Rename `printk_delay_msec' to `loops_per_msec', because the patch "printk:
add printk_delay to make messages readable for some scenarios" wishes to
more appropriately use the `printk_delay_msec' identifier.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: add a comment]
Signed-off-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Linus reported this new build warning:
kernel/module.c:2951: warning: ?struct marker? declared inside parameter list
kernel/module.c:2951: warning: its scope is only this definition or declaration, which is probably not what you want
Caused by:
fc53776: tracing: Remove markers
module_layout() is an artificial symbol with 'significant' symbols
listed in its argument list so that it gets a proper argument types
signature that modversions can pick up to decide whether a
module is version-compatible or not. If these dont match then we
wont even look at a module.
Remove the stale marker symbol.
Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <alpine.LFD.2.01.0909210908020.4950@localhost.localdomain>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (34 commits)
trivial: fix typo in aic7xxx comment
trivial: fix comment typo in drivers/ata/pata_hpt37x.c
trivial: typo in kernel-parameters.txt
trivial: fix typo in tracing documentation
trivial: add __init/__exit macros in drivers/gpio/bt8xxgpio.c
trivial: add __init macro/ fix of __exit macro location in ipmi_poweroff.c
trivial: remove unnecessary semicolons
trivial: Fix duplicated word "options" in comment
trivial: kbuild: remove extraneous blank line after declaration of usage()
trivial: improve help text for mm debug config options
trivial: doc: hpfall: accept disk device to unload as argument
trivial: doc: hpfall: reduce risk that hpfall can do harm
trivial: SubmittingPatches: Fix reference to renumbered step
trivial: fix typos "man[ae]g?ment" -> "management"
trivial: media/video/cx88: add __init/__exit macros to cx88 drivers
trivial: fix typo in CONFIG_DEBUG_FS in gcov doc
trivial: fix missing printk space in amd_k7_smp_check
trivial: fix typo s/ketymap/keymap/ in comment
trivial: fix typo "to to" in multiple files
trivial: fix typos in comments s/DGBU/DBGU/
...
Fix the menu idle governor which balances power savings, energy efficiency
and performance impact.
The reason for a reworked governor is that there have been serious
performance issues reported with the existing code on Nehalem server
systems.
To show this I'm sure Andrew wants to see benchmark results:
(benchmark is "fio", "no cstates" is using "idle=poll")
no cstates current linux new algorithm
1 disk 107 Mb/s 85 Mb/s 105 Mb/s
2 disks 215 Mb/s 123 Mb/s 209 Mb/s
12 disks 590 Mb/s 320 Mb/s 585 Mb/s
In various power benchmark measurements, no degredation was found by our
measurement&diagnostics team. Obviously a small percentage more power was
used in the "fio" benchmark, due to the much higher performance.
While it would be a novel idea to describe the new algorithm in this
commit message, I cheaped out and described it in comments in the code
instead.
[changes since first post: spelling fixes from akpm, review feedback,
folded menu-tng into menu.c]
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Yanmin Zhang <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Some architectures (like the Blackfin arch) implement some of the
"simpler" features that one would expect out of a MMU such as memory
protection.
In our case, we actually get read/write/exec protection down to the page
boundary so processes can't stomp on each other let alone the kernel.
There is a performance decrease (which depends greatly on the workload)
however as the hardware/software interaction was not optimized at design
time.
Signed-off-by: Bernd Schmidt <bernds_cb1@t-online.de>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Currently, OOM logic callflow is here.
__out_of_memory()
select_bad_process() for each task
badness() calculate badness of one task
oom_kill_process() search child
oom_kill_task() kill target task and mm shared tasks with it
example, process-A have two thread, thread-A and thread-B and it have very
fat memory and each thread have following oom_adj and oom_score.
thread-A: oom_adj = OOM_DISABLE, oom_score = 0
thread-B: oom_adj = 0, oom_score = very-high
Then, select_bad_process() select thread-B, but oom_kill_task() refuse
kill the task because thread-A have OOM_DISABLE. Thus __out_of_memory()
call select_bad_process() again. but select_bad_process() select the same
task. It mean kernel fall in livelock.
The fact is, select_bad_process() must select killable task. otherwise
OOM logic go into livelock.
And root cause is, oom_adj shouldn't be per-thread value. it should be
per-process value because OOM-killer kill a process, not thread. Thus
This patch moves oomkilladj (now more appropriately named oom_adj) from
struct task_struct to struct signal_struct. it naturally prevent
select_bad_process() choose wrong task.
