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Ingo Molnar
23db9f430b Merge branch 'linus' into perfcounters/core
Merge reason: merge almost-rc8 into perfcounters/core, which was -rc6
              based - to pick up the latest upstream fixes.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-01 10:01:39 +02:00
Jaswinder Singh Rajput
d280cc989a headers_check fix: linux/net_dropmon.h
fix the following 'make headers_check' warnings:

  usr/include/linux/net_dropmon.h:7: found __[us]{8,16,32,64} type without #include <linux/types.h>

Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>
2009-06-01 06:23:25 +00:00
Jaswinder Singh Rajput
52bb25a620 headers_check fix: linux/auto_fs.h
fix the following 'make headers_check' warnings:

  usr/include/linux/auto_fs.h:17: include of <linux/types.h> is preferred over <asm/types.h>

Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>
2009-06-01 06:21:13 +00:00
Len Brown
6afec830ac Merge branches 'bugzilla-13121+', 'bugzilla-13233', 'redhat-bugzilla-500311', 'pci-bind-oops', 'misc-2.6.30' and 'i7300_idle' into release 2009-05-29 21:30:01 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
5f789cd8ba Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input:
  Input: libps2 - better handle bad scheduler decisions
  Input: usb1400_ts - fix access to "device data" in resume function
  Input: multitouch - augment event semantics documentation
  Input: multitouch - add tracking ID to the protocol
2009-05-29 08:48:25 -07:00
Daisuke Nishimura
e767e0561d memcg: fix deadlock between lock_page_cgroup and mapping tree_lock
mapping->tree_lock can be acquired from interrupt context.  Then,
following dead lock can occur.

Assume "A" as a page.

 CPU0:
       lock_page_cgroup(A)
		interrupted
			-> take mapping->tree_lock.
 CPU1:
       take mapping->tree_lock
		-> lock_page_cgroup(A)

This patch tries to fix above deadlock by moving memcg's hook to out of
mapping->tree_lock.  charge/uncharge of pagecache/swapcache is protected
by page lock, not tree_lock.

After this patch, lock_page_cgroup() is not called under mapping->tree_lock.

Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-05-29 08:40:02 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan
b2e1feaf0a cred: #include init.h in cred.h
linux/cred.h can't be included as first header (alphabetical order)
because it uses __init which is enough to break compilation on some archs.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-05-29 08:40:01 -07:00
Peter Zijlstra
bbbee90829 perf_counter: Ammend cleanup in fork() fail
When fork() fails we cannot use perf_counter_exit_task() since that
assumes to operate on current. Write a new helper that cleans up
unused/clean contexts.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-29 16:21:52 +02:00
Len Brown
2f102607ac i7300_idle: allow testing on i5000-series hardware w/o re-compile
Testing the i7300_idle driver on i5000-series hardware required
an edit to i7300_idle.h to "#define SUPPORT_I5000 1" and a re-build
of both i7300_idle and ioat_dma.

Replace that build-time scheme with a load-time module parameter:
"7300_idle.forceload=1" to make it easier to test the driver
on hardware that while not officially validated, works fine
and is much more commonly available.

By default (no modparam) the driver will continue to load
only on the i7300.

Note that ioat_dma runs a copy of i7300_idle's probe routine
to know to reserve an IOAT channel for i7300_idle.
This change makes ioat_dma do that always on the i5000,
just like it does on the i7300.

Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Acked-by: Andrew Henroid <andrew.d.henroid@intel.com>
2009-05-28 20:52:40 -04:00
Paul Mackerras
c93f766909 perf_counter: Fix race in attaching counters to tasks and exiting
Commit 564c2b21 ("perf_counter: Optimize context switch between
identical inherited contexts") introduced a race where it is possible
that a counter being attached to a task could get attached to the
wrong task, if the task is one that has inherited its context from
another task via fork.  This happens because the optimized context
switch could switch the context to another task after find_get_context
has read task->perf_counter_ctxp.  In fact, it's possible that the
context could then get freed, if the other task then exits.

This fixes the problem by protecting both the context switch and the
critical code in find_get_context with spinlocks.  The context switch
locks the cxt->lock of both the outgoing and incoming contexts before
swapping them.  That means that once code such as find_get_context
has obtained the spinlock for the context associated with a task,
the context can't get swapped to another task.  However, the context
may have been swapped in the interval between reading
task->perf_counter_ctxp and getting the lock, so it is necessary to
check and retry.

To make sure that none of the contexts being looked at in
find_get_context can get freed, this changes the context freeing code
to use RCU.  Thus an rcu_read_lock() is sufficient to ensure that no
contexts can get freed.  This part of the patch is lifted from a patch
posted by Peter Zijlstra.

This also adds a check to make sure that we can't add a counter to a
task that is exiting.

There is also a race between perf_counter_exit_task and
find_get_context; this solves the race by moving the get_ctx that
was in perf_counter_alloc into the locked region in find_get_context,
so that once find_get_context has got the context for a task, it
won't get freed even if the task calls perf_counter_exit_task.  It
doesn't matter if new top-level (non-inherited) counters get attached
to the context after perf_counter_exit_task has detached the context
from the task.  They will just stay there and never get scheduled in
until the counters' fds get closed, and then perf_release will remove
them from the context and eventually free the context.

With this, we are now doing the unclone in find_get_context rather
than when a counter was added to or removed from a context (actually,
we were missing the unclone_ctx() call when adding a counter to a
context).  We don't need to unclone when removing a counter from a
context because we have no way to remove a counter from a cloned
context.

This also takes out the smp_wmb() in find_get_context, which Peter
Zijlstra pointed out was unnecessary because the cmpxchg implies a
full barrier anyway.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <18974.33033.667187.273886@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-28 15:03:50 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
d3e78ee3d0 perf_counter: Fix perf_counter_init_task() on !CONFIG_PERF_COUNTERS
Pointed out by compiler warnings:

   tip/include/linux/perf_counter.h:644: warning: no return statement in function returning non-void

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-28 11:42:16 +02:00
David S. Miller
4d3383d0ad Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kaber/nf-2.6 2009-05-27 15:51:25 -07:00
Steven Rostedt
0f4fc29dd6 tracing: add __print_symbolic to trace events
This patch adds __print_symbolic which is similar to __print_flags but
works for an enumeration type instead. That is, there is only a one to one
mapping between the values and the symbols. When a match is made, then
it is printed, otherwise the hex value is outputed.

[ Impact: add interface for showing symbol names in events ]

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2009-05-26 20:31:50 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
be74b73a57 tracing: add __print_flags for events
Developers have been asking for the ability in the ftrace event tracer
to display names of bits in a flags variable.

Instead of printing out c2, it would be easier to read FOO|BAR|GOO,
assuming that FOO is bit 1, BAR is bit 6 and GOO is bit 7.

Some examples where this would be useful are the state flags in a context
switch, kmalloc flags, and even permision flags in accessing files.

[
  v2 changes include:

  Frederic Weisbecker's idea of using a mask instead of bits,
  thus we can output GFP_KERNEL instead of GPF_WAIT|GFP_IO|GFP_FS.

  Li Zefan's idea of allowing the caller of __print_flags to add their
  own delimiter (or no delimiter) where we can get for file permissions
  rwx instead of r|w|x.
]

[
  v3 changes:

   Christoph Hellwig's idea of using an array instead of va_args.
]

[ Impact: better displaying of flags in trace output ]

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2009-05-26 20:25:22 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
0127c3ea08 perf_counter: fix warning & lockup
- remove bogus warning
 - fix wakeup from NMI path lockup
 - also fix up whitespace noise in perf_counter.h

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090525153931.703093461@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-25 22:02:23 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
a78ac32587 perf_counter: Generic per counter interrupt throttle
Introduce a generic per counter interrupt throttle.

This uses the perf_counter_overflow() quick disable to throttle a specific
counter when its going too fast when a pmu->unthrottle() method is provided
which can undo the quick disable.

Power needs to implement both the quick disable and the unthrottle method.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090525153931.703093461@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-25 21:41:12 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
48e22d56ec perf_counter: x86: Remove interrupt throttle
remove the x86 specific interrupt throttle

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090525153931.616671838@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-25 21:41:12 +02:00
Jozsef Kadlecsik
bfcaa50270 netfilter: nf_ct_tcp: fix accepting invalid RST segments
Robert L Mathews discovered that some clients send evil TCP RST segments,
which are accepted by netfilter conntrack but discarded by the
destination. Thus the conntrack entry is destroyed but the destination
retransmits data until timeout.

The same technique, i.e. sending properly crafted RST segments, can easily
be used to bypass connlimit/connbytes based restrictions (the sample
script written by Robert can be found in the netfilter mailing list
archives).

The patch below adds a new flag and new field to struct ip_ct_tcp_state so
that checking RST segments can be made more strict and thus TCP conntrack
can catch the invalid ones: the RST segment is accepted only if its
sequence number higher than or equal to the highest ack we seen from the
other direction. (The last_ack field cannot be reused because it is used
to catch resent packets.)

Signed-off-by: Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@blackhole.kfki.hu>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2009-05-25 17:23:15 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
6ab423e0ea perf_counter: Propagate inheritance failures down the fork() path
Fail fork() when we fail inheritance for some reason (-ENOMEM most likely).

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090525124600.324656474@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-25 14:55:01 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
e527ea312f perf_counter: Remove unused ABI bits
extra_config_len isn't used for anything, remove it.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090525124600.116035832@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-25 14:55:00 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
475c557973 perf_counter: Remove perf_counter_context::nr_enabled
now that pctrl() no longer disables other people's counters,
remove the PMU cache code that deals with that.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090523163013.032998331@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-24 08:24:30 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
082ff5a276 perf_counter: Change pctrl() behaviour
Instead of en/dis-abling all counters acting on a particular
task, en/dis- able all counters we created.

[ v2: fix crash on first counter enable ]

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090523163012.916937244@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-24 08:24:08 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
fccc714b31 perf_counter: Sanitize counter->mutex
s/counter->mutex/counter->child_mutex/ and make sure its only
used to protect child_list.

The usage in __perf_counter_exit_task() doesn't appear to be
problematic since ctx->mutex also covers anything related to fd
tear-down.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090523163012.533186528@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-23 19:37:45 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
e220d2dcb9 perf_counter: Fix dynamic irq_period logging
We call perf_adjust_freq() from perf_counter_task_tick() which
is is called under the rq->lock causing lock recursion.
However, it's no longer required to be called under the
rq->lock, so remove it from under it.

Also, fix up some related comments.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090523163012.476197912@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-23 19:37:44 +02:00
Henrik Rydberg
df391e0eda Input: multitouch - add tracking ID to the protocol
There are a few multi-touch devices that support finger tracking
well in hardware, Stantum being the prime example. By exposing the
tracking ID in the MT protocol, evdev bandwidth and cpu usage in
user space can be reduced.

This patch adds the ABS_MT_TRACKING_ID to the MT protocol.

Signed-off-by: Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@euromail.se>
Tested-by: Stéphane Chatty <chatty@enac.fr>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
2009-05-23 09:53:18 -07:00
Martin K. Petersen
c72758f337 block: Export I/O topology for block devices and partitions
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>
2009-05-22 23:22:55 +02:00
Martin K. Petersen
025146e13b block: Move queue limits to an embedded struct
To accommodate stacking drivers that do not have an associated request
queue we're moving the limits to a separate, embedded structure.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-05-22 23:22:55 +02:00
Martin K. Petersen
ae03bf639a block: Use accessor functions for queue limits
Convert all external users of queue limits to using wrapper functions
instead of poking the request queue variables directly.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-05-22 23:22:54 +02:00
Martin K. Petersen
e1defc4ff0 block: Do away with the notion of hardsect_size
Until now we have had a 1:1 mapping between storage device physical
block size and the logical block sized used when addressing the device.
With SATA 4KB drives coming out that will no longer be the case.  The
sector size will be 4KB but the logical block size will remain
512-bytes.  Hence we need to distinguish between the physical block size
and the logical ditto.

This patch renames hardsect_size to logical_block_size.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-05-22 23:22:54 +02:00
Jens Axboe
9bd7de51ee Merge branch 'master' into for-2.6.31
Conflicts:
	drivers/ide/ide-io.c

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-05-22 20:28:35 +02:00
Jens Axboe
e4b636366c Merge branch 'master' into for-2.6.31
Conflicts:
	drivers/block/hd.c
	drivers/block/mg_disk.c

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-05-22 20:25:34 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
5ae115af1d Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bart/ide-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bart/ide-2.6:
  via82cxxx: Add VIA VX855 PCI Device ID
  ide: report timeouts in ide_busy_sleep()
  ide: improve failed opcode reporting
  ide: fix printk() levels in ide_dump_ata[pi]_error()
  ide: fix OOPS during ide-cd error recovery
  ide: fix 40-wire cable detection for TSST SH-S202* ATAPI devices (v2)
2009-05-22 08:22:39 -07:00
Harald Welte
5993856e53 via82cxxx: Add VIA VX855 PCI Device ID
This patch adds the PCI Device ID 0xc409 to the PCI ID table of via82cxxx.c,
as well as the 0x8409 south bridge ID.

This is required to make the IDE driver work on the VX855/VX875 integrated
chipset.

Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <HaraldWelte@viatech.com>
Cc: Joseph Chan <JosephChan@via.com.tw>
Cc: Bruce Chang <BruceChang@via.com.tw>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2009-05-22 16:23:39 +02:00
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
28ee9bc5cc ide: report timeouts in ide_busy_sleep()
* change 'hwif' argument to 'drive'
* report an error on timeout

Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2009-05-22 16:23:38 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
910431c7f2 perf_counter: fix !PERF_COUNTERS build failure
Update the !CONFIG_PERF_COUNTERS prototype too, for
perf_counter_task_sched_out().

[ Impact: build fix ]

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <18966.10666.517218.332164@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-22 12:33:14 +02:00
Paul Mackerras
564c2b210a perf_counter: Optimize context switch between identical inherited contexts
When monitoring a process and its descendants with a set of inherited
counters, we can often get the situation in a context switch where
both the old (outgoing) and new (incoming) process have the same set
of counters, and their values are ultimately going to be added together.
In that situation it doesn't matter which set of counters are used to
count the activity for the new process, so there is really no need to
go through the process of reading the hardware counters and updating
the old task's counters and then setting up the PMU for the new task.

This optimizes the context switch in this situation.  Instead of
scheduling out the perf_counter_context for the old task and
scheduling in the new context, we simply transfer the old context
to the new task and keep using it without interruption.  The new
context gets transferred to the old task.  This means that both
tasks still have a valid perf_counter_context, so no special case
is introduced when the old task gets scheduled in again, either on
this CPU or another CPU.

The equivalence of contexts is detected by keeping a pointer in
each cloned context pointing to the context it was cloned from.
To cope with the situation where a context is changed by adding
or removing counters after it has been cloned, we also keep a
generation number on each context which is incremented every time
a context is changed.  When a context is cloned we take a copy
of the parent's generation number, and two cloned contexts are
equivalent only if they have the same parent and the same
generation number.  In order that the parent context pointer
remains valid (and is not reused), we increment the parent
context's reference count for each context cloned from it.

Since we don't have individual fds for the counters in a cloned
context, the only thing that can make two clones of a given parent
different after they have been cloned is enabling or disabling all
counters with prctl.  To account for this, we keep a count of the
number of enabled counters in each context.  Two contexts must have
the same number of enabled counters to be considered equivalent.

Here are some measurements of the context switch time as measured with
the lat_ctx benchmark from lmbench, comparing the times obtained with
and without this patch series:

		-----Unmodified-----		With this patch series
Counters:	none	2 HW	4H+4S	none	2 HW	4H+4S

2 processes:
Average		3.44	6.45	11.24	3.12	3.39	3.60
St dev		0.04	0.04	0.13	0.05	0.17	0.19

8 processes:
Average		6.45	8.79	14.00	5.57	6.23	7.57
St dev		1.27	1.04	0.88	1.42	1.46	1.42

32 processes:
Average		5.56	8.43	13.78	5.28	5.55	7.15
St dev		0.41	0.47	0.53	0.54	0.57	0.81

The numbers are the mean and standard deviation of 20 runs of
lat_ctx.  The "none" columns are lat_ctx run directly without any
counters.  The "2 HW" columns are with lat_ctx run under perfstat,
counting cycles and instructions.  The "4H+4S" columns are lat_ctx run
under perfstat with 4 hardware counters and 4 software counters
(cycles, instructions, cache references, cache misses, task
clock, context switch, cpu migrations, and page faults).

[ Impact: performance optimization of counter context-switches ]

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <18966.10666.517218.332164@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-22 12:18:20 +02:00
Paul Mackerras
a63eaf34ae perf_counter: Dynamically allocate tasks' perf_counter_context struct
This replaces the struct perf_counter_context in the task_struct with
a pointer to a dynamically allocated perf_counter_context struct.  The
main reason for doing is this is to allow us to transfer a
perf_counter_context from one task to another when we do lazy PMU
switching in a later patch.

This has a few side-benefits: the task_struct becomes a little smaller,
we save some memory because only tasks that have perf_counters attached
get a perf_counter_context allocated for them, and we can remove the
inclusion of <linux/perf_counter.h> in sched.h, meaning that we don't
end up recompiling nearly everything whenever perf_counter.h changes.

The perf_counter_context structures are reference-counted and freed
when the last reference is dropped.  A context can have references
from its task and the counters on its task.  Counters can outlive the
task so it is possible that a context will be freed well after its
task has exited.

Contexts are allocated on fork if the parent had a context, or
otherwise the first time that a per-task counter is created on a task.
In the latter case, we set the context pointer in the task struct
locklessly using an atomic compare-and-exchange operation in case we
raced with some other task in creating a context for the subject task.

This also removes the task pointer from the perf_counter struct.  The
task pointer was not used anywhere and would make it harder to move a
context from one task to another.  Anything that needed to know which
task a counter was attached to was already using counter->ctx->task.

The __perf_counter_init_context function moves up in perf_counter.c
so that it can be called from find_get_context, and now initializes
the refcount, but is otherwise unchanged.

We were potentially calling list_del_counter twice: once from
__perf_counter_exit_task when the task exits and once from
__perf_counter_remove_from_context when the counter's fd gets closed.
This adds a check in list_del_counter so it doesn't do anything if
the counter has already been removed from the lists.

Since perf_counter_task_sched_in doesn't do anything if the task doesn't
have a context, and leaves cpuctx->task_ctx = NULL, this adds code to
__perf_install_in_context to set cpuctx->task_ctx if necessary, i.e. in
the case where the current task adds the first counter to itself and
thus creates a context for itself.

This also adds similar code to __perf_counter_enable to handle a
similar situation which can arise when the counters have been disabled
using prctl; that also leaves cpuctx->task_ctx = NULL.

[ Impact: refactor counter context management to prepare for new feature ]

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <18966.10075.781053.231153@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-22 12:18:19 +02:00
James Morris
2c9e703c61 Merge branch 'master' into next
Conflicts:
	fs/exec.c

Removed IMA changes (the IMA checks are now performed via may_open()).

Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2009-05-22 18:40:59 +10:00
Paul Mundt
5f8371cec9 Merge branches 'sh/stable-updates' and 'sh/sparseirq' 2009-05-22 13:29:37 +09:00
Mimi Zohar
b9fc745db8 integrity: path_check update
- Add support in ima_path_check() for integrity checking without
incrementing the counts. (Required for nfsd.)
- rename and export opencount_get to ima_counts_get
- replace ima_shm_check calls with ima_counts_get
- export ima_path_check

Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2009-05-22 09:43:41 +10:00
Linus Torvalds
9fe02c03b4 Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm
* master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm: (25 commits)
  [ARM] 5519/1: amba probe: pass "struct amba_id *" instead of void *
  [ARM] 5517/1: integrator: don't put clock lookups in __initdata
  [ARM] 5518/1: versatile: don't put clock lookups in __initdata
  [ARM] mach-l7200: fix spelling of SYS_CLOCK_OFF
  [ARM] Double check memmap is actually valid with a memmap has unexpected holes V2
  [ARM] realview: fix broadcast tick support
  [ARM] realview: remove useless smp_cross_call_done()
  [ARM] smp: fix cpumask usage in ARM SMP code
  [ARM] 5513/1: Eurotech VIPER SBC: fix compilation error
  [ARM] 5509/1: ep93xx: clkdev enable UARTS
  ARM: OMAP2/3: Change omapfb to use clkdev for dispc and rfbi, v2
  ARM: OMAP3: Fix HW SAVEANDRESTORE shift define
  ARM: OMAP3: Fix number of GPIO lines for 34xx
  [ARM] S3C: Do not set clk->owner field if unset
  [ARM] S3C2410: mach-bast.c registering i2c data too early
  [ARM] S3C24XX: Fix unused code warning in arch/arm/plat-s3c24xx/dma.c
  [ARM] S3C64XX: fix GPIO debug
  [ARM] S3C64XX: GPIO include cleanup
  [ARM] nwfpe: fix 'floatx80_is_nan' sparse warning
  [ARM] nwfpe: Add decleration for ExtendedCPDO
  ...
2009-05-20 16:30:36 -07:00
Alessandro Rubini
03fbdb15c1 [ARM] 5519/1: amba probe: pass "struct amba_id *" instead of void *
The second argument of the probe method points to the amba_id
structure, so it's better passed with the correct type. None of the
current in-tree drivers uses the pointer, so they have only been
checked for a clean compile.

Change suggested by Russell King.

Signed-off-by: Alessandro Rubini <rubini@unipv.it>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2009-05-20 23:26:51 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra
26b119bc81 perf_counter: Log irq_period changes
For the dynamic irq_period code, log whenever we change the period so that
analyzing code can normalize the event flow.

[ Impact: add new feature to allow more precise profiling ]

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090520102553.298769743@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-20 12:43:33 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
d7b629a34f perf_counter: Solve the rotate_ctx vs inherit race differently
Instead of disabling RR scheduling of the counters, use a different list
that does not get rotated to iterate the counters on inheritance.

[ Impact: cleanup, optimization ]

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090520102553.237504544@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-20 12:43:32 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner
521c180874 Merge branch 'core/urgent' into core/futexes
Merge reason: this branch was on an pre -rc1 base, merge it up to -rc6+
              to get the latest upstream fixes.

Conflicts:
	kernel/futex.c

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2009-05-20 09:02:28 +02:00
Jens Axboe
0a7ae2ff0d block: change the tag sync vs async restriction logic
Make them fully share the tag space, but disallow async requests using
the last any two slots.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-05-20 08:54:31 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
c44d70a340 perf_counter: fix counter inheritance race
Context rotation should not occur when we are in the middle of
walking the counter list when inheriting counters ...

[ Impact: fix occasionally incorrect perf stat results ]

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-20 00:22:30 +02:00
Boaz Harrosh
a411f4bbb8 block: Un-export blk_rq_append_bio
OSD was the last in-tree user of blk_rq_append_bio(). Now
that it is fixed blk_rq_append_bio is un-exported and
is only used internally by block layer.

Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-05-19 12:14:56 +02:00
Boaz Harrosh
79eb63e9e5 block: Add blk_make_request(), takes bio, returns a request
New block API:
given a struct bio allocates a new request. This is the parallel of
generic_make_request for BLOCK_PC commands users.

The passed bio may be a chained-bio. The bio is bounced if needed
inside the call to this member.

This is in the effort of un-exporting blk_rq_append_bio().

Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
CC: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-05-19 12:14:56 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
4200efd9ac sched: properly define the sched_group::cpumask and sched_domain::span fields
Properly document the variable-size structure tricks we are doing
wrt. struct sched_group and sched_domain, and use the field[0] GCC
extension instead of defining a vla array.

Dont use unions for this, as pointed out by Linus.

[ Impact: cleanup, un-confuse Sparse and LLVM ]

Reported-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <alpine.LFD.2.01.0905180850110.3301@localhost.localdomain>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-19 09:22:19 +02:00