Impact: name change of unlikely tracer and profiler
Ingo Molnar suggested changing the config from UNLIKELY_PROFILE
to BRANCH_PROFILING. I never did like the "unlikely" name so I
went one step farther, and renamed all the unlikely configurations
to a "BRANCH" variant.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: fix bootup crash
the branch tracer missed arch/x86/vdso/vclock_gettime.c from
disabling tracing, which caused such bootup crashes:
[ 201.840097] init[1]: segfault at 7fffed3fe7c0 ip 00007fffed3fea2e sp 000077
also clean up the ugly ifdefs in arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_64.c by
creating DISABLE_UNLIKELY_PROFILE facility for code to turn off
instrumentation on a per file basis.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: new unlikely/likely profiler
Andrew Morton recently suggested having an in-kernel way to profile
likely and unlikely macros. This patch achieves that goal.
When configured, every(*) likely and unlikely macro gets a counter attached
to it. When the condition is hit, the hit and misses of that condition
are recorded. These numbers can later be retrieved by:
/debugfs/tracing/profile_likely - All likely markers
/debugfs/tracing/profile_unlikely - All unlikely markers.
# cat /debug/tracing/profile_unlikely | head
correct incorrect % Function File Line
------- --------- - -------- ---- ----
2167 0 0 do_arch_prctl process_64.c 832
0 0 0 do_arch_prctl process_64.c 804
2670 0 0 IS_ERR err.h 34
71230 5693 7 __switch_to process_64.c 673
76919 0 0 __switch_to process_64.c 639
43184 33743 43 __switch_to process_64.c 624
12740 64181 83 __switch_to process_64.c 594
12740 64174 83 __switch_to process_64.c 590
# cat /debug/tracing/profile_unlikely | \
awk '{ if ($3 > 25) print $0; }' |head -20
44963 35259 43 __switch_to process_64.c 624
12762 67454 84 __switch_to process_64.c 594
12762 67447 84 __switch_to process_64.c 590
1478 595 28 syscall_get_error syscall.h 51
0 2821 100 syscall_trace_leave ptrace.c 1567
0 1 100 native_smp_prepare_cpus smpboot.c 1237
86338 265881 75 calc_delta_fair sched_fair.c 408
210410 108540 34 calc_delta_mine sched.c 1267
0 54550 100 sched_info_queued sched_stats.h 222
51899 66435 56 pick_next_task_fair sched_fair.c 1422
6 10 62 yield_task_fair sched_fair.c 982
7325 2692 26 rt_policy sched.c 144
0 1270 100 pre_schedule_rt sched_rt.c 1261
1268 48073 97 pick_next_task_rt sched_rt.c 884
0 45181 100 sched_info_dequeued sched_stats.h 177
0 15 100 sched_move_task sched.c 8700
0 15 100 sched_move_task sched.c 8690
53167 33217 38 schedule sched.c 4457
0 80208 100 sched_info_switch sched_stats.h 270
30585 49631 61 context_switch sched.c 2619
# cat /debug/tracing/profile_likely | awk '{ if ($3 > 25) print $0; }'
39900 36577 47 pick_next_task sched.c 4397
20824 15233 42 switch_mm mmu_context_64.h 18
0 7 100 __cancel_work_timer workqueue.c 560
617 66484 99 clocksource_adjust timekeeping.c 456
0 346340 100 audit_syscall_exit auditsc.c 1570
38 347350 99 audit_get_context auditsc.c 732
0 345244 100 audit_syscall_entry auditsc.c 1541
38 1017 96 audit_free auditsc.c 1446
0 1090 100 audit_alloc auditsc.c 862
2618 1090 29 audit_alloc auditsc.c 858
0 6 100 move_masked_irq migration.c 9
1 198 99 probe_sched_wakeup trace_sched_switch.c 58
2 2 50 probe_wakeup trace_sched_wakeup.c 227
0 2 100 probe_wakeup_sched_switch trace_sched_wakeup.c 144
4514 2090 31 __grab_cache_page filemap.c 2149
12882 228786 94 mapping_unevictable pagemap.h 50
4 11 73 __flush_cpu_slab slub.c 1466
627757 330451 34 slab_free slub.c 1731
2959 61245 95 dentry_lru_del_init dcache.c 153
946 1217 56 load_elf_binary binfmt_elf.c 904
102 82 44 disk_put_part genhd.h 206
1 1 50 dst_gc_task dst.c 82
0 19 100 tcp_mss_split_point tcp_output.c 1126
As you can see by the above, there's a bit of work to do in rethinking
the use of some unlikelys and likelys. Note: the unlikely case had 71 hits
that were more than 25%.
Note: After submitting my first version of this patch, Andrew Morton
showed me a version written by Daniel Walker, where I picked up
the following ideas from:
1) Using __builtin_constant_p to avoid profiling fixed values.
2) Using __FILE__ instead of instruction pointers.
3) Using the preprocessor to stop all profiling of likely
annotations from vsyscall_64.c.
Thanks to Andrew Morton, Arjan van de Ven, Theodore Tso and Ingo Molnar
for their feed back on this patch.
(*) Not ever unlikely is recorded, those that are used by vsyscalls
(a few of them) had to have profiling disabled.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: Cleanups on the boot tracer and ftrace
This patch bring some cleanups about the boot tracer headers. The
functions and structures of this tracer have nothing related to ftrace
and should have so their own header file.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: enable/disable ring buffer recording API added
Several kernel developers have requested that there be a way to stop
recording into the ring buffers with a simple switch that can also
be enabled from userspace. This patch addes a new kernel API to the
ring buffers called:
tracing_on()
tracing_off()
When tracing_off() is called, all ring buffers will not be able to record
into their buffers.
tracing_on() will enable the ring buffers again.
These two act like an on/off switch. That is, there is no counting of the
number of times tracing_off or tracing_on has been called.
A new file is added to the debugfs/tracing directory called
tracing_on
This allows for userspace applications to also flip the switch.
echo 0 > debugfs/tracing/tracing_on
disables the tracing.
echo 1 > /debugfs/tracing/tracing_on
enables it.
Note, this does not disable or enable any tracers. It only sets or clears
a flag that needs to be set in order for the ring buffers to write to
their buffers. It is a global flag, and affects all ring buffers.
The buffers start out with tracing_on enabled.
There are now three flags that control recording into the buffers:
tracing_on: which affects all ring buffer tracers.
buffer->record_disabled: which affects an allocated buffer, which may be set
if an anomaly is detected, and tracing is disabled.
cpu_buffer->record_disabled: which is set by tracing_stop() or if an
anomaly is detected. tracing_start can not reenable this if
an anomaly occurred.
The userspace debugfs/tracing/tracing_enabled is implemented with
tracing_stop() but the user space code can not enable it if the kernel
called tracing_stop().
Userspace can enable the tracing_on even if the kernel disabled it.
It is just a switch used to stop tracing if a condition was hit.
tracing_on is not for protecting critical areas in the kernel nor is
it for stopping tracing if an anomaly occurred. This is because userspace
can reenable it at any time.
Side effect: With this patch, I discovered a dead variable in ftrace.c
called tracing_on. This patch removes it.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
* 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
sched: release buddies on yield
fix for account_group_exec_runtime(), make sure ->signal can't be freed under rq->lock
sched: clean up debug info
* 'drm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6:
drm/i915: Move legacy breadcrumb out of the reserved status page area
drm/i915: Filter pci devices based on PCI_CLASS_DISPLAY_VGA
drm/radeon: map registers at load time
drm: Remove infrastructure for supporting i915's vblank swapping.
i915: Remove racy delayed vblank swap ioctl.
i915: Don't whine when pci_enable_msi() fails.
i915: Don't attempt to short-circuit object_wait_rendering by checking domains.
i915: Clean up sarea pointers on leavevt
i915: Save/restore MCHBAR_RENDER_STANDBY on GM965/GM45
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6:
dsa: fix master interface allmulti/promisc handling
dsa: fix skb->pkt_type when mac address of slave interface differs
net: fix setting of skb->tail in skb_recycle_check()
net: fix /proc/net/snmp as memory corruptor
mac80211: fix a buffer overrun in station debug code
netfilter: payload_len is be16, add size of struct rather than size of pointer
ipv6: fix ip6_mr_init error path
[4/4] dca: fixup initialization dependency
[3/4] I/OAT: fix async_tx.callback checking
[2/4] I/OAT: fix dma_pin_iovec_pages() error handling
[1/4] I/OAT: fix channel resources free for not allocated channels
ssb: Fix DMA-API compilation for non-PCI systems
SSB: hide empty sub menu
vlan: Fix typos in proc output string
[netdrvr] usb/hso: Cleanup rfkill error handling
sfc: Correct address of gPXE boot configuration in EEPROM
el3_common_init() should be __devinit, not __init
hso: rfkill type should be WWAN
mlx4_en: Start port error flow bug fix
af_key: mark policy as dead before destroying
Impact: add infrastructure for function-return tracing
Add low level support for ftrace return tracing.
This plug-in stores return addresses on the thread_info structure of
the current task.
The index of the current return address is initialized when the task
is the first one (init) and when a process forks (the child). It is
not needed when a task does a sys_execve because after this syscall,
it still needs to return on the kernel functions it called.
Note that the code of return_to_handler has been suggested by Steven
Rostedt as almost all of the ideas of improvements in this V3.
For purpose of security, arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c is not traced
because __switch_to() changes the current task during its execution.
That could cause inconsistency in the stored return address of this
function even if I didn't have any crash after testing with tracing on
this function enabled.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This fixes hangs on 855-class hardware by avoiding double attachment of the
driver due to the stub second head device having the same pci id as the real
device.
Other DRM drivers probably want this treatment as well, but I'm applying it
just to this one for safety. But we should clean up the drm_pciids.h mess
now so that each driver has its own pci id list header in its own directory.
Lets do that in the next release.
Signed-off-by: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
It's not used in any other drivers, and doesn't look like it will be from
drm.git master.
Signed-off-by: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Impact: fix hang/crash on ia64 under high load
This is ugly, but the simplest patch by far.
Unlike other similar routines, account_group_exec_runtime() could be
called "implicitly" from within scheduler after exit_notify(). This
means we can race with the parent doing release_task(), we can't just
check ->signal != NULL.
Change __exit_signal() to do spin_unlock_wait(&task_rq(tsk)->lock)
before __cleanup_signal() to make sure ->signal can't be freed under
task_rq(tsk)->lock. Note that task_rq_unlock_wait() doesn't care
about the case when tsk changes cpu/rq under us, this should be OK.
Thanks to Ingo who nacked my previous buggy patch.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Reported-by: Doug Chapman <doug.chapman@hp.com>
This fixes compilation of the SSB DMA-API code on non-PCI platforms.
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6:
ALSA: hda - Make the HP EliteBook 8530p use AD1884A model laptop
ALSA: gusextreme: Fix build errors
ALSA: hdsp: check for iobox and upload firmware during ioctl
ALSA: HDSP: check for io box before uploading firmware
ALSA: hda - Add another HP model (6730s) for AD1884A
alsa: fix snd_BUG_on() and friends
ALSA: hda - Add a quirk for MEDION MD96630
ALSA: hda - Limit the number of GPIOs show in proc
This patch reverts the following three commits which convert libata to
use block layer tagging.
43a49cbdf3e013e13bf62fca5ccf97
Although using block layer tagging is the right direction, due to the
tight coupling among tag number, data structure allocation and
hardware command slot allocation, libata doesn't work correctly with
the current conversion.
The biggest problem is guaranteeing that tag 0 is always used for
non-NCQ commands. Due to the way blk-tag is implemented and how SCSI
starts and finishes requests, such guarantee can't be made. I'm not
sure whether this would actually break any low level driver but it
doesn't look like a good idea to break such assumption given the
frailty of ATA controllers.
So, for the time being, keep using the old dumb in-libata qc
allocation.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Jens Axobe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'cpus4096' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
cpumask: introduce new API, without changing anything, v3
cpumask: new API, v2
cpumask: introduce new API, without changing anything
Impact: cleanup
Clean up based on feedback from Andrew Morton and others:
- change to inline functions instead of macros
- add __init to bootmem method
- add a missing debug check
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Previously I assumed that the receive queues of candidates don't
change during the GC. This is only half true, nothing can be received
from the queues (see comment in unix_gc()), but buffers could be added
through the other half of the socket pair, which may still have file
descriptors referring to it.
This can result in inc_inflight_move_tail() erronously increasing the
"inflight" counter for a unix socket for which dec_inflight() wasn't
previously called. This in turn can trigger the "BUG_ON(total_refs <
inflight_refs)" in a later garbage collection run.
Fix this by only manipulating the "inflight" counter for sockets which
are candidates themselves. Duplicating the file references in
unix_attach_fds() is also needed to prevent a socket becoming a
candidate for GC while the skb that contains it is not yet queued.
Reported-by: Andrea Bittau <a.bittau@cs.ucl.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
CC: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Currently, all existing users of cnt32_to_63() are fine since the CPU
architectures where it is used don't do read access reordering, and user
mode preemption is disabled already. It is nevertheless a good idea to
better elaborate usage requirements wrt preemption, and use an explicit
memory barrier on SMP to avoid different CPUs accessing the counter
value in the wrong order. On UP a simple compiler barrier is
sufficient.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@marvell.com>
Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fix the __pfn_to_page(pfn) macro so that it doesn't evaluate its
argument twice in the CONFIG_DISCONTIGMEM=y case, because 'pfn' may
be a result of a funtion call having side effects.
