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Pull x86 fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
"Two fixes for the VMWare guest support:
- Unbreak VMWare platform detection which got wreckaged by converting
an integer constant to a string constant.
- Fix the clang build of the VMWAre hypercall by explicitely
specifying the ouput register for INL instead of using the short
form"
* 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/cpu/vmware: Fix platform detection VMWARE_PORT macro
x86/cpu/vmware: Use the full form of INL in VMWARE_HYPERCALL, for clang/llvm
Pull timer fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
"A small set of fixes for time(keeping):
- Add a missing include to prevent compiler warnings.
- Make the VDSO implementation of clock_getres() POSIX compliant
again. A recent change dropped the NULL pointer guard which is
required as NULL is a valid pointer value for this function.
- Fix two function documentation typos"
* 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
posix-cpu-timers: Fix two trivial comments
timers/sched_clock: Include local timekeeping.h for missing declarations
lib/vdso: Make clock_getres() POSIX compliant again
The platform detection VMWARE_PORT macro uses the VMWARE_HYPERVISOR_PORT
definition, but expects it to be an integer. However, when it was moved
to the new vmware.h include file, it was changed to be a string to better
fit into the VMWARE_HYPERCALL set of macros. This obviously breaks the
platform detection VMWARE_PORT functionality.
Change the VMWARE_HYPERVISOR_PORT and VMWARE_HYPERVISOR_PORT_HB
definitions to be integers, and use __stringify() for their stringified
form when needed.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Fixes: b4dd4f6e3648 ("Add a header file for hypercall definitions")
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191021172403.3085-3-thomas_os@shipmail.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Pull perf fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
"A set of perf fixes:
kernel:
- Unbreak the tracking of auxiliary buffer allocations which got
imbalanced causing recource limit failures.
- Fix the fallout of splitting of ToPA entries which missed to shift
the base entry PA correctly.
- Use the correct context to lookup the AUX event when unmapping the
associated AUX buffer so the event can be stopped and the buffer
reference dropped.
tools:
- Fix buildiid-cache mode setting in copyfile_mode_ns() when copying
/proc/kcore
- Fix freeing id arrays in the event list so the correct event is
closed.
- Sync sched.h anc kvm.h headers with the kernel sources.
- Link jvmti against tools/lib/ctype.o to have weak strlcpy().
- Fix multiple memory and file descriptor leaks, found by coverity in
perf annotate.
- Fix leaks in error handling paths in 'perf c2c', 'perf kmem', found
by a static analysis tool"
* 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
perf/aux: Fix AUX output stopping
perf/aux: Fix tracking of auxiliary trace buffer allocation
perf/x86/intel/pt: Fix base for single entry topa
perf kmem: Fix memory leak in compact_gfp_flags()
tools headers UAPI: Sync sched.h with the kernel
tools headers kvm: Sync kvm.h headers with the kernel sources
tools headers kvm: Sync kvm headers with the kernel sources
tools headers kvm: Sync kvm headers with the kernel sources
perf c2c: Fix memory leak in build_cl_output()
perf tools: Fix mode setting in copyfile_mode_ns()
perf annotate: Fix multiple memory and file descriptor leaks
perf tools: Fix resource leak of closedir() on the error paths
perf evlist: Fix fix for freed id arrays
perf jvmti: Link against tools/lib/ctype.h to have weak strlcpy()
Recent changes modified the function arguments of
thread_group_sample_cputime() and task_cputimers_expired(), but forgot to
update the comments. Fix it up.
[ tglx: Changed the argument name of task_cputimers_expired() as the pointer
points to an array of samples. ]
Fixes: b7be4ef1365d ("posix-cpu-timers: Switch thread group sampling to array")
Fixes: 001f7971433a ("posix-cpu-timers: Make expiry checks array based")
Signed-off-by: Yi Wang <wang.yi59@zte.com.cn>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1571643852-21848-1-git-send-email-wang.yi59@zte.com.cn
LLVM's assembler doesn't accept the short form INL instruction:
inl (%%dx)
but instead insists on the output register to be explicitly specified.
This was previously fixed for the VMWARE_PORT macro. Fix it also for
the VMWARE_HYPERCALL macro.
Suggested-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com>
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: clang-built-linux@googlegroups.com
Fixes: b4dd4f6e3648 ("Add a header file for hypercall definitions")
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191021172403.3085-2-thomas_os@shipmail.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Pull irq fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
"Two fixes for interrupt controller drivers:
- Skip IRQ_M_EXT entries in the device tree when initializing the
RISCV PLIC controller to avoid a double init attempt.
- Use the correct ITS list when issuing the VMOVP synchronization
command so the operation works only on the ITS instances which are
associated to a VM"
* 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
irqchip/sifive-plic: Skip contexts except supervisor in plic_init()
irqchip/gic-v3-its: Use the exact ITSList for VMOVP
Commit:
8a58ddae2379 ("perf/core: Fix exclusive events' grouping")
allows CAP_EXCLUSIVE events to be grouped with other events. Since all
of those also happen to be AUX events (which is not the case the other
way around, because arch/s390), this changes the rules for stopping the
output: the AUX event may not be on its PMU's context any more, if it's
grouped with a HW event, in which case it will be on that HW event's
context instead. If that's the case, munmap() of the AUX buffer can't
find and stop the AUX event, potentially leaving the last reference with
the atomic context, which will then end up freeing the AUX buffer. This
will then trip warnings:
Fix this by using the context's PMU context when looking for events
to stop, instead of the event's PMU context.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191022073940.61814-1-alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Include the timekeeping.h header to get the declaration of the
sched_clock_{suspend,resume} functions. Fixes the following sparse
warnings:
kernel/time/sched_clock.c:275:5: warning: symbol 'sched_clock_suspend' was not declared. Should it be static?
kernel/time/sched_clock.c:286:6: warning: symbol 'sched_clock_resume' was not declared. Should it be static?
Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks (Codethink) <ben.dooks@codethink.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191022131226.11465-1-ben.dooks@codethink.co.uk
Pull cifs fixes from Steve French:
"Seven cifs/smb3 fixes, including three for stable"
* tag '5.4-rc5-smb3-fixes' of git://git.samba.org/sfrench/cifs-2.6:
cifs: Fix cifsInodeInfo lock_sem deadlock when reconnect occurs
CIFS: Fix use after free of file info structures
CIFS: Fix retry mid list corruption on reconnects
cifs: Fix missed free operations
CIFS: avoid using MID 0xFFFF
cifs: clarify comment about timestamp granularity for old servers
cifs: Handle -EINPROGRESS only when noblockcnt is set
Pull the second lot of irqchip updates for 5.4 from Marc Zyngier:
- Sifive PLIC: force driver to skip non-relevant contexts
- GICv4: Don't send VMOVP commands to ITSs that don't have
this vPE mapped
The following commit from the v5.4 merge window:
d44248a41337 ("perf/core: Rework memory accounting in perf_mmap()")
... breaks auxiliary trace buffer tracking.
If I run command 'perf record -e rbd000' to record samples and saving
them in the **auxiliary** trace buffer then the value of 'locked_vm' becomes
negative after all trace buffers have been allocated and released:
During allocation the values increase:
[52.250027] perf_mmap user->locked_vm:0x87 pinned_vm:0x0 ret:0
[52.250115] perf_mmap user->locked_vm:0x107 pinned_vm:0x0 ret:0
[52.250251] perf_mmap user->locked_vm:0x188 pinned_vm:0x0 ret:0
[52.250326] perf_mmap user->locked_vm:0x208 pinned_vm:0x0 ret:0
[52.250441] perf_mmap user->locked_vm:0x289 pinned_vm:0x0 ret:0
[52.250498] perf_mmap user->locked_vm:0x309 pinned_vm:0x0 ret:0
[52.250613] perf_mmap user->locked_vm:0x38a pinned_vm:0x0 ret:0
[52.250715] perf_mmap user->locked_vm:0x408 pinned_vm:0x2 ret:0
[52.250834] perf_mmap user->locked_vm:0x408 pinned_vm:0x83 ret:0
[52.250915] perf_mmap user->locked_vm:0x408 pinned_vm:0x103 ret:0
[52.251061] perf_mmap user->locked_vm:0x408 pinned_vm:0x184 ret:0
[52.251146] perf_mmap user->locked_vm:0x408 pinned_vm:0x204 ret:0
[52.251299] perf_mmap user->locked_vm:0x408 pinned_vm:0x285 ret:0
[52.251383] perf_mmap user->locked_vm:0x408 pinned_vm:0x305 ret:0
[52.251544] perf_mmap user->locked_vm:0x408 pinned_vm:0x386 ret:0
[52.251634] perf_mmap user->locked_vm:0x408 pinned_vm:0x406 ret:0
[52.253018] perf_mmap user->locked_vm:0x408 pinned_vm:0x487 ret:0
[52.253197] perf_mmap user->locked_vm:0x408 pinned_vm:0x508 ret:0
[52.253374] perf_mmap user->locked_vm:0x408 pinned_vm:0x589 ret:0
[52.253550] perf_mmap user->locked_vm:0x408 pinned_vm:0x60a ret:0
[52.253726] perf_mmap user->locked_vm:0x408 pinned_vm:0x68b ret:0
[52.253903] perf_mmap user->locked_vm:0x408 pinned_vm:0x70c ret:0
[52.254084] perf_mmap user->locked_vm:0x408 pinned_vm:0x78d ret:0
[52.254263] perf_mmap user->locked_vm:0x408 pinned_vm:0x80e ret:0
The value of user->locked_vm increases to a limit then the memory
is tracked by pinned_vm.
During deallocation the size is subtracted from pinned_vm until
it hits a limit. Then a larger value is subtracted from locked_vm
leading to a large number (because of type unsigned):
[64.267797] perf_mmap_close mmap_user->locked_vm:0x408 pinned_vm:0x78d
[64.267826] perf_mmap_close mmap_user->locked_vm:0x408 pinned_vm:0x70c
[64.267848] perf_mmap_close mmap_user->locked_vm:0x408 pinned_vm:0x68b
[64.267869] perf_mmap_close mmap_user->locked_vm:0x408 pinned_vm:0x60a
[64.267891] perf_mmap_close mmap_user->locked_vm:0x408 pinned_vm:0x589
[64.267911] perf_mmap_close mmap_user->locked_vm:0x408 pinned_vm:0x508
[64.267933] perf_mmap_close mmap_user->locked_vm:0x408 pinned_vm:0x487
[64.267952] perf_mmap_close mmap_user->locked_vm:0x408 pinned_vm:0x406
[64.268883] perf_mmap_close mmap_user->locked_vm:0x307 pinned_vm:0x406
[64.269117] perf_mmap_close mmap_user->locked_vm:0x206 pinned_vm:0x406
[64.269433] perf_mmap_close mmap_user->locked_vm:0x105 pinned_vm:0x406
[64.269536] perf_mmap_close mmap_user->locked_vm:0x4 pinned_vm:0x404
[64.269797] perf_mmap_close mmap_user->locked_vm:0xffffffffffffff84 pinned_vm:0x303
[64.270105] perf_mmap_close mmap_user->locked_vm:0xffffffffffffff04 pinned_vm:0x202
[64.270374] perf_mmap_close mmap_user->locked_vm:0xfffffffffffffe84 pinned_vm:0x101
[64.270628] perf_mmap_close mmap_user->locked_vm:0xfffffffffffffe04 pinned_vm:0x0
This value sticks for the user until system is rebooted, causing
follow-on system calls using locked_vm resource limit to fail.
Note: There is no issue using the normal trace buffer.
In fact the issue is in perf_mmap_close(). During allocation auxiliary
trace buffer memory is either traced as 'extra' and added to 'pinned_vm'
or trace as 'user_extra' and added to 'locked_vm'. This applies for
normal trace buffers and auxiliary trace buffer.
However in function perf_mmap_close() all auxiliary trace buffer is
subtraced from 'locked_vm' and never from 'pinned_vm'. This breaks the
ballance.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Richter <tmricht@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: acme@kernel.org
Cc: gor@linux.ibm.com
Cc: hechaol@fb.com
Cc: heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com
Cc: linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org
Cc: songliubraving@fb.com
Fixes: d44248a41337 ("perf/core: Rework memory accounting in perf_mmap()")
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191021083354.67868-1-tmricht@linux.ibm.com
[ Minor readability edits. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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