We were using eprintf in some places, that looks at a global
'verbose' level, and at other places passing a 'v' parameter to
specify the verbosity level, unify it by introducing
pr_{err,warning,debug,etc}, just like in the kernel.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
LKML-Reference: <1256153646-10097-1-git-send-email-acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Wrapping the kernel headers is dangerous when it comes to arch
headers. Once we wrap asm/types.h, it will also replace the
glibc asm/types.h, not only the kernel one.
This results in build errors on some machines.
Drop this wrapper and do its work from linux/types.h wrapper,
also the glibc asm/types.h can already handle most of the type
definition it was doing (typedef __u64, __u32, etc...).
Todo: Check the others asm/*.h wrappers to prevent from other
conflicts.
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1256246604-17156-3-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
perf tools: Bind callchains to the first sort dimension column
Currently, the callchains are displayed using a constant left
margin. So depending on the current sort dimension
configuration, callchains may appear to be well attached to the
first sort dimension column field which is mostly the case,
except when the first dimension of sorting is done by comm,
because these are right aligned.
This patch binds the callchain to the first letter in the first
column, whatever type of column it is (dso, comm, symbol).
Before:
While recursively printing the branches of each callchains, we
forget to display the root. It is never printed.
Say we have:
symbol
f1
f2
|
-------- f3
| f4
|
---------f5
f6
Actually we never see that, instead it displays:
symbol
|
--------- f3
| f4
|
--------- f5
f6
However f1 is always the same than "symbol" and if we are
sorting by symbols first then "symbol", f1 and f2 will be well
aligned like in the above example, so displaying f1 looks
redundant here.
But if we are sorting by something else first (dso, comm,
etc...), displaying f1 doesn't look redundant but rather
necessary because the symbol is not well aligned anymore with
its callchain:
comm dso symbol
f1
f2
|
--------- [...]
And we want the callchain to be obvious.
So we fix the bug by printing the root branch, but we also
filter its first entry if we are sorting by symbols first.
Reported-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1256246604-17156-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Steven Rostedt [Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:19:35 +0000 (19:19 -0400)]
perf tools: Use strsep() over strtok_r() for parsing single line
The second argument in the strtok_r() function is not to be used
generically and can have different implementations. Currently
the function parsing of the perf trace code uses the second
argument to copy data from. This can crash the tool or just have
unpredictable results.
The correct solution is to use strsep() which has a defined
result.
I also added a check to see if the result was correct, and will
break out of the loop in case it fails to parse as expected.
Reported-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20091020232034.237814877@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Steven Rostedt [Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:19:34 +0000 (19:19 -0400)]
perf tools: Add 'make DEBUG=1' to remove the -O6 cflag
When using gdb to debug perf, it is practically impossible to
use when perf is compiled with -O6. For developers, this patch
adds the DEBUG feature to the make command line so that a
developer can easily remove the optimization flag.
LKML-Reference: <1255590330.8392.446.camel@twins> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <20091020232033.984323261@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
perf annotate: Remove requirement of passing a symbol name
If the user doesn't pass a symbol name to annotate, it will
annotate all the symbols that have hits, in order, just like
'perf report -s comm,dso,symbol'.
This is a natural followup patch to the one that uses
output_hists to find the symbols with hits.
The common case is to annotate the first few entries at the top
of a perf report, so lets type less characters.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
LKML-Reference: <1256058509-19678-1-git-send-email-acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
perf annotate: Use the sym_priv_size area for the histogram
We have this sym_priv_size mechanism for attaching private areas
to struct symbol entries but annotate wasn't using it, adding
private areas to struct symbol in addition to a ->priv pointer.
Scrap all that and use the sym_priv_size mechanism.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
LKML-Reference: <1256055940-19511-1-git-send-email-acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
perf tools: Add ->unmap_ip operation to struct map
We need this because we get section relative addresses when
reading the symtabs, but when a tool like 'perf annotate' needs
to match these address to what 'objdump -dS' produces we need
the address + section back again.
So in annotate now we look at the 'struct hist_entry' instances
(that weren't really being used) so that we iterate only over
the symbols that had some hit and get the map where that
particular hit happened so that we can get the right address to
match with annotate.
Arjan van de Ven [Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:09:39 +0000 (07:09 +0900)]
perf timechart: Add a process filter
During the Kernel Summit demo of perf/ftrace/timechart, there
was a feature request to have a process filter for timechart so
that you can zoom into one or a few processes that you are
really interested in.
This patch adds basic support for this feature, the -p
(--process) option now can select a PID or a process name to be
shown. Multiple -p options are allowed, and the combined set
will be included in the output.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: 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>
LKML-Reference: <20091020070939.7d0fb8a7@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Arjan van de Ven [Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:47:31 +0000 (06:47 +0900)]
perf timechart: Improve the visual appearance of scheduler delays
[from KS feedback]
Currently, scheduler delays are shown in a mostly transparent,
light yellow color. This color is rather hard to see on several
screens, especially projectors.
This patch changes the color of the scheduler delays to be a
much more "hard" yellow that survived the kernel summit
projector.
Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com Cc: 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>
LKML-Reference: <20091020064731.20ae126a@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Arjan van de Ven [Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:46:49 +0000 (06:46 +0900)]
perf timechart: Fix the wakeup-arrows that point to non-visible processes
The timechart wakeup arrows currently show no process
information when the waker/wakee are processes that are not
actually chosen to be shown on the timechart.
This patch fixes this oversight, by looking through all
processes (after giving preference to visible processes) as well
as falling back to just showing the PID if no name for the
process can be resolved.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: 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>
LKML-Reference: <20091020064649.0e4959b2@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
In file included from util/include/linux/bitmap.h:1,
from util/header.h:8,
from builtin-trace.c:7:
util/include/../../../../include/linux/bitmap.h:8:26: error:
linux/string.h: No such file or directory make: ***
[builtin-trace.o] Error 1 make: *** Waiting for unfinished
jobs....
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <1255972296-11500-1-git-send-email-acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This provides a new set of bitmasked headers. A new field is
added in the perf headers that implements a bitmap storing
optional features present in the perf.data file.
Steven Rostedt [Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:43:44 +0000 (15:43 -0400)]
perf tools: Remove all char * typecasts and use const in prototype
The (char *) for all the static strings was a fix for the
symptom and not the disease. The real issue was that the
function prototypes needed to be declared "const char *".
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <20091014194400.635935008@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Steven Rostedt [Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:43:35 +0000 (15:43 -0400)]
perf tools: Handle arrays in print fields for trace parsing
The array used by the ftrace stack events (caller[x]) causes
issues with the parser. This adds code to handle the case, but
it also assumes that the array is of type long.
Note, this is a special case used (currently) only by the ftrace
user and kernel stack records.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <20091014194358.124833639@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Steven Rostedt [Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:43:32 +0000 (15:43 -0400)]
perf tools: Handle print concatenations in event format file
kmem_alloc ftrace event format had a string that was broken up
by two tokens. "string 1" "string 2". This patch lets the parser
be able to handle the concatenation.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <20091014194357.253818714@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Linus Torvalds [Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:36:19 +0000 (15:36 -0700)]
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6:
firewire: sbp2: provide fallback if mgt_ORB_timeout is missing
ieee1394: add documentation entry to MAINTAINERS
ieee1394: update URLs in debugging-via-ohci1394.txt
Linus Torvalds [Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:34:55 +0000 (15:34 -0700)]
Merge branch 'tty-fixes'
* branch 'tty-fixes':
tty: use the new 'flush_delayed_work()' helper to do ldisc flush
workqueue: add 'flush_delayed_work()' to run and wait for delayed work
Make flush_to_ldisc properly handle parallel calls
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6:
watchdog: Fix rio watchdog probe function
sparc64: Set IRQF_DISABLED on LDC channel IRQs.
sparc64: Fix D-cache flushing on swapin from SW devices.
sparc64: Fix niagara2 perf IRQ bits.
Linus Torvalds [Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:30:45 +0000 (15:30 -0700)]
Merge branch 'sh/for-2.6.32' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6
* 'sh/for-2.6.32' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6:
sh: Fix a TRACE_IRQS_OFF typo.
sh: Optimize the setup_rt_frame() I-cache flush.
sh: Populate initial secondary CPU info from boot_cpu_data.
sh: Tidy up SMP cpuinfo.
sh: Use boot_cpu_data for FPU tests in sigcontext paths.
sh: ftrace: Fix up syscall tracepoint support.
sh: force dcache flush if dcache_dirty bit set.
sh: update die() output.
Linus Torvalds [Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:25:35 +0000 (15:25 -0700)]
Merge branch 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
oprofile: warn on freeing event buffer too early
oprofile: fix race condition in event_buffer free
lockdep: Use cpu_clock() for lockstat
Linus Torvalds [Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:24:32 +0000 (15:24 -0700)]
Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86/paravirt: Use normal calling sequences for irq enable/disable
x86: fix kernel panic on 32 bits when profiling
x86: Fix Suspend to RAM freeze on Acer Aspire 1511Lmi laptop
x86, vmi: Mark VMI deprecated and schedule it for removal
Roland McGrath [Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:16:38 +0000 (14:16 -0700)]
x86: linker script syntax nits
The linker scripts grew some use of weirdly wrong linker script syntax.
It happens to work, but it's not what the syntax is documented to be.
Clean it up to use the official syntax.
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> CC: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com>
Stefan Richter [Wed, 7 Oct 2009 22:39:31 +0000 (00:39 +0200)]
firewire: sbp2: provide fallback if mgt_ORB_timeout is missing
The Unit_Characteristics entry of an SBP-2 unit directory is not
mandatory as far as I can tell. If it is missing, we would probably
fail to log in into the target because firewire-sbp2 would not wait for
status after it sent the login request.
The fix moves the cleanup of tgt->mgt_orb_timeout into a place where it
is executed exactly once before login, rather than 0..n times depending
on the target's config ROM. With targets with one or more
Unit_Characteristics entries, the result is the same as before.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
ftrace: Copy ftrace_graph_filter boot param using strlcpy
We are using strncpy in the wrong way to copy the ftrace_graph_filter
boot param because we pass the buffer size instead of the max string
size it can contain (buffer size - 1). The end result might not be
NULL terminated as we are abusing the max string size.
Lets use strlcpy() instead.
Reported-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Use cio_is_console() in io_subchannel_probe to indicate that the
special handling is console specific. As long as there is no other
subchannel for which this might be true, it is misleading to speak
of "early devices". Should more of these devices be introduced,
a cleanup of all console special handling is in order anyway.
Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter <peter.oberparleiter@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Heiko Carstens [Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:43:49 +0000 (12:43 +0200)]
[S390] call home support: fix proc handler
8d65af78 "sysctl: remove "struct file *" argument of ->proc_handler"
removed the struct file argument from all proc_handlers but didn't
change the call home proc handler (or call home was merged later).
Stefan Haberland [Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:43:48 +0000 (12:43 +0200)]
[S390] dasd: use idal for device characteristics
If the rdc_buffer is above 2G we need indirect addresssing so we have
to use an idaw to give the rdc_buffer to the ccw.
If the rdc_buffer is under 2G nothing changes.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Haberland <stefan.haberland@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Michael Holzheu [Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:43:45 +0000 (12:43 +0200)]
[S390] tape390: Fix request queue handling in block driver
When setting a channel attached tape online under Linux 2.6.31, the
"vol_id" process from udev hangs in sync_page():
2 sync_page+144 [0x1dfaac]
3 __wait_on_bit_lock+194 [0x58c23e]
4 __lock_page+116 [0x1df9dc]
5 truncate_inode_pages_range+728 [0x1ed7cc]
6 __blkdev_put+244 [0x25f738]
7 __fput+300 [0x229c4c]
8 filp_close+122 [0x225a3a]
The reason for that is an error in the request queue handling. It can
happen that we fetch a request, but do not process it further because
the number of queued requests exceeds TAPEBLOCK_MIN_REQUEUE.
To fix this, we should call blk_peek_request() instead of
blk_fetch_request() in the while condition and fetch the request in
the loop body afterwards.
Michael Holzheu [Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:43:44 +0000 (12:43 +0200)]
[S390] hypfs: Use subcode 6 if subcode 7 is not available
Hypfs never worked on systems that only provide D204 subcode 6.
In these cases we nevertheless used subcode 7. With this fix, we
use subcode 6, if it is available and the system does not provide
subcode 7.
Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
tracing: Move syscalls metadata handling from arch to core
Most of the syscalls metadata processing is done from arch.
But these operations are mostly generic accross archs. Especially now
that we have a common variable name that expresses the number of
syscalls supported by an arch: NR_syscalls, the only remaining bits
that need to reside in arch is the syscall nr to addr translation.
v2: Compare syscalls symbols only after the "sys" prefix so that we
avoid spurious mismatches with archs that have syscalls wrappers,
in which case syscalls symbols have "SyS" prefixed aliases.
(Reported by: Heiko Carstens)
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Acked-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Paul Mundt [Wed, 14 Oct 2009 06:50:28 +0000 (15:50 +0900)]
sh: Fix a TRACE_IRQS_OFF typo.
The resume_userspace path had TRACE_IRQS_OFF written incorrectly and so
never handled the transition properly. This was fixed once before but
seems to have made it back in the tree. Fix it for good.
Paul Mundt [Wed, 14 Oct 2009 05:21:40 +0000 (14:21 +0900)]
sh: Optimize the setup_rt_frame() I-cache flush.
This only needs to flush the return code via the legacy path, and just
invalidates uselessly otherwise. This makes the behaviour consistent for
all of the trampoline setup paths.
Paul Mundt [Wed, 14 Oct 2009 05:14:30 +0000 (14:14 +0900)]
sh: Populate initial secondary CPU info from boot_cpu_data.
The secondary CPU info was seeing corrupted results due to not entering
all of the setup paths taken by the boot CPU. So we just memcpy() the
boot cpu data over directly, and then fix up the per-CPU bits.
Paul Mackerras [Wed, 14 Oct 2009 05:58:03 +0000 (16:58 +1100)]
perf_event: Adjust frequency and unthrottle for non-group-leader events
The loop in perf_ctx_adjust_freq checks the frequency of sampling
event counters, and adjusts the event interval and unthrottles the
event if required, and resets the interrupt count for the event.
However, at present it only looks at group leaders.
This means that a sampling event that is not a group leader will
eventually get throttled, once its interrupt count reaches
sysctl_perf_event_sample_rate/HZ --- and that is guaranteed to
happen, if the event is active for long enough, since the interrupt
count never gets reset. Once it is throttled it never gets
unthrottled, so it basically just stops working at that point.
This fixes it by making perf_ctx_adjust_freq use ctx->event_list
rather than ctx->group_list. The existing spin_lock/spin_unlock
around the loop makes it unnecessary to put rcu_read_lock/
rcu_read_unlock around the list_for_each_entry_rcu().
Reported-by: Mark W. Krentel <krentel@cs.rice.edu> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <19157.26731.855609.165622@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Jiri Olsa [Tue, 13 Oct 2009 20:33:53 +0000 (16:33 -0400)]
tracing: Enable records during the module load
I was debuging some module using "function" and "function_graph"
tracers and noticed, that if you load module after you enabled
tracing, the module's hooks will convert only to NOP instructions.
The attached patch enables modules' hooks if there's function trace
allready on, thus allowing to trace module functions.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <20091013203425.896285120@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Steven Rostedt [Tue, 13 Oct 2009 20:33:50 +0000 (16:33 -0400)]
function-graph/x86: Replace unbalanced ret with jmp
The function graph tracer replaces the return address with a hook
to trace the exit of the function call. This hook will finish by
returning to the real location the function should return to.
But the current implementation uses a ret to jump to the real
return location. This causes a imbalance between calls and ret.
That is the original function does a call, the ret goes to the
handler and then the handler does a ret without a matching call.
Although the function graph tracer itself still breaks the branch
predictor by replacing the original ret, by using a second ret and
causing an imbalance, it breaks the predictor even more.
This patch replaces the ret with a jmp to keep the calls and ret
balanced. I tested this on one box and it showed a 1.7% increase in
performance. Another box only showed a small 0.3% increase. But no
box that I tested this on showed a decrease in performance by
making this change.
Linus Torvalds [Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:21:33 +0000 (10:21 -0700)]
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block:
cciss: Add cciss_allow_hpsa module parameter
cciss: Fix multiple calls to pci_release_regions
blk-settings: fix function parameter kernel-doc notation
writeback: kill space in debugfs item name
writeback: account IO throttling wait as iowait
elv_iosched_store(): fix strstrip() misuse
cfq-iosched: avoid probable slice overrun when idling
cfq-iosched: apply bool value where we return 0/1
cfq-iosched: fix think time allowed for seekers
cfq-iosched: fix the slice residual sign
cfq-iosched: abstract out the 'may this cfqq dispatch' logic
block: use proper BLK_RW_ASYNC in blk_queue_start_tag()
block: Seperate read and write statistics of in_flight requests v2
block: get rid of kblock_schedule_delayed_work()
cfq-iosched: fix possible problem with jiffies wraparound
cfq-iosched: fix issue with rq-rq merging and fifo list ordering
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-fixes:
kbuild: revert "save ARCH & CROSS_COMPILE ..."
warn about use of uninstalled kernel headers
kbuild: mkcompile_h: trivial cleanups
kbuild: fix warning when domainname is not available
kbuild: Fix size_append issue for bzip2/lzma kernel
kbuild,scripts: use non-builtin echo for '-e'
kbuild: fix the binrpm-pkg target to work with KBUILD_OUTPUT set
Ingo Molnar [Mon, 12 Oct 2009 14:22:46 +0000 (16:22 +0200)]
headers: Fix build after <linux/sched.h> removal
Commit d43c36dc6b357fa1806800f18aa30123c747a6d1 ("headers: remove
sched.h from interrupt.h") left some build errors in some configurations
due to drivers having depended on getting header files "accidentally".
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
[ Combined several one-liners from Ingo into one single patch - Linus ] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Linus Torvalds [Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:10:33 +0000 (10:10 -0700)]
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/hid
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/hid:
HID: fix possible deadlock in hidraw_read
HID: fix kerneldoc comment for hid_input_report()
HID: add __init/__exit macros to twinhan.c
Linus Torvalds [Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:10:18 +0000 (10:10 -0700)]
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6:
ALSA: hda - Allow all formats as default for Nvidia HDMI
ALSA: aaci: ARM1176 aaci-pl041 AC97 register read timeout
ALSA: hda - Fix volume-knob setup for Dell laptops with STAC9228
ALSA: hda - Fix mute sound with STAC9227/9228 codecs
ALSA: bt87x - Add a whitelist for Pinnacle PCTV (11bd:0012)
ALSA: hda - Fix overflow of spec->init_verbs in patch_realtek.c
ALSA: ice1724 - Make call to set hw params succeed on ESI Juli@
ALSA: ice1724: Fix surround on Chaintech AV-710
ALSA: hda - Add full rates/formats support for Nvidia HDMI
Linus Torvalds [Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:05:36 +0000 (10:05 -0700)]
Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs-2.6
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs-2.6:
ext3: Update documentation about ext3 quota mount options
ext3: Don't update superblock write time when filesystem is read-only
Linus Torvalds [Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:04:40 +0000 (10:04 -0700)]
Merge git://git.infradead.org/~dwmw2/iommu-2.6.32
* git://git.infradead.org/~dwmw2/iommu-2.6.32:
x86: Move pci_iommu_init to rootfs_initcall()
Run pci_apply_final_quirks() sooner.
Mark pci_apply_final_quirks() __init rather than __devinit
Rename pci_init() to pci_apply_final_quirks(), move it to quirks.c
intel-iommu: Yet another BIOS workaround: Isoch DMAR unit with no TLB space
intel-iommu: Decode (and ignore) RHSA entries
intel-iommu: Make "Unknown DMAR structure" message more informative
Takashi Iwai [Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:07:59 +0000 (16:07 +0200)]
ALSA: hda - Allow all formats as default for Nvidia HDMI
In the commit f0613d5752d8f7d1d02e6d40947f38877fdf9c90
ALSA: hda - Add full rates/formats support for Nvidia HDMI
the flag LIMITIED_RATE_FMT_SUPPORT was set as default, as I forgot
to clear before commit.
After a reboot on an ARM1176 which amounts to a softreset, it has been
noted that the ALSA driver does not get registered and the probe fails
with the error "aaci-pl041 fpga:04: ac97 read back fail". In the process
of reading from a register the SL1TxBusy bit is set indicating that the
transceiver is busy and remains so until the default timeout occurs.
Set the Power down register 0x26 to an arbitrary value as specified in
the PL041 manual (page: 3-18) so that AACISL1TX/AACISL2TX registers take
their default state.
Signed-off-by: Philby John <pjohn@in.mvista.com> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>