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Peter Zijlstra
ea5d20cf99 perf_counter: optionally provide the pid/tid of the sampled task
Allow cpu wide counters to profile userspace by providing what process
the sample belongs to.

This raises the first issue with the output type, lots of these
options: group, tid, callchain, etc.. are non-exclusive and could be
combined, suggesting a bitfield.

However, things like the mmap() data stream doesn't fit in that.

How to split the type field...

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Orig-LKML-Reference: <20090325113317.013775235@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-06 09:30:34 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
63e35b25d6 perf_counter: sanity check on the output API
Ensure we never write more than we said we would.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Orig-LKML-Reference: <20090325113316.921433024@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-06 09:30:33 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
5c14819432 perf_counter: output objects
Provide a {type,size} header for each output entry.

This should provide extensible output, and the ability to mix multiple streams.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Orig-LKML-Reference: <20090325113316.831607932@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-06 09:30:33 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
b9cacc7bf1 perf_counter: more elaborate write API
Provide a begin, copy, end interface to the output buffer.

begin() reserves the space,
 copy() copies the data over, considering page boundaries,
  end() finalizes the event and does the wakeup.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Orig-LKML-Reference: <20090325113316.740550870@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-06 09:30:32 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
c7138f37f9 perf_counter: fix perf_poll()
Impact: fix kerneltop 100% CPU usage

Only return a poll event when there's actually been one, poll_wait()
doesn't actually wait for the waitq you pass it, it only enqueues
you on it.

Only once all FDs have been iterated and none of thm returned a
poll-event will it schedule().

Also make it return POLL_HUP when there's not mmap() area to read from.

Further, fix a silly bug in the write code.

Reported-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Orig-LKML-Reference: <1237897096.24918.181.camel@twins>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-06 09:30:32 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
7b732a7504 perf_counter: new output ABI - part 1
Impact: Rework the perfcounter output ABI

use sys_read() only for instant data and provide mmap() output for all
async overflow data.

The first mmap() determines the size of the output buffer. The mmap()
size must be a PAGE_SIZE multiple of 1+pages, where pages must be a
power of 2 or 0. Further mmap()s of the same fd must have the same
size. Once all maps are gone, you can again mmap() with a new size.

In case of 0 extra pages there is no data output and the first page
only contains meta data.

When there are data pages, a poll() event will be generated for each
full page of data. Furthermore, the output is circular. This means
that although 1 page is a valid configuration, its useless, since
we'll start overwriting it the instant we report a full page.

Future work will focus on the output format (currently maintained)
where we'll likey want each entry denoted by a header which includes a
type and length.

Further future work will allow to splice() the fd, also containing the
async overflow data -- splice() would be mutually exclusive with
mmap() of the data.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Orig-LKML-Reference: <20090323172417.470536358@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-06 09:30:27 +02:00
H. Peter Anvin
b09d2501ed mutex: drop "inline" from mutex_lock() inside kernel/mutex.c
Impact: build fix

mutex_lock() is was defined inline in kernel/mutex.c, but wasn't
declared so not in <linux/mutex.h>.  This didn't cause a problem until
checkin 3a2d367d9aabac486ac4444c6c7ec7a1dab16267 added the
atomic_dec_and_mutex_lock() inline in between declaration and
definion.

This broke building with CONFIG_ALLOW_WARNINGS=n, e.g. make
allnoconfig.

Either from the source code nor the allnoconfig binary output I cannot
find any internal references to mutex_lock() in kernel/mutex.c, so
presumably this "inline" is now-useless legacy.

Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Orig-LKML-Reference: <tip-3a2d367d9aabac486ac4444c6c7ec7a1dab16267@git.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2009-04-06 09:30:27 +02:00
Paul Mackerras
37d8182838 perf_counter: add an mmap method to allow userspace to read hardware counters
Impact: new feature giving performance improvement

This adds the ability for userspace to do an mmap on a hardware counter
fd and get access to a read-only page that contains the information
needed to translate a hardware counter value to the full 64-bit
counter value that would be returned by a read on the fd.  This is
useful on architectures that allow user programs to read the hardware
counters, such as PowerPC.

The mmap will only succeed if the counter is a hardware counter
monitoring the current process.

