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* shrink struct dentryNick Piggin2008-12-311-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | struct dentry is one of the most critical structures in the kernel. So it's sad to see it going neglected. With CONFIG_PROFILING turned on (which is probably the common case at least for distros and kernel developers), sizeof(struct dcache) == 208 here (64-bit). This gives 19 objects per slab. I packed d_mounted into a hole, and took another 4 bytes off the inline name length to take the padding out from the end of the structure. This shinks it to 200 bytes. I could have gone the other way and increased the length to 40, but I'm aiming for a magic number, read on... I then got rid of the d_cookie pointer. This shrinks it to 192 bytes. Rant: why was this ever a good idea? The cookie system should increase its hash size or use a tree or something if lookups are a problem. Also the "fast dcookie lookups" in oprofile should be moved into the dcookie code -- how can oprofile possibly care about the dcookie_mutex? It gets dropped after get_dcookie() returns so it can't be providing any sort of protection. At 192 bytes, 21 objects fit into a 4K page, saving about 3MB on my system with ~140 000 entries allocated. 192 is also a multiple of 64, so we get nice cacheline alignment on 64 and 32 byte line systems -- any given dentry will now require 3 cachelines to touch all fields wheras previously it would require 4. I know the inline name size was chosen quite carefully, however with the reduction in cacheline footprint, it should actually be just about as fast to do a name lookup for a 36 character name as it was before the patch (and faster for other sizes). The memory footprint savings for names which are <= 32 or > 36 bytes long should more than make up for the memory cost for 33-36 byte names. Performance is a feature... Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* oprofile: fix lost sample counterRobert Richter2008-12-101-30/+53
| | | | | | | | The number of lost samples could be greater than the number of received samples. This patches fixes this. The implementation introduces return values for add_sample() and add_code(). Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
* oprofile: remove nr_available_slots()Robert Richter2008-12-101-34/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This function is no longer available after the port to the new ring buffer. Its removal can lead to incomplete sampling sequences since IBS samples and backtraces are transfered in multiple samples. Due to a full buffer, samples could be lost any time. The userspace daemon has to live with such incomplete sampling sequences as long as the data within one sample is consistent. This will be fixed by changing the internal buffer data there all data of one IBS sample or a backtrace is packed in a single ring buffer entry. This is possible since the new ring buffer supports variable data size. Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
* oprofile: port to the new ring_bufferRobert Richter2008-12-103-85/+114
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch replaces the current oprofile cpu buffer implementation with the ring buffer provided by the tracing framework. The motivation here is to leave the pain of implementing ring buffers to others. Oh, no, there are more advantages. Main reason is the support of different sample sizes that could be stored in the buffer. Use cases for this are IBS and Cell spu profiling. Using the new ring buffer ensures valid and complete samples and allows copying the cpu buffer stateless without knowing its content. Second it will use generic kernel API and also reduce code size. And hopefully, there are less bugs. Since the new tracing ring buffer implementation uses spin locks to protect the buffer during read/write access, it is difficult to use the buffer in an NMI handler. In this case, writing to the buffer by the NMI handler (x86) could occur also during critical sections when reading the buffer. To avoid this, there are 2 buffers for independent read and write access. Read access is in process context only, write access only in the NMI handler. If the read buffer runs empty, both buffers are swapped atomically. There is potentially a small window during swapping where the buffers are disabled and samples could be lost. Using 2 buffers is a little bit overhead, but the solution is clear and does not require changes in the ring buffer implementation. It can be changed to a single buffer solution when the ring buffer access is implemented as non-locking atomic code. The new buffer requires more size to store the same amount of samples because each sample includes an u32 header. Also, there is more code to execute for buffer access. Nonetheless, the buffer implementation is proven in the ftrace environment and worth to use also in oprofile. Patches that changes the internal IBS buffer usage will follow. Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
* oprofile: moving cpu_buffer_reset() to cpu_buffer.hRobert Richter2008-12-103-27/+14
| | | | | | This is in preparation for changes in the cpu buffer implementation. Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
* oprofile: adding cpu_buffer_entries()Robert Richter2008-12-102-29/+29
| | | | | | This is in preparation for changes in the cpu buffer implementation. Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
* oprofile: adding cpu_buffer_write_commit()Robert Richter2008-12-102-17/+18
| | | | | | This is in preparation for changes in the cpu buffer implementation. Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
* oprofile: adding cpu buffer r/w access functionsRobert Richter2008-12-103-12/+22
| | | | | | This is in preparation for changes in the cpu buffer implementation. Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
* oprofile: set values to default when creating oprofilefsRobert Richter2008-12-101-3/+12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch restores default values for: /dev/oprofile/cpu_buffer_size /dev/oprofile/buffer_watershed /dev/oprofile/buffer_size when creating the oprofilefs: # opcontrol --deinit # opcontrol --init # cat /dev/oprofile/cpu_buffer_size 8192 # echo 5123 > /dev/oprofile/cpu_buffer_size # cat /dev/oprofile/cpu_buffer_size 5123 # opcontrol --deinit # opcontrol --init # cat /dev/oprofile/cpu_buffer_size 8192 # opcontrol --deinit This sets the values in a defined state. Before, there was no way to restore the defaults without rebooting the system or reloading the module. Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
* oprofile: implement switch/case in buffer_sync.cRobert Richter2008-12-101-8/+14
| | | | Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
* oprofile: fix typoRobert Richter2008-12-101-1/+1
| | | | Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
* oprofile: whitspace changes onlyRobert Richter2008-12-101-2/+2
| | | | Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
* oprofile: comment cleanupRobert Richter2008-12-101-9/+16
| | | | | | This fixes the coding style of some comments. Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
* oprofile: fix memory orderingNick Piggin2008-10-271-3/+3
| | | | | | | | | Regular bitops don't work as locks on all architectures. Also: can use non-atomic unlock as no concurrent stores to the word. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
* Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2008-10-2313-184/+174
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rric/oprofile * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rric/oprofile: (21 commits) OProfile: Fix buffer synchronization for IBS oprofile: hotplug cpu fix oprofile: fixing whitespaces in arch/x86/oprofile/* oprofile: fixing whitespaces in arch/x86/oprofile/* oprofile: fixing whitespaces in drivers/oprofile/* x86/oprofile: add the logic for enabling additional IBS bits x86/oprofile: reordering functions in nmi_int.c x86/oprofile: removing unused function parameter in add_ibs_begin() oprofile: more whitespace fixes oprofile: whitespace fixes OProfile: Rename IBS sysfs dir into "ibs_op" OProfile: Rework string handling in setup_ibs_files() OProfile: Rework oprofile_add_ibs_sample() function oprofile: discover counters for op ppro too oprofile: Implement Intel architectural perfmon support oprofile: Don't report Nehalem as core_2 oprofile: drop const in num counters field Revert "Oprofile Multiplexing Patch" x86, oprofile: BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible code x86/oprofile: fix on_each_cpu build error ... Manually fixed trivial conflicts in drivers/oprofile/{cpu_buffer.c,event_buffer.h}
| * OProfile: Fix buffer synchronization for IBSBarry Kasindorf2008-10-201-1/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The patch is needed since there is some IBS code in add_ibs_begin() that handles more than one sample per iteration. This requires calling get_slots() during each loop. This fixes the current problem, but a proper solution that reworks the cpu buffer synchronization is needed here in the future. Signed-off-by: Barry Kasindorf <barry.kasindorf@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
| * oprofile: hotplug cpu fixChris J Arges2008-10-171-2/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch addresses problems when hotplugging cpus while profiling. Instead of allocating only online cpus, all possible cpu buffers are allocated, which allows cpus to be onlined during operation. If a cpu is offlined before profiling is shutdown wq_sync_buffer checks for this condition then cancels this work and does not sync this buffer. Signed-off-by: Chris J Arges <arges@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
| * oprofile: fixing whitespaces in drivers/oprofile/*Robert Richter2008-10-1612-60/+60
| | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
| * x86/oprofile: removing unused function parameter in add_ibs_begin()Robert Richter2008-10-151-5/+3
| | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
| * oprofile: more whitespace fixesRobert Richter2008-10-159-72/+72
| | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
| * oprofile: whitespace fixesRobert Richter2008-10-152-13/+12
| | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
| * OProfile: Rework oprofile_add_ibs_sample() functionRobert Richter2008-10-151-33/+15
| | | | | | | | | | | | Code looks much more cleaner now. Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
| * Merge commit 'v2.6.27-rc5' into tip/oprofileRobert Richter2008-09-242-1/+5
| |\ | | | | | | | | | | | | Conflicts: arch/x86/oprofile/nmi_int.c
