profiling: dynamically enable readprofile at runtime

Way too often, I have a machine that exhibits some kind of crappy
behavior.  The CPU looks wedged in the kernel or it is spending way too
much system time and I wonder what is responsible.

I try to run readprofile.  But, of course, Ubuntu doesn't enable it by
default.  Dang!

The reason we boot-time enable it is that it takes a big bufffer that we
generally can only bootmem alloc.  But, does it hurt to at least try and
runtime-alloc it?

To use:
echo 2 > /sys/kernel/profile

Then run readprofile like normal.

This should fix the compile issue with allmodconfig.  I've compile-tested
on a bunch more configs now including a few more architectures.

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 31 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/profile.c b/kernel/profile.c
index cd26bed4cc26..a9e422df6bf6 100644
--- a/kernel/profile.c
+++ b/kernel/profile.c
@@ -22,6 +22,8 @@
 #include <linux/cpu.h>
 #include <linux/highmem.h>
 #include <linux/mutex.h>
+#include <linux/slab.h>
+#include <linux/vmalloc.h>
 #include <asm/sections.h>
 #include <asm/irq_regs.h>
 #include <asm/ptrace.h>
@@ -50,11 +52,11 @@ static DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, cpu_profile_flip);
 static DEFINE_MUTEX(profile_flip_mutex);
 #endif /* CONFIG_SMP */
 
-static int __init profile_setup(char *str)
+int profile_setup(char *str)
 {
-        static char __initdata schedstr[] = "schedule";
-        static char __initdata sleepstr[] = "sleep";
-        static char __initdata kvmstr[] = "kvm";
+        static char schedstr[] = "schedule";
+        static char sleepstr[] = "sleep";
+        static char kvmstr[] = "kvm";
         int par;
 
         if (!strncmp(str, sleepstr, strlen(sleepstr))) {
@@ -100,14 +102,33 @@ static int __init profile_setup(char *str)
 __setup("profile=", profile_setup);
 
 
-void __init profile_init(void)
+int profile_init(void)
 {
+        int buffer_bytes;
         if (!prof_on)
-                return;
+                return 0;
 
         /* only text is profiled */
         prof_len = (_etext - _stext) >> prof_shift;
-        prof_buffer = alloc_bootmem(prof_len*sizeof(atomic_t));
+        buffer_bytes = prof_len*sizeof(atomic_t);
+        if (!slab_is_available()) {
+                prof_buffer = alloc_bootmem(buffer_bytes);
+                return 0;
+        }
+
+        prof_buffer = kzalloc(buffer_bytes, GFP_KERNEL);
+        if (prof_buffer)
+                return 0;
+
+        prof_buffer = alloc_pages_exact(buffer_bytes, GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_ZERO);
+        if (prof_buffer)
+                return 0;
+
+        prof_buffer = vmalloc(buffer_bytes);
+        if (prof_buffer)
+                return 0;
+
+        return -ENOMEM;
 }
 
 /* Profile event notifications */
@@ -527,7 +548,7 @@ static void __init profile_nop(void *unused)
 {
 }
 
-static int __init create_hash_tables(void)
+static int create_hash_tables(void)
 {
         int cpu;
 
@@ -575,14 +596,14 @@ out_cleanup:
 #define create_hash_tables()                    ({ 0; })
 #endif
 
-static int __init create_proc_profile(void)
+int create_proc_profile(void)
 {
         struct proc_dir_entry *entry;
 
         if (!prof_on)
                 return 0;
         if (create_hash_tables())
-                return -1;
+                return -ENOMEM;
         entry = proc_create("profile", S_IWUSR | S_IRUGO,
                             NULL, &proc_profile_operations);
         if (!entry)