linux.git/kernel/events, branch v3.9-rc2

hlist: drop the node parameter from iterators

2013-02-28T03:10:24+00:00

I'm not sure why, but the hlist for each entry iterators were conceived

        list_for_each_entry(pos, head, member)

The hlist ones were greedy and wanted an extra parameter:

        hlist_for_each_entry(tpos, pos, head, member)

Why did they need an extra pos parameter? I'm not quite sure. Not only
they don't really need it, it also prevents the iterator from looking
exactly like the list iterator, which is unfortunate.

Besides the semantic patch, there was some manual work required:

 - Fix up the actual hlist iterators in linux/list.h
 - Fix up the declaration of other iterators based on the hlist ones.
 - A very small amount of places were using the 'node' parameter, this
 was modified to use 'obj->member' instead.
 - Coccinelle didn't handle the hlist_for_each_entry_safe iterator
 properly, so those had to be fixed up manually.

The semantic patch which is mostly the work of Peter Senna Tschudin is here:

@@
iterator name hlist_for_each_entry, hlist_for_each_entry_continue, hlist_for_each_entry_from, hlist_for_each_entry_rcu, hlist_for_each_entry_rcu_bh, hlist_for_each_entry_continue_rcu_bh, for_each_busy_worker, ax25_uid_for_each, ax25_for_each, inet_bind_bucket_for_each, sctp_for_each_hentry, sk_for_each, sk_for_each_rcu, sk_for_each_from, sk_for_each_safe, sk_for_each_bound, hlist_for_each_entry_safe, hlist_for_each_entry_continue_rcu, nr_neigh_for_each, nr_neigh_for_each_safe, nr_node_for_each, nr_node_for_each_safe, for_each_gfn_indirect_valid_sp, for_each_gfn_sp, for_each_host;

type T;
expression a,c,d,e;
identifier b;
statement S;
@@

-T b;
    <+... when != b
(
hlist_for_each_entry(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_continue(a,
- b,
c) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_from(a,
- b,
c) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_rcu(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_rcu_bh(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_continue_rcu_bh(a,
- b,
c) S
|
for_each_busy_worker(a, c,
- b,
d) S
|
ax25_uid_for_each(a,
- b,
c) S
|
ax25_for_each(a,
- b,
c) S
|
inet_bind_bucket_for_each(a,
- b,
c) S
|
sctp_for_each_hentry(a,
- b,
c) S
|
sk_for_each(a,
- b,
c) S
|
sk_for_each_rcu(a,
- b,
c) S
|
sk_for_each_from
-(a, b)
+(a)
S
+ sk_for_each_from(a) S
|
sk_for_each_safe(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
sk_for_each_bound(a,
- b,
c) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_safe(a,
- b,
c, d, e) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_continue_rcu(a,
- b,
c) S
|
nr_neigh_for_each(a,
- b,
c) S
|
nr_neigh_for_each_safe(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
nr_node_for_each(a,
- b,
c) S
|
nr_node_for_each_safe(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
- for_each_gfn_sp(a, c, d, b) S
+ for_each_gfn_sp(a, c, d) S
|
- for_each_gfn_indirect_valid_sp(a, c, d, b) S
+ for_each_gfn_indirect_valid_sp(a, c, d) S
|
for_each_host(a,
- b,
c) S
|
for_each_host_safe(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
for_each_mesh_entry(a,
- b,
c, d) S
)
    ...+>

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: drop bogus change from net/ipv4/raw.c]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: drop bogus hunk from net/ipv6/raw.c]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: checkpatch fixes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warnings]
[akpm@linux-foudnation.org: redo intrusive kvm changes]
Tested-by: Peter Senna Tschudin 
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin 
Cc: Wu Fengguang 
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti 
Cc: Gleb Natapov 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

events: convert to idr_alloc()

2013-02-28T03:10:19+00:00

Convert to the much saner new idr interface.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs

2013-02-27T04:16:07+00:00

Pull vfs pile (part one) from Al Viro:
 "Assorted stuff - cleaning namei.c up a bit, fixing ->d_name/->d_parent
  locking violations, etc.

  The most visible changes here are death of FS_REVAL_DOT (replaced with
  "has ->d_weak_revalidate()") and a new helper getting from struct file
  to inode.  Some bits of preparation to xattr method interface changes.

  Misc patches by various people sent this cycle *and* ocfs2 fixes from
  several cycles ago that should've been upstream right then.

  PS: the next vfs pile will be xattr stuff."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (46 commits)
  saner proc_get_inode() calling conventions
  proc: avoid extra pde_put() in proc_fill_super()
  fs: change return values from -EACCES to -EPERM
  fs/exec.c: make bprm_mm_init() static
  ocfs2/dlm: use GFP_ATOMIC inside a spin_lock
  ocfs2: fix possible use-after-free with AIO
  ocfs2: Fix oops in ocfs2_fast_symlink_readpage() code path
  get_empty_filp()/alloc_file() leave both ->f_pos and ->f_version zero
  target: writev() on single-element vector is pointless
  export kernel_write(), convert open-coded instances
  fs: encode_fh: return FILEID_INVALID if invalid fid_type
  kill f_vfsmnt
  vfs: kill FS_REVAL_DOT by adding a d_weak_revalidate dentry op
  nfsd: handle vfs_getattr errors in acl protocol
  switch vfs_getattr() to struct path
  default SET_PERSONALITY() in linux/elf.h
  ceph: prepopulate inodes only when request is aborted
  d_hash_and_lookup(): export, switch open-coded instances
  9p: switch v9fs_set_create_acl() to inode+fid, do it before d_instantiate()
  9p: split dropping the acls from v9fs_set_create_acl()
  ...

new helper: file_inode(file)

2013-02-23T04:31:31+00:00

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

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

2013-02-20T01:49:41+00:00

Pull perf changes from Ingo Molnar:
"There are lots of improvements, the biggest changes are:

Main kernel side changes:

- Improve uprobes performance by adding 'pre-filtering' support, by
Oleg Nesterov.

- Make some POWER7 events available in sysfs, equivalent to what was
done on x86, from Sukadev Bhattiprolu.

- tracing updates by Steve Rostedt - mostly misc fixes and smaller
improvements.

- Use perf/event tracing to report PCI Express advanced errors, by
Tony Luck.

- Enable northbridge performance counters on AMD family 15h, by Jacob
Shin.

- This tracing commit:

tracing: Remove the extra 4 bytes of padding in events

changes the ABI. All involved parties (PowerTop in particular)
seem to agree that it's safe to do now with the introduction of
libtraceevent, but the devil is in the details ...

Main tooling side changes:

- Add 'event group view', from Namyung Kim:

To use it, 'perf record' should group events when recording. And
then perf report parses the saved group relation from file header
and prints them together if --group option is provided. You can
use the 'perf evlist' command to see event group information:

$ perf record -e '{ref-cycles,cycles}' noploop 1
[ perf record: Woken up 2 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.385 MB perf.data (~16807 samples) ]

$ perf evlist --group
{ref-cycles,cycles}

With this example, default perf report will show you each event
separately.

You can use --group option to enable event group view:

$ perf report --group
...
# group: {ref-cycles,cycles}
# ========
# Samples: 7K of event 'anon group { ref-cycles, cycles }'
# Event count (approx.): 6876107743
#
# Overhead Command Shared Object Symbol
# ................ ....... ................. ..........................
99.84% 99.76% noploop noploop [.] main
0.07% 0.00% noploop ld-2.15.so [.] strcmp
0.03% 0.00% noploop [kernel.kallsyms] [k] timerqueue_del
0.03% 0.03% noploop [kernel.kallsyms] [k] sched_clock_cpu
0.02% 0.00% noploop [kernel.kallsyms] [k] account_user_time
0.01% 0.00% noploop [kernel.kallsyms] [k] __alloc_pages_nodemask
0.00% 0.00% noploop [kernel.kallsyms] [k] native_write_msr_safe
0.00% 0.11% noploop [kernel.kallsyms] [k] _raw_spin_lock
0.00% 0.06% noploop [kernel.kallsyms] [k] find_get_page
0.00% 0.02% noploop [kernel.kallsyms] [k] rcu_check_callbacks
0.00% 0.02% noploop [kernel.kallsyms] [k] __current_kernel_time

As you can see the Overhead column now contains both of ref-cycles
and cycles and header line shows group information also - 'anon
group { ref-cycles, cycles }'. The output is sorted by period of
group leader first.

- Initial GTK+ annotate browser, from Namhyung Kim.

- Add option for runtime switching perf data file in perf report,
just press 's' and a menu with the valid files found in the current
directory will be presented, from Feng Tang.

- Add support to display whole group data for raw columns, from Jiri
Olsa.

- Add per processor socket count aggregation in perf stat, from
Stephane Eranian.

- Add interval printing in 'perf stat', from Stephane Eranian.

- 'perf test' improvements

- Add support for wildcards in tracepoint system name, from Jiri
Olsa.

- Add anonymous huge page recognition, from Joshua Zhu.

- perf build-id cache now can show DSOs present in a perf.data file
that are not in the cache, to integrate with build-id servers being
put in place by organizations such as Fedora.

- perf top now shares more of the evsel config/creation routines with
'record', paving the way for further integration like 'top'
snapshots, etc.

- perf top now supports DWARF callchains.

- Fix mmap limitations on 32-bit, fix from David Miller.

