user/sven/linux.git/kernel/events/core.c, branch v3.11.2

Merge tag 'driver-core-3.11-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core

2013-07-18T19:48:40Z

Pull driver core patches from Greg KH: "Here are some driver core patches for 3.11-rc2. They aren't really bugfixes, but a bunch of new helper macros for drivers to properly create attribute groups, which drivers and subsystems need to fix up a ton of race issues with incorrectly creating sysfs files (binary and normal) after userspace has been told that the device is present. Also here is the ability to create binary files as attribute groups, to solve that race condition, which was impossible to do before this, so that's my fault the drivers were broken. The majority of the .c changes is indenting and moving code around a bit. It affects no existing code, but allows the large backlog of 70+ patches that I already have created to start flowing into the different subtrees, instead of having to live in my driver-core tree, causing merge nightmares in linux-next for the next few months. These were finalized too late for the -rc1 merge window, which is why they were didn't make that pull request, testing and review from others didn't happen until a few weeks ago, and then there's the whole distraction of the past few days, which prevented these from getting to you sooner, sorry about that. Oh, and there's a bugfix for the documentation build warning in here as well. All of these have been in linux-next this week, with no reported problems" * tag 'driver-core-3.11-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: driver-core: fix new kernel-doc warning in base/platform.c sysfs: use file mode defines from stat.h sysfs: add more helper macro's for (bin_)attribute(_groups) driver core: add default groups to struct class driver core: Introduce device_create_groups sysfs: prevent warning when only using binary attributes sysfs: add support for binary attributes in groups driver core: device.h: add RW and RO attribute macros sysfs.h: add BIN_ATTR macro sysfs.h: add ATTRIBUTE_GROUPS() macro sysfs.h: add __ATTR_RW() macro

sysfs.h: add __ATTR_RW() macro

2013-07-16T17:57:36Z

A number of parts of the kernel created their own version of this, might as well have the sysfs core provide it instead. Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck Tested-by: Guenter Roeck Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

kernel: delete __cpuinit usage from all core kernel files

2013-07-14T23:36:59Z

The __cpuinit type of throwaway sections might have made sense some time ago when RAM was more constrained, but now the savings do not offset the cost and complications. For example, the fix in commit 5e427ec2d0 ("x86: Fix bit corruption at CPU resume time") is a good example of the nasty type of bugs that can be created with improper use of the various __init prefixes. After a discussion on LKML[1] it was decided that cpuinit should go the way of devinit and be phased out. Once all the users are gone, we can then finally remove the macros themselves from linux/init.h. This removes all the uses of the __cpuinit macros from C files in the core kernel directories (kernel, init, lib, mm, and include) that don't really have a specific maintainer. [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/5/20/589 Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker

perf: Fix perf_lock_task_context() vs RCU

2013-07-12T09:11:09Z

Jiri managed to trigger this warning: [] ====================================================== [] [ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ] [] 3.10.0+ #228 Tainted: G W [] ------------------------------------------------------- [] p/6613 is trying to acquire lock: [] (rcu_node_0){..-...}, at: [] rcu_read_unlock_special+0xa7/0x250 [] [] but task is already holding lock: [] (&ctx->lock){-.-...}, at: [] perf_lock_task_context+0xd9/0x2c0 [] [] which lock already depends on the new lock. [] [] the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is: [] [] -> #4 (&ctx->lock){-.-...}: [] -> #3 (&rq->lock){-.-.-.}: [] -> #2 (&p->pi_lock){-.-.-.}: [] -> #1 (&rnp->nocb_gp_wq[1]){......}: [] -> #0 (rcu_node_0){..-...}: Paul was quick to explain that due to preemptible RCU we cannot call rcu_read_unlock() while holding scheduler (or nested) locks when part of the read side critical section was preemptible. Therefore solve it by making the entire RCU read side non-preemptible. Also pull out the retry from under the non-preempt to play nice with RT. Reported-by: Jiri Olsa Helped-out-by: Paul E. McKenney Cc: Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf: Remove WARN_ON_ONCE() check in __perf_event_enable() for valid scenario

2013-07-12T09:11:01Z

The '!ctx->is_active' check has a valid scenario, so there's no need for the warning. The reason is that there's a time window between the 'ctx->is_active' check in the perf_event_enable() function and the __perf_event_enable() function having: - IRQs on - ctx->lock unlocked where the task could be killed and 'ctx' deactivated by perf_event_exit_task(), ending up with the warning below. So remove the WARN_ON_ONCE() check and add comments to explain it all. This addresses the following warning reported by Vince Weaver: [ 324.983534] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 324.984420] WARNING: at kernel/events/core.c:1953 __perf_event_enable+0x187/0x190() [ 324.984420] Modules linked in: [ 324.984420] CPU: 19 PID: 2715 Comm: nmi_bug_snb Not tainted 3.10.0+ #246 [ 324.984420] Hardware name: Supermicro X8DTN/X8DTN, BIOS 4.6.3 01/08/2010 [ 324.984420] 0000000000000009 ffff88043fce3ec8 ffffffff8160ea0b ffff88043fce3f00 [ 324.984420] ffffffff81080ff0 ffff8802314fdc00 ffff880231a8f800 ffff88043fcf7860 [ 324.984420] 0000000000000286 ffff880231a8f800 ffff88043fce3f10 ffffffff8108103a [ 324.984420] Call Trace: [ 324.984420] [] dump_stack+0x19/0x1b [ 324.984420] [] warn_slowpath_common+0x70/0xa0 [ 324.984420] [] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20 [ 324.984420] [] __perf_event_enable+0x187/0x190 [ 324.984420] [] remote_function+0x40/0x50 [ 324.984420] [] generic_smp_call_function_single_interrupt+0xbe/0x130 [ 324.984420] [] smp_call_function_single_interrupt+0x27/0x40 [ 324.984420] [] call_function_single_interrupt+0x6f/0x80 [ 324.984420] [] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x41/0x70 [ 324.984420] [] perf_event_exit_task+0x14d/0x210 [ 324.984420] [] ? switch_task_namespaces+0x24/0x60 [ 324.984420] [] do_exit+0x2b6/0xa40 [ 324.984420] [] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irq+0x2c/0x30 [ 324.984420] [] do_group_exit+0x49/0xc0 [ 324.984420] [] get_signal_to_deliver+0x254/0x620 [ 324.984420] [] do_signal+0x57/0x5a0 [ 324.984420] [] ? __do_page_fault+0x2a4/0x4e0 [ 324.984420] [] ? retint_restore_args+0xe/0xe [ 324.984420] [] ? retint_signal+0x11/0x84 [ 324.984420] [] do_notify_resume+0x65/0x80 [ 324.984420] [] retint_signal+0x46/0x84 [ 324.984420] ---[ end trace 442ec2f04db3771a ]--- Reported-by: Vince Weaver Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Corey Ashford Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1373384651-6109-2-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf: Clone child context from parent context pmu

2013-07-12T09:10:47Z

Currently when the child context for inherited events is created, it's based on the pmu object of the first event of the parent context. This is wrong for the following scenario: - HW context having HW and SW event - HW event got removed (closed) - SW event stays in HW context as the only event and its pmu is used to clone the child context The issue starts when the cpu context object is touched based on the pmu context object (__get_cpu_context). In this case the HW context will work with SW cpu context ending up with following WARN below. Fixing this by using parent context pmu object to clone from child context. Addresses the following warning reported by Vince Weaver: [ 2716.472065] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 2716.476035] WARNING: at kernel/events/core.c:2122 task_ctx_sched_out+0x3c/0x) [ 2716.476035] Modules linked in: nfsd auth_rpcgss oid_registry nfs_acl nfs locn [ 2716.476035] CPU: 0 PID: 3164 Comm: perf_fuzzer Not tainted 3.10.0-rc4 #2 [ 2716.476035] Hardware name: AOpen DE7000/nMCP7ALPx-DE R1.06 Oct.19.2012, BI2 [ 2716.476035] 0000000000000000 ffffffff8102e215 0000000000000000 ffff88011fc18 [ 2716.476035] ffff8801175557f0 0000000000000000 ffff880119fda88c ffffffff810ad [ 2716.476035] ffff880119fda880 ffffffff810af02a 0000000000000009 ffff880117550 [ 2716.476035] Call Trace: [ 2716.476035] [] ? warn_slowpath_common+0x5b/0x70 [ 2716.476035] [] ? task_ctx_sched_out+0x3c/0x5f [ 2716.476035] [] ? perf_event_exit_task+0xbf/0x194 [ 2716.476035] [] ? do_exit+0x3e7/0x90c [ 2716.476035] [] ? __do_fault+0x359/0x394 [ 2716.476035] [] ? do_group_exit+0x66/0x98 [ 2716.476035] [] ? get_signal_to_deliver+0x479/0x4ad [ 2716.476035] [] ? __perf_event_task_sched_out+0x230/0x2d1 [ 2716.476035] [] ? do_signal+0x3c/0x432 [ 2716.476035] [] ? ctx_sched_in+0x43/0x141 [ 2716.476035] [] ? perf_event_context_sched_in+0x7a/0x90 [ 2716.476035] [] ? __perf_event_task_sched_in+0x31/0x118 [ 2716.476035] [] ? mmdrop+0xd/0x1c [ 2716.476035] [] ? finish_task_switch+0x7d/0xa6 [ 2716.476035] [] ? do_notify_resume+0x20/0x5d [ 2716.476035] [] ? retint_signal+0x3d/0x78 [ 2716.476035] ---[ end trace 827178d8a5966c3d ]--- Reported-by: Vince Weaver Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa Cc: Corey Ashford Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1373384651-6109-1-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf: Fix interrupt handler timing harness

2013-07-05T06:54:43Z

This patch fixes a serious bug in: 14c63f17b1fd perf: Drop sample rate when sampling is too slow There was an misunderstanding on the API of the do_div() macro. It returns the remainder of the division and this was not what the function expected leading to disabling the interrupt latency watchdog. This patch also remove a duplicate assignment in perf_sample_event_took(). Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: dave.hansen@linux.intel.com Cc: ak@linux.intel.com Cc: jolsa@redhat.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130704223010.GA30625@quad Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf: Drop sample rate when sampling is too slow

2013-06-23T09:52:57Z

This patch keeps track of how long perf's NMI handler is taking, and also calculates how many samples perf can take a second. If the sample length times the expected max number of samples exceeds a configurable threshold, it drops the sample rate. This way, we don't have a runaway sampling process eating up the CPU. This patch can tend to drop the sample rate down to level where perf doesn't work very well. *BUT* the alternative is that my system hangs because it spends all of its time handling NMIs. I'll take a busted performance tool over an entire system that's busted and undebuggable any day. BTW, my suspicion is that there's still an underlying bug here. Using the HPET instead of the TSC is definitely a contributing factor, but I suspect there are some other things going on. But, I can't go dig down on a bug like that with my machine hanging all the time. Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra Cc: paulus@samba.org Cc: acme@ghostprotocols.net Cc: Dave Hansen [ Prettified it a bit. ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf: Add const qualifier to perf_pmu_register's 'name' arg

2013-06-19T10:50:23Z

This allows us to use pdev->name for registering a PMU device. IMO the name is not supposed to be changed anyway. Signed-off-by: Mischa Jonker Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1370339148-5566-1-git-send-email-mjonker@synopsys.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf: Fix hypervisor branch sampling permission check

2013-06-19T10:50:21Z

Commit 2b923c8 perf/x86: Check branch sampling priv level in generic code was missing the check for the hypervisor (HV) priv level, so add it back. With this patch, we get the following correct behavior: # echo 2 >/proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid $ perf record -j any,k noploop 1 Error: You may not have permission to collect stats. Consider tweaking /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid: -1 - Not paranoid at all 0 - Disallow raw tracepoint access for unpriv 1 - Disallow cpu events for unpriv 2 - Disallow kernel profiling for unpriv $ perf record -j any,hv noploop 1 Error: You may not have permission to collect stats. Consider tweaking /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid: -1 - Not paranoid at all 0 - Disallow raw tracepoint access for unpriv 1 - Disallow cpu events for unpriv 2 - Disallow kernel profiling for unpriv Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian Acked-by: Petr Matousek Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130606090204.GA3725@quad Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar