23 Jun, 2015
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Pull perf updates from Ingo Molnar:
"Kernel side changes mostly consist of work on x86 PMU drivers:- x86 Intel PT (hardware CPU tracer) improvements (Alexander
Shishkin)- x86 Intel CQM (cache quality monitoring) improvements (Thomas
Gleixner)- x86 Intel PEBSv3 support (Peter Zijlstra)
- x86 Intel PEBS interrupt batching support for lower overhead
sampling (Zheng Yan, Kan Liang)- x86 PMU scheduler fixes and improvements (Peter Zijlstra)
There's too many tooling improvements to list them all - here are a
few select highlights:'perf bench':
- Introduce new 'perf bench futex' benchmark: 'wake-parallel', to
measure parallel waker threads generating contention for kernel
locks (hb->lock). (Davidlohr Bueso)'perf top', 'perf report':
- Allow disabling/enabling events dynamicaly in 'perf top':
a 'perf top' session can instantly become a 'perf report'
one, i.e. going from dynamic analysis to a static one,
returning to a dynamic one is possible, to toogle the
modes, just press 'f' to 'freeze/unfreeze' the sampling. (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)- Make Ctrl-C stop processing on TUI, allowing interrupting the load of big
perf.data files (Namhyung Kim)'perf probe': (Masami Hiramatsu)
- Support glob wildcards for function name
- Support $params special probe argument: Collect all function arguments
- Make --line checks validate C-style function name.
- Add --no-inlines option to avoid searching inline functions
- Greatly speed up 'perf probe --list' by caching debuginfo.
- Improve --filter support for 'perf probe', allowing using its arguments
on other commands, as --add, --del, etc.'perf sched':
- Add option in 'perf sched' to merge like comms to lat output (Josef Bacik)
Plus tons of infrastructure work - in particular preparation for
upcoming threaded perf report support, but also lots of other work -
and fixes and other improvements. See (much) more details in the
shortlog and in the git log"* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (305 commits)
perf tools: Configurable per thread proc map processing time out
perf tools: Add time out to force stop proc map processing
perf report: Fix sort__sym_cmp to also compare end of symbol
perf hists browser: React to unassigned hotkey pressing
perf top: Tell the user how to unfreeze events after pressing 'f'
perf hists browser: Honour the help line provided by builtin-{top,report}.c
perf hists browser: Do not exit when 'f' is pressed in 'report' mode
perf top: Replace CTRL+z with 'f' as hotkey for enable/disable events
perf annotate: Rename source_line_percent to source_line_samples
perf annotate: Display total number of samples with --show-total-period
perf tools: Ensure thread-stack is flushed
perf top: Allow disabling/enabling events dynamicly
perf evlist: Add toggle_enable() method
perf trace: Fix race condition at the end of started workloads
perf probe: Speed up perf probe --list by caching debuginfo
perf probe: Show usage even if the last event is skipped
perf tools: Move libtraceevent dynamic list to separated LDFLAGS variable
perf tools: Fix a problem when opening old perf.data with different byte order
perf tools: Ignore .config-detected in .gitignore
perf probe: Fix to return error if no probe is added
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22 Jun, 2015
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15 Jun, 2015
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08 Jun, 2015
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01 Jun, 2015
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27 May, 2015
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
25 May, 2015
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19 May, 2015
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11 May, 2015
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06 May, 2015
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…it/acme/linux into perf/core
Pull perf/core improvements and fixes from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:
User visible changes:
- Improve --filter support for 'perf probe', allowing using its arguments
on other commands, as --add, --del, etc (Masami Hiramatsu)- Show warning when running 'perf kmem stat' on a unsuitable perf.data file,
i.e. one with events that are not the ones required for the stat variant
used (Namhyung Kim).Infrastructure changes:
- Auxtrace support patches, paving the way to support Intel PT and BTS (Adrian Hunter)
- hists browser (top, report) refactorings (Namhyung Kim)
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
04 May, 2015
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29 Apr, 2015
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Several fixes were needed to allow following builds:
$ make tools/tmon
$ make -C tools/perf
$ make -C /tools perf- some of the tools (perf) use same make variables as in
kernel build, unsetting srctree and objtree
- using original $(O) for O variable
- perf build does not follow the descend function setup
invoking it via it's own make ruleI tried the rest of the tools/Makefile targets and they
seem to work now.Reported-by: Brian Norris
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa
Cc: Borislav Petkov
Cc: Brian Norris
Cc: David Ahern
Cc: David Howells
Cc: Michal Marek
Cc: Namhyung Kim
Cc: Paul Mackerras
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Sam Ravnborg
Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1429389280-18720-3-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
27 Apr, 2015
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16 Apr, 2015
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Pull kbuild updates from Michal Marek:
"Here is the first round of kbuild changes for v4.1-rc1:- kallsyms fix for ARM and cleanup
- make dep(end) removed (developers have no sense of nostalgia these
days...)- include Makefiles by relative path
- stop useless rebuilds of asm-offsets.h and bounds.h"
* 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild:
Kbuild: kallsyms: drop special handling of pre-3.0 GCC symbols
Kbuild: kallsyms: ignore veneers emitted by the ARM linker
kbuild: ia64: use $(src)/Makefile.gate rather than particular path
kbuild: include $(src)/Makefile rather than $(obj)/Makefile
kbuild: use relative path more to include Makefile
kbuild: use relative path to include Makefile
kbuild: do not add $(bounds-file) and $(offsets-file) to targets
kbuild: remove warning about "make depend"
kbuild: Don't reset timestamps in include/generated if not needed
14 Apr, 2015
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Pull core locking changes from Ingo Molnar:
"Main changes:- jump label asm preparatory work for PowerPC (Anton Blanchard)
- rwsem optimizations and cleanups (Davidlohr Bueso)
- mutex optimizations and cleanups (Jason Low)
- futex fix (Oleg Nesterov)
- remove broken atomicity checks from {READ,WRITE}_ONCE() (Peter
Zijlstra)"* 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
powerpc, jump_label: Include linux/jump_label.h to get HAVE_JUMP_LABEL define
jump_label: Allow jump labels to be used in assembly
jump_label: Allow asm/jump_label.h to be included in assembly
locking/mutex: Further simplify mutex_spin_on_owner()
locking: Remove atomicy checks from {READ,WRITE}_ONCE
locking/rtmutex: Rename argument in the rt_mutex_adjust_prio_chain() documentation as well
locking/rwsem: Fix lock optimistic spinning when owner is not running
locking: Remove ACCESS_ONCE() usage
locking/rwsem: Check for active lock before bailing on spinning
locking/rwsem: Avoid deceiving lock spinners
locking/rwsem: Set lock ownership ASAP
locking/rwsem: Document barrier need when waking tasks
locking/futex: Check PF_KTHREAD rather than !p->mm to filter out kthreads
locking/mutex: Refactor mutex_spin_on_owner()
locking/mutex: In mutex_spin_on_owner(), return true when owner changes
13 Apr, 2015
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09 Apr, 2015
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To use jump labels in assembly we need the HAVE_JUMP_LABEL
define, so we select a fallback version if the toolchain does
not support them.Modify linux/jump_label.h so it can be included by assembly
files. We also need to add -DCC_HAVE_ASM_GOTO to KBUILD_AFLAGS.Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel)
Cc: Andrew Morton
Cc: Linus Torvalds
Cc: Paul E. McKenney
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: benh@kernel.crashing.org
Cc: catalin.marinas@arm.com
Cc: davem@davemloft.net
Cc: heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com
Cc: jbaron@akamai.com
Cc: linux@arm.linux.org.uk
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: liuj97@gmail.com
Cc: mgorman@suse.de
Cc: mmarek@suse.cz
Cc: mpe@ellerman.id.au
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: ralf@linux-mips.org
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: schwidefsky@de.ibm.com
Cc: will.deacon@arm.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1428551492-21977-2-git-send-email-anton@samba.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
07 Apr, 2015
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02 Apr, 2015
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Prior to this commit, it was impossible to use relative path to
include Makefiles from the top level Makefile because the option
"--include-dir=$(srctree)" becomes effective when Make enters into
sub Makefiles.To use relative path in any places, this commit moves the option
above the "sub-make" target.Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek
30 Mar, 2015
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25 Mar, 2015
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Enough time has passed since "make depend" was deprecated.
Nobody would be in trouble without this hint.Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek
23 Mar, 2015
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16 Mar, 2015
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09 Mar, 2015
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04 Mar, 2015
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23 Feb, 2015
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.. after extensive statistical analysis of my G+ polling, I've come to
the inescapable conclusion that internet polls are bad.Big surprise.
But "Hurr durr I'ma sheep" trounced "I like online polls" by a 62-to-38%
margin, in a poll that people weren't even supposed to participate in.
Who can argue with solid numbers like that? 5,796 votes from people who
can't even follow the most basic directions?In contrast, "v4.0" beat out "v3.20" by a slimmer margin of 56-to-44%,
but with a total of 29,110 votes right now.Now, arguably, that vote spread is only about 3,200 votes, which is less
than the almost six thousand votes that the "please ignore" poll got, so
it could be considered noise.But hey, I asked, so I'll honor the votes.
20 Feb, 2015
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Pull kbuild updates from Michal Marek:
- several cleanups in kbuild
- serialize multiple *config targets so that 'make defconfig kvmconfig'
works- The cc-ifversion macro got support for an else-branch
* 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild:
kbuild,gcov: simplify kernel/gcov/Makefile more
kbuild: allow cc-ifversion to have the argument for false condition
kbuild,gcov: simplify kernel/gcov/Makefile
kbuild,gcov: remove unnecessary workaround
kbuild: do not add $(call ...) to invoke cc-version or cc-fullversion
kbuild: fix cc-ifversion macro
kbuild: drop $(version_h) from MRPROPER_FILES
kbuild: use mixed-targets when two or more config targets are given
kbuild: remove redundant line from bounds.h/asm-offsets.h
kbuild: merge bounds.h and asm-offsets.h rules
kbuild: Drop support for clean-rule
18 Feb, 2015
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This provides the basic infrastructure to load kernel-specific python
helper scripts when debugging the kernel in gdb.The loading mechanism is based on gdb loading for -gdb.py when
opening . Therefore, this places a corresponding link to the
main helper script into the output directory that contains vmlinux.The main scripts will pull in submodules containing Linux specific gdb
commands and functions. To avoid polluting the source directory with
compiled python modules, we link to them from the object directory.Due to gdb.parse_and_eval and string redirection for gdb.execute, we
depend on gdb >= 7.2.This feature is enabled via CONFIG_GDB_SCRIPTS.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka
Acked-by: Michal Marek [kbuild stuff]
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: Jason Wessel
Cc: Andi Kleen
Cc: Ben Widawsky
Cc: Borislav Petkov
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
14 Feb, 2015
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Kernel Address sanitizer (KASan) is a dynamic memory error detector. It
provides fast and comprehensive solution for finding use-after-free and
out-of-bounds bugs.KASAN uses compile-time instrumentation for checking every memory access,
therefore GCC > v4.9.2 required. v4.9.2 almost works, but has issues with
putting symbol aliases into the wrong section, which breaks kasan
instrumentation of globals.This patch only adds infrastructure for kernel address sanitizer. It's
not available for use yet. The idea and some code was borrowed from [1].Basic idea:
The main idea of KASAN is to use shadow memory to record whether each byte
of memory is safe to access or not, and use compiler's instrumentation to
check the shadow memory on each memory access.Address sanitizer uses 1/8 of the memory addressable in kernel for shadow
memory and uses direct mapping with a scale and offset to translate a
memory address to its corresponding shadow address.Here is function to translate address to corresponding shadow address:
unsigned long kasan_mem_to_shadow(unsigned long addr)
{
return (addr >> KASAN_SHADOW_SCALE_SHIFT) + KASAN_SHADOW_OFFSET;
}where KASAN_SHADOW_SCALE_SHIFT = 3.
So for every 8 bytes there is one corresponding byte of shadow memory.
The following encoding used for each shadow byte: 0 means that all 8 bytes
of the corresponding memory region are valid for access; k (1
Acked-by: Michal Marek
Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov
Cc: Konstantin Serebryany
Cc: Dmitry Chernenkov
Cc: Yuri Gribov
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov
Cc: Sasha Levin
Cc: Christoph Lameter
Cc: Joonsoo Kim
Cc: Dave Hansen
Cc: Andi Kleen
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin"
Cc: Christoph Lameter
Cc: Pekka Enberg
Cc: David Rientjes
Cc: Stephen Rothwell
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
12 Feb, 2015
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Pull s390 updates from Martin Schwidefsky:
- The remaining patches for the z13 machine support: kernel build
option for z13, the cache synonym avoidance, SMT support,
compare-and-delay for spinloops and the CES5S crypto adapater.- The ftrace support for function tracing with the gcc hotpatch option.
This touches common code Makefiles, Steven is ok with the changes.- The hypfs file system gets an extension to access diagnose 0x0c data
in user space for performance analysis for Linux running under z/VM.- The iucv hvc console gets wildcard spport for the user id filtering.
- The cacheinfo code is converted to use the generic infrastructure.
- Cleanup and bug fixes.
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux: (42 commits)
s390/process: free vx save area when releasing tasks
s390/hypfs: Eliminate hypfs interval
s390/hypfs: Add diagnose 0c support
s390/cacheinfo: don't use smp_processor_id() in preemptible context
s390/zcrypt: fixed domain scanning problem (again)
s390/smp: increase maximum value of NR_CPUS to 512
s390/jump label: use different nop instruction
s390/jump label: add sanity checks
s390/mm: correct missing space when reporting user process faults
s390/dasd: cleanup profiling
s390/dasd: add locking for global_profile access
s390/ftrace: hotpatch support for function tracing
ftrace: let notrace function attribute disable hotpatching if necessary
ftrace: allow architectures to specify ftrace compile options
s390: reintroduce diag 44 calls for cpu_relax()
s390/zcrypt: Add support for new crypto express (CEX5S) adapter.
s390/zcrypt: Number of supported ap domains is not retrievable.
s390/spinlock: add compare-and-delay to lock wait loops
s390/tape: remove redundant if statement
s390/hvc_iucv: add simple wildcard matches to the iucv allow filter
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09 Feb, 2015
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02 Feb, 2015
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29 Jan, 2015
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If the kernel is compiled with function tracer support the -pg compile option
is passed to gcc to generate extra code into the prologue of each function.This patch replaces the "open-coded" -pg compile flag with a CC_FLAGS_FTRACE
makefile variable which architectures can override if a different option
should be used for code generation.Acked-by: Steven Rostedt
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky
26 Jan, 2015
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12 Jan, 2015
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09 Jan, 2015
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The introduction of the uapi directories in v3.7-rc1 moved some of the
generated headers from arch/*/include/generated to the uapi directory,
keeping the #include directives intact.This creates a problem when bisecting, because the unversioned files are
not cleaned automatically by git and the compiler might include stale
headers as a result. Instead of cleaning them in the Makefiles, promote
arch/*/include/generated/uapi in the search path. Under normal
circumstances, there is no overlap between this uapi subdirectory and
its parent, so the include choices remain the same. We keep
arch/*/include/generated/uapi in the USERINCLUDE variable so that it is
usable standalone.Note that we cannot completely swap the order of the uapi and
kernel-only directories, since the headers in include/uapi/asm-generic
are meant to be wrapped by their include/asm-generic counterparts when
building kernel code.Reported-by: "Nicholas A. Bellinger"
Reported-by: David Drysdale
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
08 Jan, 2015
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Now $(version_h) is include/generated/uapi/linux/version.h.
$(version_h) in MRPROPER_FILES is redundant because it is covered
by include/generated in MRPROPER_DIRS.Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek -
"make kvmconfig" expects that the .config has already been created,
but some people might want to create the .config and run kvmconfig
in one shot command, like this:$ make defconfig kvmconfig
To make sure this command works correctly even if -j* option is set,
we must handle them one by one.
This commit turns on mixed-targets when $(MAKECMDGOALS) includes
at least one config target and also includes another target.Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek
06 Jan, 2015
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