- 'perf bench numa mem' NUMA performance measurement suite

- ... and lots of fixes, performance improvements, cleanups and other
improvements I failed to list - see the shortlog and git log for
details."

* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (270 commits)
perf/x86/amd: Enable northbridge performance counters on AMD family 15h
perf/hwbp: Fix cleanup in case of kzalloc failure
perf tools: Fix build with bison 2.3 and older.
perf tools: Limit unwind support to x86 archs
perf annotate: Make it to be able to skip unannotatable symbols
perf gtk/annotate: Fail early if it can't annotate
perf gtk/annotate: Show source lines with gray color
perf gtk/annotate: Support multiple event annotation
perf ui/gtk: Implement basic GTK2 annotation browser
perf annotate: Fix warning message on a missing vmlinux
perf buildid-cache: Add --update option
uprobes/perf: Avoid uprobe_apply() whenever possible
uprobes/perf: Teach trace_uprobe/perf code to use UPROBE_HANDLER_REMOVE
uprobes/perf: Teach trace_uprobe/perf code to pre-filter
uprobes/perf: Teach trace_uprobe/perf code to track the active perf_event's
uprobes: Introduce uprobe_apply()
perf: Introduce hw_perf_event->tp_target and ->tp_list
uprobes/perf: Always increment trace_uprobe->nhit
uprobes/tracing: Kill uprobe_trace_consumer, embed uprobe_consumer into trace_uprobe
uprobes/tracing: Introduce is_trace_uprobe_enabled()
...

perf/hwbp: Fix cleanup in case of kzalloc failure

2013-02-14T20:06:39+00:00

Obviously this is a typo and could result in memory leaks if kzalloc
fails on a given cpu.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Baluta 
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1360186160-7566-1-git-send-email-dbaluta@ixiacom.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

uprobes: Introduce uprobe_apply()

2013-02-08T17:28:04+00:00

Currently it is not possible to change the filtering constraints after
uprobe_register(), so a consumer can not, say, start to trace a task/mm
which was previously filtered out, or remove the no longer needed bp's.

Introduce uprobe_apply() which simply does register_for_each_vma() again
to consult uprobe_consumer->filter() and install/remove the breakpoints.
The only complication is that register_for_each_vma() can no longer
assume that uprobe->consumers should be consulter if is_register == T,
so we change it to accept "struct uprobe_consumer *new" instead.

Unlike uprobe_register(), uprobe_apply(true) doesn't do "unregister" if
register_for_each_vma() fails, it is up to caller to handle the error.

Note: we probably need to cleanup the current interface, it is strange
that uprobe_apply/unregister need inode/offset. We should either change
uprobe_register() to return "struct uprobe *", or add a private ->uprobe
member in uprobe_consumer. And in the long term uprobe_apply() should
take a single argument, uprobe or consumer, even "bool add" should go
away.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov

perf: Introduce hw_perf_event->tp_target and ->tp_list

2013-02-08T17:28:02+00:00

sys_perf_event_open()->perf_init_event(event) is called before
find_get_context(event), this means that event->ctx == NULL when
class->reg(TRACE_REG_PERF_REGISTER/OPEN) is called and thus it
can't know if this event is per-task or system-wide.

This patch adds hw_perf_event->tp_target for PERF_TYPE_TRACEPOINT,
this is analogous to PERF_TYPE_BREAKPOINT/bp_target we already have.
The patch also moves ->bp_target up so that it can overlap with the
new member, this can help the compiler to generate the better code.

trace_uprobe_register() will use it for prefiltering to avoid the
unnecessary breakpoints in mm's we do not want to trace.

->tp_target doesn't have its own reference, but we can rely on the
fact that either sys_perf_event_open() holds a reference, or it is
equal to event->ctx->task. So this pointer is always valid until
free_event().

Also add the "struct list_head tp_list" into this union. It is not
strictly necessary, but it can simplify the next changes and we can
add it for free.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov

uprobes: Add exports for module use

2013-02-08T16:47:13+00:00

The original pull message for uprobes (commit 654443e2) noted:

  This tree includes uprobes support in 'perf probe' - but SystemTap
  (and other tools) can take advantage of user probe points as well.

In order to actually be usable in module-based tools like SystemTap, the
interface needs to be exported.  This patch first adds the obvious
exports for uprobe_register and uprobe_unregister.  Then it also adds
one for task_user_regset_view, which is necessary to get the correct
state of userspace registers.

Signed-off-by: Josh Stone 
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov

uprobes: Kill the bogus IS_ERR_VALUE(xol_vaddr) check

2013-02-08T16:47:13+00:00

utask->xol_vaddr is either zero or valid, remove the bogus
IS_ERR_VALUE() check in xol_free_insn_slot().

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov 
Acked-by: Anton Arapov 
Acked-by: Srikar Dronamraju