| * | Revert "Oprofile Multiplexing Patch"Robert Richter2008-09-243-95/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Reverting commit 1a960b402a51d80abf54e3f8e4972374ffe5f22d for the main branch. Multiplexing will be tracked on a separate feature branch. Conflicts: arch/x86/oprofile/nmi_int.c
| * | Oprofile Multiplexing PatchJason Yeh2008-07-263-6/+95
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch introduces multiplexing support for the Oprofile kernel module. It basically adds a new function pointer in oprofile_operator allowing each architecture to supply its callback to switch between different sets of event when the timer expires. Userspace tools can modify the time slice through /dev/oprofile/time_slice. It also modifies the number of counters exposed to the userspace through /dev/oprofile. For example, the number of counters for AMD CPUs are changed to 32 and multiplexed in the sets of 4. Signed-off-by: Jason Yeh <jason.yeh@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com> Cc: oprofile-list <oprofile-list@lists.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | | powerpc/oprofile: Fix mutex locking for cell spu-oprofileCarl Love2008-10-213-1/+45
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The issue is the SPU code is not holding the kernel mutex lock while adding samples to the kernel buffer. This patch creates per SPU buffers to hold the data. Data is added to the buffers from in interrupt context. The data is periodically pushed to the kernel buffer via a new Oprofile function oprofile_put_buff(). The oprofile_put_buff() function is called via a work queue enabling the funtion to acquire the mutex lock. The existing user controls for adjusting the per CPU buffer size is used to control the size of the per SPU buffers. Similarly, overflows of the SPU buffers are reported by incrementing the per CPU buffer stats. This eliminates the need to have architecture specific controls for the per SPU buffers which is not acceptable to the OProfile user tool maintainer. The export of the oprofile add_event_entry() is removed as it is no longer needed given this patch. Note, this patch has not addressed the issue of indexing arrays by the spu number. This still needs to be fixed as the spu numbering is not guarenteed to be 0 to max_num_spus-1. Signed-off-by: Carl Love <carll@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Maynard Johnson <maynardj@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: Acked-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
* | | Merge branch 'linus' into oprofile-v2Ingo Molnar2008-10-132-1/+5
|\ \ \ | |/ / |/| / | |/ | | | | | | Conflicts: arch/x86/kernel/apic_32.c arch/x86/oprofile/nmi_int.c include/linux/pci_ids.h
| * powerpc/cell/oprofile: Avoid double vfree of profile bufferCarl Love2008-08-262-1/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If an error occurs on opcontrol start, the event and per cpu buffers are released. If later opcontrol shutdown is called then the free function will be called again to free buffers that no longer exist. This results in a kernel oops. The following changes prevent the call to delete buffers that don't exist. Signed-off-by: Carl Love <carll@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
* | oprofile: fix printk in cpu_buffer.cRobert Richter2008-07-261-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com> Cc: oprofile-list <oprofile-list@lists.sourceforge.net> Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com> Cc: Barry Kasindorf <barry.kasindorf@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | x86/oprofile: add CONFIG_OPROFILE_IBS optionRobert Richter2008-07-262-0/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com> Cc: oprofile-list <oprofile-list@lists.sourceforge.net> Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com> Cc: Barry Kasindorf <barry.kasindorf@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | x86/oprofile: add IBS support for AMD CPUs, IBS buffer handling routinesBarry Kasindorf2008-07-263-2/+140
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patchset supports the new profiling hardware available in the latest AMD CPUs in the oProfile driver. Signed-off-by: Barry Kasindorf <barry.kasindorf@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com> Cc: oprofile-list <oprofile-list@lists.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | OProfile: moving increment_tail() in buffer_sync.cRobert Richter2008-07-261-13/+11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com> Cc: oprofile-list <oprofile-list@lists.sourceforge.net> Cc: Barry Kasindorf <barry.kasindorf@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | drivers/oprofile: coding style fixes in buffer_sync.cRobert Richter2008-07-261-54/+57
|/ | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com> Cc: oprofile-list <oprofile-list@lists.sourceforge.net> Cc: Barry Kasindorf <barry.kasindorf@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* oprofile: don't request cache line alignment for cpu_bufferEric Dumazet2008-05-142-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Alignment was previously requested because cpu_buffer was an [NR_CPUS] array, to avoid cache line sharing between CPUS. After commit 608dfddd845da5ab6accef70154c8910529699f7 (oprofile: change cpu_buffer from array to per_cpu variable ), we dont need to force an alignement anymore since cpu_buffer sits in per_cpu zone. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Cc: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* oprofile: change cpu_buffer from array to per_cpu variableMike Travis2008-04-284-12/+13
