- 20 May, 2009 1 commit
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Peter Zijlstra authored
Instead of disabling RR scheduling of the counters, use a different list that does not get rotated to iterate the counters on inheritance. [ Impact: cleanup, optimization ] Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <20090520102553.237504544@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 19 May, 2009 2 commits
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Ingo Molnar authored
Context rotation should not occur when we are in the middle of walking the counter list when inheriting counters ... [ Impact: fix occasionally incorrect perf stat results ] Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar authored
Fix counter lifetime bugs which explain the crashes reported by Marcelo Tosatti and Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo. The new rule is: flushing + freeing is only done for a task's own counters, never for other tasks. [ Impact: fix crashes/lockups with inherited counters ] Reported-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Reported-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 18 May, 2009 3 commits
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Ingo Molnar authored
We have to set up the LVT entry only at counter init time, not at every switch-in time. There's friction between NMI and non-NMI use here - we'll probably remove the per counter configurability of it - but until then, dont slow down things ... [ Impact: micro-optimization ] Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Paul Mackerras authored
Commit 9e35ad38 ("perf_counter: Rework the perf counter disable/enable") added code to the powerpc hw_perf_enable (renamed from hw_perf_restore) to test cpuhw->disabled and return immediately if it is not set (i.e. if the PMU is already enabled). Unfortunately the test got added before cpuhw was initialized, resulting in an oops the first time hw_perf_enable got called. This fixes it by moving the initialization of cpuhw to before cpuhw->disabled is tested. [ Impact: fix oops-causing bug on powerpc ] Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <18960.56772.869734.304631@drongo.ozlabs.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar authored
Merge reason: this branch was on an -rc4 base, merge it up to -rc6 to get the latest upstream fixes. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 17 May, 2009 4 commits
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Ingo Molnar authored
The quirk to irq_period unearthed an unrobustness we had in the hw_counter initialization sequence: we left irq_period at 0, which was then quirked up to 2 ... which then generated a _lot_ of interrupts during 'perf stat' runs, slowed them down and skewed the counter results in general. Initialize irq_period to the maximum instead. [ Impact: fix perf stat results ] Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar authored
Flushing counters in __exit_signal() with irqs disabled is not a good idea as perf_counter_exit_task() acquires mutexes. So flush it before acquiring the tasklist lock. (Note, we still need a fix for when the PID has been unhashed.) [ Impact: fix crash with inherited counters ] Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Peter Zijlstra authored
Srivatsa Vaddagiri reported that a Java workload triggers this warning in kernel/exit.c: WARN_ON_ONCE(!list_empty(&tsk->perf_counter_ctx.counter_list)); Add the inherited counter propagation on self-detach, this could cause counter leaks and incomplete stats in threaded code like the below: #include <pthread.h> #include <unistd.h> void *thread(void *arg) { sleep(5); return NULL; } void main(void) { pthread_t thr; pthread_create(&thr, NULL, thread, NULL); } Reported-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Peter Zijlstra authored
Clean up code that open-coded the list_{add,del}_counter() code in __perf_counter_exit_task() which consequently diverged. This could lead to software counter crashes. Also, fold the ctx->nr_counter inc/dec into those functions and clean up some of the related code. [ Impact: fix potential sw counter crash, cleanup ] Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 16 May, 2009 1 commit
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Linus Torvalds authored
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- 15 May, 2009 29 commits
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6: PCI MSI: Fix MSI-X with NIU cards PCI: Fix pci-e port driver slot_reset bad default return value
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/holtmann/bluetooth-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/holtmann/bluetooth-2.6: Bluetooth: Don't trigger disconnect timeout for security mode 3 pairing Bluetooth: Don't use hci_acl_connect_cancel() for incoming connections Bluetooth: Fix wrong module refcount when connection setup fails Another case of me handling the fallout from Davem's unfortunate addiction to shuffleboard. Won't anybody think of the children? Join the anti-shuffleboard league today!
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/anholt/drm-intelLinus Torvalds authored
* 'drm-intel-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/anholt/drm-intel: drm/i915: Add new GET_PIPE_FROM_CRTC_ID ioctl. drm/i915: Set HDMI hot plug interrupt enable for only the output in question. drm/i915: Include 965GME pci ID in IS_I965GM(dev) to match UMS. drm/i915: Use the GM45 VGA hotplug workaround on G45 as well. drm/i915: ignore LVDS on intel graphics systems that lie about having it drm/i915: sanity check IER at wait_request time drm/i915: workaround IGD i2c bus issue in kernel side (v2) drm/i915: Don't allow binding objects into the last page of the aperture. drm/i915: save/restore fence registers across suspend/resume drm/i915: x86 always has writeq. Add I915_READ64 for symmetry.
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-devLinus Torvalds authored
* 'upstream-linus' of ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev: libata: Media rotation rate and form factor heuristics libata: Report disk alignment and physical block size sata_fsl: Fix the command description of FSL SATA controller sata_fsl: Fix compile warnings [libata] sata_sx4: fixup interrupt handling [libata] sata_sx4: convert to new exception handling methods
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6: iwlwifi: fix device id registration for 6000 series 2x2 devices ath5k: update channel in sw state after stopping RX and TX rtl8187: use DMA-aware buffers with usb_control_msg mac80211: avoid NULL ptr deref when finding max_rates in PID and minstrel airo: airo_get_encode{,ext} potential buffer overflow Pulled directly by Linus because Davem is off playing shuffle-board at some Alaskan cruise, and the NULL ptr deref issue hits people and should get merged sooner rather than later. David - make us proud on the shuffle-board tournament!
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Martin K. Petersen authored
This patch provides new heuristics for parsing both the form factor and media rotation rate ATA IDENFITY words. The reported ATA version must be 7 or greater and the device must return values defined as valid in the standard. Only then are the characteristics reported to SCSI via the VPD B1 page. This seems like a reasonable compromise to me considering that we have been shipping several kernel releases that key off the rotation rate bit without any version checking whatsoever. With no complaints so far. Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
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Martin K. Petersen authored
For disks with 4KB sectors, report the correct block size and alignment when filling out the READ CAPACITY(16) response. This patch is based upon code from Matthew Wilcox' 4KB ATA tree. I fixed the bug I reported a while back caused by ATA and SCSI using different approaches to describing the alignment. Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
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Dave Liu authored
The bit 11 of command description is reserved bit in Freescale SATA controller and needs to be set to '1'. This is needed to make sure the last write from the controller to the buffer descriptor is seen before an interrupt is raised. Signed-off-by: Dave Liu <daveliu@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
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Kumar Gala authored
We we build with dma_addr_t as a 64-bit quantity we get: drivers/ata/sata_fsl.c: In function 'sata_fsl_fill_sg': drivers/ata/sata_fsl.c:340: warning: format '%x' expects type 'unsigned int', but argument 4 has type 'dma_addr_t' Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
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David Milburn authored
Issuing ATA_CMD_SET_FEATURES (0xef) times out because pdc20621_interrupt ignores command completion since ATA_TFLAG_POLLING flag is set. This has already been fixed for sata_promise: commit 51b94d2a Author: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Date: Fri Jun 8 13:46:55 2007 -0700 sata_promise: use TF interface for polling NODATA commands Also, this patch includes Mikael's original patches: http://marc.info/?l=linux-ide&m=121135828227724&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=linux-ide&m=121144512109826&w=2Signed-off-by: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se> Signed-off-by: David Milburn <dmilburn@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
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Jeff Garzik authored
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4Linus Torvalds authored
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: ext4: Fix race in ext4_inode_info.i_cached_extent ext4: Clear the unwritten buffer_head flag after the extent is initialized ext4: Use a fake block number for delayed new buffer_head ext4: Fix sub-block zeroing for writes into preallocated extents
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6: ASoC: DaVinci EVM board support buildfixes ASoC: DaVinci I2S updates ASoC: davinci-pcm buildfixes ALSA: pcsp: fix printk format warning ALSA: riptide: postfix increment and off by one pxa2xx-ac97: fix reset gpio mode setting ASoC: soc-core: fix crash when removing not instantiated card
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwessel/linux-2.6-kgdbLinus Torvalds authored
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwessel/linux-2.6-kgdb: kgdb: gdb documentation fix kgdb,i386: use address that SP register points to in the exception frame sysrq, intel_fb: fix sysrq g collision
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git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-blockLinus Torvalds authored
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: Revert "mm: add /proc controls for pdflush threads" viocd: needs to depend on BLOCK block: fix the bio_vec array index out-of-bounds test
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpcLinus Torvalds authored
* 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: powerpc: Fix PCI ROM access powerpc/pseries: Really fix the oprofile CPU type on pseries serial/nwpserial: Fix wrong register read address and add interrupt acknowledge. powerpc/cell: Make ptcal more reliable powerpc: Allow mem=x cmdline to work with 4G+ powerpc/mpic: Fix incorrect allocation of interrupt rev-map powerpc: Fix oprofile sampling of marked events on POWER7 powerpc/iseries: Fix pci breakage due to bad dma_data initialization powerpc: Fix mktree build error on Mac OS X host powerpc/virtex: Fix duplicate level irq events. powerpc/virtex: Add uImage to the default images list powerpc/boot: add simpleImage.* to clean-files list powerpc/8xx: Update defconfigs powerpc/embedded6xx: Update defconfigs powerpc/86xx: Update defconfigs powerpc/85xx: Update defconfigs powerpc/83xx: Update defconfigs powerpc/fsl_soc: Remove mpc83xx_wdt_init, again
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Sukadev Bhattiprolu authored
devpts_get_sb() calls memset(0) to clear mount options and calls parse_mount_options() if user specified any mount options. The memset(0) is bogus since the 'mode' and 'ptmxmode' options are non-zero by default. parse_mount_options() restores options to default anyway and can properly deal with NULL mount options. So in devpts_get_sb() remove memset(0) and call parse_mount_options() even for NULL mount options. Bug reported by Eric Paris: http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/5/7/448. Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com> Tested-by: Marc Dionne <marc.c.dionne@gmail.com> Reported-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Reviewed-by: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Paul Mackerras authored
This uses values from the MMCRA, SIAR and SDAR registers on powerpc to supply more precise information for overflow events, including a data address when PERF_RECORD_ADDR is specified. Since POWER6 uses different bit positions in MMCRA from earlier processors, this converts the struct power_pmu limited_pmc5_6 field, which only had 0/1 values, into a flags field and defines bit values for its previous use (PPMU_LIMITED_PMC5_6) and a new flag (PPMU_ALT_SIPR) to indicate that the processor uses the POWER6 bit positions rather than the earlier positions. It also adds definitions in reg.h for the new and old positions of the bit that indicates that the SIAR and SDAR values come from the same instruction. For the data address, the SDAR value is supplied if we are not doing instruction sampling. In that case there is no guarantee that the address given in the PERF_RECORD_ADDR subrecord will correspond to the instruction whose address is given in the PERF_RECORD_IP subrecord. If instruction sampling is enabled (e.g. because this counter is counting a marked instruction event), then we only supply the SDAR value for the PERF_RECORD_ADDR subrecord if it corresponds to the instruction whose address is in the PERF_RECORD_IP subrecord. Otherwise we supply 0. [ Impact: support more PMU hardware features on PowerPC ] Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <18955.37028.48861.555309@drongo.ozlabs.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Paul Mackerras authored
At present the values we put in overflow events for the misc flags indicating processor mode and the instruction pointer are obtained using the standard user_mode() and instruction_pointer() functions. Those functions tell you where the performance monitor interrupt was taken, which might not be exactly where the counter overflow occurred, for example because interrupts were disabled at the point where the overflow occurred, or because the processor had many instructions in flight and chose to complete some more instructions beyond the one that caused the counter overflow. Some architectures (e.g. powerpc) can supply more precise information about where the counter overflow occurred and the processor mode at that point. This introduces new functions, perf_misc_flags() and perf_instruction_pointer(), which arch code can override to provide more precise information if available. They have default implementations which are identical to the existing code. This also adds a new misc flag value, PERF_EVENT_MISC_HYPERVISOR, for the case where a counter overflow occurred in the hypervisor. We encode the processor mode in the 2 bits previously used to indicate user or kernel mode; the values for user and kernel mode are unchanged and hypervisor mode is indicated by both bits being set. [ Impact: generalize perfcounter core facilities ] Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <18956.1272.818511.561835@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Paul Mackerras authored
Although the perf_counter API allows 63-bit raw event codes, internally in the powerpc back-end we had been using 32-bit event codes. This expands them to 64 bits so that we can add bits for specifying threshold start/stop events and instruction sampling modes later. This also corrects the return value of can_go_on_limited_pmc; we were returning an event code rather than just a 0/1 value in some circumstances. That didn't particularly matter while event codes were 32-bit, but now that event codes are 64-bit it might, so this fixes it. [ Impact: extend PowerPC perfcounter interfaces from u32 to u64 ] Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <18955.36874.472452.353104@drongo.ozlabs.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Peter Zijlstra authored
fix: kernel/built-in.o: In function `perf_counter_alloc': perf_counter.c:(.text+0x7ddc7): undefined reference to `__udivdi3' [ Impact: build fix on 32-bit systems ] Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> LKML-Reference: <1242394667.6642.1887.camel@laptop> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Takashi Iwai authored
* fix/asoc: ASoC: DaVinci EVM board support buildfixes ASoC: DaVinci I2S updates ASoC: davinci-pcm buildfixes pxa2xx-ac97: fix reset gpio mode setting ASoC: soc-core: fix crash when removing not instantiated card
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Takashi Iwai authored
* fix/misc: ALSA: pcsp: fix printk format warning ALSA: riptide: postfix increment and off by one
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Peter Zijlstra authored
Provide perf top -F as alternative to -c. [ Impact: new 'perf top' feature ] Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <20090515132018.707922166@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Peter Zijlstra authored
Instead of specifying the irq_period for a counter, provide a target interrupt frequency and dynamically adapt the irq_period to match this frequency. [ Impact: new perf-counter attribute/feature ] Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <20090515132018.646195868@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Peter Zijlstra authored
Instead of a per-process mlock gift for perf-counters, use a per-user gift so that there is less of a DoS potential. [ Impact: allow less worst-case unprivileged memory consumption ] Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <20090515132018.496182835@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Peter Zijlstra authored
Now that ACPI idle doesn't use it anymore, remove the exports. [ Impact: remove dead code/data ] Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <20090515132018.429826617@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Theodore Ts'o authored
If two CPU's simultaneously call ext4_ext_get_blocks() at the same time, there is nothing protecting the i_cached_extent structure from being used and updated at the same time. This could potentially cause the wrong location on disk to be read or written to, including potentially causing the corruption of the block group descriptors and/or inode table. This bug has been in the ext4 code since almost the very beginning of ext4's development. Fortunately once the data is stored in the page cache cache, ext4_get_blocks() doesn't need to be called, so trying to replicate this problem to the point where we could identify its root cause was *extremely* difficult. Many thanks to Kevin Shanahan for working over several months to be able to reproduce this easily so we could finally nail down the cause of the corruption. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Reviewed-by: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Frank Rowand authored
gdb command "set remote debug 1" is not valid, change to correct command. Signed-off-by: Frank Rowand <frank.rowand@am.sony.com> Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
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