user/sven/linux.git/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c, branch ipvs/experimental

ring-buffer: Add rb_list_head() wrapper around new reader page next field

2010-01-07T01:40:44Z

If the very unlikely case happens where the writer moves the head by one between where the head page is read and where the new reader page is assigned _and_ the writer then writes and wraps the entire ring buffer so that the head page is back to what was originally read as the head page, the page to be swapped will have a corrupted next pointer. Simple solution is to wrap the assignment of the next pointer with a rb_list_head(). Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

ring-buffer: Wrap a list.next reference with rb_list_head()

2010-01-07T01:38:25Z

This reference at the end of rb_get_reader_page() was causing off-by-one writes to the prev pointer of the page after the reader page when that page is the head page, and therefore the reader page has the RB_PAGE_HEAD flag in its list.next pointer. This eventually results in a GPF in a subsequent call to rb_set_head_page() (usually from rb_get_reader_page()) when that prev pointer is dereferenced. The dereferenced register would characteristically have an address that appears shifted left by one byte (eg, ffxxxxxxxxxxxxyy instead of ffffxxxxxxxxxxxx) due to being written at an address one byte too high. Signed-off-by: David Sharp LKML-Reference: <1262826727-9090-1-git-send-email-dhsharp@google.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

Merge branch 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

2009-12-16T20:02:25Z

* 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: tracing: Fix return of trace_dump_stack() ksym_tracer: Fix bad cast tracing/power: Remove two exports tracing: Change event->profile_count to be int type tracing: Simplify trace_option_write() tracing: Remove useless trace option tracing: Use seq file for trace_clock tracing: Use seq file for trace_options function-graph: Allow writing the same val to set_graph_function ftrace: Call trace_parser_clear() properly ftrace: Return EINVAL when writing invalid val to set_ftrace_filter tracing: Move a printk out of ftrace_raw_reg_event_foo() tracing: Pull up calls to trace_define_common_fields() tracing: Extract duplicate ftrace_raw_init_event_foo() ftrace.h: Use common pr_info fmt string tracing: Add stack trace to irqsoff tracer tracing: Add trace_dump_stack() ring-buffer: Move resize integrity check under reader lock ring-buffer: Use sync sched protection on ring buffer resizing tracing: Fix wrong usage of strstrip in trace_ksyms

locking: Convert __raw_spin* functions to arch_spin*

2009-12-14T22:55:32Z

Name space cleanup. No functional change. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra Acked-by: David S. Miller Acked-by: Ingo Molnar Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org

locking: Rename __RAW_SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED to __ARCH_SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED

2009-12-14T22:55:32Z

Further name space cleanup. No functional change Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra Acked-by: David S. Miller Acked-by: Ingo Molnar Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org

locking: Convert raw_spinlock to arch_spinlock

2009-12-14T22:55:32Z

The raw_spin* namespace was taken by lockdep for the architecture specific implementations. raw_spin_* would be the ideal name space for the spinlocks which are not converted to sleeping locks in preempt-rt. Linus suggested to convert the raw_ to arch_ locks and cleanup the name space instead of using an artifical name like core_spin, atomic_spin or whatever No functional change. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra Acked-by: David S. Miller Acked-by: Ingo Molnar Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org

ring-buffer: Move resize integrity check under reader lock

2009-12-11T04:20:52Z

While using an application that does splice on the ftrace ring buffer at start up, I triggered an integrity check failure. Looking into this, I discovered that resizing the buffer performs an integrity check after the buffer is resized. This check unfortunately is preformed after it releases the reader lock. If a reader is reading the buffer it may cause the integrity check to trigger a false failure. This patch simply moves the integrity checker under the protection of the ring buffer reader lock. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

ring-buffer: Use sync sched protection on ring buffer resizing

2009-12-11T03:54:27Z

There was a comment in the ring buffer code that says the calling layers should prevent tracing or reading of the ring buffer while resizing. I have discovered that the tracers do not honor this arrangement. This patch moves the disabling and synchronizing the ring buffer to a higher layer during resizing. This guarantees that no writes are occurring while the resize takes place. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

2009-12-05T23:30:21Z

* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (470 commits) x86: Fix comments of register/stack access functions perf tools: Replace %m with %a in sscanf hw-breakpoints: Keep track of user disabled breakpoints tracing/syscalls: Make syscall events print callbacks static tracing: Add DEFINE_EVENT(), DEFINE_SINGLE_EVENT() support to docbook perf: Don't free perf_mmap_data until work has been done perf_event: Fix compile error perf tools: Fix _GNU_SOURCE macro related strndup() build error trace_syscalls: Remove unused syscall_name_to_nr() trace_syscalls: Simplify syscall profile trace_syscalls: Remove duplicate init_enter_##sname() trace_syscalls: Add syscall_nr field to struct syscall_metadata trace_syscalls: Remove enter_id exit_id trace_syscalls: Set event_enter_##sname->data to its metadata trace_syscalls: Remove unused event_syscall_enter and event_syscall_exit perf_event: Initialize data.period in perf_swevent_hrtimer() perf probe: Simplify event naming perf probe: Add --list option for listing current probe events perf probe: Add argv_split() from lib/argv_split.c perf probe: Move probe event utility functions to probe-event.c ...

Merge branch 'tracing-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

2009-12-05T17:53:36Z

* 'tracing-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (40 commits) tracing: Separate raw syscall from syscall tracer ring-buffer-benchmark: Add parameters to set produce/consumer priorities tracing, function tracer: Clean up strstrip() usage ring-buffer benchmark: Run producer/consumer threads at nice +19 tracing: Remove the stale include/trace/power.h tracing: Only print objcopy version warning once from recordmcount tracing: Prevent build warning: 'ftrace_graph_buf' defined but not used ring-buffer: Move access to commit_page up into function used tracing: do not disable interrupts for trace_clock_local ring-buffer: Add multiple iterations between benchmark timestamps kprobes: Sanitize struct kretprobe_instance allocations tracing: Fix to use __always_unused attribute compiler: Introduce __always_unused tracing: Exit with error if a weak function is used in recordmcount.pl tracing: Move conditional into update_funcs() in recordmcount.pl tracing: Add regex for weak functions in recordmcount.pl tracing: Move mcount section search to front of loop in recordmcount.pl tracing: Fix objcopy revision check in recordmcount.pl tracing: Check absolute path of input file in recordmcount.pl tracing: Correct the check for number of arguments in recordmcount.pl ...