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Message-ID: <20110613095328.GA22630@elte.hu>
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 11:53:28 +0200
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: [GIT PULL] perf fixes
Linus,
Please pull the latest perf-urgent-for-linus git tree from:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip.git perf-urgent-for-linus
Thanks,
Ingo
------------------>
GuoWen Li (1):
ftrace: Fix possible undefined return code
Robert Richter (4):
oprofile, x86: Add comments to IBS LVT offset initialization
oprofile: Free potentially owned tasks in case of errors
oprofile: Fix locking dependency in sync_start()
oprofile, dcookies: Fix possible circular locking dependency
Steven Rostedt (2):
kprobes/trace: Fix kprobe selftest for gcc 4.6
ftrace: Revert 8ab2b7efd ftrace: Remove unnecessary disabling of irqs
arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c | 3 ++-
arch/x86/oprofile/op_model_amd.c | 13 +++++++++----
drivers/oprofile/buffer_sync.c | 21 +++++++++++----------
fs/dcookies.c | 3 +++
kernel/trace/ftrace.c | 9 ++++++++-
kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c | 8 ++++++--
6 files changed, 39 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c b/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c
index b961af8..b9338b8 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c
@@ -390,7 +390,8 @@ static unsigned int reserve_eilvt_offset(int offset, unsigned int new)
/*
* If mask=1, the LVT entry does not generate interrupts while mask=0
- * enables the vector. See also the BKDGs.
+ * enables the vector. See also the BKDGs. Must be called with
+ * preemption disabled.
*/
int setup_APIC_eilvt(u8 offset, u8 vector, u8 msg_type, u8 mask)
diff --git a/arch/x86/oprofile/op_model_amd.c b/arch/x86/oprofile/op_model_amd.c
index 9fd8a56..9cbb710 100644
--- a/arch/x86/oprofile/op_model_amd.c
+++ b/arch/x86/oprofile/op_model_amd.c
@@ -609,16 +609,21 @@ static int setup_ibs_ctl(int ibs_eilvt_off)
return 0;
}
+/*
+ * This runs only on the current cpu. We try to find an LVT offset and
+ * setup the local APIC. For this we must disable preemption. On
+ * success we initialize all nodes with this offset. This updates then
+ * the offset in the IBS_CTL per-node msr. The per-core APIC setup of
+ * the IBS interrupt vector is called from op_amd_setup_ctrs()/op_-
+ * amd_cpu_shutdown() using the new offset.
+ */
static int force_ibs_eilvt_setup(void)
{
int offset;
int ret;
- /*
- * find the next free available EILVT entry, skip offset 0,
- * pin search to this cpu
- */
preempt_disable();
+ /* find the next free available EILVT entry, skip offset 0 */
for (offset = 1; offset < APIC_EILVT_NR_MAX; offset++) {
if (get_eilvt(offset))
break;
diff --git a/drivers/oprofile/buffer_sync.c b/drivers/oprofile/buffer_sync.c
index a3984f4..f34b5b2 100644
--- a/drivers/oprofile/buffer_sync.c
+++ b/drivers/oprofile/buffer_sync.c
@@ -141,6 +141,13 @@ static struct notifier_block module_load_nb = {
.notifier_call = module_load_notify,
};
+static void free_all_tasks(void)
+{
+ /* make sure we don't leak task structs */
+ process_task_mortuary();
+ process_task_mortuary();
+}
+
int sync_start(void)
{
int err;
@@ -148,8 +155,6 @@ int sync_start(void)
if (!zalloc_cpumask_var(&marked_cpus, GFP_KERNEL))
return -ENOMEM;
- mutex_lock(&buffer_mutex);
-
err = task_handoff_register(&task_free_nb);
if (err)
goto out1;
@@ -166,7 +171,6 @@ int sync_start(void)
start_cpu_work();
out:
- mutex_unlock(&buffer_mutex);
return err;
out4:
profile_event_unregister(PROFILE_MUNMAP, &munmap_nb);
@@ -174,6 +178,7 @@ out3:
profile_event_unregister(PROFILE_TASK_EXIT, &task_exit_nb);
out2:
task_handoff_unregister(&task_free_nb);
+ free_all_tasks();
out1:
free_cpumask_var(marked_cpus);
goto out;
@@ -182,20 +187,16 @@ out1:
void sync_stop(void)
{
- /* flush buffers */
- mutex_lock(&buffer_mutex);
end_cpu_work();
unregister_module_notifier(&module_load_nb);
profile_event_unregister(PROFILE_MUNMAP, &munmap_nb);
profile_event_unregister(PROFILE_TASK_EXIT, &task_exit_nb);
task_handoff_unregister(&task_free_nb);
- mutex_unlock(&buffer_mutex);
- flush_cpu_work();
+ barrier(); /* do all of the above first */
- /* make sure we don't leak task structs */
- process_task_mortuary();
- process_task_mortuary();
+ flush_cpu_work();
+ free_all_tasks();
free_cpumask_var(marked_cpus);
}
diff --git a/fs/dcookies.c b/fs/dcookies.c
index a21cabd..dda0dc7 100644
--- a/fs/dcookies.c
+++ b/fs/dcookies.c
@@ -178,6 +178,8 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE(lookup_dcookie)(u64 cookie64, char __user * buf, size_t len)
/* FIXME: (deleted) ? */
path = d_path(&dcs->path, kbuf, PAGE_SIZE);
+ mutex_unlock(&dcookie_mutex);
+
if (IS_ERR(path)) {
err = PTR_ERR(path);
goto out_free;
@@ -194,6 +196,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE(lookup_dcookie)(u64 cookie64, char __user * buf, size_t len)
out_free:
kfree(kbuf);
+ return err;
out:
mutex_unlock(&dcookie_mutex);
return err;
diff --git a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
index 1ee417f..908038f 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
@@ -2740,7 +2740,7 @@ static int ftrace_process_regex(struct ftrace_hash *hash,
{
char *func, *command, *next = buff;
struct ftrace_func_command *p;
- int ret;
+ int ret = -EINVAL;
func = strsep(&next, ":");
@@ -3330,6 +3330,7 @@ static int ftrace_process_locs(struct module *mod,
{
unsigned long *p;
unsigned long addr;
+ unsigned long flags;
mutex_lock(&ftrace_lock);
p = start;
@@ -3346,7 +3347,13 @@ static int ftrace_process_locs(struct module *mod,
ftrace_record_ip(addr);
}
+ /*
+ * Disable interrupts to prevent interrupts from executing
+ * code that is being modified.
+ */
+ local_irq_save(flags);
ftrace_update_code(mod);
+ local_irq_restore(flags);
mutex_unlock(&ftrace_lock);
return 0;
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c b/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c
index f925c45..27d13b3 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c
@@ -1870,8 +1870,12 @@ fs_initcall(init_kprobe_trace);
#ifdef CONFIG_FTRACE_STARTUP_TEST
-static int kprobe_trace_selftest_target(int a1, int a2, int a3,
- int a4, int a5, int a6)
+/*
+ * The "__used" keeps gcc from removing the function symbol
+ * from the kallsyms table.
+ */
+static __used int kprobe_trace_selftest_target(int a1, int a2, int a3,
+ int a4, int a5, int a6)
{
return a1 + a2 + a3 + a4 + a5 + a6;
}
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