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This is being done by allowing boot time allocations to specify that they
may want a sub-page sized amount of memory.
Overall this seems more consistent with the other hash table allocations,
and allows making two supposedly mm-only variables really mm-only
(nr_{kernel,all}_pages).
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Since alloc_bootmem() will never return inaccessible (via virtual
addressing) memory anyway, using the ..._low() variant only makes sense
when the physical address range of the allocated memory must fulfill
further constraints, espacially since on 64-bits (or more generally in all
cases where the pools the two variants allocate from are than the full
available range.
Probably the use in alloc_tce_table() could also be eliminated (based on
code inspection of pci-calgary_64.c), but that seems too risky given I
know nothing about that hardware and have no way to test it.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Rawhide users have reported hang at startup when cryptsetup is run: the
same problem can be simply reproduced by running a program int main() {
mlockall(MCL_CURRENT | MCL_FUTURE); return 0; }
The problem is that exit_mmap() applies munlock_vma_pages_all() to
clean up VM_LOCKED areas, and its current implementation (stupidly)
tries to fault in absent pages, for example where PROT_NONE prevented
them being faulted in when mlocking. Whereas the "ksm: fix oom
deadlock" patch, knowing there's a race by which KSM might try to fault
in pages after exit_mmap() had finally zapped the range, backs out of
such faults doing nothing when its ksm_test_exit() notices mm_users 0.
So revert that part of "ksm: fix oom deadlock" which moved the
ksm_exit() call from before exit_mmap() to the middle of exit_mmap();
and remove those ksm_test_exit() checks from the page fault paths, so
allowing the munlocking to proceed without interference.
ksm_exit, if there are rmap_items still chained on this mm slot, takes
mmap_sem write side: so preventing KSM from working on an mm while
exit_mmap runs. And KSM will bail out as soon as it notices that
mm_users is already zero, thanks to its internal ksm_test_exit checks.
So that when a task is killed by OOM killer or the user, KSM will not
indefinitely prevent it from running exit_mmap to release its memory.
This does break a part of what "ksm: fix oom deadlock" was trying to
achieve. When unmerging KSM (echo 2 >/sys/kernel/mm/ksm), and even
when ksmd itself has to cancel a KSM page, it is possible that the
first OOM-kill victim would be the KSM process being faulted: then its
memory won't be freed until a second victim has been selected (freeing
memory for the unmerging fault to complete).
But the OOM killer is already liable to kill a second victim once the
intended victim's p->mm goes to NULL: so there's not much point in
rejecting this KSM patch before fixing that OOM behaviour. It is very
much more important to allow KSM users to boot up, than to haggle over
an unlikely and poorly supported OOM case.
We also intend to fix munlocking to not fault pages: at which point
this patch _could_ be reverted; though that would be controversial, so
we hope to find a better solution.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Justin M. Forbes <jforbes@redhat.com>
Acked-for-now-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
There's a now-obvious deadlock in KSM's out-of-memory handling:
imagine ksmd or KSM_RUN_UNMERGE handling, holding ksm_thread_mutex,
trying to allocate a page to break KSM in an mm which becomes the
OOM victim (quite likely in the unmerge case): it's killed and goes
to exit, and hangs there waiting to acquire ksm_thread_mutex.
Clearly we must not require ksm_thread_mutex in __ksm_exit, simple
though that made everything else: perhaps use mmap_sem somehow?
And part of the answer lies in the comments on unmerge_ksm_pages:
__ksm_exit should also leave all the rmap_item removal to ksmd.
But there's a fundamental problem, that KSM relies upon mmap_sem to
guarantee the consistency of the mm it's dealing with, yet exit_mmap
tears down an mm without taking mmap_sem. And bumping mm_users won't
help at all, that just ensures that the pages the OOM killer assumes
are on their way to being freed will not be freed.
The best answer seems to be, to move the ksm_exit callout from just
before exit_mmap, to the middle of exit_mmap: after the mm's pages
have been freed (if the mmu_gather is flushed), but before its page
tables and vma structures have been freed; and down_write,up_write
mmap_sem there to serialize with KSM's own reliance on mmap_sem.
But KSM then needs to be careful, whenever it downs mmap_sem, to
check that the mm is not already exiting: there's a danger of using
find_vma on a layout that's being torn apart, or writing into page
tables which have been freed for reuse; and even do_anonymous_page
and __do_fault need to check they're not being called by break_ksm
to reinstate a pte after zap_pte_range has zapped that page table.
