerman@powerman.name>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-11-15 10:20:36 -08:00
James Morris
2b82892565 Merge branch 'master' into next
Conflicts:
	security/keys/internal.h
	security/keys/process_keys.c
	security/keys/request_key.c

Fixed conflicts above by using the non 'tsk' versions.

Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-11-14 11:29:12 +11:00
David Howells
3a3b7ce933 CRED: Allow kernel services to override LSM settings for task actions
Allow kernel services to override LSM settings appropriate to the actions
performed by a task by duplicating a set of credentials, modifying it and then
using task_struct::cred to point to it when performing operations on behalf of
a task.

This is used, for example, by CacheFiles which has to transparently access the
cache on behalf of a process that thinks it is doing, say, NFS accesses with a
potentially inappropriate (with respect to accessing the cache) set of
credentials.

This patch provides two LSM hooks for modifying a task security record:

 (*) security_kernel_act_as() which allows modification of the security datum
     with which a task acts on other objects (most notably files).

 (*) security_kernel_create_files_as() which allows modification of the
     security datum that is used to initialise the security data on a file that
     a task creates.

The patch also provides four new credentials handling functions, which wrap the
LSM functions:

 (1) prepare_kernel_cred()

     Prepare a set of credentials for a kernel service to use, based either on
     a daemon's credentials or on init_cred.  All the keyrings are cleared.

 (2) set_security_override()

     Set the LSM security ID in a set of credentials to a specific security
     context, assuming permission from the LSM policy.

 (3) set_security_override_from_ctx()

     As (2), but takes the security context as a string.

 (4) set_create_files_as()

     Set the file creation LSM security ID in a set of credentials to be the
     same as that on a particular inode.

Signed-off-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com> [Smack changes]
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-11-14 10:39:28 +11:00
David Howells
3b11a1dece CRED: Differentiate objective and effective subjective credentials on a task
Differentiate the objective and real subjective credentials from the effective
subjective credentials on a task by introducing a second credentials pointer
into the task_struct.

task_struct::real_cred then refers to the objective and apparent real
subjective credentials of a task, as perceived by the other tasks in the
system.

task_struct::cred then refers to the effective subjective credentials of a
task, as used by that task when it's actually running.  These are not visible
to the other tasks in the system.

__task_cred(task) then refers to the objective/real credentials of the task in
question.

current_cred() refers to the effective subjective credentials of the current
task.

prepare_creds() uses the objective creds as a base and commit_creds() changes
both pointers in the task_struct (indeed commit_creds() requires them to be the
same).

override_creds() and revert_creds() change the subjective creds pointer only,
and the former returns the old subjective creds.  These are used by NFSD,
faccessat() and do_coredump(), and will by used by CacheFiles.

In SELinux, current_has_perm() is provided as an alternative to
task_has_perm().  This uses the effective subjective context of current,
whereas task_has_perm() uses the objective/real context of the subject.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-11-14 10:39:26 +11:00
David Howells
98870ab0a5 CRED: Documentation
Document credentials and the new credentials API.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-11-14 10:39:26 +11:00
David Howells
a6f76f23d2 CRED: Make execve() take advantage of copy-on-write credentials
Make execve() take advantage of copy-on-write credentials, allowing it to set
up the credentials in advance, and then commit the whole lot after the point
of no return.

This patch and the preceding patches have been tested with the LTP SELinux
testsuite.

This patch makes several logical sets of alteration:

 (1) execve().

     The credential bits from struct linux_binprm are, for the most part,
     replaced with a single credentials pointer (bprm->cred).  This means that
     all the creds can be calculated in advance and then applied at the point
     of no return with no possibility of failure.

     I would like to replace bprm->cap_effective with:

	cap_isclear(bprm->cap_effective)

     but this seems impossible due to special behaviour for processes of pid 1
     (they always retain their parent's capability masks where normally they'd
     be changed - see cap_bprm_set_creds()).

     The following sequence of events now happens:

     (a) At the start of do_execve, the current task's cred_exec_mutex is
     	 locked to prevent PTRACE_ATTACH from obsoleting the calculation of
     	 creds that we make.

     (a) prepare_exec_creds() is then called to make a copy of the current
     	 task's credentials and prepare it.  This copy is then assigned to
     	 bprm->cred.

  	 This renders security_bprm_alloc() and security_bprm_free()
     	 unnecessary, and so they've been removed.

     (b) The determination of unsafe execution is now performed immediately
     	 after (a) rather than later on in the code.  The result is stored in
     	 bprm->unsafe for future reference.

     (c) prepare_binprm() is called, possibly multiple times.

     	 (i) This applies the result of set[ug]id binaries to the new creds
     	     attached to bprm->cred.  Personality bit clearance is recorded,
     	     but now deferred on the basis that the exec procedure may yet
     	     fail.

         (ii) This then calls the new security_bprm_set_creds().  This should
	     calculate the new LSM and capability credentials into *bprm->cred.

	     This folds together security_bprm_set() and parts of
	     security_bprm_apply_creds() (these two have been removed).
	     Anything that might fail must be done at this point.

         (iii) bprm->cred_prepared is set to 1.

	     bprm->cred_prepared is 0 on the first pass of the security
	     calculations, and 1 on all subsequent passes.  This allows SELinux
	     in (ii) to base its calculations only on the initial script and
	     not on the interpreter.

     (d) flush_old_exec() is called to commit the task to execution.  This
     	 performs the following steps with regard to credentials:

	 (i) Clear pdeath_signal and set dumpable on certain circumstances that
	     may not be covered by commit_creds().

         (ii) Clear any bits in current->personality that were deferred from
             (c.i).

     (e) install_exec_creds() [compute_creds() as was] is called to install the
     	 new credentials.  This performs the following steps with regard to
     	 credentials:

         (i) Calls security_bprm_committing_creds() to apply any security
             requirements, such as flushing unauthorised files in SELinux, that
             must be done before the credentials are changed.

	     This is made up of bits of security_bprm_apply_creds() and
	     security_bprm_post_apply_creds(), both of which have been removed.
	     This function is not allowed to fail; anything that might fail
	     must have been done in (c.ii).

         (ii) Calls commit_creds() to apply the new credentials in a single
             assignment (more or less).  Possibly pdeath_signal and dumpable
             should be part of struct creds.

	 (iii) Unlocks the task's cred_replace_mutex, thus allowing
	     PTRACE_ATTACH to take place.

         (iv) Clears The bprm->cred pointer as the credentials it was holding
             are now immutable.

         (v) Calls security_bprm_committed_creds() to apply any security
             alterations that must be done after the creds have been changed.
             SELinux uses this to flush signals and signal handlers.

     (f) If an error occurs before (d.i), bprm_free() will call abort_creds()
     	 to destroy the proposed new credentials and will then unlock
     	 cred_replace_mutex.  No changes to the credentials will have been
     	 made.

 (2) LSM interface.

     A number of functions have been changed, added or removed:

     (*) security_bprm_alloc(), ->bprm_alloc_security()
     (*) security_bprm_free(), ->bprm_free_security()

     	 Removed in favour of preparing new credentials and modifying those.

     (*) security_bprm_apply_creds(), ->bprm_apply_creds()
     (*) security_bprm_post_apply_creds(), ->bprm_post_apply_creds()

     	 Removed; split between security_bprm_set_creds(),
     	 security_bprm_committing_creds() and security_bprm_committed_creds().

     (*) security_bprm_set(), ->bprm_set_security()

     	 Removed; folded into security_bprm_set_creds().

     (*) security_bprm_set_creds(), ->bprm_set_creds()

     	 New.  The new credentials in bprm->creds should be checked and set up
     	 as appropriate.  bprm->cred_prepared is 0 on the first call, 1 on the
     	 second and subsequent calls.

     (*) security_bprm_committing_creds(), ->bprm_committing_creds()
     (*) security_bprm_committed_creds(), ->bprm_committed_creds()

     	 New.  Apply the security effects of the new credentials.  This
     	 includes closing unauthorised files in SELinux.  This function may not
     	 fail.  When the former is called, the creds haven't yet been applied
     	 to the process; when the latter is called, they have.

 	 The former may access bprm->cred, the latter may not.

 (3) SELinux.

     SELinux has a number of changes, in addition to those to support the LSM
     interface changes mentioned above:

     (a) The bprm_security_struct struct has been removed in favour of using
     	 the credentials-under-construction approach.

     (c) flush_unauthorized_files() now takes a cred pointer and passes it on
     	 to inode_has_perm(), file_has_perm() and dentry_open().

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-11-14 10:39:24 +11:00
David Howells
d84f4f992c CRED: Inaugurate COW credentials
Inaugurate copy-on-write credentials management.  This uses RCU to manage the
credentials pointer in the task_struct with respect to accesses by other tasks.
A process may only modify its own credentials, and so does not need locking to
access or modify its own credentials.

A mutex (cred_replace_mutex) is added to the task_struct to control the effect
of PTRACE_ATTACHED on credential calculations, particularly with respect to
execve().

With this patch, the contents of an active credentials struct may not be
changed directly; rather a new set of credentials must be prepared, modified
and committed using something like the following sequence of events:

	struct cred *new = prepare_creds();
	int ret = blah(new);
	if (ret < 0) {
		abort_creds(new);
		return ret;
	}
	return commit_creds(new);

There are some exceptions to this rule: the keyrings pointed to by the active
credentials may be instantiated - keyrings violate the COW rule as managing
COW keyrings is tricky, given that it is possible for a task to directly alter
the keys in a keyring in use by another task.

To help enforce this, various pointers to sets of credentials, such as those in
the task_struct, are declared const.  The purpose of this is compile-time
discouragement of altering credentials through those pointers.  Once a set of
credentials has been made public through one of these pointers, it may not be
modified, except under special circumstances:

  (1) Its reference count may incremented and decremented.

  (2) The keyrings to which it points may be modified, but not replaced.

The only safe way to modify anything else is to create a replacement and commit
using the functions described in Documentation/credentials.txt (which will be
added by a later patch).

This patch and the preceding patches have been tested with the LTP SELinux
testsuite.

This patch makes several logical sets of alteration:

 (1) execve().

     This now prepares and commits credentials in various places in the
     security code rather than altering the current creds directly.

 (2) Temporary credential overrides.

     do_coredump() and sys_faccessat() now prepare their own credentials and
     temporarily override the ones currently on the acting thread, whilst
     preventing interference from other threads by holding cred_replace_mutex
     on the thread being dumped.

     This will be replaced in a future patch by something that hands down the
     credentials directly to the functions being called, rather than altering
     the task's objective credentials.

 (3) LSM interface.

     A number of functions have been changed, added or removed:

     (*) security_capset_check(), ->capset_check()
     (*) security_capset_set(), ->capset_set()

     	 Removed in favour of security_capset().

     (*) security_capset(), ->capset()

     	 New.  This is passed a pointer to the new creds, a pointer to the old
     	 creds and the proposed capability sets.  It should fill in the new
     	 creds or return an error.  All pointers, barring the pointer to the
     	 new creds, are now const.

     (*) security_bprm_apply_creds(), ->bprm_apply_creds()

     	 Changed; now returns a value, which will cause the process to be
     	 killed if it's an error.

     (*) security_task_alloc(), ->task_alloc_security()

     	 Removed in favour of security_prepare_creds().

     (*) security_cred_free(), ->cred_free()

     	 New.  Free security data attached to cred->security.

     (*) security_prepare_creds(), ->cred_prepare()

     	 New. Duplicate any security data attached to cred->security.

     (*) security_commit_creds(), ->cred_commit()

     	 New. Apply any security effects for the upcoming installation of new
     	 security by commit_creds().

     (*) security_task_post_setuid(), ->task_post_setuid()

     	 Removed in favour of security_task_fix_setuid().

     (*) security_task_fix_setuid(), ->task_fix_setuid()

     	 Fix up the proposed new credentials for setuid().  This is used by
     	 cap_set_fix_setuid() to implicitly adjust capabilities in line with
     	 setuid() changes.  Changes are made to the new credentials, rather
     	 than the task itself as in security_task_post_setuid().

     (*) security_task_reparent_to_init(), ->task_reparent_to_init()

     	 Removed.  Instead the task being reparented to init is referred
     	 directly to init's credentials.

	 NOTE!  This results in the loss of some state: SELinux's osid no
	 longer records the sid of the thread that forked it.

     (*) security_key_alloc(), ->key_alloc()
     (*) security_key_permission(), ->key_permission()

     	 Changed.  These now take cred pointers rather than task pointers to
     	 refer to the security context.

 (4) sys_capset().

     This has been simplified and uses less locking.  The LSM functions it
     calls have been merged.

 (5) reparent_to_kthreadd().

     This gives the current thread the same credentials as init by simply using
     commit_thread() to point that way.

 (6) __sigqueue_alloc() and switch_uid()

     __sigqueue_alloc() can't stop the target task from changing its creds
     beneath it, so this function gets a reference to the currently applicable
     user_struct which it then passes into the sigqueue struct it returns if
     successful.

     switch_uid() is now called from commit_creds(), and possibly should be
     folded into that.  commit_creds() should take care of protecting
     __sigqueue_alloc().

 (7) [sg]et[ug]id() and co and [sg]et_current_groups.

     The set functions now all use prepare_creds(), commit_creds() and
     abort_creds() to build and check a new set of credentials before applying
     it.

     security_task_set[ug]id() is called inside the prepared section.  This
     guarantees that nothing else will affect the creds until we've finished.

     The calling of set_dumpable() has been moved into commit_creds().

     Much of the functionality of set_user() has been moved into
     commit_creds().

     The get functions all simply access the data directly.

 (8) security_task_prctl() and cap_task_prctl().

     security_task_prctl() has been modified to return -ENOSYS if it doesn't
     want to handle a function, or otherwise return the return value directly
     rather than through an argument.

     Additionally, cap_task_prctl() now prepares a new set of credentials, even
     if it doesn't end up using it.

 (9) Keyrings.

     A number of changes have been made to the keyrings code:

     (a) switch_uid_keyring(), copy_keys(), exit_keys() and suid_keys() have
     	 all been dropped and built in to the credentials functions directly.
     	 They may want separating out again later.

     (b) key_alloc() and search_process_keyrings() now take a cred pointer
     	 rather than a task pointer to specify the security context.

     (c) copy_creds() gives a new thread within the same thread group a new
     	 thread keyring if its parent had one, otherwise it discards the thread
     	 keyring.

     (d) The authorisation key now points directly to the credentials to extend
     	 the search into rather pointing to the task that carries them.

     (e) Installing thread, process or session keyrings causes a new set of
     	 credentials to be created, even though it's not strictly necessary for
     	 process or session keyrings (they're shared).

(10) Usermode helper.

     The usermode helper code now carries a cred struct pointer in its
     subprocess_info struct instead of a new session keyring pointer.  This set
     of credentials is derived from init_cred and installed on the new process
     after it has been cloned.

     call_usermodehelper_setup() allocates the new credentials and
     call_usermodehelper_freeinfo() discards them if they haven't been used.  A
     special cred function (prepare_usermodeinfo_creds()) is provided
     specifically for call_usermodehelper_setup() to call.

     call_usermodehelper_setkeys() adjusts the credentials to sport the
     supplied keyring as the new session keyring.

(11) SELinux.

     SELinux has a number of changes, in addition to those to support the LSM
     interface changes mentioned above:

     (a) selinux_setprocattr() no longer does its check for whether the
     	 current ptracer can access processes with the new SID inside the lock
     	 that covers getting the ptracer's SID.  Whilst this lock ensures that
     	 the check is done with the ptracer pinned, the result is only valid
     	 until the lock is released, so there's no point doing it inside the
     	 lock.

(12) is_single_threaded().

     This function has been extracted from selinux_setprocattr() and put into
     a file of its own in the lib/ directory as join_session_keyring() now
     wants to use it too.

     The code in SELinux just checked to see whether a task shared mm_structs
     with other tasks (CLONE_VM), but that isn't good enough.  We really want
     to know if they're part of the same thread group (CLONE_THREAD).

(13) nfsd.

     The NFS server daemon now has to use the COW credentials to set the
     credentials it is going to use.  It really needs to pass the credentials
     down to the functions it calls, but it can't do that until other patches
     in this series have been applied.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-11-14 10:39:23 +11:00
David Howells
6cc88bc45c CRED: Rename is_single_threaded() to is_wq_single_threaded()
Rename is_single_threaded() to is_wq_single_threaded() so that a new
is_single_threaded() can be created that refers to tasks rather than
waitqueues.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-11-14 10:39:21 +11:00
David Howells
bb952bb98a CRED: Separate per-task-group keyrings from signal_struct
Separate per-task-group keyrings from signal_struct and dangle their anchor
from the cred struct rather than the signal_struct.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-11-14 10:39:20 +11:00
David Howells
c69e8d9c01 CRED: Use RCU to access another task's creds and to release a task's own creds
Use RCU to access another task's creds and to release a task's own creds.
This means that it will be possible for the credentials of a task to be
replaced without another task (a) requiring a full lock to read them, and (b)
seeing deallocated memory.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-11-14 10:39:19 +11:00
David Howells
86a264abe5 CRED: Wrap current->cred and a few other accessors
Wrap current->cred and a few other accessors to hide their actual
implementation.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-11-14 10:39:18 +11:00
David Howells
f1752eec61 CRED: Detach the credentials from task_struct
Detach the credentials from task_struct, duplicating them in copy_process()
and releasing them in __put_task_struct().

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-11-14 10:39:17 +11:00
David Howells
b6dff3ec5e CRED: Separate task security context from task_struct
Separate the task security context from task_struct.  At this point, the
security data is temporarily embedded in the task_struct with two pointers
pointing to it.

Note that the Alpha arch is altered as it refers to (E)UID and (E)GID in
entry.S via asm-offsets.

With comment fixes Signed-off-by: Marc Dionne <marc.c.dionne@gmail.com>

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-11-14 10:39:16 +11:00
David Howells
1cdcbec1a3 CRED: Neuter sys_capset()
Take away the ability for sys_capset() to affect processes other than current.

This means that current will not need to lock its own credentials when reading
them against interference by other processes.

This has effectively been the case for a while anyway, since:

 (1) Without LSM enabled, sys_capset() is disallowed.

 (2) With file-based capabilities, sys_capset() is neutered.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Andrew G. Morgan <morgan@kernel.org>
Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-11-14 10:39:14 +11:00
David Howells
8bbf4976b5 KEYS: Alter use of key instantiation link-to-keyring argument
Alter the use of the key instantiation and negation functions' link-to-keyring
arguments.  Currently this specifies a keyring in the target process to link
the key into, creating the keyring if it doesn't exist.  This, however, can be
a problem for copy-on-write credentials as it means that the instantiating
process can alter the credentials of the requesting process.

This patch alters the behaviour such that:

 (1) If keyctl_instantiate_key() or keyctl_negate_key() are given a specific
     keyring by ID (ringid >= 0), then that keyring will be used.

 (2) If keyctl_instantiate_key() or keyctl_negate_key() are given one of the
     special constants that refer to the requesting process's keyrings
     (KEY_SPEC_*_KEYRING, all <= 0), then:

     (a) If sys_request_key() was given a keyring to use (destringid) then the
     	 key will be attached to that keyring.

     (b) If sys_request_key() was given a NULL keyring, then the key being
     	 instantiated will be attached to the default keyring as set by
     	 keyctl_set_reqkey_keyring().

 (3) No extra link will be made.

Decision point (1) follows current behaviour, and allows those instantiators
who've searched for a specifically named keyring in the requestor's keyring so
as to partition the keys by type to still have their named keyrings.

Decision point (2) allows the requestor to make sure that the key or keys that
get produced by request_key() go where they want, whilst allowing the
instantiator to request that the key is retained.  This is mainly useful for
situations where the instantiator makes a secondary request, the key for which
should be retained by the initial requestor:

	+-----------+        +--------------+        +--------------+
	|           |        |              |        |              |
	| Requestor |------->| Instantiator |------->| Instantiator |
	|           |        |              |        |              |
	+-----------+        +--------------+        +--------------+
	           request_key()           request_key()

This might be useful, for example, in Kerberos, where the requestor requests a
ticket, and then the ticket instantiator requests the TGT, which someone else
then has to go and fetch.  The TGT, however, should be retained in the
keyrings of the requestor, not the first instantiator.  To make this explict
an extra special keyring constant is also added.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-11-14 10:39:14 +11:00
David Howells
76aac0e9a1 CRED: Wrap task credential accesses in the core kernel
Wrap access to task credentials so that they can be separated more easily from
the task_struct during the introduction of COW creds.

Change most current->(|e|s|fs)[ug]id to current_(|e|s|fs)[ug]id().

Change some task->e?[ug]id to task_e?[ug]id().  In some places it makes more
sense to use RCU directly rather than a convenient wrapper; these will be
addressed by later patches.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: linux-audit@redhat.com
Cc: containers@lists.linux-foundation.org
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-11-14 10:39:12 +11:00
walimis
b3535c6390 ftrace: remove unnecessary if condition of __unregister_ftrace_function
Because it has goto out before ftrace_list == &ftrace_list_end,
that's to say, we never meet this condition.

Signed-off-by: walimis <walimisdev@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-13 19:36:30 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
ee51a1de7e tracing: fix mmiotrace resizing crash
Pekka reported a crash when resizing the mmiotrace tracer (if only
mmiotrace is enabled).

This happens because in that case we do not allocate the max buffer,
but we try to use it.

Make ring_buffer_resize() idempotent against NULL buffers.

Reported-by: Pekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-13 14:58:31 +01:00
Mark Nelson
3ff68a6a10 genirq: __irq_set_trigger: change pr_warning to pr_debug
Commit 0c5d1eb77a (genirq: record trigger
type) caused powerpc platforms that had no set_type() function in their
struct irq_chip to spew out warnings about "No set_type function for
IRQ...". This warning isn't necessarily justified though because the
generic powerpc platform code calls set_irq_type() (which in turn calls
__irq_set_trigger) with information from the device tree to establish
the interrupt mappings, regardless of whether the PIC can actually set
a type.

A platform's irq_chip might not have a set_type function for a variety
of reasons, for example: the platform may have the type essentially
hard-coded, or as in the case for Cell interrupts are just messages
past around that have no real concept of type, or the platform
could even have a virtual PIC as on the PS3.

Signed-off-by: Mark Nelson <markn@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-13 11:59:48 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
12ef7d4486 ftrace: CPU buffer start annotation clean ups
Impact: better handling of CPU buffer start annotation

Because of the confusion with the per CPU buffers wrapping where
one CPU might be more active at the end of the trace than the other
CPUs causing that one CPU to have a shorter history. Kernel
developers were confused by the "missing" data of that one CPU
at the beginning of the trace output. An annotation was added to
the trace output to show that the buffer had started:

 # tracer: function
 #
 #           TASK-PID    CPU#    TIMESTAMP  FUNCTION
 #              | |       |          |         |
 ##### CPU 3 buffer started ####
          <idle>-0     [003]   158.192959: smp_apic_timer_interrupt
 [...]
           <idle>-0     [003]   161.556520: default_idle
 ##### CPU 1 buffer started ####
           <idle>-0     [001]   161.592494: hrtimer_force_reprogram
 [etc]

But this annotation gets a bit messy when tracers do not fill the
buffers. This patch does a couple of things:

 One) it adds a flag to trace_options to disable these annotations

 Two) it does not annotate if the tracer did not overflow its buffer.

This makes the output much cleaner.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-13 09:49:24 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
ee6bce5227 ftrace: rename iter_ctrl to trace_options
Impact: rename file /debug/tracing/iter_ctrl to /debug/tracing/trace_options

The original ftrace had a file called "iter_ctrl" that would control
the way the output was iterated. But this file grew into a catch all
for different trace options. This patch renames the file from iter_ctrl
to trace_options to reflect this change.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-13 09:49:23 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
1696b2b0f4 ftrace: show buffer size in kilobytes
Impact: change the units of buffer_size_kb to kilobytes

This patch changes the units of the buffer_size_kb file to kilobytes.
Reading and writing to the file uses kilobytes as units. To help
users to know what units are used, the output of the file now
looks like:

  # cat /debug/tracing/buffer_size_kb
  1408

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-13 09:49:22 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
a94c80e78b ftrace: rename trace_entries to buffer_size_kb
Impact: rename of debugfs file trace_entries to buffer_size_kb

The original ftrace had fixed size entries, and the number of entries
was shown and modified via the file called trace_entries. By converting
to the unified trace buffer, we now allow for variable size entries
which makes the meaning of trace_entries pointless.

Since trace_size might be confused to the size of the trace, this patch
names it "buffer_size_kb" (thanks to Arjan van de Ven for this idea).

[ mingo@elte.hu: changed from buffer_size to buffer_size_kb ]

( Note, the units are still bytes - the next patch changes that,
  to keep the wide rename patch separate from the unit-change patch. )

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-13 09:49:21 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
24de38620d Merge branches 'tracing/branch-tracer', 'tracing/fastboot', 'tracing/function-return-tracer' and 'tracing/urgent' into tracing/core 2008-11-13 09:48:03 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
4ffaf869c7 Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  sched: fix init_idle()'s use of sched_clock()
  sched: fix stale value in average load per task
2008-11-12 17:22:44 -08:00
Andrew Morton
7e036d040a kernel/kprobes.c: don't pad kretprobe_table_locks[] on uniprocessor builds
We only need the cacheline padding on SMP kernels.  Saves 6k:

   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
   5713     388    8840   14941    3a5d kernel/kprobes.o
   5713     388    2632    8733    221d kernel/kprobes.o

Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-11-12 17:17:17 -08:00
Masami Hiramatsu
a189d0350f kprobes: disable preempt for module_text_address() and kernel_text_address()
__register_kprobe() can be preempted after checking probing address but
before module_text_address() or try_module_get(), and in this interval
the module can be unloaded.  In that case, try_module_get(probed_mod)
will access to invalid address, or kprobe will probe invalid address.

This patch uses preempt_disable() to protect it and uses
__module_text_address() and __kernel_text_address().

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-11-12 17:17:16 -08:00
Li Zefan
3b1b3f6e57 freezer_cg: disable writing freezer.state of root cgroup
With this change, control file 'freezer.state' doesn't exist in root
cgroup, making root cgroup unfreezable.

I think it's reasonable to disallow freeze tasks in the root cgroup.  And
then we can avoid fork overhead when freezer subsystem is compiled but not
used.

Also make writing invalid value to freezer.state returns EINVAL rather
than EIO.  This is more consistent with other cgroup subsystem.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-11-12 17:17:16 -08:00
Li Zefan
687446760b freezer_cg: remove task_lock from freezer_fork()
In theory the task can be moved to another cgroup and the freezer will be
freed right after task_lock is dropped, so the lock results in zero
protection.

But in the case of freezer_fork() no lock is needed, since the task is not
in tasklist yet so it won't be moved to another cgroup, so task->cgroups
won't be changed or invalidated.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-11-12 17:17:16 -08:00
Steven Rostedt
94b80ffd65 ftrace: rename trace_unlikely.c file
Impact: File name change of trace_unlikely.c

The "unlikely" name for the tracer is quite ugly. We renamed all the
parts of it to "branch" and now it is time to rename the file too.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-12 22:28:40 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
80e5ea4506 ftrace: add tracer called branch
Impact: added new branch tracer

Currently the tracing of branch profiling (unlikelys and likelys hit)
is only activated by the iter_ctrl. This patch adds a tracer called
"branch" that will just trace the branch profiling. The advantage
of adding this tracer is that it can be added to the ftrace selftests
on startup.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-12 22:28:25 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
9f029e83e9 ftrace: rename unlikely iter_ctrl to branch
Impact: rename of iter_ctrl unlikely to branch

The unlikely name is ugly. This patch converts the iter_ctrl command
"unlikely" and "nounlikely" to "branch" and "nobranch" respectively.

It also renames a lot of internal functions to use "branch" instead
of "unlikely".

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-12 22:28:09 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
2ed84eeb88 trace: rename unlikely profiler to branch profiler
Impact: name change of unlikely tracer and profiler

Ingo Molnar suggested changing the config from UNLIKELY_PROFILE
to BRANCH_PROFILING. I never did like the "unlikely" name so I
went one step farther, and renamed all the unlikely configurations
to a "BRANCH" variant.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-12 22:27:58 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
5cbd54ef47 sched: fix init_idle()'s use of sched_clock()
Maciej Rutecki reported:

> I have this bug during suspend to disk:
>
> [  188.592151] Enabling non-boot CPUs ...
> [  188.592151] SMP alternatives: switching to SMP code
> [  188.666058] BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible
> [00000000]
> code: suspend_to_disk/2934
> [  188.666064] caller is native_sched_clock+0x2b/0x80

Which, as noted by Linus, was caused by me, via:

  7cbaef9c "sched: optimize sched_clock() a bit"

Move the rq locking a bit earlier in the initialization sequence,
that will make the sched_clock() call in init_idle() non-preemptible.

Reported-by: Maciej Rutecki <maciej.rutecki@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-12 20:05:50 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
68d119f0a6 tracing: finetune branch-tracer output
Steve suggested the to change the output from this:

>  bash-3471  [003]   357.014755: [ MISS ] sched_info_dequeued:sched_stats.h:177
>  bash-3471  [003]   357.014756: [ .... ] update_curr:sched_fair.c:489
>  bash-3471  [003]   357.014758: [ .... ] calc_delta_fair:sched_fair.c:411

to this:

>  bash-3471  [003]   357.014755: [ MISS ] sched_info_dequeued:sched_stats.h:177
>  bash-3471  [003]   357.014756: [  ok  ] update_curr:sched_fair.c:489
>  bash-3471  [003]   357.014758: [  ok  ] calc_delta_fair:sched_fair.c:411

as it makes it clearer to the user what it means exactly.

Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-12 14:13:11 +01:00
Balbir Singh
a2d477778e sched: fix stale value in average load per task
Impact: fix load balancer load average calculation accuracy

cpu_avg_load_per_task() returns a stale value when nr_running is 0.
It returns an older stale (caculated when nr_running was non zero) value.

This patch returns and sets rq->avg_load_per_task to zero when nr_running
is 0.

Compile and boot tested on a x86_64 box.

Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-12 12:33:50 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
f88c4ae9f8 tracing: branch tracer, tweak output
Impact: modify the tracer output, to make it a bit easier to read

Change the output from:

>  bash-3471  [003]   357.014755: [INCORRECT] sched_info_dequeued:sched_stats.h:177
>  bash-3471  [003]   357.014756: [correct] update_curr:sched_fair.c:489
>  bash-3471  [003]   357.014758: [correct] calc_delta_fair:sched_fair.c:411

to:

>  bash-3471  [003]   357.014755: [ MISS ] sched_info_dequeued:sched_stats.h:177
>  bash-3471  [003]   357.014756: [ .... ] update_curr:sched_fair.c:489
>  bash-3471  [003]   357.014758: [ .... ] calc_delta_fair:sched_fair.c:411

it's good to have fields aligned vertically, and the only important
information is a prediction miss, so display only that information.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-12 11:55:41 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
52f232cb72 tracing: likely/unlikely branch annotation tracer
Impact: new likely/unlikely branch tracer

This patch adds a way to record the instances of the likely() and unlikely()
branch condition annotations.

When "unlikely" is set in /debugfs/tracing/iter_ctrl the unlikely conditions
will be added to any of the ftrace tracers. The change takes effect when
a new tracer is passed into the current_tracer file.

For example:

 bash-3471  [003]   357.014755: [INCORRECT] sched_info_dequeued:sched_stats.h:177
 bash-3471  [003]   357.014756: [correct] update_curr:sched_fair.c:489
 bash-3471  [003]   357.014758: [correct] calc_delta_fair:sched_fair.c:411
 bash-3471  [003]   357.014759: [correct] account_group_exec_runtime:sched_stats.h:356
 bash-3471  [003]   357.014761: [correct] update_curr:sched_fair.c:489
 bash-3471  [003]   357.014763: [INCORRECT] calc_delta_fair:sched_fair.c:411
 bash-3471  [003]   357.014765: [correct] calc_delta_mine:sched.c:1279

Which shows the normal tracer heading, as well as whether the condition was
correct "[correct]" or was mistaken "[INCORRECT]", followed by the function,
file name and line number.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-12 11:52:02 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
1f0d69a9fc tracing: profile likely and unlikely annotations
Impact: new unlikely/likely profiler

Andrew Morton recently suggested having an in-kernel way to profile
likely and unlikely macros. This patch achieves that goal.

When configured, every(*) likely and unlikely macro gets a counter attached
to it. When the condition is hit, the hit and misses of that condition
are recorded. These numbers can later be retrieved by:

  /debugfs/tracing/profile_likely    - All likely markers
  /debugfs/tracing/profile_unlikely  - All unlikely markers.

# cat /debug/tracing/profile_unlikely | head
 correct incorrect  %        Function                  File              Line
 ------- ---------  -        --------                  ----              ----
    2167        0   0 do_arch_prctl                  process_64.c         832
       0        0   0 do_arch_prctl                  process_64.c         804
    2670        0   0 IS_ERR                         err.h                34
   71230     5693   7 __switch_to                    process_64.c         673
   76919        0   0 __switch_to                    process_64.c         639
   43184    33743  43 __switch_to                    process_64.c         624
   12740    64181  83 __switch_to                    process_64.c         594
   12740    64174  83 __switch_to                    process_64.c         590

# cat /debug/tracing/profile_unlikely | \
  awk '{ if ($3 > 25) print $0; }' |head -20
   44963    35259  43 __switch_to                    process_64.c         624
   12762    67454  84 __switch_to                    process_64.c         594
   12762    67447  84 __switch_to                    process_64.c         590
    1478      595  28 syscall_get_error              syscall.h            51
       0     2821 100 syscall_trace_leave            ptrace.c             1567
       0        1 100 native_smp_prepare_cpus        smpboot.c            1237
   86338   265881  75 calc_delta_fair                sched_fair.c         408
  210410   108540  34 calc_delta_mine                sched.c              1267
       0    54550 100 sched_info_queued              sched_stats.h        222
   51899    66435  56 pick_next_task_fair            sched_fair.c         1422
       6       10  62 yield_task_fair                sched_fair.c         982
    7325     2692  26 rt_policy                      sched.c              144
       0     1270 100 pre_schedule_rt                sched_rt.c           1261
    1268    48073  97 pick_next_task_rt              sched_rt.c           884
       0    45181 100 sched_info_dequeued            sched_stats.h        177
       0       15 100 sched_move_task                sched.c              8700
       0       15 100 sched_move_task                sched.c              8690
   53167    33217  38 schedule                       sched.c              4457
       0    80208 100 sched_info_switch              sched_stats.h        270
   30585    49631  61 context_switch                 sched.c              2619

# cat /debug/tracing/profile_likely | awk '{ if ($3 > 25) print $0; }'
   39900    36577  47 pick_next_task                 sched.c              4397
   20824    15233  42 switch_mm                      mmu_context_64.h     18
       0        7 100 __cancel_work_timer            workqueue.c          560
     617    66484  99 clocksource_adjust             timekeeping.c        456
       0   346340 100 audit_syscall_exit             auditsc.c            1570
      38   347350  99 audit_get_context              auditsc.c            732
       0   345244 100 audit_syscall_entry            auditsc.c            1541
      38     1017  96 audit_free                     auditsc.c            1446
       0     1090 100 audit_alloc                    auditsc.c            862
    2618     1090  29 audit_alloc                    auditsc.c            858
       0        6 100 move_masked_irq                migration.c          9
       1      198  99 probe_sched_wakeup             trace_sched_switch.c 58
       2        2  50 probe_wakeup                   trace_sched_wakeup.c 227
       0        2 100 probe_wakeup_sched_switch      trace_sched_wakeup.c 144
    4514     2090  31 __grab_cache_page              filemap.c            2149
   12882   228786  94 mapping_unevictable            pagemap.h            50
       4       11  73 __flush_cpu_slab               slub.c               1466
  627757   330451  34 slab_free                      slub.c               1731
    2959    61245  95 dentry_lru_del_init            dcache.c             153
     946     1217  56 load_elf_binary                binfmt_elf.c         904
     102       82  44 disk_put_part                  genhd.h              206
       1        1  50 dst_gc_task                    dst.c                82
       0       19 100 tcp_mss_split_point            tcp_output.c         1126

As you can see by the above, there's a bit of work to do in rethinking
the use of some unlikelys and likelys. Note: the unlikely case had 71 hits
that were more than 25%.

Note:  After submitting my first version of this patch, Andrew Morton
  showed me a version written by Daniel Walker, where I picked up
  the following ideas from:

  1)  Using __builtin_constant_p to avoid profiling fixed values.
  2)  Using __FILE__ instead of instruction pointers.
  3)  Using the preprocessor to stop all profiling of likely
       annotations from vsyscall_64.c.

Thanks to Andrew Morton, Arjan van de Ven, Theodore Tso and Ingo Molnar
for their feed back on this patch.

(*) Not ever unlikely is recorded, those that are used by vsyscalls
 (a few of them) had to have profiling disabled.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-12 11:52:02 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
cb9382e5a9 Merge branches 'tracing/fastboot', 'tracing/function-return-tracer' and 'tracing/ring-buffer' into tracing/core 2008-11-12 11:50:51 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
642edba5f5 ring-buffer: fix deadlock from reader_lock in read_start
Impact: deadlock fix in ring_buffer_read_start

The ring_buffer_iter_reset was called from ring_buffer_read_start
where both grabbed the reader_lock.

This patch separates out the internals of ring_buffer_iter_reset
to its own function so that both APIs may grab the reader_lock.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-12 11:25:04 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
47e74f2ba8 ring-buffer: no preempt for sched_clock()
Impact: disable preemption when calling sched_clock()

The ring_buffer_time_stamp still uses sched_clock as its counter.
But it is a bug to call it with preemption enabled. This requirement
should not be pushed to the ring_buffer_time_stamp callers, so
the ring_buffer_time_stamp needs to disable preemption when calling
sched_clock.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-12 11:23:36 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker
7423907283 tracing/fastboot: Use the ring-buffer timestamp for initcall entries
Impact: Split the boot tracer entries in two parts: call and return

Now that we are using the sched tracer from the boot tracer, we want
to use the same timestamp than the ring-buffer to have consistent time
captures between sched events and initcall events.

So we get rid of the old time capture by the boot tracer and split the
initcall events in two parts: call and return. This way we have the
ring buffer timestamp of both.

An example trace:

[   27.904149584] calling  net_ns_init+0x0/0x1c0 @ 1
[   27.904429624] initcall net_ns_init+0x0/0x1c0 returned 0 after 0 msecs
[   27.904575926] calling  reboot_init+0x0/0x20 @ 1
[   27.904655399] initcall reboot_init+0x0/0x20 returned 0 after 0 msecs
[   27.904800228] calling  sysctl_init+0x0/0x30 @ 1
[   27.905142914] initcall sysctl_init+0x0/0x30 returned 0 after 0 msecs
[   27.905287211] calling  ksysfs_init+0x0/0xb0 @ 1
 ##### CPU 0 buffer started ####
            init-1     [000]    27.905395:      1:120:R   + [001]    11:115:S
 ##### CPU 1 buffer started ####
          <idle>-0     [001]    27.905425:      0:140:R ==> [001]    11:115:R
            init-1     [000]    27.905426:      1:120:D ==> [000]     0:140:R
          <idle>-0     [000]    27.905431:      0:140:R   + [000]     4:115:S
          <idle>-0     [000]    27.905451:      0:140:R ==> [000]     4:115:R
     ksoftirqd/0-4     [000]    27.905456:      4:115:S ==> [000]     0:140:R
           udevd-11    [001]    27.905458:     11:115:R   + [001]    14:115:R
          <idle>-0     [000]    27.905459:      0:140:R   + [000]     4:115:S
          <idle>-0     [000]    27.905462:      0:140:R ==> [000]     4:115:R
           udevd-11    [001]    27.905462:     11:115:R ==> [001]    14:115:R
     ksoftirqd/0-4     [000]    27.905467:      4:115:S ==> [000]     0:140:R
          <idle>-0     [000]    27.905470:      0:140:R   + [000]     4:115:S
          <idle>-0     [000]    27.905473:      0:140:R ==> [000]     4:115:R
     ksoftirqd/0-4     [000]    27.905476:      4:115:S ==> [000]     0:140:R
          <idle>-0     [000]    27.905479:      0:140:R   + [000]     4:115:S
          <idle>-0     [000]    27.905482:      0:140:R ==> [000]     4:115:R
     ksoftirqd/0-4     [000]    27.905486:      4:115:S ==> [000]     0:140:R
           udevd-14    [001]    27.905499:     14:120:X ==> [001]    11:115:R
           udevd-11    [001]    27.905506:     11:115:R   + [000]     1:120:D
          <idle>-0     [000]    27.905515:      0:140:R ==> [000]     1:120:R
           udevd-11    [001]    27.905517:     11:115:S ==> [001]     0:140:R
[   27.905557107] initcall ksysfs_init+0x0/0xb0 returned 0 after 3906 msecs
[   27.905705736] calling  init_jiffies_clocksource+0x0/0x10 @ 1
[   27.905779239] initcall init_jiffies_clocksource+0x0/0x10 returned 0 after 0 msecs
[   27.906769814] calling  pm_init+0x0/0x30 @ 1
[   27.906853627] initcall pm_init+0x0/0x30 returned 0 after 0 msecs
[   27.906997803] calling  pm_disk_init+0x0/0x20 @ 1
[   27.907076946] initcall pm_disk_init+0x0/0x20 returned 0 after 0 msecs
[   27.907222556] calling  swsusp_header_init+0x0/0x30 @ 1
[   27.907294325] initcall swsusp_header_init+0x0/0x30 returned 0 after 0 msecs
[   27.907439620] calling  stop_machine_init+0x0/0x50 @ 1
            init-1     [000]    27.907485:      1:120:R   + [000]     2:115:S
            init-1     [000]    27.907490:      1:120:D ==> [000]     2:115:R
        kthreadd-2     [000]    27.907507:      2:115:R   + [001]    15:115:R
          <idle>-0     [001]    27.907517:      0:140:R ==> [001]    15:115:R
        kthreadd-2     [000]    27.907517:      2:115:D ==> [000]     0:140:R
          <idle>-0     [000]    27.907521:      0:140:R   + [000]     4:115:S
          <idle>-0     [000]    27.907524:      0:140:R ==> [000]     4:115:R
           udevd-15    [001]    27.907527:     15:115:D   + [000]     2:115:D
     ksoftirqd/0-4     [000]    27.907537:      4:115:S ==> [000]     2:115:R
           udevd-15    [001]    27.907537:     15:115:D ==> [001]     0:140:R
        kthreadd-2     [000]    27.907546:      2:115:R   + [000]     1:120:D
        kthreadd-2     [000]    27.907550:      2:115:S ==> [000]     1:120:R
            init-1     [000]    27.907584:      1:120:R   + [000]    15:  0:D
            init-1     [000]    27.907589:      1:120:R   + [000]     2:115:S
            init-1     [000]    27.907593:      1:120:D ==> [000]    15:  0:R
           udevd-15    [000]    27.907601:     15:  0:S ==> [000]     2:115:R
 ##### CPU 0 buffer started ####
        kthreadd-2     [000]    27.907616:      2:115:R   + [001]    16:115:R
 ##### CPU 1 buffer started ####
          <idle>-0     [001]    27.907620:      0:140:R ==> [001]    16:115:R
        kthreadd-2     [000]    27.907621:      2:115:D ==> [000]     0:140:R
           udevd-16    [001]    27.907625:     16:115:D   + [000]     2:115:D
          <idle>-0     [000]    27.907628:      0:140:R   + [000]     4:115:S
           udevd-16    [001]    27.907629:     16:115:D ==> [001]     0:140:R
          <idle>-0     [000]    27.907631:      0:140:R ==> [000]     4:115:R
     ksoftirqd/0-4     [000]    27.907636:      4:115:S ==> [000]     2:115:R
        kthreadd-2     [000]    27.907644:      2:115:R   + [000]     1:120:D
        kthreadd-2     [000]    27.907647:      2:115:S ==> [000]     1:120:R
            init-1     [000]    27.907657:      1:120:R   + [001]    16:  0:D
          <idle>-0     [001]    27.907666:      0:140:R ==> [001]    16:  0:R
[   27.907703862] initcall stop_machine_init+0x0/0x50 returned 0 after 0 msecs
[   27.907850704] calling  filelock_init+0x0/0x30 @ 1
[   27.907926573] initcall filelock_init+0x0/0x30 returned 0 after 0 msecs
[   27.908071327] calling  init_script_binfmt+0x0/0x10 @ 1
[   27.908165195] initcall init_script_binfmt+0x0/0x10 returned 0 after 0 msecs
[   27.908309461] calling  init_elf_binfmt+0x0/0x10 @ 1

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-12 10:17:19 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker
3f5ec13696 tracing/fastboot: move boot tracer structs and funcs into their own header.
Impact: Cleanups on the boot tracer and ftrace

This patch bring some cleanups about the boot tracer headers. The
functions and structures of this tracer have nothing related to ftrace
and should have so their own header file.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-12 10:17:18 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
60a011c736 Merge branch 'tracing/function-return-tracer' into tracing/fastboot 2008-11-12 10:17:09 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
d06bbd6695 Merge branches 'tracing/ftrace' and 'tracing/urgent' into tracing/core
Conflicts:
	kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
2008-11-12 10:11:37 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra
621a0d5207 hrtimer: clean up unused callback modes
Impact: cleanup

git grep HRTIMER_CB_IRQSAFE revealed half the callback modes are actually
unused.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-12 09:54:40 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
3e89c7bb92 ring-buffer: clean up warn ons
Impact: Restructure WARN_ONs in ring_buffer.c

The current WARN_ON macros in ring_buffer.c are quite ugly.

This patch cleans them up and uses a single RB_WARN_ON that returns
the value of the condition. This allows the caller to abort the
function if the condition is true.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-11 22:02:35 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
c1e7abbc7a Merge branch 'devel' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into tracing/urgent 2008-11-11 21:34:07 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
a358324466 ring-buffer: buffer record on/off switch
Impact: enable/disable ring buffer recording API added

Several kernel developers have requested that there be a way to stop
recording into the ring buffers with a simple switch that can also
be enabled from userspace. This patch addes a new kernel API to the
ring buffers called:

 tracing_on()
 tracing_off()

When tracing_off() is called, all ring buffers will not be able to record
into their buffers.

tracing_on() will enable the ring buffers again.

These two act like an on/off switch. That is, there is no counting of the
number of times tracing_off or tracing_on has been called.

A new file is added to the debugfs/tracing directory called

  tracing_on

This allows for userspace applications to also flip the switch.

  echo 0 > debugfs/tracing/tracing_on

disables the tracing.

  echo 1 > /debugfs/tracing/tracing_on

enables it.

Note, this does not disable or enable any tracers. It only sets or clears
a flag that needs to be set in order for the ring buffers to write to
their buffers. It is a global flag, and affects all ring buffers.

The buffers start out with tracing_on enabled.

There are now three flags that control recording into the buffers:

 tracing_on: which affects all ring buffer tracers.

 buffer->record_disabled: which affects an allocated buffer, which may be set
     if an anomaly is detected, and tracing is disabled.

 cpu_buffer->record_disabled: which is set by tracing_stop() or if an
     anomaly is detected. tracing_start can not reenable this if
     an anomaly occurred.

The userspace debugfs/tracing/tracing_enabled is implemented with
tracing_stop() but the user space code can not enable it if the kernel
called tracing_stop().

Userspace can enable the tracing_on even if the kernel disabled it.
It is just a switch used to stop tracing if a condition was hit.
tracing_on is not for protecting critical areas in the kernel nor is
it for stopping tracing if an anomaly occurred. This is because userspace
can reenable it at any time.

Side effect: With this patch, I discovered a dead variable in ftrace.c
  called tracing_on. This patch removes it.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2008-11-11 15:02:04 -05:00
Linus Torvalds
f21f237cf5 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:
  timers: handle HRTIMER_CB_IRQSAFE_UNLOCKED correctly from softirq context
  nohz: disable tick_nohz_kick_tick() for now
  irq: call __irq_enter() before calling the tick_idle_check
  x86: HPET: enter hpet_interrupt_handler with interrupts disabled
  x86: HPET: read from HPET_Tn_CMP() not HPET_T0_CMP
  x86: HPET: convert WARN_ON to WARN_ON_ONCE
2008-11-11 10:53:50 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
2f96cb57cd Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  sched: release buddies on yield
  fix for account_group_exec_runtime(), make sure ->signal can't be freed under rq->lock
  sched: clean up debug info
2008-11-11 10:52:25 -08:00
Steven Rostedt
f83c9d0fe4 ring-buffer: add reader lock
Impact: serialize reader accesses to individual CPU ring buffers

The code in the ring buffer expects only one reader at a time, but currently
it puts that requirement on the caller. This is not strong enough, and this
patch adds a "reader_lock" that serializes the access to the reader API
of the ring buffer.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-11 18:47:44 +01:00
Bharata B Rao
934352f214 sched: add hierarchical accounting to cpu accounting controller
Impact: improve CPU time accounting of tasks under the cpu accounting controller

Add hierarchical accounting to cpu accounting controller and include
cpuacct documentation.

