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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2016-05-26T00:05:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2016-05-26T00:05:40+00:00</published>
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Pull perf updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "Mostly tooling and PMU driver fixes, but also a number of late updates
  such as the reworking of the call-chain size limiting logic to make
  call-graph recording more robust, plus tooling side changes for the
  new 'backwards ring-buffer' extension to the perf ring-buffer"

* 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (34 commits)
  perf record: Read from backward ring buffer
  perf record: Rename variable to make code clear
  perf record: Prevent reading invalid data in record__mmap_read
  perf evlist: Add API to pause/resume
  perf trace: Use the ptr-&gt;name beautifier as default for "filename" args
  perf trace: Use the fd-&gt;name beautifier as default for "fd" args
  perf report: Add srcline_from/to branch sort keys
  perf evsel: Record fd into perf_mmap
  perf evsel: Add overwrite attribute and check write_backward
  perf tools: Set buildid dir under symfs when --symfs is provided
  perf trace: Only auto set call-graph to "dwarf" when syscalls are being traced
  perf annotate: Sort list of recognised instructions
  perf annotate: Fix identification of ARM blt and bls instructions
  perf tools: Fix usage of max_stack sysctl
  perf callchain: Stop validating callchains by the max_stack sysctl
  perf trace: Fix exit_group() formatting
  perf top: Use machine-&gt;kptr_restrict_warned
  perf trace: Warn when trying to resolve kernel addresses with kptr_restrict=1
  perf machine: Do not bail out if not managing to read ref reloc symbol
  perf/x86/intel/p4: Trival indentation fix, remove space
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'powerpc-4.7-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux</title>
<updated>2016-05-20T17:12:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-05-20T17:12:41+00:00</published>
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Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
 "Highlights:
   - Support for Power ISA 3.0 (Power9) Radix Tree MMU from Aneesh Kumar K.V
   - Live patching support for ppc64le (also merged via livepatching.git)

  Various cleanups &amp; minor fixes from:
   - Aaro Koskinen, Alexey Kardashevskiy, Andrew Donnellan, Aneesh Kumar K.V,
     Chris Smart, Daniel Axtens, Frederic Barrat, Gavin Shan, Ian Munsie,
     Lennart Sorensen, Madhavan Srinivasan, Mahesh Salgaonkar, Markus Elfring,
     Michael Ellerman, Oliver O'Halloran, Paul Gortmaker, Paul Mackerras,
     Rashmica Gupta, Russell Currey, Suraj Jitindar Singh, Thiago Jung
     Bauermann, Valentin Rothberg, Vipin K Parashar.

  General:
   - Update LMB associativity index during DLPAR add/remove from Nathan
     Fontenot
   - Fix branching to OOL handlers in relocatable kernel from Hari Bathini
   - Add support for userspace Power9 copy/paste from Chris Smart
   - Always use STRICT_MM_TYPECHECKS from Michael Ellerman
   - Add mask of possible MMU features from Michael Ellerman

  PCI:
   - Enable pass through of NVLink to guests from Alexey Kardashevskiy
   - Cleanups in preparation for powernv PCI hotplug from Gavin Shan
   - Don't report error in eeh_pe_reset_and_recover() from Gavin Shan
   - Restore initial state in eeh_pe_reset_and_recover() from Gavin Shan
   - Revert "powerpc/eeh: Fix crash in eeh_add_device_early() on Cell"
     from Guilherme G Piccoli
   - Remove the dependency on EEH struct in DDW mechanism from Guilherme
     G Piccoli

  selftests:
   - Test cp_abort during context switch from Chris Smart
   - Add several tests for transactional memory support from Rashmica
     Gupta

  perf:
   - Add support for sampling interrupt register state from Anju T
   - Add support for unwinding perf-stackdump from Chandan Kumar

  cxl:
   - Configure the PSL for two CAPI ports on POWER8NVL from Philippe
     Bergheaud
   - Allow initialization on timebase sync failures from Frederic Barrat
   - Increase timeout for detection of AFU mmio hang from Frederic
     Barrat
   - Handle num_of_processes larger than can fit in the SPA from Ian
     Munsie
   - Ensure PSL interrupt is configured for contexts with no AFU IRQs
     from Ian Munsie
   - Add kernel API to allow a context to operate with relocate disabled
     from Ian Munsie
   - Check periodically the coherent platform function's state from
     Christophe Lombard

  Freescale:
   - Updates from Scott: "Contains 86xx fixes, minor device tree fixes,
     an erratum workaround, and a kconfig dependency fix."

* tag 'powerpc-4.7-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (192 commits)
  powerpc/86xx: Fix PCI interrupt map definition
  powerpc/86xx: Move pci1 definition to the include file
  powerpc/fsl: Fix build of the dtb embedded kernel images
  powerpc/fsl: Fix rcpm compatible string
  powerpc/fsl: Remove FSL_SOC dependency from FSL_LBC
  powerpc/fsl-pci: Add a workaround for PCI 5 errata
  powerpc/fsl: Fix SPI compatible on t208xrdb and t1040rdb
  powerpc/powernv/npu: Add PE to PHB's list
  powerpc/powernv: Fix insufficient memory allocation
  powerpc/iommu: Remove the dependency on EEH struct in DDW mechanism
  Revert "powerpc/eeh: Fix crash in eeh_add_device_early() on Cell"
  powerpc/eeh: Drop unnecessary label in eeh_pe_change_owner()
  powerpc/eeh: Ignore handlers in eeh_pe_reset_and_recover()
  powerpc/eeh: Restore initial state in eeh_pe_reset_and_recover()
  powerpc/eeh: Don't report error in eeh_pe_reset_and_recover()
  Revert "powerpc/powernv: Exclude root bus in pnv_pci_reset_secondary_bus()"
  powerpc/powernv/npu: Enable NVLink pass through
  powerpc/powernv/npu: Rework TCE Kill handling
  powerpc/powernv/npu: Add set/unset window helpers
  powerpc/powernv/ioda2: Export debug helper pe_level_printk()
  ...
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<title>perf core: Add perf_callchain_store_context() helper</title>
<updated>2016-05-17T02:11:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo</name>
<email>acme@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-05-12T16:01:50+00:00</published>
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We need have different helpers to account how many contexts we have in
the sample and for real addresses, so do it now as a prep patch, to
ease review.

Cc: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-q964tnyuqrxw5gld18vizs3c@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>perf core: Add a 'nr' field to perf_event_callchain_context</title>
<updated>2016-05-17T02:11:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo</name>
<email>acme@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-05-10T21:08:32+00:00</published>
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We will use it to count how many addresses are in the entry-&gt;ip[] array,
excluding PERF_CONTEXT_{KERNEL,USER,etc} entries, so that we can really
return the number of entries specified by the user via the relevant
sysctl, kernel.perf_event_max_contexts, or via the per event
perf_event_attr.sample_max_stack knob.

This way we keep the perf_sample-&gt;ip_callchain-&gt;nr meaning, that is the
number of entries, be it real addresses or PERF_CONTEXT_ entries, while
honouring the max_stack knobs, i.e. the end result will be max_stack
entries if we have at least that many entries in a given stack trace.

Cc: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-s8teto51tdqvlfhefndtat9r@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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<title>perf core: Pass max stack as a perf_callchain_entry context</title>
<updated>2016-05-17T02:11:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo</name>
<email>acme@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-04-28T15:30:53+00:00</published>
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This makes perf_callchain_{user,kernel}() receive the max stack
as context for the perf_callchain_entry, instead of accessing
the global sysctl_perf_event_max_stack.

Cc: Adrian Hunter &lt;adrian.hunter@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Brendan Gregg &lt;brendan.d.gregg@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: He Kuang &lt;hekuang@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Milian Wolff &lt;milian.wolff@kdab.com&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Vince Weaver &lt;vincent.weaver@maine.edu&gt;
Cc: Wang Nan &lt;wangnan0@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Zefan Li &lt;lizefan@huawei.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-kolmn1yo40p7jhswxwrc7rrd@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/mm: Use pte_user() instead of open coding</title>
<updated>2016-05-01T08:32:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Aneesh Kumar K.V</name>
<email>aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-04-29T13:25:33+00:00</published>
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We have a common declaration in pte-common.h Add a book3s specific one
and switch to pte_user() in callchain.c. In a subsequent patch we will
switch _PAGE_USER to _PAGE_PRIVILEGED in the book3s version only.

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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<entry>
<title>perf core: Allow setting up max frame stack depth via sysctl</title>
<updated>2016-04-27T13:20:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo</name>
<email>acme@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-04-21T15:28:50+00:00</published>
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The default remains 127, which is good for most cases, and not even hit
most of the time, but then for some cases, as reported by Brendan, 1024+
deep frames are appearing on the radar for things like groovy, ruby.

And in some workloads putting a _lower_ cap on this may make sense. One
that is per event still needs to be put in place tho.

The new file is:

  # cat /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_max_stack
  127

Chaging it:

  # echo 256 &gt; /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_max_stack
  # cat /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_max_stack
  256

But as soon as there is some event using callchains we get:

  # echo 512 &gt; /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_max_stack
  -bash: echo: write error: Device or resource busy
  #

Because we only allocate the callchain percpu data structures when there
is a user, which allows for changing the max easily, its just a matter
of having no callchain users at that point.

Reported-and-Tested-by: Brendan Gregg &lt;brendan.d.gregg@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Adrian Hunter &lt;adrian.hunter@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: He Kuang &lt;hekuang@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Milian Wolff &lt;milian.wolff@kdab.com&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Vince Weaver &lt;vincent.weaver@maine.edu&gt;
Cc: Wang Nan &lt;wangnan0@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Zefan Li &lt;lizefan@huawei.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160426002928.GB16708@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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<title>powerpc/mm: Differentiate between hugetlb and THP during page walk</title>
<updated>2015-10-12T04:30:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Aneesh Kumar K.V</name>
<email>aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-10-09T03:02:21+00:00</published>
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We need to properly identify whether a hugepage is an explicit or
a transparent hugepage in follow_huge_addr(). We used to depend
on hugepage shift argument to do that. But in some case that can
result in wrong results. For ex:

On finding a transparent hugepage we set hugepage shift to PMD_SHIFT.
But we can end up clearing the thp pte, via pmdp_huge_get_and_clear.
We do prevent reusing the pfn page via the usage of
kick_all_cpus_sync(). But that happens after we updated the pte to 0.
Hence in follow_huge_addr() we can find hugepage shift set, but transparent
huge page check fail for a thp pte.

NOTE: We fixed a variant of this race against thp split in commit
691e95fd7396905a38d98919e9c150dbc3ea21a3
("powerpc/mm/thp: Make page table walk safe against thp split/collapse")

Without this patch, we may hit the BUG_ON(flags &amp; FOLL_GET) in
follow_page_mask occasionally.

In the long term, we may want to switch ppc64 64k page size config to
enable CONFIG_ARCH_WANT_GENERAL_HUGETLB

Reported-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/mm/thp: Make page table walk safe against thp split/collapse</title>
<updated>2015-04-17T01:23:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Aneesh Kumar K.V</name>
<email>aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-03-30T05:11:03+00:00</published>
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We can disable a THP split or a hugepage collapse by disabling irq.
We do send IPI to all the cpus in the early part of split/collapse,
and disabling local irq ensure we don't make progress with
split/collapse. If the THP is getting split we return NULL from
find_linux_pte_or_hugepte(). For all the current callers it should be ok.
We need to be careful if we want to use returned pte_t pointer outside
the irq disabled region. W.r.t to THP split, the pfn remains the same,
but then a hugepage collapse will result in a pfn change. There are
few steps we can take to avoid a hugepage collapse.One way is to take page
reference inside the irq disable region. Other option is to take
mmap_sem so that a parallel collapse will not happen. We can also
disable collapse by taking pmd_lock. Another method used by kvm
subsystem is to check whether we had a mmu_notifer update in between
using mmu_notifier_retry().

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/perf: Cap 64bit userspace backtraces to PERF_MAX_STACK_DEPTH</title>
<updated>2015-04-14T06:21:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anton Blanchard</name>
<email>anton@samba.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-13T21:51:03+00:00</published>
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We cap 32bit userspace backtraces to PERF_MAX_STACK_DEPTH
(currently 127), but we forgot to do the same for 64bit backtraces.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard &lt;anton@samba.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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