The new snapshot feature is quite handy. It's a way for the user
to take advantage of the spare buffer that, until then, only
the latency tracers used to "snapshot" the buffer when it hit
a max latency. Now users can trigger a "snapshot" manually when
some condition is hit in a program. But a snapshot currently can
not be triggered by a condition inside the kernel.
With the addition of tracing_snapshot() and tracing_snapshot_alloc(),
snapshots can now be taking when a condition is hit, and the
developer wants to snapshot the case without stopping the trace.
Note, any snapshot will overwrite the old one, so take care
in how this is done.
These new functions are to be used like tracing_on(), tracing_off()
and trace_printk() are. That is, they should never be called
in the mainline Linux kernel. They are solely for the purpose
of debugging.
The tracing_snapshot() will not allocate a buffer, but it is
safe to be called from any context (except NMIs). But if a
snapshot buffer isn't allocated when it is called, it will write
to the live buffer, complaining about the lack of a snapshot
buffer, and then stop tracing (giving you the "permanent snapshot").
tracing_snapshot_alloc() will allocate the snapshot buffer if
it was not already allocated and then take the snapshot. This routine
*may sleep*, and must be called from context that can sleep.
The allocation is done with GFP_KERNEL and not atomic.
If you need a snapshot in an atomic context, say in early boot,
then it is best to call the tracing_snapshot_alloc() before then,
where it will allocate the buffer, and then you can use the
tracing_snapshot() anywhere you want and still get snapshots.
Cc: Hiraku Toyooka <hiraku.toyooka.gu@hitachi.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Add a ref count to the trace_array structure and prevent removal
of instances that have open descriptors.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Add the per_cpu directory to the created tracing instances:
cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/instances
mkdir foo
ls foo/per_cpu/cpu0
buffer_size_kb snapshot_raw trace trace_pipe_raw
snapshot stats trace_pipe
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Add the "snapshot" file to the the multi-buffer instances.
cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/instances
mkdir foo
ls foo
buffer_size_kb buffer_total_size_kb events free_buffer set_event
snapshot trace trace_clock trace_marker trace_options trace_pipe
tracing_on
cat foo/snapshot
# tracer: nop
#
#
# * Snapshot is freed *
#
# Snapshot commands:
# echo 0 > snapshot : Clears and frees snapshot buffer
# echo 1 > snapshot : Allocates snapshot buffer, if not already allocated.
# Takes a snapshot of the main buffer.
# echo 2 > snapshot : Clears snapshot buffer (but does not allocate)
# (Doesn't have to be '2' works with any number that
# is not a '0' or '1')
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
There's a bit of duplicate code in creating the trace buffers for
the normal trace buffer and the max trace buffer among the instances
and the main global_trace. This code can be consolidated and cleaned
up a bit making the code cleaner and more readable as well as less
duplication.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The snapshot buffer belongs to the trace array not the tracer that is
running. The trace array should be the data structure that keeps track
of whether or not the snapshot buffer is allocated, not the tracer
desciptor. Having the trace array keep track of it makes modifications
so much easier.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Add a 'snapshot_raw' per_cpu file that allows tools to read the raw
binary data of the snapshot buffer.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
When the preempt or irq latency tracers are enabled, they require
the ring buffer to be able to swap the per cpu sub buffers between
two main buffers. This adds a slight overhead to tracing as the
trace recording needs to perform some checks to synchronize
between recording and swaps that might be happening on other CPUs.
The config RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP is set when a user of the ring
buffer needs the "swap cpu" feature, otherwise the extra checks
are not implemented and removed from the tracing overhead.
The snapshot feature will swap per CPU if the RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP
config is set. But that only gets set by things like OPROFILE
and the irqs and preempt latency tracers.
This config is added to let the user decide to include this feature
with the snapshot agnostic from whether or not another user of
the ring buffer sets this config.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Add the snapshot file into the per_cpu tracing directories to allow
them to be read for an individual cpu. This also allows to clear
an individual cpu from the snapshot buffer.
