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<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<title>perf: Fix inherit vs. context rotation bug</title>
<updated>2010-12-14T22:40:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2010-11-24T09:05:55+00:00</published>
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commit dddd3379a619a4cb8247bfd3c94ca9ae3797aa2e upstream.

It was found that sometimes children of tasks with inherited events had
one extra event. Eventually it turned out to be due to the list rotation
no being exclusive with the list iteration in the inheritance code.

Cure this by temporarily disabling the rotation while we inherit the events.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;new-submission&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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commit dddd3379a619a4cb8247bfd3c94ca9ae3797aa2e upstream.

It was found that sometimes children of tasks with inherited events had
one extra event. Eventually it turned out to be due to the list rotation
no being exclusive with the list iteration in the inheritance code.

Cure this by temporarily disabling the rotation while we inherit the events.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;new-submission&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf_events: Fix races in group composition</title>
<updated>2010-05-31T06:46:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl</email>
</author>
<published>2010-05-27T13:47:49+00:00</published>
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Group siblings don't pin each-other or the parent, so when we destroy
events we must make sure to clean up all cross referencing pointers.

In particular, for destruction of a group leader we must be able to
find all its siblings and remove their reference to it.

This means that detaching an event from its context must not detach it
from the group, otherwise we can end up failing to clear all pointers.

Solve this by clearly separating the attachment to a context and
attachment to a group, and keep the group composed until we destroy
the events.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;new-submission&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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Group siblings don't pin each-other or the parent, so when we destroy
events we must make sure to clean up all cross referencing pointers.

In particular, for destruction of a group leader we must be able to
find all its siblings and remove their reference to it.

This means that detaching an event from its context must not detach it
from the group, otherwise we can end up failing to clear all pointers.

Solve this by clearly separating the attachment to a context and
attachment to a group, and keep the group composed until we destroy
the events.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;new-submission&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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<entry>
<title>perf_events: Fix races and clean up perf_event and perf_mmap_data interaction</title>
<updated>2010-05-31T06:46:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl</email>
</author>
<published>2010-05-27T10:54:41+00:00</published>
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In order to move toward separate buffer objects, rework the whole
perf_mmap_data construct to be a more self-sufficient entity, one
with its own lifetime rules.

This greatly sanitizes the whole output redirection code, which
was riddled with bugs and races.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;new-submission&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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In order to move toward separate buffer objects, rework the whole
perf_mmap_data construct to be a more self-sufficient entity, one
with its own lifetime rules.

This greatly sanitizes the whole output redirection code, which
was riddled with bugs and races.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;new-submission&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf: Remove more code from the fastpath</title>
<updated>2010-05-21T09:37:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl</email>
</author>
<published>2010-05-20T17:50:07+00:00</published>
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Sanity checks cost instructions.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;20100521090710.852926930@chello.nl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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Sanity checks cost instructions.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;20100521090710.852926930@chello.nl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf: Optimize the !vmalloc backed buffer</title>
<updated>2010-05-21T09:37:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl</email>
</author>
<published>2010-05-20T17:07:56+00:00</published>
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Reduce code and data by using the knowledge that for
!PERF_USE_VMALLOC data_order is always 0.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;20100521090710.795019386@chello.nl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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Reduce code and data by using the knowledge that for
!PERF_USE_VMALLOC data_order is always 0.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;20100521090710.795019386@chello.nl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf: Optimize perf_output_copy()</title>
<updated>2010-05-21T09:37:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl</email>
</author>
<published>2010-05-20T14:46:39+00:00</published>
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Reduce the clutter in perf_output_copy() by keeping
an interator in perf_output_handle.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;20100521090710.742809176@chello.nl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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Reduce the clutter in perf_output_copy() by keeping
an interator in perf_output_handle.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;20100521090710.742809176@chello.nl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf: Fix wakeup storm for RO mmap()s</title>
<updated>2010-05-21T09:37:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl</email>
</author>
<published>2010-05-20T14:21:55+00:00</published>
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RO mmap()s don't update the tail pointer, so
comparing against it for determining the written data
size doesn't really do any good.

Keep track of when we last did a wakeup, and compare
against that.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;20100521090710.684479310@chello.nl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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RO mmap()s don't update the tail pointer, so
comparing against it for determining the written data
size doesn't really do any good.

Keep track of when we last did a wakeup, and compare
against that.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;20100521090710.684479310@chello.nl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf, trace: Optimize tracepoints by using per-tracepoint-per-cpu hlist to track events</title>
<updated>2010-05-21T09:37:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl</email>
</author>
<published>2010-05-19T12:02:22+00:00</published>
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Avoid the swevent hash-table by using per-tracepoint
hlists.

Also, avoid conditionals on the fast path by ordering
with probe unregister so that we should never get on
the callback path without the data being there.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;20100521090710.473188012@chello.nl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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Avoid the swevent hash-table by using per-tracepoint
hlists.

Also, avoid conditionals on the fast path by ordering
with probe unregister so that we should never get on
the callback path without the data being there.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;20100521090710.473188012@chello.nl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf: Optimize perf_output_*() by avoiding local_xchg()</title>
<updated>2010-05-18T16:35:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl</email>
</author>
<published>2010-05-18T09:12:48+00:00</published>
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Since the x86 XCHG ins implies LOCK, avoid the use by
using a sequence count instead.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;new-submission&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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Since the x86 XCHG ins implies LOCK, avoid the use by
using a sequence count instead.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;new-submission&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf: Optimize the hotpath by converting the perf output buffer to local_t</title>
<updated>2010-05-18T16:35:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl</email>
</author>
<published>2010-05-18T08:54:20+00:00</published>
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Since there is now only a single writer, we can use
local_t instead and avoid all these pesky LOCK insn.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;new-submission&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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Since there is now only a single writer, we can use
local_t instead and avoid all these pesky LOCK insn.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;new-submission&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
</pre>
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