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  1. Aug 11, 2009
    • Darren Hart's avatar
      futex: Fix handling of bad requeue syscall pairing · 392741e0
      Darren Hart authored 
      

If futex_requeue(requeue_pi=1) finds a futex_q that was created by a call
other the futex_wait_requeue_pi(), the q.rt_waiter may be null.  If so,
this will result in an oops from the following call graph:

futex_requeue()
  rt_mutex_start_proxy_lock()
    task_blocks_on_rt_mutex()
      waiter->task dereference
        OOPS

We currently WARN_ON() if this is detected, clearly this is inadequate.
If we detect a mispairing in futex_requeue(), bail out, seding -EINVAL to
user-space.

V2: Fix parenthesis warnings.

Signed-off-by: default avatarDarren Hart <dvhltc@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Dinakar Guniguntala <dino@in.ibm.com>
Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A7CA8C0.7010809@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      392741e0
  3. Aug 10, 2009
  5. Aug 09, 2009
    • Frederic Weisbecker's avatar
      perf_counter: Fix/complete ftrace event records sampling · f413cdb8
      Frederic Weisbecker authored 
      

This patch implements the kernel side support for ftrace event
record sampling.

A new counter sampling attribute is added:

   PERF_SAMPLE_TP_RECORD

which requests ftrace events record sampling. In this case
if a PERF_TYPE_TRACEPOINT counter is active and a tracepoint
fires, we emit the tracepoint binary record to the
perfcounter event buffer, as a sample.

Result, after setting PERF_SAMPLE_TP_RECORD attribute from perf
record:

 perf record -f -F 1 -a -e workqueue:workqueue_execution
 perf report -D

 0x21e18 [0x48]: event: 9
 .
 . ... raw event: size 72 bytes
 .  0000:  09 00 00 00 01 00 48 00 d0 c7 00 81 ff ff ff ff  ......H........
 .  0010:  0a 00 00 00 0a 00 00 00 21 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ........!......
 .  0020:  2b 00 01 02 0a 00 00 00 0a 00 00 00 65 76 65 6e  +...........eve
 .  0030:  74 73 2f 31 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0a 00 00 00  ts/1...........
 .  0040:  e0 b1 31 81 ff ff ff ff                          .......
.
0x21e18 [0x48]: PERF_EVENT_SAMPLE (IP, 1): 10: 0xffffffff8100c7d0 period: 33

The raw ftrace binary record starts at offset 0020.

Translation:

 struct trace_entry {
	type		= 0x2b = 43;
	flags		= 1;
	preempt_count	= 2;
	pid		= 0xa = 10;
	tgid		= 0xa = 10;
 }

 thread_comm = "events/1"
 thread_pid  = 0xa = 10;
 func	    = 0xffffffff8131b1e0 = flush_to_ldisc()

What will come next?

 - Userspace support ('perf trace'), 'flight data recorder' mode
   for perf trace, etc.

 - The unconditional copy from the profiling callback brings
   some costs however if someone wants no such sampling to
   occur, and needs to be fixed in the future. For that we need
   to have an instant access to the perf counter attribute.
   This is a matter of a flag to add in the struct ftrace_event.

 - Take care of the events recursivity! Don't ever try to record
   a lock event for example, it seems some locking is used in
   the profiling fast path and lead to a tracing recursivity.
   That will be fixed using raw spinlock or recursivity
   protection.

 - [...]

 - Profit! :-)

Signed-off-by: default avatarFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      f413cdb8
    • Peter Zijlstra's avatar
      perf_counter, ftrace: Fix perf_counter integration · 3a659305
      Peter Zijlstra authored 
      

Adds possible second part to the assign argument of TP_EVENT().

  TP_perf_assign(
	__perf_count(foo);
	__perf_addr(bar);
  )

Which, when specified make the swcounter increment with @foo instead
of the usual 1, and report @bar for PERF_SAMPLE_ADDR (data address
associated with the event) when this triggers a counter overflow.

Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      3a659305
    • Ingo Molnar's avatar
      Merge branch 'linus' into tracing/urgent · e3560336
      Ingo Molnar authored 
      

Merge reason: Merge up to almost-rc6 to pick up latest perfcounters
              (on which we'll queue up a dependent fix)

Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      e3560336
    • Gleb Natapov's avatar
      KVM: Avoid redelivery of edge interrupt before next edge · b4a2f5e7
      Gleb Natapov authored 
      

The check for an edge is broken in current ioapic code. ioapic->irr is
cleared on each edge interrupt by ioapic_service() and this makes
old_irr != ioapic->irr condition in kvm_ioapic_set_irq() to be always
true. The patch fixes the code to properly recognise edge.

Some HW emulation calls set_irq() without level change. If each such
call is propagated to an OS it may confuse a device driver. This is the
case with keyboard device emulation and Windows XP x64  installer on SMP VM.
Each keystroke produce two interrupts (down/up) one interrupt is
submitted to CPU0 and another to CPU1. This confuses Windows somehow
and it ignores keystrokes.

Signed-off-by: default avatarGleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
      b4a2f5e7
    • Roel Kluin's avatar
      x86: fix buffer overflow in efi_init() · fdb8a427
      Roel Kluin authored 
      If the vendor name (from c16) can be longer than 100 bytes (or missing a
terminating null), then the null is written past the end of vendor[].

Found with Parfait, http://research.sun.com/projects/parfait/



Signed-off-by: default avatarRoel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
      fdb8a427
    • Frans Pop's avatar
      drm/i915: silence vblank warnings · 6cb504c2
      Frans Pop authored 
      

these errors are pretty pointless

Reviewed-by: default avatarJesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
      6cb504c2
    • Paul Rolland's avatar
      drm: silence pointless vblank warning. · 8d3457ec
      Paul Rolland authored 
      

Some applications/hardware combinations are triggering the message "failed to
acquire vblank counter" to be issued up to 20 times a second, which makes it
both useless and dangerous, as this may hide other important messages.
This changes makes it only appear when people are debugging.

Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Rolland <rol@as2917.net>
Reviewed-by: default avatarJesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Lost-twice-by: default avatarDave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
      8d3457ec
    • Keith Packard's avatar
      drm: When adding probed modes, preserve duplicate mode types · 38d5487d
      Keith Packard authored 
      

The code which takes probed modes and adds them to a connector eliminates
duplicate modes by comparing them using drm_mode_equal. That function
doesn't consider the type bits, which means that any modes which differ only
in the type field will be lost.

One of the bits in the mode->type field is the DRM_MODE_TYPE_PREFERRED bit.
If the mode with that bit is lost, then higher level code will not know
which mode to select, causing a random mode to be used instead.

This patch simply merges the two mode type bits together; that seems
reasonable to me, but perhaps only a subset of the bits should be used? None
of these can be user defined as they all come from looking at just the
hardware.

Signed-off-by: default avatarKeith Packard <keithp@keithp.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
      38d5487d
    • Stanislaw Gruszka's avatar
      posix_cpu_timers_exit_group(): Do not use thread_group_cputimer() · 17d42c1c
      Stanislaw Gruszka authored 
      

When the process exits we don't have to run new cputimer nor
use running one (as it not accounts when tsk->exit_state != 0)
to get process CPU times.  As there is only one thread we can
just use CPU times fields from task and signal structs.

Signed-off-by: default avatarStanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Vitaly Mayatskikh <vmayatsk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      17d42c1c
  7. Aug 08, 2009