Now we have high res timers there is less of a reason for a high HZ value.
Furthermore I think there a few reasons we should reduce HZ to 100:
- Timer interrupt overhead. While this overhead is small, there are
applications that are very sensitive to jitter (eg some HPC apps).
- Issues with the timer wheel code. When coming out of NO_HZ idle we work our
way through the timer code one tick at a time. If we have been idle a long
time, this adds up - I sometimes see milliseconds of time spent in that
loop.
Long term we should fix the timer wheel algorithm, but for now if we reduce
HZ then we reduce the amount of work the timer code has to do when coming
out of idle.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Token what? Lets save some space in our powerpc kernels and remove token
ring support.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Machines with acenic adapters are rare these days, so we may as well make it
a module. Cramfs is also very rarely used so we can make it a module.
Together this saves 143kB on a 64bit compile:
text data bss dec hex filename
8247176 1729404 1221988 11198568 aae068 vmlinux~
8134997 1727588 1188836 11051421 a8a19d vmlinux
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
It's possible to set CONFIG_XICS without CONFIG_PCI_MSI. When that happens,
the kernel fails to build with
arch/powerpc/platforms/built-in.o: In function `.xics_startup':
xics.c:(.text+0x12f60): undefined reference to `.unmask_msi_irq' make: ***
[.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1
Furthermore, as noted by Benjamin Herrenschmidt, "CONFIG_XICS should be
made invisible and selected by PSERIES."
This patch fixes PSERIES to select both options
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel[at]csn.ul.ie>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
The wrong variable was returned in the case of an error.
Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>
Cc: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
The Collaborative Memory Manager (CMM) module allocates individual pages
over time that are not migratable. On a long running system this can
severely impact the ability to find enough pages to support a hotplug
memory remove operation.
This patch adds a memory isolation notifier and a memory hotplug notifier.
The memory isolation notifier will return the number of pages found in
the range specified. This is used to determine if all of the used pages
in a pageblock are owned by the balloon (or other entities in the notifier
chain). The hotplug notifier will free pages in the range which is to be
removed. The priority of this hotplug notifier is low so that it will be
called near last, this helps avoids removing loaned pages in operations
that fail due to other handlers.
CMM activity will be halted when hotplug remove operations are active and
resume activity after a delay period to allow the hypervisor time to
adjust.
Signed-off-by: Robert Jennings <rcj@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Brian King <brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Gerald Schaefer <geralds@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
* 'cpumask-cleanups' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus:
cpumask: rename tsk_cpumask to tsk_cpus_allowed
cpumask: don't recommend set_cpus_allowed hack in Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt
cpumask: avoid dereferencing struct cpumask
cpumask: convert drivers/idle/i7300_idle.c to cpumask_var_t
cpumask: use modern cpumask style in drivers/scsi/fcoe/fcoe.c
cpumask: avoid deprecated function in mm/slab.c
cpumask: use cpu_online in kernel/perf_event.c
* 'omap-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tmlind/linux-omap-2.6:
OMAP3: serial - fix bug introduced in
mfd: twl: fix twl4030 rename for remaining driver, board files
USB ehci: replace mach header with plat
omap3: Allow EHCI to be built on OMAP3
* 'upstream' of git://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-linus: (71 commits)
MIPS: Lasat: Fix botched changes to sysctl code.
RTC: rtc-cmos.c: Fix warning on MIPS
MIPS: Cleanup random differences beween lmo and Linus' kernel.
MIPS: No longer hardwire CONFIG_EMBEDDED to y
MIPS: Fix and enhance built-in kernel command line
MIPS: eXcite: Remove platform.
MIPS: Loongson: Cleanups of serial port support
MIPS: Lemote 2F: Suspend CS5536 MFGPT Timer
MIPS: Excite: move iodev_remove to .devexit.text
MIPS: Lasat: Convert to proc_fops / seq_file
MIPS: Cleanup signal code initialization
MIPS: Modularize COP2 handling
MIPS: Move EARLY_PRINTK to Kconfig.debug
MIPS: Yeeloong 2F: Cleanup reset logic using the new ec_write function
MIPS: Yeeloong 2F: Add LID open event as the wakeup event
MIPS: Yeeloong 2F: Add basic EC operations
MIPS: Move several variables from .bss to .init.data
MIPS: Tracing: Make function graph tracer work with -mmcount-ra-address
MIPS: Tracing: Reserve $12(t0) for mcount-ra-address of gcc 4.5
MIPS: Tracing: Make ftrace for MIPS work without -fno-omit-frame-pointer
...
* 'next-spi' of git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux-2.6:
spi: spi_txx9.c: use resource_size()
spi: spi_sh_sci.c: use resource_size()
spi: spi_mpc8xxx.c: use resource_size()
spi: spi_bfin5xx.c: use resource_size()
spi: atmel_spi.c: use resource_size()
spi: Add s3c64xx SPI Controller driver
atmel_spi: fix dma addr calculation for len > BUFFER_SIZE
spi_s3c24xx: add FIQ pseudo-DMA support
spi: controller driver for Designware SPI core
spidev: add proper section markers
spidev: use DECLARE_BITMAP instead of declaring the array
* 'for-linus' of master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm:
PCMCIA: fix pxa2xx_lubbock modular build error
[ARM] Update mach-types
[ARM] pxa: fix no reference of cpu_is_pxa25x() in devices.c
[ARM] pxa/cm-x300: add PWM backlight support
revert "[ARM] pxa/cm-x300: add PWM backlight support"
ARM: use flush_kernel_dcache_area() for dmabounce
ARM: add size argument to __cpuc_flush_dcache_page
ARM: 5848/1: kill flush_ioremap_region()
ARM: cache-l2x0: make better use of background cache handling
ARM: cache-l2x0: avoid taking spinlock for every iteration
[ARM] Kirkwood: Add LaCie Network Space v2 support
ARM: dove: fix the mm mmu flags of the pj4 procinfo
* 'for-linus' of git://gitserver.sunplusct.com/linux-2.6-score:
score: include asm-generic/param.h in asm/delay.h.
score: fixed pfn_valid define.
score: add flush_dcahce_page and PG_dcache_dirty define
Proper Posix O_SYNC handling only made it into 2.6.33, not 2.6.32.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Add pseudo-DMA by FIQ to the S3C24XX SPI driver. This allows the driver
to get DMA-like performance where there are either no free DMA channels or
when doing transfers that required both TX and RX data paths.
Since this patch requires the addition of an assembly file to hold the FIQ
code, we rename the module (instead of adding a rename of the .c file to
this patch). We expect most users are loading this via udev and thus
there should be no change to the userland configuration.
Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben@simtec.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Simtec Linux Team <linux@simtec.co.uk>
Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
* 'for-33' of git://repo.or.cz/linux-kbuild: (29 commits)
net: fix for utsrelease.h moving to generated
gen_init_cpio: fixed fwrite warning
kbuild: fix make clean after mismerge
kbuild: generate modules.builtin
genksyms: properly consider EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL{,_GPL}()
score: add asm/asm-offsets.h wrapper
unifdef: update to upstream revision 1.190
kbuild: specify absolute paths for cscope
kbuild: create include/generated in silentoldconfig
scripts/package: deb-pkg: use fakeroot if available
scripts/package: add KBUILD_PKG_ROOTCMD variable
scripts/package: tar-pkg: use tar --owner=root
Kbuild: clean up marker
net: add net_tstamp.h to headers_install
kbuild: move utsrelease.h to include/generated
kbuild: move autoconf.h to include/generated
drop explicit include of autoconf.h
kbuild: move compile.h to include/generated
kbuild: drop include/asm
kbuild: do not check for include/asm-$ARCH
...
Fixed non-conflicting clean merge of modpost.c as per comments from
Stephen Rothwell (modpost.c had grown an include of linux/autoconf.h
that needed to be changed to generated/autoconf.h)
The loop condition is fragile: we compare an unsigned value to zero, and
then decrement it by something larger than one in the loop. All the
callers should be passing in appropriately aligned buffer lengths, but
it's better to just not rely on it, and have some appropriate defensive
loop limits.
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
There's no reason for MIPS to select EMBEDDED. In fact, EMBEDDED makes
MIPS more awkward to deal with because it makes it different to the
majority of architectures for no good reason.
[Ralf: Historically disabling EMBEDDED had hid essential options for many
MIPS platforms such as serial console and forced crap like VGA support
or power managment enabled for platforms where those don't make any sense.
The name of the option is also _very_ missleading so many users don't
select it even where is was required for a functioning kernel.]
Signed-off-by: Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/663/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Currently, MIPS kernels silently overwrite kernel command-line parameters
hardcoded in CONFIG_CMDLINE by the ones received from firmware. Therefore,
using firmware remains the only reliable method to transfer the
command-line parameters, which is not always desirable or convenient, and
the CONFIG_CMDLINE option is thereby effectively rendered useless.
This patch fixes the problem described above and introduces a more flexible
scheme of handling the kernel command line, in a manner identical to what is
currently used for x86. The default behavior, i.e. when CONFIG_CMDLINE_BOOL
is not defined, retains the existing semantics, and firmware command-line
arguments override the hardcoded ones.
[Ralf: I fixed up all the defconfig files so the stay unaffected by this
change.]
Signed-off-by: Dmitri Vorobiev <dmitri.vorobiev@movial.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/689/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
The platform has never been fully merged
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Thomas Koeller <thomas.koeller@baslerweb.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Acked-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Acked-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
This patchs uses a loongson_uart_base variable instead of the
uart_base[] array and adds a new kernel option to avoid to compile
uart_base.c all the time, which will save a little bit of memory for us.
Signed-off-by: Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.orghttp://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/727/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Before putting the Loongson 2F into wait mode, suspend the MFGPT Timer and
after wake-up resume it. This may save some power.
Signed-off-by: Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/706/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
The function iodev_remove is used only wrapped by __devexit_p so define
it using __devexit.
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Cc: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Cc: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/710/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Away with the daemons of ifdef; get ready for future COP2 users.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/708/
Yeeloong 2F netbook has an KB3310B embedded controller to manage the LID
action. When the LID is closed or opened a SCI interrupt is sent out and
the corresponding event is saved to an EC register for later query.
Allow the LID open interrupt to wake the processor from wait mode if it is
in the suspend mode.
Signed-off-by: Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/685/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Several static uninitialized variables are used in the scope of __init
functions but are themselves not marked as __initdata. This patch is to put
those variables to where they belong and to reduce the memory footprint a
little bit.
Also, a couple of lines with spaces instead of tabs were fixed.
Signed-off-by: Dmitri Vorobiev <dmitri.vorobiev@movial.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/698/
Acked-by: Florian Fainelli <florian@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
That thread "MIPS: Add option to pass return address location to
_mcount" from "David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>" have added a new
option -mmcount-ra-address to gcc(4.5) for MIPS to transfer the location
of the return address to _mcount.
Benefit from this new feature, function graph tracer on MIPS will be
easier and safer to hijack the return address of the kernel function,
which will save some overhead and make the whole thing more reliable.
In this patch, at first, try to enable the option -mmcount-ra-address in
arch/mips/Makefile with cc-option, if gcc support it, it will be
enabled, otherwise, no side effect.
and then, we need to support this new option of gcc 4.5 and also support
the old gcc versions.
with _mcount in the old gcc versions, it's not easy to get the location
of return address(tracing: add function graph tracer support for MIPS),
so, we do it in a C function: ftrace_get_parent_addr(ftrace.c), but
with -mmcount-ra-address, only several instructions need to get what
we want, so, I put into asm(mcount.S). and also, as the $12(t0) is
used by -mmcount-ra-address for transferring the localtion of return
address to _mcount, we need to save it into the stack and restore it
when enabled dynamic function tracer, 'Cause we have called
"ftrace_call" before "ftrace_graph_caller", which may destroy
$12(t0).
(Thanks to David for providing that -mcount-ra-address and giving the
idea of KBUILD_MCOUNT_RA_ADDRESS, both of them have made the whole
thing more beautiful!)
Signed-off-by: Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Nicholas Mc Guire <der.herr@hofr.at>
Cc: zhangfx@lemote.com
Cc: Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/681/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
A new option -mmcount-ra-address for gcc 4.5 have been sent by David
Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com> in the thread "MIPS: Add option to
pass return address location to _mcount", which help to record the
location of the return address(ra) for the function graph tracer of MIPS
to hijack the return address easier and safer. that option used the
$12(t0) register by default, so, we reserve it for it, and use t1,t2,t3
instead of t0,t1,t2.
Signed-off-by: Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Nicholas Mc Guire <der.herr@hofr.at>
Cc: zhangfx@lemote.com
Cc: Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/680/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
When remove the -fno-omit-frame-pointer, gcc will not save the frame
pointer for us, we need to save one ourselves.
Signed-off-by: Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Nicholas Mc Guire <der.herr@hofr.at>
Cc: zhangfx@lemote.com
Cc: Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/679/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
This patch make function graph tracer work with dynamic function tracer.
To share the source code of dynamic function tracer(MCOUNT_SAVE_REGS),
and avoid restoring the whole saved registers, we need to restore the ra
register from the stack.
(NOTE: This not work with 32bit! need to ensure why!)
Signed-off-by: Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Nicholas Mc Guire <der.herr@hofr.at>
Cc: zhangfx@lemote.com
Cc: Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/678/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
The implementation of function graph tracer for MIPS is a little
different from X86.
in MIPS, gcc(with -pg) only transfer the caller's return address(at) and
the _mcount's return address(ra) to us.
