litmus-rt.git/Documentation/trace, branch master

coresight: Correcting documentation typographical error

2015-04-03T14:17:03+00:00

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Poirier 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Merge tag 'char-misc-3.20-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc

2015-02-15T18:48:44+00:00

Pull char / misc patches from Greg KH:
 "Here's the big char/misc driver update for 3.20-rc1.

  Lots of little things in here, all described in the changelog.
  Nothing major or unusual, except maybe the binder selinux stuff, which
  was all acked by the proper selinux people and they thought it best to
  come through this tree.

  All of this has been in linux-next with no reported issues for a while"

* tag 'char-misc-3.20-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc: (90 commits)
  coresight: fix function etm_writel_cp14() parameter order
  coresight-etm: remove check for unknown Kconfig macro
  coresight: fixing CPU hwid lookup in device tree
  coresight: remove the unnecessary function coresight_is_bit_set()
  coresight: fix the debug AMBA bus name
  coresight: remove the extra spaces
  coresight: fix the link between orphan connection and newly added device
  coresight: remove the unnecessary replicator property
  coresight: fix the replicator subtype value
  pdfdocs: Fix 'make pdfdocs' failure for 'uio-howto.tmpl'
  mcb: Fix error path of mcb_pci_probe
  virtio/console: verify device has config space
  ti-st: clean up data types (fix harmless memory corruption)
  mei: me: release hw from reset only during the reset flow
  mei: mask interrupt set bit on clean reset bit
  extcon: max77693: Constify struct regmap_config
  extcon: adc-jack: Release IIO channel on driver remove
  extcon: Remove duplicated include from extcon-class.c
  Drivers: hv: vmbus: hv_process_timer_expiration() can be static
  Drivers: hv: vmbus: serialize Offer and Rescind offer
  ...

Documentation: Fix the wrong command `echo -1 > set_ftrace_pid` for cleaning the filter.

2015-02-09T16:04:17+00:00

The command `echo > set_ftrace_pid` should be used to clean the filter quietly.
because the command `echo -1 >  set_ftrace_pid` will output the following:
"bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument".

so update the file Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt.

Signed-off-by: Wang Long 
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt 
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

coresight: fix the debug AMBA bus name

2015-02-04T18:42:55+00:00

The right debug AMBA bus name should be APB(Advanced Peripheral Bus),
so just fix it.

Signed-off-by: Kaixu Xia 
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Poirier 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Merge tag 'char-misc-3.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc

2014-12-15T00:43:47+00:00

Pull char/misc driver updates from Greg KH:
 "Here's the big char/misc driver update for 3.19-rc1

  Lots of little things all over the place in different drivers, and a
  new subsystem, "coresight" has been added.  Full details are in the
  shortlog"

* tag 'char-misc-3.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc: (73 commits)
  parport: parport_pc, do not remove parent devices early
  spmi: Remove shutdown/suspend/resume kernel-doc
  carma-fpga-program: drop videobuf dependency
  carma-fpga: drop videobuf dependency
  carma-fpga-program.c: fix compile errors
  i8k: Fix temperature bug handling in i8k_get_temp()
  cxl: Name interrupts in /proc/interrupt
  CXL: Return error to PSL if IRQ demultiplexing fails & print clearer warning
  coresight-replicator: remove .owner field for driver
  coresight: fixed comments in coresight.h
  coresight: fix typo in comment in coresight-priv.h
  coresight: bindings for coresight drivers
  coresight: Adding ABI documentation
  w1: support auto-load of w1_bq27000 module.
  w1: avoid potential u16 overflow
  cn: verify msg->len before making callback
  mei: export fw status registers through sysfs
  mei: read and print all six FW status registers
  mei: txe: add cherrytrail device id
  mei: kill cached host and me csr values
  ...

tracing: Add additional marks to signal very large time deltas

2014-12-03T22:10:13+00:00

Currently, function graph tracer prints "!" or "+" just before
function execution time to signal a function overhead, depending
on the time. And some tracers tracing latency also print "!" or
"+" just after time to signal overhead, depending on the interval
between events. Even it is usually enough to do that, we sometimes
need to signal for bigger execution time than 100 micro seconds.

For example, I used function graph tracer to detect if there is
any case that exit_mm() takes too much time. I did following steps
in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing. It was easier to detect very large
excution time with patched kernel than with original kernel.

$ echo exit_mm > set_graph_function
$ echo function_graph > current_tracer
$ echo > trace
$ cat trace_pipe > $LOGFILE
 ... (do something and terminate logging)
$ grep "\\$" $LOGFILE
 3) $ 22082032 us |                      } /* kernel_map_pages */
 3) $ 22082040 us |                    } /* free_pages_prepare */
 3) $ 22082113 us |                  } /* free_hot_cold_page */
 3) $ 22083455 us |                } /* free_hot_cold_page_list */
 3) $ 22083895 us |              } /* release_pages */
 3) $ 22177873 us |            } /* free_pages_and_swap_cache */
 3) $ 22178929 us |          } /* unmap_single_vma */
 3) $ 22198885 us |        } /* unmap_vmas */
 3) $ 22206949 us |      } /* exit_mmap */
 3) $ 22207659 us |    } /* mmput */
 3) $ 22207793 us |  } /* exit_mm */

And then, it was easy to find out that a schedule-out occured by
sub_preempt_count() within kernel_map_pages().

