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<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<title>Merge branch 'for-linus2' of git://git.profusion.mobi/users/lucas/linux-2.6</title>
<updated>2011-04-07T18:14:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-04-07T18:14:49+00:00</published>
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* 'for-linus2' of git://git.profusion.mobi/users/lucas/linux-2.6:
  Fix common misspellings
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* 'for-linus2' of git://git.profusion.mobi/users/lucas/linux-2.6:
  Fix common misspellings
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<entry>
<title>Fix common misspellings</title>
<updated>2011-03-31T14:26:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Lucas De Marchi</name>
<email>lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi</email>
</author>
<published>2011-03-31T01:57:33+00:00</published>
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Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed.

Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi &lt;lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi&gt;
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Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed.

Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi &lt;lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf: Fix task context scheduling</title>
<updated>2011-03-31T11:02:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl</email>
</author>
<published>2011-03-31T08:29:26+00:00</published>
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Jiri reported:

 |
 | - once an event is created by sys_perf_event_open, task context
 |   is created and it stays even if the event is closed, until the
 |   task is finished ... thats what I see in code and I assume it's
 |   correct
 |
 | - when the task opens event, perf_sched_events jump label is
 |   incremented and following callbacks are started from scheduler
 |
 |         __perf_event_task_sched_in
 |         __perf_event_task_sched_out
 |
 |   These callback *in/out set/unset cpuctx-&gt;task_ctx value to the
 |   task context.
 |
 | - close is called on event on CPU 0:
 |         - the task is scheduled on CPU 0
 |         - __perf_event_task_sched_in is called
 |         - cpuctx-&gt;task_ctx is set
 |         - perf_sched_events jump label is decremented and == 0
 |         - __perf_event_task_sched_out is not called
 |         - cpuctx-&gt;task_ctx on CPU 0 stays set
 |
 | - exit is called on CPU 1:
 |         - the task is scheduled on CPU 1
 |         - perf_event_exit_task is called
 |         - task_ctx_sched_out unsets cpuctx-&gt;task_ctx on CPU 1
 |         - put_ctx destroys the context
 |
 | - another call of perf_rotate_context on CPU 0 will use invalid
 |   task_ctx pointer, and eventualy panic.
 |

Cure this the simplest possibly way by partially reverting the
jump_label optimization for the sched_out case.

Reported-and-tested-by: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt; # .37+
LKML-Reference: &lt;1301520405.4859.213.camel@twins&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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Jiri reported:

 |
 | - once an event is created by sys_perf_event_open, task context
 |   is created and it stays even if the event is closed, until the
 |   task is finished ... thats what I see in code and I assume it's
 |   correct
 |
 | - when the task opens event, perf_sched_events jump label is
 |   incremented and following callbacks are started from scheduler
 |
 |         __perf_event_task_sched_in
 |         __perf_event_task_sched_out
 |
 |   These callback *in/out set/unset cpuctx-&gt;task_ctx value to the
 |   task context.
 |
 | - close is called on event on CPU 0:
 |         - the task is scheduled on CPU 0
 |         - __perf_event_task_sched_in is called
 |         - cpuctx-&gt;task_ctx is set
 |         - perf_sched_events jump label is decremented and == 0
 |         - __perf_event_task_sched_out is not called
 |         - cpuctx-&gt;task_ctx on CPU 0 stays set
 |
 | - exit is called on CPU 1:
 |         - the task is scheduled on CPU 1
 |         - perf_event_exit_task is called
 |         - task_ctx_sched_out unsets cpuctx-&gt;task_ctx on CPU 1
 |         - put_ctx destroys the context
 |
 | - another call of perf_rotate_context on CPU 0 will use invalid
 |   task_ctx pointer, and eventualy panic.
 |

Cure this the simplest possibly way by partially reverting the
jump_label optimization for the sched_out case.

Reported-and-tested-by: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt; # .37+
LKML-Reference: &lt;1301520405.4859.213.camel@twins&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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<entry>
<title>perf_events: Fix stale -&gt;cgrp pointer in update_cgrp_time_from_cpuctx()</title>
<updated>2011-03-23T15:07:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stephane Eranian</name>
<email>eranian@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-03-23T15:03:06+00:00</published>
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This patch solves a stale pointer problem in
update_cgrp_time_from_cpuctx(). The cpuctx-&gt;cgrp
was not cleared on all possible event exit paths,
including:

   close()
     perf_release()
       perf_release_kernel()
         list_del_event()

This patch fixes list_del_event() to clear cpuctx-&gt;cgrp
when there are no cgroup events left in the context.

[ This second version makes the code compile when
  CONFIG_CGROUP_PERF is not enabled. We unconditionally define
  perf_cpu_context-&gt;cgrp. ]

Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: perfmon2-devel@lists.sf.net
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: davem@davemloft.net
LKML-Reference: &lt;20110323150306.GA1580@quad&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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This patch solves a stale pointer problem in
update_cgrp_time_from_cpuctx(). The cpuctx-&gt;cgrp
was not cleared on all possible event exit paths,
including:

   close()
     perf_release()
       perf_release_kernel()
         list_del_event()

This patch fixes list_del_event() to clear cpuctx-&gt;cgrp
when there are no cgroup events left in the context.

[ This second version makes the code compile when
  CONFIG_CGROUP_PERF is not enabled. We unconditionally define
  perf_cpu_context-&gt;cgrp. ]

Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: perfmon2-devel@lists.sf.net
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: davem@davemloft.net
LKML-Reference: &lt;20110323150306.GA1580@quad&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf: Reorder &amp; optimize perf_event_context to remove alignment padding on 64 bit builds</title>
<updated>2011-03-16T13:04:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Richard Kennedy</name>
<email>richard@rsk.demon.co.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2011-03-07T15:46:59+00:00</published>
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Remove 8 bytes of alignment padding from perf_event_context on 64 bit
builds which shrinks its size to 192 bytes allowing it to fit into one
fewer cache lines and into a smaller slab.

Signed-off-by: Richard Kennedy &lt;richard@rsk.demon.co.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;1299512819.2039.5.camel@castor.rsk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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Remove 8 bytes of alignment padding from perf_event_context on 64 bit
builds which shrinks its size to 192 bytes allowing it to fit into one
fewer cache lines and into a smaller slab.

Signed-off-by: Richard Kennedy &lt;richard@rsk.demon.co.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;1299512819.2039.5.camel@castor.rsk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf: Add support for supplementary event registers</title>
<updated>2011-03-04T10:32:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andi Kleen</name>
<email>ak@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-03-03T02:34:47+00:00</published>
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Change logs against Andi's original version:

- Extends perf_event_attr:config to config{,1,2} (Peter Zijlstra)
- Fixed a major event scheduling issue. There cannot be a ref++ on an
  event that has already done ref++ once and without calling
  put_constraint() in between. (Stephane Eranian)
- Use thread_cpumask for percore allocation. (Lin Ming)
- Use MSR names in the extra reg lists. (Lin Ming)
- Remove redundant "c = NULL" in intel_percore_constraints
- Fix comment of perf_event_attr::config1

Intel Nehalem/Westmere have a special OFFCORE_RESPONSE event
that can be used to monitor any offcore accesses from a core.
This is a very useful event for various tunings, and it's
also needed to implement the generic LLC-* events correctly.

Unfortunately this event requires programming a mask in a separate
register. And worse this separate register is per core, not per
CPU thread.

This patch:

- Teaches perf_events that OFFCORE_RESPONSE needs extra parameters.
  The extra parameters are passed by user space in the
  perf_event_attr::config1 field.

- Adds support to the Intel perf_event core to schedule per
  core resources. This adds fairly generic infrastructure that
  can be also used for other per core resources.
  The basic code has is patterned after the similar AMD northbridge
  constraints code.

Thanks to Stephane Eranian who pointed out some problems
in the original version and suggested improvements.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Lin Ming &lt;ming.m.lin@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;1299119690-13991-2-git-send-email-ming.m.lin@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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Change logs against Andi's original version:

- Extends perf_event_attr:config to config{,1,2} (Peter Zijlstra)
- Fixed a major event scheduling issue. There cannot be a ref++ on an
  event that has already done ref++ once and without calling
  put_constraint() in between. (Stephane Eranian)
- Use thread_cpumask for percore allocation. (Lin Ming)
- Use MSR names in the extra reg lists. (Lin Ming)
- Remove redundant "c = NULL" in intel_percore_constraints
- Fix comment of perf_event_attr::config1

Intel Nehalem/Westmere have a special OFFCORE_RESPONSE event
that can be used to monitor any offcore accesses from a core.
This is a very useful event for various tunings, and it's
also needed to implement the generic LLC-* events correctly.

Unfortunately this event requires programming a mask in a separate
register. And worse this separate register is per core, not per
CPU thread.

This patch:

- Teaches perf_events that OFFCORE_RESPONSE needs extra parameters.
  The extra parameters are passed by user space in the
  perf_event_attr::config1 field.

- Adds support to the Intel perf_event core to schedule per
  core resources. This adds fairly generic infrastructure that
  can be also used for other per core resources.
  The basic code has is patterned after the similar AMD northbridge
  constraints code.

Thanks to Stephane Eranian who pointed out some problems
in the original version and suggested improvements.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Lin Ming &lt;ming.m.lin@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;1299119690-13991-2-git-send-email-ming.m.lin@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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<entry>
<title>perf: Optimize throttling code</title>
<updated>2011-02-16T12:30:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl</email>
</author>
<published>2011-02-16T10:22:34+00:00</published>
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By pre-computing the maximum number of samples per tick we can avoid a
multiplication and a conditional since MAX_INTERRUPTS &gt;
max_samples_per_tick.

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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By pre-computing the maximum number of samples per tick we can avoid a
multiplication and a conditional since MAX_INTERRUPTS &gt;
max_samples_per_tick.

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: Add cgroup support</title>
<updated>2011-02-16T12:30:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stephane Eranian</name>
<email>eranian@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-02-14T09:20:01+00:00</published>
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This kernel patch adds the ability to filter monitoring based on
container groups (cgroups). This is for use in per-cpu mode only.

The cgroup to monitor is passed as a file descriptor in the pid
argument to the syscall. The file descriptor must be opened to
the cgroup name in the cgroup filesystem. For instance, if the
cgroup name is foo and cgroupfs is mounted in /cgroup, then the
file descriptor is opened to /cgroup/foo. Cgroup mode is
activated by passing PERF_FLAG_PID_CGROUP in the flags argument
to the syscall.

For instance to measure in cgroup foo on CPU1 assuming
cgroupfs is mounted under /cgroup:

struct perf_event_attr attr;
int cgroup_fd, fd;

cgroup_fd = open("/cgroup/foo", O_RDONLY);
fd = perf_event_open(&amp;attr, cgroup_fd, 1, -1, PERF_FLAG_PID_CGROUP);
close(cgroup_fd);

Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
[ added perf_cgroup_{exit,attach} ]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;4d590250.114ddf0a.689e.4482@mx.google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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This kernel patch adds the ability to filter monitoring based on
container groups (cgroups). This is for use in per-cpu mode only.

The cgroup to monitor is passed as a file descriptor in the pid
argument to the syscall. The file descriptor must be opened to
the cgroup name in the cgroup filesystem. For instance, if the
cgroup name is foo and cgroupfs is mounted in /cgroup, then the
file descriptor is opened to /cgroup/foo. Cgroup mode is
activated by passing PERF_FLAG_PID_CGROUP in the flags argument
to the syscall.

For instance to measure in cgroup foo on CPU1 assuming
cgroupfs is mounted under /cgroup:

struct perf_event_attr attr;
int cgroup_fd, fd;

cgroup_fd = open("/cgroup/foo", O_RDONLY);
fd = perf_event_open(&amp;attr, cgroup_fd, 1, -1, PERF_FLAG_PID_CGROUP);
close(cgroup_fd);

Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
[ added perf_cgroup_{exit,attach} ]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;4d590250.114ddf0a.689e.4482@mx.google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf: Sysfs enumeration</title>
<updated>2010-12-16T10:36:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl</email>
</author>
<published>2010-11-17T22:17:37+00:00</published>
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Simple sysfs emumeration of the PMUs.

Use a "event_source" bus, and add PMU devices using their name.

Each PMU device has a type attribute which contrains the value needed
for perf_event_attr::type to identify this PMU.

This is the minimal stub needed to start using this interface,
we'll consider extending the sysfs usage later.

Cc: Kay Sievers &lt;kay.sievers@vrfy.org&gt;
Cc: Greg KH &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;20101117222056.316982569@chello.nl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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Simple sysfs emumeration of the PMUs.

Use a "event_source" bus, and add PMU devices using their name.

Each PMU device has a type attribute which contrains the value needed
for perf_event_attr::type to identify this PMU.

This is the minimal stub needed to start using this interface,
we'll consider extending the sysfs usage later.

Cc: Kay Sievers &lt;kay.sievers@vrfy.org&gt;
Cc: Greg KH &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;20101117222056.316982569@chello.nl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf: Dynamic pmu types</title>
<updated>2010-12-16T10:36:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl</email>
</author>
<published>2010-11-17T22:17:36+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=2e80a82a49c4c7eca4e35734380f28298ba5db19'/>
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Extend the perf_pmu_register() interface to allow for named and
dynamic pmu types.

Because we need to support the existing static types we cannot use
dynamic types for everything, hence provide a type argument.

If we want to enumerate the PMUs they need a name, provide one.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;20101117222056.259707703@chello.nl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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Extend the perf_pmu_register() interface to allow for named and
dynamic pmu types.

Because we need to support the existing static types we cannot use
dynamic types for everything, hence provide a type argument.

If we want to enumerate the PMUs they need a name, provide one.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;20101117222056.259707703@chello.nl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
</pre>
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