For the kernel part without -mlong-calls:
move at, ra
jal _mcount
For the module part with -mlong-calls:
lui v1, hi16bit_of_mcount
addiu v1, v1, low16bit_of_mcount
move at, ra
jal _mcount
Without -mlong-calls,
if the function is a leaf, it will not save the return address(ra):
ffffffff80101298 <au1k_wait>:
ffffffff80101298: 67bdfff0 daddiu sp,sp,-16
ffffffff8010129c: ffbe0008 sd s8,8(sp)
ffffffff801012a0: 03a0f02d move s8,sp
ffffffff801012a4: 03e0082d move at,ra
ffffffff801012a8: 0c042930 jal ffffffff8010a4c0 <_mcount>
ffffffff801012ac: 00020021 nop
so, we can hijack it directly in _mcount, but if the function is non-leaf, the
return address is saved in the stack.
ffffffff80133030 <copy_process>:
ffffffff80133030: 67bdff50 daddiu sp,sp,-176
ffffffff80133034: ffbe00a0 sd s8,160(sp)
ffffffff80133038: 03a0f02d move s8,sp
ffffffff8013303c: ffbf00a8 sd ra,168(sp)
ffffffff80133040: ffb70098 sd s7,152(sp)
ffffffff80133044: ffb60090 sd s6,144(sp)
ffffffff80133048: ffb50088 sd s5,136(sp)
ffffffff8013304c: ffb40080 sd s4,128(sp)
ffffffff80133050: ffb30078 sd s3,120(sp)
ffffffff80133054: ffb20070 sd s2,112(sp)
ffffffff80133058: ffb10068 sd s1,104(sp)
ffffffff8013305c: ffb00060 sd s0,96(sp)
ffffffff80133060: 03e0082d move at,ra
ffffffff80133064: 0c042930 jal ffffffff8010a4c0 <_mcount>
ffffffff80133068: 00020021 nop
but we can not get the exact stack address(which saved ra) directly in
_mcount, we need to search the content of at register in the stack space
or search the "s{d,w} ra, offset(sp)" instruction in the text. 'Cause we
can not prove there is only a match in the stack space, so, we search
the text instead.
as we can see, if the first instruction above "move at, ra" is not a
store instruction, there should be a leaf function, so we hijack the at
register directly via putting &return_to_handler into it, otherwise, we
search the "s{d,w} ra, offset(sp)" instruction to get the stack offset,
and then the stack address. we use the above copy_process() as an
example, we at last find "ffbf00a8", 0xa8 is the stack offset, we plus
it with s8(fp), that is the stack address, we hijack the content via
writing the &return_to_handler in.
If with -mlong-calls, since there are two more instructions above "move
at, ra", so, we can move the pointer to the position above "lui v1,
hi16bit_of_mcount".
Signed-off-by: Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Nicholas Mc Guire <der.herr@hofr.at>
Cc: zhangfx@lemote.com
Cc: Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/677/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
This patch add a new section for MIPS to record the block of the hardirq
handling for function graph tracer(print_graph_irq) via adding the
__irq_entry annotation to the the entrypoints of the hardirqs(the block
with irq_enter()...irq_exit()).
Thanks goes to Steven & Frederic Weisbecker for their feedbacks.
Signed-off-by: Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Nicholas Mc Guire <der.herr@hofr.at>
Cc: zhangfx@lemote.com
Cc: Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/676/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
With dynamic function tracer, by default, _mcount is defined as an
"empty" function, it returns directly without any more action . When
enabling it in user-space, it will jump to a real tracing
function(ftrace_caller), and do the real job for us.
Differ from the static function tracer, dynamic function tracer provides
two functions ftrace_make_call()/ftrace_make_nop() to enable/disable the
tracing of some indicated kernel functions(set_ftrace_filter).
In the -v4 version, the implementation of this support is basically the same as
X86 version does: _mcount is implemented as an empty function and ftrace_caller
is implemented as a real tracing function respectively.
But in this version, to support module tracing with the help of
-mlong-calls in arch/mips/Makefile:
MODFLAGS += -mlong-calls.
The stuff becomes a little more complex. We need to cope with two
different type of calling to _mcount.
