user/sven/linux.git/kernel/debug, branch v3.17.2

kdb: Use ktime_get_ts()

2014-06-12T14:18:45Z

do_posix_clock_monotonic_gettime() is a leftover from the initial posix timer implementation which maps to ktime_get_ts(). Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Cc: John Stultz Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Jason Wessel Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140611234607.261629142@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

kernel/printk: use symbolic defines for console loglevels

2014-06-04T23:54:17Z

... instead of naked numbers. Stuff in sysrq.c used to set it to 8 which is supposed to mean above default level so set it to DEBUG instead as we're terminating/killing all tasks and we want to be verbose there. Also, correct the check in x86_64_start_kernel which should be >= as we're clearly issuing the string there for all debug levels, not only the magical 10. Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov Acked-by: Kees Cook Acked-by: Randy Dunlap Cc: Joe Perches Cc: Valdis Kletnieks Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

arch: Mass conversion of smp_mb__*()

2014-04-18T12:20:48Z

Mostly scripted conversion of the smp_mb__* barriers. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-55dhyhocezdw1dg7u19hmh1u@git.kernel.org Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

mm: per-thread vma caching

2014-04-07T23:35:53Z

This patch is a continuation of efforts trying to optimize find_vma(), avoiding potentially expensive rbtree walks to locate a vma upon faults. The original approach (https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/11/1/410), where the largest vma was also cached, ended up being too specific and random, thus further comparison with other approaches were needed. There are two things to consider when dealing with this, the cache hit rate and the latency of find_vma(). Improving the hit-rate does not necessarily translate in finding the vma any faster, as the overhead of any fancy caching schemes can be too high to consider. We currently cache the last used vma for the whole address space, which provides a nice optimization, reducing the total cycles in find_vma() by up to 250%, for workloads with good locality. On the other hand, this simple scheme is pretty much useless for workloads with poor locality. Analyzing ebizzy runs shows that, no matter how many threads are running, the mmap_cache hit rate is less than 2%, and in many situations below 1%. The proposed approach is to replace this scheme with a small per-thread cache, maximizing hit rates at a very low maintenance cost. Invalidations are performed by simply bumping up a 32-bit sequence number. The only expensive operation is in the rare case of a seq number overflow, where all caches that share the same address space are flushed. Upon a miss, the proposed replacement policy is based on the page number that contains the virtual address in question. Concretely, the following results are seen on an 80 core, 8 socket x86-64 box: 1) System bootup: Most programs are single threaded, so the per-thread scheme does improve ~50% hit rate by just adding a few more slots to the cache. +----------------+----------+------------------+ | caching scheme | hit-rate | cycles (billion) | +----------------+----------+------------------+ | baseline | 50.61% | 19.90 | | patched | 73.45% | 13.58 | +----------------+----------+------------------+ 2) Kernel build: This one is already pretty good with the current approach as we're dealing with good locality. +----------------+----------+------------------+ | caching scheme | hit-rate | cycles (billion) | +----------------+----------+------------------+ | baseline | 75.28% | 11.03 | | patched | 88.09% | 9.31 | +----------------+----------+------------------+ 3) Oracle 11g Data Mining (4k pages): Similar to the kernel build workload. +----------------+----------+------------------+ | caching scheme | hit-rate | cycles (billion) | +----------------+----------+------------------+ | baseline | 70.66% | 17.14 | | patched | 91.15% | 12.57 | +----------------+----------+------------------+ 4) Ebizzy: There's a fair amount of variation from run to run, but this approach always shows nearly perfect hit rates, while baseline is just about non-existent. The amounts of cycles can fluctuate between anywhere from ~60 to ~116 for the baseline scheme, but this approach reduces it considerably. For instance, with 80 threads: +----------------+----------+------------------+ | caching scheme | hit-rate | cycles (billion) | +----------------+----------+------------------+ | baseline | 1.06% | 91.54 | | patched | 99.97% | 14.18 | +----------------+----------+------------------+ [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix nommu build, per Davidlohr] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: document vmacache_valid() logic] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: attempt to untangle header files] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: add vmacache_find() BUG_ON] [hughd@google.com: add vmacache_valid_mm() (from Oleg)] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: adjust and enhance comments] Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel Acked-by: Linus Torvalds Reviewed-by: Michel Lespinasse Cc: Oleg Nesterov Tested-by: Hugh Dickins Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

KGDB: make kgdb_breakpoint() as noinline

2014-02-26T11:16:25Z

The function kgdb_breakpoint() sets up break point at compile time by calling arch_kgdb_breakpoint(); Though this call is surrounded by wmb() barrier, the compile can still re-order the break point, because this scheduling barrier is not a code motion barrier in gcc. Making kgdb_breakpoint() as noinline solves this problem of code reording around break point instruction and also avoids problem of being called as inline function from other places More details about discussion on this can be found here http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ports.arm.kernel/269732 Signed-off-by: Vijaya Kumar K Acked-by: Will Deacon Acked-by: Jason Wessel Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas

kgdb/kdb: Fix no KDB config problem

2014-01-25T07:55:09Z

Some code added to the debug_core module had KDB dependencies that it shouldn't have. Move the KDB dependent REASON back to the caller to remove the dependency in the debug core code. Update the call from the UV NMI handler to conform to the new interface. Signed-off-by: Mike Travis Reviewed-by: Hedi Berriche Cc: Russ Anderson Cc: Jason Wessel Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140114162551.318251993@asylum.americas.sgi.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

kdb: Add support for external NMI handler to call KGDB/KDB

2013-10-03T16:47:54Z

This patch adds a kgdb_nmicallin() interface that can be used by external NMI handlers to call the KGDB/KDB handler. The primary need for this is for those types of NMI interrupts where all the CPUs have already received the NMI signal. Therefore no send_IPI(NMI) is required, and in fact it will cause a 2nd unhandled NMI to occur. This generates the "Dazed and Confuzed" messages. Since all the CPUs are getting the NMI at roughly the same time, it's not guaranteed that the first CPU that hits the NMI handler will manage to enter KGDB and set the dbg_master_lock before the slaves start entering. The new argument "send_ready" was added for KGDB to signal the NMI handler to release the slave CPUs for entry into KGDB. Signed-off-by: Mike Travis Acked-by: Jason Wessel Reviewed-by: Dimitri Sivanich Reviewed-by: Hedi Berriche Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131002151417.928886849@asylum.americas.sgi.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

kgdb/sysrq: fix inconstistent help message of sysrq key

2013-05-01T00:04:10Z

Currently help message of /proc/sysrq-trigger highlight its upper-case characters, like below: SysRq : HELP : loglevel(0-9) reBoot Crash terminate-all-tasks(E) memory-full-oom-kill(F) kill-all-tasks(I) ... this would confuse user trigger sysrq by upper-case character, which is inconsistent with the real lower-case character registed key. This inconsistent help message will also lead more confused when 26 upper-case letters put into use in future. This patch fix kgdb sysrq key: "debug(g)" Signed-off-by: zhangwei(Jovi) Cc: Jason Wessel Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge tag 'for_linux-3.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwessel/kgdb

2013-03-02T16:31:39Z

Pull KGDB/KDB fixes and cleanups from Jason Wessel: "For a change we removed more code than we added. If people aren't using it we shouldn't be carrying it. :-) Cleanups: - Remove kdb ssb command - there is no in kernel disassembler to support it - Remove kdb ll command - Always caused a kernel oops and there were no bug reports so no one was using this command - Use kernel ARRAY_SIZE macro instead of array computations Fixes: - Stop oops in kdb if user executes kdb_defcmd with args - kdb help command truncated text - ppc64 support for kgdbts - Add missing kconfig option from original kdb port for dealing with catastrophic kernel crashes such that you can reboot automatically on continue from kdb" * tag 'for_linux-3.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwessel/kgdb: kdb: Remove unhandled ssb command kdb: Prevent kernel oops with kdb_defcmd kdb: Remove the ll command kdb_main: fix help print kdb: Fix overlap in buffers with strcpy Fixed dead ifdef block by adding missing Kconfig option. kdb: Setup basic kdb state before invoking commands via kgdb kdb: use ARRAY_SIZE where possible kgdb/kgdbts: support ppc64 kdb: A fix for kdb command table expansion

kdb: Remove unhandled ssb command

2013-03-02T14:52:20Z

The 'ssb' command can only be handled when we have a disassembler, to check for branches, so remove the 'ssb' command for now. Signed-off-by: Vincent Stehlé Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel