kernel.git/drivers/oprofile, branch linux-2.6.25.y

d_path: Make get_dcookie() use a struct path argument

2008-02-15T05:17:08Z

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 Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Al Viro Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" Cc: Neil Brown Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

oProfile: oops when profile_pc() returns ~0LU

2007-11-15T02:45:37Z

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 Tested-by: Sami Farin Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[CELL] oprofile: add support to OProfile for profiling CELL BE SPUs

2007-07-20T19:42:24Z

From: Maynard Johnson 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 Signed-off-by: Maynard Johnson Signed-off-by: Bob Nelson Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann Acked-by: Paul Mackerras

Detach sched.h from mm.h

2007-05-21T16:18:19Z

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 Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] oprofile: fix potential deadlock on oprofilefs_lock

2007-03-28T20:58:02Z

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 Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] mark struct file_operations const 5

2007-02-12T17:48:45Z

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 Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] struct path: convert oprofile

2006-12-08T16:28:48Z

Signed-off-by: Josef Sipek Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

WorkStruct: make allyesconfig

2006-11-22T14:57:56Z

Fix up for make allyesconfig. Signed-Off-By: David Howells

[PATCH] inode-diet: Eliminate i_blksize from the inode structure

2006-09-27T15:26:18Z

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" Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] inode_diet: Replace inode.u.generic_ip with inode.i_private

2006-09-27T15:26:17Z

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" Signed-off-by: Judith Lebzelter Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds