kernel/linux.git/include/linux/syscalls.h, branch v2.6.32

fs: change sys_truncate length parameter type

2009-09-23T16:21:05+00:00

For this system call user space passes a signed long length parameter, while the kernel side takes an unsigned long parameter and converts it later to signed long again. This has led to bugs in compat wrappers see e.g. dd90bbd5 "powerpc: Add compat_sys_truncate". The s390 compat wrapper for this functions is broken as well since it also performs zero extension instead of sign extension for the length parameter. In addition if hpa comes up with an automated way of generating compat wrappers it would generate a wrong one here. So change the length parameter from unsigned long to long. Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Al Viro Cc: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'perfcounters-rename-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

2009-09-21T16:15:07+00:00

* 'perfcounters-rename-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: perf: Tidy up after the big rename perf: Do the big rename: Performance Counters -> Performance Events perf_counter: Rename 'event' to event_id/hw_event perf_counter: Rename list_entry -> group_entry, counter_list -> group_list Manually resolved some fairly trivial conflicts with the tracing tree in include/trace/ftrace.h and kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c.

perf: Do the big rename: Performance Counters -> Performance Events

2009-09-21T12:28:04+00:00

Bye-bye Performance Counters, welcome Performance Events! In the past few months the perfcounters subsystem has grown out its initial role of counting hardware events, and has become (and is becoming) a much broader generic event enumeration, reporting, logging, monitoring, analysis facility. Naming its core object 'perf_counter' and naming the subsystem 'perfcounters' has become more and more of a misnomer. With pending code like hw-breakpoints support the 'counter' name is less and less appropriate. All in one, we've decided to rename the subsystem to 'performance events' and to propagate this rename through all fields, variables and API names. (in an ABI compatible fashion) The word 'event' is also a bit shorter than 'counter' - which makes it slightly more convenient to write/handle as well. Thanks goes to Stephane Eranian who first observed this misnomer and suggested a rename. User-space tooling and ABI compatibility is not affected - this patch should be function-invariant. (Also, defconfigs were not touched to keep the size down.) This patch has been generated via the following script: FILES=$(find * -type f | grep -vE 'oprofile|[^K]config') sed -i \ -e 's/PERF_EVENT_/PERF_RECORD_/g' \ -e 's/PERF_COUNTER/PERF_EVENT/g' \ -e 's/perf_counter/perf_event/g' \ -e 's/nb_counters/nb_events/g' \ -e 's/swcounter/swevent/g' \ -e 's/tpcounter_event/tp_event/g' \ $FILES for N in $(find . -name perf_counter.[ch]); do M=$(echo $N | sed 's/perf_counter/perf_event/g') mv $N $M done FILES=$(find . -name perf_event.*) sed -i \ -e 's/COUNTER_MASK/REG_MASK/g' \ -e 's/COUNTER/EVENT/g' \ -e 's/\/event_id/g' \ -e 's/counter/event/g' \ -e 's/Counter/Event/g' \ $FILES ... to keep it as correct as possible. This script can also be used by anyone who has pending perfcounters patches - it converts a Linux kernel tree over to the new naming. We tried to time this change to the point in time where the amount of pending patches is the smallest: the end of the merge window. Namespace clashes were fixed up in a preparatory patch - and some stylistic fallout will be fixed up in a subsequent patch. ( NOTE: 'counters' are still the proper terminology when we deal with hardware registers - and these sed scripts are a bit over-eager in renaming them. I've undone some of that, but in case there's something left where 'counter' would be better than 'event' we can undo that on an individual basis instead of touching an otherwise nicely automated patch. ) Suggested-by: Stephane Eranian Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra Acked-by: Paul Mackerras Reviewed-by: Arjan van de Ven Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: David Howells Cc: Kyle McMartin Cc: Martin Schwidefsky Cc: "David S. Miller" Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: LKML-Reference: Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

tracing: Factorize the events profile accounting

2009-09-18T04:14:32+00:00

Factorize the events enabling accounting in a common tracing core helper. This reduces the size of the profile_enable() and profile_disable() callbacks for each trace events. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker Acked-by: Steven Rostedt Acked-by: Li Zefan Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Jason Baron Cc: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: Ingo Molnar

tracing/filters: Defer pred allocation

2009-08-31T08:58:08+00:00

init_preds() allocates about 5392 bytes of memory (on x86_32) for a TRACE_EVENT. With my config, at system boot total memory occupied is: 5392 * (642 + 15) == 3459KB 642 == cat available_events | wc -l 15 == number of dirs in events/ftrace That's quite a lot, so we'd better defer memory allocation util it's needed, that's when filter is used. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Tom Zanussi Cc: Masami Hiramatsu LKML-Reference: <4A9B8EA5.6020700@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

tracing/syscalls: Add filtering support

2009-08-19T13:02:24+00:00

Add filtering support for syscall events: # echo 'mode == 0666' > events/syscalls/sys_enter_open # echo 'ret == 0' > events/syscalls/sys_exit_open # echo 1 > events/syscalls/sys_enter_open # echo 1 > events/syscalls/sys_exit_open # cat trace ... modprobe-3084 [001] 117.463140: sys_open(filename: 917d3e8, flags: 0, mode: 1b6) modprobe-3084 [001] 117.463176: sys_open -> 0x0 less-3086 [001] 117.510455: sys_open(filename: 9c6bdb8, flags: 8000, mode: 1b6) sendmail-2574 [001] 122.145840: sys_open(filename: b807a365, flags: 0, mode: 1b6) ... Signed-off-by: Li Zefan Cc: Jason Baron Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Frederic Weisbecker LKML-Reference: <4A8BAFCB.1040006@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

tracing/syscalls: Add fields format for exit events

2009-08-19T13:02:23+00:00

Add "format" file for syscall exit events: # cat events/syscalls/sys_exit_open/format name: sys_exit_open ID: 344 format: field:unsigned short common_type; offset:0; size:2; field:unsigned char common_flags; offset:2; size:1; field:unsigned char common_preempt_count; offset:3; size:1; field:int common_pid; offset:4; size:4; field:int common_tgid; offset:8; size:4; field:int nr; offset:12; size:4; field:unsigned long ret; offset:16; size:4; Signed-off-by: Li Zefan Cc: Jason Baron Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Frederic Weisbecker LKML-Reference: <4A8BAF61.3060307@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

tracing: Add fields format definition for syscall events

2009-08-11T18:35:30+00:00

Define the format of the syscall trace fields to parse the binary values from a raw trace using the syscall events "format" file. This is defined dynamically using the syscalls metadata. It prepares the export of syscall event raw records to perf counters. Example: $ cat /debug/tracing/events/syscalls/sys_enter_sched_getparam/format name: sys_enter_sched_getparam ID: 39 format: field:unsigned short common_type; offset:0; size:2; field:unsigned char common_flags; offset:2; size:1; field:unsigned char common_preempt_count; offset:3; size:1; field:int common_pid; offset:4; size:4; field:int common_tgid; offset:8; size:4; field:pid_t pid; offset:12; size:8; field:struct sched_param * param; offset:20; size:8; print fmt: "pid: 0x%08lx, param: 0x%08lx", ((unsigned long)(REC->pid)), ((unsigned long)(REC->param)) Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Lai Jiangshan Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers Cc: Jiaying Zhang Cc: Martin Bligh Cc: Li Zefan Cc: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: Jason Baron

tracing: Add perf counter support for syscalls tracing

2009-08-11T18:35:29+00:00

The perf counter support is automated for usual trace events. But we have to define specific callbacks for this to handle syscalls trace events Make 'perf stat -e syscalls:sys_enter_blah' work with syscall style tracepoints. Signed-off-by: Jason Baron Cc: Lai Jiangshan Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers Cc: Jiaying Zhang Cc: Martin Bligh Cc: Li Zefan Cc: Masami Hiramatsu Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker

tracing: Add individual syscalls tracepoint id support

2009-08-11T18:35:28+00:00

The current state of syscalls tracepoints generates only one event id for every syscall events. This patch associates an id with each syscall trace event, so that we can identify each syscall trace event using the 'perf' tool. Signed-off-by: Jason Baron Cc: Lai Jiangshan Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers Cc: Jiaying Zhang Cc: Martin Bligh Cc: Li Zefan Cc: Masami Hiramatsu Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker