From 369bc18f9a6c4e2686204c1d7476ab684a720968 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stefan Assmann Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:17:21 +0200 Subject: ftrace: add kernel command line graph function filtering Add a command line parameter to allow limiting the function graphs that are traced on boot up from the given top-level callers , when ftrace=function_graph is specified. This patch adds the following command line option: ftrace_graph_filter=function-list Where function-list is a comma separated list of functions to filter. [fweisbec@gmail.com: picked the documentation changes from the v2 patch] Signed-off-by: Stefan Assmann Acked-by: Steven Rostedt LKML-Reference: <4AD2DEB9.2@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker --- Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index 6fa7292947e5..1dc4b9cc20e5 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -778,6 +778,13 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory. + ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list] + [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced + by the function graph tracer at boot up. + function-list is a comma separated list of functions + that can be changed at run time by the + set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory. + gamecon.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port) -- cgit v1.2.2 From 459c6d15a0c52bae43842ff2cd0dd41aa7de9b7f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Frederic Weisbecker Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2009 07:14:15 +0200 Subject: tracing: Document HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS needs Document the arch needed requirements to get the support for syscalls tracing. v2: HAVE_FTRACE_SYSCALLS have been changed to HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS recently. Update this config name in the documentation then. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker Acked-by: Heiko Carstens Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Li Zefan Cc: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: Jason Baron Cc: Lai Jiangshan Cc: Martin Schwidefsky Cc: Paul Mundt --- Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.txt | 13 +++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.txt b/Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.txt index 7003e10f10f5..641a1ef2a7ff 100644 --- a/Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.txt +++ b/Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.txt @@ -213,10 +213,19 @@ If you can't trace NMI functions, then skip this option.
-HAVE_FTRACE_SYSCALLS +HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS --------------------- -
+You need very few things to get the syscalls tracing in an arch. + +- Have a NR_syscalls variable in that provides the number + of syscalls supported by the arch. +- Implement arch_syscall_addr() that resolves a syscall address from a + syscall number. +- Support the TIF_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINT thread flags +- Put the trace_sys_enter() and trace_sys_exit() tracepoints calls from ptrace + in the ptrace syscalls tracing path. +- Tag this arch as HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS. HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD -- cgit v1.2.2 From bd58b430039435e4c981cf802b5b11d511d73abd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Paul E. McKenney" Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:15:54 -0700 Subject: rcu: Update trace.txt documentation to reflect recent changes o Remove the CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU documentation since this config option has now been removed. o Change the now-incorrect references to "rcu" labels to instead be "rcu_sched". o Add notes stating that CONFIG_TREE_PREEMPT_RCU kernels will have additional "rcu_preempt" output. o Note the new "oqlen" field in the rcuhier output (for RCU callbacks orphaned by an offlined CPU). Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com Cc: niv@us.ibm.com Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu Cc: dhowells@redhat.com Cc: npiggin@suse.de Cc: jens.axboe@oracle.com LKML-Reference: <1255540559799-git-send-email-> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- Documentation/RCU/trace.txt | 231 +++++++------------------------------------- 1 file changed, 33 insertions(+), 198 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/trace.txt b/Documentation/RCU/trace.txt index 187bbf10c923..c1a95507d10e 100644 --- a/Documentation/RCU/trace.txt +++ b/Documentation/RCU/trace.txt @@ -1,185 +1,10 @@ CONFIG_RCU_TRACE debugfs Files and Formats -The rcupreempt and rcutree implementations of RCU provide debugfs trace -output that summarizes counters and state. This information is useful for -debugging RCU itself, and can sometimes also help to debug abuses of RCU. -Note that the rcuclassic implementation of RCU does not provide debugfs -trace output. - -The following sections describe the debugfs files and formats for -preemptable RCU (rcupreempt) and hierarchical RCU (rcutree). - - -Preemptable RCU debugfs Files and Formats - -This implementation of RCU provides three debugfs files under the -top-level directory RCU: rcu/rcuctrs (which displays the per-CPU -counters used by preemptable RCU) rcu/rcugp (which displays grace-period -counters), and rcu/rcustats (which internal counters for debugging RCU). - -The output of "cat rcu/rcuctrs" looks as follows: - -CPU last cur F M - 0 5 -5 0 0 - 1 -1 0 0 0 - 2 0 1 0 0 - 3 0 1 0 0 - 4 0 1 0 0 - 5 0 1 0 0 - 6 0 2 0 0 - 7 0 -1 0 0 - 8 0 1 0 0 -ggp = 26226, state = waitzero - -The per-CPU fields are as follows: - -o "CPU" gives the CPU number. Offline CPUs are not displayed. - -o "last" gives the value of the counter that is being decremented - for the current grace period phase. In the example above, - the counters sum to 4, indicating that there are still four - RCU read-side critical sections still running that started - before the last counter flip. - -o "cur" gives the value of the counter that is currently being - both incremented (by rcu_read_lock()) and decremented (by - rcu_read_unlock()). In the example above, the counters sum to - 1, indicating that there is only one RCU read-side critical section - still running that started after the last counter flip. - -o "F" indicates whether RCU is waiting for this CPU to acknowledge - a counter flip. In the above example, RCU is not waiting on any, - which is consistent with the state being "waitzero" rather than - "waitack". - -o "M" indicates whether RCU is waiting for this CPU to execute a - memory barrier. In the above example, RCU is not waiting on any, - which is consistent with the state being "waitzero" rather than - "waitmb". - -o "ggp" is the global grace-period counter. - -o "state" is the RCU state, which can be one of the following: - - o "idle": there is no grace period in progress. - - o "waitack": RCU just incremented the global grace-period - counter, which has the effect of reversing the roles of - the "last" and "cur" counters above, and is waiting for - all the CPUs to acknowledge the flip. Once the flip has - been acknowledged, CPUs will no longer be incrementing - what are now the "last" counters, so that their sum will - decrease monotonically down to zero. - - o "waitzero": RCU is waiting for the sum of the "last" counters - to decrease to zero. - - o "waitmb": RCU is waiting for each CPU to execute a memory - barrier, which ensures that instructions from a given CPU's - last RCU read-side critical section cannot be reordered - with instructions following the memory-barrier instruction. - -The output of "cat rcu/rcugp" looks as follows: - -oldggp=48870 newggp=48873 - -Note that reading from this file provokes a synchronize_rcu(). The -"oldggp" value is that of "ggp" from rcu/rcuctrs above, taken before -executing the synchronize_rcu(), and the "newggp" value is also the -"ggp" value, but taken after the synchronize_rcu() command returns. - - -The output of "cat rcu/rcugp" looks as follows: - -na=1337955 nl=40 wa=1337915 wl=44 da=1337871 dl=0 dr=1337871 di=1337871 -1=50989 e1=6138 i1=49722 ie1=82 g1=49640 a1=315203 ae1=265563 a2=49640 -z1=1401244 ze1=1351605 z2=49639 m1=5661253 me1=5611614 m2=49639 - -These are counters tracking internal preemptable-RCU events, however, -some of them may be useful for debugging algorithms using RCU. In -particular, the "nl", "wl", and "dl" values track the number of RCU -callbacks in various states. The fields are as follows: - -o "na" is the total number of RCU callbacks that have been enqueued - since boot. - -o "nl" is the number of RCU callbacks waiting for the previous - grace period to end so that they can start waiting on the next - grace period. - -o "wa" is the total number of RCU callbacks that have started waiting - for a grace period since boot. "na" should be roughly equal to - "nl" plus "wa". - -o "wl" is the number of RCU callbacks currently waiting for their - grace period to end. - -o "da" is the total number of RCU callbacks whose grace periods - have completed since boot. "wa" should be roughly equal to - "wl" plus "da". - -o "dr" is the total number of RCU callbacks that have been removed - from the list of callbacks ready to invoke. "dr" should be roughly - equal to "da". - -o "di" is the total number of RCU callbacks that have been invoked - since boot. "di" should be roughly equal to "da", though some - early versions of preemptable RCU had a bug so that only the - last CPU's count of invocations was displayed, rather than the - sum of all CPU's counts. - -o "1" is the number of calls to rcu_try_flip(). This should be - roughly equal to the sum of "e1", "i1", "a1", "z1", and "m1" - described below. In other words, the number of times that - the state machine is visited should be equal to the sum of the - number of times that each state is visited plus the number of - times that the state-machine lock acquisition failed. - -o "e1" is the number of times that rcu_try_flip() was unable to - acquire the fliplock. - -o "i1" is the number of calls to rcu_try_flip_idle(). - -o "ie1" is the number of times rcu_try_flip_idle() exited early - due to the calling CPU having no work for RCU. - -o "g1" is the number of times that rcu_try_flip_idle() decided - to start a new grace period. "i1" should be roughly equal to - "ie1" plus "g1". - -o "a1" is the number of calls to rcu_try_flip_waitack(). - -o "ae1" is the number of times that rcu_try_flip_waitack() found - that at least one CPU had not yet acknowledge the new grace period - (AKA "counter flip"). - -o "a2" is the number of time rcu_try_flip_waitack() found that - all CPUs had acknowledged. "a1" should be roughly equal to - "ae1" plus "a2". (This particular output was collected on - a 128-CPU machine, hence the smaller-than-usual fraction of - calls to rcu_try_flip_waitack() finding all CPUs having already - acknowledged.) - -o "z1" is the number of calls to rcu_try_flip_waitzero(). - -o "ze1" is the number of times that rcu_try_flip_waitzero() found - that not all of the old RCU read-side critical sections had - completed. - -o "z2" is the number of times that rcu_try_flip_waitzero() finds - the sum of the counters equal to zero, in other words, that - all of the old RCU read-side critical sections had completed. - The value of "z1" should be roughly equal to "ze1" plus - "z2". - -o "m1" is the number of calls to rcu_try_flip_waitmb(). - -o "me1" is the number of times that rcu_try_flip_waitmb() finds - that at least one CPU has not yet executed a memory barrier. - -o "m2" is the number of times that rcu_try_flip_waitmb() finds that - all CPUs have executed a memory barrier. +The rcutree implementation of RCU provides debugfs trace output that +summarizes counters and state. This information is useful for debugging +RCU itself, and can sometimes also help to debug abuses of RCU. +The following sections describe the debugfs files and formats. Hierarchical RCU debugfs Files and Formats @@ -210,9 +35,10 @@ rcu_bh: 6 c=-275 g=-275 pq=1 pqc=-275 qp=0 dt=859/1 dn=0 df=15 of=0 ri=0 ql=0 b=10 7 c=-275 g=-275 pq=1 pqc=-275 qp=0 dt=3761/1 dn=0 df=15 of=0 ri=0 ql=0 b=10 -The first section lists the rcu_data structures for rcu, the second for -rcu_bh. Each section has one line per CPU, or eight for this 8-CPU system. -The fields are as follows: +The first section lists the rcu_data structures for rcu_sched, the second +for rcu_bh. Note that CONFIG_TREE_PREEMPT_RCU kernels will have an +additional section for rcu_preempt. Each section has one line per CPU, +or eight for this 8-CPU system. The fields are as follows: o The number at the beginning of each line is the CPU number. CPUs numbers followed by an exclamation mark are offline, @@ -223,9 +49,9 @@ o The number at the beginning of each line is the CPU number. o "c" is the count of grace periods that this CPU believes have completed. CPUs in dynticks idle mode may lag quite a ways - behind, for example, CPU 4 under "rcu" above, which has slept - through the past 25 RCU grace periods. It is not unusual to - see CPUs lagging by thousands of grace periods. + behind, for example, CPU 4 under "rcu_sched" above, which has + slept through the past 25 RCU grace periods. It is not unusual + to see CPUs lagging by thousands of grace periods. o "g" is the count of grace periods that this CPU believes have started. Again, CPUs in dynticks idle mode may lag behind. @@ -308,8 +134,10 @@ The output of "cat rcu/rcugp" looks as follows: rcu_sched: completed=33062 gpnum=33063 rcu_bh: completed=464 gpnum=464 -Again, this output is for both "rcu" and "rcu_bh". The fields are -taken from the rcu_state structure, and are as follows: +Again, this output is for both "rcu_sched" and "rcu_bh". Note that +kernels built with CONFIG_TREE_PREEMPT_RCU will have an additional +"rcu_preempt" line. The fields are taken from the rcu_state structure, +and are as follows: o "completed" is the number of grace periods that have completed. It is comparable to the "c" field from rcu/rcudata in that a @@ -324,23 +152,24 @@ o "gpnum" is the number of grace periods that have started. It is If these two fields are equal (as they are for "rcu_bh" above), then there is no grace period in progress, in other words, RCU is idle. On the other hand, if the two fields differ (as they - do for "rcu" above), then an RCU grace period is in progress. + do for "rcu_sched" above), then an RCU grace period is in progress. The output of "cat rcu/rcuhier" looks as follows, with very long lines: -c=6902 g=6903 s=2 jfq=3 j=72c7 nfqs=13142/nfqsng=0(13142) fqlh=6 +c=6902 g=6903 s=2 jfq=3 j=72c7 nfqs=13142/nfqsng=0(13142) fqlh=6 oqlen=0 1/1 0:127 ^0 3/3 0:35 ^0 0/0 36:71 ^1 0/0 72:107 ^2 0/0 108:127 ^3 3/3f 0:5 ^0 2/3 6:11 ^1 0/0 12:17 ^2 0/0 18:23 ^3 0/0 24:29 ^4 0/0 30:35 ^5 0/0 36:41 ^0 0/0 42:47 ^1 0/0 48:53 ^2 0/0 54:59 ^3 0/0 60:65 ^4 0/0 66:71 ^5 0/0 72:77 ^0 0/0 78:83 ^1 0/0 84:89 ^2 0/0 90:95 ^3 0/0 96:101 ^4 0/0 102:107 ^5 0/0 108:113 ^0 0/0 114:119 ^1 0/0 120:125 ^2 0/0 126:127 ^3 rcu_bh: -c=-226 g=-226 s=1 jfq=-5701 j=72c7 nfqs=88/nfqsng=0(88) fqlh=0 +c=-226 g=-226 s=1 jfq=-5701 j=72c7 nfqs=88/nfqsng=0(88) fqlh=0 oqlen=0 0/1 0:127 ^0 0/3 0:35 ^0 0/0 36:71 ^1 0/0 72:107 ^2 0/0 108:127 ^3 0/3f 0:5 ^0 0/3 6:11 ^1 0/0 12:17 ^2 0/0 18:23 ^3 0/0 24:29 ^4 0/0 30:35 ^5 0/0 36:41 ^0 0/0 42:47 ^1 0/0 48:53 ^2 0/0 54:59 ^3 0/0 60:65 ^4 0/0 66:71 ^5 0/0 72:77 ^0 0/0 78:83 ^1 0/0 84:89 ^2 0/0 90:95 ^3 0/0 96:101 ^4 0/0 102:107 ^5 0/0 108:113 ^0 0/0 114:119 ^1 0/0 120:125 ^2 0/0 126:127 ^3 -This is once again split into "rcu" and "rcu_bh" portions. The fields are -as follows: +This is once again split into "rcu_sched" and "rcu_bh" portions, +and CONFIG_TREE_PREEMPT_RCU kernels will again have an additional +"rcu_preempt" section. The fields are as follows: o "c" is exactly the same as "completed" under rcu/rcugp. @@ -372,6 +201,11 @@ o "fqlh" is the number of calls to force_quiescent_state() that exited immediately (without even being counted in nfqs above) due to contention on ->fqslock. +o "oqlen" is the number of callbacks on the "orphan" callback + list. RCU callbacks are placed on this list by CPUs going + offline, and are "adopted" either by the CPU helping the outgoing + CPU or by the next rcu_barrier*() call, whichever comes first. + o Each element of the form "1/1 0:127 ^0" represents one struct rcu_node. Each line represents one level of the hierarchy, from root to leaves. It is best to think of the rcu_data structures @@ -389,10 +223,10 @@ o Each element of the form "1/1 0:127 ^0" represents one struct The value of qsmaskinit is assigned to that of qsmask at the beginning of each grace period. - For example, for "rcu", the qsmask of the first entry - of the lowest level is 0x14, meaning that we are still - waiting for CPUs 2 and 4 to check in for the current - grace period. + For example, for "rcu_sched", the qsmask of the first + entry of the lowest level is 0x14, meaning that we + are still waiting for CPUs 2 and 4 to check in for the + current grace period. o The numbers separated by the ":" are the range of CPUs served by this struct rcu_node. This can be helpful @@ -431,8 +265,9 @@ rcu_bh: 6 np=120834 qsp=9902 cbr=0 cng=0 gpc=6 gps=3 nf=2 nn=110921 7 np=144888 qsp=26336 cbr=0 cng=0 gpc=8 gps=2 nf=0 nn=118542 -As always, this is once again split into "rcu" and "rcu_bh" portions. -The fields are as follows: +As always, this is once again split into "rcu_sched" and "rcu_bh" +portions, with CONFIG_TREE_PREEMPT_RCU kernels having an additional +"rcu_preempt" section. The fields are as follows: o "np" is the number of times that __rcu_pending() has been invoked for the corresponding flavor of RCU. -- cgit v1.2.2 From 0edf1a683e499191b27a067956ae9f5fa6e046c6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Paul E. McKenney" Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:15:59 -0700 Subject: rcu: Update trace.txt documentation for blocked-tasks lists Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com Cc: niv@us.ibm.com Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu Cc: dhowells@redhat.com Cc: npiggin@suse.de Cc: jens.axboe@oracle.com LKML-Reference: <12555405592804-git-send-email-> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- Documentation/RCU/trace.txt | 23 ++++++++++++++++------- 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/trace.txt b/Documentation/RCU/trace.txt index c1a95507d10e..8608fd85e921 100644 --- a/Documentation/RCU/trace.txt +++ b/Documentation/RCU/trace.txt @@ -158,14 +158,14 @@ o "gpnum" is the number of grace periods that have started. It is The output of "cat rcu/rcuhier" looks as follows, with very long lines: c=6902 g=6903 s=2 jfq=3 j=72c7 nfqs=13142/nfqsng=0(13142) fqlh=6 oqlen=0 -1/1 0:127 ^0 -3/3 0:35 ^0 0/0 36:71 ^1 0/0 72:107 ^2 0/0 108:127 ^3 -3/3f 0:5 ^0 2/3 6:11 ^1 0/0 12:17 ^2 0/0 18:23 ^3 0/0 24:29 ^4 0/0 30:35 ^5 0/0 36:41 ^0 0/0 42:47 ^1 0/0 48:53 ^2 0/0 54:59 ^3 0/0 60:65 ^4 0/0 66:71 ^5 0/0 72:77 ^0 0/0 78:83 ^1 0/0 84:89 ^2 0/0 90:95 ^3 0/0 96:101 ^4 0/0 102:107 ^5 0/0 108:113 ^0 0/0 114:119 ^1 0/0 120:125 ^2 0/0 126:127 ^3 +1/1 .>. 0:127 ^0 +3/3 .>. 0:35 ^0 0/0 .>. 36:71 ^1 0/0 .>. 72:107 ^2 0/0 .>. 108:127 ^3 +3/3f .>. 0:5 ^0 2/3 .>. 6:11 ^1 0/0 .>. 12:17 ^2 0/0 .>. 18:23 ^3 0/0 .>. 24:29 ^4 0/0 .>. 30:35 ^5 0/0 .>. 36:41 ^0 0/0 .>. 42:47 ^1 0/0 .>. 48:53 ^2 0/0 .>. 54:59 ^3 0/0 .>. 60:65 ^4 0/0 .>. 66:71 ^5 0/0 .>. 72:77 ^0 0/0 .>. 78:83 ^1 0/0 .>. 84:89 ^2 0/0 .>. 90:95 ^3 0/0 .>. 96:101 ^4 0/0 .>. 102:107 ^5 0/0 .>. 108:113 ^0 0/0 .>. 114:119 ^1 0/0 .>. 120:125 ^2 0/0 .>. 126:127 ^3 rcu_bh: c=-226 g=-226 s=1 jfq=-5701 j=72c7 nfqs=88/nfqsng=0(88) fqlh=0 oqlen=0 -0/1 0:127 ^0 -0/3 0:35 ^0 0/0 36:71 ^1 0/0 72:107 ^2 0/0 108:127 ^3 -0/3f 0:5 ^0 0/3 6:11 ^1 0/0 12:17 ^2 0/0 18:23 ^3 0/0 24:29 ^4 0/0 30:35 ^5 0/0 36:41 ^0 0/0 42:47 ^1 0/0 48:53 ^2 0/0 54:59 ^3 0/0 60:65 ^4 0/0 66:71 ^5 0/0 72:77 ^0 0/0 78:83 ^1 0/0 84:89 ^2 0/0 90:95 ^3 0/0 96:101 ^4 0/0 102:107 ^5 0/0 108:113 ^0 0/0 114:119 ^1 0/0 120:125 ^2 0/0 126:127 ^3 +0/1 .>. 0:127 ^0 +0/3 .>. 0:35 ^0 0/0 .>. 36:71 ^1 0/0 .>. 72:107 ^2 0/0 .>. 108:127 ^3 +0/3f .>. 0:5 ^0 0/3 .>. 6:11 ^1 0/0 .>. 12:17 ^2 0/0 .>. 18:23 ^3 0/0 .>. 24:29 ^4 0/0 .>. 30:35 ^5 0/0 .>. 36:41 ^0 0/0 .>. 42:47 ^1 0/0 .>. 48:53 ^2 0/0 .>. 54:59 ^3 0/0 .>. 60:65 ^4 0/0 .>. 66:71 ^5 0/0 .>. 72:77 ^0 0/0 .>. 78:83 ^1 0/0 .>. 84:89 ^2 0/0 .>. 90:95 ^3 0/0 .>. 96:101 ^4 0/0 .>. 102:107 ^5 0/0 .>. 108:113 ^0 0/0 .>. 114:119 ^1 0/0 .>. 120:125 ^2 0/0 .>. 126:127 ^3 This is once again split into "rcu_sched" and "rcu_bh" portions, and CONFIG_TREE_PREEMPT_RCU kernels will again have an additional @@ -213,7 +213,7 @@ o Each element of the form "1/1 0:127 ^0" represents one struct might be either one, two, or three levels of rcu_node structures, depending on the relationship between CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT and CONFIG_NR_CPUS. - + o The numbers separated by the "/" are the qsmask followed by the qsmaskinit. The qsmask will have one bit set for each entity in the next lower level that @@ -228,6 +228,15 @@ o Each element of the form "1/1 0:127 ^0" represents one struct are still waiting for CPUs 2 and 4 to check in for the current grace period. + o The characters separated by the ">" indicate the state + of the blocked-tasks lists. A "T" preceding the ">" + indicates that at least one task blocked in an RCU + read-side critical section blocks the current grace + period, while a "." preceding the ">" indicates otherwise. + The character following the ">" indicates similarly for + the next grace period. A "T" should appear in this + field only for rcu-preempt. + o The numbers separated by the ":" are the range of CPUs served by this struct rcu_node. This can be helpful in working out how the hierarchy is wired together. -- cgit v1.2.2 From 3e1c2515acf70448cad1ae3ab835ca80be043d33 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: James Morris Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:48:33 +0900 Subject: security: remove root_plug Remove the root_plug example LSM code. It's unmaintained and increasingly broken in various ways. Made at the 2009 Kernel Summit in Tokyo! Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: James Morris --- Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 10 ---------- 1 file changed, 10 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index 6fa7292947e5..5d386b4ff6a0 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -85,7 +85,6 @@ parameter is applicable: PPT Parallel port support is enabled. PS2 Appropriate PS/2 support is enabled. RAM RAM disk support is enabled. - ROOTPLUG The example Root Plug LSM is enabled. S390 S390 architecture is enabled. SCSI Appropriate SCSI support is enabled. A lot of drivers has their options described inside of @@ -2163,15 +2162,6 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously (e.g. USB and MMC devices). - root_plug.vendor_id= - [ROOTPLUG] Override the default vendor ID - - root_plug.product_id= - [ROOTPLUG] Override the default product ID - - root_plug.debug= - [ROOTPLUG] Enable debugging output - rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot S [KNL] Run init in single mode -- cgit v1.2.2 From 6e8e16c7bc298d7887584c3d027e05db3e86eed9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Paris Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:38:26 -0400 Subject: SELinux: add .gitignore files for dynamic classes The SELinux dynamic class work in c6d3aaa4e35c71a32a86ececacd4eea7ecfc316c creates a number of dynamic header files and scripts. Add .gitignore files so git doesn't complain about these. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris Acked-by: Stephen D. Smalley Signed-off-by: James Morris --- Documentation/dontdiff | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/dontdiff b/Documentation/dontdiff index e1efc400bed6..e151b2a36267 100644 --- a/Documentation/dontdiff +++ b/Documentation/dontdiff @@ -65,6 +65,7 @@ aicdb.h* asm-offsets.h asm_offsets.h autoconf.h* +av_permissions.h bbootsect bin2c binkernel.spec @@ -95,12 +96,14 @@ docproc elf2ecoff elfconfig.h* fixdep +flask.h fore200e_mkfirm fore200e_pca_fw.c* gconf gen-devlist gen_crc32table gen_init_cpio +genheaders genksyms *_gray256.c ihex2fw -- cgit v1.2.2 From 64179861cb801eac4f00c79f39a29ea5ac9470d7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Paul E. McKenney" Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2009 19:03:53 -0700 Subject: rcu: Add synchronize_srcu_expedited() to the documentation Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Acked-by: Josh Triplett Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com Cc: niv@us.ibm.com Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu Cc: dhowells@redhat.com Cc: avi@redhat.com Cc: mtosatti@redhat.com LKML-Reference: <12565226354176-git-send-email-> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt b/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt index e41a7fecf0d3..d542ca243b80 100644 --- a/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt +++ b/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt @@ -830,7 +830,7 @@ sched: Critical sections Grace period Barrier SRCU: Critical sections Grace period Barrier srcu_read_lock synchronize_srcu N/A - srcu_read_unlock + srcu_read_unlock synchronize_srcu_expedited SRCU: Initialization/cleanup init_srcu_struct -- cgit v1.2.2 From 91284224da5b15ec6c2b45e10fa5eccd1c92a204 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dominik Brodowski Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 23:32:33 +0200 Subject: pcmcia: add new CIS access helpers As a replacement to pcmcia_get_{first,next}_tuple() and pcmcia_get_tuple_data(), three new -- and easier to use -- functions are added: - pcmcia_get_tuple() to get the very first CIS entry of one type. - pcmcia_loop_tuple() to loop over all CIS entries of one type. - pcmcia_get_mac_from_cis() to read out the hardware MAC address from CISTPL_FUNCE. Only a handful of drivers need these functions anyway, as most CIS access is already handled by pcmcia_loop_config(), which now shares the same backed (pccard_loop_tuple()) with pcmcia_loop_tuple(). A pcmcia_get_mac_from_cis() bug noted by Komuro has been fixed in this revision. Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski --- Documentation/pcmcia/driver-changes.txt | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/pcmcia/driver-changes.txt b/Documentation/pcmcia/driver-changes.txt index 059934363caf..adfb83e58675 100644 --- a/Documentation/pcmcia/driver-changes.txt +++ b/Documentation/pcmcia/driver-changes.txt @@ -1,5 +1,12 @@ This file details changes in 2.6 which affect PCMCIA card driver authors: +* New CIS tuple access (as of 2.6.33) + Instead of pcmcia_get_{first,next}_tuple(), pcmcia_get_tuple_data() and + pcmcia_parse_tuple(), a driver shall use "pcmcia_get_tuple()" if it is + only interested in one (raw) tuple, or "pcmcia_loop_tuple()" if it is + interested in all tuples of one type. To decode the MAC from CISTPL_FUNCE, + a new helper "pcmcia_get_mac_from_cis()" was added. + * New configuration loop helper (as of 2.6.28) By calling pcmcia_loop_config(), a driver can iterate over all available configuration options. During a driver's probe() phase, one doesn't need -- cgit v1.2.2 From 9cb495bb41f07a3ebfc60d3b9d26017a1fd7050c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dominik Brodowski Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2009 15:57:22 +0200 Subject: pcmcia: remove now-defunct cs_error, pcmcia_error_{func,ret} As all in-tree drivers have been converted to not use cs_error() any more, drop these functions and definitions, and update the Documentation. Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski --- Documentation/pcmcia/driver-changes.txt | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/pcmcia/driver-changes.txt b/Documentation/pcmcia/driver-changes.txt index adfb83e58675..446f43b309df 100644 --- a/Documentation/pcmcia/driver-changes.txt +++ b/Documentation/pcmcia/driver-changes.txt @@ -1,5 +1,10 @@ This file details changes in 2.6 which affect PCMCIA card driver authors: +* no cs_error / CS_CHECK / CONFIG_PCMCIA_DEBUG (as of 2.6.33) + Instead of the cs_error() callback or the CS_CHECK() macro, please use + Linux-style checking of return values, and -- if necessary -- debug + messages using "dev_dbg()" or "pr_debug()". + * New CIS tuple access (as of 2.6.33) Instead of pcmcia_get_{first,next}_tuple(), pcmcia_get_tuple_data() and pcmcia_parse_tuple(), a driver shall use "pcmcia_get_tuple()" if it is -- cgit v1.2.2 From f84d49b218b7d4c6cba2e0b41f24bd4045403962 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Naohiro Ooiwa Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2009 00:46:42 +0900 Subject: signal: Print warning message when dropping signals When the system has too many timers or too many aggregate queued signals, the EAGAIN error is returned to application from kernel, including timer_create() [POSIX.1b]. It means that the app exceeded the limit of pending signals, but in general application writers do not expect this outcome and the current silent failure can cause rare app failures under very high load. This patch adds a new message when we reach the limit and if print_fatal_signals is enabled: task/1234: reached RLIMIT_SIGPENDING, dropping signal If you see this message and your system behaved unexpectedly, you can run following command to lift the limit: # ulimit -i unlimited With help from Hiroshi Shimamoto . Signed-off-by: Naohiro Ooiwa Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Hiroshi Shimamoto Cc: Roland McGrath Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: oleg@redhat.com LKML-Reference: <4AF6E7E2.9080406@miraclelinux.com> [ Modified a few small details, gave surrounding code some love. ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 11 +++++++++-- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index 9107b387e91f..3bbd92f805a6 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -2032,8 +2032,15 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file print-fatal-signals= [KNL] debug: print fatal signals - print-fatal-signals=1: print segfault info to - the kernel console. + + If enabled, warn about various signal handling + related application anomalies: too many signals, + too many POSIX.1 timers, fatal signals causing a + coredump - etc. + + If you hit the warning due to signal overflow, + you might want to try "ulimit -i unlimited". + default: off. printk.time= Show timing data prefixed to each printk message line -- cgit v1.2.2