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<updated>2012-05-30T18:12:00Z</updated>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2012-05-30T18:12:00Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2012-05-30T18:12:00Z</published>
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Pull perf updates from Ingo Molnar.

* 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (21 commits)
  perf ui browser: Stop using 'self'
  perf annotate browser: Read perf config file for settings
  perf config: Allow '_' in config file variable names
  perf annotate browser: Make feature toggles global
  perf annotate browser: The idx_asm field should be used in asm only view
  perf tools: Convert critical messages to ui__error()
  perf ui: Make --stdio default when TUI is not supported
  tools lib traceevent: Silence compiler warning on 32bit build
  perf record: Fix branch_stack type in perf_record_opts
  perf tools: Reconstruct event with modifiers from perf_event_attr
  perf top: Fix counter name fixup when fallbacking to cpu-clock
  perf tools: fix thread_map__new_by_pid_str() memory leak in error path
  perf tools: Do not use _FORTIFY_SOURCE when DEBUG=1 is specified
  tools lib traceevent: Fix signature of create_arg_item()
  tools lib traceevent: Use proper function parameter type
  tools lib traceevent: Fix freeing arg on process_dynamic_array()
  tools lib traceevent: Fix a possibly wrong memory dereference
  tools lib traceevent: Fix a possible memory leak
  tools lib traceevent: Allow expressions in __print_symbolic() fields
  perf evlist: Explicititely initialize input_name
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'perf-uprobes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2012-05-24T18:39:34Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-05-24T18:39:34Z</published>
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Pull user-space probe instrumentation from Ingo Molnar:
 "The uprobes code originates from SystemTap and has been used for years
  in Fedora and RHEL kernels.  This version is much rewritten, reviews
  from PeterZ, Oleg and myself shaped the end result.

  This tree includes uprobes support in 'perf probe' - but SystemTap
  (and other tools) can take advantage of user probe points as well.

  Sample usage of uprobes via perf, for example to profile malloc()
  calls without modifying user-space binaries.

  First boot a new kernel with CONFIG_UPROBE_EVENT=y enabled.

  If you don't know which function you want to probe you can pick one
  from 'perf top' or can get a list all functions that can be probed
  within libc (binaries can be specified as well):

	$ perf probe -F -x /lib/libc.so.6

  To probe libc's malloc():

	$ perf probe -x /lib64/libc.so.6 malloc
	Added new event:
	probe_libc:malloc    (on 0x7eac0)

  You can now use it in all perf tools, such as:

	perf record -e probe_libc:malloc -aR sleep 1

  Make use of it to create a call graph (as the flat profile is going to
  look very boring):

	$ perf record -e probe_libc:malloc -gR make
	[ perf record: Woken up 173 times to write data ]
	[ perf record: Captured and wrote 44.190 MB perf.data (~1930712

	$ perf report | less

	  32.03%            git  libc-2.15.so   [.] malloc
	                    |
	                    --- malloc

	  29.49%            cc1  libc-2.15.so   [.] malloc
	                    |
	                    --- malloc
	                       |
	                       |--0.95%-- 0x208eb1000000000
	                       |
	                       |--0.63%-- htab_traverse_noresize

	  11.04%             as  libc-2.15.so   [.] malloc
	                     |
	                     --- malloc
	                        |

	   7.15%             ld  libc-2.15.so   [.] malloc
	                     |
	                     --- malloc
	                        |

	   5.07%             sh  libc-2.15.so   [.] malloc
	                     |
	                     --- malloc
	                        |
	   4.99%  python-config  libc-2.15.so   [.] malloc
	          |
	          --- malloc
	             |
	   4.54%           make  libc-2.15.so   [.] malloc
	                   |
	                   --- malloc
	                      |
	                      |--7.34%-- glob
	                      |          |
	                      |          |--93.18%-- 0x41588f
	                      |          |
	                      |           --6.82%-- glob
	                      |                     0x41588f

	   ...

  Or:

	$ perf report -g flat | less

	# Overhead        Command  Shared Object      Symbol
	# ........  .............  .............  ..........
	#
	  32.03%            git  libc-2.15.so   [.] malloc
	          27.19%
	              malloc

	  29.49%            cc1  libc-2.15.so   [.] malloc
	          24.77%
	              malloc

	  11.04%             as  libc-2.15.so   [.] malloc
	          11.02%
	              malloc

	   7.15%             ld  libc-2.15.so   [.] malloc
	           6.57%
	              malloc

	 ...

  The core uprobes design is fairly straightforward: uprobes probe
  points register themselves at (inode:offset) addresses of
  libraries/binaries, after which all existing (or new) vmas that map
  that address will have a software breakpoint injected at that address.
  vmas are COW-ed to preserve original content.  The probe points are
  kept in an rbtree.

  If user-space executes the probed inode:offset instruction address
  then an event is generated which can be recovered from the regular
  perf event channels and mmap-ed ring-buffer.

  Multiple probes at the same address are supported, they create a
  dynamic callback list of event consumers.

  The basic model is further complicated by the XOL speedup: the
  original instruction that is probed is copied (in an architecture
  specific fashion) and executed out of line when the probe triggers.
  The XOL area is a single vma per process, with a fixed number of
  entries (which limits probe execution parallelism).

  The API: uprobes are installed/removed via
  /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/uprobe_events, the API is integrated to
  align with the kprobes interface as much as possible, but is separate
  to it.

  Injecting a probe point is privileged operation, which can be relaxed
  by setting perf_paranoid to -1.

  You can use multiple probes as well and mix them with kprobes and
  regular PMU events or tracepoints, when instrumenting a task."

Fix up trivial conflicts in mm/memory.c due to previous cleanup of
unmap_single_vma().

* 'perf-uprobes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (21 commits)
  perf probe: Detect probe target when m/x options are absent
  perf probe: Provide perf interface for uprobes
  tracing: Fix kconfig warning due to a typo
  tracing: Provide trace events interface for uprobes
  tracing: Extract out common code for kprobes/uprobes trace events
  tracing: Modify is_delete, is_return from int to bool
  uprobes/core: Decrement uprobe count before the pages are unmapped
  uprobes/core: Make background page replacement logic account for rss_stat counters
  uprobes/core: Optimize probe hits with the help of a counter
  uprobes/core: Allocate XOL slots for uprobes use
  uprobes/core: Handle breakpoint and singlestep exceptions
  uprobes/core: Rename bkpt to swbp
  uprobes/core: Make order of function parameters consistent across functions
  uprobes/core: Make macro names consistent
  uprobes: Update copyright notices
  uprobes/core: Move insn to arch specific structure
  uprobes/core: Remove uprobe_opcode_sz
  uprobes/core: Make instruction tables volatile
  uprobes: Move to kernel/events/
  uprobes/core: Clean up, refactor and improve the code
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'tip/perf/urgent' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace into perf/urgent</title>
<updated>2012-05-24T07:06:24Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-05-24T07:06:24Z</published>
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Pull an ftrace ring-buffer fix from Steve Rostedt:

 * fix kernel crash when changing the size of the ring-buffer on
   boxes where possible_cpus != online_cpus.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>ring-buffer: Check for valid buffer before changing size</title>
<updated>2012-05-23T19:35:17Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt</name>
<email>srostedt@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-05-23T19:35:17Z</published>
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On some machines the number of possible CPUS is not the same as the
number of CPUs that is on the machine. Ftrace uses possible_cpus to
update the tracing structures but the ring buffer only allocates
per cpu buffers for online CPUs when they come up.

When the wakeup tracer was enabled in such a case, the ftrace code
enabled all possible cpu buffers, but the code in ring_buffer_resize()
did not check to see if the buffer in question was allocated. Since
boot up CPUs did not match possible CPUs it caused the following
crash:

BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000020
IP: [&lt;c1097851&gt;] ring_buffer_resize+0x16a/0x28d
*pde = 00000000
Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
Dumping ftrace buffer:
   (ftrace buffer empty)
Modules linked in: [last unloaded: scsi_wait_scan]

Pid: 1387, comm: bash Not tainted 3.4.0-test+ #13                  /DG965MQ
EIP: 0060:[&lt;c1097851&gt;] EFLAGS: 00010217 CPU: 0
EIP is at ring_buffer_resize+0x16a/0x28d
EAX: f5a14340 EBX: f6026b80 ECX: 00000ff4 EDX: 00000ff3
ESI: 00000000 EDI: 00000002 EBP: f4275ecc ESP: f4275eb0
 DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 00e0 SS: 0068
CR0: 80050033 CR2: 00000020 CR3: 34396000 CR4: 000007d0
DR0: 00000000 DR1: 00000000 DR2: 00000000 DR3: 00000000
DR6: ffff0ff0 DR7: 00000400
Process bash (pid: 1387, ti=f4274000 task=f4380cb0 task.ti=f4274000)
Stack:
 c109cf9a f6026b98 00000162 00160f68 00000006 00160f68 00000002 f4275ef0
 c109d013 f4275ee8 c123b72a c1c0bf00 c1cc81dc 00000005 f4275f98 00000007
 f4275f70 c109d0c7 7700000e 75656b61 00000070 f5e90900 f5c4e198 00000301
Call Trace:
 [&lt;c109cf9a&gt;] ? tracing_set_tracer+0x115/0x1e9
 [&lt;c109d013&gt;] tracing_set_tracer+0x18e/0x1e9
 [&lt;c123b72a&gt;] ? _copy_from_user+0x30/0x46
 [&lt;c109d0c7&gt;] tracing_set_trace_write+0x59/0x7f
 [&lt;c10ec01e&gt;] ? fput+0x18/0x1c6
 [&lt;c11f8732&gt;] ? security_file_permission+0x27/0x2b
 [&lt;c10eaacd&gt;] ? rw_verify_area+0xcf/0xf2
 [&lt;c10ec01e&gt;] ? fput+0x18/0x1c6
 [&lt;c109d06e&gt;] ? tracing_set_tracer+0x1e9/0x1e9
 [&lt;c10ead77&gt;] vfs_write+0x8b/0xe3
 [&lt;c10ebead&gt;] ? fget_light+0x30/0x81
 [&lt;c10eaf54&gt;] sys_write+0x42/0x63
 [&lt;c1834fbf&gt;] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x28

This happens with the latency tracer as the ftrace code updates the
saved max buffer via its cpumask and not with a global setting.

Adding a check in ring_buffer_resize() to make sure the buffer being resized
exists, fixes the problem.

Cc: Vaibhav Nagarnaik &lt;vnagarnaik@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial</title>
<updated>2012-05-23T02:22:50Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-05-23T02:22:50Z</published>
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Pull trivial updates from Jiri Kosina:
 "As usual, it's mostly typo fixes, redundant code elimination and some
  documentation updates."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (57 commits)
  edac, mips: don't change code that has been removed in edac/mips tree
  xtensa: Change mail addresses of Hannes Weiner and Oskar Schirmer
  lib: Change mail address of Oskar Schirmer
  net: Change mail address of Oskar Schirmer
  arm/m68k: Change mail address of Sebastian Hess
  i2c: Change mail address of Oskar Schirmer
  net: Fix tcp_build_and_update_options comment in struct tcp_sock
  atomic64_32.h: fix parameter naming mismatch
  Kconfig: replace "--- help ---" with "---help---"
  c2port: fix bogus Kconfig "default no"
  edac: Fix spelling errors.
  qla1280: Remove redundant NULL check before release_firmware() call
  remoteproc: remove redundant NULL check before release_firmware()
  qla2xxx: Remove redundant NULL check before release_firmware() call.
  aic94xx: Get rid of redundant NULL check before release_firmware() call
  tehuti: delete redundant NULL check before release_firmware()
  qlogic: get rid of a redundant test for NULL before call to release_firmware()
  bna: remove redundant NULL test before release_firmware()
  tg3: remove redundant NULL test before release_firmware() call
  typhoon: get rid of redundant conditional before all to release_firmware()
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2012-05-23T01:18:55Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-05-23T01:18:55Z</published>
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Pull perf changes from Ingo Molnar:
 "Lots of changes:

   - (much) improved assembly annotation support in perf report, with
     jump visualization, searching, navigation, visual output
     improvements and more.

    - kernel support for AMD IBS PMU hardware features.  Notably 'perf
      record -e cycles:p' and 'perf top -e cycles:p' should work without
      skid now, like PEBS does on the Intel side, because it takes
      advantage of IBS transparently.

    - the libtracevents library: it is the first step towards unifying
      tracing tooling and perf, and it also gives a tracing library for
      external tools like powertop to rely on.

    - infrastructure: various improvements and refactoring of the UI
      modules and related code

    - infrastructure: cleanup and simplification of the profiling
      targets code (--uid, --pid, --tid, --cpu, --all-cpus, etc.)

    - tons of robustness fixes all around

    - various ftrace updates: speedups, cleanups, robustness
      improvements.

    - typing 'make' in tools/ will now give you a menu of projects to
      build and a short help text to explain what each does.

    - ... and lots of other changes I forgot to list.

  The perf record make bzImage + perf report regression you reported
  should be fixed."

* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (166 commits)
  tracing: Remove kernel_lock annotations
  tracing: Fix initial buffer_size_kb state
  ring-buffer: Merge separate resize loops
  perf evsel: Create events initially disabled -- again
  perf tools: Split term type into value type and term type
  perf hists: Fix callchain ip printf format
  perf target: Add uses_mmap field
  ftrace: Remove selecting FRAME_POINTER with FUNCTION_TRACER
  ftrace/x86: Have x86 ftrace use the ftrace_modify_all_code()
  ftrace: Make ftrace_modify_all_code() global for archs to use
  ftrace: Return record ip addr for ftrace_location()
  ftrace: Consolidate ftrace_location() and ftrace_text_reserved()
  ftrace: Speed up search by skipping pages by address
  ftrace: Remove extra helper functions
  ftrace: Sort all function addresses, not just per page
  tracing: change CPU ring buffer state from tracing_cpumask
  tracing: Check return value of tracing_dentry_percpu()
  ring-buffer: Reset head page before running self test
  ring-buffer: Add integrity check at end of iter read
  ring-buffer: Make addition of pages in ring buffer atomic
  ...
</content>
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-3.5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq</title>
<updated>2012-05-23T00:36:56Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-05-23T00:36:56Z</published>
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Pull workqueue changes from Tejun Heo:
 "Nothing exciting.  Most are updates to debug stuff and related fixes.
  Two not-too-critical bugs are fixed - WARN_ON() triggering spurious
  during cpu offlining and unlikely lockdep related oops."

* 'for-3.5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq:
  lockdep: fix oops in processing workqueue
  workqueue: skip nr_running sanity check in worker_enter_idle() if trustee is active
  workqueue: Catch more locking problems with flush_work()
  workqueue: change BUG_ON() to WARN_ON()
  trace: Remove unused workqueue tracer
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'tip/perf/core-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace into perf/core</title>
<updated>2012-05-21T07:44:36Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-05-21T07:44:36Z</published>
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<content type='text'>
</content>
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'perf/core' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux into perf/core</title>
<updated>2012-05-21T07:17:50Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-05-21T07:17:31Z</published>
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<content type='text'>
Fixes for perf/core:

 - Rename some perf_target methods to avoid double negation, from Namhyung Kim.
 - Revert change to use per task events with inheritance, from Namhyung Kim.
 - Events should start disabled till children starts running, from David Ahern.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: Remove kernel_lock annotations</title>
<updated>2012-05-19T12:28:51Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Richard Weinberger</name>
<email>richard@nod.at</email>
</author>
<published>2011-11-07T08:23:22Z</published>
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<content type='text'>
The BKL is gone, these annotations are useless.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1320654202-4433-1-git-send-email-richard@nod.at

Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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