snowball/igloo-kernel.git/tools, branch v3.3-rc6

Merge branches 'core-urgent-for-linus', 'perf-urgent-for-linus' and 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2012-03-02T19:38:43+00:00

Pulling latest branches from Ingo: * 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: memblock: Fix size aligning of memblock_alloc_base_nid() * 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: perf probe: Ensure offset provided is not greater than function length without DWARF info too perf tools: Ensure comm string is properly terminated perf probe: Ensure offset provided is not greater than function length perf evlist: Return first evsel for non-sample event on old kernel perf/hwbp: Fix a possible memory leak * 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: CPU hotplug, cpusets, suspend: Don't touch cpusets during suspend/resume

perf probe: Ensure offset provided is not greater than function length without DWARF info too

2012-02-29T21:29:46+00:00

The 'perf probe' command allows kprobe to be inserted at any offset from a function start, which results in adding kprobes to unintended location. (example: perf probe do_fork+10000 is allowed even though size of do_fork is ~904). My previous patch https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/2/24/42 addressed the case where DWARF info was available for the kernel. This patch fixes the case where perf probe is used on a kernel without debuginfo available. Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli Cc: Jason Baron Cc: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: Srikar Dronamraju Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Andrew Morton Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4F4C544D.1010909@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Prashanth Nageshappa Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Ensure comm string is properly terminated

2012-02-29T21:29:45+00:00

If threads in a multi-threaded process have names shorter than the main thread the comm for the named threads is not properly terminated. E.g., for the process 'namedthreads' where each thread is named noploop%d where %d is the thread number: Before: perf script -f comm,tid,ip,sym,dso noploop:4ads 21616 400a49 noploop (/tmp/namedthreads) The 'ads' in the thread comm bleeds over from the process name. After: perf script -f comm,tid,ip,sym,dso noploop:4 21616 400a49 noploop (/tmp/namedthreads) Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1330111898-68071-1-git-send-email-dsahern@gmail.com Signed-off-by: David Ahern Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf probe: Ensure offset provided is not greater than function length

2012-02-29T21:29:45+00:00

The perf probe command allows kprobe to be inserted at any offset from a function start, which results in adding kprobes to unintended location. Example: perf probe do_fork+10000 is allowed even though size of do_fork is ~904. This patch will ensure probe addition fails when the offset specified is greater than size of the function. Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli Cc: Srikar Dronamraju Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Jason Baron Cc: Masami Hiramatsu Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4F473F33.4060409@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Prashanth Nageshappa Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf evlist: Return first evsel for non-sample event on old kernel

2012-02-29T21:29:44+00:00

On old kernels that don't support sample_id_all feature, perf_evlist__id2evsel() returns NULL for non-sampling events. This breaks perf top when multiple events are given on command line. Fix it by using first evsel in the evlist. This will also prevent getting the same (potential) problem in such new tool/ old kernel combo. Suggested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1329702447-25045-1-git-send-email-namhyung.kim@lge.com Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

Merge tag 'ktest-fix-make-min-failed-build-for-real' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-ktest

2012-02-27T23:43:05+00:00

While demoing ktest at ELC in 2012, it was embarrassing that the make_min_config test failed to work because the snowball board I was testing it against had a config that would not build. But the make_min_config only tested the testing part and ignored build failures. The end result was a config file that would not boot. This time, for real. * tag 'ktest-fix-make-min-failed-build-for-real' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-ktest: ktest: Fix make_min_config test when build fails

ktest: Fix make_min_config test when build fails

2012-02-27T18:58:49+00:00

The make_min_config does not take into account when the build fails, resulting in a invalid MIN_CONFIG .config file. When the build fails, it is ignored and the boot test is executed, using the previous built kernel. The configs that should be tested are not tested and they may be added or removed depending on the result of the last kernel that succeeded to be built. If the build fails, mark the current config as a failure and the configs that were disabled may still be needed. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

perf evsel: Fix an issue where perf report fails to show the proper percentage

2012-02-06T20:59:38+00:00

This patch fixes an issue where perf report shows nan% for certain perf.data files. The below is from a report for a do_fork probe: -nan% sshd [kernel.kallsyms] [k] do_fork -nan% packagekitd [kernel.kallsyms] [k] do_fork -nan% dbus-daemon [kernel.kallsyms] [k] do_fork -nan% bash [kernel.kallsyms] [k] do_fork A git bisect shows commit f3bda2c as the cause. However, looking back through the git history, I saw commit 640c03c which seems to have removed the required initialization for perf_sample->period. The problem only started showing after commit f3bda2c. The below patch re-introduces the initialization and it fixes the problem for me. With the below patch, for the same perf.data: 73.08% bash [kernel.kallsyms] [k] do_fork 8.97% 11-dhclient [kernel.kallsyms] [k] do_fork 6.41% sshd [kernel.kallsyms] [k] do_fork 3.85% 20-chrony [kernel.kallsyms] [k] do_fork 2.56% sendmail [kernel.kallsyms] [k] do_fork This patch applies over current linux-tip commit 9949284. Problem introduced in: $ git describe 640c03c v2.6.37-rc3-83-g640c03c Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Robert Richter Cc: Srikar Dronamraju Cc: stable@kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120203170113.5190.25558.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6 Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Fix prefix matching for kernel maps

2012-02-06T20:57:39+00:00

In some perf ancient versions we used '[kernel.kallsyms._text]' as the name for the kernel map. This got changed with commit: perf: 'perf kvm' tool for monitoring guest performance from host commit a1645ce12adb6c9cc9e19d7695466204e3f017fe Author: Zhang, Yanmin and we started to use following name '[kernel.kallsyms]_text'. This name change is important for the report code dealing with ancient perf data. When processing the kernel map event, we need to recognize the old naming (dont match the last ']') and initialize the kernel map correctly. The subsequent call to maps__set_kallsyms_ref_reloc_sym deals with the superfluous ']' to get correct symbol name. Cc: Corey Ashford Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1328461865-6127-1-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Fix perf stack to non executable on x86_64

2012-02-06T20:54:06+00:00

By adding following objects: bench/mem-memcpy-x86-64-asm.o the x86_64 perf binary ended up with executable stack. The reason was that above object are assembler sourced and is missing the GNU-stack note section. In such case the linker assumes that the final binary should not be restricted at all and mark the stack as RWX. Adding section ".note.GNU-stack" definition to mentioned object, with all flags disabled, thus omiting this object from linker stack flags decision. Problem introduced in: $ git describe ea7872b v2.6.37-rc2-19-gea7872b Reported-at: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=783570 Reported-by: Clark Williams Acked-by: Eric Dumazet Cc: Corey Ashford Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: stable@kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1328100848-5630-1-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa [ committer note: Backported fix to perf/urgent (3.3-rc2+) ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo