The comment on the soft disable 'disable' case of
__ftrace_event_enable_disable() states that the soft disable bit
should be cleared in that case, but currently only the soft mode bit
is actually cleared.
This essentially leaves the standard non-soft-enable enable/disable
paths as the only way to clear the soft disable flag, but the soft
disable bit should also be cleared when removing a trigger with '!'.
Also, the SOFT_DISABLED bit should never be set if SOFT_MODE is
cleared.
This fixes the above discrepancies.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/b9c68dd50bc07019e6c67d3f9b29be4ef1b2badb.1372479499.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
enable_trace_probe() and disable_trace_probe() should not worry about
serialization, the caller (perf_trace_init or __ftrace_set_clr_event)
holds event_mutex.
They are also called by kprobe_trace_self_tests_init(), but this __init
function can't race with itself or trace_events.c
And note that this code depended on event_mutex even before 41a7dd420c
which introduced probe_enable_lock. In fact it assumes that the caller
kprobe_register() can never race with itself. Otherwise, say, tp->flags
manipulations are racy.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130620173809.GA13158@redhat.com
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
perf_trace_buf_prepare() + perf_trace_buf_submit() make no sense
if this task/CPU has no active counters. Change kprobe_perf_func()
and kretprobe_perf_func() to check call->perf_events beforehand
and return if this list is empty.
For example, "perf record -e some_probe -p1". Only /sbin/init will
report, all other threads which hit the same probe will do
perf_trace_buf_prepare/perf_trace_buf_submit just to realize that
nobody wants perf_swevent_event().
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130620173806.GA13151@redhat.com
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Running the following:
# cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing
# echo p:i do_sys_open > kprobe_events
# echo p:j schedule >> kprobe_events
# cat kprobe_events
p:kprobes/i do_sys_open
p:kprobes/j schedule
# echo p:i do_sys_open >> kprobe_events
# cat kprobe_events
p:kprobes/j schedule
p:kprobes/i do_sys_open
# ls /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/kprobes/
enable filter j
Notice that the 'i' is missing from the kprobes directory.
The console produces:
"Failed to create system directory kprobes"
This is because kprobes passes in a allocated name for the system
and the ftrace event subsystem saves off that name instead of creating
a duplicate for it. But the kprobes may free the system name making
the pointer to it invalid.
This bug was introduced by 92edca073c "tracing: Use direct field, type
and system names" which switched from using kstrdup() on the system name
in favor of just keeping apointer to it, as the internal ftrace event
system names are static and exist for the life of the computer being booted.
Instead of reverting back to duplicating system names again, we can use
core_kernel_data() to determine if the passed in name was allocated or
static. Then use the MSB of the ref_count to be a flag to keep track if
the name was allocated or not. Then we can still save from having to duplicate
strings that will always exist, but still copy the ones that may be freed.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.10
Reported-by: "zhangwei(Jovi)" <jovi.zhangwei@huawei.com>
Reported-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Tested-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Since tp->flags assignment was moved into function enable_trace_probe(),
there is no need to use trace_probe_is_enabled to check flags
in the same function.
Remove the unnecessary checking.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/51BA7B9E.3040807@huawei.com
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: zhangwei(Jovi) <jovi.zhangwei@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Add a traceoff_on_warning option in both the kernel command line as well
as a sysctl option. When set, any WARN*() function that is hit will cause
the tracing_on variable to be cleared, which disables writing to the
ring buffer.
This is useful especially when tracing a bug with function tracing. When
a warning is hit, the print caused by the warning can flood the trace with
the functions that producing the output for the warning. This can make the
resulting trace useless by either hiding where the bug happened, or worse,
by overflowing the buffer and losing the trace of the bug totally.
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
There are some cases when filtering on a set flag of a field of a tracepoint
is useful. But currently the only filtering commands for numbered fields
is ==, !=, <, <=, >, >=. This does not help when you just want to trace if
a specific flag is set. For example:
> # sudo trace-cmd record -e brcmfmac:brcmf_dbg -f 'level & 0x40000'
> disable all
> enable brcmfmac:brcmf_dbg
> path = /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/brcmfmac/brcmf_dbg/enable
> (level & 0x40000)
> ^
> parse_error: Invalid operator
>
When trying to trace brcmf_dbg when level has its 1 << 18 bit set, the
filter fails to perform.
By allowing a binary '&' operation, this gives the user the ability to
test a bit.
Note, a binary '|' is not added, as it doesn't make sense as fields must
be compared to constants (for now), and ORing a constant will always return
true.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1371057385.9844.261.camel@gandalf.local.home
Suggested-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Tested-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The function tracer uses preempt_disable/enable_notrace() for
synchronization between reading registered ftrace_ops and unregistering
them.
Most of the ftrace_ops are global permanent structures that do not
require this synchronization. That is, ops may be added and removed from
the hlist but are never freed, and wont hurt if a synchronization is
missed.
But this is not true for dynamically created ftrace_ops or control_ops,
which are used by the perf function tracing.
The problem here is that the function tracer can be used to trace
kernel/user context switches as well as going to and from idle.
Basically, it can be used to trace blind spots of the RCU subsystem.
This means that even though preempt_disable() is done, a
synchronize_sched() will ignore CPUs that haven't made it out of user
space or idle. These can include functions that are being traced just
before entering or exiting the kernel sections.
To implement the RCU synchronization, instead of using
synchronize_sched() the use of schedule_on_each_cpu() is performed. This
means that when a dynamically allocated ftrace_ops, or a control ops is
being unregistered, all CPUs must be touched and execute a ftrace_sync()
stub function via the work queues. This will rip CPUs out from idle or
in dynamic tick mode. This only happens when a user disables perf
function tracing or other dynamically allocated function tracers, but it
allows us to continue to debug RCU and context tracking with function
tracing.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1369785676.15552.55.camel@gandalf.local.home
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Commit 4f271a2a60
(tracing: Add a proc file to stop tracing and free buffer)
implement a method to free up ring buffer in kernel memory
in the release code path of free_buffer's fd.
Then we don't need read/write support for free_buffer,
indeed we just have a dummy write fop, and don't implement read fop.
So the 0200 is more reasonable file mode for free_buffer than
the current file mode 0644.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130526085201.GA3183@udknight
Acked-by: Vaibhav Nagarnaik <vnagarnaik@google.com>
Acked-by: David Sharp <dhsharp@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Wang YanQing <udknight@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Add the "cpudump" command to have the current CPU ftrace buffer dumped
to console if a function is hit. This is useful when debugging a
tripple fault, where you have an idea of a function that is called
just before the tripple fault occurs, and can tell ftrace to dump its
content out to the console before it continues.
This differs from the "dump" command as it only dumps the content of
the ring buffer for the currently executing CPU, and does not show
the contents of the other CPUs.
Format is:
<function>:cpudump
echo 'bad_address:cpudump' > /debug/tracing/set_ftrace_filter
To remove this:
echo '!bad_address:cpudump' > /debug/tracing/set_ftrace_filter
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Add the "dump" command to have the ftrace buffer dumped to console if
a function is hit. This is useful when debugging a tripple fault,
where you have an idea of a function that is called just before the
tripple fault occurs, and can tell ftrace to dump its content out
to the console before it continues.
Format is:
<function>:dump
echo 'bad_address:dump' > /debug/tracing/set_ftrace_filter
To remove this:
echo '!bad_address:dump' > /debug/tracing/set_ftrace_filter
Requested-by: Luis Claudio R. Goncalves <lclaudio@uudg.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Pull timer fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
- Trivial: unused variable removal
- Posix-timers: Add the clock ID to the new proc interface to make it
useful. The interface is new and should be functional when we reach
the final 3.10 release.
- Cure a false positive warning in the tick code introduced by the
overhaul in 3.10
- Fix for a persistent clock detection regression introduced in this
cycle
* 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
timekeeping: Correct run-time detection of persistent_clock.
ntp: Remove unused variable flags in __hardpps
posix-timers: Show clock ID in proc file
tick: Cure broadcast false positive pending bit warning
This branch contains a set of straight forward bug fixes to the
irqdomain code and to a couple of drivers that make use of it.
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Merge tag 'irqdomain-for-linus' of git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux
Pull irqdomain bug fixes from Grant Likely:
"This branch contains a set of straight forward bug fixes to the
irqdomain code and to a couple of drivers that make use of it."
* tag 'irqdomain-for-linus' of git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux:
irqchip: Return -EPERM for reserved IRQs
irqdomain: document the simple domain first_irq
kernel/irq/irqdomain.c: before use 'irq_data', need check it whether valid.
irqdomain: export irq_domain_add_simple
The first_irq needs to be zero to get a linear domain and that
comes with special semantics. We want to simplify this going
forward but some documentation never hurts.
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@linaro.org>
Since irq_data may be NULL, if so, we WARN_ON(), and continue, 'hwirq'
which related with 'irq_data' has to initialize later, or it will cause
issue.
Signed-off-by: Chen Gang <gang.chen@asianux.com>
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@linaro.org>
All other irq_domain_add_* functions are exported already, and apparently
this one got left out by mistake, which causes build errors for ARM
allmodconfig kernels:
ERROR: "irq_domain_add_simple" [drivers/gpio/gpio-rcar.ko] undefined!
ERROR: "irq_domain_add_simple" [drivers/gpio/gpio-em.ko] undefined!
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Simon Horman <horms+renesas@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@linaro.org>
The first two fix the case where full RCU debugging is enabled, enabling
function tracing causes a live lock of the system. This is due to the added
debug checks in rcu_dereference_raw() that is used by the function tracer.
These checks are also traced by the function tracer as well as cause enough
overhead to the function tracer to slow down the system enough that
the time to finish an interrupt can take longer than when the next
interrupt is triggered, causing a live lock from the timer interrupt.
Talking this over with Paul McKenney, we came up with a fix that adds
a new rcu_dereference_raw_notrace() that does not perform these added checks,
and let the function tracer use that.
The third commit fixes a failed compile when branch tracing is enabled,
due to the conversion of the trace_test_buffer() selftest that the
branch trace wasn't converted for.
The forth patch fixes a bug caught by the RCU lockdep code where a
rcu_read_lock() is performed when rcu is disabled (either going to
or from idle, or user space). This happened on the irqsoff tracer
as it calls task_uid(). The fix here was to use current_uid() when
possible that doesn't use rcu locking. Which luckily, is always used
when irqsoff calls this code.
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Merge tag 'trace-fixes-v3.10-rc3-v3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace
Pull tracing fixes from Steven Rostedt:
"This contains 4 fixes.
The first two fix the case where full RCU debugging is enabled,
enabling function tracing causes a live lock of the system. This is
due to the added debug checks in rcu_dereference_raw() that is used by
the function tracer. These checks are also traced by the function
tracer as well as cause enough overhead to the function tracer to slow
down the system enough that the time to finish an interrupt can take
longer than when the next interrupt is triggered, causing a live lock
from the timer interrupt.
Talking this over with Paul McKenney, we came up with a fix that adds
a new rcu_dereference_raw_notrace() that does not perform these added
checks, and let the function tracer use that.
The third commit fixes a failed compile when branch tracing is
enabled, due to the conversion of the trace_test_buffer() selftest
that the branch trace wasn't converted for.
The forth patch fixes a bug caught by the RCU lockdep code where a
rcu_read_lock() is performed when rcu is disabled (either going to or
from idle, or user space). This happened on the irqsoff tracer as it
calls task_uid(). The fix here was to use current_uid() when possible
that doesn't use rcu locking. Which luckily, is always used when
irqsoff calls this code."
* tag 'trace-fixes-v3.10-rc3-v3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace:
tracing: Use current_uid() for critical time tracing
tracing: Fix bad parameter passed in branch selftest
ftrace: Use the rcu _notrace variants for rcu_dereference_raw() and friends
rcu: Add _notrace variation of rcu_dereference_raw() and hlist_for_each_entry_rcu()
The irqsoff tracer records the max time that interrupts are disabled.
There are hooks in the assembly code that calls back into the tracer when
interrupts are disabled or enabled.
When they are enabled, the tracer checks if the amount of time they
were disabled is larger than the previous recorded max interrupts off
time. If it is, it creates a snapshot of the currently running trace
to store where the last largest interrupts off time was held and how
it happened.
During testing, this RCU lockdep dump appeared:
[ 1257.829021] ===============================
[ 1257.829021] [ INFO: suspicious RCU usage. ]
[ 1257.829021] 3.10.0-rc1-test+ #171 Tainted: G W
[ 1257.829021] -------------------------------
[ 1257.829021] /home/rostedt/work/git/linux-trace.git/include/linux/rcupdate.h:780 rcu_read_lock() used illegally while idle!
[ 1257.829021]
[ 1257.829021] other info that might help us debug this:
[ 1257.829021]
[ 1257.829021]
[ 1257.829021] RCU used illegally from idle CPU!
[ 1257.829021] rcu_scheduler_active = 1, debug_locks = 0
[ 1257.829021] RCU used illegally from extended quiescent state!
[ 1257.829021] 2 locks held by trace-cmd/4831:
[ 1257.829021] #0: (max_trace_lock){......}, at: [<ffffffff810e2b77>] stop_critical_timing+0x1a3/0x209
[ 1257.829021] #1: (rcu_read_lock){.+.+..}, at: [<ffffffff810dae5a>] __update_max_tr+0x88/0x1ee
[ 1257.829021]
[ 1257.829021] stack backtrace:
[ 1257.829021] CPU: 3 PID: 4831 Comm: trace-cmd Tainted: G W 3.10.0-rc1-test+ #171
[ 1257.829021] Hardware name: To Be Filled By O.E.M. To Be Filled By O.E.M./To be filled by O.E.M., BIOS SDBLI944.86P 05/08/2007
[ 1257.829021] 0000000000000001 ffff880065f49da8 ffffffff8153dd2b ffff880065f49dd8
[ 1257.829021] ffffffff81092a00 ffff88006bd78680 ffff88007add7500 0000000000000003
[ 1257.829021] ffff88006bd78680 ffff880065f49e18 ffffffff810daebf ffffffff810dae5a
[ 1257.829021] Call Trace:
[ 1257.829021] [<ffffffff8153dd2b>] dump_stack+0x19/0x1b
[ 1257.829021] [<ffffffff81092a00>] lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0x109/0x112
[ 1257.829021] [<ffffffff810daebf>] __update_max_tr+0xed/0x1ee
[ 1257.829021] [<ffffffff810dae5a>] ? __update_max_tr+0x88/0x1ee
[ 1257.829021] [<ffffffff811002b9>] ? user_enter+0xfd/0x107
[ 1257.829021] [<ffffffff810dbf85>] update_max_tr_single+0x11d/0x12d
[ 1257.829021] [<ffffffff811002b9>] ? user_enter+0xfd/0x107
[ 1257.829021] [<ffffffff810e2b15>] stop_critical_timing+0x141/0x209
[ 1257.829021] [<ffffffff8109569a>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xd/0xf
[ 1257.829021] [<ffffffff811002b9>] ? user_enter+0xfd/0x107
[ 1257.829021] [<ffffffff810e3057>] time_hardirqs_on+0x2a/0x2f
[ 1257.829021] [<ffffffff811002b9>] ? user_enter+0xfd/0x107
[ 1257.829021] [<ffffffff8109550c>] trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x16/0x197
[ 1257.829021] [<ffffffff8109569a>] trace_hardirqs_on+0xd/0xf
[ 1257.829021] [<ffffffff811002b9>] user_enter+0xfd/0x107
[ 1257.829021] [<ffffffff810029b4>] do_notify_resume+0x92/0x97
[ 1257.829021] [<ffffffff8154bdca>] int_signal+0x12/0x17
What happened was entering into the user code, the interrupts were enabled
and a max interrupts off was recorded. The trace buffer was saved along with
various information about the task: comm, pid, uid, priority, etc.
The uid is recorded with task_uid(tsk). But this is a macro that uses rcu_read_lock()
to retrieve the data, and this happened to happen where RCU is blind (user_enter).
As only the preempt and irqs off tracers can have this happen, and they both
only have the tsk == current, if tsk == current, use current_uid() instead of
task_uid(), as current_uid() does not use RCU as only current can change its uid.
This fixes the RCU suspicious splat.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Pull cgroup fixes from Tejun Heo:
- Fix for yet another xattr bug which may lead to NULL deref.
- A subtle bug in for_each_descendant_pre(). This bug requires quite
specific conditions to trigger and isn't too likely to actually
happen in the wild, but maybe that just makes it that much more
nastier.
- A warning message added for silly cgroup re-mount (not -o remount,
but unmount followed by mount) behavior.
* 'for-3.10-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup:
cgroup: warn about mismatching options of a new mount of an existing hierarchy
cgroup: fix a subtle bug in descendant pre-order walk
cgroup: initialize xattr before calling d_instantiate()
Pull x86 fixes from Peter Anvin:
- Three EFI-related fixes
- Two early memory initialization fixes
- build fix for older binutils
- fix for an eager FPU performance regression -- currently we don't
allow the use of the FPU at interrupt time *at all* in eager mode,
which is clearly wrong.
* 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86: Allow FPU to be used at interrupt time even with eagerfpu
x86, crc32-pclmul: Fix build with older binutils
x86-64, init: Fix a possible wraparound bug in switchover in head_64.S
x86, range: fix missing merge during add range
x86, efi: initial the local variable of DataSize to zero
efivar: fix oops in efivar_update_sysfs_entries() caused by memory reuse
efivarfs: Never return ENOENT from firmware again
The branch selftest calls trace_test_buffer(), but with the new code
it expects the first parameter to be a pointer to a struct trace_buffer.
All self tests were changed but the branch selftest was missed.
This caused either a crash or failed test when the branch selftest was
enabled.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130529141333.GA24064@localhost
Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
As rcu_dereference_raw() under RCU debug config options can add quite a
bit of checks, and that tracing uses rcu_dereference_raw(), these checks
happen with the function tracer. The function tracer also happens to trace
these debug checks too. This added overhead can livelock the system.
Have the function tracer use the new RCU _notrace equivalents that do
not do the debug checks for RCU.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130528184209.467603904@goodmis.org
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
With the new __DEVEL__sane_behavior mount option was introduced,
if the root cgroup is alive with no xattr function, to mount a
new cgroup with xattr will be rejected in terms of design which
just fine. However, if the root cgroup does not mounted with
__DEVEL__sane_hehavior, to create a new cgroup with xattr option
will succeed although after that the EA function does not works
as expected but will get ENOTSUPP for setting up attributes under
either cgroup. e.g.
setfattr: /cgroup2/test: Operation not supported
Instead of keeping silence in this case, it's better to drop a log
entry in warning level. That would be helpful to understand the
reason behind the scene from the user's perspective, and this is
essentially an improvement does not break the backward compatibilities.
With this fix, above mount attemption will keep up works as usual but
the following line cound be found at the system log:
[ ...] cgroup: new mount options do not match the existing superblock
tj: minor formatting / message updates.
Signed-off-by: Jie Liu <jeff.liu@oracle.com>
Reported-by: Alexey Kodanev <alexey.kodanev@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Since commit 31ade30692, timekeeping_init()
checks for presence of persistent clock by attempting to read a non-zero
time value. This is an issue on platforms where persistent_clock (instead
is implemented as a free-running counter (instead of an RTC) starting
from zero on each boot and running during suspend. Examples are some ARM
platforms (e.g. PandaBoard).
An attempt to read such a clock during timekeeping_init() may return zero
value and falsely declare persistent clock as missing. Additionally, in
the above case suspend times may be accounted twice (once from
timekeeping_resume() and once from rtc_resume()), resulting in a gradual
drift of system time.
This patch does a run-time correction of the issue by doing the same check
during timekeeping_suspend().
A better long-term solution would have to return error when trying to read
non-existing clock and zero when trying to read an uninitialized clock, but
that would require changing all persistent_clock implementations.
This patch addresses the immediate breakage, for now.
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Zoran Markovic <zoran.markovic@linaro.org>
[jstultz: Tweaked commit message and subject]
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
kernel/time/ntp.c: In function ‘__hardpps’:
kernel/time/ntp.c:877: warning: unused variable ‘flags’
commit a076b2146f ("ntp: Remove ntp_lock,
using the timekeeping locks to protect ntp state") removed its users,
but not the actual variable.
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
The first one was reported by Mauro Carvalho Chehab, where if a poll()
is done against a trace buffer for a CPU that has never been online,
it will crash the kernel, as buffers are only created when a CPU comes
on line, but the trace files are for all possible CPUs.
This fix is to check if the buffer was allocated and if not return -EINVAL.
That was the simple fix, the real fix is a bit more complex and not for
a -rc release. We could have the files created when the CPUs come online.
That would require some design changes.
The second one was reported by Peter Zijlstra. If the kernel command line
has ftrace=nop, it will lock up the system on boot up. This is because
the new design for 3.10 has the nop tracer bootstrap the tracing subsystem.
When ftrace=<trace> is defined, when a that tracer is registered, it
starts the tracing, but uses the nop tracer to clear things out.
What happened here was that ftrace=nop caused the registering of nop
to start it and use nop before it was initialized.
The only thing nop needs to have done to initialize it is to have the
tracer point its current_tracer structure member to the nop tracer.
Doing that before registering the nop tracer makes everything work.
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Merge tag 'trace-fixes-v3.10-rc3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace
Pull tracing fixes from Steven Rostedt:
"Two more fixes:
The first one was reported by Mauro Carvalho Chehab, where if a poll()
is done against a trace buffer for a CPU that has never been online,
it will crash the kernel, as buffers are only created when a CPU comes
on line, but the trace files are for all possible CPUs.
This fix is to check if the buffer was allocated and if not return
-EINVAL.
That was the simple fix, the real fix is a bit more complex and not
for a -rc release. We could have the files created when the CPUs come
online. That would require some design changes.
The second one was reported by Peter Zijlstra. If the kernel command
line has ftrace=nop, it will lock up the system on boot up. This is
because the new design for 3.10 has the nop tracer bootstrap the
tracing subsystem. When ftrace=<trace> is defined, when a that tracer
is registered, it starts the tracing, but uses the nop tracer to clear
things out. What happened here was that ftrace=nop caused the
registering of nop to start it and use nop before it was initialized.
The only thing nop needs to have done to initialize it is to have the
tracer point its current_tracer structure member to the nop tracer.
Doing that before registering the nop tracer makes everything work."
* tag 'trace-fixes-v3.10-rc3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace:
ring-buffer: Do not poll non allocated cpu buffers
tracing: Fix crash when ftrace=nop on the kernel command line
The tracing infrastructure sets up for possible CPUs, but it uses
the ring buffer polling, it is possible to call the ring buffer
polling code with a CPU that hasn't been allocated. This will cause
a kernel oops when it access a ring buffer cpu buffer that is part
of the possible cpus but hasn't been allocated yet as the CPU has never
been online.
Reported-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
commit 26517f3e (tick: Avoid programming the local cpu timer if
broadcast pending) added a warning if the cpu enters broadcast mode
again while the pending bit is still set. Meelis reported that the
warning triggers. There are two corner cases which have been not
considered:
1) cpuidle calls clockevents_notify(CLOCK_EVT_NOTIFY_BROADCAST_ENTER)
twice. That can result in the following scenario
CPU0 CPU1
cpuidle_idle_call()
clockevents_notify(CLOCK_EVT_NOTIFY_BROADCAST_ENTER)
set cpu in tick_broadcast_oneshot_mask
broadcast interrupt
event expired for cpu1
set pending bit
acpi_idle_enter_simple()
clockevents_notify(CLOCK_EVT_NOTIFY_BROADCAST_ENTER)
WARN_ON(pending bit)
Move the WARN_ON into the section where we enter broadcast mode so
it wont provide false positives on the second call.
2) safe_halt() enables interrupts, so a broadcast interrupt can be
delivered befor the broadcast mode is disabled. That sets the
pending bit for the CPU which receives the broadcast
interrupt. Though the interrupt is delivered right away from the
broadcast handler and leaves the pending bit stale.
Clear the pending bit for the current cpu in the broadcast handler.
Reported-and-tested-by: Meelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LFD.2.02.1305271841130.4220@ionos
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Fix kernel-doc warnings in kernel/auditfilter.c:
Warning(kernel/auditfilter.c:1029): Excess function parameter 'loginuid' description in 'audit_receive_filter'
Warning(kernel/auditfilter.c:1029): Excess function parameter 'sessionid' description in 'audit_receive_filter'
Warning(kernel/auditfilter.c:1029): Excess function parameter 'sid' description in 'audit_receive_filter'
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
result in event_enable_func(). After checking the return status
of try_module_get(), it returned the status of try_module_get(). But
try_module_get() returns 0 on failure, which is success for
event_enable_func().
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Merge tag 'trace-fixes-v3.10-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace
Pull tracing fix from Steven Rostedt:
"Masami Hiramatsu fixed another bug. This time returning a proper
result in event_enable_func(). After checking the return status of
try_module_get(), it returned the status of try_module_get().
But try_module_get() returns 0 on failure, which is success for
event_enable_func()"
* tag 'trace-fixes-v3.10-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace:
tracing: Return -EBUSY when event_enable_func() fails to get module
When cgroup_next_descendant_pre() initiates a walk, it checks whether
the subtree root doesn't have any children and if not returns NULL.
Later code assumes that the subtree isn't empty. This is broken
because the subtree may become empty inbetween, which can lead to the
traversal escaping the subtree by walking to the sibling of the
subtree root.
There's no reason to have the early exit path. Remove it along with
the later assumption that the subtree isn't empty. This simplifies
the code a bit and fixes the subtle bug.
While at it, fix the comment of cgroup_for_each_descendant_pre() which
was incorrectly referring to ->css_offline() instead of
->css_online().
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
If ftrace=<tracer> is on the kernel command line, when that tracer is
registered, it will be initiated by tracing_set_tracer() to execute that
tracer.
The nop tracer is just a stub tracer that is used to have no tracer
enabled. It is assigned at early bootup as it is the default tracer.
But if ftrace=nop is on the kernel command line, the registering of the
nop tracer will call tracing_set_tracer() which will try to execute
the nop tracer. But it expects tr->current_trace to be assigned something
as it usually is assigned to the nop tracer. As it hasn't been assigned
to anything yet, it causes the system to crash.
The simple fix is to move the tr->current_trace = nop before registering
the nop tracer. The functionality is still the same as the nop tracer
doesn't do anything anyway.
Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
to avoid false positives (previously it was only scanning specific
sections and missing .ref.data).
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Merge tag 'kmemleak-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmarinas/linux-aarch64
Pull kmemleak patches from Catalin Marinas:
"Kmemleak now scans all the writable and non-executable module sections
to avoid false positives (previously it was only scanning specific
sections and missing .ref.data)."
* tag 'kmemleak-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmarinas/linux-aarch64:
kmemleak: No need for scanning specific module sections
kmemleak: Scan all allocated, writeable and not executable module sections
Christian found v3.9 does not work with E350 with EFI is enabled.
[ 1.658832] Trying to unpack rootfs image as initramfs...
[ 1.679935] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffff88006e3fd000
[ 1.686940] IP: [<ffffffff813661df>] memset+0x1f/0xb0
[ 1.692010] PGD 1f77067 PUD 1f7a067 PMD 61420067 PTE 0
but early memtest report all memory could be accessed without problem.
early page table is set in following sequence:
[ 0.000000] init_memory_mapping: [mem 0x00000000-0x000fffff]
[ 0.000000] init_memory_mapping: [mem 0x6e600000-0x6e7fffff]
[ 0.000000] init_memory_mapping: [mem 0x6c000000-0x6e5fffff]
[ 0.000000] init_memory_mapping: [mem 0x00100000-0x6bffffff]
[ 0.000000] init_memory_mapping: [mem 0x6e800000-0x6ea07fff]
but later efi_enter_virtual_mode try set mapping again wrongly.
[ 0.010644] pid_max: default: 32768 minimum: 301
[ 0.015302] init_memory_mapping: [mem 0x640c5000-0x6e3fcfff]
that means it fails with pfn_range_is_mapped.
It turns out that we have a bug in add_range_with_merge and it does not
merge range properly when new add one fill the hole between two exsiting
ranges. In the case when [mem 0x00100000-0x6bffffff] is the hole between
[mem 0x00000000-0x000fffff] and [mem 0x6c000000-0x6e7fffff].
Fix the add_range_with_merge by calling itself recursively.
Reported-by: "Christian König" <christian.koenig@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAE9FiQVofGoSk7q5-0irjkBxemqK729cND4hov-1QCBJDhxpgQ@mail.gmail.com
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> v3.9
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
As kmemleak now scans all module sections that are allocated, writable
and non executable, there's no need to scan individual sections that
might reference data.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Instead of just picking data sections by name (names that start
with .data, .bss or .ref.data), use the section flags and scan all
sections that are allocated, writable and not executable. Which should
cover all sections of a module that might reference data.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
[catalin.marinas@arm.com: removed unused 'name' variable]
[catalin.marinas@arm.com: collapsed 'if' blocks]
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Pull workqueue fixes from Tejun Heo:
"Three more workqueue regression fixes.
- Fix unbalanced unlock in trylock failure path of manage_workers().
This shouldn't happen often in the wild but is possible.
- While making schedule_work() and friends inline, they become
unavailable to !GPL modules. Allow !GPL modules to access basic
stuff - system_wq and queue_*work_on() - so that schedule_work()
and friends can be used.
- During boot, the unbound NUMA support code allocates a cpumask for
each possible node using alloc_cpumask_var_node(), which ends up
trying to allocate node-specific memory even for offline nodes
triggering BUG in the memory alloc code. Use NUMA_NO_NODE for
offline nodes."
* 'for-3.10-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq:
workqueue: don't perform NUMA-aware allocations on offline nodes in wq_numa_init()
workqueue: Make schedule_work() available again to non GPL modules
workqueue: correct handling of the pool spin_lock
Pull RCU fixes from Paul McKenney:
"A couple of fixes for RCU regressions:
- A boneheaded boolean-logic bug that resulted in excessive delays on
boot, hibernation and suspend that was reported by Borislav Petkov,
Bjørn Mork, and Joerg Roedel. The fix inserts a single "!".
- A fix for a boot-time splat due to allocating from bootmem too late
in boot, fix courtesy of Sasha Levin with additional help from
Yinghai Lu."
* 'rcu/urgent' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu:
rcu: Don't allocate bootmem from rcu_init()
rcu: Fix comparison sense in rcu_needs_cpu()
argv_split(empty_or_all_spaces) happily succeeds, it simply returns
argc == 0 and argv[0] == NULL. Change call_usermodehelper_exec() to
check sub_info->path != NULL to avoid the crash.
This is the minimal fix, todo:
- perhaps we should change argv_split() to return NULL or change the
callers.
- kill or justify ->path[0] check
- narrow the scope of helper_lock()
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-By: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@intel.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Since try_module_get() returns false( = 0) when it fails to
pindown a module, event_enable_func() returns 0 which means
"succeed". This can cause a kernel panic when the entry
is removed, because the event is already released.
This fixes the bug by returning -EBUSY, because the reason
why it fails is that the module is being removed at that time.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130516114848.13508.97899.stgit@mhiramat-M0-7522
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@intel.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Also, Masami Hiramatsu fixed up some minor bugs that were discovered
by sparse.
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Merge tag 'trace-fixes-v3.10-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace
Pull tracing fixes from Steven Rostedt:
"This includes a fix to a memory leak when adding filters to traces.
Also, Masami Hiramatsu fixed up some minor bugs that were discovered
by sparse."
* tag 'trace-fixes-v3.10-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace:
tracing/kprobes: Make print_*probe_event static
tracing/kprobes: Fix a sparse warning for incorrect type in assignment
tracing/kprobes: Use rcu_dereference_raw for tp->files
tracing: Fix leaks of filter preds
Pull perf fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
- Fix for a task exit cleanup race caused by a missing a preempt
disable
- Cleanup of the event notification functions with a massive reduction
of duplicated code
* 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
perf: Factor out auxiliary events notification
perf: Fix EXIT event notification
Pull timer fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
- Cure for not using zalloc in the first place, which leads to random
crashes with CPUMASK_OFF_STACK.
- Revert a user space visible change which broke udev
- Add a missing cpu_online early return introduced by the new full
dyntick conversions
- Plug a long standing race in the timer wheel cpu hotplug code.
Sigh...
- Cleanup NOHZ per cpu data on cpu down to prevent stale data on cpu
up.
* 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
time: Revert ALWAYS_USE_PERSISTENT_CLOCK compile time optimizaitons
timer: Don't reinitialize the cpu base lock during CPU_UP_PREPARE
tick: Don't invoke tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick() if the cpu is offline
tick: Cleanup NOHZ per cpu data on cpu down
tick: Use zalloc_cpumask_var for allocating offstack cpumasks
Pull core fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
- Two fixlets for the fallout of the generic idle task conversion
- Documentation update
* 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
rcu/idle: Wrap cpu-idle poll mode within rcu_idle_enter/exit
idle: Fix hlt/nohlt command-line handling in new generic idle
kthread: Document ways of reducing OS jitter due to per-CPU kthreads