Though it might be clearer to add an exiting flag, set while holding
mmap_sem in __ksm_exit, that wouldn't cover the issue of reinstating
a zapped pte. All we need is to check whether mm_users is 0 - but
must remember that ksmd may detect that before __ksm_exit is reached.
So, ksm_test_exit(mm) added to comment such checks on mm->mm_users.
__ksm_exit now has to leave clearing up the rmap_items to ksmd,
that needs ksm_thread_mutex; but shift the exiting mm just after the
ksm_scan cursor so that it will soon be dealt with. __ksm_enter raise
mm_count to hold the mm_struct, ksmd's exit processing (exactly like
its processing when it finds all VM_MERGEABLEs unmapped) mmdrop it,
similar procedure for KSM_RUN_UNMERGE (which has stopped ksmd).
But also give __ksm_exit a fast path: when there's no complication
(no rmap_items attached to mm and it's not at the ksm_scan cursor),
it can safely do all the exiting work itself. This is not just an
optimization: when ksmd is not running, the raised mm_count would
otherwise leak mm_structs.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Acked-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch presents the mm interface to a dummy version of ksm.c, for
better scrutiny of that interface: the real ksm.c follows later.
When CONFIG_KSM is not set, madvise(2) reject MADV_MERGEABLE and
MADV_UNMERGEABLE with EINVAL, since that seems more helpful than
pretending that they can be serviced. But when CONFIG_KSM=y, accept them
even if KSM is not currently running, and even on areas which KSM will not
touch (e.g. hugetlb or shared file or special driver mappings).
Like other madvices, report ENOMEM despite success if any area in the
range is unmapped, and use EAGAIN to report out of memory.
Define vma flag VM_MERGEABLE to identify an area on which KSM may try
merging pages: leave it to ksm_madvise() to decide whether to set it.
Define mm flag MMF_VM_MERGEABLE to identify an mm which might contain
VM_MERGEABLE areas, to minimize callouts when forking or exiting.
Based upon earlier patches by Chris Wright and Izik Eidus.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The amount of memory allocated to kernel stacks can become significant and
cause OOM conditions. However, we do not display the amount of memory
consumed by stacks.
Add code to display the amount of memory used for stacks in /proc/meminfo.
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
PI futexes do not use the same plist_node_empty() test for wakeup.
It was possible for the waiter (in futex_wait_requeue_pi()) to set
TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE after the waker assigned the rtmutex to the
waiter. The waiter would then note the plist was not empty and call
schedule(). The task would not be found by any subsequeuent futex
wakeups, resulting in a userspace hang.
By moving the setting of TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE to before the call to
queue_me(), the race with the waker is eliminated. Since we no
longer call get_user() from within queue_me(), there is no need to
delay the setting of TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE until after the call to
queue_me().
The FUTEX_LOCK_PI operation is not affected as futex_lock_pi()
relies entirely on the rtmutex code to handle schedule() and
wakeup. The requeue PI code is affected because the waiter starts
as a non-PI waiter and is woken on a PI futex.
Remove the crusty old comment about holding spinlocks() across
get_user() as we no longer do that. Correct the locking statement
with a description of why the test is performed.
Signed-off-by: Darren Hart <dvhltc@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Dinakar Guniguntala <dino@in.ibm.com>
Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090922053038.8717.97838.stgit@Aeon>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Use kernel-doc format to describe struct futex_q.
Correct the wakeup definition to eliminate the statement about
waking the waiter between the plist_del() and the q->lock_ptr = 0.
Note in the comment that PI futexes have a different definition of
the woken state.
Signed-off-by: Darren Hart <dvhltc@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Dinakar Guniguntala <dino@in.ibm.com>
Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090922053029.8717.62798.stgit@Aeon>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Make the existing function kernel-doc consistent throughout
futex.c, following Documentation/kernel-doc-nano-howto.txt as
closely as possible.
When unsure, at least be consistent within futex.c.
Signed-off-by: Darren Hart <dvhltc@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Dinakar Guniguntala <dino@in.ibm.com>
Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090922053022.8717.13339.stgit@Aeon>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The queue_me/unqueue_me commentary is oddly placed and out of date.
Clean it up and correct the inaccurate bits.
Signed-off-by: Darren Hart <dvhltc@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Dinakar Guniguntala <dino@in.ibm.com>
Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090922053015.8717.71713.stgit@Aeon>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Correct various typos and formatting inconsistencies in the
commentary of futex_wait_requeue_pi().
Signed-off-by: Darren Hart <dvhltc@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Dinakar Guniguntala <dino@in.ibm.com>
Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090922052958.8717.21932.stgit@Aeon>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Leave the last slot for the tailing '\0'.
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <4AB865FA.5080801@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
sparc64 allnoconfig:
arch/sparc/kernel/built-in.o(.text+0x134e0): In function `sys32_recvfrom':
: undefined reference to `compat_sys_recvfrom'
arch/sparc/kernel/built-in.o(.text+0x134e4): In function `sys32_recvfrom':
: undefined reference to `compat_sys_recvfrom'
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* 'perfcounters-rename-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
perf: Tidy up after the big rename
perf: Do the big rename: Performance Counters -> Performance Events
perf_counter: Rename 'event' to event_id/hw_event
perf_counter: Rename list_entry -> group_entry, counter_list -> group_list
Manually resolved some fairly trivial conflicts with the tracing tree in
include/trace/ftrace.h and kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c.
* 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
rcu: Fix whitespace inconsistencies
rcu: Fix thinko, actually initialize full tree
rcu: Apply results of code inspection of kernel/rcutree_plugin.h
rcu: Add WARN_ON_ONCE() consistency checks covering state transitions
rcu: Fix synchronize_rcu() for TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
rcu: Simplify rcu_read_unlock_special() quiescent-state accounting
rcu: Add debug checks to TREE_PREEMPT_RCU for premature grace periods
rcu: Kconfig help needs to say that TREE_PREEMPT_RCU scales down
rcutorture: Occasionally delay readers enough to make RCU force_quiescent_state
rcu: Initialize multi-level RCU grace periods holding locks
rcu: Need to update rnp->gpnum if preemptable RCU is to be reliable
* 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
sched: Simplify sys_sched_rr_get_interval() system call
sched: Fix potential NULL derference of doms_cur
sched: Fix raciness in runqueue_is_locked()
sched: Re-add lost cpu_allowed check to sched_fair.c::select_task_rq_fair()
sched: Remove unneeded indentation in sched_fair.c::place_entity()
this was introduced in
5e0a093 (tracing: fix config options to not show when automatically selected)
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-Koenig <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: trivial@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
- provide compatibility Kconfig entry for existing PERF_COUNTERS .config's
- provide courtesy copy of old perf_counter.h, for user-space projects
- small indentation fixups
- fix up MAINTAINERS
- fix small x86 printout fallout
- fix up small PowerPC comment fallout (use 'counter' as in register)
Reviewed-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Bye-bye Performance Counters, welcome Performance Events!
In the past few months the perfcounters subsystem has grown out its
initial role of counting hardware events, and has become (and is
becoming) a much broader generic event enumeration, reporting, logging,
monitoring, analysis facility.
Naming its core object 'perf_counter' and naming the subsystem
'perfcounters' has become more and more of a misnomer. With pending
code like hw-breakpoints support the 'counter' name is less and
less appropriate.
All in one, we've decided to rename the subsystem to 'performance
events' and to propagate this rename through all fields, variables
and API names. (in an ABI compatible fashion)
The word 'event' is also a bit shorter than 'counter' - which makes
it slightly more convenient to write/handle as well.
Thanks goes to Stephane Eranian who first observed this misnomer and
suggested a rename.
User-space tooling and ABI compatibility is not affected - this patch
should be function-invariant. (Also, defconfigs were not touched to
keep the size down.)
This patch has been generated via the following script:
FILES=$(find * -type f | grep -vE 'oprofile|[^K]config')
sed -i \
-e 's/PERF_EVENT_/PERF_RECORD_/g' \
-e 's/PERF_COUNTER/PERF_EVENT/g' \
-e 's/perf_counter/perf_event/g' \
-e 's/nb_counters/nb_events/g' \
-e 's/swcounter/swevent/g' \
-e 's/tpcounter_event/tp_event/g' \
$FILES
for N in $(find . -name perf_counter.[ch]); do
M=$(echo $N | sed 's/perf_counter/perf_event/g')
mv $N $M
done
FILES=$(find . -name perf_event.*)
sed -i \
-e 's/COUNTER_MASK/REG_MASK/g' \
-e 's/COUNTER/EVENT/g' \
-e 's/\<event\>/event_id/g' \
-e 's/counter/event/g' \
-e 's/Counter/Event/g' \
$FILES
... to keep it as correct as possible. This script can also be
used by anyone who has pending perfcounters patches - it converts
a Linux kernel tree over to the new naming. We tried to time this
change to the point in time where the amount of pending patches
is the smallest: the end of the merge window.
Namespace clashes were fixed up in a preparatory patch - and some
stylistic fallout will be fixed up in a subsequent patch.
( NOTE: 'counters' are still the proper terminology when we deal
with hardware registers - and these sed scripts are a bit
over-eager in renaming them. I've undone some of that, but
in case there's something left where 'counter' would be
better than 'event' we can undo that on an individual basis
instead of touching an otherwise nicely automated patch. )
Suggested-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Reviewed-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
In preparation to the renames, to avoid a namespace clash.
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This is in preparation of the big rename, but also makes sense
in a standalone way: 'list_entry' is a bad name as we already
have a list_entry() in list.h.
Also, the 'counter list' is too vague, it doesnt tell us the
purpose of that list.
Clarify these names to show that it's all about the group
hiearchy.
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
By removing the need for it to know details of scheduling classes.
This allows PlugSched to define orthogonal scheduling classes.
Signed-off-by: Peter Williams <pwil3058@bigpond.net.au>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
LKML-Reference: <06d1b89ee15a0eef82d7.1253496713@mudlark.pw.nest>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty-2.6: (79 commits)
USB serial: update the console driver
usb-serial: straighten out serial_open
usb-serial: add missing tests and debug lines
usb-serial: rename subroutines
usb-serial: fix termios initialization logic
usb-serial: acquire references when a new tty is installed
usb-serial: change logic of serial lookups
usb-serial: put subroutines in logical order
usb-serial: change referencing of port and serial structures
tty: Char: mxser, use THRE for ASPP_OQUEUE ioctl
tty: Char: mxser, add support for CP112UL
uartlite: support shared interrupt lines
tty: USB: serial/mct_u232, fix tty refcnt
tty: riscom8, fix tty refcnt
tty: riscom8, fix shutdown declaration
TTY: fix typos
tty: Power: fix suspend vt regression
tty: vt: use printk_once
tty: handle VT specific compat ioctls in vt driver
n_tty: move echoctl check and clean up logic
...
* 'perfcounters-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (58 commits)
perf_counter: Fix perf_copy_attr() pointer arithmetic
perf utils: Use a define for the maximum length of a trace event
perf: Add timechart help text and add timechart to "perf help"
tracing, x86, cpuidle: Move the end point of a C state in the power tracer
perf utils: Be consistent about minimum text size in the svghelper
perf timechart: Add "perf timechart record"
perf: Add the timechart tool
perf: Add a SVG helper library file
tracing, perf: Convert the power tracer into an event tracer
perf: Add a sample_event type to the event_union
perf: Allow perf utilities to have "callback" options without arguments
perf: Store trace event name/id pairs in perf.data
perf: Add a timestamp to fork events
sched_clock: Make it NMI safe
perf_counter: Fix up swcounter throttling
x86, perf_counter, bts: Optimize BTS overflow handling
perf sched: Add --input=file option to builtin-sched.c
perf trace: Sample timestamp and cpu when using record flag
perf tools: Increase MAX_EVENT_LENGTH
perf tools: Fix memory leak in read_ftrace_printk()
...
If CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK is enabled but doms_cur alloc failed in
arch_init_sched_domains(), doms_cur will move back to
fallback_doms. But this time, fallback_doms has not been
initialized yet.
Signed-off-by: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@gmail.com>
Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl
LKML-Reference: <1252930816-7672-1-git-send-email-yong.zhang0@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
runqueue_is_locked() is unavoidably racy due to a poor interface design.
It does
cpu = get_cpu()
ret = some_perpcu_thing(cpu);
put_cpu(cpu);
return ret;
Its return value is unreliable.
Fix.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <200909191855.n8JItiko022148@imap1.linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
fix the following 'make includecheck' warning:
kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c: trace.h is included more than once.
Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
LKML-Reference: <1247068617.4382.107.camel@ht.satnam>
In the past someone gratuitiously borrowed chunks of kernel internal vt
code and dumped them in kernel/power. They have all sorts of deep relations
with the vt code so put them in the vt tree instead
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Currently kfifo cannot be used by parts of the kernel that use "const"
properly as kfifo itself does not use const for passed data blocks which
are indeed const.
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
There is still some weird code in per_copy_attr(). Which supposedly
checks that all bytes trailing a struct are zero.
It doesn't seem to get pointer arithmetic right. Since it
increments an iterating pointer by sizeof(unsigned long) rather
than 1.
Signed-off-by: Ian Schram <ischram@telenet.be>
[ v2: clean up the messy PTR_ALIGN logic as well. ]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> # for v2.6.31.x
LKML-Reference: <4AB3DEE2.3030600@telenet.be>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
