linux-stable.git/kernel/jump_label.c, branch v3.3.6

Merge remote-tracking branch 'tip/perf/core' into kvm-updates/3.3

2011-12-27T09:22:24+00:00

* tip/perf/core: (66 commits)
  perf, x86: Expose perf capability to other modules
  perf, x86: Implement arch event mask as quirk
  x86, perf: Disable non available architectural events
  jump_label: Provide jump_label_key initializers
  jump_label, x86: Fix section mismatch
  perf, core: Rate limit perf_sched_events jump_label patching
  perf: Fix enable_on_exec for sibling events
  perf: Remove superfluous arguments
  perf, x86: Prefer fixed-purpose counters when scheduling
  perf, x86: Fix event scheduler for constraints with overlapping counters
  perf, x86: Implement event scheduler helper functions
  perf: Avoid a useless pmu_disable() in the perf-tick
  x86/tools: Add decoded instruction dump mode
  x86: Update instruction decoder to support new AVX formats
  x86/tools: Fix insn_sanity message outputs
  x86/tools: Fix instruction decoder message output
  x86: Fix instruction decoder to handle grouped AVX instructions
  x86/tools: Fix Makefile to build all test tools
  perf test: Soft errors shouldn't stop the "Validate PERF_RECORD_" test
  perf test: Validate PERF_RECORD_ events and perf_sample fields
  ...

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity 

* commit 'b3d9468a8bd218a695e3a0ff112cd4efd27b670a': (66 commits)
  perf, x86: Expose perf capability to other modules
  perf, x86: Implement arch event mask as quirk
  x86, perf: Disable non available architectural events
  jump_label: Provide jump_label_key initializers
  jump_label, x86: Fix section mismatch
  perf, core: Rate limit perf_sched_events jump_label patching
  perf: Fix enable_on_exec for sibling events
  perf: Remove superfluous arguments
  perf, x86: Prefer fixed-purpose counters when scheduling
  perf, x86: Fix event scheduler for constraints with overlapping counters
  perf, x86: Implement event scheduler helper functions
  perf: Avoid a useless pmu_disable() in the perf-tick
  x86/tools: Add decoded instruction dump mode
  x86: Update instruction decoder to support new AVX formats
  x86/tools: Fix insn_sanity message outputs
  x86/tools: Fix instruction decoder message output
  x86: Fix instruction decoder to handle grouped AVX instructions
  x86/tools: Fix Makefile to build all test tools
  perf test: Soft errors shouldn't stop the "Validate PERF_RECORD_" test
  perf test: Validate PERF_RECORD_ events and perf_sample fields
  ...

jump-label: export jump_label_inc/jump_label_dec

2011-12-27T09:22:04+00:00

Export these two symbols, they will be used by KVM mmu audit

Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong 
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity

jump_label: Provide jump_label_key initializers

2011-12-06T19:41:03+00:00

Provide two initializers for jump_label_key that initialize it enabled
or disabled. Also modify all jump_label code to allow for jump_labels to be
initialized enabled.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Jason Baron 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-p40e3yj21b68y03z1yv825e7@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

jump_label, x86: Fix section mismatch

2011-12-06T19:41:02+00:00

WARNING: arch/x86/kernel/built-in.o(.text+0x4c71): Section mismatch in
reference from the function arch_jump_label_transform_static() to the
function .init.text:text_poke_early()
The function arch_jump_label_transform_static() references
the function __init text_poke_early().
This is often because arch_jump_label_transform_static lacks a __init
annotation or the annotation of text_poke_early is wrong.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Jason Baron 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-9lefe89mrvurrwpqw5h8xm8z@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf, core: Rate limit perf_sched_events jump_label patching

2011-12-06T07:34:02+00:00

jump_lable patching is very expensive operation that involves pausing all
cpus. The patching of perf_sched_events jump_label is easily controllable
from userspace by unprivileged user.

When te user runs a loop like this:

  "while true; do perf stat -e cycles true; done"

... the performance of my test application that just increments a counter
for one second drops by 4%.

This is on a 16 cpu box with my test application using only one of
them. An impact on a real server doing real work will be worse.

Performance of KVM PMU drops nearly 50% due to jump_lable for "perf
record" since KVM PMU implementation creates and destroys perf event
frequently.

This patch introduces a way to rate limit jump_label patching and uses
it to fix the above problem.

I believe that as jump_label use will spread the problem will become more
common and thus solving it in a generic code is appropriate. Also fixing
it in the perf code would result in moving jump_label accounting logic to
perf code with all the ifdefs in case of JUMP_LABEL=n kernel. With this
patch all details are nicely hidden inside jump_label code.

Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov 
Acked-by: Jason Baron 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111127155909.GO2557@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

jump_label: jump_label_inc may return before the code is patched

2011-12-05T18:28:46+00:00

If cpu A calls jump_label_inc() just after atomic_add_return() is
called by cpu B, atomic_inc_not_zero() will return value greater then
zero and jump_label_inc() will return to a caller before jump_label_update()
finishes its job on cpu B.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111018175551.GH17571@redhat.com

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Acked-by: Jason Baron 
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

Merge branch 'tip/perf/core' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace into perf/core

2011-11-11T07:19:37+00:00

jump_label: jump_label_inc may return before the code is patched

2011-11-07T16:02:34+00:00

If cpu A calls jump_label_inc() just after atomic_add_return() is
called by cpu B, atomic_inc_not_zero() will return value greater then
zero and jump_label_inc() will return to a caller before jump_label_update()
finishes its job on cpu B.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111018175551.GH17571@redhat.com

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Acked-by: Jason Baron 
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

jump-label: initialize jump-label subsystem much earlier

2011-10-25T18:55:15+00:00

Initialize jump_labels much, much earlier, so they're available for use
during system setup.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge 
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra

jump_label: add arch_jump_label_transform_static() to optimise non-live code updates

2011-10-25T18:54:31+00:00

When updating a newly loaded module, the code is definitely not yet
executing on any processor, so it can be updated with no need for any
heavyweight synchronization.

This patch adds arch_jump_label_static() which is implemented as
arch_jump_label_transform() by default, but architectures can override
it if it avoids, say, a call to stop_machine().

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge 
Acked-by: Jason Baron 
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra