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<title>Merge tag 'pci-v3.13-fixes-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/helgaas/pci</title>
<updated>2013-12-15T19:45:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-12-15T19:45:27+00:00</published>
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Pull PCI updates from Bjorn Helgaas:
 "PCI device hotplug
    - Move device_del() from pci_stop_dev() to pci_destroy_dev() (Rafael
      Wysocki)

  Host bridge drivers
    - Update maintainers for DesignWare, i.MX6, Armada, R-Car (Bjorn
      Helgaas)
    - mvebu: Return 'unsupported' for Interrupt Line and Interrupt Pin
      (Jason Gunthorpe)

  Miscellaneous
    - Avoid unnecessary CPU switch when calling .probe() (Alexander
      Duyck)
    - Revert "workqueue: allow work_on_cpu() to be called recursively"
      (Bjorn Helgaas)
    - Disable Bus Master only on kexec reboot (Khalid Aziz)
    - Omit PCI ID macro strings to shorten quirk names for LTO (Michal
      Marek)"

* tag 'pci-v3.13-fixes-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/helgaas/pci:
  MAINTAINERS: Add DesignWare, i.MX6, Armada, R-Car PCI host maintainers
  PCI: Disable Bus Master only on kexec reboot
  PCI: mvebu: Return 'unsupported' for Interrupt Line and Interrupt Pin
  PCI: Omit PCI ID macro strings to shorten quirk names
  PCI: Move device_del() from pci_stop_dev() to pci_destroy_dev()
  Revert "workqueue: allow work_on_cpu() to be called recursively"
  PCI: Avoid unnecessary CPU switch when calling driver .probe() method
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Pull PCI updates from Bjorn Helgaas:
 "PCI device hotplug
    - Move device_del() from pci_stop_dev() to pci_destroy_dev() (Rafael
      Wysocki)

  Host bridge drivers
    - Update maintainers for DesignWare, i.MX6, Armada, R-Car (Bjorn
      Helgaas)
    - mvebu: Return 'unsupported' for Interrupt Line and Interrupt Pin
      (Jason Gunthorpe)

  Miscellaneous
    - Avoid unnecessary CPU switch when calling .probe() (Alexander
      Duyck)
    - Revert "workqueue: allow work_on_cpu() to be called recursively"
      (Bjorn Helgaas)
    - Disable Bus Master only on kexec reboot (Khalid Aziz)
    - Omit PCI ID macro strings to shorten quirk names for LTO (Michal
      Marek)"

* tag 'pci-v3.13-fixes-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/helgaas/pci:
  MAINTAINERS: Add DesignWare, i.MX6, Armada, R-Car PCI host maintainers
  PCI: Disable Bus Master only on kexec reboot
  PCI: mvebu: Return 'unsupported' for Interrupt Line and Interrupt Pin
  PCI: Omit PCI ID macro strings to shorten quirk names
  PCI: Move device_del() from pci_stop_dev() to pci_destroy_dev()
  Revert "workqueue: allow work_on_cpu() to be called recursively"
  PCI: Avoid unnecessary CPU switch when calling driver .probe() method
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'keys-devel-20131210' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs</title>
<updated>2013-12-12T18:15:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-12-12T18:15:24+00:00</published>
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Pull misc keyrings fixes from David Howells:
 "These break down into five sets:

   - A patch to error handling in the big_key type for huge payloads.
     If the payload is larger than the "low limit" and the backing store
     allocation fails, then big_key_instantiate() doesn't clear the
     payload pointers in the key, assuming them to have been previously
     cleared - but only one of them is.

     Unfortunately, the garbage collector still calls big_key_destroy()
     when sees one of the pointers with a weird value in it (and not
     NULL) which it then tries to clean up.

   - Three patches to fix the keyring type:

     * A patch to fix the hash function to correctly divide keyrings off
       from keys in the topology of the tree inside the associative
       array.  This is only a problem if searching through nested
       keyrings - and only if the hash function incorrectly puts the a
       keyring outside of the 0 branch of the root node.

     * A patch to fix keyrings' use of the associative array.  The
       __key_link_begin() function initially passes a NULL key pointer
       to assoc_array_insert() on the basis that it's holding a place in
       the tree whilst it does more allocation and stuff.

       This is only a problem when a node contains 16 keys that match at
       that level and we want to add an also matching 17th.  This should
       easily be manufactured with a keyring full of keyrings (without
       chucking any other sort of key into the mix) - except for (a)
       above which makes it on average adding the 65th keyring.

     * A patch to fix searching down through nested keyrings, where any
       keyring in the set has more than 16 keyrings and none of the
       first keyrings we look through has a match (before the tree
       iteration needs to step to a more distal node).

     Test in keyutils test suite:

        http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/keyutils.git/commit/?id=8b4ae963ed92523aea18dfbb8cab3f4979e13bd1

   - A patch to fix the big_key type's use of a shmem file as its
     backing store causing audit messages and LSM check failures.  This
     is done by setting S_PRIVATE on the file to avoid LSM checks on the
     file (access to the shmem file goes through the keyctl() interface
     and so is gated by the LSM that way).

     This isn't normally a problem if a key is used by the context that
     generated it - and it's currently only used by libkrb5.

     Test in keyutils test suite:

        http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/keyutils.git/commit/?id=d9a53cbab42c293962f2f78f7190253fc73bd32e

   - A patch to add a generated file to .gitignore.

   - A patch to fix the alignment of the system certificate data such
     that it it works on s390.  As I understand it, on the S390 arch,
     symbols must be 2-byte aligned because loading the address discards
     the least-significant bit"

* tag 'keys-devel-20131210' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs:
  KEYS: correct alignment of system_certificate_list content in assembly file
  Ignore generated file kernel/x509_certificate_list
  security: shmem: implement kernel private shmem inodes
  KEYS: Fix searching of nested keyrings
  KEYS: Fix multiple key add into associative array
  KEYS: Fix the keyring hash function
  KEYS: Pre-clear struct key on allocation
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Pull misc keyrings fixes from David Howells:
 "These break down into five sets:

   - A patch to error handling in the big_key type for huge payloads.
     If the payload is larger than the "low limit" and the backing store
     allocation fails, then big_key_instantiate() doesn't clear the
     payload pointers in the key, assuming them to have been previously
     cleared - but only one of them is.

     Unfortunately, the garbage collector still calls big_key_destroy()
     when sees one of the pointers with a weird value in it (and not
     NULL) which it then tries to clean up.

   - Three patches to fix the keyring type:

     * A patch to fix the hash function to correctly divide keyrings off
       from keys in the topology of the tree inside the associative
       array.  This is only a problem if searching through nested
       keyrings - and only if the hash function incorrectly puts the a
       keyring outside of the 0 branch of the root node.

     * A patch to fix keyrings' use of the associative array.  The
       __key_link_begin() function initially passes a NULL key pointer
       to assoc_array_insert() on the basis that it's holding a place in
       the tree whilst it does more allocation and stuff.

       This is only a problem when a node contains 16 keys that match at
       that level and we want to add an also matching 17th.  This should
       easily be manufactured with a keyring full of keyrings (without
       chucking any other sort of key into the mix) - except for (a)
       above which makes it on average adding the 65th keyring.

     * A patch to fix searching down through nested keyrings, where any
       keyring in the set has more than 16 keyrings and none of the
       first keyrings we look through has a match (before the tree
       iteration needs to step to a more distal node).

     Test in keyutils test suite:

        http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/keyutils.git/commit/?id=8b4ae963ed92523aea18dfbb8cab3f4979e13bd1

   - A patch to fix the big_key type's use of a shmem file as its
     backing store causing audit messages and LSM check failures.  This
     is done by setting S_PRIVATE on the file to avoid LSM checks on the
     file (access to the shmem file goes through the keyctl() interface
     and so is gated by the LSM that way).

     This isn't normally a problem if a key is used by the context that
     generated it - and it's currently only used by libkrb5.

     Test in keyutils test suite:

        http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/keyutils.git/commit/?id=d9a53cbab42c293962f2f78f7190253fc73bd32e

   - A patch to add a generated file to .gitignore.

   - A patch to fix the alignment of the system certificate data such
     that it it works on s390.  As I understand it, on the S390 arch,
     symbols must be 2-byte aligned because loading the address discards
     the least-significant bit"

* tag 'keys-devel-20131210' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs:
  KEYS: correct alignment of system_certificate_list content in assembly file
  Ignore generated file kernel/x509_certificate_list
  security: shmem: implement kernel private shmem inodes
  KEYS: Fix searching of nested keyrings
  KEYS: Fix multiple key add into associative array
  KEYS: Fix the keyring hash function
  KEYS: Pre-clear struct key on allocation
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<entry>
<title>futex: move user address verification up to common code</title>
<updated>2013-12-12T17:53:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-12-12T17:53:51+00:00</published>
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When debugging the read-only hugepage case, I was confused by the fact
that get_futex_key() did an access_ok() only for the non-shared futex
case, since the user address checking really isn't in any way specific
to the private key handling.

Now, it turns out that the shared key handling does effectively do the
equivalent checks inside get_user_pages_fast() (it doesn't actually
check the address range on x86, but does check the page protections for
being a user page).  So it wasn't actually a bug, but the fact that we
treat the address differently for private and shared futexes threw me
for a loop.

Just move the check up, so that it gets done for both cases.  Also, use
the 'rw' parameter for the type, even if it doesn't actually matter any
more (it's a historical artifact of the old racy i386 "page faults from
kernel space don't check write protections").

Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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When debugging the read-only hugepage case, I was confused by the fact
that get_futex_key() did an access_ok() only for the non-shared futex
case, since the user address checking really isn't in any way specific
to the private key handling.

Now, it turns out that the shared key handling does effectively do the
equivalent checks inside get_user_pages_fast() (it doesn't actually
check the address range on x86, but does check the page protections for
being a user page).  So it wasn't actually a bug, but the fact that we
treat the address differently for private and shared futexes threw me
for a loop.

Just move the check up, so that it gets done for both cases.  Also, use
the 'rw' parameter for the type, even if it doesn't actually matter any
more (it's a historical artifact of the old racy i386 "page faults from
kernel space don't check write protections").

Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>futex: fix handling of read-only-mapped hugepages</title>
<updated>2013-12-12T17:38:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-12-12T17:38:42+00:00</published>
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The hugepage code had the exact same bug that regular pages had in
commit 7485d0d3758e ("futexes: Remove rw parameter from
get_futex_key()").

The regular page case was fixed by commit 9ea71503a8ed ("futex: Fix
regression with read only mappings"), but the transparent hugepage case
(added in a5b338f2b0b1: "thp: update futex compound knowledge") case
remained broken.

Found by Dave Jones and his trinity tool.

Reported-and-tested-by: Dave Jones &lt;davej@fedoraproject.org&gt;
Cc: stable@kernel.org # v2.6.38+
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Darren Hart &lt;dvhart@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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The hugepage code had the exact same bug that regular pages had in
commit 7485d0d3758e ("futexes: Remove rw parameter from
get_futex_key()").

The regular page case was fixed by commit 9ea71503a8ed ("futex: Fix
regression with read only mappings"), but the transparent hugepage case
(added in a5b338f2b0b1: "thp: update futex compound knowledge") case
remained broken.

Found by Dave Jones and his trinity tool.

Reported-and-tested-by: Dave Jones &lt;davej@fedoraproject.org&gt;
Cc: stable@kernel.org # v2.6.38+
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Darren Hart &lt;dvhart@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>KEYS: correct alignment of system_certificate_list content in assembly file</title>
<updated>2013-12-10T18:25:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hendrik Brueckner</name>
<email>brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-12-05T13:48:22+00:00</published>
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Apart from data-type specific alignment constraints, there are also
architecture-specific alignment requirements.
For example, on s390 symbols must be on even addresses implying a 2-byte
alignment.  If the system_certificate_list_end symbol is on an odd address
and if this address is loaded, the least-significant bit is ignored.  As a
result, the load_system_certificate_list() fails to load the certificates
because of a wrong certificate length calculation.

To be safe, align system_certificate_list on an 8-byte boundary.  Also improve
the length calculation of the system_certificate_list content.  Introduce a
system_certificate_list_size (8-byte aligned because of unsigned long) variable
that stores the length.  Let the linker calculate this size by introducing
a start and end label for the certificate content.

Signed-off-by: Hendrik Brueckner &lt;brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
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Apart from data-type specific alignment constraints, there are also
architecture-specific alignment requirements.
For example, on s390 symbols must be on even addresses implying a 2-byte
alignment.  If the system_certificate_list_end symbol is on an odd address
and if this address is loaded, the least-significant bit is ignored.  As a
result, the load_system_certificate_list() fails to load the certificates
because of a wrong certificate length calculation.

To be safe, align system_certificate_list on an 8-byte boundary.  Also improve
the length calculation of the system_certificate_list content.  Introduce a
system_certificate_list_size (8-byte aligned because of unsigned long) variable
that stores the length.  Let the linker calculate this size by introducing
a start and end label for the certificate content.