Currently, while charging the task's cputime to its accounting group,
the accounting group hierarchy isn't updated. This patch charges the cputime
of a task to its accounting group and all its parent accounting groups.

Reported-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-11 12:13:28 +01:00
Eric Paris
637d32dc72 Capabilities: BUG when an invalid capability is requested
If an invalid (large) capability is requested the capabilities system
may panic as it is dereferencing an array of fixed (short) length.  Its
possible (and actually often happens) that the capability system
accidentally stumbled into a valid memory region but it also regularly
happens that it hits invalid memory and BUGs.  If such an operation does
get past cap_capable then the selinux system is sure to have problems as
it already does a (simple) validity check and BUG.  This is known to
happen by the broken and buggy firegl driver.

This patch cleanly checks all capable calls and BUG if a call is for an
invalid capability.  This will likely break the firegl driver for some
situations, but it is the right thing to do.  Garbage into a security
system gets you killed/bugged

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Andrew G. Morgan <morgan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-11-11 22:01:24 +11:00
Peter Zijlstra
2002c69595 sched: release buddies on yield
Clear buddies on yield, so that the buddy rules don't schedule them
despite them being placed right-most.

This fixed a performance regression with yield-happy binary JVMs.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Tested-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
2008-11-11 11:57:22 +01:00
Eric Paris
e68b75a027 When the capset syscall is used it is not possible for audit to record the
actual capbilities being added/removed.  This patch adds a new record type
which emits the target pid and the eff, inh, and perm cap sets.

example output if you audit capset syscalls would be:

type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1225743140.465:76): arch=c000003e syscall=126 success=yes exit=0 a0=17f2014 a1=17f201c a2=80000000 a3=7fff2ab7f060 items=0 ppid=2160 pid=2223 auid=0 uid=0 gid=0 euid=0 suid=0 fsuid=0 egid=0 sgid=0 fsgid=0 tty=pts0 ses=1 comm="setcap" exe="/usr/sbin/setcap" subj=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 key=(null)
type=UNKNOWN[1322] msg=audit(1225743140.465:76): pid=0 cap_pi=ffffffffffffffff cap_pp=ffffffffffffffff cap_pe=ffffffffffffffff

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-11-11 21:48:22 +11:00
Eric Paris
3fc689e96c Any time fcaps or a setuid app under SECURE_NOROOT is used to result in a
non-zero pE we will crate a new audit record which contains the entire set
of known information about the executable in question, fP, fI, fE, fversion
and includes the process's pE, pI, pP.  Before and after the bprm capability
are applied.  This record type will only be emitted from execve syscalls.

an example of making ping use fcaps instead of setuid:

setcap "cat_net_raw+pe" /bin/ping

type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1225742021.015:236): arch=c000003e syscall=59 success=yes exit=0 a0=1457f30 a1=14606b0 a2=1463940 a3=321b770a70 items=2 ppid=2929 pid=2963 auid=0 uid=500 gid=500 euid=500 suid=500 fsuid=500 egid=500 sgid=500 fsgid=500 tty=pts0 ses=3 comm="ping" exe="/bin/ping" subj=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 key=(null)
type=UNKNOWN[1321] msg=audit(1225742021.015:236): fver=2 fp=0000000000002000 fi=0000000000000000 fe=1 old_pp=0000000000000000 old_pi=0000000000000000 old_pe=0000000000000000 new_pp=0000000000002000 new_pi=0000000000000000 new_pe=0000000000002000
type=EXECVE msg=audit(1225742021.015:236): argc=2 a0="ping" a1="127.0.0.1"
type=CWD msg=audit(1225742021.015:236):  cwd="/home/test"
type=PATH msg=audit(1225742021.015:236): item=0 name="/bin/ping" inode=49256 dev=fd:00 mode=0100755 ouid=0 ogid=0 rdev=00:00 obj=system_u:object_r:ping_exec_t:s0 cap_fp=0000000000002000 cap_fe=1 cap_fver=2
type=PATH msg=audit(1225742021.015:236): item=1 name=(null) inode=507915 dev=fd:00 mode=0100755 ouid=0 ogid=0 rdev=00:00 obj=system_u:object_r:ld_so_t:s0

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-11-11 21:48:18 +11:00
Eric Paris
851f7ff56d This patch will print cap_permitted and cap_inheritable data in the PATH
records of any file that has file capabilities set.  Files which do not
have fcaps set will not have different PATH records.

An example audit record if you run:
setcap "cap_net_admin+pie" /bin/bash
/bin/bash

type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1225741937.363:230): arch=c000003e syscall=59 success=yes exit=0 a0=2119230 a1=210da30 a2=20ee290 a3=8 items=2 ppid=2149 pid=2923 auid=0 uid=0 gid=0 euid=0 suid=0 fsuid=0 egid=0 sgid=0 fsgid=0 tty=pts0 ses=3 comm="ping" exe="/bin/ping" subj=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 key=(null)
type=EXECVE msg=audit(1225741937.363:230): argc=2 a0="ping" a1="www.google.com"
type=CWD msg=audit(1225741937.363:230):  cwd="/root"
type=PATH msg=audit(1225741937.363:230): item=0 name="/bin/ping" inode=49256 dev=fd:00 mode=0104755 ouid=0 ogid=0 rdev=00:00 obj=system_u:object_r:ping_exec_t:s0 cap_fp=0000000000002000 cap_fi=0000000000002000 cap_fe=1 cap_fver=2
type=PATH msg=audit(1225741937.363:230): item=1 name=(null) inode=507915 dev=fd:00 mode=0100755 ouid=0 ogid=0 rdev=00:00 obj=system_u:object_r:ld_so_t:s0

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-11-11 21:48:14 +11:00
Bharata B Rao
ff9b48c359 sched: include group statistics in /proc/sched_debug
Impact: extend /proc/sched_debug info

Since the statistics of a group entity isn't exported directly from the
kernel, it becomes difficult to obtain some of the group statistics.
For example, the current method to obtain exec time of a group entity
is not always accurate. One has to read the exec times of all
the tasks(/proc/<pid>/sched) in the group and add them. This method
fails (or becomes difficult) if we want to collect stats of a group over
a duration where tasks get created and terminated.

This patch makes it easier to obtain group stats by directly including
them in /proc/sched_debug. Stats like group exec time would help user
programs (like LTP) to accurately measure the group fairness.

An example output of group stats from /proc/sched_debug:

cfs_rq[3]:/3/a/1
  .exec_clock                    : 89.598007
  .MIN_vruntime                  : 0.000001
  .min_vruntime                  : 256300.970506
  .max_vruntime                  : 0.000001
  .spread                        : 0.000000
  .spread0                       : -25373.372248
  .nr_running                    : 0
  .load                          : 0
  .yld_exp_empty                 : 0
  .yld_act_empty                 : 0
  .yld_both_empty                : 0
  .yld_count                     : 4474
  .sched_switch                  : 0
  .sched_count                   : 40507
  .sched_goidle                  : 12686
  .ttwu_count                    : 15114
  .ttwu_local                    : 11950
  .bkl_count                     : 67
  .nr_spread_over                : 0
  .shares                        : 0
  .se->exec_start                : 113676.727170
  .se->vruntime                  : 1592.612714
  .se->sum_exec_runtime          : 89.598007
  .se->wait_start                : 0.000000
  .se->sleep_start               : 0.000000
  .se->block_start               : 0.000000
  .se->sleep_max                 : 0.000000
  .se->block_max                 : 0.000000
  .se->exec_max                  : 1.000282
  .se->slice_max                 : 1.999750
  .se->wait_max                  : 54.981093
  .se->wait_sum                  : 217.610521
  .se->wait_count                : 50
  .se->load.weight               : 2

Signed-off-by: Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-11 11:44:18 +01:00
Gautham R Shenoy
5d5254f0d3 timers: handle HRTIMER_CB_IRQSAFE_UNLOCKED correctly from softirq context
Impact: fix incorrect locking triggered during hotplug-intense stress-tests

While migrating the the CB_IRQSAFE_UNLOCKED timers during a cpu-offline,
we queue them on the cb_pending list, so that they won't go
stale.

Thus, when the callbacks of the timers run from the softirq context,
they could run into potential deadlocks, since these callbacks
assume that they're running with irq's disabled, thereby annoying
lockdep!

Fix this by emulating hardirq context while running these callbacks from
the hrtimer softirq.

=================================
[ INFO: inconsistent lock state ]
2.6.27 #2
--------------------------------
inconsistent {in-hardirq-W} -> {hardirq-on-W} usage.
ksoftirqd/0/4 [HC0[0]:SC1[1]:HE1:SE0] takes:
 (&rq->lock){++..}, at: [<c011db84>] sched_rt_period_timer+0x9e/0x1fc
{in-hardirq-W} state was registered at:
  [<c014103c>] __lock_acquire+0x549/0x121e
  [<c0107890>] native_sched_clock+0x88/0x99
  [<c013aa12>] clocksource_get_next+0x39/0x3f
  [<c0139abc>] update_wall_time+0x616/0x7df
  [<c0141d6b>] lock_acquire+0x5a/0x74
  [<c0121724>] scheduler_tick+0x3a/0x18d
  [<c047ed45>] _spin_lock+0x1c/0x45
  [<c0121724>] scheduler_tick+0x3a/0x18d
  [<c0121724>] scheduler_tick+0x3a/0x18d
  [<c012c436>] update_process_times+0x3a/0x44
  [<c013c044>] tick_periodic+0x63/0x6d
  [<c013c062>] tick_handle_periodic+0x14/0x5e
  [<c010568c>] timer_interrupt+0x44/0x4a
  [<c0150c9f>] handle_IRQ_event+0x13/0x3d
  [<c0151c14>] handle_level_irq+0x79/0xbd
  [<c0105634>] do_IRQ+0x69/0x7d
  [<c01041e4>] common_interrupt+0x28/0x30
  [<c047007b>] aac_probe_one+0x1a3/0x3f3
  [<c047ec2d>] _spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x36/0x39
  [<c01512b4>] setup_irq+0x1be/0x1f9
  [<c065d70b>] start_kernel+0x259/0x2c5
  [<ffffffff>] 0xffffffff
irq event stamp: 50102
hardirqs last  enabled at (50102): [<c047ebf4>] _spin_unlock_irq+0x20/0x23
hardirqs last disabled at (50101): [<c047edc2>] _spin_lock_irq+0xa/0x4b
softirqs last  enabled at (50088): [<c0128ba6>] do_softirq+0x37/0x4d
softirqs last disabled at (50099): [<c0128ba6>] do_softirq+0x37/0x4d

other info that might help us debug this:
no locks held by ksoftirqd/0/4.

stack backtrace:
Pid: 4, comm: ksoftirqd/0 Not tainted 2.6.27 #2
 [<c013f6cb>] print_usage_bug+0x13e/0x147
 [<c013fef5>] mark_lock+0x493/0x797
 [<c01410b1>] __lock_acquire+0x5be/0x121e
 [<c0141d6b>] lock_acquire+0x5a/0x74
 [<c011db84>] sched_rt_period_timer+0x9e/0x1fc
 [<c047ed45>] _spin_lock+0x1c/0x45
 [<c011db84>] sched_rt_period_timer+0x9e/0x1fc
 [<c011db84>] sched_rt_period_timer+0x9e/0x1fc
 [<c01210fd>] finish_task_switch+0x41/0xbd
 [<c0107890>] native_sched_clock+0x88/0x99
 [<c011dae6>] sched_rt_period_timer+0x0/0x1fc
 [<c0136dda>] run_hrtimer_pending+0x54/0xe5
 [<c011dae6>] sched_rt_period_timer+0x0/0x1fc
 [<c0128afb>] __do_softirq+0x7b/0xef
 [<c0128ba6>] do_softirq+0x37/0x4d
 [<c0128c12>] ksoftirqd+0x56/0xc5
 [<c0128bbc>] ksoftirqd+0x0/0xc5
 [<c0134649>] kthread+0x38/0x5d
 [<c0134611>] kthread+0x0/0x5d
 [<c0104477>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10
 =======================

Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-11 10:46:42 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker
15e6cb3673 tracing: add a tracer to catch execution time of kernel functions
Impact: add new tracing plugin which can trace full (entry+exit) function calls

This tracer uses the low level function return ftrace plugin to
measure the execution time of the kernel functions.

The first field is the caller of the function, the second is the
measured function, and the last one is the execution time in
nanoseconds.

- v3:

- HAVE_FUNCTION_RET_TRACER have been added. Each arch that support ftrace return
  should enable it.
- ftrace_return_stub becomes ftrace_stub.
- CONFIG_FUNCTION_RET_TRACER depends now on CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER
- Return traces printing can be used for other tracers on trace.c
- Adapt to the new tracing API (no more ctrl_update callback)
- Correct the check of "disabled" during insertion.
- Minor changes...

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-11 10:29:12 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker
caf4b323b0 tracing, x86: add low level support for ftrace return tracing
Impact: add infrastructure for function-return tracing

Add low level support for ftrace return tracing.

This plug-in stores return addresses on the thread_info structure of
the current task.

The index of the current return address is initialized when the task
is the first one (init) and when a process forks (the child). It is
not needed when a task does a sys_execve because after this syscall,
it still needs to return on the kernel functions it called.

Note that the code of return_to_handler has been suggested by Steven
Rostedt as almost all of the ideas of improvements in this V3.

For purpose of security, arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c is not traced
because __switch_to() changes the current task during its execution.
That could cause inconsistency in the stored return address of this
function even if I didn't have any crash after testing with tracing on
this function enabled.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-11 10:29:11 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
f536aafc5a ring-buffer: replace most bug ons with warn on and disable buffer
This patch replaces most of the BUG_ONs in the ring_buffer code with
RB_WARN_ON variants. It adds some more variants as needed for the
replacement. This lets the buffer die nicely and still warn the user.

One BUG_ON remains in the code, and that is because it detects a
bad pointer passed in by the calling function, and not a bug by
the ring buffer code itself.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-11 09:40:34 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
5aa1ba6a6c ftrace: prevent ftrace_special from recursion
Impact: stop ftrace_special from recursion

The ftrace_special is used to help debug areas of the kernel.
Because of this, if it is put in certain locations, the fact that
it allows recursion can become a problem if the kernel developer
using does not realize that.

This patch changes ftrace_special to not allow recursion into itself
to make it more robust.

It also changes from preempt disable interrupts disable to prevent
any loss of trace entries.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-11 09:40:29 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
e0cb4ebcd9 Merge branch 'tracing/urgent' into tracing/ftrace
Conflicts:
	kernel/trace/trace.c
2008-11-11 09:40:18 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
45b86a96f1 Merge branch 'devel' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into tracing/urgent 2008-11-11 09:16:20 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
ae1e9130bf sched: rename SCHED_NO_NO_OMIT_FRAME_POINTER => SCHED_OMIT_FRAME_POINTER
Impact: cleanup, change .config option name

We had this ugly config name for a long time for hysteric raisons.
Rename it to a saner name.

We still cannot get rid of it completely, until /proc/<pid>/stack
usage replaces WCHAN usage for good.

We'll be able to do that in the v2.6.29/v2.6.30 timeframe.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-11 08:59:20 +01:00
Oleg Nesterov
ad474caca3 fix for account_group_exec_runtime(), make sure ->signal can't be freed under rq->lock
Impact: fix hang/crash on ia64 under high load

This is ugly, but the simplest patch by far.

Unlike other similar routines, account_group_exec_runtime() could be
called "implicitly" from within scheduler after exit_notify(). This
means we can race with the parent doing release_task(), we can't just
check ->signal != NULL.

Change __exit_signal() to do spin_unlock_wait(&task_rq(tsk)->lock)
before __cleanup_signal() to make sure ->signal can't be freed under
task_rq(tsk)->lock. Note that task_rq_unlock_wait() doesn't care
about the case when tsk changes cpu/rq under us, this should be OK.

Thanks to Ingo who nacked my previous buggy patch.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Reported-by: Doug Chapman <doug.chapman@hp.com>
2008-11-11 08:01:43 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
4143c5cb36 ring-buffer: prevent infinite looping on time stamping
Impact: removal of unnecessary looping

The lockless part of the ring buffer allows for reentry into the code
from interrupts. A timestamp is taken, a test is preformed and if it
detects that an interrupt occurred that did tracing, it tries again.

The problem arises if the timestamp code itself causes a trace.
The detection will detect this and loop again. The difference between
this and an interrupt doing tracing, is that this will fail every time,
and cause an infinite loop.

Currently, we test if the loop happens 1000 times, and if so, it will
produce a warning and disable the ring buffer.

The problem with this approach is that it makes it difficult to perform
some types of tracing (tracing the timestamp code itself).

Each trace entry has a delta timestamp from the previous entry.
If a trace entry is reserved but and interrupt occurs and traces before
the previous entry is commited, the delta timestamp for that entry will
be zero. This actually makes sense in terms of tracing, because the
interrupt entry happened before the preempted entry was commited, so
one may consider the two happening at the same time. The order is
still preserved in the buffer.

With this idea, instead of trying to get a new timestamp if an interrupt
made it in between the timestamp and the test, the entry could simply
make the delta zero and continue. This will prevent interrupts or
tracers in the timer code from causing the above loop.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2008-11-10 21:47:37 -05:00
Steven Rostedt
bf5e6519b8 ftrace: disable tracing on resize
Impact: fix for bug on resize

This patch addresses the bug found here:

 http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11996

When ftrace converted to the new unified trace buffer, the resizing of
the buffer was not protected as much as it was originally. If tracing
is performed while the resize occurs, then the buffer can be corrupted.

This patch disables all ftrace buffer modifications before a resize
takes place.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2008-11-10 21:47:35 -05:00
Thomas Gleixner
ae99286b4f nohz: disable tick_nohz_kick_tick() for now
Impact: nohz powersavings and wakeup regression

commit fb02fbc14d (NOHZ: restart tick
device from irq_enter()) causes a serious wakeup regression.

While the patch is correct it does not take into account that spurious
wakeups happen on x86. A fix for this issue is available, but we just
revert to the .27 behaviour and let long running softirqs screw
themself.

Disable it for now.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-11-10 22:39:27 +01:00
Thomas Gleixner
ee5f80a993 irq: call __irq_enter() before calling the tick_idle_check
Impact: avoid spurious ksoftirqd wakeups

The tick idle check which is called from irq_enter() was run before
the call to __irq_enter() which did not set the in_interrupt() bits in
preempt_count. That way the raise of a softirq woke up softirqd for
nothing as the softirq was handled on return from interrupt.

Call __irq_enter() before calling into the tick idle check code.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-10 22:36:39 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra
5ac5c4d604 sched: clean up debug info
Impact: clean up and fix debug info printout

While looking over the sched_debug code I noticed that we printed the rq
schedstats for every cfs_rq, ammend this.

Also change nr_spead_over into an int, and fix a little buglet in
min_vruntime printing.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-10 10:51:51 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
f131e2436d irq: fix typo
Impact: build fix

fix build failure on UP.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-09 22:26:45 +01:00
Thomas Gleixner
612e3684c1 genirq: fix the affinity setting in setup_irq
The affinity setting in setup irq is called before the NO_BALANCING
flag is checked and might therefore override affinity settings from the
calling code with the default setting.

Move the NO_BALANCING flag check before the call to the affinity
setting.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-09 22:23:54 +01:00
Thomas Gleixner
f6d87f4bd2 genirq: keep affinities set from userspace across free/request_irq()
Impact: preserve user-modified affinities on interrupts

Kumar Galak noticed that commit
1840475676 (genirq: Expose default irq
affinity mask (take 3))

overrides an already set affinity setting across a free /
request_irq(). Happens e.g. with ifdown/ifup of a network device.

Change the logic to mark the affinities as set and keep them
intact. This also fixes the unlocked access to irq_desc in
irq_select_affinity() when called from irq_affinity_proc_write()

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-09 22:23:49 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
cb56d98e2a Merge branch 'cpus4096' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'cpus4096' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  cpumask: introduce new API, without changing anything, v3
  cpumask: new API, v2
  cpumask: introduce new API, without changing anything
2008-11-09 12:20:56 -08:00
Steven Rostedt
a309720c87 ftrace: display start of CPU buffer in trace output
Impact: change in trace output

Because the trace buffers are per cpu ring buffers, the start of
the trace can be confusing. If one CPU is very active at the
end of the trace, its history will not go as far back as the
other CPU traces.  This means that output for a particular CPU
may not appear for the first part of a trace.

To help annotate what is happening, and to prevent any more
confusion, this patch adds a line that annotates the start of
a CPU buffer output.

For example:

       automount-3495  [001]   184.596443: dnotify_parent <-vfs_write
[...]
       automount-3495  [001]   184.596449: dput <-path_put
       automount-3496  [002]   184.596450: down_read_trylock <-do_page_fault
[...]
           sshd-3497  [001]   184.597069: up_read <-do_page_fault
          <idle>-0     [000]   184.597074: __exit_idle <-exit_idle
[...]
       automount-3496  [002]   184.597257: filemap_fault <-__do_fault
          <idle>-0     [003]   184.597261: exit_idle <-smp_apic_timer_interrupt

Note, parsers of a trace output should always ignore any lines that
start with a '#'.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-08 09:51:54 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
769c48eb25 ftrace: force pass of preemptoff selftest
Impact: preemptoff not tested in selftest

Due to the BKL not being preemptable anymore, the selftest of the
preemptoff code can not be tested. It requires that it is called
with preemption enabled, but since the BKL is held, that is no
longer the case.

This patch simply skips those tests if it detects that the context
is not preemptable. The following will now show up in the tests:

Testing tracer preemptoff: can not test ... force PASSED
Testing tracer preemptirqsoff: can not test ... force PASSED

When the BKL is removed, or it becomes preemptable once again, then
the tests will be performed.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-08 09:51:49 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
c76f06945b ftrace: remove trace array ctrl
Impact: remove obsolete variable in trace_array structure

With the new start / stop method of ftrace, the ctrl variable
in the trace_array structure is now obsolete. Remove it.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-08 09:51:39 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
bbf5b1a0ce ftrace: remove ctrl_update method
Impact: Remove the ctrl_update tracer method

With the new quick start/stop method of tracing, the ctrl_update
method is out of date.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-08 09:51:34 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
49833fc232 ftrace: enable trace_printk by default
Impact: have the ftrace_printk enabled on startup

It is confusing to have to "echo trace_printk > /debug/tracing/iter_ctrl"
after adding ftrace_printk in the kernel.

Currently the trace_printk is set to off by default. ftrace_printk
should only be in open kernel code when used for debugging, and thus
it should be enabled by default.

It may also be used to record data within a tracer, but those ftrace_printks
should be within wrappers that are either enabled by trace_points or
have a variable protecting the code path from being entered when the
tracer is disabled.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-08 09:51:29 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
4519317020 ftrace: irqsoff tracer incorrect reset
Impact: fix to irqsoff tracer output

In converting to the new start / stop ftrace handling, the irqsoff
tracer start called the irqsoff reset function. irqsoff tracer is
not the same as the other traces, and it resets the buffers while
searching for the longest latency.

The reset that the irqsoff stop method calls disables the function
tracing. That means that, by starting the tracer, the function
tracer is disabled incorrectly.

This patch simply removes the call to reset which keeps the function
tracing enabled. Reset is not needed for the irqsoff stop method.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-08 09:51:24 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
e168e0516e ftrace: fix sched_switch API
Impact: fix for sched_switch that broke dynamic ftrace startup

The commit: tracing/fastboot: use sched switch tracer from boot tracer
broke the API of the sched_switch trace. The use of the
tracing_start/stop_cmdline record is for only recording the cmdline,
NOT recording the schedule switches themselves.

Seeing that the boot tracer broke the API to do something that it
wanted, this patch adds a new interface for the API while
puting back the original interface of the old API.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-08 09:51:18 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
75f5c47da3 ftrace: fix boot trace sched startup
Impact: boot tracer startup modified

The boot tracer calls into some of the schedule tracing private functions
that should not be exported. This patch cleans it up, and makes
way for further changes in the ftrace infrastructure.

This patch adds a api to assign a tracer array to the schedule
context switch tracer.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-08 09:51:09 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
0183fb1c94 ftrace: fix set_ftrace_filter
Impact: fix of output of set_ftrace_filter

Commit ftrace: do not show freed records in available_filter_functions

Removed a bit too much from the set_ftrace_filter code, where we now see
all functions in the set_ftrace_filter file even when we set a filter.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-08 09:51:02 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
a6b0786f7f Merge branches 'tracing/ftrace', 'tracing/fastboot', 'tracing/nmisafe' and 'tracing/urgent' into tracing/core 2008-11-08 09:34:35 +01:00
Li Zefan
6d21cd6251 sched: clean up SCHED_CPUMASK_ALLOC
Impact: cleanup

The #if/#endif is ugly. Change SCHED_CPUMASK_ALLOC and
SCHED_CPUMASK_FREE to static inline functions.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-07 10:30:35 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
258594a138 Merge branch 'sched/urgent' into sched/core 2008-11-07 10:29:58 +01:00
Li Zefan
ca3273f964 sched: fix memory leak in a failure path
Impact: fix rare memory leak in the sched-domains manual reconfiguration code

In the failure path, rd is not attached to a sched domain,
so it causes a leak.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-07 08:29:58 +01:00
Li Zefan
f29c9b1ccb sched: fix a bug in sched domain degenerate
Impact: re-add incorrectly eliminated sched domain layers

(1) on i386 with SCHED_SMT and SCHED_MC enabled
	# mount -t cgroup -o cpuset xxx /mnt
	# echo 0 > /mnt/cpuset.sched_load_balance
	# mkdir /mnt/0
	# echo 0 > /mnt/0/cpuset.cpus
	# dmesg
	CPU0 attaching sched-domain:
	 domain 0: span 0 level CPU
	  groups: 0

(2) on i386 with SCHED_MC enabled but SCHED_SMT disabled
	# same with (1)
	# dmesg
	CPU0 attaching NULL sched-domain.

The bug is that some sched domains may be skipped unintentionally when
degenerating (optimizing) sched domains.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-07 08:29:57 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
e252f4db18 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block:
  Block: use round_jiffies_up()
  Add round_jiffies_up and related routines
  block: fix __blkdev_get() for removable devices
  generic-ipi: fix the smp_mb() placement
  blk: move blk_delete_timer call in end_that_request_last
  block: add timer on blkdev_dequeue_request() not elv_next_request()
  bio: define __BIOVEC_PHYS_MERGEABLE
  block: remove unused ll_new_mergeable()
2008-11-06 15:53:47 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
067ab19923 Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  sched: re-tune balancing
  sched: fix buddies for group scheduling
  sched: backward looking buddy
  sched: fix fair preempt check
  sched: cleanup fair task selection
2008-11-06 15:45:40 -08:00
Li Zefan
24eb089950 cgroups: fix invalid cgrp->dentry before cgroup has been completely removed
This fixes an oops when reading /proc/sched_debug.

A cgroup won't be removed completely until finishing cgroup_diput(), so we
shouldn't invalidate cgrp->dentry in cgroup_rmdir().  Otherwise, when a
group is being removed while cgroup_path() gets called, we may trigger
NULL dereference BUG.

The bug can be reproduced:

 # cat test.sh
 #!/bin/sh
 mount -t cgroup -o cpu xxx /mnt
 for (( ; ; ))
 {
	mkdir /mnt/sub
	rmdir /mnt/sub
 }
 # ./test.sh &
 # cat /proc/sched_debug

BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000038
IP: [<c045a47f>] cgroup_path+0x39/0x90
...
Call Trace:
 [<c0420344>] ? print_cfs_rq+0x6e/0x75d
 [<c0421160>] ? sched_debug_show+0x72d/0xc1e
...

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>		[2.6.26.x, 2.6.27.x]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-11-06 15:41:19 -08:00
Sripathi Kodi
cf7f8690e8 sched, lockdep: inline double_unlock_balance()
We have a test case which measures the variation in the amount of time
needed to perform a fixed amount of work on the preempt_rt kernel. We
started seeing deterioration in it's performance recently. The test
should never take more than 10 microseconds, but we started 5-10%
failure rate.

Using elimination method, we traced the problem to commit
1b12bbc747 (lockdep: re-annotate
scheduler runqueues).

When LOCKDEP is disabled, this patch only adds an additional function
call to double_unlock_balance(). Hence I inlined double_unlock_balance()
and the problem went away. Here is a patch to make this change.

Signed-off-by: Sripathi Kodi <sripathik@in.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-06 22:12:09 +01:00
Rusty Russell
2d3854a37e cpumask: introduce new API, without changing anything
Impact: introduce new APIs

We want to deprecate cpumasks on the stack, as we are headed for
gynormous numbers of CPUs.  Eventually, we want to head towards an
undefined 'struct cpumask' so they can never be declared on stack.

1) New cpumask functions which take pointers instead of copies.
   (cpus_* -> cpumask_*)

2) Several new helpers to reduce requirements for temporary cpumasks
   (cpumask_first_and, cpumask_next_and, cpumask_any_and)

3) Helpers for declaring cpumasks on or offstack for large NR_CPUS
   (cpumask_var_t, alloc_cpumask_var and free_cpumask_var)

4) 'struct cpumask' for explicitness and to mark new-style code.

5) Make iterator functions stop at nr_cpu_ids (a runtime constant),
   not NR_CPUS for time efficiency and for smaller dynamic allocations
   in future.

6) cpumask_copy() so we can allocate less than a full cpumask eventually
   (for alloc_cpumask_var), and so we can eliminate the 'struct cpumask'
   definition eventually.

7) work_on_cpu() helper for doing task on a CPU, rather than saving old
   cpumask for current thread and manipulating it.

8) smp_call_function_many() which is smp_call_function_mask() except
   taking a cpumask pointer.

Note that this patch simply introduces the new functions and leaves
the obsolescent ones in place.  This is to simplify the transition
patches.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-06 09:05:33 +01:00
Alan Stern
9c133c469d Add round_jiffies_up and related routines
This patch (as1158b) adds round_jiffies_up() and friends.  These
routines work like the analogous round_jiffies() functions, except
that they will never round down.

The new routines will be useful for timeouts where we don't care
exactly when the timer expires, provided it doesn't expire too soon.

Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-11-06 08:42:48 +01:00
Suresh Siddha
561920a0d2 generic-ipi: fix the smp_mb() placement
smp_mb() is needed (to make the memory operations visible globally) before
sending the ipi on the sender and the receiver (on Alpha atleast) needs
smp_read_barrier_depends() in the handler before reading the call_single_queue
list in a lock-free fashion.

On x86, x2apic mode register accesses for sending IPI's don't have serializing
semantics. So the need for smp_mb() before sending the IPI becomes more
critical in x2apic mode.

Remove the unnecessary smp_mb() in csd_flag_wait(), as the presence of that
smp_mb() doesn't mean anything on the sender, when the ipi receiver is not
doing any thing special (like memory fence) after clearing the CSD_FLAG_WAIT.

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-11-06 08:41:56 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
3e03fb7f1d ring-buffer: convert to raw spinlocks
Impact: no lockdep debugging of ring buffer

The problem with running lockdep on the ring buffer is that the
ring buffer is the core infrastructure of ftrace. What happens is
that the tracer will start tracing the lockdep code while lockdep
is testing the ring buffers locks.  This can cause lockdep to
fail due to testing cases that have not fully finished their
locking transition.

This patch converts the spin locks used by the ring buffer back
into raw spin locks which lockdep does not check.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-06 07:51:09 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
9036990d46 ftrace: restructure tracing start/stop infrastructure
Impact: change where tracing is started up and stopped

Currently, when a new tracer is selected via echo'ing a tracer name into
the current_tracer file, the startup is only done if tracing_enabled is
set to one. If tracing_enabled is changed to zero (by echo'ing 0 into
the tracing_enabled file) a full shutdown is performed.

The full startup and shutdown of a tracer can be expensive and the
user can lose out traces when echo'ing in 0 to the tracing_enabled file,
because the process takes too long. There can also be places that
the user would like to start and stop the tracer several times and
doing the full startup and shutdown of a tracer might be too expensive.

This patch performs the full startup and shutdown when a tracer is
selected. It also adds a way to do a quick start or stop of a tracer.
The quick version is just a flag that prevents the tracing from
taking place, but the overhead of the code is still there.

For example, the startup of a tracer may enable tracepoints, or enable
the function tracer.  The stop and start will just set a flag to
have the tracer ignore the calls when the tracepoint or function trace
is called.  The overhead of the tracer may still be present when
the tracer is stopped, but no tracing will occur. Setting the tracer
to the 'nop' tracer (or any other tracer) will perform the shutdown
of the tracer which will disable the tracepoint or disable the
function tracer.

The tracing_enabled file will simply start or stop tracing.

This change is all internal. The end result for the user should be the same
as before. If tracing_enabled is not set, no trace will happen.
If tracing_enabled is set, then the trace will happen. The tracing_enabled
variable is static between tracers. Enabling  tracing_enabled and
going to another tracer will keep tracing_enabled enabled. Same
is true with disabling tracing_enabled.

This patch will now provide a fast start/stop method to the users
for enabling or disabling tracing.

Note: There were two methods to the struct tracer that were never
 used: The methods start and stop. These were to be used as a hook
 to the reading of the trace output, but ended up not being
 necessary. These two methods are now used to enable the start
 and stop of each tracer, in case the tracer needs to do more than
 just not write into the buffer. For example, the irqsoff tracer
 must stop recording max latencies when tracing is stopped.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-06 07:51:03 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
0f04870148 ftrace: soft tracing stop and start
Impact: add way to quickly start stop tracing from the kernel

This patch adds a soft stop and start to the trace. This simply
disables function tracing via the ftrace_disabled flag, and
disables the trace buffers to prevent recording. The tracing
code may still be executed, but the trace will not be recorded.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-06 07:50:57 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
60a7ecf426 ftrace: add quick function trace stop
Impact: quick start and stop of function tracer

This patch adds a way to disable the function tracer quickly without
the need to run kstop_machine. It adds a new variable called
function_trace_stop which will stop the calls to functions from mcount
when set.  This is just an on/off switch and does not handle recursion
like preempt_disable().

It's main purpose is to help other tracers/debuggers start and stop tracing
fuctions without the need to call kstop_machine.

The config option HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACE_MCOUNT_TEST is added for archs
that implement the testing of the function_trace_stop in the mcount
arch dependent code. Otherwise, the test is done in the C code.

x86 is the only arch at the moment that supports this.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-06 07:50:51 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
79c81d220c Merge branch 'tracing/fastboot' into tracing/ftrace 2008-11-06 07:43:47 +01:00
Serge E. Hallyn
1f29fae297 file capabilities: add no_file_caps switch (v4)
Add a no_file_caps boot option when file capabilities are
compiled into the kernel (CONFIG_SECURITY_FILE_CAPABILITIES=y).

This allows distributions to ship a kernel with file capabilities
compiled in, without forcing users to use (and understand and
trust) them.

When no_file_caps is specified at boot, then when a process executes
a file, any file capabilities stored with that file will not be
used in the calculation of the process' new capability sets.

This means that booting with the no_file_caps boot option will
not be the same as booting a kernel with file capabilities
compiled out - in particular a task with  CAP_SETPCAP will not
have any chance of passing capabilities to another task (which
isn't "really" possible anyway, and which may soon by killed
altogether by David Howells in any case), and it will instead
be able to put new capabilities in its pI.  However since fI
will always be empty and pI is masked with fI, it gains the
task nothing.

We also support the extra prctl options, setting securebits and
dropping capabilities from the per-process bounding set.

The other remaining difference is that killpriv, task_setscheduler,
setioprio, and setnice will continue to be hooked.  That will
be noticable in the case where a root task changed its uid
while keeping some caps, and another task owned by the new uid
tries to change settings for the more privileged task.

Changelog:
	Nov 05 2008: (v4) trivial port on top of always-start-\
		with-clear-caps patch
	Sep 23 2008: nixed file_caps_enabled when file caps are
		not compiled in as it isn't used.
		Document no_file_caps in kernel-parameters.txt.

Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Andrew G. Morgan <morgan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-11-06 07:14:51 +08:00
Peter Zijlstra
02479099c2 sched: fix buddies for group scheduling
Impact: scheduling order fix for group scheduling

For each level in the hierarchy, set the buddy to point to the right entity.
Therefore, when we do the hierarchical schedule, we have a fair chance of
ending up where we meant to.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-05 10:30:15 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra
4793241be4 sched: backward looking buddy
Impact: improve/change/fix wakeup-buddy scheduling

Currently we only have a forward looking buddy, that is, we prefer to
schedule to the task we last woke up, under the presumption that its
going to consume the data we just produced, and therefore will have
cache hot benefits.

This allows co-waking producer/consumer task pairs to run ahead of the
pack for a little while, keeping their cache warm. Without this, we
would interleave all pairs, utterly trashing the cache.

This patch introduces a backward looking buddy, that is, suppose that
in the above scenario, the consumer preempts the producer before it
can go to sleep, we will therefore miss the wakeup from consumer to
producer (its already running, after all), breaking the cycle and
reverting to the cache-trashing interleaved schedule pattern.

The backward buddy will try to schedule back to the task that woke us
up in case the forward buddy is not available, under the assumption
that the last task will be the one with the most cache hot task around
barring current.

This will basically allow a task to continue after it got preempted.

In order to avoid starvation, we allow either buddy to get wakeup_gran
ahead of the pack.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-05 10:30:14 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra
d95f98d069 sched: fix fair preempt check
Impact: fix cross-class preemption

Inter-class wakeup preemptions should go on class order.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-05 10:30:13 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra
f4b6755fb3 sched: cleanup fair task selection
Impact: cleanup

Clean up task selection

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-05 10:30:13 +01:00
Eric Anholt
072ba49838 ftrace: fix breakage in bin_fmt results
In 777e208d40 we changed from outputting
field->cpu (a char) to iter->cpu (unsigned int), increasing the resulting
structure size by 3 bytes.

Signed-off-by: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-05 10:22:42 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker
79a9d461fd tracing/ftrace: fix a bug when switch current tracer to sched tracer
Impact: fix boot tracer + sched tracer coupling bug

Fix a bug that made the sched_switch tracer unable to run
if set as the current_tracer after the boot tracer.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-04 17:14:08 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker
efade6e782 tracing/ftrace: types and naming corrections for sched tracer
Impact: cleanup

This patch applies some corrections suggested by Steven Rostedt.

Change the type of shed_ref into int since it is used
into a Mutex, we don't need it anymore as an atomic
variable in the sched_switch tracer.
Also change the name of the register mutex.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-04 17:14:07 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker
d7ad44b697 tracing/fastboot: use sched switch tracer from boot tracer
Impact: enhance boot trace output with scheduling events

Use the sched_switch tracer from the boot tracer.

We also can trace schedule events inside the initcalls.
Sched tracing is disabled after the initcall has finished and
then reenabled before the next one is started.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-04 17:14:06 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker
e55f605c14 tracing/ftrace: remove unused code in sched_switch tracer
Impact: cleanup

When init_sched_switch_trace() is called, it has no reason to start
the sched tracer if the sched_ref is not zero.

_ If this is non-zero, the tracer is already used, but we can register it
to the tracing engine. There is already a security which avoid the tracer
probes not to be resgistered twice.

_ If this is zero, this block will not be used.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-04 17:14:05 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker
07695fa04e tracing/ftrace: fix a race condition in sched_switch tracer
Impact: fix race condition in sched_switch tracer

This patch fixes a race condition in the sched_switch tracer. If
several tasks (IE: concurrent initcalls) are playing with
tracing_start_cmdline_record() and tracing_stop_cmdline_record(), the
following situation could happen:

_ Task A and B are using the same tracepoint probe. Task A holds it.
  Task B is sleeping and doesn't hold it.

_ Task A frees the sched tracer, then sched_ref is decremented to 0.

_ Task A is preempted and hadn't yet unregistered its tracepoint
  probe, then B runs.

_ B increments sched_ref, sees it's 1 and then guess it has to
  register its probe. But it has not been freed by task A.

_ A lot of bad things can happen after that...

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-04 17:14:04 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker
71566a0d16 tracing/fastboot: Enable boot tracing only during initcalls
Impact: modify boot tracer

We used to disable the initcall tracing at a specified time (IE: end
of builtin initcalls). But we don't need it anymore. It will be
stopped when initcalls are finished.

However we want two things:

_Start this tracing only after pre-smp initcalls are finished.

_Since we are planning to trace sched_switches at the same time, we
want to enable them only during the initcall execution.

For this purpose, this patch introduce two functions to enable/disable
the sched_switch tracing during boot.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-04 17:14:02 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra
3299b4dd11 ftrace: sysctl typo
Impact: fix sysctl name typo

Steve must have needed more coffee ;-)

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-04 13:04:40 +01:00
Li Zefan
faa2f98f85 sched: add sanity check in partition_sched_domains()
Impact: cleanup, add debug check

It's wrong to make dattr_new = NULL if doms_new == NULL, it introduces
memory leak if dattr_new != NULL. Fortunately dattr_new is always NULL
in this case. So remove the code and add a sanity check.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-04 10:25:13 +01:00
Li Zefan
a17e226092 sched: remove redundant call to unregister_sched_domain_sysctl()
Impact: cleanup

The sysctl has been unregistered by partition_sched_domains().

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-04 10:23:42 +01:00
Li Zefan
0a0db8f5c9 sched debug: remove NULL checking in print_cfs/rt_rq()
Impact: cleanup

cfs->tg is initialized in init_tg_cfs_entry() with tg != NULL, and
will never be invalidated to NULL. And the underlying cgroup of a
valid task_group is always valid.

Same for rt->tg.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-04 10:23:18 +01:00
Li Zefan
eefd796a8e sched debug: remove sd_level_to_string()
Impact: cleanup

Just use the newly introduced sd->name.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-04 10:21:49 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
b2a866f934 ftrace: function tracer with irqs disabled
Impact: disable interrupts during trace entry creation (as opposed to preempt)

To help with performance, I set the ftracer to not disable interrupts,
and only to disable preemption. If an interrupt occurred, it would not
be traced, because the function tracer protects itself from recursion.
This may be faster, but the trace output might miss some traces.

This patch makes the fuction trace disable interrupts, but it also
adds a runtime feature to disable preemption instead. It does this by
having two different tracer functions. When the function tracer is
enabled, it will check to see which version is requested (irqs disabled
or preemption disabled). Then it will use the corresponding function
as the tracer.

Irq disabling is the default behaviour, but if the user wants better
performance, with the chance of missing traces, then they can choose
the preempt disabled version.

Running hackbench 3 times with the irqs disabled and 3 times with
the preempt disabled function tracer yielded:

tracing type       times            entries recorded
------------      --------          ----------------
irq disabled      43.393            166433066
                  43.282            166172618
                  43.298            166256704

preempt disabled  38.969            159871710
                  38.943            159972935
                  39.325            161056510

Average:

   irqs disabled:  43.324           166287462
preempt disabled:  39.079           160300385

 preempt is 10.8 percent faster than irqs disabled.

I wrote a patch to count function trace recursion and reran hackbench.

With irq disabled: 1,150 times the function tracer did not trace due to
  recursion.
with preempt disabled: 5,117,718 times.

The thousand times with irq disabled could be due to NMIs, or simply a case
where it called a function that was not protected by notrace.

But we also see that a large amount of the trace is lost with the
preempt version.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-04 10:09:50 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
182e9f5f70 ftrace: insert in the ftrace_preempt_disable()/enable() functions
Impact: use new, consolidated APIs in ftrace plugins

This patch replaces the schedule safe preempt disable code with the
ftrace_preempt_disable() and ftrace_preempt_enable() safe functions.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-04 10:09:49 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
8f0a056fcb ftrace: introduce ftrace_preempt_disable()/enable()
Impact: add new ftrace-plugin internal APIs

Parts of the tracer needs to be careful about schedule recursion.
If the NEED_RESCHED flag is set, a preempt_enable will call schedule.
Inside the schedule function, the NEED_RESCHED flag is cleared.

The problem arises when a trace happens in the schedule function but before
NEED_RESCHED is cleared. The race is as follows:

schedule()
  >> tracer called

    trace_function()
       preempt_disable()
       [ record trace ]
       preempt_enable()  <<- here's the issue.

         [check NEED_RESCHED]
          schedule()
          [ Repeat the above, over and over again ]

The naive approach is simply to use preempt_enable_no_schedule instead.
The problem with that approach is that, although we solve the schedule
recursion issue, we now might lose a preemption check when not in the
schedule function.

  trace_function()
    preempt_disable()
    [ record trace ]
    [Interrupt comes in and sets NEED_RESCHED]
    preempt_enable_no_resched()
    [continue without scheduling]

The way ftrace handles this problem is with the following approach:

	int resched;

	resched = need_resched();
	preempt_disable_notrace();
	[record trace]
	if (resched)
		preempt_enable_no_sched_notrace();
	else
		preempt_enable_notrace();

This may seem like the opposite of what we want. If resched is set
then we call the "no_sched" version??  The reason we do this is because
if NEED_RESCHED is set before we disable preemption, there's two reasons
for that:

  1) we are in an atomic code path
  2) we are already on our way to the schedule function, and maybe even
     in the schedule function, but have yet to clear the flag.

Both the above cases we do not want to schedule.

This solution has already been implemented within the ftrace infrastructure.
But the problem is that it has been implemented several times. This patch
encapsulates this code to two nice functions.

  resched = ftrace_preempt_disable();
  [ record trace]
  ftrace_preempt_enable(resched);

This way the tracers do not need to worry about getting it right.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-04 10:09:48 +01:00
Dimitri Sivanich
e113a745f6 sched/rt: small optimization to update_curr_rt()
Impact: micro-optimization to SCHED_FIFO/RR scheduling

A very minor improvement, but might it be better to check sched_rt_runtime(rt_rq)
before taking the rt_runtime_lock?

Peter Zijlstra observes:

> Yes, I think its ok to do so.
>
> Like pointed out in the other thread, there are two races:
>
>  - sched_rt_runtime() going to RUNTIME_INF, and that will be handled
>    properly by sched_rt_runtime_exceeded()
>
>  - sched_rt_runtime() going to !RUNTIME_INF, and here we can miss an
>    accounting cycle, but I don't think that is something to worry too
>    much about.

Signed-off-by: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

--

 kernel/sched_rt.c |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
2008-11-03 11:29:00 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
818e3dd30a tracing, ring-buffer: add paranoid checks for loops
While writing a new tracer, I had a bug where I caused the ring-buffer
to recurse in a bad way. The bug was with the tracer I was writing
and not the ring-buffer itself. But it took a long time to find the
problem.

This patch adds paranoid checks into the ring-buffer infrastructure
that will catch bugs of this nature.

Note: I put the bug back in the tracer and this patch showed the error
      nicely and prevented the lockup.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-03 11:10:04 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
b3aa557722 ftrace: use kretprobe trampoline name to test in output
Impact: ia64+tracing build fix

When a function is kprobed, the return address is set to the
kprobe_trampoline, or something similar. This caused the output
of the trace to look confusing when the parent seemed to be this
"kprobe_trampoline" function.

To fix this, Abhishek Sagar added a test of the instruction pointer
of the parent to see if it matched the kprobe_trampoline. If it
did, the output would print a "[unknown/kretprobe'd]" instead.

Unfortunately, not all archs do this the same way, and the trampoline
function may not be exported, which causes failures in builds.

This patch will compare the name instead of the pointer to see
if it matches. This prevents us from depending on a function from
being exported, and should work on all archs. The worst that can
happen is that an arch might use a different name and then we
go back to the confusing output. At least the arch will still build.

Reported-by: Abhishek Sagar <sagar.abhishek@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Tested-by: Abhishek Sagar <sagar.abhishek@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Abhishek Sagar <sagar.abhishek@gmail.com>
2008-11-03 10:41:29 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
7a895f53cd Merge branches 'tracing/ftrace', 'tracing/markers', 'tracing/mmiotrace', 'tracing/nmisafe', 'tracing/tracepoints' and 'tracing/urgent' into tracing/core 2008-11-03 10:34:23 +01:00
Lai Jiangshan
127cafbb27 tracepoint: introduce *_noupdate APIs.
Impact: add new tracepoint APIs to allow the batched registration of probes

new APIs separate tracepoint_probe_register(),
tracepoint_probe_unregister() into 2 steps. The first step of them
is just update tracepoint_entry, not connect or disconnect.

this patch introduces tracepoint_probe_update_all() for update all.

these APIs are very useful for registering lots of probes
but just updating once. Another very important thing is that
*_noupdate APIs do not require module_mutex.

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-03 10:28:52 +01:00
Lai Jiangshan
19dba33c43 tracepoint: simplification for tracepoints using RCU
Impact: simplify implementation

Now, unused memory is handled by struct tp_probes.

old code use these three field to handle unused memory.
struct tracepoint_entry {
	...
	struct rcu_head rcu;
	void *oldptr;
	unsigned char rcu_pending:1;
	...
};

in this way, unused memory is handled by struct tracepoint_entry.
it bring reenter bug(it was fixed) and tracepoint.c is filled
full of ".*rcu.*" code statements. this patch removes all these.

and:
  rcu_barrier_sched() is removed.
  Do not need regain tracepoints_mutex after tracepoint_update_probes()
  several little cleanup.

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-03 10:28:30 +01:00