If the kernel allows it (CONFIG_RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP is set), then
echoing in '1' into one of the per_cpu snapshot files will do an
individual cpu buffer swap instead of the entire file.
Cc: Hiraku Toyooka <hiraku.toyooka.gu@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Currently, the way the latency tracers and snapshot feature works
is to have a separate trace_array called "max_tr" that holds the
snapshot buffer. For latency tracers, this snapshot buffer is used
to swap the running buffer with this buffer to save the current max
latency.
The only items needed for the max_tr is really just a copy of the buffer
itself, the per_cpu data pointers, the time_start timestamp that states
when the max latency was triggered, and the cpu that the max latency
was triggered on. All other fields in trace_array are unused by the
max_tr, making the max_tr mostly bloat.
This change removes the max_tr completely, and adds a new structure
called trace_buffer, that holds the buffer pointer, the per_cpu data
pointers, the time_start timestamp, and the cpu where the latency occurred.
The trace_array, now has two trace_buffers, one for the normal trace and
one for the max trace or snapshot. By doing this, not only do we remove
the bloat from the max_trace but the instances of traces can now use
their own snapshot feature and not have just the top level global_trace have
the snapshot feature and latency tracers for itself.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The snapshot utility is extremely useful, and does not add any more
overhead in memory when another latency tracer is enabled. They use
the snapshot underneath. There's no reason to hide the snapshot file
when a latency tracer has been enabled in the kernel.
If any of the latency tracers (irq, preempt or wakeup) is enabled
then also select the snapshot facility.
Note, snapshot can be enabled without the latency tracers enabled.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Currently we do not know what buffer a module event was enabled in.
On unload, it is safest to clear all buffer instances, not just the
top level buffer.
Todo: Clear only the buffer that the event was used in. The
infrastructure is there to do this, but it makes the code a bit
more complex. Lets get the current code vetted before we add that.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Currently, when a module with events is unloaded, the trace buffer is
cleared. This is just a safety net in case the module might have some
strange callback when its event is outputted. But there's no reason
to reset the buffer if the module didn't have any of its events traced.
Add a flag to the event "call" structure called WAS_ENABLED and gets set
when the event is ever enabled, and this flag never gets cleared. When a
module gets unloaded, if any of its events have this flag set, then the
trace buffer will get cleared.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The move of blocked readers to the ring buffer left out the
init of the wait queue that is used. Tests missed this due to running
stress tests against the buffers, which didn't allow for any
readers to end up waiting. Running a simple read and wait triggered
a bug.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
As we've added __init annotation to field-defining functions, we should
add __refdata annotation to event_call variables, which reference those
functions.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/51343C1F.2050502@huawei.com
Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The new multi-buffers added a descriptor that kept track of module
events, and the directories they use, with struct ftace_module_file_ops.
This is used to add a ref count to keep modules from unloading while
their files are being accessed.
As the descriptor is only needed when CONFIG_MODULES is enabled, it
is only declared when the config is enabled. But that struct is
dereferenced in a few areas outside the #ifdef CONFIG_MODULES.
By adding some helper routines and moving code around a little,
events can be compiled again without modules.
Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
With the conversion of the data array to per cpu, sparse now complains
about the use of per_cpu_ptr() on the variable. But The variable is
allocated with alloc_percpu() and is fine to use. But since the structure
that contains the data variable does not annotate it as such, sparse
gives out a lot of false warnings.
Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
These two functions are called during kernel boot only.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/51258796.7020704@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Move duplicate code in event print functions to a helper function.
This shrinks the size of the kernel by ~13K.
text data bss dec hex filename
6596137 1743966 10138672 18478775 119f6b7 vmlinux.o.old
6583002 1743849 10138672 18465523 119c2f3 vmlinux.o.new
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/51258746.2060304@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Move the logic to wake up on ring buffer data into the ring buffer
code itself. This simplifies the tracing code a lot and also has the
added benefit that waiters on one of the instance buffers can be woken
only when data is added to that instance instead of data added to
any instance.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
If the ring buffer is empty, a read to trace_pipe_raw wont block.
The tracing code has the infrastructure to wake up waiting readers,
but the trace_pipe_raw doesn't take advantage of that.
When a read is done to trace_pipe_raw without the O_NONBLOCK flag
set, have the read block until there's data in the requested buffer.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The trace_pipe_raw never implemented polling and this was casing
issues for several utilities. This is now implemented.
Blocked reads still are on the TODO list.
Reported-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Currently only the splice NONBLOCK flag is checked to determine if
the splice read should block or not. But the file descriptor NONBLOCK
flag also needs to be checked.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The names used to display the field and type in the event format
files are copied, as well as the system name that is displayed.
All these names are created by constant values passed in.
If one of theses values were to be removed by a module, the module
would also be required to remove any event it created.
By using the strings directly, we can save over 100K of memory.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The event structures used by the trace events are mostly persistent,
but they are also allocated by kmalloc, which is not the best at
allocating space for what is used. By converting these kmallocs
into kmem_cache_allocs, we can save over 50K of space that is
permanently allocated.
After boot we have:
slab name active allocated size
--------- ------ --------- ----
ftrace_event_file 979 1005 56 67 1
ftrace_event_field 2301 2310 48 77 1
The ftrace_event_file has at boot up 979 active objects out of
1005 allocated in the slabs. Each object is 56 bytes. In a normal
kmalloc, that would allocate 64 bytes for each object.
1005 - 979 = 26 objects not used
26 * 56 = 1456 bytes wasted
But if we used kmalloc:
64 - 56 = 8 bytes unused per allocation
8 * 979 = 7832 bytes wasted
7832 - 1456 = 6376 bytes in savings
Doing the same for ftrace_event_field where there's 2301 objects
allocated in a slab that can hold 2310 with 48 bytes each we have:
2310 - 2301 = 9 objects not used
9 * 48 = 432 bytes wasted
A kmalloc would also use 64 bytes per object:
64 - 48 = 16 bytes unused per allocation
16 * 2301 = 36816 bytes wasted!
36816 - 432 = 36384 bytes in savings
This change gives us a total of 42760 bytes in savings. At least
on my machine, but as there's a lot of these persistent objects
for all configurations that use trace points, this is a net win.
Thanks to Ezequiel Garcia for his trace_analyze presentation which
pointed out the wasted space in my code.
Cc: Ezequiel Garcia <elezegarcia@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
With the new descriptors used to allow multiple buffers in the
tracing directory added, the kernel command line parameter
trace_events=... no longer works. This is because the top level
(global) trace array now has a list of descriptors associated
with the events and the files in the debugfs directory. But in
early bootup, when the command line is processed and the events
enabled, the trace array list of events has not been set up yet.
Without the list of events in the trace array, the setting of
events to record will fail because it would not match any events.
The solution is to set up the top level array in two stages.
The first is to just add the ftrace file descriptors that just point
to the events. This will allow events to be enabled and start tracing.
The second stage is called after the filesystem is set up, and this
stage will create the debugfs event files and directories associated
with the trace array events.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Add a method to the hijacked dentry descriptor of the
"instances" directory to allow for rmdir to remove an
instance of a multibuffer.
Example:
cd /debug/tracing/instances
mkdir hello
ls
hello/
rmdir hello
ls
Like the mkdir method, the i_mutex is dropped for the instances
directory. The instances directory is created at boot up and can
not be renamed or removed. The trace_types_lock mutex is used to
synchronize adding and removing of instances.
I've run several stress tests with different threads trying to
create and delete directories of the same name, and it has stood
up fine.
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Add the interface ("instances" directory) to add multiple buffers
to ftrace. To create a new instance, simply do a mkdir in the
instances directory:
This will create a directory with the following:
# cd instances
# mkdir foo
# ls foo
buffer_size_kb free_buffer trace_clock trace_pipe
buffer_total_size_kb set_event trace_marker tracing_enabled
events/ trace trace_options tracing_on
Currently only events are able to be set, and there isn't a way
to delete a buffer when one is created (yet).