For example, the hibernation code applies pfn_to_page(pfn) to the
result of a function returning the pfn corresponding to the next set
bit in a bitmap and the current bit position is modified on each
call. This leads to "interesting" failures for CONFIG_DISCONTIGMEM=y
due to the current behavior of __pfn_to_page(pfn).
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6:
PCI: fix range check on mmapped sysfs resource files
PCI: remove excess kernel-doc notation
PCI: annotate return value of pci_ioremap_bar with __iomem
PCI: fix VPD limit quirk for Broadcom 5708S
Tune SD_MC_INIT the same way as SD_CPU_INIT:
unset SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE, and set SD_WAKE_BALANCE.
This improves vmark by 5%:
vmark 132102 125968 125497 messages/sec avg 127855.66 .984
vmark 139404 131719 131272 messages/sec avg 134131.66 1.033
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
# *DOCUMENTATION*
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6:
net: Fix recursive descent in __scm_destroy().
iwl3945: fix deadlock on suspend
iwl3945: do not send scan command if channel count zero
iwl3945: clear scanning bits upon failure
ath5k: correct handling of rx status fields
zd1211rw: Add 2 device IDs
Fix logic error in rfkill_check_duplicity
iwlagn: avoid sleep in softirq context
iwlwifi: clear scanning bits upon failure
Revert "ath5k: honor FIF_BCN_PRBRESP_PROMISC in STA mode"
tcp: Fix recvmsg MSG_PEEK influence of blocking behavior.
netfilter: netns ct: walk netns list under RTNL
ipv6: fix run pending DAD when interface becomes ready
net/9p: fix printk format warnings
net: fix packet socket delivery in rx irq handler
xfrm: Have af-specific init_tempsel() initialize family field of temporary selector
sound/pci/pcxhr/pcxhr_core.c: In function 'pcxhr_set_pipe_cmd_params':
sound/pci/pcxhr/pcxhr_core.c:700: warning: statement with no effect
sound/pci/pcxhr/pcxhr_core.c:706: warning: statement with no effect
sound/pci/pcxhr/pcxhr_core.c:710: warning: statement with no effect
Due to
try to fix this, and be more conventional about the empty stubs.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block:
Block: use round_jiffies_up()
Add round_jiffies_up and related routines
block: fix __blkdev_get() for removable devices
generic-ipi: fix the smp_mb() placement
blk: move blk_delete_timer call in end_that_request_last
block: add timer on blkdev_dequeue_request() not elv_next_request()
bio: define __BIOVEC_PHYS_MERGEABLE
block: remove unused ll_new_mergeable()
__scm_destroy() walks the list of file descriptors in the scm_fp_list
pointed to by the scm_cookie argument.
Those, in turn, can close sockets and invoke __scm_destroy() again.
There is nothing which limits how deeply this can occur.
The idea for how to fix this is from Linus. Basically, we do all of
the fput()s at the top level by collecting all of the scm_fp_list
objects hit by an fput(). Inside of the initial __scm_destroy() we
keep running the list until it is empty.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Fix the hrtimer_add_expires_ns() function. It should take a 'u64 ns' argument,
but rather takes an 'unsigned long ns' argument - which might only be 32-bits.
On FRV, this results in the kernel locking up because hrtimer_forward() passes
the result of a 64-bit multiplication to this function, for which the compiler
discards the top 32-bits - something that didn't happen when ktime_add_ns() was
called directly.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This adds three helpers:
fat_make_attrs() - makes FAT attributes from inode.
fat_make_mode() - makes mode_t from FAT attributes.
fat_save_attrs() - saves FAT attributes to inode.
Then this replaces: MSDOS_MKMODE() by fat_make_mode(), fat_attr() by
fat_make_attrs(), ->i_attrs = attr & ATTR_UNUSED by fat_save_attrs().
And for root inode, those is used with ATTR_DIR instead of bogus
ATTR_NONE.
Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This splits __KERNEL__ stuff in include/msdos_fs.h into fs/fat/fat.h.
Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
__scm_destroy() walks the list of file descriptors in the scm_fp_list
pointed to by the scm_cookie argument.
Those, in turn, can close sockets and invoke __scm_destroy() again.
There is nothing which limits how deeply this can occur.
The idea for how to fix this is from Linus. Basically, we do all of
the fput()s at the top level by collecting all of the scm_fp_list
objects hit by an fput(). Inside of the initial __scm_destroy() we
keep running the list until it is empty.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Impact: moving of function prototypes into own header file
ftrace.h is too big of a file for hardirq.h, and some archs will fail
to build because of the include dependencies not being met.
