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* Merge commit 'v3.2-rc6' into perf/coreIngo Molnar2011-12-2020-79/+352
|\ | | | | | | | | | | Merge reason: Update with the latest fixes. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2011-12-092-3/+9
| |\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip * 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: perf: Do no try to schedule task events if there are none lockdep, kmemcheck: Annotate ->lock in lockdep_init_map() perf header: Use event_name() to get an event name perf stat: Failure with "Operation not supported"
| | * perf: Do no try to schedule task events if there are noneGleb Natapov2011-12-071-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | perf_event_sched_in() shouldn't try to schedule task events if there are none otherwise task's ctx->is_active will be set and will not be cleared during sched_out. This will prevent newly added events from being scheduled into the task context. Fixes a boo-boo in commit 1d5f003f5a9 ("perf: Do not set task_ctx pointer in cpuctx if there are no events in the context"). Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111122140821.GF2557@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| | * lockdep, kmemcheck: Annotate ->lock in lockdep_init_map()Yong Zhang2011-12-061-1/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Since commit f59de89 ("lockdep: Clear whole lockdep_map on initialization"), lockdep_init_map() will clear all the struct. But it will break lock_set_class()/lock_set_subclass(). A typical race condition is like below: CPU A CPU B lock_set_subclass(lockA); lock_set_class(lockA); lockdep_init_map(lockA); /* lockA->name is cleared */ memset(lockA); __lock_acquire(lockA); /* lockA->class_cache[] is cleared */ register_lock_class(lockA); look_up_lock_class(lockA); WARN_ON_ONCE(class->name != lock->name); lock->name = name; So restore to what we have done before commit f59de89 but annotate ->lock with kmemcheck_mark_initialized() to suppress the kmemcheck warning reported in commit f59de89. Reported-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> Reported-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Suggested-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@gmail.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111109080451.GB8124@zhy Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * | sys_getppid: add missing rcu_dereferenceMandeep Singh Baines2011-12-091-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In order to safely dereference current->real_parent inside an rcu_read_lock, we need an rcu_dereference. Signed-off-by: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@chromium.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| * | printk: avoid double lock acquirePeter Zijlstra2011-12-091-1/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Commit 4f2a8d3cf5e ("printk: Fix console_sem vs logbuf_lock unlock race") introduced another silly bug where we would want to acquire an already held lock. Avoid this. Reported-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| * | Merge branch 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2011-12-081-1/+1
| |\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip * 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: alarmtimers: Fix time comparison ptp: Fix clock_getres() implementation
| | * | alarmtimers: Fix time comparisonThomas Gleixner2011-12-061-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The expiry function compares the timer against current time and does not expire the timer when the expiry time is >= now. That's wrong. If the timer is set for now, then it must expire. Make the condition expiry > now for breaking out the loop. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Cc: stable@kernel.org
| * | | Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2011-12-064-5/+11
| |\ \ \ | | |/ / | |/| / | | |/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip * 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: ftrace: Fix hash record accounting bug perf: Fix parsing of __print_flags() in TP_printk() jump_label: jump_label_inc may return before the code is patched ftrace: Remove force undef config value left for testing tracing: Restore system filter behavior tracing: fix event_subsystem ref counting
| * | Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2011-12-054-6/+95
| |\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip * 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: perf: Fix loss of notification with multi-event perf, x86: Force IBS LVT offset assignment for family 10h perf, x86: Disable PEBS on SandyBridge chips trace_events_filter: Use rcu_assign_pointer() when setting ftrace_event_call->filter perf session: Fix crash with invalid CPU list perf python: Fix undefined symbol problem perf/x86: Enable raw event access to Intel offcore events perf: Don't use -ENOSPC for out of PMU resources perf: Do not set task_ctx pointer in cpuctx if there are no events in the context perf/x86: Fix PEBS instruction unwind oprofile, x86: Fix crash when unloading module (nmi timer mode) oprofile: Fix crash when unloading module (hr timer mode)
| * \ \ Merge branch 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2011-12-053-3/+4
| |\ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip * 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: clockevents: Set noop handler in clockevents_exchange_device() tick-broadcast: Stop active broadcast device when replacing it clocksource: Fix bug with max_deferment margin calculation rtc: Fix some bugs that allowed accumulating time drift in suspend/resume rtc: Disable the alarm in the hardware
| | * | | clockevents: Set noop handler in clockevents_exchange_device()Thomas Gleixner2011-12-021-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If a device is shutdown, then there might be a pending interrupt, which will be processed after we reenable interrupts, which causes the original handler to be run. If the old handler is the (broadcast) periodic handler the shutdown state might hang the kernel completely. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
| | * | | tick-broadcast: Stop active broadcast device when replacing itThomas Gleixner2011-12-021-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When a better rated broadcast device is installed, then the current active device is not disabled, which results in two running broadcast devices. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
| | * | | clocksource: Fix bug with max_deferment margin calculationYang Honggang (Joseph)2011-12-011-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In order to leave a margin of 12.5% we should >> 3 not >> 5. CC: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Yang Honggang (Joseph) <eagle.rtlinux@gmail.com> [jstultz: Modified commit subject] Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
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| *-. \ \ \ Merge branches 'core-urgent-for-linus' and 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2011-12-051-1/+4
| |\ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip * 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: slab, lockdep: Fix silly bug * 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: genirq: Fix race condition when stopping the irq thread
| | | * | | | genirq: Fix race condition when stopping the irq threadIdo Yariv2011-12-021-1/+4
| | |/ / / / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In irq_wait_for_interrupt(), the should_stop member is verified before setting the task's state to TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE and calling schedule(). In case kthread_stop sets should_stop and wakes up the process after should_stop is checked by the irq thread but before the task's state is changed, the irq thread might never exit: kthread_stop irq_wait_for_interrupt ------------ ---------------------- ... ... while (!kthread_should_stop()) { kthread->should_stop = 1; wake_up_process(k); wait_for_completion(&kthread->exited); ... set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE); ... schedule(); } Fix this by checking if the thread should stop after modifying the task's state. [ tglx: Simplified it a bit ] Signed-off-by: Ido Yariv <ido@wizery.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1322740508-22640-1-git-send-email-ido@wizery.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: stable@kernel.org
| * | | | | Merge branch 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2011-12-054-34/+146
| |\ \ \ \ \ | | |/ / / / | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip * 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: sched, x86: Avoid unnecessary overflow in sched_clock sched: Fix buglet in return_cfs_rq_runtime() sched: Avoid SMT siblings in select_idle_sibling() if possible sched: Set the command name of the idle tasks in SMP kernels sched, rt: Provide means of disabling cross-cpu bandwidth sharing sched: Document wait_for_completion_*() return values sched_fair: Fix a typo in the comment describing update_sd_lb_stats sched: Add a comment to effective_load() since it's a pain