Signed-off-by: Hendrik Brueckner &lt;brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Ignore generated file kernel/x509_certificate_list</title>
<updated>2013-12-10T18:21:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rusty Russell</name>
<email>rusty@rustcorp.com.au</email>
</author>
<published>2013-12-10T07:12:50+00:00</published>
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$ git status
# On branch pending-rebases
# Untracked files:
#   (use "git add &lt;file&gt;..." to include in what will be committed)
#
#	kernel/x509_certificate_list
nothing added to commit but untracked files present (use "git add" to track)
$

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
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$ git status
# On branch pending-rebases
# Untracked files:
#   (use "git add &lt;file&gt;..." to include in what will be committed)
#
#	kernel/x509_certificate_list
nothing added to commit but untracked files present (use "git add" to track)
$

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>PCI: Disable Bus Master only on kexec reboot</title>
<updated>2013-12-07T21:20:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Khalid Aziz</name>
<email>khalid.aziz@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-11-27T22:19:25+00:00</published>
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Add a flag to tell the PCI subsystem that kernel is shutting down in
preparation to kexec a kernel.  Add code in PCI subsystem to use this flag
to clear Bus Master bit on PCI devices only in case of kexec reboot.

This fixes a power-off problem on Acer Aspire V5-573G and likely other
machines and avoids any other issues caused by clearing Bus Master bit on
PCI devices in normal shutdown path.  The problem was introduced by
b566a22c2332 ("PCI: disable Bus Master on PCI device shutdown").

This patch is based on discussion at
http://marc.info/?l=linux-pci&amp;m=138425645204355&amp;w=2

Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63861
Reported-by: Chang Liu &lt;cl91tp@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Khalid Aziz &lt;khalid.aziz@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas &lt;bhelgaas@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov &lt;koct9i@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org	# v3.5+</content>
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Add a flag to tell the PCI subsystem that kernel is shutting down in
preparation to kexec a kernel.  Add code in PCI subsystem to use this flag
to clear Bus Master bit on PCI devices only in case of kexec reboot.

This fixes a power-off problem on Acer Aspire V5-573G and likely other
machines and avoids any other issues caused by clearing Bus Master bit on
PCI devices in normal shutdown path.  The problem was introduced by
b566a22c2332 ("PCI: disable Bus Master on PCI device shutdown").

This patch is based on discussion at
http://marc.info/?l=linux-pci&amp;m=138425645204355&amp;w=2

Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63861
Reported-by: Chang Liu &lt;cl91tp@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Khalid Aziz &lt;khalid.aziz@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas &lt;bhelgaas@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov &lt;koct9i@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org	# v3.5+</pre>
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'trace-fixes-3.13-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace</title>
<updated>2013-12-06T16:34:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-12-06T16:34:16+00:00</published>
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Pull tracing fix from Steven Rostedt:
 "A regression showed up that there's a large delay when enabling all
  events.  This was prevalent when FTRACE_SELFTEST was enabled which
  enables all events several times, and caused the system bootup to
  pause for over a minute.

  This was tracked down to an addition of a synchronize_sched()
  performed when system call tracepoints are unregistered.

  The synchronize_sched() is needed between the unregistering of the
  system call tracepoint and a deletion of a tracing instance buffer.
  But placing the synchronize_sched() in the unreg of *every* system
  call tracepoint is a bit overboard.  A single synchronize_sched()
  before the deletion of the instance is sufficient"

* tag 'trace-fixes-3.13-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace:
  tracing: Only run synchronize_sched() at instance deletion time
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Pull tracing fix from Steven Rostedt:
 "A regression showed up that there's a large delay when enabling all
  events.  This was prevalent when FTRACE_SELFTEST was enabled which
  enables all events several times, and caused the system bootup to
  pause for over a minute.

  This was tracked down to an addition of a synchronize_sched()
  performed when system call tracepoints are unregistered.

  The synchronize_sched() is needed between the unregistering of the
  system call tracepoint and a deletion of a tracing instance buffer.
  But placing the synchronize_sched() in the unreg of *every* system
  call tracepoint is a bit overboard.  A single synchronize_sched()
  before the deletion of the instance is sufficient"

* tag 'trace-fixes-3.13-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace:
  tracing: Only run synchronize_sched() at instance deletion time
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<entry>
<title>tracing: Only run synchronize_sched() at instance deletion time</title>
<updated>2013-12-05T19:22:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-12-03T17:41:20+00:00</published>
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<id>3ccb01239201af06a07482ec686b14cd148102a5</id>
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It has been reported that boot up with FTRACE_SELFTEST enabled can take a
very long time. There can be stalls of over a minute.

This was tracked down to the synchronize_sched() called when a system call
event is disabled. As the self tests enable and disable thousands of events,
this makes the synchronize_sched() get called thousands of times.