This patch pulls out the required prototypes for hardirq.h into a smaller
and safer ftrace_irq.h file.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: introduce new APIs
We want to deprecate cpumasks on the stack, as we are headed for
gynormous numbers of CPUs. Eventually, we want to head towards an
undefined 'struct cpumask' so they can never be declared on stack.
1) New cpumask functions which take pointers instead of copies.
(cpus_* -> cpumask_*)
2) Several new helpers to reduce requirements for temporary cpumasks
(cpumask_first_and, cpumask_next_and, cpumask_any_and)
3) Helpers for declaring cpumasks on or offstack for large NR_CPUS
(cpumask_var_t, alloc_cpumask_var and free_cpumask_var)
4) 'struct cpumask' for explicitness and to mark new-style code.
5) Make iterator functions stop at nr_cpu_ids (a runtime constant),
not NR_CPUS for time efficiency and for smaller dynamic allocations
in future.
6) cpumask_copy() so we can allocate less than a full cpumask eventually
(for alloc_cpumask_var), and so we can eliminate the 'struct cpumask'
definition eventually.
7) work_on_cpu() helper for doing task on a CPU, rather than saving old
cpumask for current thread and manipulating it.
8) smp_call_function_many() which is smp_call_function_mask() except
taking a cpumask pointer.
Note that this patch simply introduces the new functions and leaves
the obsolescent ones in place. This is to simplify the transition
patches.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This patch (as1158b) adds round_jiffies_up() and friends. These
routines work like the analogous round_jiffies() functions, except
that they will never round down.
The new routines will be useful for timeouts where we don't care
exactly when the timer expires, provided it doesn't expire too soon.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Define __BIOVEC_PHYS_MERGEABLE as the default implementation of
BIOVEC_PHYS_MERGEABLE, so that its available for reuse within an
arch-specific definition of BIOVEC_PHYS_MERGEABLE.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Impact: add way to quickly start stop tracing from the kernel
This patch adds a soft stop and start to the trace. This simply
disables function tracing via the ftrace_disabled flag, and
disables the trace buffers to prevent recording. The tracing
code may still be executed, but the trace will not be recorded.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: quick start and stop of function tracer
This patch adds a way to disable the function tracer quickly without
the need to run kstop_machine. It adds a new variable called
function_trace_stop which will stop the calls to functions from mcount
when set. This is just an on/off switch and does not handle recursion
like preempt_disable().
It's main purpose is to help other tracers/debuggers start and stop tracing
fuctions without the need to call kstop_machine.
The config option HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACE_MCOUNT_TEST is added for archs
that implement the testing of the function_trace_stop in the mcount
arch dependent code. Otherwise, the test is done in the C code.
x86 is the only arch at the moment that supports this.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: improve wakeup affinity on NUMA systems, tweak SMP systems
Given the fixes+tweaks to the wakeup-buddy code, re-tweak the domain
balancing defaults on NUMA and SMP systems.
Turn on SD_WAKE_AFFINE which was off on x86 NUMA - there's no reason
why we would not want to have wakeup affinity across nodes as well.
(we already do this in the standard NUMA template.)
lat_ctx on a NUMA box is particularly happy about this change:
before:
| phoenix:~/l> ./lat_ctx -s 0 2
| "size=0k ovr=2.60
| 2 5.70
after:
| phoenix:~/l> ./lat_ctx -s 0 2
| "size=0k ovr=2.65
| 2 2.07
a 2.75x speedup.
pipe-test is similarly happy about it too:
| phoenix:~/sched-tests> ./pipe-test
| 18.26 usecs/loop.
| 14.70 usecs/loop.
| 14.38 usecs/loop.
| 10.55 usecs/loop. # +WAKE_AFFINE on domain0+domain1
| 8.63 usecs/loop.
| 8.59 usecs/loop.
| 9.03 usecs/loop.
| 8.94 usecs/loop.
| 8.96 usecs/loop.
| 8.63 usecs/loop.
Also:
- disable SD_BALANCE_NEWIDLE on NUMA and SMP domains (keep it for siblings)
- enable SD_WAKE_BALANCE on SMP domains
Sysbench+postgresql improves all around the board, quite significantly:
.28-rc3-11474e2c .28-rc3-11474e2c-tune
-------------------------------------------------
1: 571 688 +17.08%
2: 1236 1206 -2.55%
4: 2381 2642 +9.89%
8: 4958 5164 +3.99%
16: 9580 9574 -0.07%
32: 7128 8118 +12.20%
64: 7342 8266 +11.18%
128: 7342 8064 +8.95%
256: 7519 7884 +4.62%
512: 7350 7731 +4.93%
-------------------------------------------------
SUM: 55412 59341 +6.62%
So it's a win both for the runup portion, the peak area and the tail.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