| | | | | | | | | | Change cpu_buffer from array to per_cpu variable in oprofile functions. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Cc: Philippe Elie <phil.el@wanadoo.fr> Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* d_path: Make get_dcookie() use a struct path argumentJan Blunck2008-02-141-12/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | get_dcookie() is always called with a dentry and a vfsmount from a struct path. Make get_dcookie() take it directly as an argument. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de> Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* oProfile: oops when profile_pc() returns ~0LUPhilippe Elie2007-11-143-0/+12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Instruction pointer returned by profile_pc() can be a random value. This break the assumption than we can safely set struct op_sample.eip field to a magic value to signal to the per-cpu buffer reader side special event like task switch ending up in a segfault in get_task_mm() when profile_pc() return ~0UL. Fixed by sanitizing the sampled eip and reject/log invalid eip. Problem reported by Sami Farin, patch tested by him. Signed-off-by: Philippe Elie <phil.el@wanadoo.fr> Tested-by: Sami Farin <safari-kernel@safari.iki.fi> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [CELL] oprofile: add support to OProfile for profiling CELL BE SPUsBob Nelson2007-07-203-20/+31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | From: Maynard Johnson <mpjohn@us.ibm.com> This patch updates the existing arch/powerpc/oprofile/op_model_cell.c to add in the SPU profiling capabilities. In addition, a 'cell' subdirectory was added to arch/powerpc/oprofile to hold Cell-specific SPU profiling code. Exports spu_set_profile_private_kref and spu_get_profile_private_kref which are used by OProfile to store private profile information in spufs data structures. Also incorporated several fixes from other patches (rrn). Check pointer returned from kzalloc. Eliminated unnecessary cast. Better error handling and cleanup in the related area. 64-bit unsigned long parameter was being demoted to 32-bit unsigned int and eventually promoted back to unsigned long. Signed-off-by: Carl Love <carll@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Maynard Johnson <mpjohn@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Bob Nelson <rrnelson@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com> Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
* Detach sched.h from mm.hAlexey Dobriyan2007-05-211-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | First thing mm.h does is including sched.h solely for can_do_mlock() inline function which has "current" dereference inside. By dealing with can_do_mlock() mm.h can be detached from sched.h which is good. See below, why. This patch a) removes unconditional inclusion of sched.h from mm.h b) makes can_do_mlock() normal function in mm/mlock.c c) exports can_do_mlock() to not break compilation d) adds sched.h inclusions back to files that were getting it indirectly. e) adds less bloated headers to some files (asm/signal.h, jiffies.h) that were getting them indirectly Net result is: a) mm.h users would get less code to open, read, preprocess, parse, ... if they don't need sched.h b) sched.h stops being dependency for significant number of files: on x86_64 allmodconfig touching sched.h results in recompile of 4083 files, after patch it's only 3744 (-8.3%). Cross-compile tested on all arm defconfigs, all mips defconfigs, all powerpc defconfigs, alpha alpha-up arm i386 i386-up i386-defconfig i386-allnoconfig ia64 ia64-up m68k mips parisc parisc-up powerpc powerpc-up s390 s390-up sparc sparc-up sparc64 sparc64-up um-x86_64 x86_64 x86_64-up x86_64-defconfig x86_64-allnoconfig as well as my two usual configs. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] oprofile: fix potential deadlock on oprofilefs_lockJiri Kosina2007-03-282-4/+6
| | | | | | | | | nmi_cpu_setup() is called from hardirq context and acquires oprofilefs_lock. alloc_event_buffer() and oprofilefs_ulong_from_user() acquire this lock without disabling irqs, which could deadlock. Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] mark struct file_operations const 5Arjan van de Ven2007-02-124-10/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | Many struct file_operations in the kernel can be "const". Marking them const moves these to the .rodata section, which avoids false sharing with potential dirty data. In addition it'll catch accidental writes at compile time to these shared resources. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] struct path: convert oprofileJosef Sipek2006-12-081-4/+4
| | | | | | Signed-off-by: Josef Sipek <jsipek@fsl.cs.sunysb.edu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* WorkStruct: make allyesconfigDavid Howells2006-11-222-5/+6
| | | | | | Fix up for make allyesconfig. Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
* [PATCH] inode-diet: Eliminate i_blksize from the inode structureTheodore Ts'o2006-09-271-1/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This eliminates the i_blksize field from struct inode. Filesystems that want to provide a per-inode st_blksize can do so by providing their own getattr routine instead of using the generic_fillattr() function. Note that some filesystems were providing pretty much random (and incorrect) values for i_blksize. [bunk@stusta.de: cleanup] [akpm@osdl.org: generic_fillattr() fix] Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] inode_diet: Replace inode.u.generic_ip with inode.i_privateTheodore Ts'o2006-09-271-5/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The following patches reduce the size of the VFS inode structure by 28 bytes on a UP x86. (It would be more on an x86_64 system). This is a 10% reduction in the inode size on a UP kernel that is configured in a production mode (i.e., with no spinlock or other debugging functions enabled; if you want to save memory taken up by in-core inodes, the first thing you should do is disable the debugging options; they are responsible for a huge amount of bloat in the VFS inode structure). This patch: The filesystem or device-specific pointer in the inode is inside a union, which is pretty pointless given that all 30+ users of this field have been using the void pointer. Get rid of the union and rename it to i_private, with a comment to explain who is allowed to use the void pointer. This is just a cleanup, but it allows us to reuse the union 'u' for something something where the union will actually be used. [judith@osdl.org: powerpc build fix] Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Judith Lebzelter <judith@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] oprofile: convert from semaphores to mutexesMarkus Armbruster2006-06-254-25/+25
| | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> Cc: Philippe Elie <phil.el@wanadoo.fr> Cc: John Levon <levon@movementarian.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] VFS: Permit filesystem to override root dentry on mountDavid Howells2006-06-231-3/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Extend the get_sb() filesystem operation to take an extra argument that permits the VFS to pass in the target vfsmount that defines the mountpoint. The filesystem is then required to manually set the superblock and root dentry pointers. For most filesystems, this should be done with simple_set_mnt() which will set the superblock pointer and then set the root dentry to the superblock's s_root (as per the old default behaviour). The get_sb() op now returns an integer as there's now no need to return the superblock pointer. This patch permits a superblock to be implicitly shared amongst several mount points, such as can be done with NFS to avoid potential inode aliasing. In such a case, simple_set_mnt() would not be called, and instead the mnt_root and mnt_sb would be set directly. The patch also makes the following changes: (*) the get_sb_*() convenience functions in the core kernel now take a vfsmount pointer argument and return an integer, so most filesystems have to change very little. (*) If one of the convenience function is not used, then get_sb() should normally call simple_set_mnt() to instantiate the vfsmount. This will always return 0, and so can be tail-called from get_sb(). (*) generic_shutdown_super() now calls shrink_dcache_sb() to clean up the dcache upon superblock destruction rather than shrink_dcache_anon(). This is required because the superblock may now have multiple trees that aren't actually bound to s_root, but that still need to be cleaned up. The currently called functions assume that the whole tree is rooted at s_root, and that anonymous dentries are not the roots of trees which results in dentries being left unculled. However, with the way NFS superblock sharing are currently set to be implemented, these assumptions are violated: the root of the filesystem is simply a dummy dentry and inode (the real inode for '/' may well be inaccessible), and all the vfsmounts are rooted on anonymous[*] dentries with child trees. [*] Anonymous until discovered from another tree. (*) The documentation has been adjusted, including the additional bit of changing ext2_* into foo_* in the documentation. [akpm@osdl.org: convert ipath_fs, do other stuff] Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com> Cc: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] mark f_ops const in the inodeArjan van de Ven2006-03-281-3/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | Mark the f_ops members of inodes as const, as well as fix the ripple-through this causes by places that copy this f_ops and then "do stuff" with it. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] for_each_possible_cpu: oprofile.KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki2006-03-281-2/+2
| | | | | | | | This patch replaces for_each_cpu with for_each_possible_cpu. Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Add oprofile_add_ext_sampleBrian Rogan2006-03-281-3/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | On ppc64 we look at a profiling register to work out the sample address and if it was in userspace or kernel. The backtrace interface oprofile_add_sample does not allow this. Create oprofile_add_ext_sample and make oprofile_add_sample use it too. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Cc: Philippe Elie <phil.el@wanadoo.fr> Cc: John Levon <levon@movementarian.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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