The synchornize_sched() was added with d562aff93bfb53 "tracing: Add support
for SOFT_DISABLE to syscall events" which caused this regression (added
in 3.13-rc1).

The synchronize_sched() is to protect against the events being accessed
when a tracer instance is being deleted. When an instance is being deleted
all the events associated to it are unregistered. The synchronize_sched()
makes sure that no more users are running when it finishes.

Instead of calling synchronize_sched() for all syscall events, we only
need to call it once, after the events are unregistered and before the
instance is deleted. The event_mutex is held during this action to
prevent new users from enabling events.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131203124120.427b9661@gandalf.local.home

Reported-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.cz&gt;
Acked-by: Tom Zanussi &lt;tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.cz&gt;
Tested-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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It has been reported that boot up with FTRACE_SELFTEST enabled can take a
very long time. There can be stalls of over a minute.

This was tracked down to the synchronize_sched() called when a system call
event is disabled. As the self tests enable and disable thousands of events,
this makes the synchronize_sched() get called thousands of times.

The synchornize_sched() was added with d562aff93bfb53 "tracing: Add support
for SOFT_DISABLE to syscall events" which caused this regression (added
in 3.13-rc1).

The synchronize_sched() is to protect against the events being accessed
when a tracer instance is being deleted. When an instance is being deleted
all the events associated to it are unregistered. The synchronize_sched()
makes sure that no more users are running when it finishes.

Instead of calling synchronize_sched() for all syscall events, we only
need to call it once, after the events are unregistered and before the
instance is deleted. The event_mutex is held during this action to
prevent new users from enabling events.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131203124120.427b9661@gandalf.local.home

Reported-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.cz&gt;
Acked-by: Tom Zanussi &lt;tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.cz&gt;
Tested-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2013-12-04T16:52:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-12-04T16:52:09+00:00</published>
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Pull timer fixes from Thomas Gleixner:

 - timekeeping: Cure a subtle drift issue on GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL_OLD

 - nohz: Make CONFIG_NO_HZ=n and nohz=off command line option behave the
   same way.  Fixes a long standing load accounting wreckage.

 - clocksource/ARM: Kconfig update to avoid ARM=n wreckage

 - clocksource/ARM: Fixlets for the AT91 and SH clocksource/clockevents

 - Trivial documentation update and kzalloc conversion from akpms pile

* 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  nohz: Fix another inconsistency between CONFIG_NO_HZ=n and nohz=off
  time: Fix 1ns/tick drift w/ GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL_OLD
  clocksource: arm_arch_timer: Hide eventstream Kconfig on non-ARM
  clocksource: sh_tmu: Add clk_prepare/unprepare support
  clocksource: sh_tmu: Release clock when sh_tmu_register() fails
  clocksource: sh_mtu2: Add clk_prepare/unprepare support
  clocksource: sh_mtu2: Release clock when sh_mtu2_register() fails
  ARM: at91: rm9200: switch back to clockevents_config_and_register
  tick: Document tick_do_timer_cpu
  timer: Convert kmalloc_node(...GFP_ZERO...) to kzalloc_node(...)
  NOHZ: Check for nohz active instead of nohz enabled
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Pull timer fixes from Thomas Gleixner:

 - timekeeping: Cure a subtle drift issue on GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL_OLD

 - nohz: Make CONFIG_NO_HZ=n and nohz=off command line option behave the
   same way.  Fixes a long standing load accounting wreckage.

 - clocksource/ARM: Kconfig update to avoid ARM=n wreckage

 - clocksource/ARM: Fixlets for the AT91 and SH clocksource/clockevents

 - Trivial documentation update and kzalloc conversion from akpms pile

* 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  nohz: Fix another inconsistency between CONFIG_NO_HZ=n and nohz=off
  time: Fix 1ns/tick drift w/ GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL_OLD
  clocksource: arm_arch_timer: Hide eventstream Kconfig on non-ARM
  clocksource: sh_tmu: Add clk_prepare/unprepare support
  clocksource: sh_tmu: Release clock when sh_tmu_register() fails
  clocksource: sh_mtu2: Add clk_prepare/unprepare support
  clocksource: sh_mtu2: Release clock when sh_mtu2_register() fails
  ARM: at91: rm9200: switch back to clockevents_config_and_register
  tick: Document tick_do_timer_cpu
  timer: Convert kmalloc_node(...GFP_ZERO...) to kzalloc_node(...)
  NOHZ: Check for nohz active instead of nohz enabled
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