- 29 Apr, 2011 3 commits
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Ingo Molnar authored
Update perf tooling to deal with front-end and back-end stalled cycles events. Add both the default 'perf stat' output. Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-7y40wib8n002io7hjpn1dsrm@git.kernel.orgSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar authored
Extend the Intel and AMD event definitions with generic front-end and back-end stall events. ( These are only approximations - suggestions are welcome for better events. ) Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-7y40wib8n001io7hjpn1dsrm@git.kernel.orgSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar authored
Add two generic hardware events: front-end and back-end stalled cycles. These events measure conditions when the CPU is executing code but its capabilities are not fully utilized. Understanding such situations and analyzing them is an important sub-task of code optimization workflows. Both events limit performance: most front end stalls tend to be caused by branch misprediction or instruction fetch cachemisses, backend stalls can be caused by various resource shortages or inefficient instruction scheduling. Front-end stalls are the more important ones: code cannot run fast if the instruction stream is not being kept up. An over-utilized back-end can cause front-end stalls and thus has to be kept an eye on as well. The exact composition is very program logic and instruction mix dependent. We use the terms 'stall', 'front-end' and 'back-end' loosely and try to use the best available events from specific CPUs that approximate these concepts. Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-7y40wib8n000io7hjpn1dsrm@git.kernel.orgSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 28 Apr, 2011 3 commits
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Ingo Molnar authored
Instead of failing on an unknown event, when new perf stat is run on older kernels: $ ./perf stat true Error: open_counter returned with 22 (Invalid argument). /bin/dmesg may provide additional information. Fatal: Not all events could be opened. Just ignore EINVAL and ENOSYS, we'll print the results as not counted: Performance counter stats for 'true': 0.239483 task-clock # 0.493 CPUs utilized 0 context-switches # 0.000 M/sec 0 CPU-migrations # 0.000 M/sec 86 page-faults # 0.359 M/sec 704,766 cycles # 2.943 GHz <not counted> stalled-cycles 381,961 instructions # 0.54 insns per cycle 69,626 branches # 290.735 M/sec 4,594 branch-misses # 6.60% of all branches 0.000485883 seconds time elapsed Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-7y40wib8n1eqio5hjpn3dsrm@git.kernel.orgSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar authored
--sync will tell perf stat to run sync() before starting a command. This allows IO-heavy tests to be used with --repeat, without one iteration impacting the other. Elapsed time will stabilize for example: before: 3.971525714 seconds time elapsed ( +- 8.56% ) after: 3.211098537 seconds time elapsed ( +- 1.52% ) So measurements will be more accurate. Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-7y40wib8n1eqio7hjpn1dsrm@git.kernel.orgSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar authored
Use the UOPS_EXECUTED.*,c=1,i=1 event on Intel CPUs - it is a rather good indicator of CPU execution stalls, more sensitive and more inclusive than the 0xa2 resource stalls event (which does not count nearly as many stall types). Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-7y40wib8n1eqio7hjpn2dsrm@git.kernel.orgSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 27 Apr, 2011 1 commit
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Ingo Molnar authored
Before: | | Performance counter stats for '/home/mingo/hackbench 20' (5 runs): | | 71,321,607 instructions:u # 0.42 insns per cycle ( +- 0.00% ) | 168,040,009 cycles:u # 0.000 GHz ( +- 0.81% ) | | 1.468002368 seconds time elapsed ( +- 1.33% ) | After: | | Performance counter stats for '/home/mingo/hackbench 20' (5 runs): | | 71,321,607 instructions:u # 0.42 insns per cycle ( +- 0.00% ) | 168,040,009 cycles:u # 0.000 GHz ( +- 0.81% ) | | 1.468002368 seconds time elapsed ( +- 1.33% ) | The last column (stddev noise) is properly aligned, vertically. Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-7y40wib8n1eqio7hjpn0dsrm@git.kernel.orgSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 26 Apr, 2011 23 commits
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Ingo Molnar authored
Add the new -d/--detailed flag, which generates a pretty detailed event list: Performance counter stats for './hackbench 10' (10 runs): 1514.287888 task-clock # 10.897 CPUs utilized ( +- 3.05% ) 39,698 context-switches # 0.026 M/sec ( +- 12.19% ) 8,147 CPU-migrations # 0.005 M/sec ( +- 16.55% ) 17,918 page-faults # 0.012 M/sec ( +- 0.37% ) 2,944,504,050 cycles # 1.944 GHz ( +- 3.89% ) (32.60%) 1,043,971,283 stalled-cycles # 35.45% of all cycles are idle ( +- 5.22% ) (44.48%) 1,655,906,768 instructions # 0.56 insns per cycle # 0.63 stalled cycles per insn ( +- 1.95% ) (55.09%) 338,832,373 branches # 223.757 M/sec ( +- 1.96% ) (64.47%) 3,892,416 branch-misses # 1.15% of all branches ( +- 5.49% ) (73.12%) 606,410,482 L1-dcache-loads # 400.459 M/sec ( +- 1.29% ) (71.21%) 31,204,395 L1-dcache-load-misses # 5.15% of all L1-dcache hits ( +- 3.04% ) (60.43%) 3,922,751 LLC-loads # 2.590 M/sec ( +- 6.80% ) (46.87%) 5,037,288 LLC-load-misses # 3.327 M/sec ( +- 3.56% ) (13.00%) 0.138966828 seconds time elapsed ( +- 4.11% ) This can be used "at a glance" for narrower analysis. -d can also be used in addition to other -e events, to further expand an event list. Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-cxs98quixs3qyvdqx3goojc4@git.kernel.orgSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar authored
Print out this kind of l1-dcache-misses percentage: Performance counter stats for './bw_tcp localhost': 29,956,262,201 cycles # 3.002 GHz (scaled from 85.14%) 8,255,209,558 stalled-cycles # 27.56% of all cycles are idle (scaled from 86.56%) 1,206,130,308 l1-dcache-misses # 40.49% of all L1-dcache hits (scaled from 86.30%) 2,978,756,779 l1-dcache-refs # 298.512 M/sec (scaled from 70.02%) 8,861,956,159 instructions # 0.30 insns per cycle # 0.93 stalled cycles per insn (scaled from 84.27%) 1,644,306,068 branches # 164.782 M/sec (scaled from 86.43%) 74,778,443 branch-misses # 4.55% of all branches (scaled from 70.69%) 9978.695711 task-clock # 0.693 CPUs utilized 14.404347983 seconds time elapsed And color the result depending on the severity of cache-trashing. Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-54gmz0zymaid84zcs7joq02p@git.kernel.orgSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar authored
Print the missed-branches percentage with different warning level ASCII colors, as the percentage passes the 5%/10%/20% thresholds. These thresholds are set to relatively low levels, because on most CPUs even a moderate percentage of branch-misses already shows up as a slowdown. Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-ybqukg7p86leiup7gl03ecgk@git.kernel.orgSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar authored
Print the stalled-cycles percentage with different warning level ASCII colors, as the percentage passes the 25%/50%/75% thresholds. Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-e25zz44rcms7mu9az4fu5zp0@git.kernel.orgSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar authored
Before: 0 CPU-migrations # 0.000 M/sec ( +- -nan% ) After: 0 CPU-migrations # 0.000 M/sec ( +- 0.00% ) Also factor out the noise printing function. Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-z89h2v1bk1mikcbsf7e6v34q@git.kernel.orgSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar authored
The new default output looks like this: Performance counter stats for './loop_1b_instructions': 236.010686 task-clock # 0.996 CPUs utilized 0 context-switches # 0.000 M/sec 0 CPU-migrations # 0.000 M/sec 99 page-faults # 0.000 M/sec 756,487,646 cycles # 3.205 GHz 354,938,996 stalled-cycles # 46.92% of all cycles are idle 1,001,403,797 instructions # 1.32 insns per cycle # 0.35 stalled cycles per insn 100,279,773 branches # 424.895 M/sec 12,646 branch-misses # 0.013 % of all branches 0.236902540 seconds time elapsed We dropped cache-refs and cache-misses and added stalled-cycles - this is a more generic "how well utilized is the CPU" metric. If the stalled-cycles ratio is too high then more specific measurements can be taken to figure out the source of the inefficiency. Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-pbpl2l4mn797s69bclfpwkwn@git.kernel.orgSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar authored
Add stalled cycles accounting and use it to print the "cycles stalled per instruction" value. Also change the unit of the cycles output from M/sec to GHz - this is more intuitive. Prettify the output to: Performance counter stats for './loop_1b_instructions': 239.775036 task-clock # 0.997 CPUs utilized 761,903,912 cycles # 3.178 GHz 356,620,620 stalled-cycles # 46.81% of all cycles are idle 1,001,578,351 instructions # 1.31 insns per cycle # 0.36 stalled cycles per insn 14,782 cache-references # 0.062 M/sec 5,694 cache-misses # 38.520 % of all cache refs 0.240493656 seconds time elapsed Also adjust the --repeat output to make the percentages align vertically: Performance counter stats for './loop_1b_instructions' (10 runs): 236.096793 task-clock # 0.997 CPUs utilized ( +- 0.011% ) 756,553,086 cycles # 3.204 GHz ( +- 0.002% ) 354,942,692 stalled-cycles # 46.92% of all cycles are idle ( +- 0.008% ) 1,001,389,700 instructions # 1.32 insns per cycle # 0.35 stalled cycles per insn ( +- 0.000% ) 10,166 cache-references # 0.043 M/sec ( +- 0.742% ) 468 cache-misses # 4.608 % of all cache refs ( +- 13.385% ) 0.236874136 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.01% ) Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-uapziqny39601apdmmhoz7hk@git.kernel.orgSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar authored
Create update_shadow_stats() which is then used in both read_counter_aggr() and read_counter(). This not only simplifies the code but also fixes a bug: HW_CACHE_REFERENCES was not updated in read_counter(). Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-9uc55z3g88r47exde7zxjm6p@git.kernel.orgSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar authored
Right now we display this by default: 0.202204 task-clock-msecs # 0.282 CPUs 0 context-switches # 0.000 M/sec 0 CPU-migrations # 0.000 M/sec 85 page-faults # 0.420 M/sec The task-clock-msecs event cannot actually be passed back as an event name, the event name we recognize is 'task-clock'. So change the output of the cpu-clock and task-clock events to be idempotent. ( Units should be printed out in the right-side column, if needed. ) Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-lexrnbzy09asscgd4f7oac4i@git.kernel.orgSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar authored
Currently we fail without printing any error message on "perf stat -e task-clock-msecs". The reason is that the task-clock event is matched and the "-msecs" postfix is assumed to be an event modifier - but is not recognized. This patch changes the code to be more informative: $ perf stat -e task-clock-msecs true invalid event modifier: '-msecs' Run 'perf list' for a list of valid events and modifiers And restructures the return value of parse_event_modifier() to allow the printing of all variants of invalid event modifiers. Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-wlaw3dvz1ly6wple8l52cfca@git.kernel.orgSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar authored
We currently fail on something like '-e CPU-migrations', with: invalid or unsupported event: 'CPU-migrations' While 'CPU-migrations' is how we actually print out the event in the default perf stat output: Performance counter stats for 'true': 0.202204 task-clock-msecs # 0.282 CPUs 0 context-switches # 0.000 M/sec 0 CPU-migrations # 0.000 M/sec So change the matching to be case-insensitive. Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-omcm3edjjtx83a4kh2e244se@git.kernel.orgSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar authored
Before: 113,393,041 cache-references # 83.636 M/sec 7,052,454 cache-misses # 5.202 M/sec After: 112,589,441 cache-references # 87.925 M/sec 6,556,354 cache-misses # 5.823 % misses/hits percentages are more expressive than absolute numbers or rates. (Also prettify the CPUs printout line to not have a trailing whitespace.) Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-axm28f43x439bl41zkvfzd63@git.kernel.orgSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar authored
Print: 611,527 cycles 400,553 instructions # ( 0.71 instructions per cycle ) 77,809 stalled-cycles # ( 12.71% of all cycles ) 0.000610987 seconds time elapsed Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-fd6x8r1cpyb6zhlrc4ix8m45@git.kernel.org
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Ingo Molnar authored
Various constraint tables were not marked read-mostly. Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-wpqwwvmhxucy5e718wnamjiv@git.kernel.orgSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar authored
The new PERF_COUNT_HW_STALLED_CYCLES event tries to approximate cycles the CPU does nothing useful, because it is stalled on a cache-miss or some other condition. Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-fue11vymwqsoo5to72jxxjyl@git.kernel.orgSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar authored
Merge reason: We want to queue up dependent changes. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar authored
On Nehalem CPUs the retired branch-misses event can be completely bogus, when there are no branch-misses occuring. When there are a lot of branch misses then the count is pretty accurate. Still, this leaves us with an event that over-counts a lot. Detect this erratum and work it around by using BR_MISP_EXEC.ANY events. These will also count speculated branches but still it's a lot more precise in practice than the architectural event. Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-yyfg0bxo9jsqxd6a0ovfny27@git.kernel.orgSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Peter Zijlstra authored
Currently the x86 backend incorrectly assumes that any BRANCH_INSN with sample_period==1 is a BTS request. This is not true when we do frequency driven profiling such as 'perf record -e branches'. Solves this error: $ perf record -e branches ./array Error: sys_perf_event_open() syscall returned with 95 (Operation not supported). Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: "Metzger, Markus T" <markus.t.metzger@intel.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-rd2y4ct71hjawzz6fpvsy9hg@git.kernel.orgSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ecryptfs/ecryptfs-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ecryptfs/ecryptfs-2.6: eCryptfs: Flush dirty pages in setattr eCryptfs: Handle failed metadata read in lookup eCryptfs: Add reference counting to lower files eCryptfs: dput dentries returned from dget_parent eCryptfs: Remove extra d_delete in ecryptfs_rmdir
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Linus Torvalds authored
Merge branch 'for-torvalds' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linusw/linux-stericsson * 'for-torvalds' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linusw/linux-stericsson: rtc: fix coh901331 startup crash mach-ux500: fix i2c0 device setup regression
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Eric Paris authored
Now that the security modules can decide whether they support the dcache RCU walk or not it's possible to make selinux a bit more RCU friendly. The SELinux AVC and security server access decision code is RCU safe. A specific piece of the LSM audit code may not be RCU safe. This patch makes the VFS RCU walk retry if it would hit the non RCU safe chunk of code. It will normally just work under RCU. This is done simply by passing the VFS RCU state as a flag down into the avc_audit() code and returning ECHILD there if it would have an issue. Based-on-patch-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Christoph Hellwig authored
Now that the whole dcache_hash_bucket crap is gone, go all the way and also remove the weird locking layering violations for locking the hash buckets. Add hlist_bl_lock/unlock helpers to move the locking into the list abstraction instead of requiring each caller to open code it. After all allowing for the bit locks is the whole point of these helpers over the plain hlist variant. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Linus Torvalds authored
When we are waiting for the bit-lock to be released, and are looping over the 'cpu_relax()' should not be doing anything else - otherwise we miss the point of trying to do the whole 'cpu_relax()'. Do the preemption enable/disable around the loop, rather than inside of it. Noticed when I was looking at the code generation for the dcache __d_drop usage, and the code just looked very odd. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 25 Apr, 2011 5 commits
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Tyler Hicks authored
After 57db4e8d changed eCryptfs to write-back caching, eCryptfs page writeback updates the lower inode times due to the use of vfs_write() on the lower file. To preserve inode metadata changes, such as 'cp -p' does with utimensat(), we need to flush all dirty pages early in ecryptfs_setattr() so that the user-updated lower inode metadata isn't clobbered later in writeback. https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33372Reported-by: Rocko <rockorequin@hotmail.com> Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Tyler Hicks authored
When failing to read the lower file's crypto metadata during a lookup, eCryptfs must continue on without throwing an error. For example, there may be a plaintext file in the lower mount point that the user wants to delete through the eCryptfs mount. If an error is encountered while reading the metadata in lookup(), the eCryptfs inode's size could be incorrect. We must be sure to reread the plaintext inode size from the metadata when performing an open() or setattr(). The metadata is already being read in those paths, so this adds minimal performance overhead. This patch introduces a flag which will track whether or not the plaintext inode size has been read so that an incorrect i_size can be fixed in the open() or setattr() paths. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/509180 Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Tyler Hicks authored
For any given lower inode, eCryptfs keeps only one lower file open and multiplexes all eCryptfs file operations through that lower file. The lower file was considered "persistent" and stayed open from the first lookup through the lifetime of the inode. This patch keeps the notion of a single, per-inode lower file, but adds reference counting around the lower file so that it is closed when not currently in use. If the reference count is at 0 when an operation (such as open, create, etc.) needs to use the lower file, a new lower file is opened. Since the file is no longer persistent, all references to the term persistent file are changed to lower file. Locking is added around the sections of code that opens the lower file and assign the pointer in the inode info, as well as the code the fputs the lower file when all eCryptfs users are done with it. This patch is needed to fix issues, when mounted on top of the NFSv3 client, where the lower file is left silly renamed until the eCryptfs inode is destroyed. Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Tyler Hicks authored
Call dput on the dentries previously returned by dget_parent() in ecryptfs_rename(). This is needed for supported eCryptfs mounts on top of the NFSv3 client. Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Tyler Hicks authored
vfs_rmdir() already calls d_delete() on the lower dentry. That was being duplicated in ecryptfs_rmdir() and caused a NULL pointer dereference when NFSv3 was the lower filesystem. Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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- 24 Apr, 2011 5 commits
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Linus Torvalds authored
* dcache-cleanup: vfs: get rid of insane dentry hashing rules
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-devLinus Torvalds authored
* 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev: libata: ahci_start_engine compliant to AHCI spec ata: pata_at91.c bugfix for initial_timing initialisation ata: pata_at91.c bugfix for high master clock ahci: AHCI-mode SATA patch for Intel Panther Point DeviceIDs ata_piix: IDE-mode SATA patch for Intel Panther Point DeviceIDs libata: Pioneer DVR-216D can't do SETXFER ahci: don't enable port irq before handler is registered libata: Implement ATA_FLAG_NO_DIPM and apply it to mcp65 libata: Kill unused ATA_DFLAG_{H|D}IPM flags ahci: EM supported message type sysfs attribute
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git://git.infradead.org/ubifs-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* 'for-linus' of git://git.infradead.org/ubifs-2.6: UBIFS: fix master node recovery UBIFS: fix false assertion warning in case of I/O failures UBIFS: fix false space checking failure
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Jian Peng authored
At the end of section 10.1 of AHCI spec (rev 1.3), it states Software shall not set PxCMD.ST to 1 until it is determined that a functoinal device is present on the port as determined by PxTFD.STS.BSY=0, PxTFD.STS.DRQ=0 and PxSSTS.DET=3h Even though most AHCI host controller works without this check, specific controller will fail under this condition. Signed-off-by: Jian Peng <jipeng2005@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
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Igor Plyatov authored
The "struct ata_timing" must contain 10 members, but ".dmack_hold" member was forgotten for "initial_timing" initialisation. This patch fixes such a problem. Signed-off-by: Igor Plyatov <plyatov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
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