Note, the i_mutex lock is dropped from the parent "instances"
directory during the mkdir operation. As the "instances" directory
can not be renamed or deleted (created on boot), I do not see
any harm in dropping the lock. The creation of the sub directories
is protected by trace_types_lock mutex, which only lets one
instance get into the code path at a time. If two tasks try to
create or delete directories of the same name, only one will occur
and the other will fail with -EEXIST.
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Currently the syscall events record into the global buffer. But if
multiple buffers are in place, then we need to have syscall events
record in the proper buffers.
By adding descriptors to pass to the syscall event functions, the
syscall events can now record into the buffers that have been assigned
to them (one event may be applied to mulitple buffers).
This will allow tracing high volume syscalls along with seldom occurring
syscalls without losing the seldom syscall events.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The global and max-tr currently use static per_cpu arrays for the CPU data
descriptors. But in order to get new allocated trace_arrays, they need to
be allocated per_cpu arrays. Instead of using the static arrays, switch
the global and max-tr to use allocated data.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Pass the struct ftrace_event_file *ftrace_file to the
trace_event_buffer_lock_reserve() (new function that replaces the
trace_current_buffer_lock_reserver()).
The ftrace_file holds a pointer to the trace_array that is in use.
In the case of multiple buffers with different trace_arrays, this
allows different events to be recorded into different buffers.
Also fixed some of the stale comments in include/trace/ftrace.h
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The global_trace variable in kernel/trace/trace.c has been kept 'static' and
local to that file so that it would not be used too much outside of that
file. This has paid off, even though there were lots of changes to make
the trace_array structure more generic (not depending on global_trace).
Removal of a lot of direct usages of global_trace is needed to be able to
create more trace_arrays such that we can add multiple buffers.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Both RING_BUFFER_ALL_CPUS and TRACE_PIPE_ALL_CPU are defined as
-1 and used to say that all the ring buffers are to be modified
or read (instead of just a single cpu, which would be >= 0).
There's no reason to keep TRACE_PIPE_ALL_CPU as it is also started
to be used for more than what it was created for, and now that
the ring buffer code added a generic RING_BUFFER_ALL_CPUS define,
we can clean up the trace code to use that instead and remove
the TRACE_PIPE_ALL_CPU macro.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The trace events for ftrace are all defined via global variables.
The arrays of events and event systems are linked to a global list.
This prevents multiple users of the event system (what to enable and
what not to).
By adding descriptors to represent the event/file relation, as well
as to which trace_array descriptor they are associated with, allows
for more than one set of events to be defined. Once the trace events
files have a link between the trace event and the trace_array they
are associated with, we can create multiple trace_arrays that can
record separate events in separate buffers.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The latency tracers require the buffers to be in overwrite mode,
otherwise they get screwed up. Force the buffers to stay in overwrite
mode when latency tracers are enabled.
Added a flag_changed() method to the tracer structure to allow
the tracers to see what flags are being changed, and also be able
to prevent the change from happing.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Changing the overwrite mode for the ring buffer via the trace
option only sets the normal buffer. But the snapshot buffer could
swap with it, and then the snapshot would be in non overwrite mode
and the normal buffer would be in overwrite mode, even though the
option flag states otherwise.
Keep the two buffers overwrite modes in sync.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Seems that the tracer flags have never been protected from
synchronous writes. Luckily, admins don't usually modify the
tracing flags via two different tasks. But if scripts were to
be used to modify them, then they could get corrupted.
Move the trace_types_lock that protects against tracers changing
to also protect the flags being set.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Because function tracing is very invasive, and can even trace
calls to rcu_read_lock(), RCU access in function tracing is done
with preempt_disable_notrace(). This requires a synchronize_sched()
for updates and not a synchronize_rcu().
Function probes (traceon, traceoff, etc) must be freed after
a synchronize_sched() after its entry has been removed from the
hash. But call_rcu() is used. Fix this by using call_rcu_sched().
Also fix the usage to use hlist_del_rcu() instead of hlist_del().
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Paul McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Although the swap is wrapped with a spin_lock, the assignment
of the temp buffer used to swap is not within that lock.
