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<subtitle>Clone of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>perf: Fix mmap() accounting hole</title>
<updated>2013-06-27T17:39:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-06-04T08:44:21+00:00</published>
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commit 9bb5d40cd93c9dd4be74834b1dcb1ba03629716b upstream.

Vince's fuzzer once again found holes. This time it spotted a leak in
the locked page accounting.

When an event had redirected output and its close() was the last
reference to the buffer we didn't have a vm context to undo accounting.

Change the code to destroy the buffer on the last munmap() and detach
all redirected events at that time. This provides us the right context
to undo the vm accounting.

Reported-and-tested-by: Vince Weaver &lt;vincent.weaver@maine.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130604084421.GI8923@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 9bb5d40cd93c9dd4be74834b1dcb1ba03629716b upstream.

Vince's fuzzer once again found holes. This time it spotted a leak in
the locked page accounting.

When an event had redirected output and its close() was the last
reference to the buffer we didn't have a vm context to undo accounting.

Change the code to destroy the buffer on the last munmap() and detach
all redirected events at that time. This provides us the right context
to undo the vm accounting.

Reported-and-tested-by: Vince Weaver &lt;vincent.weaver@maine.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130604084421.GI8923@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf: Fix perf mmap bugs</title>
<updated>2013-06-27T17:39:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-05-28T08:55:48+00:00</published>
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commit 26cb63ad11e04047a64309362674bcbbd6a6f246 upstream.

Vince reported a problem found by his perf specific trinity
fuzzer.

Al noticed 2 problems with perf's mmap():

 - it has issues against fork() since we use vma-&gt;vm_mm for accounting.
 - it has an rb refcount leak on double mmap().

We fix the issues against fork() by using VM_DONTCOPY; I don't
think there's code out there that uses this; we didn't hear
about weird accounting problems/crashes. If we do need this to
work, the previously proposed VM_PINNED could make this work.

Aside from the rb reference leak spotted by Al, Vince's example
prog was indeed doing a double mmap() through the use of
perf_event_set_output().

This exposes another problem, since we now have 2 events with
one buffer, the accounting gets screwy because we account per
event. Fix this by making the buffer responsible for its own
accounting.

Reported-by: Vince Weaver &lt;vincent.weaver@maine.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@ghostprotocols.net&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130528085548.GA12193@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 26cb63ad11e04047a64309362674bcbbd6a6f246 upstream.

Vince reported a problem found by his perf specific trinity
fuzzer.

Al noticed 2 problems with perf's mmap():

 - it has issues against fork() since we use vma-&gt;vm_mm for accounting.
 - it has an rb refcount leak on double mmap().

We fix the issues against fork() by using VM_DONTCOPY; I don't
think there's code out there that uses this; we didn't hear
about weird accounting problems/crashes. If we do need this to
work, the previously proposed VM_PINNED could make this work.

Aside from the rb reference leak spotted by Al, Vince's example
prog was indeed doing a double mmap() through the use of
perf_event_set_output().

This exposes another problem, since we now have 2 events with
one buffer, the accounting gets screwy because we account per
event. Fix this by making the buffer responsible for its own
accounting.

Reported-by: Vince Weaver &lt;vincent.weaver@maine.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@ghostprotocols.net&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130528085548.GA12193@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>events: Protect access via task_subsys_state_check()</title>
<updated>2013-04-21T09:21:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-04-19T19:01:24+00:00</published>
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The following RCU splat indicates lack of RCU protection:

[  953.267649] ===============================
[  953.267652] [ INFO: suspicious RCU usage. ]
[  953.267657] 3.9.0-0.rc6.git2.4.fc19.ppc64p7 #1 Not tainted
[  953.267661] -------------------------------
[  953.267664] include/linux/cgroup.h:534 suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage!
[  953.267669]
[  953.267669] other info that might help us debug this:
[  953.267669]
[  953.267675]
[  953.267675] rcu_scheduler_active = 1, debug_locks = 0
[  953.267680] 1 lock held by glxgears/1289:
[  953.267683]  #0:  (&amp;sig-&gt;cred_guard_mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [&lt;c00000000027f884&gt;] .prepare_bprm_creds+0x34/0xa0
[  953.267700]
[  953.267700] stack backtrace:
[  953.267704] Call Trace:
[  953.267709] [c0000001f0d1b6e0] [c000000000016e30] .show_stack+0x130/0x200 (unreliable)
[  953.267717] [c0000001f0d1b7b0] [c0000000001267f8] .lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0x138/0x180
[  953.267724] [c0000001f0d1b840] [c0000000001d43a4] .perf_event_comm+0x4c4/0x690
[  953.267731] [c0000001f0d1b950] [c00000000027f6e4] .set_task_comm+0x84/0x1f0
[  953.267737] [c0000001f0d1b9f0] [c000000000280414] .setup_new_exec+0x94/0x220
[  953.267744] [c0000001f0d1ba70] [c0000000002f665c] .load_elf_binary+0x58c/0x19b0
...

This commit therefore adds the required RCU read-side critical
section to perf_event_comm().

Reported-by: Adam Jackson &lt;ajax@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: acme@ghostprotocols.net
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130419190124.GA8638@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Gustavo Luiz Duarte &lt;gusld@br.ibm.com&gt;
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The following RCU splat indicates lack of RCU protection:

[  953.267649] ===============================
[  953.267652] [ INFO: suspicious RCU usage. ]
[  953.267657] 3.9.0-0.rc6.git2.4.fc19.ppc64p7 #1 Not tainted
[  953.267661] -------------------------------
[  953.267664] include/linux/cgroup.h:534 suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage!
[  953.267669]
[  953.267669] other info that might help us debug this:
[  953.267669]
[  953.267675]
[  953.267675] rcu_scheduler_active = 1, debug_locks = 0
[  953.267680] 1 lock held by glxgears/1289:
[  953.267683]  #0:  (&amp;sig-&gt;cred_guard_mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [&lt;c00000000027f884&gt;] .prepare_bprm_creds+0x34/0xa0
[  953.267700]
[  953.267700] stack backtrace:
[  953.267704] Call Trace:
[  953.267709] [c0000001f0d1b6e0] [c000000000016e30] .show_stack+0x130/0x200 (unreliable)
[  953.267717] [c0000001f0d1b7b0] [c0000000001267f8] .lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0x138/0x180
[  953.267724] [c0000001f0d1b840] [c0000000001d43a4] .perf_event_comm+0x4c4/0x690
[  953.267731] [c0000001f0d1b950] [c00000000027f6e4] .set_task_comm+0x84/0x1f0
[  953.267737] [c0000001f0d1b9f0] [c000000000280414] .setup_new_exec+0x94/0x220
[  953.267744] [c0000001f0d1ba70] [c0000000002f665c] .load_elf_binary+0x58c/0x19b0
...

This commit therefore adds the required RCU read-side critical
section to perf_event_comm().

Reported-by: Adam Jackson &lt;ajax@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: acme@ghostprotocols.net
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130419190124.GA8638@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Gustavo Luiz Duarte &lt;gusld@br.ibm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>perf: Treat attr.config as u64 in perf_swevent_init()</title>
<updated>2013-04-15T09:42:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tommi Rantala</name>
<email>tt.rantala@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-04-13T19:49:14+00:00</published>
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Trinity discovered that we fail to check all 64 bits of
attr.config passed by user space, resulting to out-of-bounds
access of the perf_swevent_enabled array in
sw_perf_event_destroy().

Introduced in commit b0a873ebb ("perf: Register PMU
implementations").

Signed-off-by: Tommi Rantala &lt;tt.rantala@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: davej@redhat.com
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@ghostprotocols.net&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1365882554-30259-1-git-send-email-tt.rantala@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Trinity discovered that we fail to check all 64 bits of
attr.config passed by user space, resulting to out-of-bounds
access of the perf_swevent_enabled array in
sw_perf_event_destroy().

Introduced in commit b0a873ebb ("perf: Register PMU
implementations").

Signed-off-by: Tommi Rantala &lt;tt.rantala@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: davej@redhat.com
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@ghostprotocols.net&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1365882554-30259-1-git-send-email-tt.rantala@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf: Fix error return code</title>
<updated>2013-04-12T04:33:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Wei Yongjun</name>
<email>yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn</email>
</author>
<published>2013-04-12T03:05:54+00:00</published>
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Fix to return -ENOMEM in the allocation error case instead of 0
(if pmu_bus_running == 1), as done elsewhere in this function.

Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun &lt;yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn&gt;
Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: acme@ghostprotocols.net
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAPgLHd8j_fWcgqe%3DKLWjpBj%2B%3Do0Pw6Z-SEq%3DNTPU08c2w1tngQ@mail.gmail.com
[ Tweaked the error code setting placement and the changelog. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Fix to return -ENOMEM in the allocation error case instead of 0
(if pmu_bus_running == 1), as done elsewhere in this function.

Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun &lt;yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn&gt;
Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: acme@ghostprotocols.net
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAPgLHd8j_fWcgqe%3DKLWjpBj%2B%3Do0Pw6Z-SEq%3DNTPU08c2w1tngQ@mail.gmail.com
[ Tweaked the error code setting placement and the changelog. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf: Fix strncpy() use, always make sure it's NUL terminated</title>
<updated>2013-04-08T11:26:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Chen Gang</name>
<email>gang.chen@asianux.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-04-08T03:48:27+00:00</published>
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For NUL terminated string, always make sure that there's '\0' at the end.

In our case we need a return value, so still use strncpy() and
fix up the tail explicitly.

(strlcpy() returns the size, not the pointer)

Signed-off-by: Chen Gang &lt;gang.chen@asianux.com&gt;
Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: paulus@samba.org &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: acme@ghostprotocols.net &lt;acme@ghostprotocols.net&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/51623E0B.7070101@asianux.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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For NUL terminated string, always make sure that there's '\0' at the end.

In our case we need a return value, so still use strncpy() and
fix up the tail explicitly.

(strlcpy() returns the size, not the pointer)

Signed-off-by: Chen Gang &lt;gang.chen@asianux.com&gt;
Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: paulus@samba.org &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: acme@ghostprotocols.net &lt;acme@ghostprotocols.net&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/51623E0B.7070101@asianux.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf: Fix ring_buffer perf_output_space() boundary calculation</title>
<updated>2013-03-21T11:04:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stephane Eranian</name>
<email>eranian@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-03-18T13:33:28+00:00</published>
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This patch fixes a flaw in perf_output_space(). In case the size
of the space needed is bigger than the actual buffer size, there
may be situations where the function would return true (i.e.,
there is space) when it should not. head &gt; offset due to
rounding of the masking logic.

The problem can be tested by activating BTS on Intel processors.
A BTS record can be as big as 16 pages. The following command
fails:

  $ perf record -m 4 -c 1 -e branches:u my_test_program

You will get a buffer corruption with this. Perf report won't be
able to parse the perf.data.

The fix is to first check that the requested space is smaller
than the buffer size. If so, then the masking logic will work
fine. If not, then there is no chance the record can be saved
and it will be gracefully handled by upper code layers.

[ In v2, we also make the logic for the writable more explicit by
  renaming it to rb-&gt;overwrite because it tells whether or not the
  buffer can overwrite its tail (suggested by PeterZ). ]

Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: jolsa@redhat.com
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130318133327.GA3056@quad
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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This patch fixes a flaw in perf_output_space(). In case the size
of the space needed is bigger than the actual buffer size, there
may be situations where the function would return true (i.e.,
there is space) when it should not. head &gt; offset due to
rounding of the masking logic.

The problem can be tested by activating BTS on Intel processors.
A BTS record can be as big as 16 pages. The following command
fails:

  $ perf record -m 4 -c 1 -e branches:u my_test_program

You will get a buffer corruption with this. Perf report won't be
able to parse the perf.data.

The fix is to first check that the requested space is smaller
than the buffer size. If so, then the masking logic will work
fine. If not, then there is no chance the record can be saved
and it will be gracefully handled by upper code layers.

[ In v2, we also make the logic for the writable more explicit by
  renaming it to rb-&gt;overwrite because it tells whether or not the
  buffer can overwrite its tail (suggested by PeterZ). ]

Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: jolsa@redhat.com
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130318133327.GA3056@quad
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf: Generate EXIT event only once per task context</title>
<updated>2013-03-18T08:47:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Namhyung Kim</name>
<email>namhyung.kim@lge.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-03-15T07:27:13+00:00</published>
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perf_event_task_event() iterates pmu list and generate events
for each eligible pmu context.  But if task_event has task_ctx
like in EXIT it'll generate events even though the pmu doesn't
have an eligible one. Fix it by moving the code to proper
places.

Before this patch:

  $ perf record -n true
  [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
  [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.006 MB perf.data (~248 samples) ]

  $ perf report -D | tail
  Aggregated stats:
             TOTAL events:         73
              MMAP events:         67
              COMM events:          2
              EXIT events:          4
  cycles stats:
             TOTAL events:         73
              MMAP events:         67
              COMM events:          2
              EXIT events:          4

After this patch:

  $ perf report -D | tail
  Aggregated stats:
             TOTAL events:         70
              MMAP events:         67
              COMM events:          2
              EXIT events:          1
  cycles stats:
             TOTAL events:         70
              MMAP events:         67
              COMM events:          2
              EXIT events:          1

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@ghostprotocols.net&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung.kim@lge.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1363332433-7637-1-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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perf_event_task_event() iterates pmu list and generate events
for each eligible pmu context.  But if task_event has task_ctx
like in EXIT it'll generate events even though the pmu doesn't
have an eligible one. Fix it by moving the code to proper
places.

Before this patch:

  $ perf record -n true
  [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
  [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.006 MB perf.data (~248 samples) ]

  $ perf report -D | tail
  Aggregated stats:
             TOTAL events:         73
              MMAP events:         67
              COMM events:          2
              EXIT events:          4
  cycles stats:
             TOTAL events:         73
              MMAP events:         67
              COMM events:          2
              EXIT events:          4

After this patch:

  $ perf report -D | tail
  Aggregated stats:
             TOTAL events:         70
              MMAP events:         67
              COMM events:          2
              EXIT events:          1
  cycles stats:
             TOTAL events:         70
              MMAP events:         67
              COMM events:          2
              EXIT events:          1

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@ghostprotocols.net&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung.kim@lge.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1363332433-7637-1-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>perf: Reset hwc-&gt;last_period on sw clock events</title>
<updated>2013-03-18T08:15:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Namhyung Kim</name>
<email>namhyung.kim@lge.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-03-18T02:41:46+00:00</published>
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When cpu/task clock events are initialized, their sampling
frequencies are converted to have a fixed value.  However it
missed to update the hwc-&gt;last_period which was set to 1 for
initial sampling frequency calibration.

Because this hwc-&gt;last_period value is used as a period in
perf_swevent_ hrtime(), every recorded sample will have an
incorrected period of 1.

  $ perf record -e task-clock noploop 1
  [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
  [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.158 MB perf.data (~6919 samples) ]

  $ perf report -n --show-total-period  --stdio
  # Samples: 4K of event 'task-clock'
  # Event count (approx.): 4000
  #
  # Overhead       Samples        Period  Command  Shared Object              Symbol
  # ........  ............  ............  .......  .............  ..................
  #
      99.95%          3998          3998  noploop  noploop        [.] main
       0.03%             1             1  noploop  libc-2.15.so   [.] init_cacheinfo
       0.03%             1             1  noploop  ld-2.15.so     [.] open_verify

Note that it doesn't affect the non-sampling event so that the
perf stat still gets correct value with or without this patch.

  $ perf stat -e task-clock noploop 1

   Performance counter stats for 'noploop 1':

         1000.272525 task-clock                #    1.000 CPUs utilized

         1.000560605 seconds time elapsed

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@ghostprotocols.net&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung.kim@lge.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1363574507-18808-1-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
When cpu/task clock events are initialized, their sampling
frequencies are converted to have a fixed value.  However it
missed to update the hwc-&gt;last_period which was set to 1 for
initial sampling frequency calibration.

Because this hwc-&gt;last_period value is used as a period in
perf_swevent_ hrtime(), every recorded sample will have an
incorrected period of 1.

  $ perf record -e task-clock noploop 1
  [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
  [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.158 MB perf.data (~6919 samples) ]

  $ perf report -n --show-total-period  --stdio
  # Samples: 4K of event 'task-clock'
  # Event count (approx.): 4000
  #
  # Overhead       Samples        Period  Command  Shared Object              Symbol
  # ........  ............  ............  .......  .............  ..................
  #
      99.95%          3998          3998  noploop  noploop        [.] main
       0.03%             1             1  noploop  libc-2.15.so   [.] init_cacheinfo
       0.03%             1             1  noploop  ld-2.15.so     [.] open_verify

Note that it doesn't affect the non-sampling event so that the
perf stat still gets correct value with or without this patch.

  $ perf stat -e task-clock noploop 1

   Performance counter stats for 'noploop 1':

         1000.272525 task-clock                #    1.000 CPUs utilized

         1.000560605 seconds time elapsed

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@ghostprotocols.net&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung.kim@lge.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1363574507-18808-1-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>hlist: drop the node parameter from iterators</title>
<updated>2013-02-28T03:10:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sasha Levin</name>
<email>sasha.levin@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-02-28T01:06:00+00:00</published>
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I'm not sure why, but the hlist for each entry iterators were conceived

        list_for_each_entry(pos, head, member)

The hlist ones were greedy and wanted an extra parameter:

        hlist_for_each_entry(tpos, pos, head, member)

Why did they need an extra pos parameter? I'm not quite sure. Not only
they don't really need it, it also prevents the iterator from looking
exactly like the list iterator, which is unfortunate.

Besides the semantic patch, there was some manual work required:

 - Fix up the actual hlist iterators in linux/list.h
 - Fix up the declaration of other iterators based on the hlist ones.
 - A very small amount of places were using the 'node' parameter, this
 was modified to use 'obj-&gt;member' instead.
 - Coccinelle didn't handle the hlist_for_each_entry_safe iterator
 properly, so those had to be fixed up manually.

The semantic patch which is mostly the work of Peter Senna Tschudin is here:

@@
iterator name hlist_for_each_entry, hlist_for_each_entry_continue, hlist_for_each_entry_from, hlist_for_each_entry_rcu, hlist_for_each_entry_rcu_bh, hlist_for_each_entry_continue_rcu_bh, for_each_busy_worker, ax25_uid_for_each, ax25_for_each, inet_bind_bucket_for_each, sctp_for_each_hentry, sk_for_each, sk_for_each_rcu, sk_for_each_from, sk_for_each_safe, sk_for_each_bound, hlist_for_each_entry_safe, hlist_for_each_entry_continue_rcu, nr_neigh_for_each, nr_neigh_for_each_safe, nr_node_for_each, nr_node_for_each_safe, for_each_gfn_indirect_valid_sp, for_each_gfn_sp, for_each_host;

type T;
expression a,c,d,e;
identifier b;
statement S;
@@

-T b;
    &lt;+... when != b
(
hlist_for_each_entry(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_continue(a,
- b,
c) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_from(a,
- b,
c) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_rcu(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_rcu_bh(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_continue_rcu_bh(a,
- b,
c) S
|
for_each_busy_worker(a, c,
- b,
d) S
|
ax25_uid_for_each(a,
- b,
c) S
|
ax25_for_each(a,
- b,
c) S
|
inet_bind_bucket_for_each(a,
- b,
c) S
|
sctp_for_each_hentry(a,
- b,
c) S
|
sk_for_each(a,
- b,
c) S
|
sk_for_each_rcu(a,
- b,
c) S
|
sk_for_each_from
-(a, b)
+(a)
S
+ sk_for_each_from(a) S
|
sk_for_each_safe(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
sk_for_each_bound(a,
- b,
c) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_safe(a,
- b,
c, d, e) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_continue_rcu(a,
- b,
c) S
|
nr_neigh_for_each(a,
- b,
c) S
|
nr_neigh_for_each_safe(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
nr_node_for_each(a,
- b,
c) S
|
nr_node_for_each_safe(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
- for_each_gfn_sp(a, c, d, b) S
+ for_each_gfn_sp(a, c, d) S
|
- for_each_gfn_indirect_valid_sp(a, c, d, b) S
+ for_each_gfn_indirect_valid_sp(a, c, d) S
|
for_each_host(a,
- b,
c) S
|
for_each_host_safe(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
for_each_mesh_entry(a,
- b,
c, d) S
)
    ...+&gt;

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: drop bogus change from net/ipv4/raw.c]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: drop bogus hunk from net/ipv6/raw.c]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: checkpatch fixes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warnings]
[akpm@linux-foudnation.org: redo intrusive kvm changes]
Tested-by: Peter Senna Tschudin &lt;peter.senna@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Wu Fengguang &lt;fengguang.wu@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti &lt;mtosatti@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Gleb Natapov &lt;gleb@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<pre>
I'm not sure why, but the hlist for each entry iterators were conceived

        list_for_each_entry(pos, head, member)

The hlist ones were greedy and wanted an extra parameter:

        hlist_for_each_entry(tpos, pos, head, member)

Why did they need an extra pos parameter? I'm not quite sure. Not only
they don't really need it, it also prevents the iterator from looking
exactly like the list iterator, which is unfortunate.

Besides the semantic patch, there was some manual work required:

 - Fix up the actual hlist iterators in linux/list.h
 - Fix up the declaration of other iterators based on the hlist ones.
 - A very small amount of places were using the 'node' parameter, this
 was modified to use 'obj-&gt;member' instead.
 - Coccinelle didn't handle the hlist_for_each_entry_safe iterator
 properly, so those had to be fixed up manually.

The semantic patch which is mostly the work of Peter Senna Tschudin is here:

@@
iterator name hlist_for_each_entry, hlist_for_each_entry_continue, hlist_for_each_entry_from, hlist_for_each_entry_rcu, hlist_for_each_entry_rcu_bh, hlist_for_each_entry_continue_rcu_bh, for_each_busy_worker, ax25_uid_for_each, ax25_for_each, inet_bind_bucket_for_each, sctp_for_each_hentry, sk_for_each, sk_for_each_rcu, sk_for_each_from, sk_for_each_safe, sk_for_each_bound, hlist_for_each_entry_safe, hlist_for_each_entry_continue_rcu, nr_neigh_for_each, nr_neigh_for_each_safe, nr_node_for_each, nr_node_for_each_safe, for_each_gfn_indirect_valid_sp, for_each_gfn_sp, for_each_host;

type T;
expression a,c,d,e;
identifier b;
statement S;
@@

-T b;
    &lt;+... when != b
(
hlist_for_each_entry(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_continue(a,
- b,
c) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_from(a,
- b,
c) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_rcu(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_rcu_bh(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_continue_rcu_bh(a,
- b,
c) S
|
for_each_busy_worker(a, c,
- b,
d) S
|
ax25_uid_for_each(a,
- b,
c) S
|
ax25_for_each(a,
- b,
c) S
|
inet_bind_bucket_for_each(a,
- b,
c) S
|
sctp_for_each_hentry(a,
- b,
c) S
|
sk_for_each(a,
- b,
c) S
|
sk_for_each_rcu(a,
- b,
c) S
|
sk_for_each_from
-(a, b)
+(a)
S
+ sk_for_each_from(a) S
|
sk_for_each_safe(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
sk_for_each_bound(a,
- b,
c) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_safe(a,
- b,
c, d, e) S
|
hlist_for_each_entry_continue_rcu(a,
- b,
c) S
|
nr_neigh_for_each(a,
- b,
c) S
|
nr_neigh_for_each_safe(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
nr_node_for_each(a,
- b,
c) S
|
nr_node_for_each_safe(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
- for_each_gfn_sp(a, c, d, b) S
+ for_each_gfn_sp(a, c, d) S
|
- for_each_gfn_indirect_valid_sp(a, c, d, b) S
+ for_each_gfn_indirect_valid_sp(a, c, d) S
|
for_each_host(a,
- b,
c) S
|
for_each_host_safe(a,
- b,
c, d) S
|
for_each_mesh_entry(a,
- b,
c, d) S
)
    ...+&gt;

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: drop bogus change from net/ipv4/raw.c]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: drop bogus hunk from net/ipv6/raw.c]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: checkpatch fixes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warnings]
[akpm@linux-foudnation.org: redo intrusive kvm changes]
Tested-by: Peter Senna Tschudin &lt;peter.senna@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Wu Fengguang &lt;fengguang.wu@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti &lt;mtosatti@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Gleb Natapov &lt;gleb@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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