| | * | | | sched: Fix buglet in return_cfs_rq_runtime()Paul Turner2011-11-161-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In return_cfs_rq_runtime() we want to return bandwidth when there are no remaining tasks, not "return" when this is the case. Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111108042736.623812423@google.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| | * | | | sched: Avoid SMT siblings in select_idle_sibling() if possiblePeter Zijlstra2011-11-161-14/+28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Avoid select_idle_sibling() from picking a sibling thread if there's an idle core that shares cache. This fixes SMT balancing in the increasingly common case where there's a shared cache core available to balance to. Tested-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1321350377.1421.55.camel@twins Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| | * | | | sched: Set the command name of the idle tasks in SMP kernelsCarsten Emde2011-11-141-0/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In UP systems, the idle task is initialized using the init_task structure from which the command name is taken (currently "swapper"). In SMP systems, one idle task per CPU is forked by the worker thread from which the task structure is copied. The command name is, therefore, "kworker/0:0" or "kworker/0:1", if not updated. Since such update was lacking, all idle tasks in SMP systems were incorrectly named. This longtime bug was not discovered immediately, because there is no /proc/0 entry - the bug only becomes apparent when tracing is enabled. This patch sets the command name of the idle tasks in SMP systems to the name that is used in the INIT_TASK structure suffixed by a slash and the number of the CPU. Signed-off-by: Carsten Emde <C.Emde@osadl.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111026211708.768925506@osadl.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| | * | | | sched, rt: Provide means of disabling cross-cpu bandwidth sharingPeter Zijlstra2011-11-142-0/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Normally the RT bandwidth scheme will share bandwidth across the entire root_domain. However sometimes its convenient to disable this sharing for debug purposes. Provide a simple feature switch to this end. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| | * | | | sched: Document wait_for_completion_*() return valuesJ. Bruce Fields2011-11-141-0/+13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The return-value convention for these functions varies depending on whether they're interruptible or can timeout. It can be a little confusing--document it. Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111006192246.GB28026@fieldses.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| | * | | | sched_fair: Fix a typo in the comment describing update_sd_lb_statsHui Kang2011-11-141-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Hui Kang <hkang.sunysb@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1318388459-4427-1-git-send-email-hkang.sunysb@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| | * | | | sched: Add a comment to effective_load() since it's a painPeter Zijlstra2011-11-141-18/+95
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Every time I have to stare at this function I need to completely reverse engineer its workings, about time I write a comment explaining the thing. Collected bits and pieces from previous changelogs, mostly: 4be9daaa1b33701f011f4117f22dc1e45a3e6e34 83378269a5fad98f562ebc0f09c349575e6cbfe1 Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1318518057.27731.2.camel@twins Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * | | | | Merge branch 'pm-fixes' of ↵Linus Torvalds2011-11-291-6/+10
| |\ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm * 'pm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: PM: Update comments describing device power management callbacks PM / Sleep: Update documentation related to system wakeup PM / Runtime: Make documentation follow the new behavior of irq_safe PM / Sleep: Correct inaccurate information in devices.txt PM / Domains: Document how PM domains are used by the PM core PM / Hibernate: Do not leak memory in error/test code paths
| | * | | | | PM / Hibernate: Do not leak memory in error/test code pathsRafael J. Wysocki2011-11-231-6/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The hibernation core code forgets to release memory preallocated for hibernation if there's an error in its early stages or if test modes causing hibernation_snapshot() to return early are used. This causes the system to be hardly usable, because the amount of preallocated memory is usually huge. Fix this problem. Reported-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Acked-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
| * | | | | | Merge branch 'for-3.2-fixes' of ↵Linus Torvalds2011-11-281-2/+9
| |\ \ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup * 'for-3.2-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup: cgroup_freezer: fix freezing groups with stopped tasks