It needs to be moved into that lock, otherwise two swaps
happening on two different CPUs, can end up using the wrong
temp buffer to assign in the swap.
Luckily, all current callers of the swap function appear to have
their own locks. But in case something is added that allows two
different callers to call the swap, then there's a chance that
this race can trigger and corrupt the buffers.
New code is coming soon that will allow for this race to trigger.
I've Cc'd stable, so this bug will not show up if someone backports
one of the changes that can trigger this bug.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To use the tracing snapshot feature, writing a '1' into the snapshot
file causes the snapshot buffer to be allocated if it has not already
been allocated and dose a 'swap' with the main buffer, so that the
snapshot now contains what was in the main buffer, and the main buffer
now writes to what was the snapshot buffer.
To free the snapshot buffer, a '0' is written into the snapshot file.
To clear the snapshot buffer, any number but a '0' or '1' is written
into the snapshot file. But if the file is not allocated it returns
-EINVAL error code. This is rather pointless. It is better just to
do nothing and return success.
Acked-by: Hiraku Toyooka <hiraku.toyooka.gu@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
When cat'ing the snapshot file, instead of showing an empty trace
header like the trace file does, show how to use the snapshot
feature.
Also, this is a good place to show if the snapshot has been allocated
or not. Users may want to "pre allocate" the snapshot to have a fast
"swap" of the current buffer. Otherwise, a swap would be slow and might
fail as it would need to allocate the snapshot buffer, and that might
fail under tight memory constraints.
Here's what it looked like before:
# tracer: nop
#
# entries-in-buffer/entries-written: 0/0 #P:4
#
# _-----=> irqs-off
# / _----=> need-resched
# | / _---=> hardirq/softirq
# || / _--=> preempt-depth
# ||| / delay
# TASK-PID CPU# |||| TIMESTAMP FUNCTION
# | | | |||| | |
Here's what it looks like now:
# tracer: nop
#
#
# * Snapshot is freed *
#
# Snapshot commands:
# echo 0 > snapshot : Clears and frees snapshot buffer
# echo 1 > snapshot : Allocates snapshot buffer, if not already allocated.
# Takes a snapshot of the main buffer.
# echo 2 > snapshot : Clears snapshot buffer (but does not allocate)
# (Doesn't have to be '2' works with any number that
# is not a '0' or '1')
Acked-by: Hiraku Toyooka <hiraku.toyooka.gu@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The prompt to enable DYNAMIC_FTRACE (the ability to nop and
enable function tracing at run time) had a confusing statement:
"enable/disable ftrace tracepoints dynamically"
This was written before tracepoints were added to the kernel,
but now that tracepoints have been added, this is very confusing
and has confused people enough to give wrong information during
presentations.
Not only that, I looked at the help text, and it still references
that dreaded daemon that use to wake up once a second to update
the nop locations and brick NICs, that hasn't been around for over
five years.
Time to bring the text up to the current decade.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Ezequiel Garcia <elezegarcia@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Pull async changes from Tejun Heo:
"These are followups for the earlier deadlock issue involving async
ending up waiting for itself through block requesting module[1]. The
following changes are made by these commits.
- Instead of requesting default elevator on each request_queue init,
block now requests it once early during boot.
- Kmod triggers warning if invoked from an async worker.
- Async synchronization implementation has been reimplemented. It's
a lot simpler now."
* 'for-3.9-async' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq:
async: initialise list heads to fix crash
async: replace list of active domains with global list of pending items
async: keep pending tasks on async_domain and remove async_pending
async: use ULLONG_MAX for infinity cookie value
async: bring sanity to the use of words domain and running
async, kmod: warn on synchronous request_module() from async workers
block: don't request module during elevator init
init, block: try to load default elevator module early during boot
Pull workqueue changes from Tejun Heo:
"A lot of reorganization is going on mostly to prepare for worker pools
with custom attributes so that workqueue can replace custom pool
implementations in places including writeback and btrfs and make CPU
assignment in crypto more flexible.
workqueue evolved from purely per-cpu design and implementation, so
there are a lot of assumptions regarding being bound to CPUs and even
unbound workqueues are implemented as an extension of the model -
workqueues running on the special unbound CPU. Bulk of changes this
round are about promoting worker_pools as the top level abstraction
replacing global_cwq (global cpu workqueue). At this point, I'm
fairly confident about getting custom worker pools working pretty soon
and ready for the next merge window.
Lai's patches are replacing the convoluted mb() dancing workqueue has
been doing with much simpler mechanism which only depends on
assignment atomicity of long. For details, please read the commit
message of 0b3dae68ac ("workqueue: simplify is-work-item-queued-here
test"). While the change ends up adding one pointer to struct
delayed_work, the inflation in percentage is less than five percent
and it decouples delayed_work logic a lot more cleaner from usual work
handling, removes the unusual memory barrier dancing, and allows for
further simplification, so I think the trade-off is acceptable.
There will be two more workqueue related pull requests and there are
some shared commits among them. I'll write further pull requests
assuming this pull request is pulled first."
* 'for-3.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq: (37 commits)
workqueue: un-GPL function delayed_work_timer_fn()
workqueue: rename cpu_workqueue to pool_workqueue
workqueue: reimplement is_chained_work() using current_wq_worker()
workqueue: fix is_chained_work() regression
workqueue: pick cwq instead of pool in __queue_work()
workqueue: make get_work_pool_id() cheaper
workqueue: move nr_running into worker_pool
workqueue: cosmetic update in try_to_grab_pending()
workqueue: simplify is-work-item-queued-here test
workqueue: make work->data point to pool after try_to_grab_pending()
workqueue: add delayed_work->wq to simplify reentrancy handling
workqueue: make work_busy() test WORK_STRUCT_PENDING first
workqueue: replace WORK_CPU_NONE/LAST with WORK_CPU_END
workqueue: post global_cwq removal cleanups
workqueue: rename nr_running variables
workqueue: remove global_cwq
workqueue: remove worker_pool->gcwq
workqueue: replace for_each_worker_pool() with for_each_std_worker_pool()
workqueue: make freezing/thawing per-pool
workqueue: make hotplug processing per-pool
...
Pull workqueue [delayed_]work_pending() cleanups from Tejun Heo:
"This is part of on-going cleanups to remove / minimize usages of
workqueue interfaces which are deprecated and/or misleading.
This round drops a number of usages of [delayed_]work_pending(), which
are dangerous as they lack any form of synchronization and thus often
lead to buggy / unnecessary code. There are a couple legitimate use
cases in kernel. Hopefully, they can be converted and
[delayed_]work_pending() can be removed completely. Even if not,
removing most of misuses should make it more difficult to find
examples of misuses and thus slow down growth of them.
These changes are independent from other workqueue changes."
* 'for-3.9-cleanups' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq:
wimax/i2400m: fix i2400m->wake_tx_skb handling
kprobes: fix wait_for_kprobe_optimizer()
ipw2x00: simplify scan_event handling
video/exynos: don't use [delayed_]work_pending()
tty/max3100: don't use [delayed_]work_pending()
x86/mce: don't use [delayed_]work_pending()
rfkill: don't use [delayed_]work_pending()
wl1251: don't use [delayed_]work_pending()
thinkpad_acpi: don't use [delayed_]work_pending()
mwifiex: don't use [delayed_]work_pending()
sja1000: don't use [delayed_]work_pending()
Pull two x86 kernel build changes from Ingo Molnar:
"The first change modifies how 'make oldconfig' works on cross-bitness
situations on x86. It was felt the new behavior of preserving the
bitness of the .config is more logical. This is a leftover of the
merge.
The second change eliminates a Perl warning. (There's another, more
complete fix resulting of this warning fix, which second fix in flight
to you via the kbuild tree, which will remove the timeconst.pl script
altogether.)"
* 'x86-build-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
timeconst.pl: Eliminate Perl warning
x86: Default to ARCH=x86 to avoid overriding CONFIG_64BIT
Pull x86/apic changes from Ingo Molnar:
"Main changes:
- Multiple MSI support added to the APIC, PCI and AHCI code - acked
by all relevant maintainers, by Alexander Gordeev.
The advantage is that multiple AHCI ports can have multiple MSI
irqs assigned, and can thus spread to multiple CPUs.
[ Drivers can make use of this new facility via the
pci_enable_msi_block_auto() method ]
- x86 IOAPIC code from interrupt remapping cleanups from Joerg
Roedel:
These patches move all interrupt remapping specific checks out of
the x86 core code and replaces the respective call-sites with
function pointers. As a result the interrupt remapping code is
better abstraced from x86 core interrupt handling code.
- Various smaller improvements, fixes and cleanups."
* 'x86-apic-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (26 commits)
x86/intel/irq_remapping: Clean up x2apic opt-out security warning mess
x86, kvm: Fix intialization warnings in kvm.c
x86, irq: Move irq_remapped out of x86 core code
x86, io_apic: Introduce eoi_ioapic_pin call-back
x86, msi: Introduce x86_msi.compose_msi_msg call-back
x86, irq: Introduce setup_remapped_irq()
x86, irq: Move irq_remapped() check into free_remapped_irq
x86, io-apic: Remove !irq_remapped() check from __target_IO_APIC_irq()
x86, io-apic: Move CONFIG_IRQ_REMAP code out of x86 core
x86, irq: Add data structure to keep AMD specific irq remapping information
x86, irq: Move irq_remapping_enabled declaration to iommu code
x86, io_apic: Remove irq_remapping_enabled check in setup_timer_IRQ0_pin
x86, io_apic: Move irq_remapping_enabled checks out of check_timer()
x86, io_apic: Convert setup_ioapic_entry to function pointer
x86, io_apic: Introduce set_affinity function pointer
x86, msi: Use IRQ remapping specific setup_msi_irqs routine
x86, hpet: Introduce x86_msi_ops.setup_hpet_msi
x86, io_apic: Introduce x86_io_apic_ops.print_entries for debugging
x86, io_apic: Introduce x86_io_apic_ops.disable()
x86, apic: Mask IO-APIC and PIC unconditionally on LAPIC resume
...
Pull timer changes from Ingo Molnar:
"Main changes:
- ntp: Add CONFIG_RTC_SYSTOHC: a generic RTC driver facility
complementing the existing CONFIG_RTC_HCTOSYS, which uses NTP to
keep the hardware clock updated.
- posix-timers: Fix clock_adjtime to always return timex data on
success. This is changing the ABI, but no breakage was expected
and found - caution is warranted nevertheless.
- platform persistent clock improvements/cleanups.
- clockevents: refactor timer broadcast handling to be more generic
and less duplicated with matching architecture code (mostly ARM
motivated.)
- various fixes and cleanups"
* 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
timers/x86/hpet: Use HPET_COUNTER to specify the hpet counter in vread_hpet()
posix-cpu-timers: Fix nanosleep task_struct leak
clockevents: Fix generic broadcast for FEAT_C3STOP
time, Fix setting of hardware clock in NTP code
hrtimer: Prevent hrtimer_enqueue_reprogram race
clockevents: Add generic timer broadcast function
clockevents: Add generic timer broadcast receiver
timekeeping: Switch HAS_PERSISTENT_CLOCK to ALWAYS_USE_PERSISTENT_CLOCK
x86/time/rtc: Don't print extended CMOS year when reading RTC
x86: Select HAS_PERSISTENT_CLOCK on x86
timekeeping: Add CONFIG_HAS_PERSISTENT_CLOCK option
rtc: Skip the suspend/resume handling if persistent clock exist
timekeeping: Add persistent_clock_exist flag
posix-timers: Fix clock_adjtime to always return timex data on success
Round the calculated scale factor in set_cyc2ns_scale()
NTP: Add a CONFIG_RTC_SYSTOHC configuration
MAINTAINERS: Update John Stultz's email
time: create __getnstimeofday for WARNless calls
