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  1. Dec 08, 2010
  3. Dec 07, 2010
  5. Dec 06, 2010
    • Masami Hiramatsu's avatar
      kprobes: Use text_poke_smp_batch for unoptimizing · f984ba4e
      Masami Hiramatsu authored 
      

Use text_poke_smp_batch() on unoptimization path for reducing
the number of stop_machine() issues. If the number of
unoptimizing probes is more than MAX_OPTIMIZE_PROBES(=256),
kprobes unoptimizes first MAX_OPTIMIZE_PROBES probes and kicks
optimizer for remaining probes.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMasami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: 2nddept-manager@sdl.hitachi.co.jp
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <20101203095434.2961.22657.stgit@ltc236.sdl.hitachi.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      f984ba4e
    • Masami Hiramatsu's avatar
      kprobes: Use text_poke_smp_batch for optimizing · cd7ebe22
      Masami Hiramatsu authored 
      

Use text_poke_smp_batch() in optimization path for reducing
the number of stop_machine() issues. If the number of optimizing
probes is more than MAX_OPTIMIZE_PROBES(=256), kprobes optimizes
first MAX_OPTIMIZE_PROBES probes and kicks optimizer for
remaining probes.

Changes in v5:
- Use kick_kprobe_optimizer() instead of directly calling
  schedule_delayed_work().
- Rescheduling optimizer outside of kprobe mutex lock.

Changes in v2:
- Allocate code buffer and parameters in arch_init_kprobes()
  instead of using static arraies.
- Merge previous max optimization limit patch into this patch.
  So, this patch introduces upper limit of optimization at
  once.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMasami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: 2nddept-manager@sdl.hitachi.co.jp
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <20101203095428.2961.8994.stgit@ltc236.sdl.hitachi.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      cd7ebe22
    • Masami Hiramatsu's avatar
      x86: Introduce text_poke_smp_batch() for batch-code modifying · 7deb18dc
      Masami Hiramatsu authored 
      

Introduce text_poke_smp_batch(). This function modifies several
text areas with one stop_machine() on SMP. Because calling
stop_machine() is heavy task, it is better to aggregate
text_poke requests.

( Note: I've talked with Rusty about this interface, and
  he would not like to expand stop_machine() interface, since
  it is not for generic use. )

Signed-off-by: default avatarMasami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Acked-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Cc: 2nddept-manager@sdl.hitachi.co.jp
LKML-Reference: <20101203095422.2961.51217.stgit@ltc236.sdl.hitachi.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      7deb18dc
    • Masami Hiramatsu's avatar
      kprobes: Support delayed unoptimizing · 6274de49
      Masami Hiramatsu authored 
      

Unoptimization occurs when a probe is unregistered or disabled,
and is heavy because it recovers instructions by using
stop_machine(). This patch delays unoptimization operations and
unoptimize several probes at once by using
text_poke_smp_batch(). This can avoid unexpected system slowdown
coming from stop_machine().

Changes in v5:
- Split this patch into several cleanup patches and this patch.
- Fix some text_mutex lock miss.
- Use bool instead of int for behavior flags.
- Add additional comment for (un)optimizing path.

Changes in v2:
- Use dynamic allocated buffers and params.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMasami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: 2nddept-manager@sdl.hitachi.co.jp
LKML-Reference: <20101203095409.2961.82733.stgit@ltc236.sdl.hitachi.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      6274de49
    • Chao Xie's avatar
      ARM: 6524/1: GIC irq desciptor bug fix · 87507500
      Chao Xie authored 
      

gic_set_cpu will directly use irq_desc[]. If CONFIG_SPARSE_IRQ is
enabled, there is no irq_desc[]. So we need use irq_to_desc(irq) to
get the descriptor for irq.

Signed-off-by: default avatarChao Xie <chao.xie@marvell.com>
Acked-by: default avatarKyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
      87507500
  7. Dec 04, 2010
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  11. Dec 02, 2010
    • Jeremy Fitzhardinge's avatar
      vmalloc: eagerly clear ptes on vunmap · 64141da5
      Jeremy Fitzhardinge authored 
      

On stock 2.6.37-rc4, running:

  # mount lilith:/export /mnt/lilith
  # find  /mnt/lilith/ -type f -print0 | xargs -0 file

crashes the machine fairly quickly under Xen.  Often it results in oops
messages, but the couple of times I tried just now, it just hung quietly
and made Xen print some rude messages:

    (XEN) mm.c:2389:d80 Bad type (saw 7400000000000001 != exp
    3000000000000000) for mfn 1d7058 (pfn 18fa7)
    (XEN) mm.c:964:d80 Attempt to create linear p.t. with write perms
    (XEN) mm.c:2389:d80 Bad type (saw 7400000000000010 != exp
    1000000000000000) for mfn 1d2e04 (pfn 1d1fb)
    (XEN) mm.c:2965:d80 Error while pinning mfn 1d2e04

Which means the domain tried to map a pagetable page RW, which would
allow it to map arbitrary memory, so Xen stopped it.  This is because
vm_unmap_ram() left some pages mapped in the vmalloc area after NFS had
finished with them, and those pages got recycled as pagetable pages
while still having these RW aliases.

Removing those mappings immediately removes the Xen-visible aliases, and
so it has no problem with those pages being reused as pagetable pages.
Deferring the TLB flush doesn't upset Xen because it can flush the TLB
itself as needed to maintain its invariants.

When unmapping a region in the vmalloc space, clear the ptes
immediately.  There's no point in deferring this because there's no
amortization benefit.

The TLBs are left dirty, and they are flushed lazily to amortize the
cost of the IPIs.

This specific motivation for this patch is an oops-causing regression
since 2.6.36 when using NFS under Xen, triggered by the NFS client's use
of vm_map_ram() introduced in 56e4ebf8 ("NFS: readdir with vmapped
pages") .  XFS also uses vm_map_ram() and could cause similar problems.

Signed-off-by: default avatarJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Cc: Bryan Schumaker <bjschuma@netapp.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Cc: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      64141da5
    • Stefano Stabellini's avatar
      xen: unplug the emulated devices at resume time · 512b109e
      Stefano Stabellini authored 
      

Early after being resumed we need to unplug again the emulated devices.

Signed-off-by: default avatarStefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
      512b109e
    • Stefano Stabellini's avatar
      xen: fix MSI setup and teardown for PV on HVM guests · af42b8d1
      Stefano Stabellini authored 
      

When remapping MSIs into pirqs for PV on HVM guests, qemu is responsible
for doing the actual mapping and unmapping.
We only give qemu the desired pirq number when we ask to do the mapping
the first time, after that we should be reading back the pirq number
from qemu every time we want to re-enable the MSI.

This fixes a bug in xen_hvm_setup_msi_irqs that manifests itself when
trying to enable the same MSI for the second time: the old MSI to pirq
mapping is still valid at this point but xen_hvm_setup_msi_irqs would
try to assign a new pirq anyway.
A simple way to reproduce this bug is to assign an MSI capable network
card to a PV on HVM guest, if the user brings down the corresponding
ethernet interface and up again, Linux would fail to enable MSIs on the
device.

Signed-off-by: default avatarStefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
      af42b8d1
  13. Dec 01, 2010
    • Paul Mundt's avatar
      sh: Assume new page cache pages have dirty dcache lines. · 55661fc1
      Paul Mundt authored 
      

This follows the ARM change c0177800
("ARM: 6379/1: Assume new page cache pages have dirty D-cache") for the
same rationale:

    There are places in Linux where writes to newly allocated page
    cache pages happen without a subsequent call to flush_dcache_page()
    (several PIO drivers including USB HCD). This patch changes the
    meaning of PG_arch_1 to be PG_dcache_clean and always flush the
    D-cache for a newly mapped page in update_mmu_cache().

This addresses issues seen with executing binaries from MMC, in
addition to some of the other HCDs that don't explicitly do cache
management for their pipe-in buffers.

Requested-by: default avatarYoshihiro Shimoda <yoshihiro.shimoda.uh@renesas.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
      55661fc1
  15. Nov 30, 2010
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