| | * | | | | | cgroup_freezer: fix freezing groups with stopped tasksMichal Hocko2011-11-241-2/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 2d3cbf8b (cgroup_freezer: update_freezer_state() does incorrect state transitions) removed is_task_frozen_enough and replaced it with a simple frozen call. This, however, breaks freezing for a group with stopped tasks because those cannot be frozen and so the group remains in CGROUP_FREEZING state (update_if_frozen doesn't count stopped tasks) and never reaches CGROUP_FROZEN. Let's add is_task_frozen_enough back and use it at the original locations (update_if_frozen and try_to_freeze_cgroup). Semantically we consider stopped tasks as frozen enough so we should consider both cases when testing frozen tasks. Testcase: mkdir /dev/freezer mount -t cgroup -o freezer none /dev/freezer mkdir /dev/freezer/foo sleep 1h & pid=$! kill -STOP $pid echo $pid > /dev/freezer/foo/tasks echo FROZEN > /dev/freezer/foo/freezer.state while true do cat /dev/freezer/foo/freezer.state [ "`cat /dev/freezer/foo/freezer.state`" = "FROZEN" ] && break sleep 1 done echo OK Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Tomasz Buchert <tomasz.buchert@inria.fr> Cc: Paul Menage <paul@paulmenage.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
| * | | | | | | Merge branch 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2011-11-283-13/+143
| |\ \ \ \ \ \ \ | | | |_|_|/ / / | | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip * 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: hrtimer: Fix extra wakeups from __remove_hrtimer() timekeeping: add arch_offset hook to ktime_get functions clocksource: Avoid selecting mult values that might overflow when adjusted time: Improve documentation of timekeeeping_adjust()
| | * | | | | | hrtimer: Fix extra wakeups from __remove_hrtimer()Jeff Ohlstein2011-11-191-2/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | __remove_hrtimer() attempts to reprogram the clockevent device when the timer being removed is the next to expire. However, __remove_hrtimer() reprograms the clockevent *before* removing the timer from the timerqueue and thus when hrtimer_force_reprogram() finds the next timer to expire it finds the timer we're trying to remove. This is especially noticeable when the system switches to NOHz mode and the system tick is removed. The timer tick is removed from the system but the clockevent is programmed to wakeup in another HZ anyway. Silence the extra wakeup by removing the timer from the timerqueue before calling hrtimer_force_reprogram() so that we actually program the clockevent for the next timer to expire. This was broken by 998adc3 "hrtimers: Convert hrtimers to use timerlist infrastructure". Signed-off-by: Jeff Ohlstein <johlstei@codeaurora.org> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1321660030-8520-1-git-send-email-johlstei@codeaurora.org Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
| | * | | | | | timekeeping: add arch_offset hook to ktime_get functionsHector Palacios2011-11-171-0/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ktime_get and ktime_get_ts were calling timekeeping_get_ns() but later they were not calling arch_gettimeoffset() so architectures using this mechanism returned 0 ns when calling these functions. This happened for example when running Busybox's ping which calls syscall(__NR_clock_gettime, CLOCK_MONOTONIC, ts) which eventually calls ktime_get. As a result the returned ping travel time was zero. CC: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Hector Palacios <hector.palacios@digi.com> Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
| | * | | | | | Merge branch 'formingo/3.2/tip/timers/core' of ↵Ingo Molnar2011-11-112-10/+55
| | |\ \ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.linaro.org/people/jstultz/linux into timers/core Conflicts: kernel/time/timekeeping.c
| | | * | | | | | clocksource: Avoid selecting mult values that might overflow when adjustedJohn Stultz2011-11-102-10/+55
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | For some frequencies, the clocks_calc_mult_shift() function will unfortunately select mult values very close to 0xffffffff. This has the potential to overflow when NTP adjusts the clock, adding to the mult value. This patch adds a clocksource.maxadj value, which provides an approximation of an 11% adjustment(NTP limits adjustments to 500ppm and the tick adjustment is limited to 10%), which could be made to the clocksource.mult value. This is then used to both check that the current mult value won't overflow/underflow, as well as warning us if the timekeeping_adjust() code pushes over that 11% boundary. v2: Fix max_adjustment calculation, and improve WARN_ONCE messages. v3: Don't warn before maxadj has actually been set CC: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@gmail.com> CC: David Daney <ddaney.cavm@gmail.com> CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> CC: Chen Jie <chenj@lemote.com> CC: zhangfx <zhangfx@lemote.com> CC: stable@kernel.org Reported-by: Chen Jie <chenj@lemote.com> Reported-by: zhangfx <zhangfx@lemote.com> Tested-by: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
| | * | | | | | | time: Improve documentation of timekeeeping_adjust()John Stultz2011-10-281-1/+80
| | |/ / / / / / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | After getting a number of questions in private emails about the math around admittedly very complex timekeeping_adjust() and timekeeping_big_adjust(), I figure the code needs some better comments. Hopefully the explanations are clear enough and don't muddy the water any worse. Still needs documentation for ntp_error, but I couldn't recall exactly the full explanation behind the code that's there (although I do recall once working it out when Roman first proposed it). Given a bit more time I can probably work it out, but I don't want to hold back this documentation until then. Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Cc: Chen Jie <chenj@lemote.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1319764362-32367-1-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * | | | | | | Merge branch 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2011-11-281-1/+1
| |\ \ \ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip * 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: genirq: Don't allow per cpu interrupts to be suspended
| | * | | | | | | genirq: Don't allow per cpu interrupts to be suspendedMarc Zyngier2011-11-171-1/+1
| | | |/ / / / / | | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The power management functions related to interrupts do not know (yet) about per-cpu interrupts and end up calling the wrong low-level methods to enable/disable interrupts. This leads to all kind of interesting issues (action taken on one CPU only, updating a refcount which is not used otherwise...). The workaround for the time being is simply to flag these interrupts with IRQF_NO_SUSPEND. At least on ARM, these interrupts are actually dealt with at the architecture level. Reported-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@ti.com> Tested-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@ti.com> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1321446459-31409-1-git-send-email-marc.zyngier@arm.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
| * | | | | | | genirq: fix regression in irqfixup, irqpollEdward Donovan2011-11-281-1/+3
| | |_|/ / / / | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Commit fa27271bc8d2("genirq: Fixup poll handling") introduced a regression that broke irqfixup/irqpoll for some hardware configurations. Amidst reorganizing 'try_one_irq', that patch removed a test that checked for 'action->handler' returning IRQ_HANDLED, before acting on the interrupt. Restoring this test back returns the functionality lost since 2.6.39. In the current set of tests, after 'action' is set, it must precede '!action->next' to take effect. With this and my previous patch to irq/spurious.c, c75d720fca8a, all IRQ regressions that I have encountered are fixed. Signed-off-by: Edward Donovan <edward.donovan@numble.net> Reported-and-tested-by: Rogério Brito <rbrito@ime.usp.br> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: stable@kernel.org (2.6.39+) Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| * | | | | | Merge branch 'writeback-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2011-11-221-5/+0
| |\ \ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wfg/linux * 'writeback-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wfg/linux: writeback: remove vm_dirties and task->dirties writeback: hard throttle 1000+ dd on a slow USB stick mm: Make task in balance_dirty_pages() killable
| | * | | | | | writeback: remove vm_dirties and task->dirtiesWu Fengguang2011-11-171-5/+0
| | | |_|/ / / | | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | They are not used any more. Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
| * | | | | | Merge branch 'pm-fixes' of ↵Linus Torvalds2011-11-202-7/+19
| |\ \ \ \ \ \ | | |_|/ / / / | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm * 'pm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: PM / Suspend: Fix bug in suspend statistics update PM / Hibernate: Fix the early termination of test modes PM / shmobile: Fix build of sh7372_pm_init() for CONFIG_PM unset PM Sleep: Do not extend wakeup paths to devices with ignore_children set PM / driver core: disable device's runtime PM during shutdown PM / devfreq: correct Kconfig dependency PM / devfreq: fix use after free in devfreq_remove_device PM / shmobile: Avoid restoring the INTCS state during initialization PM / devfreq: Remove compiler error after irq.h update PM / QoS: Properly use the WARN() macro in dev_pm_qos_add_request() PM / Clocks: Only disable enabled clocks in pm_clk_suspend() ARM: mach-shmobile: sh7372 A3SP no_suspend_console fix PM / shmobile: Don't skip debugging output in pd_power_up()
| | * | | | | PM / Suspend: Fix bug in suspend statistics updateSrivatsa S. Bhat2011-11-191-1/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | After commit 2a77c46de1e3dace73745015635ebbc648eca69c (PM / Suspend: Add statistics debugfs file for suspend to RAM) a missing pair of braces inside the state_store() function causes even invalid arguments to suspend to be wrongly treated as failed suspend attempts. Fix this. [rjw: Put the hash/subject of the buggy commit into the changelog.] Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
| | * | | | | PM / Hibernate: Fix the early termination of test modesSrivatsa S. Bhat2011-11-181-6/+17
| | |/ / / / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Commit 2aede851ddf08666f68ffc17be446420e9d2a056 (PM / Hibernate: Freeze kernel threads after preallocating memory) postponed the freezing of kernel threads to after preallocating memory for hibernation. But while doing that, the hibernation test TEST_FREEZER and the test mode HIBERNATION_TESTPROC were not moved accordingly. As a result, when using these test modes, it only goes upto the freezing of userspace and exits, when in fact it should go till the complete end of task freezing stage, namely the freezing of kernel threads as well. So, move these points of exit to appropriate places so that freezing of kernel threads is also tested while using these test harnesses. Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
| * | | | | Merge branch 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2011-11-171-1/+1
| |\ \ \ \ \ | | |/ / / / | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip * 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: genirq: Fix irqfixup, irqpoll regression
| | * | | | genirq: Fix irqfixup, irqpoll regressionEdward Donovan2011-11-031-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | commit d05c65fff0 ("genirq: spurious: Run only one poller at a time") introduced a regression, leaving the boot options 'irqfixup' and 'irqpoll' non-functional. The patch placed tests in each function, to exit if the function is already running. The test in 'misrouted_irq' exited when it should have proceeded, effectively disabling 'misrouted_irq' and 'poll_spurious_irqs'. The check for an already running poller needs to be "!= 1" not "== 1" as "1" is the value when the first poller starts running. Signed-off-by: Edward Donovan <edward.donovan@numble.net> Cc: maciej.rutecki@gmail.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1320175784-6745-1-git-send-email-edward.donovan@numble.net Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # >= 2.6.39 Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* | | | | | jump_label: Provide jump_label_key initializersPeter Zijlstra2011-12-061-4/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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 <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-p40e3yj21b68y03z1yv825e7@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | | | | | jump_label, x86: Fix section mismatchPeter Zijlstra2011-12-061-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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 <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-9lefe89mrvurrwpqw5h8xm8z@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | | | | | Merge branch 'tip/perf/core' of ↵Ingo Molnar2011-12-063-28/+79
|\ \ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace into perf/core
| * | | | | | tracing: Add entries in buffer and total entries to default output headerSteven Rostedt2011-11-171-25/+47
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Knowing the number of event entries in the ring buffer compared to the total number that were written is useful information. The latency format gives this information and there's no reason that the default format does not. This information is now added to the default header, along with the number of online CPUs: # tracer: nop # # entries-in-buffer/entries-written: 159836/64690869 #P:4 # # _-----=> irqs-off # / _----=> need-resched # | / _---=> hardirq/softirq # || / _--=> preempt-depth # ||| / delay # TASK-PID CPU# |||| TIMESTAMP FUNCTION # | | | |||| | | <idle>-0 [000] ...2 49.442971: local_touch_nmi <-cpu_idle <idle>-0 [000] d..2 49.442973: enter_idle <-cpu_idle <idle>-0 [000] d..2 49.442974: atomic_notifier_call_chain <-enter_idle <idle>-0 [000] d..2 49.442976: __atomic_notifier_call_chain <-atomic_notifier The above shows that the trace contains 159836 entries, but 64690869 were written. One could figure out that there were 64531033 entries that were dropped. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| * | | | | | tracing: Add irq, preempt-count and need resched info to default trace outputSteven Rostedt2011-11-173-6/+35
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | People keep asking how to get the preempt count, irq, and need resched info and we keep telling them to enable the latency format. Some developers think that traces without this info is completely useless, and for a lot of tasks it is useless. The first option was to enable the latency trace as the default format, but the header for the latency format is pretty useless for most tracers and it also does the timestamp in straight microseconds from the time the trace started. This is sometimes more difficult to read as the default trace is seconds from the start of boot up. Latency format: # tracer: nop # # nop latency trace v1.1.5 on 3.2.0-rc1-test+ # -------------------------------------------------------------------- # latency: 0 us, #159771/64234230, CPU#1 | (M:preempt VP:0, KP:0, SP:0 HP:0 #P:4) # ----------------- # | task: -0 (uid:0 nice:0 policy:0 rt_prio:0) # ----------------- # # _------=> CPU# # / _-----=> irqs-off # | / _----=> need-resched # || / _---=> hardirq/softirq # ||| / _--=> preempt-depth # |||| / delay # cmd pid ||||| time | caller # \ / ||||| \ | / migratio-6 0...2 41778231us+: rcu_note_context_switch <-__schedule migratio-6 0...2 41778233us : trace_rcu_utilization <-rcu_note_context_switch migratio-6 0...2 41778235us+: rcu_sched_qs <-rcu_note_context_switch migratio-6 0d..2 41778236us+: rcu_preempt_qs <-rcu_note_context_switch migratio-6 0...2 41778238us : trace_rcu_utilization <-rcu_note_context_switch migratio-6 0...2 41778239us+: debug_lockdep_rcu_enabled <-__schedule default format: # tracer: nop # # TASK-PID CPU# TIMESTAMP FUNCTION # | | | | | migration/0-6 [000] 50.025810: rcu_note_context_switch <-__schedule migration/0-6 [000] 50.025812: trace_rcu_utilization <-rcu_note_context_switch migration/0-6 [000] 50.025813: rcu_sched_qs <-rcu_note_context_switch migration/0-6 [000] 50.025815: rcu_preempt_qs <-rcu_note_context_switch migration/0-6 [000] 50.025817: trace_rcu_utilization <-rcu_note_context_switch migration/0-6 [000] 50.025818: debug_lockdep_rcu_enabled <-__schedule migration/0-6 [000] 50.025820: debug_lockdep_rcu_enabled <-__schedule The latency format header has latency information that is pretty meaningless for most tracers. Although some of the header is useful, and we can add that later to the default format as well. What is really useful with the latency format is the irqs-off, need-resched hard/softirq context and the preempt count. This commit adds the option irq-info which is on by default that adds this information: # tracer: nop # # _-----=> irqs-off # / _----=> need-resched # | / _---=> hardirq/softirq # || / _--=> preempt-depth # ||| / delay # TASK-PID CPU# |||| TIMESTAMP FUNCTION # | | | |||| | | <idle>-0 [000] d..2 49.309305: cpuidle_get_driver <-cpuidle_idle_call <idle>-0 [000] d..2 49.309307: mwait_idle <-cpu_idle <idle>-0 [000] d..2 49.309309: need_resched <-mwait_idle <idle>-0 [000] d..2 49.309310: test_ti_thread_flag <-need_resched <idle>-0 [000] d..2 49.309312: trace_power_start.constprop.13 <-mwait_idle <idle>-0 [000] d..2 49.309313: trace_cpu_idle <-mwait_idle <idle>-0 [000] d..2 49.309315: need_resched <-mwait_idle If a user wants the old format, they can disable the 'irq-info' option: # tracer: nop # # TASK-PID CPU# TIMESTAMP FUNCTION # | | | | | <idle>-0 [000] 49.309305: cpuidle_get_driver <-cpuidle_idle_call <idle>-0 [000] 49.309307: mwait_idle <-cpu_idle <idle>-0 [000] 49.309309: need_resched <-mwait_idle <idle>-0 [000] 49.309310: test_ti_thread_flag <-need_resched <idle>-0 [000] 49.309312: trace_power_start.constprop.13 <-mwait_idle <idle>-0 [000] 49.309313: trace_cpu_idle <-mwait_idle <idle>-0 [000] 49.309315: need_resched <-mwait_idle Requested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
* | | | | | | perf, core: Rate limit perf_sched_events jump_label patchingGleb Natapov2011-12-062-7/+41
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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 <gleb@redhat.com> Acked-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111127155909.GO2557@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>