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    • Al Cooper's avatar
      MIPS: Function tracer: Fix broken function tracing · 58b69401
      Al Cooper authored 
      Function tracing is currently broken for all 32 bit MIPS platforms.
When tracing is enabled, the kernel immediately hangs on boot.
This is a result of commit b732d439


that changes the kernel/trace/Kconfig file so that is no longer
forces FRAME_POINTER when FUNCTION_TRACING is enabled.

MIPS frame pointers are generally considered to be useless because
they cannot be used to unwind the stack. Unfortunately the MIPS
function tracing code has bugs that are masked by the use of frame
pointers. This commit fixes the bugs so that MIPS frame pointers
don't need to be enabled.

The bugs are a result of the odd calling sequence used to call the trace
routine. This calling sequence is inserted into every traceable function
when the tracing CONFIG option is enabled. This sequence is generated
for 32bit MIPS platforms by the compiler via the "-pg" flag.

Part of the sequence is "addiu sp,sp,-8" in the delay slot after every
call to the trace routine "_mcount" (some legacy thing where 2 arguments
used to be pushed on the stack). The _mcount routine is expected to
adjust the sp by +8 before returning.  So when not disabled, the original
jalr and addiu will be there, so _mcount has to adjust sp.

The problem is that when tracing is disabled for a function, the
"jalr _mcount" instruction is replaced with a nop, but the
"addiu sp,sp,-8" is still executed and the stack pointer is left
trashed. When frame pointers are enabled the problem is masked
because any access to the stack is done through the frame
pointer and the stack pointer is restored from the frame pointer when
the function returns.

This patch writes two nops starting at the address of the "jalr _mcount"
instruction whenever tracing is disabled. This means that the
"addiu sp,sp.-8" will be converted to a nop along with the "jalr".  When
disabled, there will be two nops.

This is SMP safe because the first time this happens is during
ftrace_init() which is before any other processor has been started.
Subsequent calls to enable/disable tracing when other CPUs ARE running
will still be safe because the enable will only change the first nop
to a "jalr" and the disable, while writing 2 nops, will only be changing
the "jalr". This patch also stops using stop_machine() to call the
tracer enable/disable routines and calls them directly because the
routines are SMP safe.

When the kernel first boots we have to be able to handle the gcc
generated jalr, addui sequence until ftrace_init gets a chance to run
and change the sequence. At this point mcount just adjusts the stack
and returns. When ftrace_init runs, we convert the jalr/addui to nops.
Then whenever tracing is enabled we convert the first nop to a "jalr
mcount+8". The mcount+8 entry point skips the stack adjust.

[ralf@linux-mips.org: Folded in  Steven Rostedt's build fix.]

Signed-off-by: default avatarAl Cooper <alcooperx@gmail.com>
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: ddaney.cavm@gmail.com
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/4806/
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/4841/


Signed-off-by: default avatarRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
      58b69401
    • Alasdair G Kergon's avatar
      dm: fix write same requests counting · fe7af2d3
      Alasdair G Kergon authored 
      When processing write same requests, fix dm to send the configured
number of WRITE SAME requests to the target rather than the number of
discards, which is not always the same.

Device-mapper WRITE SAME support was introduced by commit
23508a96

 ("dm: add WRITE SAME support").

Signed-off-by: default avatarAlasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Acked-by: default avatarMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
      fe7af2d3
    • Steven Rostedt's avatar
      mips: Move __virt_addr_valid() to a place for MIPS 64 · 196897a2
      Steven Rostedt authored 
      Commit d3ce8843

 "MIPS: Fix modpost error in modules attepting to use
virt_addr_valid()" moved __virt_addr_valid() from a macro in a header
file to a function in ioremap.c. But ioremap.c is only compiled for MIPS
32, and not for MIPS 64.

When compiling for my yeeloong2, which supposedly supports hibernation,
which compiles kernel/power/snapshot.c which calls virt_addr_valid(), I
got this error:

  LD      init/built-in.o
kernel/built-in.o: In function `memory_bm_free':
snapshot.c:(.text+0x4c9c4): undefined reference to `__virt_addr_valid'
snapshot.c:(.text+0x4ca58): undefined reference to `__virt_addr_valid'
kernel/built-in.o: In function `snapshot_write_next':
(.text+0x4e44c): undefined reference to `__virt_addr_valid'
kernel/built-in.o: In function `snapshot_write_next':
(.text+0x4e890): undefined reference to `__virt_addr_valid'
make[1]: *** [vmlinux] Error 1
make: *** [sub-make] Error 2

I suspect that __virt_addr_valid() is fine for mips 64. I moved it to
mmap.c such that it gets compiled for mips 64 and 32.

Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/4842/


Signed-off-by: default avatarRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
      196897a2