linux.git/kernel/events, branch v3.16-rc2

Merge branch 'perf/core' into perf/urgent, to pick up the latest fixes

2014-06-14T12:10:08+00:00

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2014-06-13T02:18:49+00:00

Pull more perf updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "A second round of perf updates:

   - wide reaching kprobes sanitization and robustization, with the hope
     of fixing all 'probe this function crashes the kernel' bugs, by
     Masami Hiramatsu.

   - uprobes updates from Oleg Nesterov: tmpfs support, corner case
     fixes and robustization work.

   - perf tooling updates and fixes from Jiri Olsa, Namhyung Ki, Arnaldo
     et al:
        * Add support to accumulate hist periods (Namhyung Kim)
        * various fixes, refactorings and enhancements"

* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (101 commits)
  perf: Differentiate exec() and non-exec() comm events
  perf: Fix perf_event_comm() vs. exec() assumption
  uprobes/x86: Rename arch_uprobe->def to ->defparam, minor comment updates
  perf/documentation: Add description for conditional branch filter
  perf/x86: Add conditional branch filtering support
  perf/tool: Add conditional branch filter 'cond' to perf record
  perf: Add new conditional branch filter 'PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_COND'
  uprobes: Teach copy_insn() to support tmpfs
  uprobes: Shift ->readpage check from __copy_insn() to uprobe_register()
  perf/x86: Use common PMU interrupt disabled code
  perf/ARM: Use common PMU interrupt disabled code
  perf: Disable sampled events if no PMU interrupt
  perf: Fix use after free in perf_remove_from_context()
  perf tools: Fix 'make help' message error
  perf record: Fix poll return value propagation
  perf tools: Move elide bool into perf_hpp_fmt struct
  perf tools: Remove elide setup for SORT_MODE__MEMORY mode
  perf tools: Fix "==" into "=" in ui_browser__warning assignment
  perf tools: Allow overriding sysfs and proc finding with env var
  perf tools: Consider header files outside perf directory in tags target
  ...

Merge branch 'for-3.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup

2014-06-09T22:03:33+00:00

Pull cgroup updates from Tejun Heo:
 "A lot of activities on cgroup side.  Heavy restructuring including
  locking simplification took place to improve the code base and enable
  implementation of the unified hierarchy, which currently exists behind
  a __DEVEL__ mount option.  The core support is mostly complete but
  individual controllers need further work.  To explain the design and
  rationales of the the unified hierarchy

        Documentation/cgroups/unified-hierarchy.txt

  is added.

  Another notable change is css (cgroup_subsys_state - what each
  controller uses to identify and interact with a cgroup) iteration
  update.  This is part of continuing updates on css object lifetime and
  visibility.  cgroup started with reference count draining on removal
  way back and is now reaching a point where csses behave and are
  iterated like normal refcnted objects albeit with some complexities to
  allow distinguishing the state where they're being deleted.  The css
  iteration update isn't taken advantage of yet but is planned to be
  used to simplify memcg significantly"

* 'for-3.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup: (77 commits)
  cgroup: disallow disabled controllers on the default hierarchy
  cgroup: don't destroy the default root
  cgroup: disallow debug controller on the default hierarchy
  cgroup: clean up MAINTAINERS entries
  cgroup: implement css_tryget()
  device_cgroup: use css_has_online_children() instead of has_children()
  cgroup: convert cgroup_has_live_children() into css_has_online_children()
  cgroup: use CSS_ONLINE instead of CGRP_DEAD
  cgroup: iterate cgroup_subsys_states directly
  cgroup: introduce CSS_RELEASED and reduce css iteration fallback window
  cgroup: move cgroup->serial_nr into cgroup_subsys_state
  cgroup: link all cgroup_subsys_states in their sibling lists
  cgroup: move cgroup->sibling and ->children into cgroup_subsys_state
  cgroup: remove cgroup->parent
  device_cgroup: remove direct access to cgroup->children
  memcg: update memcg_has_children() to use css_next_child()
  memcg: remove tasks/children test from mem_cgroup_force_empty()
  cgroup: remove css_parent()
  cgroup: skip refcnting on normal root csses and cgrp_dfl_root self css
  cgroup: use cgroup->self.refcnt for cgroup refcnting
  ...

Revert "perf: Disable PERF_RECORD_MMAP2 support"

2014-06-09T11:34:46+00:00

This reverts commit 3090ffb5a2515990182f3f55b0688a7817325488.

Re-enable the mmap2 interface as we will have a user soon.

Since things have changed since perf disabled mmap2, small tweaks
to the revert had to be done:

o commit 9d4ecc88 forced (n!=8) to become (n<7)
o a new libunwind test needed updating to use mmap2 interface

Signed-off-by: Don Zickus 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1401461382-209586-1-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa

perf: Pass protection and flags bits through mmap2 interface

2014-06-09T10:21:04+00:00

The mmap2 interface was missing the protection and flags bits needed to
accurately determine if a mmap memory area was shared or private and
if it was readable or not.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra 
[tweaked patch to compile and wrote changelog]
Signed-off-by: Don Zickus 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1400526833-141779-2-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa

perf: Differentiate exec() and non-exec() comm events

2014-06-06T05:56:22+00:00

perf tools like 'perf report' can aggregate samples by comm strings,
which generally works.  However, there are other potential use-cases.
For example, to pair up 'calls' with 'returns' accurately (from branch
events like Intel BTS) it is necessary to identify whether the process
has exec'd.  Although a comm event is generated when an 'exec' happens
it is also generated whenever the comm string is changed on a whim
(e.g. by prctl PR_SET_NAME).  This patch adds a flag to the comm event
to differentiate one case from the other.

In order to determine whether the kernel supports the new flag, a
selection bit named 'exec' is added to struct perf_event_attr.  The
bit does nothing but will cause perf_event_open() to fail if the bit
is set on kernels that do not have it defined.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/537D9EBE.7030806@intel.com
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Dave Jones 
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: David Ahern 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Alexander Viro 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

Merge branch 'perf/urgent' into perf/core, to resolve conflict and to prepare for new patches

2014-06-06T05:55:06+00:00

Conflicts:
	arch/x86/kernel/traps.c

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf: Fix perf_event_comm() vs. exec() assumption

2014-06-06T05:54:02+00:00

perf_event_comm() assumes that set_task_comm() is only called on
exec(), and in particular that its only called on current.

Neither are true, as Dave reported a WARN triggered by set_task_comm()
being called on !current.

Separate the exec() hook from the comm hook.

Reported-by: Dave Jones 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Alexander Viro 
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140521153219.GH5226@laptop.programming.kicks-ass.net
[ Build fix. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://ftp.arm.linux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm into next

2014-06-05T22:57:04+00:00

Pull ARM updates from Russell King:

 - Major clean-up of the L2 cache support code.  The existing mess was
   becoming rather unmaintainable through all the additions that others
   have done over time.  This turns it into a much nicer structure, and
   implements a few performance improvements as well.

 - Clean up some of the CP15 control register tweaks for alignment
   support, moving some code and data into alignment.c

 - DMA properties for ARM, from Santosh and reviewed by DT people.  This
   adds DT properties to specify bus translations we can't discover
   automatically, and to indicate whether devices are coherent.

 - Hibernation support for ARM

 - Make ftrace work with read-only text in modules

 - add suspend support for PJ4B CPUs

 - rework interrupt masking for undefined instruction handling, which
   allows us to enable interrupts earlier in the handling of these
   exceptions.

 - support for big endian page tables

 - fix stacktrace support to exclude stacktrace functions from the
   trace, and add save_stack_trace_regs() implementation so that kprobes
   can record stack traces.

 - Add support for the Cortex-A17 CPU.

 - Remove last vestiges of ARM710 support.

 - Removal of ARM "meminfo" structure, finally converting us solely to
   memblock to handle the early memory initialisation.

* 'for-linus' of git://ftp.arm.linux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm: (142 commits)
  ARM: ensure C page table setup code follows assembly code (part II)
  ARM: ensure C page table setup code follows assembly code
  ARM: consolidate last remaining open-coded alignment trap enable
  ARM: remove global cr_no_alignment
  ARM: remove CPU_CP15 conditional from alignment.c
  ARM: remove unused adjust_cr() function
  ARM: move "noalign" command line option to alignment.c
  ARM: provide common method to clear bits in CPU control register
  ARM: 8025/1: Get rid of meminfo
  ARM: 8060/1: mm: allow sub-architectures to override PCI I/O memory type
  ARM: 8066/1: correction for ARM patch 8031/2
  ARM: 8049/1: ftrace/add save_stack_trace_regs() implementation
  ARM: 8065/1: remove last use of CONFIG_CPU_ARM710
  ARM: 8062/1: Modify ldrt fixup handler to re-execute the userspace instruction
  ARM: 8047/1: rwsem: use asm-generic rwsem implementation
  ARM: l2c: trial at enabling some Cortex-A9 optimisations
  ARM: l2c: add warnings for stuff modifying aux_ctrl register values
  ARM: l2c: print a warning with L2C-310 caches if the cache size is modified
  ARM: l2c: remove old .set_debug method
  ARM: l2c: kill L2X0_AUX_CTRL_MASK before anyone else makes use of this
  ...

uprobes: Teach copy_insn() to support tmpfs

2014-06-05T10:30:11+00:00

tmpfs is widely used but as Denys reports shmem_aops doesn't have
->readpage() and thus you can't probe a binary on this filesystem.

As Hugh suggested we can use shmem_read_mapping_page() in this case,
just we need to check shmem_mapping() if ->readpage == NULL.

Reported-by: Denys Vlasenko 
Suggested-by: Hugh Dickins 
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov 
Acked-by: Srikar Dronamraju 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140519184136.GB6750@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar