1. May 31, 2018
  2. May 30, 2018
    • Thomas Richter's avatar
      perf test: "Session topology" dumps core on s390 · d1211091
      Thomas Richter authored
      
      
      The "perf test Session topology" entry fails with core dump on s390. The root
      cause is a NULL pointer dereference in function check_cpu_topology() line 76
      (or line 82 without -v).
      
      The session->header.env.cpu variable is NULL because on s390 function
      process_cpu_topology() returns with error:
      
          socket_id number is too big.
          You may need to upgrade the perf tool.
      
      and releases the env.cpu variable via zfree() and sets it to NULL.
      
      Here is the gdb output:
      (gdb) n
      76                      pr_debug("CPU %d, core %d, socket %d\n", i,
      (gdb) n
      
      Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
      0x00000000010f4d9e in check_cpu_topology (path=0x3ffffffd6c8
      	"/tmp/perf-test-J6CHMa", map=0x14a1740) at tests/topology.c:76
      76  pr_debug("CPU %d, core %d, socket %d\n", i,
      (gdb)
      
      Make sure the env.cpu variable is not used when its NULL.
      Test for NULL pointer and return TEST_SKIP if so.
      
      Output before:
      
        [root@p23lp27 perf]# ./perf test -F 39
        39: Session topology  :Segmentation fault (core dumped)
        [root@p23lp27 perf]#
      
      Output after:
      
        [root@p23lp27 perf]# ./perf test -vF 39
        39: Session topology                                      :
        --- start ---
        templ file: /tmp/perf-test-Ajx59D
        socket_id number is too big.You may need to upgrade the perf tool.
        ---- end ----
        Session topology: Skip
        [root@p23lp27 perf]#
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Richter <tmricht@linux.ibm.com>
      Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
      Cc: Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180528073657.11743-1-tmricht@linux.ibm.com
      
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      d1211091
    • Kan Liang's avatar
      perf parse-events: Handle uncore event aliases in small groups properly · 369b2308
      Kan Liang authored
      
      
      Perf stat doesn't count the uncore event aliases from the same uncore
      block in a group, for example:
      
        perf stat -e '{unc_m_cas_count.all,unc_m_clockticks}' -a -I 1000
        #           time             counts unit events
             1.000447342      <not counted>      unc_m_cas_count.all
             1.000447342      <not counted>      unc_m_clockticks
             2.000740654      <not counted>      unc_m_cas_count.all
             2.000740654      <not counted>      unc_m_clockticks
      
      The output is very misleading. It gives a wrong impression that the
      uncore event doesn't work.
      
      An uncore block could be composed by several PMUs. An uncore event alias
      is a joint name which means the same event runs on all PMUs of a block.
      Perf doesn't support mixed events from different PMUs in the same group.
      It is wrong to put uncore event aliases in a big group.
      
      The right way is to split the big group into multiple small groups which
      only include the events from the same PMU.
      
      Only uncore event aliases from the same uncore block should be specially
      handled here. It doesn't make sense to mix the uncore events with other
      uncore events from different blocks or even core events in a group.
      
      With the patch:
        #           time             counts unit events
           1.001557653            140,833      unc_m_cas_count.all
           1.001557653      1,330,231,332      unc_m_clockticks
           2.002709483             85,007      unc_m_cas_count.all
           2.002709483      1,429,494,563      unc_m_clockticks
      
      Reported-by: default avatarAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarKan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
      Acked-by: default avatarJiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
      Cc: Agustin Vega-Frias <agustinv@codeaurora.org>
      Cc: Ganapatrao Kulkarni <ganapatrao.kulkarni@cavium.com>
      Cc: Jin Yao <yao.jin@linux.intel.com>
      Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
      Cc: Shaokun Zhang <zhangshaokun@hisilicon.com>
      Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1525727623-19768-1-git-send-email-kan.liang@linux.intel.com
      
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      369b2308
  3. May 15, 2018
  4. May 14, 2018
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Linux 4.17-rc5 · 67b8d5c7
      Linus Torvalds authored
      67b8d5c7
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip · 66e1c94d
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Pull x86/pti updates from Thomas Gleixner:
       "A mixed bag of fixes and updates for the ghosts which are hunting us.
      
        The scheduler fixes have been pulled into that branch to avoid
        conflicts.
      
         - A set of fixes to address a khread_parkme() race which caused lost
           wakeups and loss of state.
      
         - A deadlock fix for stop_machine() solved by moving the wakeups
           outside of the stopper_lock held region.
      
         - A set of Spectre V1 array access restrictions. The possible
           problematic spots were discuvered by Dan Carpenters new checks in
           smatch.
      
         - Removal of an unused file which was forgotten when the rest of that
           functionality was removed"
      
      * 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
        x86/vdso: Remove unused file
        perf/x86/cstate: Fix possible Spectre-v1 indexing for pkg_msr
        perf/x86/msr: Fix possible Spectre-v1 indexing in the MSR driver
        perf/x86: Fix possible Spectre-v1 indexing for x86_pmu::event_map()
        perf/x86: Fix possible Spectre-v1 indexing for hw_perf_event cache_*
        perf/core: Fix possible Spectre-v1 indexing for ->aux_pages[]
        sched/autogroup: Fix possible Spectre-v1 indexing for sched_prio_to_weight[]
        sched/core: Fix possible Spectre-v1 indexing for sched_prio_to_weight[]
        sched/core: Introduce set_special_state()
        kthread, sched/wait: Fix kthread_parkme() completion issue
        kthread, sched/wait: Fix kthread_parkme() wait-loop
        sched/fair: Fix the update of blocked load when newly idle
        stop_machine, sched: Fix migrate_swap() vs. active_balance() deadlock
      66e1c94d
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip · 86a4ac43
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Pull scheduler fix from Thomas Gleixner:
       "Revert the new NUMA aware placement approach which turned out to
        create more problems than it solved"
      
      * 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
        Revert "sched/numa: Delay retrying placement for automatic NUMA balance after wake_affine()"
      86a4ac43
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip · baeda713
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Pull perf tooling fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
       "Another small set of perf tooling fixes and updates:
      
         - Revert "perf pmu: Fix pmu events parsing rule", as it broke Intel
           PT event description parsing (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
      
         - Sync x86's cpufeatures.h and kvm UAPI headers with the kernel
           sources, suppressing the ABI drift warnings (Arnaldo Carvalho de
           Melo)
      
         - Remove duplicated entry for westmereep-dp in Intel's mapfile.csv
           (William Cohen)
      
         - Fix typo in 'perf bench numa' options description (Yisheng Xie)"
      
      * 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
        Revert "perf pmu: Fix pmu events parsing rule"
        tools headers kvm: Sync ARM UAPI headers with the kernel sources
        tools headers kvm: Sync uapi/linux/kvm.h with the kernel sources
        tools headers: Sync x86 cpufeatures.h with the kernel sources
        perf vendor events intel: Remove duplicated entry for westmereep-dp in mapfile.csv
        perf bench numa: Fix typo in options
      baeda713
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge tag 'dma-mapping-4.17-5' of git://git.infradead.org/users/hch/dma-mapping · 0503fd65
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Pull dma-mapping fix from Christoph Hellwig:
       "Just one little fix from Jean to avoid a harmless but very annoying
        warning, especially for the drm code"
      
      * tag 'dma-mapping-4.17-5' of git://git.infradead.org/users/hch/dma-mapping:
        swiotlb: silent unwanted warning "buffer is full"
      0503fd65
  5. May 13, 2018
  6. May 12, 2018