On my quad 2.5GHz PowerPC 970MP machine, userspace can read a counter
and translate it to the full 64-bit value in about 30ns using the
mmapped page, compared to about 830ns for the read syscall on the
counter, so this does give a significant performance improvement.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Orig-LKML-Reference: <20090323172417.297057964@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-06 09:30:26 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
96f6d44443 perf_counter: avoid recursion
Tracepoint events like lock_acquire and software counters like
pagefaults can recurse into the perf counter code again, avoid that.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Orig-LKML-Reference: <20090323172417.152096433@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-06 09:30:25 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
f4a2deb486 perf_counter: remove the event config bitfields
Since the bitfields turned into a bit of a mess, remove them and rely on
good old masks.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Orig-LKML-Reference: <20090323172417.059499915@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-06 09:30:25 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
0322cd6ec5 perf_counter: unify irq output code
Impact: cleanup

Having 3 slightly different copies of the same code around does nobody
any good. First step in revamping the output format.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Orig-LKML-Reference: <20090319194233.929962222@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-06 09:30:17 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
b8e83514b6 perf_counter: revamp syscall input ABI
Impact: modify ABI

The hardware/software classification in hw_event->type became a little
strained due to the addition of tracepoint tracing.

Instead split up the field and provide a type field to explicitly specify
the counter type, while using the event_id field to specify which event to
use.

Raw counters still work as before, only the raw config now goes into
raw_event.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Orig-LKML-Reference: <20090319194233.836807573@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-06 09:30:17 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
e077df4f43 perf_counter: hook up the tracepoint events
Impact: new perfcounters feature

Enable usage of tracepoints as perf counter events.

tracepoint event ids can be found in /debug/tracing/event/*/*/id
and (for now) are represented as -65536+id in the type field.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Orig-LKML-Reference: <20090319194233.744044174@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-06 09:30:16 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
f160095275 perf_counter: fix up counter free paths
Impact: fix crash during perfcounters use

I found another counter free path, create a free_counter() call to
accomodate generic tear-down.

Fixes an RCU bug.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Orig-LKML-Reference: <20090319194233.652078652@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-06 09:30:16 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
4a0deca657 perf_counter: generic context switch event
Impact: cleanup

Use the generic software events for context switches.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Orig-LKML-Reference: <20090319194233.283522645@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-06 09:30:15 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
01ef09d9ff perf_counter: fix uninitialized usage of event_list
Impact: fix boot crash

When doing the generic context switch event I ran into some early
boot hangs, which were caused by inf func recursion (event, fault,
event, fault).

I eventually tracked it down to event_list not being initialized
at the time of the first event. Fix this.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Orig-LKML-Reference: <20090319194233.195392657@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-06 09:30:15 +02:00
Paul Mackerras
b6c5a71da1 perf_counter: abstract wakeup flag setting in core to fix powerpc build
Impact: build fix for powerpc

Commit bd753921015e7905 ("perf_counter: software counter event
infrastructure") introduced a use of TIF_PERF_COUNTERS into the core
perfcounter code.  This breaks the build on powerpc because we use
a flag in a per-cpu area to signal wakeups on powerpc rather than
a thread_info flag, because the thread_info flags have to be
manipulated with atomic operations and are thus slower than per-cpu
flags.

This fixes the by changing the core to use an abstracted
set_perf_counter_pending() function, which is defined on x86 to set
the TIF_PERF_COUNTERS flag and on powerpc to set the per-cpu flag
(paca->perf_counter_pending).  It changes the previous powerpc
definition of set_perf_counter_pending to not take an argument and
adds a clear_perf_counter_pending, so as to simplify the definition
on x86.

On x86, set_perf_counter_pending() is defined as a macro.  Defining
it as a static inline in arch/x86/include/asm/perf_counters.h causes
compile failures because <asm/perf_counters.h> gets included early in
<linux/sched.h>, and the definitions of set_tsk_thread_flag etc. are
therefore not available in <asm/perf_counters.h>.  (On powerpc this
problem is avoided by defining set_perf_counter_pending etc. in
<asm/hw_irq.h>.)

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2009-04-06 09:30:14 +02:00
Tim Blechmann
4e193bd4df perf_counter: include missing header
Impact: build fix

In order to compile a kernel with performance counter patches,
<asm/irq_regs.h> has to be included to provide the declaration of
struct pt_regs *get_irq_regs(void);

[ This bug was masked by unrelated x86 header file changes in the
  x86 tree, but occurs in the tip:perfcounters/core standalone
  tree. ]

Signed-off-by: Tim Blechmann <tim@klingt.org>
Orig-LKML-Reference: <20090314142925.49c29c17@thinkpad>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-06 09:30:13 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
039fc91e06 perf_counter: fix hrtimer sampling
Impact: fix deadlock with perfstat

Fix for the perfstat fubar..

We cannot unconditionally call hrtimer_cancel() without ever having done
hrtimer_init() on the thing.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Orig-LKML-Reference: <1236959027.22447.149.camel@twins>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-06 09:29:46 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
592903cdcb perf_counter: add an event_list
I noticed that the counter_list only includes top-level counters, thus
perf_swcounter_event() will miss sw-counters in groups.

Since perf_swcounter_event() also wants an RCU safe list, create a new
event_list that includes all counters and uses RCU list ops and use call_rcu
to free the counter structure.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-06 09:29:43 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
d6d020e995 perf_counter: hrtimer based sampling for software time events
Use hrtimers to profile timer based sampling for the software time
counters.

This allows platforms without hardware counter support to still
perform sample based profiling.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-06 09:29:41 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
ac17dc8e58 perf_counter: provide major/minor page fault software events
Provide separate sw counters for major and minor page faults.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-06 09:29:40 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
7dd1fcc258 perf_counter: provide pagefault software events
We use the generic software counter infrastructure to provide
page fault events.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-06 09:29:37 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
15dbf27cc1 perf_counter: software counter event infrastructure
Provide generic software counter infrastructure that supports
software events.

This will be used to allow sample based profiling based on software
events such as pagefaults. The current infrastructure can only
provide a count of such events, no place information.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-06 09:29:36 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
755642322a perf_counter: use list_move_tail()
Instead of del/add use a move list-op.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-06 09:29:31 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
f541ae326f Merge branch 'linus' into perfcounters/core-v2
Merge reason: we have gathered quite a few conflicts, need to merge upstream

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

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-06 09:02:57 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
0221c81b1b Merge branch 'audit.b62' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/audit-current
* 'audit.b62' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/audit-current:
  Audit: remove spaces from audit_log_d_path
  audit: audit_set_auditable defined but not used
  audit: incorrect ref counting in audit tree tag_chunk
  audit: Fix possible return value truncation in audit_get_context()
  audit: ignore terminating NUL in AUDIT_USER_TTY messages
  Audit: fix handling of 'strings' with NULL characters
  make the e->rule.xxx shorter in kernel auditfilter.c
  auditsc: fix kernel-doc notation
  audit: EXECVE record - removed bogus newline
2009-04-05 12:36:11 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
714f83d5d9 Merge branch 'tracing-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'tracing-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (413 commits)
  tracing, net: fix net tree and tracing tree merge interaction
  tracing, powerpc: fix powerpc tree and tracing tree interaction
  ring-buffer: do not remove reader page from list on ring buffer free
  function-graph: allow unregistering twice
  trace: make argument 'mem' of trace_seq_putmem() const
  tracing: add missing 'extern' keywords to trace_output.h
  tracing: provide trace_seq_reserve()
  blktrace: print out BLK_TN_MESSAGE properly
  blktrace: extract duplidate code
  blktrace: fix memory leak when freeing struct blk_io_trace
  blktrace: fix blk_probes_ref chaos
  blktrace: make classic output more classic
  blktrace: fix off-by-one bug
  blktrace: fix the original blktrace
  blktrace: fix a race when creating blk_tree_root in debugfs
  blktrace: fix timestamp in binary output
  tracing, Text Edit Lock: cleanup
  tracing: filter fix for TRACE_EVENT_FORMAT events
  ftrace: Using FTRACE_WARN_ON() to check "freed record" in ftrace_release()
  x86: kretprobe-booster interrupt emulation code fix
  ...

Fix up trivial conflicts in
 arch/parisc/include/asm/ftrace.h
 include/linux/memory.h
 kernel/extable.c
 kernel/module.c
2009-04-05 11:04:19 -07:00
Eric Paris
def5754341 Audit: remove spaces from audit_log_d_path
audit_log_d_path had spaces in the strings which would be emitted on the
error paths.  This patch simply replaces those spaces with an _ or removes
the needless spaces entirely.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-04-05 13:49:04 -04:00
Eric Paris
679173b724 audit: audit_set_auditable defined but not used
after 0590b9335a audit_set_auditable() is now only
used by the audit tree code.  If CONFIG_AUDIT_TREE is unset it will be defined
but unused.  This patch simply moves the function inside a CONFIG_AUDIT_TREE
block.

cc1: warnings being treated as errors
/home/acme_unencrypted/git/linux-2.6-tip/kernel/auditsc.c:745: error: ‘audit_set_auditable’ defined but not used
make[2]: *** [kernel/auditsc.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [kernel] Error 2
make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-04-05 13:48:52 -04:00
Eric Paris
318b6d3d7d audit: incorrect ref counting in audit tree tag_chunk
tag_chunk has bad exit paths in which the inotify ref counting is wrong.
At the top of the function we found &old_watch using  inotify_find_watch().
inotify_find_watch takes a reference to the watch.  This is never dropped
on an error path.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-04-05 13:48:26 -04:00
Paul Moore
6d208da89a audit: Fix possible return value truncation in audit_get_context()
The audit subsystem treats syscall return codes as type long, unfortunately
the audit_get_context() function mistakenly converts the return code to an
int type in the parameters which could cause problems on systems where the
sizeof(int) != sizeof(long).

Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-04-05 13:46:19 -04:00
Miloslav Trmac
55ad2f8d34 audit: ignore terminating NUL in AUDIT_USER_TTY messages
AUDIT_USER_TTY, like all other messages sent from user-space, is sent
NUL-terminated.  Unlike other user-space audit messages, which come only
from trusted sources, AUDIT_USER_TTY messages are processed using
audit_log_n_untrustedstring().

This patch modifies AUDIT_USER_TTY handling to ignore the trailing NUL
and use the "quoted_string" representation of the message if possible.

Signed-off-by: Miloslav Trmac <mitr@redhat.com>
Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-04-05 13:43:36 -04:00
Miloslav Trmac
b3897f5671 Audit: fix handling of 'strings' with NULL characters
currently audit_log_n_untrustedstring() uses audit_string_contains_control()
to check if the 'string' has any control characters.  If the 'string' has an
embedded NULL audit_string_contains_control() will return that the data has
no control characters and will then pass the string to audit_log_n_string
with the total length, not the length up to the first NULL.
audit_log_n_string() does a memcpy of the entire length and so the actual
audit record emitted may then contain a NULL and then whatever random memory
is after the NULL.

Since we want to log the entire octet stream (if we can't trust the data
to be a string we can't trust that a NULL isn't actually a part of it)
we should just consider NULL as a control character.  If the caller is
certain they want to stop at the first NULL they should be using
audit_log_untrustedstring.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-04-05 13:43:24 -04:00
Zhenwen Xu
c28bb7da74 make the e->rule.xxx shorter in kernel auditfilter.c
make the e->rule.xxx shorter in kernel/auditfilter.c
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>From 99692dc640b278f1cb1a15646ce42f22e89c0f77 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Zhenwen Xu <Helight.Xu@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 22:04:59 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] make the e->rule.xxx shorter in kernel/auditfilter.c

Signed-off-by: Zhenwen Xu <Helight.Xu@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-04-05 13:40:33 -04:00
Randy Dunlap
6b96255998 auditsc: fix kernel-doc notation
Fix auditsc kernel-doc notation:

Warning(linux-2.6.28-git7//kernel/auditsc.c:2156): No description found for parameter 'attr'
Warning(linux-2.6.28-git7//kernel/auditsc.c:2156): Excess function parameter 'u_attr' description in '__audit_mq_open'
Warning(linux-2.6.28-git7//kernel/auditsc.c:2204): No description found for parameter 'notification'
Warning(linux-2.6.28-git7//kernel/auditsc.c:2204): Excess function parameter 'u_notification' description in '__audit_mq_notify'

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
cc:	Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
cc:	Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-04-05 13:39:19 -04:00
Jiri Pirko
ca96a895a6 audit: EXECVE record - removed bogus newline
(updated)
Added hunk that changes the comment, the rest is the same.

EXECVE records contain a newline after every argument. auditd converts
"\n" to " " so you cannot see newlines even in raw logs, but they're
there nevertheless. If you're not using auditd, you need to work round
them. These '\n' chars are can be easily replaced by spaces when
creating record in kernel. Note there is no need for trailing '\n' in
an audit record.

record before this patch:
"type=EXECVE msg=audit(1231421801.566:31): argc=4 a0=\"./test\"\na1=\"a\"\na2=\"b\"\na3=\"c\"\n"

record after this patch:
"type=EXECVE msg=audit(1231421801.566:31): argc=4 a0=\"./test\" a1=\"a\" a2=\"b\" a3=\"c\""

Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-04-05 13:38:59 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
90975ef712 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-cpumask
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-cpumask: (36 commits)
  cpumask: remove cpumask allocation from idle_balance, fix
  numa, cpumask: move numa_node_id default implementation to topology.h, fix
  cpumask: remove cpumask allocation from idle_balance
  x86: cpumask: x86 mmio-mod.c use cpumask_var_t for downed_cpus
  x86: cpumask: update 32-bit APM not to mug current->cpus_allowed
  x86: microcode: cleanup
  x86: cpumask: use work_on_cpu in arch/x86/kernel/microcode_core.c
  cpumask: fix CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK=y cpu hotunplug crash
  numa, cpumask: move numa_node_id default implementation to topology.h
  cpumask: convert node_to_cpumask_map[] to cpumask_var_t
  cpumask: remove x86 cpumask_t uses.
  cpumask: use cpumask_var_t in uv_flush_tlb_others.
  cpumask: remove cpumask_t assignment from vector_allocation_domain()
  cpumask: make Xen use the new operators.
  cpumask: clean up summit's send_IPI functions
  cpumask: use new cpumask functions throughout x86
  x86: unify cpu_callin_mask/cpu_callout_mask/cpu_initialized_mask/cpu_sibling_setup_mask
  cpumask: convert struct cpuinfo_x86's llc_shared_map to cpumask_var_t
  cpumask: convert node_to_cpumask_map[] to cpumask_var_t
  x86: unify 32 and 64-bit node_to_cpumask_map
  ...
2009-04-05 10:33:07 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
cab4e4c43f Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-module-and-param
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-module-and-param:
  module: use strstarts()
  strstarts: helper function for !strncmp(str, prefix, strlen(prefix))
  arm: allow usage of string functions in linux/string.h
  module: don't use stop_machine on module load
  module: create a request_module_nowait()
  module: include other structures in module version check
  module: remove the SHF_ALLOC flag on the __versions section.
  module: clarify the force-loading taint message.
  module: Export symbols needed for Ksplice
  Ksplice: Add functions for walking kallsyms symbols
  module: remove module_text_address()
  module: __module_address
  module: Make find_symbol return a struct kernel_symbol
  kernel/module.c: fix an unused goto label
  param: fix charp parameters set via sysfs

Fix trivial conflicts in kernel/extable.c manually.
2009-04-05 10:30:21 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
e4c393fd55 Merge branch 'printk-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'printk-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  printk: correct the behavior of printk_timed_ratelimit()
  vsprintf: unify the format decoding layer for its 3 users, cleanup
  fix regression from "vsprintf: unify the format decoding layer for its 3 users"
  vsprintf: fix bug in negative value printing
  vsprintf: unify the format decoding layer for its 3 users
  vsprintf: add binary printf
  printk: introduce printk_once()

Fix trivial conflicts (printk_once vs log_buf_kexec_setup() added near
each other) in include/linux/kernel.h.
2009-04-05 10:23:25 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
09f38dc19d Merge branch 'core-cleanups-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'core-cleanups-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  ptrace: remove a useless goto
2009-04-03 17:35:06 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
30a39e0e97 Merge branch 'stacktrace-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'stacktrace-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  symbols, stacktrace: look up init symbols after module symbols
2009-04-03 17:34:41 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
c7edad5fcb Merge branch 'rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  rcu: rcu_barrier VS cpu_hotplug: Ensure callbacks in dead cpu are migrated to online cpu
2009-04-03 17:34:12 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
b1dbb67911 Merge branch 'ipi-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'ipi-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  s390: remove arch specific smp_send_stop()
  panic: clean up kernel/panic.c
  panic, smp: provide smp_send_stop() wrapper on UP too
  panic: decrease oops_in_progress only after having done the panic
  generic-ipi: eliminate WARN_ON()s during oops/panic
  generic-ipi: cleanups
  generic-ipi: remove CSD_FLAG_WAIT
  generic-ipi: remove kmalloc()
  generic IPI: simplify barriers and locking
2009-04-03 17:33:30 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
492f59f526 Merge branch 'locking-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'locking-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  locking: rename trace_softirq_[enter|exit] => lockdep_softirq_[enter|exit]
  lockdep: remove duplicate CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCKDEP definitions
  lockdep: require framepointers for x86
  lockdep: remove extra "irq" string
  lockdep: fix incorrect state name
2009-04-03 17:29:53 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
811158b147 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (28 commits)
  trivial: Update my email address
  trivial: NULL noise: drivers/mtd/tests/mtd_*test.c
  trivial: NULL noise: drivers/media/dvb/frontends/drx397xD_fw.h
  trivial: Fix misspelling of "Celsius".
  trivial: remove unused variable 'path' in alloc_file()
  trivial: fix a pdlfush -> pdflush typo in comment
  trivial: jbd header comment typo fix for JBD_PARANOID_IOFAIL
  trivial: wusb: Storage class should be before const qualifier
  trivial: drivers/char/bsr.c: Storage class should be before const qualifier
  trivial: h8300: Storage class should be before const qualifier
  trivial: fix where cgroup documentation is not correctly referred to
  trivial: Give the right path in Documentation example
  trivial: MTD: remove EOL from MODULE_DESCRIPTION
  trivial: Fix typo in bio_split()'s documentation
  trivial: PWM: fix of #endif comment
  trivial: fix typos/grammar errors in Kconfig texts
  trivial: Fix misspelling of firmware
  trivial: cgroups: documentation typo and spelling corrections
  trivial: Update contact info for Jochen Hein
  trivial: fix typo "resgister" -> "register"
  ...
2009-04-03 15:24:35 -07:00
David Howells
8f0aa2f25b Document the slow work thread pool
Document the slow work thread pool.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Tested-by: Daire Byrne <Daire.Byrne@framestore.com>
2009-04-03 16:42:35 +01:00
David Howells
12e22c5e4b Make the slow work pool configurable
Make the slow work pool configurable through /proc/sys/kernel/slow-work.

 (*) /proc/sys/kernel/slow-work/min-threads

     The minimum number of threads that should be in the pool as long as it is
     in use.  This may be anywhere between 2 and max-threads.

 (*) /proc/sys/kernel/slow-work/max-threads

     The maximum number of threads that should in the pool.  This may be
     anywhere between min-threads and 255 or NR_CPUS * 2, whichever is greater.

 (*) /proc/sys/kernel/slow-work/vslow-percentage

     The percentage of active threads in the pool that may be used to execute
     very slow work items.  This may be between 1 and 99.  The resultant number
     is bounded to between 1 and one fewer than the number of active threads.
     This ensures there is always at least one thread that can process very
     slow work items, and always at least one thread that won't.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Tested-by: Daire Byrne <Daire.Byrne@framestore.com>
2009-04-03 16:42:35 +01:00
David Howells
109d9272c4 Make slow-work thread pool actually dynamic
Make the slow-work thread pool actually dynamic in the number of threads it
contains.  With this patch, it will both create additional threads when it has
extra work to do, and cull excess threads that aren't doing anything.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Tested-by: Daire Byrne <Daire.Byrne@framestore.com>
2009-04-03 16:42:35 +01:00
David Howells
07fe7cb7c7 Create a dynamically sized pool of threads for doing very slow work items
Create a dynamically sized pool of threads for doing very slow work items, such
as invoking mkdir() or rmdir() - things that may take a long time and may
sleep, holding mutexes/semaphores and hogging a thread, and are thus unsuitable
for workqueues.

The number of threads is always at least a settable minimum, but more are
started when there's more work to do, up to a limit.  Because of the nature of
the load, it's not suitable for a 1-thread-per-CPU type pool.  A system with
one CPU may well want several threads.

This is used by FS-Cache to do slow caching operations in the background, such
as looking up, creating or deleting cache objects.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Tested-by: Daire Byrne <Daire.Byrne@framestore.com>
2009-04-03 16:42:35 +01:00