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<title>Merge branch 'tip/perf/urgent-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace into perf/urgent</title>
<updated>2013-03-18T08:48:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@kernel.org</email>
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<published>2013-03-18T08:48:29+00:00</published>
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Pull tracing fixes from Steven Rostedt.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Pull tracing fixes from Steven Rostedt.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>tracing: Prevent buffer overwrite disabled for latency tracers</title>
<updated>2013-03-15T03:40:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
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<published>2013-03-14T19:03:53+00:00</published>
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The latency tracers require the buffers to be in overwrite mode,
otherwise they get screwed up. Force the buffers to stay in overwrite
mode when latency tracers are enabled.

Added a flag_changed() method to the tracer structure to allow
the tracers to see what flags are being changed, and also be able
to prevent the change from happing.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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The latency tracers require the buffers to be in overwrite mode,
otherwise they get screwed up. Force the buffers to stay in overwrite
mode when latency tracers are enabled.

Added a flag_changed() method to the tracer structure to allow
the tracers to see what flags are being changed, and also be able
to prevent the change from happing.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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<title>tracing: Keep overwrite in sync between regular and snapshot buffers</title>
<updated>2013-03-15T03:40:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
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<published>2013-03-14T18:20:54+00:00</published>
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Changing the overwrite mode for the ring buffer via the trace
option only sets the normal buffer. But the snapshot buffer could
swap with it, and then the snapshot would be in non overwrite mode
and the normal buffer would be in overwrite mode, even though the
option flag states otherwise.

Keep the two buffers overwrite modes in sync.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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Changing the overwrite mode for the ring buffer via the trace
option only sets the normal buffer. But the snapshot buffer could
swap with it, and then the snapshot would be in non overwrite mode
and the normal buffer would be in overwrite mode, even though the
option flag states otherwise.

Keep the two buffers overwrite modes in sync.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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<title>tracing: Protect tracer flags with trace_types_lock</title>
<updated>2013-03-14T17:50:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
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<published>2013-03-14T17:50:56+00:00</published>
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Seems that the tracer flags have never been protected from
synchronous writes. Luckily, admins don't usually modify the
tracing flags via two different tasks. But if scripts were to
be used to modify them, then they could get corrupted.

Move the trace_types_lock that protects against tracers changing
to also protect the flags being set.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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Seems that the tracer flags have never been protected from
synchronous writes. Luckily, admins don't usually modify the
tracing flags via two different tasks. But if scripts were to
be used to modify them, then they could get corrupted.

Move the trace_types_lock that protects against tracers changing
to also protect the flags being set.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'tip/perf/urgent-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace into perf/urgent</title>
<updated>2013-03-14T07:12:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@kernel.org</email>
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<published>2013-03-14T07:12:20+00:00</published>
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Pull tracing fixes from Steven Rostedt.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Pull tracing fixes from Steven Rostedt.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>tracing: Fix free of probe entry by calling call_rcu_sched()</title>
<updated>2013-03-13T21:57:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-03-13T15:15:19+00:00</published>
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Because function tracing is very invasive, and can even trace
calls to rcu_read_lock(), RCU access in function tracing is done
with preempt_disable_notrace(). This requires a synchronize_sched()
for updates and not a synchronize_rcu().

Function probes (traceon, traceoff, etc) must be freed after
a synchronize_sched() after its entry has been removed from the
hash. But call_rcu() is used. Fix this by using call_rcu_sched().

Also fix the usage to use hlist_del_rcu() instead of hlist_del().

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Paul McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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Because function tracing is very invasive, and can even trace
calls to rcu_read_lock(), RCU access in function tracing is done
with preempt_disable_notrace(). This requires a synchronize_sched()
for updates and not a synchronize_rcu().

Function probes (traceon, traceoff, etc) must be freed after
a synchronize_sched() after its entry has been removed from the
hash. But call_rcu() is used. Fix this by using call_rcu_sched().

Also fix the usage to use hlist_del_rcu() instead of hlist_del().

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Paul McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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<title>tracing: Fix race in snapshot swapping</title>
<updated>2013-03-12T15:56:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-03-12T15:32:32+00:00</published>
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Although the swap is wrapped with a spin_lock, the assignment
of the temp buffer used to swap is not within that lock.
It needs to be moved into that lock, otherwise two swaps
happening on two different CPUs, can end up using the wrong
temp buffer to assign in the swap.

Luckily, all current callers of the swap function appear to have
their own locks. But in case something is added that allows two
different callers to call the swap, then there's a chance that
this race can trigger and corrupt the buffers.

New code is coming soon that will allow for this race to trigger.

I've Cc'd stable, so this bug will not show up if someone backports
one of the changes that can trigger this bug.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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Although the swap is wrapped with a spin_lock, the assignment
of the temp buffer used to swap is not within that lock.
It needs to be moved into that lock, otherwise two swaps
happening on two different CPUs, can end up using the wrong
temp buffer to assign in the swap.

Luckily, all current callers of the swap function appear to have
their own locks. But in case something is added that allows two
different callers to call the swap, then there's a chance that
this race can trigger and corrupt the buffers.

New code is coming soon that will allow for this race to trigger.

I've Cc'd stable, so this bug will not show up if someone backports
one of the changes that can trigger this bug.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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<title>Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2013-03-11T14:54:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-03-11T14:54:29+00:00</published>
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Pull perf fixes from Ingo Molnar:
 "Misc minor fixes mostly related to tracing"

* 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  s390: Fix a header dependencies related build error
  tracing: update documentation of snapshot utility
  tracing: Do not return EINVAL in snapshot when not allocated
  tracing: Add help of snapshot feature when snapshot is empty
  ftrace: Update the kconfig for DYNAMIC_FTRACE
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Pull perf fixes from Ingo Molnar:
 "Misc minor fixes mostly related to tracing"

* 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  s390: Fix a header dependencies related build error
  tracing: update documentation of snapshot utility
  tracing: Do not return EINVAL in snapshot when not allocated
  tracing: Add help of snapshot feature when snapshot is empty
  ftrace: Update the kconfig for DYNAMIC_FTRACE
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<title>tracing: Do not return EINVAL in snapshot when not allocated</title>
<updated>2013-03-07T15:31:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)</name>
<email>srostedt@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-03-05T15:53:02+00:00</published>
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To use the tracing snapshot feature, writing a '1' into the snapshot
file causes the snapshot buffer to be allocated if it has not already
been allocated and dose a 'swap' with the main buffer, so that the
snapshot now contains what was in the main buffer, and the main buffer
now writes to what was the snapshot buffer.

To free the snapshot buffer, a '0' is written into the snapshot file.

To clear the snapshot buffer, any number but a '0' or '1' is written
into the snapshot file. But if the file is not allocated it returns
-EINVAL error code. This is rather pointless. It is better just to
do nothing and return success.

Acked-by: Hiraku Toyooka &lt;hiraku.toyooka.gu@hitachi.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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To use the tracing snapshot feature, writing a '1' into the snapshot
file causes the snapshot buffer to be allocated if it has not already
been allocated and dose a 'swap' with the main buffer, so that the
snapshot now contains what was in the main buffer, and the main buffer
now writes to what was the snapshot buffer.

To free the snapshot buffer, a '0' is written into the snapshot file.

To clear the snapshot buffer, any number but a '0' or '1' is written
into the snapshot file. But if the file is not allocated it returns
-EINVAL error code. This is rather pointless. It is better just to
do nothing and return success.

Acked-by: Hiraku Toyooka &lt;hiraku.toyooka.gu@hitachi.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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<title>tracing: Add help of snapshot feature when snapshot is empty</title>
<updated>2013-03-07T15:31:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)</name>
<email>srostedt@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-03-05T15:25:16+00:00</published>
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When cat'ing the snapshot file, instead of showing an empty trace
header like the trace file does, show how to use the snapshot
feature.

Also, this is a good place to show if the snapshot has been allocated
or not. Users may want to "pre allocate" the snapshot to have a fast
"swap" of the current buffer. Otherwise, a swap would be slow and might
fail as it would need to allocate the snapshot buffer, and that might
fail under tight memory constraints.

Here's what it looked like before:

 # tracer: nop
 #
 # entries-in-buffer/entries-written: 0/0   #P:4
 #
 #                              _-----=&gt; irqs-off
 #                             / _----=&gt; need-resched
 #                            | / _---=&gt; hardirq/softirq
 #                            || / _--=&gt; preempt-depth
 #                            ||| /     delay
 #           TASK-PID   CPU#  ||||    TIMESTAMP  FUNCTION
 #              | |       |   ||||       |         |

Here's what it looks like now:

 # tracer: nop
 #
 #
 # * Snapshot is freed *
 #
 # Snapshot commands:
 # echo 0 &gt; snapshot : Clears and frees snapshot buffer
 # echo 1 &gt; snapshot : Allocates snapshot buffer, if not already allocated.
 #                      Takes a snapshot of the main buffer.
 # echo 2 &gt; snapshot : Clears snapshot buffer (but does not allocate)
 #                      (Doesn't have to be '2' works with any number that
 #                       is not a '0' or '1')

Acked-by: Hiraku Toyooka &lt;hiraku.toyooka.gu@hitachi.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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When cat'ing the snapshot file, instead of showing an empty trace
header like the trace file does, show how to use the snapshot
feature.

Also, this is a good place to show if the snapshot has been allocated
or not. Users may want to "pre allocate" the snapshot to have a fast
"swap" of the current buffer. Otherwise, a swap would be slow and might
fail as it would need to allocate the snapshot buffer, and that might
fail under tight memory constraints.

Here's what it looked like before:

 # tracer: nop
 #
 # entries-in-buffer/entries-written: 0/0   #P:4
 #
 #                              _-----=&gt; irqs-off
 #                             / _----=&gt; need-resched
 #                            | / _---=&gt; hardirq/softirq
 #                            || / _--=&gt; preempt-depth
 #                            ||| /     delay
 #           TASK-PID   CPU#  ||||    TIMESTAMP  FUNCTION
 #              | |       |   ||||       |         |

Here's what it looks like now:

 # tracer: nop
 #
 #
 # * Snapshot is freed *
 #
 # Snapshot commands:
 # echo 0 &gt; snapshot : Clears and frees snapshot buffer
 # echo 1 &gt; snapshot : Allocates snapshot buffer, if not already allocated.
 #                      Takes a snapshot of the main buffer.
 # echo 2 &gt; snapshot : Clears snapshot buffer (but does not allocate)
 #                      (Doesn't have to be '2' works with any number that
 #                       is not a '0' or '1')

Acked-by: Hiraku Toyooka &lt;hiraku.toyooka.gu@hitachi.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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