For the kernel part, the calling to _mcount(result of "objdump -hdr
vmlinux"). is like this:
108: 03e0082d move at,ra
10c: 0c000000 jal 0 <fpcsr_pending>
10c: R_MIPS_26 _mcount
10c: R_MIPS_NONE *ABS*
10c: R_MIPS_NONE *ABS*
110: 00020021 nop
For the module with -mlong-calls, it looks like this:
c: 3c030000 lui v1,0x0
c: R_MIPS_HI16 _mcount
c: R_MIPS_NONE *ABS*
c: R_MIPS_NONE *ABS*
10: 64630000 daddiu v1,v1,0
10: R_MIPS_LO16 _mcount
10: R_MIPS_NONE *ABS*
10: R_MIPS_NONE *ABS*
14: 03e0082d move at,ra
18: 0060f809 jalr v1
In the kernel version, there is only one "_mcount" string for every
kernel function, so, we just need to match this one in mcount_regex of
scripts/recordmcount.pl, but in the module version, we need to choose
one of the two to match. Herein, I choose the first one with
"R_MIPS_HI16 _mcount".
and In the kernel verion, without module tracing support, we just need
to replace "jal _mcount" by "jal ftrace_caller" to do real tracing, and
filter the tracing of some kernel functions via replacing it by a nop
instruction.
but as we have described before, the instruction "jal ftrace_caller" only left
32bit length for the address of ftrace_caller, it will fail when calling from
the module space. so, herein, we must replace something else.
the basic idea is loading the address of ftrace_caller to v1 via changing these
two instructions:
lui v1,0x0
addiu v1,v1,0
If we want to enable the tracing, we need to replace the above instructions to:
lui v1, HI_16BIT_ftrace_caller
addiu v1, v1, LOW_16BIT_ftrace_caller
If we want to stop the tracing of the indicated kernel functions, we
just need to replace the "jalr v1" to a nop instruction. but we need to
replace two instructions and encode the above two instructions
oursevles.
Is there a simpler solution? Yes! Here it is, in this version, we put _mcount
and ftrace_caller together, which means the address of _mcount and
ftrace_caller is the same:
_mcount:
ftrace_caller:
j ftrace_stub
nop
...(do real tracing here)...
ftrace_stub:
jr ra
move ra, at
By default, the kernel functions call _mcount, and then jump to ftrace_stub and
return. and when we want to do real tracing, we just need to remove that "j
ftrace_stub", and it will run through the two "nop" instructions and then do
the real tracing job.
what about filtering job? we just need to do this:
lui v1, hi_16bit_of_mcount <--> b 1f (0x10000004)
addiu v1, v1, low_16bit_of_mcount
move at, ra
jalr v1
nop
1f: (rec->ip + 12)
In linux-mips64, there will be some local symbols, whose name are
prefixed by $L, which need to be filtered. thanks goes to Steven for
writing the mips64-specific function_regex.
In a conclusion, with RISC, things becomes easier with such a "stupid"
trick, RISC is something like K.I.S.S, and also, there are lots of
"simple" tricks in the whole ftrace support, thanks goes to Steven and
the other folks for providing such a wonderful tracing framework!
Signed-off-by: Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com>
Cc: Nicholas Mc Guire <der.herr@hofr.at>
Cc: zhangfx@lemote.com
Cc: Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/675/
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
There is an exisiting common ftrace_test_stop_func() in
kernel/trace/ftrace.c, which is used to check the global variable
ftrace_trace_stop to determine whether stop the function tracing.
This patch implepment the MIPS specific one to speedup the procedure.
Thanks goes to Zhang Le for Cleaning it up.
Signed-off-by: Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Nicholas Mc Guire <der.herr@hofr.at>
Cc: zhangfx@lemote.com
Cc: Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/673/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
If -pg of gcc is enabled with CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER=y. a calling to
_mcount will be inserted into each kernel function. so, there is a
possibility to trace the kernel functions in _mcount.
This patch add the MIPS specific _mcount support for static function
tracing. by default, ftrace_trace_function is initialized as
ftrace_stub(an empty function), so, the default _mcount will introduce
very little overhead. after enabling ftrace in user-space, it will jump
to a real tracing function and do static function tracing for us.
and -ffunction-sections is incompatible with -pg, so, disable it when
ftracer is enabled.
Signed-off-by: Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Nicholas Mc Guire <der.herr@hofr.at>
Cc: zhangfx@lemote.com
Cc: Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/672/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
The typename member of struct irq_chip was kept for migration purposes
and is obsolete since more than 2 years. Fix up the leftovers.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
To: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/661/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Loongson 2F supports CPU clock scaling. When put it into wait mode by
setting the frequency as ZERO it will stay in this mode until an external
interrupt wakes the CPU again.
To enable clock scaling support, an external timer of a known stable rate
is required.
Signed-off-by: Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: cpufreq@vger.kernel.org,
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>,
Cc: yanh@lemote.com
Cc: huhb@lemote.com,
Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/660/
Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/751/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
