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* lguest: avoid sending interrupts to Guest when no activity occurs.Rusty Russell2009-06-121-0/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If we track how many buffers we've used, we can tell whether we really need to interrupt the Guest. This happens as a side effect of spurious notifications. Spurious notifications happen because it can take a while before the Host thread wakes up and sets the VRING_USED_F_NO_NOTIFY flag, and meanwhile the Guest can more notifications. A real fix would be to use wake counts, rather than a suppression flag, but the practical difference is generally in the noise: the interrupt is usually coalesced into a pending one anyway so we just save a system call which isn't clearly measurable. Secs Spurious IRQS 1G TCP Guest->Host: 3.93 58 1M normal pings: 100 72 1M 1k pings (-l 120): 57 492904 Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
* lguest: implement deferred interrupts in example LauncherRusty Russell2009-06-121-19/+22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Rather than sending an interrupt on every buffer, we only send an interrupt when we're about to wait for the Guest to send us a new one. The console input and network input still send interrupts manually, but the block device, network and console output queues can simply rely on this logic to send interrupts to the Guest at the right time. The patch is cluttered by moving trigger_irq() higher in the code. In practice, two factors make this optimization less interesting: (1) we often only get one input at a time, even for networking, (2) triggering an interrupt rapidly tends to get coalesced anyway. Before: Secs RxIRQS TxIRQs 1G TCP Guest->Host: 3.72 32784 32771 1M normal pings: 99 1000004 995541 100,000 1k pings (-l 120): 5 49510 49058 After: 1G TCP Guest->Host: 3.69 32809 32769 1M normal pings: 99 1000004 996196 100,000 1k pings (-l 120): 5 52435 52361 (Note the interrupt count on 100k pings goes *up*: see next patch). Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
* lguest: have example Launcher service all devices in separate threadsRusty Russell2009-06-121-574/+259
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently lguest has three threads: the main Launcher thread, a Waker thread, and a thread for the block device (because synchronous block was simply too painful to bear). The Waker selects() on all the input file descriptors (eg. stdin, net devices, pipe to the block thread) and when one becomes readable it calls into the kernel to kick the Launcher thread out into userspace, which repeats the poll, services the device(s), and then tells the kernel to release the Waker before re-entering the kernel to run the Guest. Also, to make a slightly-decent network transmit routine, the Launcher would suppress further network interrupts while it set a timer: that signal handler would write to a pipe, which would rouse the Waker which would prod the Launcher out of the kernel to check the network device again. Now we can convert all our virtqueues to separate threads: each one has a separate eventfd for when the Guest pokes the device, and can trigger interrupts in the Guest directly. The linecount shows how much this simplifies, but to really bring it home, here's an strace analysis of single Guest->Host ping before: * Guest sends packet, notifies xmit vq, return control to Launcher * Launcher clears notification flag on xmit ring * Launcher writes packet to TUN device writev(4, [{"\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 10}, {"\366\r\224`\2058\272m\224vf\274\10\0E\0\0T\0\0@\0@\1\265"..., 98}], 2) = 108 * Launcher sets up interrupt for Guest (xmit ring is empty) write(10, "\2\0\0\0\3\0\0\0", 8) = 0 * Launcher sets up timer for interrupt mitigation setitimer(ITIMER_REAL, {it_interval={0, 0}, it_value={0, 505}}, NULL) = 0 * Launcher re-runs guest pread64(10, 0xbfa5f4d4, 4, 0) ... * Waker notices reply packet in tun device (it was in select) select(12, [0 3 4 6 11], NULL, NULL, NULL) = 1 (in [4]) * Waker kicks Launcher out of guest: pwrite64(10, "\3\0\0\0\1\0\0\0", 8, 0) = 0 * Launcher returns from running guest: ... = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable) * Launcher looks at input fds: select(7, [0 3 4 6], NULL, NULL, {0, 0}) = 1 (in [4], left {0, 0}) * Launcher reads pong from tun device: readv(4, [{"\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 10}, {"\272m\224vf\274\366\r\224`\2058\10\0E\0\0T\364\26\0\0@"..., 1518}], 2) = 108 * Launcher injects guest notification: write(10, "\2\0\0\0\2\0\0\0", 8) = 0 * Launcher rechecks fds: select(7, [0 3 4 6], NULL, NULL, {0, 0}) = 0 (Timeout) * Launcher clears Waker: pwrite64(10, "\3\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 8, 0) = 0 * Launcher reruns Guest: pread64(10, 0xbfa5f4d4, 4, 0) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted) * Signal comes in, uses pipe to wake up Launcher: --- SIGALRM (Alarm clock) @ 0 (0) --- write(8, "\0", 1) = 1 sigreturn() = ? (mask now []) * Waker sees write on pipe: select(12, [0 3 4 6 11], NULL, NULL, NULL) = 1 (in [6]) * Waker kicks Launcher out of Guest: pwrite64(10, "\3\0\0\0\1\0\0\0", 8, 0) = 0 * Launcher exits from kernel: pread64(10, 0xbfa5f4d4, 4, 0) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable) * Launcher looks to see what fd woke it: select(7, [0 3 4 6], NULL, NULL, {0, 0}) = 1 (in [6], left {0, 0}) * Launcher reads timeout fd, sets notification flag on xmit ring read(6, "\0", 32) = 1 * Launcher rechecks fds: select(7, [0 3 4 6], NULL, NULL, {0, 0}) = 0 (Timeout) * Launcher clears Waker: pwrite64(10, "\3\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 8, 0) = 0 * Launcher resumes Guest: pread64(10, "\0p\0\4", 4, 0) .... strace analysis of single Guest->Host ping after: * Guest sends packet, notifies xmit vq, creates event on eventfd. * Network xmit thread wakes from read on eventfd: read(7, "\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 8) = 8 * Network xmit thread writes packet to TUN device writev(4, [{"\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 10}, {"J\217\232FI\37j\27\375\276\0\304\10\0E\0\0T\0\0@\0@\1\265"..., 98}], 2) = 108 * Network recv thread wakes up from read on tunfd: readv(4, [{"\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 10}, {"j\27\375\276\0\304J\217\232FI\37\10\0E\0\0TiO\0\0@\1\214"..., 1518}], 2) = 108 * Network recv thread sets up interrupt for the Guest write(6, "\2\0\0\0\2\0\0\0", 8) = 0 * Network recv thread goes back to reading tunfd 13:39:42.460285 readv(4, <unfinished ...> * Network xmit thread sets up interrupt for Guest (xmit ring is empty) write(6, "\2\0\0\0\3\0\0\0", 8) = 0 * Network xmit thread goes back to reading from eventfd read(7, <unfinished ...> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
* lguest: PAE supportMatias Zabaljauregui2009-06-121-1/+0
| | | | | | | | This version requires that host and guest have the same PAE status. NX cap is not offered to the guest, yet. Signed-off-by: Matias Zabaljauregui <zabaljauregui@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
* lguest: fix writev returning short on console outputRusty Russell2009-06-121-1/+6
| | | | | | | I've never seen it here, but I can't find anywhere that says writev will write everything. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
* lguest: clean up length-used value in example launcherRusty Russell2009-06-121-7/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | The "len" field in the used ring for virtio indicates the number of bytes *written* to the buffer. This means the guest doesn't have to zero the buffers in advance as it always knows the used length. Erroneously, the console and network example code puts the length *read* into that field. The guest ignores it, but it's wrong. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
* lguest: clean up example launcher compile flags.Rusty Russell2009-06-121-2/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | 18 months ago 5bbf89fc260830f3f58b331d946a16b39ad1ca2d changed to loading bzImages directly, and no longer manually ungzipping them, so we no longer need libz. Also, -m32 is useful for those on 64-bit platforms (and harmless on 32-bit). Reported-by: Ron Minnich <rminnich@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
* lguest: remove invalid interrupt forcing logic.Rusty Russell2009-06-121-7/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 20887611523e749d99cc7d64ff6c97d27529fbae (lguest: notify on empty) introduced lguest support for the VIRTIO_F_NOTIFY_ON_EMPTY flag, but in fact it turned on interrupts all the time. Because we always process one buffer at a time, the inflight count is always 0 when call trigger_irq and so we always ignore VRING_AVAIL_F_NO_INTERRUPT from the Guest. It should be looking to see if there are more buffers in the Guest's queue: if it's empty, then we force an interrupt. This makes little difference, since we usually have an empty queue; but that's the subject of another patch. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
* lguest: get more serious about wmb() in example Launcher codeRusty Russell2009-06-121-3/+4
| | | | | | | | | | Since the Launcher process runs the Guest, it doesn't have to be very serious about its barriers: the Guest isn't running while we are (Guest is UP). Before we change to use threads to service devices, we need to fix this. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
* lguest: cleanup passing of /dev/lguest fd around example launcher.Rusty Russell2009-06-121-55/+47
| | | | | | | We hand the /dev/lguest fd everywhere; it's far neater to just make it a global (it already is, in fact, hidden in the waker_fds struct). Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
* lguest: be paranoid about guest playing with device descriptors.Rusty Russell2009-06-121-10/+17
| | | | | | | | | | | We can't trust the values in the device descriptor table once the guest has booted, so keep local copies. They could set them to strange values then cause us to segv (they're 8 bit values, so they can't make our pointers go too wild). This becomes more important with the following patches which read them. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
* Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://linux-arm.org/linux-2.6Linus Torvalds2009-06-112-0/+146
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * 'for-linus' of git://linux-arm.org/linux-2.6: kmemleak: Add the corresponding MAINTAINERS entry kmemleak: Simple testing module for kmemleak kmemleak: Enable the building of the memory leak detector kmemleak: Remove some of the kmemleak false positives kmemleak: Add modules support kmemleak: Add kmemleak_alloc callback from alloc_large_system_hash kmemleak: Add the vmalloc memory allocation/freeing hooks kmemleak: Add the slub memory allocation/freeing hooks kmemleak: Add the slob memory allocation/freeing hooks kmemleak: Add the slab memory allocation/freeing hooks kmemleak: Add documentation on the memory leak detector kmemleak: Add the base support Manual conflict resolution (with the slab/earlyboot changes) in: drivers/char/vt.c init/main.c mm/slab.c
| * kmemleak: Add documentation on the memory leak detectorCatalin Marinas2009-06-112-0/+146
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds the Documentation/kmemleak.txt file with some information about how kmemleak works. Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
* | Merge branch 'for-2.6.31' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-blockLinus Torvalds2009-06-113-1/+93
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * 'for-2.6.31' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (153 commits) block: add request clone interface (v2) floppy: fix hibernation ramdisk: remove long-deprecated "ramdisk=" boot-time parameter fs/bio.c: add missing __user annotation block: prevent possible io_context->refcount overflow Add serial number support for virtio_blk, V4a block: Add missing bounce_pfn stacking and fix comments Revert "block: Fix bounce limit setting in DM" cciss: decode unit attention in SCSI error handling code cciss: Remove no longer needed sendcmd reject processing code cciss: change SCSI error handling routines to work with interrupts enabled. cciss: separate error processing and command retrying code in sendcmd_withirq_core() cciss: factor out fix target status processing code from sendcmd functions cciss: simplify interface of sendcmd() and sendcmd_withirq() cciss: factor out core of sendcmd_withirq() for use by SCSI error handling code cciss: Use schedule_timeout_uninterruptible in SCSI error handling code block: needs to set the residual length of a bidi request Revert "block: implement blkdev_readpages" block: Fix bounce limit setting in DM Removed reference to non-existing file Documentation/PCI/PCI-DMA-mapping.txt ... Manually fix conflicts with tracing updates in: block/blk-sysfs.c drivers/ide/ide-atapi.c drivers/ide/ide-cd.c drivers/ide/ide-floppy.c drivers/ide/ide-tape.c include/trace/events/block.h kernel/trace/blktrace.c
| * | Removed reference to non-existing file Documentation/PCI/PCI-DMA-mapping.txtvibi sreenivasan2009-06-021-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | File Documentation/PCI/PCI-DMA-mapping.txt does not exist. Documentation/DMA-mapping.txt contains DMA Mapping details Signed-off-by: vibi sreenivasan <vibi_sreenivasan@cms.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
| * | cciss: add cciss driver sysfs entriesAndrew Patterson2009-06-021-0/+33
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add sysfs entries to the cciss driver needed for the dm/multipath tools. A file for vendor, model, rev, and unique_id is added for each logical drive under directory /sys/bus/pci/devices/<dev>/ccissX/cXdY. Where X = the controller (or host) number and Y is the logical drive number. A link from /sys/bus/pci/devices/<dev>/ccissX/cXdY/block:cciss!cXdY to /sys/block/cciss!cXdY/device is also created. A bus is created in /sys/bus/cciss. A link is created from the pci ccissX entry to /sys/bus/cciss/devices/ccissX. Please consider this for inclusion. Signed-off-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com> Cc: Stephen M. Cameron <scameron@beardog.cca.cpqcorp.net> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
| * | block: Export I/O topology for block devices and partitionsMartin K. Petersen2009-05-221-0/+59
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | To support devices with physical block sizes bigger than 512 bytes we need to ensure proper alignment. This patch adds support for exposing I/O topology characteristics as devices are stacked. logical_block_size is the smallest unit the device can address. physical_block_size indicates the smallest I/O the device can write without incurring a read-modify-write penalty. The io_min parameter is the smallest preferred I/O size reported by the device. In many cases this is the same as the physical block size. However, the io_min parameter can be scaled up when stacking (RAID5 chunk size > physical block size). The io_opt characteristic indicates the optimal I/O size reported by the device. This is usually the stripe width for arrays. The alignment_offset parameter indicates the number of bytes the start of the device/partition is offset from the device's natural alignment. Partition tools and MD/DM utilities can use this to pad their offsets so filesystems start on proper boundaries. Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* | | Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/steve/gfs2-2.6-nmwLinus Torvalds2009-06-112-9/+12
|\ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/steve/gfs2-2.6-nmw: (25 commits) GFS2: Merge gfs2_get_sb into gfs2_get_sb_meta GFS2: Fix cache coherency between truncate and O_DIRECT read GFS2: Fix locking issue mounting gfs2meta fs GFS2: Remove unused variable GFS2: smbd proccess hangs with flock() call. GFS2: Remove args subdir from gfs2 sysfs files GFS2: Remove lockstruct subdir from gfs2 sysfs files GFS2: Move gfs2_unlink_ok into ops_inode.c GFS2: Move gfs2_readlinki into ops_inode.c GFS2: Move gfs2_rmdiri into ops_inode.c GFS2: Merge mount.c and ops_super.c into super.c GFS2: Clean up some file names GFS2: Be more aggressive in reclaiming unlinked inodes GFS2: Add a rgrp bitmap full flag GFS2: Improve resource group error handling GFS2: Don't warn when delete inode fails on ro filesystem GFS2: Update docs GFS2: Umount recovery race fix GFS2: Remove a couple of unused sysfs entries GFS2: Add commit= mount option ...
| * | | GFS2: Update docsSteven Whitehouse2009-05-192-9/+12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Update a few things which were out of date, and fix a typo. Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
* | | | Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2009-06-113-2/+35
|\ \ \ \ | |_|_|/ |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6 * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6: (44 commits) nommu: Provide mmap_min_addr definition. TOMOYO: Add description of lists and structures. TOMOYO: Remove unused field. integrity: ima audit dentry_open failure TOMOYO: Remove unused parameter. security: use mmap_min_addr indepedently of security models TOMOYO: Simplify policy reader. TOMOYO: Remove redundant markers. SELinux: define audit permissions for audit tree netlink messages TOMOYO: Remove unused mutex. tomoyo: avoid get+put of task_struct smack: Remove redundant initialization. integrity: nfsd imbalance bug fix rootplug: Remove redundant initialization. smack: do not beyond ARRAY_SIZE of data integrity: move ima_counts_get integrity: path_check update IMA: Add __init notation to ima functions IMA: Minimal IMA policy and boot param for TCB IMA policy selinux: remove obsolete read buffer limit from sel_read_bool ...
| * | | Merge branch 'next' into for-linusJames Morris2009-06-113-2/+35
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| | * \ \ Merge branch 'master' into nextJames Morris2009-06-096-25/+96
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| | * \ \ \ Merge branch 'master' into nextJames Morris2009-05-225-33/+493
| | |\ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Conflicts: fs/exec.c Removed IMA changes (the IMA checks are now performed via may_open()). Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
| | * | | | | IMA: Minimal IMA policy and boot param for TCB IMA policyEric Paris2009-05-221-0/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The IMA TCB policy is dangerous. A normal use can use all of a system's memory (which cannot be freed) simply by building and running lots of executables. The TCB policy is also nearly useless because logging in as root often causes a policy violation when dealing with utmp, thus rendering the measurements meaningless. There is no good fix for this in the kernel. A full TCB policy would need to be loaded in userspace using LSM rule matching to get both a protected and useful system. But, if too little is measured before userspace can load a real policy one again ends up with a meaningless set of measurements. One option would be to put the policy load inside the initrd in order to get it early enough in the boot sequence to be useful, but this runs into trouble with the LSM. For IMA to measure the LSM policy and the LSM policy loading mechanism it needs rules to do so, but we already talked about problems with defaulting to such broad rules.... IMA also depends on the files being measured to be on an FS which implements and supports i_version. Since the only FS with this support (ext4) doesn't even use it by default it seems silly to have any IMA rules by default. This should reduce the performance overhead of IMA to near 0 while still letting users who choose to configure their machine as such to inclue the ima_tcb kernel paramenter and get measurements during boot before they can load a customized, reasonable policy in userspace. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Acked-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
| | * | | | | Merge branch 'master' into nextJames Morris2009-05-08150-6858/+9893
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| | * | | | | | smack: implement logging V3Etienne Basset2009-04-141-2/+18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | the following patch, add logging of Smack security decisions. This is of course very useful to understand what your current smack policy does. As suggested by Casey, it also now forbids labels with ', " or \ It introduces a '/smack/logging' switch : 0: no logging 1: log denied (default) 2: log accepted 3: log denied&accepted Signed-off-by: Etienne Basset <etienne.basset@numericable.fr> Acked-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com> Acked-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
| | * | | | | | modules: sysctl to block module loadingKees Cook2009-04-031-0/+11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Implement a sysctl file that disables module-loading system-wide since there is no longer a viable way to remove CAP_SYS_MODULE after the system bounding capability set was removed in 2.6.25. Value can only be set to "1", and is tested only if standard capability checks allow CAP_SYS_MODULE. Given existing /dev/mem protections, this should allow administrators a one-way method to block module loading after initial boot-time module loading has finished. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
* | | | | | | | Merge branch 'tracing-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2009-06-106-14/+214
|\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'tracing-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (244 commits) Revert "x86, bts: reenable ptrace branch trace support" tracing: do not translate event helper macros in print format ftrace/documentation: fix typo in function grapher name tracing/events: convert block trace points to TRACE_EVENT(), fix !CONFIG_BLOCK tracing: add protection around module events unload tracing: add trace_seq_vprint interface tracing: fix the block trace points print size tracing/events: convert block trace points to TRACE_EVENT() ring-buffer: fix ret in rb_add_time_stamp ring-buffer: pass in lockdep class key for reader_lock tracing: add annotation to what type of stack trace is recorded tracing: fix multiple use of __print_flags and __print_symbolic tracing/events: fix output format of user stack tracing/events: fix output format of kernel stack tracing/trace_stack: fix the number of entries in the header ring-buffer: discard timestamps that are at the start of the buffer ring-buffer: try to discard unneeded timestamps ring-buffer: fix bug in ring_buffer_discard_commit ftrace: do not profile functions when disabled tracing: make trace pipe recognize latency format flag ...
| * | | | | | | | ftrace/documentation: fix typo in function grapher nameMike Frysinger2009-06-101-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The function graph tracer is called just "function_graph" (no trailing "_tracer" needed). Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> LKML-Reference: <1244623722-6325-1-git-send-email-vapier@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| * | | | | | | | ftrace: add kernel command line function filteringSteven Rostedt2009-06-011-2/+15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When using ftrace=function on the command line to trace functions on boot up, one can not filter out functions that are commonly called. This patch adds two new ftrace command line commands. ftrace_notrace=function-list ftrace_filter=function-list Where function-list is a comma separated list of functions to filter. The ftrace_notrace will make the functions listed not be included in the function tracing, and ftrace_filter will only trace the functions listed. These two act the same as the debugfs/tracing/set_ftrace_notrace and debugfs/tracing/set_ftrace_filter respectively. The simple glob expressions that are allowed by the filter files can also be used by the command line interface. ftrace_notrace=rcu*,*lock,*spin* Will not trace any function that starts with rcu, ends with lock, or has the word spin in it. Note, if the self tests are enabled, they may interfere with the filtering set by the command lines. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| * | | | | | | | kmemtrace: fix kernel parameter documentationPekka Enberg2009-05-261-10/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The kmemtrace.enable kernel parameter no longer works. To enable kmemtrace at boot-time, you must pass "ftrace=kmemtrace" instead. [ Impact: remove obsolete kernel parameter documentation ] Cc: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> LKML-Reference: <alpine.DEB.2.00.0905241112190.10296@rocky> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
| * | | | | | | | tracing/events: Documentation updatesLi Zefan2009-05-191-102/+57
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | - fix some typos - document the difference between '>' and '>>' - document the 'enable' toggle - remove section "Defining an event-enabled tracepoint", since it's out-dated and sample/trace_events/ already serves this purpose. v2: add "Updated by Li Zefan" [ Impact: make documentation up-to-date ] Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> LKML-Reference: <4A125503.5060406@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * | | | | | | | Merge commit 'v2.6.30-rc6' into tracing/coreIngo Molnar2009-05-184-33/+11
| |\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Merge reason: we were on an -rc4 base, sync up to -rc6 Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ Merge branch 'linus' into tracing/coreIngo Molnar2009-05-0739-3585/+1555
| |\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Merge reason: tracing/core was on a .30-rc1 base and was missing out on on a handful of tracing fixes present in .30-rc5-almost. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * | | | | | | | | | tracing: add irq tracepoint documentationJason Baron2009-05-011-0/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Document irqs for the newly created docbook. [ Impact: add documentation ] Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca Cc: wcohen@redhat.com LKML-Reference: <73ff42be3420157667ec548e9b0e409c3cfad05f.1241107197.git.jbaron@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * | | | | | | | | | tracing: add new tracepoints docbookJason Baron2009-05-012-1/+86
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add tracepoint docbook. This will help us document and understand what tracepoints are in the kernel. Since there are multiple macros, and files that contain tracepoints. [ Impact: add documentation ] Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca Cc: wcohen@redhat.com LKML-Reference: <84160b6bd94aff02455da7e12bad054d34c579a0.1241107197.git.jbaron@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * | | | | | | | | | Merge branch 'linus' into tracing/coreIngo Molnar2009-04-146-11/+246
| |\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Merge reason: merge latest tracing fixes to avoid conflicts in kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c with upcoming change Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * | | | | | | | | | | tracing: Document the event tracing systemTheodore Ts'o2009-04-121-0/+135
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> LKML-Reference: <1239479479-2603-3-git-send-email-tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * | | | | | | | | | | tracing: Add documentation for the power tracerTheodore Ts'o2009-04-121-0/+17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <1239479479-2603-4-git-send-email-tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | | | | | | | | | | | Merge branch 'oprofile-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2009-06-101-0/+8
|\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'oprofile-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: oprofile: introduce module_param oprofile.cpu_type oprofile: add support for Core i7 and Atom oprofile: remove undocumented oprofile.p4force option oprofile: re-add force_arch_perfmon option
| * | | | | | | | | | | | oprofile: introduce module_param oprofile.cpu_typeRobert Richter2009-05-081-5/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch removes module_param oprofile.force_arch_perfmon and introduces oprofile.cpu_type=archperfmon instead. This new parameter can be reused for other models and architectures. Currently only archperfmon is supported. Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
| * | | | | | | | | | | | oprofile: re-add force_arch_perfmon optionAndi Kleen2009-05-081-0/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This re-adds the force_arch_perfmon option that was in the original arch perfmon patchkit. Originally this was rejected in favour of a generalized perfmon=name option, but it turned out implementing the later in a reliable way is hard (and it would have been easy to crash the kernel if a user gets it wrong) But now Atom and Core i7 support being readded a user would need to update their oprofile userland to beyond 0.9.4 to use oprofile again on Atom or Core i7. To avoid this problem readd the force_arch_perfmon option. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
* | | | | | | | | | | | | Merge branch 'rcu-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2009-06-101-22/+80
|\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ | |_|_|_|_|_|/ / / / / / / |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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_sched_grace_period(): kill the bogus flush_signals() rculist: use list_entry_rcu in places where it's appropriate rculist.h: introduce list_entry_rcu() and list_first_entry_rcu() rcu: Update RCU tracing documentation for __rcu_pending rcu: Add __rcu_pending tracing to hierarchical RCU RCU: make treercu be default
| * | | | | | | | | | | | rcu: Update RCU tracing documentation for __rcu_pendingPaul E. McKenney2009-04-141-22/+80
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch updates the RCU documentation to reflect the changes in tracing made in the previous patch in the set. Located-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@au1.ibm.com> Tested-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@au1.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: anton@samba.org Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com Cc: manfred@colorfullife.com Cc: cl@linux-foundation.org Cc: josht@linux.vnet.ibm.com Cc: schamp@sgi.com Cc: niv@us.ibm.com Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com Cc: ego@in.ibm.com Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: penberg@cs.helsinki.fi Cc: andi@firstfloor.org Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <12396834792865-git-send-email-> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | | | | | | | | | | | | Merge branch 'iommu-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2009-06-102-5/+19
|\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'iommu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (61 commits) amd-iommu: remove unnecessary "AMD IOMMU: " prefix amd-iommu: detach device explicitly before attaching it to a new domain amd-iommu: remove BUS_NOTIFY_BOUND_DRIVER handling dma-debug: simplify logic in driver_filter() dma-debug: disable/enable irqs only once in device_dma_allocations dma-debug: use pr_* instead of printk(KERN_* ...) dma-debug: code style fixes dma-debug: comment style fixes dma-debug: change hash_bucket_find from first-fit to best-fit x86: enable GART-IOMMU only after setting up protection methods amd_iommu: fix lock imbalance dma-debug: add documentation for the driver filter dma-debug: add dma_debug_driver kernel command line dma-debug: add debugfs file for driver filter dma-debug: add variables and checks for driver filter dma-debug: fix debug_dma_sync_sg_for_cpu and debug_dma_sync_sg_for_device dma-debug: use sg_dma_len accessor dma-debug: use sg_dma_address accessor instead of using dma_address directly amd-iommu: don't free dma adresses below 512MB with CONFIG_IOMMU_STRESS amd-iommu: don't preallocate page tables with CONFIG_IOMMU_STRESS ...
| * \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ Merge branch 'dma-debug/2.6.31' of ↵Ingo Molnar2009-06-072-0/+19
| |\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/joro/linux-2.6-iommu into core/iommu
| | * | | | | | | | | | | | | dma-debug: add documentation for the driver filterJoerg Roedel2009-06-021-0/+12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds the driver filter feature to the dma-debug documentation. Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
| | * | | | | | | | | | | | | dma-debug: add dma_debug_driver kernel command lineJoerg Roedel2009-06-021-0/+7
| | | |_|_|_|_|_|_|/ / / / / | | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch add the dma_debug_driver= boot parameter to enable the driver filter for early boot. Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
| * | | | | | | | | | | | | Merge branch 'linus' into core/iommuIngo Molnar2009-06-0711-58/+589
| |\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ | | | |_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|/ / / | | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Merge reason: This branch was on an -rc5 base so pull almost-2.6.30 to resync with the latest upstream fixes and make sure the combination works fine. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * | | | | | | | | | | | | amd-iommu: remove amd_iommu_size kernel parameterJoerg Roedel2009-05-281-5/+0
| | |/ / / / / / / / / / / | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This parameter is not longer necessary when aperture increases dynamically. Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
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