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<title>perf: Fix a race between ring_buffer_detach() and ring_buffer_attach()</title>
<updated>2014-05-19T12:44:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-03-14T09:50:33+00:00</published>
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Alexander noticed that we use RCU iteration on rb-&gt;event_list but do
not use list_{add,del}_rcu() to add,remove entries to that list, nor
do we observe proper grace periods when re-using the entries.

Merge ring_buffer_detach() into ring_buffer_attach() such that
attaching to the NULL buffer is detaching.

Furthermore, ensure that between any 'detach' and 'attach' of the same
event we observe the required grace period, but only when strictly
required. In effect this means that only ioctl(.request =
PERF_EVENT_IOC_SET_OUTPUT) will wait for a grace period, while the
normal initial attach and final detach will not be delayed.

This patch should, I think, do the right thing under all
circumstances, the 'normal' cases all should never see the extra grace
period, but the two cases:

 1) PERF_EVENT_IOC_SET_OUTPUT on an event which already has a
    ring_buffer set, will now observe the required grace period between
    removing itself from the old and attaching itself to the new buffer.

    This case is 'simple' in that both buffers are present in
    perf_event_set_output() one could think an unconditional
    synchronize_rcu() would be sufficient; however...

 2) an event that has a buffer attached, the buffer is destroyed
    (munmap) and then the event is attached to a new/different buffer
    using PERF_EVENT_IOC_SET_OUTPUT.

    This case is more complex because the buffer destruction does:
      ring_buffer_attach(.rb = NULL)
    followed by the ioctl() doing:
      ring_buffer_attach(.rb = foo);

    and we still need to observe the grace period between these two
    calls due to us reusing the event-&gt;rb_entry list_head.

In order to make 2 happen we use Paul's latest cond_synchronize_rcu()
call.

Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Reported-by: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140507123526.GD13658@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
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Alexander noticed that we use RCU iteration on rb-&gt;event_list but do
not use list_{add,del}_rcu() to add,remove entries to that list, nor
do we observe proper grace periods when re-using the entries.

Merge ring_buffer_detach() into ring_buffer_attach() such that
attaching to the NULL buffer is detaching.

Furthermore, ensure that between any 'detach' and 'attach' of the same
event we observe the required grace period, but only when strictly
required. In effect this means that only ioctl(.request =
PERF_EVENT_IOC_SET_OUTPUT) will wait for a grace period, while the
normal initial attach and final detach will not be delayed.

This patch should, I think, do the right thing under all
circumstances, the 'normal' cases all should never see the extra grace
period, but the two cases:

 1) PERF_EVENT_IOC_SET_OUTPUT on an event which already has a
    ring_buffer set, will now observe the required grace period between
    removing itself from the old and attaching itself to the new buffer.

    This case is 'simple' in that both buffers are present in
    perf_event_set_output() one could think an unconditional
    synchronize_rcu() would be sufficient; however...

 2) an event that has a buffer attached, the buffer is destroyed
    (munmap) and then the event is attached to a new/different buffer
    using PERF_EVENT_IOC_SET_OUTPUT.

    This case is more complex because the buffer destruction does:
      ring_buffer_attach(.rb = NULL)
    followed by the ioctl() doing:
      ring_buffer_attach(.rb = foo);

    and we still need to observe the grace period between these two
    calls due to us reusing the event-&gt;rb_entry list_head.

In order to make 2 happen we use Paul's latest cond_synchronize_rcu()
call.

Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Reported-by: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140507123526.GD13658@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>CPU hotplug, perf: Fix CPU hotplug callback registration</title>
<updated>2014-03-20T12:43:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Srivatsa S. Bhat</name>
<email>srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-03-10T20:34:39+00:00</published>
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Subsystems that want to register CPU hotplug callbacks, as well as perform
initialization for the CPUs that are already online, often do it as shown
below:

	get_online_cpus();

	for_each_online_cpu(cpu)
		init_cpu(cpu);

	register_cpu_notifier(&amp;foobar_cpu_notifier);

	put_online_cpus();

This is wrong, since it is prone to ABBA deadlocks involving the
cpu_add_remove_lock and the cpu_hotplug.lock (when running concurrently
with CPU hotplug operations).

Instead, the correct and race-free way of performing the callback
registration is:

	cpu_notifier_register_begin();

	for_each_online_cpu(cpu)
		init_cpu(cpu);

	/* Note the use of the double underscored version of the API */
	__register_cpu_notifier(&amp;foobar_cpu_notifier);

	cpu_notifier_register_done();

Fix the perf subsystem's hotplug notifier by using this latter form of
callback registration.

Also provide a bare-bones version of perf_cpu_notifier() that doesn't
invoke the notifiers for the already online CPUs. This would be useful
for subsystems that need to perform a different set of initialization
for the already online CPUs, or don't need the initialization altogether.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@ghostprotocols.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat &lt;srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
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Subsystems that want to register CPU hotplug callbacks, as well as perform
initialization for the CPUs that are already online, often do it as shown
below:

	get_online_cpus();

	for_each_online_cpu(cpu)
		init_cpu(cpu);

	register_cpu_notifier(&amp;foobar_cpu_notifier);

	put_online_cpus();

This is wrong, since it is prone to ABBA deadlocks involving the
cpu_add_remove_lock and the cpu_hotplug.lock (when running concurrently
with CPU hotplug operations).

Instead, the correct and race-free way of performing the callback
registration is:

	cpu_notifier_register_begin();

	for_each_online_cpu(cpu)
		init_cpu(cpu);

	/* Note the use of the double underscored version of the API */
	__register_cpu_notifier(&amp;foobar_cpu_notifier);

	cpu_notifier_register_done();

Fix the perf subsystem's hotplug notifier by using this latter form of
callback registration.

Also provide a bare-bones version of perf_cpu_notifier() that doesn't
invoke the notifiers for the already online CPUs. This would be useful
for subsystems that need to perform a different set of initialization
for the already online CPUs, or don't need the initialization altogether.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@ghostprotocols.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat &lt;srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf/x86: Fix active_entry initialization</title>
<updated>2014-01-12T09:16:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stephane Eranian</name>
<email>eranian@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-01-08T10:15:52+00:00</published>
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This patch fixes a problem with the initialization of the
struct perf_event active_entry field. It is defined inside
an anonymous union and was initialized in perf_event_alloc()
using INIT_LIST_HEAD(). However at that time, we do not know
whether the event is going to use active_entry or hlist_entry (SW).
Or at last, we don't want to make that determination there.
The problem is that hlist and list_head are not initialized
the same way. One is okay with NULL (from kzmalloc), the other
needs to pointers to point to self.

This patch resolves this problem by dropping the union.
This will avoid problems later on, if someone starts using
active_entry or hlist_entry without verifying that they
actually overlap. This also solves the initialization
problem.

Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Cc: ak@linux.intel.com
Cc: acme@redhat.com
Cc: jolsa@redhat.com
Cc: zheng.z.yan@intel.com
Cc: bp@alien8.de
Cc: vincent.weaver@maine.edu
Cc: maria.n.dimakopoulou@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1389176153-3128-2-git-send-email-eranian@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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This patch fixes a problem with the initialization of the
struct perf_event active_entry field. It is defined inside
an anonymous union and was initialized in perf_event_alloc()
using INIT_LIST_HEAD(). However at that time, we do not know
whether the event is going to use active_entry or hlist_entry (SW).
Or at last, we don't want to make that determination there.
The problem is that hlist and list_head are not initialized
the same way. One is okay with NULL (from kzmalloc), the other
needs to pointers to point to self.

This patch resolves this problem by dropping the union.
This will avoid problems later on, if someone starts using
active_entry or hlist_entry without verifying that they
actually overlap. This also solves the initialization
problem.

Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Cc: ak@linux.intel.com
Cc: acme@redhat.com
Cc: jolsa@redhat.com
Cc: zheng.z.yan@intel.com
Cc: bp@alien8.de
Cc: vincent.weaver@maine.edu
Cc: maria.n.dimakopoulou@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1389176153-3128-2-git-send-email-eranian@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf: Add active_entry list head to struct perf_event</title>
<updated>2013-11-27T10:16:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stephane Eranian</name>
<email>eranian@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-11-12T16:58:48+00:00</published>
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This patch adds a new field to the struct perf_event.
It is intended to be used to chain events which are
active (enabled). It helps in the hardware layer
for PMUs which do not have actual counter restrictions, i.e.,
free running read-only counters. Active events are chained
as opposed to being tracked via the counter they use.

To save space we use a union with hlist_entry as both
are mutually exclusive (suggested by Jiri Olsa).

Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: acme@redhat.com
Cc: jolsa@redhat.com
Cc: zheng.z.yan@intel.com
Cc: bp@alien8.de
Cc: maria.n.dimakopoulou@gmail.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1384275531-10892-2-git-send-email-eranian@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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This patch adds a new field to the struct perf_event.
It is intended to be used to chain events which are
active (enabled). It helps in the hardware layer
for PMUs which do not have actual counter restrictions, i.e.,
free running read-only counters. Active events are chained
as opposed to being tracked via the counter they use.

To save space we use a union with hlist_entry as both
are mutually exclusive (suggested by Jiri Olsa).

Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: acme@redhat.com
Cc: jolsa@redhat.com
Cc: zheng.z.yan@intel.com
Cc: bp@alien8.de
Cc: maria.n.dimakopoulou@gmail.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1384275531-10892-2-git-send-email-eranian@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf: Add generic transaction flags</title>
<updated>2013-10-04T08:06:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andi Kleen</name>
<email>ak@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-09-20T14:40:39+00:00</published>
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Add a generic qualifier for transaction events, as a new sample
type that returns a flag word. This is particularly useful
for qualifying aborts: to distinguish aborts which happen
due to asynchronous events (like conflicts caused by another
CPU) versus instructions that lead to an abort.

The tuning strategies are very different for those cases,
so it's important to distinguish them easily and early.

Since it's inconvenient and inflexible to filter for this
in the kernel we report all the events out and allow
some post processing in user space.

The flags are based on the Intel TSX events, but should be fairly
generic and mostly applicable to other HTM architectures too. In addition
to various flag words there's also reserved space to report an
program supplied abort code. For TSX this is used to distinguish specific
classes of aborts, like a lock busy abort when doing lock elision.

Flags:

Elision and generic transactions 		   (ELISION vs TRANSACTION)
(HLE vs RTM on TSX; IBM etc.  would likely only use TRANSACTION)
Aborts caused by current thread vs aborts caused by others (SYNC vs ASYNC)
Retryable transaction				   (RETRY)
Conflicts with other threads			   (CONFLICT)
Transaction write capacity overflow		   (CAPACITY WRITE)
Transaction read capacity overflow		   (CAPACITY READ)

Transactions implicitely aborted can also return an abort code.
This can be used to signal specific events to the profiler. A common
case is abort on lock busy in a RTM eliding library (code 0xff)
To handle this case we include the TSX abort code

Common example aborts in TSX would be:

- Data conflict with another thread on memory read.
                                      Flags: TRANSACTION|ASYNC|CONFLICT
- executing a WRMSR in a transaction. Flags: TRANSACTION|SYNC
- HLE transaction in user space is too large
                                      Flags: ELISION|SYNC|CAPACITY-WRITE

The only flag that is somewhat TSX specific is ELISION.

This adds the perf core glue needed for reporting the new flag word out.

v2: Add MEM/MISC
v3: Move transaction to the end
v4: Separate capacity-read/write and remove misc
v5: Remove _SAMPLE. Move abort flags to 32bit. Rename
    transaction to txn
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1379688044-14173-2-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Add a generic qualifier for transaction events, as a new sample
type that returns a flag word. This is particularly useful
for qualifying aborts: to distinguish aborts which happen
due to asynchronous events (like conflicts caused by another
CPU) versus instructions that lead to an abort.

The tuning strategies are very different for those cases,
so it's important to distinguish them easily and early.

Since it's inconvenient and inflexible to filter for this
in the kernel we report all the events out and allow
some post processing in user space.

The flags are based on the Intel TSX events, but should be fairly
generic and mostly applicable to other HTM architectures too. In addition
to various flag words there's also reserved space to report an
program supplied abort code. For TSX this is used to distinguish specific
classes of aborts, like a lock busy abort when doing lock elision.

Flags:

Elision and generic transactions 		   (ELISION vs TRANSACTION)
(HLE vs RTM on TSX; IBM etc.  would likely only use TRANSACTION)
Aborts caused by current thread vs aborts caused by others (SYNC vs ASYNC)
Retryable transaction				   (RETRY)
Conflicts with other threads			   (CONFLICT)
Transaction write capacity overflow		   (CAPACITY WRITE)
Transaction read capacity overflow		   (CAPACITY READ)

Transactions implicitely aborted can also return an abort code.
This can be used to signal specific events to the profiler. A common
case is abort on lock busy in a RTM eliding library (code 0xff)
To handle this case we include the TSX abort code

Common example aborts in TSX would be:

- Data conflict with another thread on memory read.
                                      Flags: TRANSACTION|ASYNC|CONFLICT
- executing a WRMSR in a transaction. Flags: TRANSACTION|SYNC
- HLE transaction in user space is too large
                                      Flags: ELISION|SYNC|CAPACITY-WRITE

The only flag that is somewhat TSX specific is ELISION.

This adds the perf core glue needed for reporting the new flag word out.

v2: Add MEM/MISC
v3: Move transaction to the end
v4: Separate capacity-read/write and remove misc
v5: Remove _SAMPLE. Move abort flags to 32bit. Rename
    transaction to txn
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1379688044-14173-2-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>perf: Fix perf_pmu_migrate_context</title>
<updated>2013-10-04T07:58:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-10-03T14:02:23+00:00</published>
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While auditing the list_entry usage due to a trinity bug I found that
perf_pmu_migrate_context violates the rules for
perf_event::event_entry.

The problem is that perf_event::event_entry is a RCU list element, and
hence we must wait for a full RCU grace period before re-using the
element after deletion.

Therefore the usage in perf_pmu_migrate_context() which re-uses the
entry immediately is broken. For now introduce another list_head into
perf_event for this specific usage.

This doesn't actually fix the trinity report because that never goes
through this code.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-mkj72lxagw1z8fvjm648iznw@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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While auditing the list_entry usage due to a trinity bug I found that
perf_pmu_migrate_context violates the rules for
perf_event::event_entry.

The problem is that perf_event::event_entry is a RCU list element, and
hence we must wait for a full RCU grace period before re-using the
element after deletion.

Therefore the usage in perf_pmu_migrate_context() which re-uses the
entry immediately is broken. For now introduce another list_head into
perf_event for this specific usage.

This doesn't actually fix the trinity report because that never goes
through this code.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-mkj72lxagw1z8fvjm648iznw@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'x86-spinlocks-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2013-09-04T18:55:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-09-04T18:55:10+00:00</published>
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Pull x86 spinlock changes from Ingo Molnar:
 "The biggest change here are paravirtualized ticket spinlocks (PV
  spinlocks), which bring a nice speedup on various benchmarks.

  The KVM host side will come to you via the KVM tree"

* 'x86-spinlocks-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/kvm/guest: Fix sparse warning: "symbol 'klock_waiting' was not declared as static"
  kvm: Paravirtual ticketlocks support for linux guests running on KVM hypervisor
  kvm guest: Add configuration support to enable debug information for KVM Guests
  kvm uapi: Add KICK_CPU and PV_UNHALT definition to uapi
  xen, pvticketlock: Allow interrupts to be enabled while blocking
  x86, ticketlock: Add slowpath logic
  jump_label: Split jumplabel ratelimit
  x86, pvticketlock: When paravirtualizing ticket locks, increment by 2
  x86, pvticketlock: Use callee-save for lock_spinning
  xen, pvticketlocks: Add xen_nopvspin parameter to disable xen pv ticketlocks
  xen, pvticketlock: Xen implementation for PV ticket locks
  xen: Defer spinlock setup until boot CPU setup
  x86, ticketlock: Collapse a layer of functions
  x86, ticketlock: Don't inline _spin_unlock when using paravirt spinlocks
  x86, spinlock: Replace pv spinlocks with pv ticketlocks
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Pull x86 spinlock changes from Ingo Molnar:
 "The biggest change here are paravirtualized ticket spinlocks (PV
  spinlocks), which bring a nice speedup on various benchmarks.

  The KVM host side will come to you via the KVM tree"

* 'x86-spinlocks-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/kvm/guest: Fix sparse warning: "symbol 'klock_waiting' was not declared as static"
  kvm: Paravirtual ticketlocks support for linux guests running on KVM hypervisor
  kvm guest: Add configuration support to enable debug information for KVM Guests
  kvm uapi: Add KICK_CPU and PV_UNHALT definition to uapi
  xen, pvticketlock: Allow interrupts to be enabled while blocking
  x86, ticketlock: Add slowpath logic
  jump_label: Split jumplabel ratelimit
  x86, pvticketlock: When paravirtualizing ticket locks, increment by 2
  x86, pvticketlock: Use callee-save for lock_spinning
  xen, pvticketlocks: Add xen_nopvspin parameter to disable xen pv ticketlocks
  xen, pvticketlock: Xen implementation for PV ticket locks
  xen: Defer spinlock setup until boot CPU setup
  x86, ticketlock: Collapse a layer of functions
  x86, ticketlock: Don't inline _spin_unlock when using paravirt spinlocks
  x86, spinlock: Replace pv spinlocks with pv ticketlocks
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<entry>
<title>perf: Export struct perf_branch_entry to userspace</title>
<updated>2013-09-02T06:42:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vince Weaver</name>
<email>vincent.weaver@maine.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2013-08-23T19:51:03+00:00</published>
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If PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_STACK is enabled then samples are returned
with the format { u64 from, to, flags } but the flags layout
is not specified.

This field has the type struct perf_branch_entry; move this
definition into include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h so users can
access these fields.

This is similar to the existing inclusion of perf_mem_data_src in
the include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h file.

Signed-off-by: Vince Weaver &lt;vincent.weaver@maine.edu&gt;
Acked-by: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.10.1308231544420.1889@vincent-weaver-1.um.maine.edu
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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If PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_STACK is enabled then samples are returned
with the format { u64 from, to, flags } but the flags layout
is not specified.

This field has the type struct perf_branch_entry; move this
definition into include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h so users can
access these fields.

This is similar to the existing inclusion of perf_mem_data_src in
the include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h file.

Signed-off-by: Vince Weaver &lt;vincent.weaver@maine.edu&gt;
Acked-by: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.10.1308231544420.1889@vincent-weaver-1.um.maine.edu
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>jump_label: Split jumplabel ratelimit</title>
<updated>2013-08-09T14:53:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrew Jones</name>
<email>drjones@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-08-09T14:21:57+00:00</published>
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Commit b202952075f62603bea9bfb6ebc6b0420db11949 ("perf, core: Rate limit
perf_sched_events jump_label patching") introduced rate limiting
for jump label disabling. The changes were made in the jump label code
in order to be more widely available and to keep things tidier. This is
all fine, except now jump_label.h includes linux/workqueue.h, which
makes it impossible to include jump_label.h from anything that
workqueue.h needs. For example, it's now impossible to include
jump_label.h from asm/spinlock.h, which is done in proposed
pv-ticketlock patches. This patch splits out the rate limiting related
changes from jump_label.h into a new file, jump_label_ratelimit.h, to
resolve the issue.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Jones &lt;drjones@redhat.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1376058122-8248-10-git-send-email-raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Raghavendra K T &lt;raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
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Commit b202952075f62603bea9bfb6ebc6b0420db11949 ("perf, core: Rate limit
perf_sched_events jump_label patching") introduced rate limiting
for jump label disabling. The changes were made in the jump label code
in order to be more widely available and to keep things tidier. This is
all fine, except now jump_label.h includes linux/workqueue.h, which
makes it impossible to include jump_label.h from anything that
workqueue.h needs. For example, it's now impossible to include
jump_label.h from asm/spinlock.h, which is done in proposed
pv-ticketlock patches. This patch splits out the rate limiting related
changes from jump_label.h into a new file, jump_label_ratelimit.h, to
resolve the issue.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Jones &lt;drjones@redhat.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1376058122-8248-10-git-send-email-raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Raghavendra K T &lt;raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kernel: delete __cpuinit usage from all core kernel files</title>
<updated>2013-07-14T23:36:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Gortmaker</name>
<email>paul.gortmaker@windriver.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-06-19T18:53:51+00:00</published>
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The __cpuinit type of throwaway sections might have made sense
some time ago when RAM was more constrained, but now the savings
do not offset the cost and complications.  For example, the fix in
commit 5e427ec2d0 ("x86: Fix bit corruption at CPU resume time")
is a good example of the nasty type of bugs that can be created
with improper use of the various __init prefixes.

After a discussion on LKML[1] it was decided that cpuinit should go
the way of devinit and be phased out.  Once all the users are gone,
we can then finally remove the macros themselves from linux/init.h.

This removes all the uses of the __cpuinit macros from C files in
the core kernel directories (kernel, init, lib, mm, and include)
that don't really have a specific maintainer.

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/5/20/589

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
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The __cpuinit type of throwaway sections might have made sense
some time ago when RAM was more constrained, but now the savings
do not offset the cost and complications.  For example, the fix in
commit 5e427ec2d0 ("x86: Fix bit corruption at CPU resume time")
is a good example of the nasty type of bugs that can be created
with improper use of the various __init prefixes.

After a discussion on LKML[1] it was decided that cpuinit should go
the way of devinit and be phased out.  Once all the users are gone,
we can then finally remove the macros themselves from linux/init.h.

This removes all the uses of the __cpuinit macros from C files in
the core kernel directories (kernel, init, lib, mm, and include)
that don't really have a specific maintainer.

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/5/20/589

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
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