To detect very large function exection time caused by either problematic
function implementation or scheduling issues, this patch can be useful.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1416789259-24038-1-git-send-email-byungchul.park@lge.com

Signed-off-by: Byungchul Park 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

ftrace, kprobes: Support IPMODIFY flag to find IP modify conflict

2014-11-21T19:42:10+00:00

Introduce FTRACE_OPS_FL_IPMODIFY to avoid conflict among
ftrace users who may modify regs->ip to change the execution
path. If two or more users modify the regs->ip on the same
function entry, one of them will be broken. So they must add
IPMODIFY flag and make sure that ftrace_set_filter_ip() succeeds.

Note that ftrace doesn't allow ftrace_ops which has IPMODIFY
flag to have notrace hash, and the ftrace_ops must have a
filter hash (so that the ftrace_ops can hook only specific
entries), because it strongly depends on the address and
must be allowed for only few selected functions.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141121102516.11844.27829.stgit@localhost.localdomain

Cc: Jiri Kosina 
Cc: Seth Jennings 
Cc: Petr Mladek 
Cc: Vojtech Pavlik 
Cc: Miroslav Benes 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli 
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu 
[ fixed up some of the comments ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

coresight: documentation for coresight framework and drivers

2014-11-07T23:19:33+00:00

Documentation containing an explanation on what the framework
provides and the drivers working with it.  A minimal example
on how to use the functionality is also provided.

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Poirier 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm: trace-vmscan-postprocess.pl: report the number of file/anon pages respectively

2014-08-07T01:01:20+00:00

Until now, the reporting from trace-vmscan-postprocess.pl is not very
useful because we cannot directly use this script for checking the
file/anon ratio of scanning.  This patch aims to report respectively the
number of file/anon pages which were scanned/reclaimed by kswapd or
direct-reclaim.  Sample output is usually something like the following.

Summary
Direct reclaims:                          8823
Direct reclaim pages scanned:             2438797
Direct reclaim file pages scanned:        1315200
Direct reclaim anon pages scanned:        1123597
Direct reclaim pages reclaimed:           446139
Direct reclaim file pages reclaimed:      378668
Direct reclaim anon pages reclaimed:      67471
Direct reclaim write file sync I/O:       0
Direct reclaim write anon sync I/O:       0
Direct reclaim write file async I/O:      0
Direct reclaim write anon async I/O:      4240
Wake kswapd requests:                     122310
Time stalled direct reclaim:              13.78 seconds

Kswapd wakeups:                           25817
Kswapd pages scanned:                     170779115
Kswapd file pages scanned:                162725123
Kswapd anon pages scanned:                8053992
Kswapd pages reclaimed:                   129065738
Kswapd file pages reclaimed:              128500930
Kswapd anon pages reclaimed:              564808
Kswapd reclaim write file sync I/O:       0
Kswapd reclaim write anon sync I/O:       0
Kswapd reclaim write file async I/O:      36
Kswapd reclaim write anon async I/O:      730730
Time kswapd awake:                        1015.50 seconds

Signed-off-by: Chen Yucong 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Cc: Johannes Weiner 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2014-08-04T23:23:30+00:00

Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:

 - Move the nohz kick code out of the scheduler tick to a dedicated IPI,
   from Frederic Weisbecker.

  This necessiated quite some background infrastructure rework,
  including:

   * Clean up some irq-work internals
   * Implement remote irq-work
   * Implement nohz kick on top of remote irq-work
   * Move full dynticks timer enqueue notification to new kick
   * Move multi-task notification to new kick
   * Remove unecessary barriers on multi-task notification

 - Remove proliferation of wait_on_bit() action functions and allow
   wait_on_bit_action() functions to support a timeout.  (Neil Brown)

 - Another round of sched/numa improvements, cleanups and fixes.  (Rik
   van Riel)

 - Implement fast idling of CPUs when the system is partially loaded,
   for better scalability.  (Tim Chen)

 - Restructure and fix the CPU hotplug handling code that may leave
   cfs_rq and rt_rq's throttled when tasks are migrated away from a dead
   cpu.  (Kirill Tkhai)

 - Robustify the sched topology setup code.  (Peterz Zijlstra)

 - Improve sched_feat() handling wrt.  static_keys (Jason Baron)

 - Misc fixes.

* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (37 commits)
  sched/fair: Fix 'make xmldocs' warning caused by missing description
  sched: Use macro for magic number of -1 for setparam
  sched: Robustify topology setup
  sched: Fix sched_setparam() policy == -1 logic
  sched: Allow wait_on_bit_action() functions to support a timeout
  sched: Remove proliferation of wait_on_bit() action functions
  sched/numa: Revert "Use effective_load() to balance NUMA loads"
  sched: Fix static_key race with sched_feat()
  sched: Remove extra static_key*() function indirection
  sched/rt: Fix replenish_dl_entity() comments to match the current upstream code
  sched: Transform resched_task() into resched_curr()
  sched/deadline: Kill task_struct->pi_top_task
  sched: Rework check_for_tasks()
  sched/rt: Enqueue just unthrottled rt_rq back on the stack in __disable_runtime()
  sched/fair: Disable runtime_enabled on dying rq
  sched/numa: Change scan period code to match intent
  sched/numa: Rework best node setting in task_numa_migrate()
  sched/numa: Examine a task move when examining a task swap
  sched/numa: Simplify task_numa_compare()
  sched/numa: Use effective_load() to balance NUMA loads
  ...