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2012-10-21Merge branch 'uprobes/core' of ↵Ingo Molnar
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/oleg/misc into perf/urgent Pull various uprobes bugfixes from Oleg Nesterov - mostly race and failure path fixes. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-10-13Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull perf updates from Ingo Molnar: "This tree includes some late late perf items that missed the first round: tools: - Bash auto completion improvements, now we can auto complete the tools long options, tracepoint event names, etc, from Namhyung Kim. - Look up thread using tid instead of pid in 'perf sched'. - Move global variables into a perf_kvm struct, from David Ahern. - Hists refactorings, preparatory for improved 'diff' command, from Jiri Olsa. - Hists refactorings, preparatory for event group viewieng work, from Namhyung Kim. - Remove double negation on optional feature macro definitions, from Namhyung Kim. - Remove several cases of needless global variables, on most builtins. - misc fixes kernel: - sysfs support for IBS on AMD CPUs, from Robert Richter. - Support for an upcoming Intel CPU, the Xeon-Phi / Knights Corner HPC blade PMU, from Vince Weaver. - misc fixes" * 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (46 commits) perf: Fix perf_cgroup_switch for sw-events perf: Clarify perf_cpu_context::active_pmu usage by renaming it to ::unique_pmu perf/AMD/IBS: Add sysfs support perf hists: Add more helpers for hist entry stat perf hists: Move he->stat.nr_events initialization to a template perf hists: Introduce struct he_stat perf diff: Removing the total_period argument from output code perf tool: Add hpp interface to enable/disable hpp column perf tools: Removing hists pair argument from output path perf hists: Separate overhead and baseline columns perf diff: Refactor diff displacement possition info perf hists: Add struct hists pointer to struct hist_entry perf tools: Complete tracepoint event names perf/x86: Add support for Intel Xeon-Phi Knights Corner PMU perf evlist: Remove some unused methods perf evlist: Introduce add_newtp method perf kvm: Move global variables into a perf_kvm struct perf tools: Convert to BACKTRACE_SUPPORT perf tools: Long option completion support for each subcommands perf tools: Complete long option names of perf command ...
2012-10-09mm: wrap calls to set_pte_at_notify with invalidate_range_start and ↵Haggai Eran
invalidate_range_end In order to allow sleeping during invalidate_page mmu notifier calls, we need to avoid calling when holding the PT lock. In addition to its direct calls, invalidate_page can also be called as a substitute for a change_pte call, in case the notifier client hasn't implemented change_pte. This patch drops the invalidate_page call from change_pte, and instead wraps all calls to change_pte with invalidate_range_start and invalidate_range_end calls. Note that change_pte still cannot sleep after this patch, and that clients implementing change_pte should not take action on it in case the number of outstanding invalidate_range_start calls is larger than one, otherwise they might miss a later invalidation. Signed-off-by: Haggai Eran <haggaie@mellanox.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@qumranet.com> Cc: Sagi Grimberg <sagig@mellanox.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@mellanox.com> Cc: Haggai Eran <haggaie@mellanox.com> Cc: Shachar Raindel <raindel@mellanox.com> Cc: Liran Liss <liranl@mellanox.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-10-09mm: replace vma prio_tree with an interval treeMichel Lespinasse
Implement an interval tree as a replacement for the VMA prio_tree. The algorithms are similar to lib/interval_tree.c; however that code can't be directly reused as the interval endpoints are not explicitly stored in the VMA. So instead, the common algorithm is moved into a template and the details (node type, how to get interval endpoints from the node, etc) are filled in using the C preprocessor. Once the interval tree functions are available, using them as a replacement to the VMA prio tree is a relatively simple, mechanical job. Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-10-09mm: kill vma flag VM_RESERVED and mm->reserved_vm counterKonstantin Khlebnikov
A long time ago, in v2.4, VM_RESERVED kept swapout process off VMA, currently it lost original meaning but still has some effects: | effect | alternative flags -+------------------------+--------------------------------------------- 1| account as reserved_vm | VM_IO 2| skip in core dump | VM_IO, VM_DONTDUMP 3| do not merge or expand | VM_IO, VM_DONTEXPAND, VM_HUGETLB, VM_PFNMAP 4| do not mlock | VM_IO, VM_DONTEXPAND, VM_HUGETLB, VM_PFNMAP This patch removes reserved_vm counter from mm_struct. Seems like nobody cares about it, it does not exported into userspace directly, it only reduces total_vm showed in proc. Thus VM_RESERVED can be replaced with VM_IO or pair VM_DONTEXPAND | VM_DONTDUMP. remap_pfn_range() and io_remap_pfn_range() set VM_IO|VM_DONTEXPAND|VM_DONTDUMP. remap_vmalloc_range() set VM_DONTEXPAND | VM_DONTDUMP. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci.c fixup] Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com> Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Cc: Kentaro Takeda <takedakn@nttdata.co.jp> Cc: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com> Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com> Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-10-07uprobes: Fix the racy uprobe->flags manipulationOleg Nesterov
Multiple threads can manipulate uprobe->flags, this is obviously unsafe. For example mmap can set UPROBE_COPY_INSN while register tries to set UPROBE_RUN_HANDLER, the latter can also race with can_skip_sstep() which clears UPROBE_SKIP_SSTEP. Change this code to use bitops. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-10-07uprobes: Fix prepare_uprobe() race with itselfOleg Nesterov
install_breakpoint() is called under mm->mmap_sem, this protects set_swbp() but not prepare_uprobe(). Two or more different tasks can call install_breakpoint()->prepare_uprobe() at the same time, this leads to numerous problems if UPROBE_COPY_INSN is not set. Just for example, the second copy_insn() can corrupt the already analyzed/fixuped uprobe->arch.insn and race with handle_swbp(). This patch simply adds uprobe->copy_mutex to serialize this code. We could probably reuse ->consumer_rwsem, but this would mean that consumer->handler() can not use mm->mmap_sem, not good. Note: this is another temporary ugly hack until we move this logic into uprobe_register(). Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-10-07uprobes: Introduce prepare_uprobe()Oleg Nesterov
Preparation. Extract the copy_insn/arch_uprobe_analyze_insn code from install_breakpoint() into the new helper, prepare_uprobe(). And move uprobe->flags defines from uprobes.h to uprobes.c, nobody else can use them anyway. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-10-07uprobes: Fix handle_swbp() vs unregister() + register() raceOleg Nesterov
Strictly speaking this race was added by me in 56bb4cf6. However I think that this bug is just another indication that we should move copy_insn/uprobe_analyze_insn code from install_breakpoint() to uprobe_register(), there are a lot of other reasons for that. Until then, add a hack to close the race. A task can hit uprobe U1, but before it calls find_uprobe() this uprobe can be unregistered *AND* another uprobe U2 can be added to uprobes_tree at the same inode/offset. In this case handle_swbp() will use the not-fully-initialized U2, in particular its arch.insn for xol. Add the additional !UPROBE_COPY_INSN check into handle_swbp(), if this flag is not set we simply restart as if the new uprobe was not inserted yet. This is not very nice, we need barriers, but we will remove this hack when we change uprobe_register(). Note: with or without this patch install_breakpoint() can race with itself, yet another reson to kill UPROBE_COPY_INSN altogether. And even the usage of uprobe->flags is not safe. See the next patches. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-10-07uprobes: Do not delete uprobe if uprobe_unregister() failsOleg Nesterov
delete_uprobe() must not be called if register_for_each_vma(false) fails to remove all breakpoints, __uprobe_unregister() is correct. The problem is that register_for_each_vma(false) always returns 0 and thus this logic does not work. 1. Change verify_opcode() to return 0 rather than -EINVAL when unregister detects the !is_swbp insn, we can treat this case as success and currently unregister paths ignore the error code anyway. 2. Change remove_breakpoint() to propagate the error code from write_opcode(). 3. Change register_for_each_vma(is_register => false) to remove as much breakpoints as possible but return non-zero if remove_breakpoint() fails at least once. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-10-07uprobes: Don't return success if alloc_uprobe() failsOleg Nesterov
If alloc_uprobe() fails uprobe_register() should return ENOMEM, not 0. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-10-05perf: Fix perf_cgroup_switch for sw-eventsPeter Zijlstra
Jiri reported that he could trigger the WARN_ON_ONCE() in perf_cgroup_switch() using sw-events. This is because sw-events share a cpuctx with multiple PMUs. Use the ->unique_pmu pointer to limit the pmu iteration to unique cpuctx instances. Reported-and-Tested-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-so7wi2zf3jjzrwcutm2mkz0j@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-10-05perf: Clarify perf_cpu_context::active_pmu usage by renaming it to ::unique_pmuPeter Zijlstra
Stephane thought the perf_cpu_context::active_pmu name confusing and suggested using 'unique_pmu' instead. This pointer is a pointer to a 'random' pmu sharing the cpuctx instance, therefore limiting a for_each_pmu loop to those where cpuctx->unique_pmu matches the pmu we get a loop over unique cpuctx instances. Suggested-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-kxyjqpfj2fn9gt7kwu5ag9ks@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-10-03Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs Pull vfs update from Al Viro: - big one - consolidation of descriptor-related logics; almost all of that is moved to fs/file.c (BTW, I'm seriously tempted to rename the result to fd.c. As it is, we have a situation when file_table.c is about handling of struct file and file.c is about handling of descriptor tables; the reasons are historical - file_table.c used to be about a static array of struct file we used to have way back). A lot of stray ends got cleaned up and converted to saner primitives, disgusting mess in android/binder.c is still disgusting, but at least doesn't poke so much in descriptor table guts anymore. A bunch of relatively minor races got fixed in process, plus an ext4 struct file leak. - related thing - fget_light() partially unuglified; see fdget() in there (and yes, it generates the code as good as we used to have). - also related - bits of Cyrill's procfs stuff that got entangled into that work; _not_ all of it, just the initial move to fs/proc/fd.c and switch of fdinfo to seq_file. - Alex's fs/coredump.c spiltoff - the same story, had been easier to take that commit than mess with conflicts. The rest is a separate pile, this was just a mechanical code movement. - a few misc patches all over the place. Not all for this cycle, there'll be more (and quite a few currently sit in akpm's tree)." Fix up trivial conflicts in the android binder driver, and some fairly simple conflicts due to two different changes to the sock_alloc_file() interface ("take descriptor handling from sock_alloc_file() to callers" vs "net: Providing protocol type via system.sockprotoname xattr of /proc/PID/fd entries" adding a dentry name to the socket) * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (72 commits) MAX_LFS_FILESIZE should be a loff_t compat: fs: Generic compat_sys_sendfile implementation fs: push rcu_barrier() from deactivate_locked_super() to filesystems btrfs: reada_extent doesn't need kref for refcount coredump: move core dump functionality into its own file coredump: prevent double-free on an error path in core dumper usb/gadget: fix misannotations fcntl: fix misannotations ceph: don't abuse d_delete() on failure exits hypfs: ->d_parent is never NULL or negative vfs: delete surplus inode NULL check switch simple cases of fget_light to fdget new helpers: fdget()/fdput() switch o2hb_region_dev_write() to fget_light() proc_map_files_readdir(): don't bother with grabbing files make get_file() return its argument vhost_set_vring(): turn pollstart/pollstop into bool switch prctl_set_mm_exe_file() to fget_light() switch xfs_find_handle() to fget_light() switch xfs_swapext() to fget_light() ...
2012-10-02Merge branch 'for-3.7-hierarchy' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup Pull cgroup hierarchy update from Tejun Heo: "Currently, different cgroup subsystems handle nested cgroups completely differently. There's no consistency among subsystems and the behaviors often are outright broken. People at least seem to agree that the broken hierarhcy behaviors need to be weeded out if any progress is gonna be made on this front and that the fallouts from deprecating the broken behaviors should be acceptable especially given that the current behaviors don't make much sense when nested. This patch makes cgroup emit warning messages if cgroups for subsystems with broken hierarchy behavior are nested to prepare for fixing them in the future. This was put in a separate branch because more related changes were expected (didn't make it this round) and the memory cgroup wanted to pull in this and make changes on top." * 'for-3.7-hierarchy' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup: cgroup: mark subsystems with broken hierarchy support and whine if cgroups are nested for them
2012-10-01Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull perf update from Ingo Molnar: "Lots of changes in this cycle as well, with hundreds of commits from over 30 contributors. Most of the activity was on the tooling side. Higher level changes: - New 'perf kvm' analysis tool, from Xiao Guangrong. - New 'perf trace' system-wide tracing tool - uprobes fixes + cleanups from Oleg Nesterov. - Lots of patches to make perf build on Android out of box, from Irina Tirdea - Extend ftrace function tracing utility to be more dynamic for its users. It allows for data passing to the callback functions, as well as reading regs as if a breakpoint were to trigger at function entry. The main goal of this patch series was to allow kprobes to use ftrace as an optimized probe point when a probe is placed on an ftrace nop. With lots of help from Masami Hiramatsu, and going through lots of iterations, we finally came up with a good solution. - Add cpumask for uncore pmu, use it in 'stat', from Yan, Zheng. - Various tracing updates from Steve Rostedt - Clean up and improve 'perf sched' performance by elliminating lots of needless calls to libtraceevent. - Event group parsing support, from Jiri Olsa - UI/gtk refactorings and improvements from Namhyung Kim - Add support for non-tracepoint events in perf script python, from Feng Tang - Add --symbols to 'script', similar to the one in 'report', from Feng Tang. Infrastructure enhancements and fixes: - Convert the trace builtins to use the growing evsel/evlist tracepoint infrastructure, removing several open coded constructs like switch like series of strcmp to dispatch events, etc. Basically what had already been showcased in 'perf sched'. - Add evsel constructor for tracepoints, that uses libtraceevent just to parse the /format events file, use it in a new 'perf test' to make sure the libtraceevent format parsing regressions can be more readily caught. - Some strange errors were happening in some builds, but not on the next, reported by several people, problem was some parser related files, generated during the build, didn't had proper make deps, fix from Eric Sandeen. - Introduce struct and cache information about the environment where a perf.data file was captured, from Namhyung Kim. - Fix handling of unresolved samples when --symbols is used in 'report', from Feng Tang. - Add union member access support to 'probe', from Hyeoncheol Lee. - Fixups to die() removal, from Namhyung Kim. - Render fixes for the TUI, from Namhyung Kim. - Don't enable annotation in non symbolic view, from Namhyung Kim. - Fix pipe mode in 'report', from Namhyung Kim. - Move related stats code from stat to util/, will be used by the 'stat' kvm tool, from Xiao Guangrong. - Remove die()/exit() calls from several tools. - Resolve vdso callchains, from Jiri Olsa - Don't pass const char pointers to basename, so that we can unconditionally use libgen.h and thus avoid ifdef BIONIC lines, from David Ahern - Refactor hist formatting so that it can be reused with the GTK browser, From Namhyung Kim - Fix build for another rbtree.c change, from Adrian Hunter. - Make 'perf diff' command work with evsel hists, from Jiri Olsa. - Use the only field_sep var that is set up: symbol_conf.field_sep, fix from Jiri Olsa. - .gitignore compiled python binaries, from Namhyung Kim. - Get rid of die() in more libtraceevent places, from Namhyung Kim. - Rename libtraceevent 'private' struct member to 'priv' so that it works in C++, from Steven Rostedt - Remove lots of exit()/die() calls from tools so that the main perf exit routine can take place, from David Ahern - Fix x86 build on x86-64, from David Ahern. - {int,str,rb}list fixes from Suzuki K Poulose - perf.data header fixes from Namhyung Kim - Allow user to indicate objdump path, needed in cross environments, from Maciek Borzecki - Fix hardware cache event name generation, fix from Jiri Olsa - Add round trip test for sw, hw and cache event names, catching the problem Jiri fixed, after Jiri's patch, the test passes successfully. - Clean target should do clean for lib/traceevent too, fix from David Ahern - Check the right variable for allocation failure, fix from Namhyung Kim - Set up evsel->tp_format regardless of evsel->name being set already, fix from Namhyung Kim - Oprofile fixes from Robert Richter. - Remove perf_event_attr needless version inflation, from Jiri Olsa - Introduce libtraceevent strerror like error reporting facility, from Namhyung Kim - Add pmu mappings to perf.data header and use event names from cmd line, from Robert Richter - Fix include order for bison/flex-generated C files, from Ben Hutchings - Build fixes and documentation corrections from David Ahern - Assorted cleanups from Robert Richter - Let O= makes handle relative paths, from Steven Rostedt - perf script python fixes, from Feng Tang. - Initial bash completion support, from Frederic Weisbecker - Allow building without libelf, from Namhyung Kim. - Support DWARF CFI based unwind to have callchains when %bp based unwinding is not possible, from Jiri Olsa. - Symbol resolution fixes, while fixing support PPC64 files with an .opt ELF section was the end goal, several fixes for code that handles all architectures and cleanups are included, from Cody Schafer. - Assorted fixes for Documentation and build in 32 bit, from Robert Richter - Cache the libtraceevent event_format associated to each evsel early, so that we avoid relookups, i.e. calling pevent_find_event repeatedly when processing tracepoint events. [ This is to reduce the surface contact with libtraceevents and make clear what is that the perf tools needs from that lib: so far parsing the common and per event fields. ] - Don't stop the build if the audit libraries are not installed, fix from Namhyung Kim. - Fix bfd.h/libbfd detection with recent binutils, from Markus Trippelsdorf. - Improve warning message when libunwind devel packages not present, from Jiri Olsa" * 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (282 commits) perf trace: Add aliases for some syscalls perf probe: Print an enum type variable in "enum variable-name" format when showing accessible variables perf tools: Check libaudit availability for perf-trace builtin perf hists: Add missing period_* fields when collapsing a hist entry perf trace: New tool perf evsel: Export the event_format constructor perf evsel: Introduce rawptr() method perf tools: Use perf_evsel__newtp in the event parser perf evsel: The tracepoint constructor should store sys:name perf evlist: Introduce set_filter() method perf evlist: Renane set_filters method to apply_filters perf test: Add test to check we correctly parse and match syscall open parms perf evsel: Handle endianity in intval method perf evsel: Know if byte swap is needed perf tools: Allow handling a NULL cpu_map as meaning "all cpus" perf evsel: Improve tracepoint constructor setup tools lib traceevent: Fix error path on pevent_parse_event perf test: Fix build failure trace: Move trace event enable from fs_initcall to core_initcall tracing: Add an option for disabling markers ...
2012-09-29uprobes: Simplify is_swbp_at_addr(), remove stale commentsOleg Nesterov
After the previous change is_swbp_at_addr() is always called with current->mm. Remove this check and move it close to its single caller. Also, remove the obsolete comment about is_swbp_at_addr() and uprobe_state.count. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-09-29uprobes: Kill set_orig_insn()->is_swbp_at_addr()Oleg Nesterov
Unlike set_swbp(), set_orig_insn()->is_swbp_at_addr() makes sense, although it can't prevent all confusions. But the usage of is_swbp_at_addr() is equally confusing, and it adds the extra get_user_pages() we can avoid. This patch removes set_orig_insn()->is_swbp_at_addr() but changes write_opcode() to do the necessary checks before replace_page(). Perhaps it also makes sense to ensure PAGE_MAPPING_ANON in unregister case. find_active_uprobe() becomes the only user of is_swbp_at_addr(), we can change its semantics. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-09-29uprobes: Introduce copy_opcode(), kill read_opcode()Oleg Nesterov
No functional changes, preparations. 1. Extract the kmap-and-memcpy code from read_opcode() into the new trivial helper, copy_opcode(). The next patch will add another user. 2. read_opcode() becomes really trivial, fold it into its single caller, is_swbp_at_addr(). 3. Remove "auprobe" argument from write_opcode(), it is not used since f403072c6. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-09-29uprobes: Kill set_swbp()->is_swbp_at_addr()Oleg Nesterov
A separate patch for better documentation. set_swbp()->is_swbp_at_addr() is not needed for correctness, it is harmless to do the unnecessary __replace_page(old_page, new_page) when these 2 pages are identical. And it can not be counted as optimization. mmap/register races are very unlikely, while in the likely case is_swbp_at_addr() adds the extra get_user_pages() even if the caller is uprobe_mmap(current->mm) and returns false. Note also that the semantics/usage of is_swbp_at_addr() in uprobe.c is confusing. set_swbp() uses it to detect the case when this insn was already modified by uprobes, that is why it should always compare the opcode with UPROBE_SWBP_INSN even if the hardware (like powerpc) has other trap insns. It doesn't matter if this breakpoint was in fact installed by gdb or application itself, we are going to "steal" this breakpoint anyway and execute the original insn from vm_file even if it no longer matches the memory. OTOH, handle_swbp()->find_active_uprobe() uses is_swbp_at_addr() to figure out whether we need to send SIGTRAP or not if we can not find uprobe, so in this case it should return true for all trap variants, not only for UPROBE_SWBP_INSN. This patch removes set_swbp()->is_swbp_at_addr(), the next patches will remove it from set_orig_insn() which is similar to set_swbp() in this respect. So the only caller will be handle_swbp() and we can make its semantics clear. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-09-29uprobes: Restrict valid_vma(false) to skip VM_SHARED vmasOleg Nesterov
valid_vma(false) ignores ->vm_flags, this is not actually right. We should never try to write into MAP_SHARED mapping, this can confuse an apllication which actually writes to ->vm_file. With this patch valid_vma(false) ignores VM_WRITE only but checks other (immutable) bits checked by valid_vma(true). This can also speedup uprobe_munmap() and uprobe_unregister(). Note: even after this patch _unregister can confuse the probed application if it does mprotect(PROT_WRITE) after _register and installs "int3", but this is hardly possible to avoid and this doesn't differ from gdb case. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-09-29uprobes: Change valid_vma() to demand VM_MAYEXEC rather than VM_EXECOleg Nesterov
uprobe_register() or uprobe_mmap() requires VM_READ | VM_EXEC, this is not right. An apllication can do mprotect(PROT_EXEC) later and execute this code. Change valid_vma(is_register => true) to check VM_MAYEXEC instead. No need to check VM_MAYREAD, it is always set. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-09-29uprobes: Change write_opcode() to use FOLL_FORCEOleg Nesterov
write_opcode()->get_user_pages() needs FOLL_FORCE to ensure we can read the page even if the probed task did mprotect(PROT_NONE) after uprobe_register(). Without FOLL_WRITE, FOLL_FORCE doesn't have any side effect but allows to read the !VM_READ memory. Otherwiese the subsequent uprobe_unregister()->set_orig_insn() fails and we leak "int3". If that task does mprotect(PROT_READ | EXEC) and execute the probed insn later it will be killed. Note: in fact this is also needed for _register, see the next patch. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-09-29uprobes: Move clear_thread_flag(TIF_UPROBE) to uprobe_notify_resume()Oleg Nesterov
Move clear_thread_flag(TIF_UPROBE) from do_notify_resume() to uprobe_notify_resume() for !CONFIG_UPROBES case. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-09-29uprobes: Kill UTASK_BP_HIT stateOleg Nesterov
Kill UTASK_BP_HIT state, it buys nothing but complicates the code. It is only used in uprobe_notify_resume() to decide who should be called, we can check utask->active_uprobe != NULL instead. And this allows us to simplify handle_swbp(), no need to clear utask->state. Likewise we could kill UTASK_SSTEP, but UTASK_BP_HIT is worse and imho should die. The problem is, it creates the special case when task->utask is NULL, we can't distinguish RUNNING and BP_HIT. With this patch utask == NULL always means RUNNING. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-09-29uprobes: Fix UPROBE_SKIP_SSTEP checks in handle_swbp()Oleg Nesterov
If handle_swbp()->add_utask() fails but UPROBE_SKIP_SSTEP is set, cleanup_ret: path do not restart the insn, this is wrong. Remove this check and add the additional label for can_skip_sstep() = T case. Note also that UPROBE_SKIP_SSTEP can be false positive, we simply can not trust it unless arch_uprobe_skip_sstep() was already called. Also, move another UPROBE_SKIP_SSTEP check before can_skip_sstep() into this helper, this looks more clean and understandable. Note: probably we should rename "skip" to "emulate" and I think that "clear UPROBE_SKIP_SSTEP" should be moved to arch_can_skip. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-09-29uprobes: Do not setup ->active_uprobe/state prematurelyOleg Nesterov
handle_swbp() sets utask->active_uprobe before handler_chain(), and UTASK_SSTEP before pre_ssout(). This complicates the code for no reason, arch_ hooks or consumer->handler() should not (and can't) use this info. Change handle_swbp() to initialize them after pre_ssout(), and remove the no longer needed cleanup-utask code. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> cked-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-09-29uprobes: Do not leak UTASK_BP_HIT if find_active_uprobe() failsOleg Nesterov
If handle_swbp()->find_active_uprobe() fails we return with utask->state = UTASK_BP_HIT. Change handle_swbp() to reset utask->state at the start. Note that we do this unconditionally, see the next patch(es). Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-09-27switch simple cases of fget_light to fdgetAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-09-27events: don't use get_unused_fd_flags() when get_unused_fd() will doAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-09-15uprobes: Introduce arch_uprobe_enable/disable_step()Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
As Oleg pointed out in [0] uprobe should not use the ptrace interface for enabling/disabling single stepping. [0] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120730141638.GA5306@redhat.com Add the new "__weak arch" helpers which simply call user_*_single_step() as a preparation. This is only needed to not break the powerpc port, we will fold this logic into arch_uprobe_pre/post_xol() hooks later. We should also change handle_singlestep(), _disable_step(&uprobe->arch) should be called before put_uprobe(). Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-09-15uprobes: Teach find_active_uprobe() to clear MMF_HAS_UPROBESOleg Nesterov
The wrong MMF_HAS_UPROBES doesn't really hurt, just it triggers the "slow" and unnecessary handle_swbp() path if the task hits the non-uprobe breakpoint. So this patch changes find_active_uprobe() to check every valid vma and clear MMF_HAS_UPROBES if no uprobes were found. This is adds the slow O(n) path, but it is only called in unlikely case when the task hits the normal breakpoint first time after uprobe_unregister(). Note the "not strictly accurate" comment in mmf_recalc_uprobes(). We can fix this, we only need to teach vma_has_uprobes() to return a bit more more info, but I am not sure this worth the trouble. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-09-15uprobes: Introduce MMF_RECALC_UPROBESOleg Nesterov
Add the new MMF_RECALC_UPROBES flag, it means that MMF_HAS_UPROBES can be false positive after remove_breakpoint() or uprobe_munmap(). It is also set by uprobe_dup_mmap(), this is not optimal but simple. We could add the new hook, uprobe_dup_vma(), to set MMF_HAS_UPROBES only if the new mm actually has uprobes, but I don't think this makes sense. The next patch will use this flag to clear MMF_HAS_UPROBES. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-09-15uprobes: uprobes_treelock should not disable irqsOleg Nesterov
Nobody plays with uprobes_tree/uprobes_treelock in interrupt context, no need to disable irqs. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-09-15uprobes: Don't put NULL pointer in uprobe_register()Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
alloc_uprobe() might return a NULL pointer, put_uprobe() can't deal with this. Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-09-14cgroup: mark subsystems with broken hierarchy support and whine if cgroups ↵Tejun Heo
are nested for them Currently, cgroup hierarchy support is a mess. cpu related subsystems behave correctly - configuration, accounting and control on a parent properly cover its children. blkio and freezer completely ignore hierarchy and treat all cgroups as if they're directly under the root cgroup. Others show yet different behaviors. These differing interpretations of cgroup hierarchy make using cgroup confusing and it impossible to co-mount controllers into the same hierarchy and obtain sane behavior. Eventually, we want full hierarchy support from all subsystems and probably a unified hierarchy. Users using separate hierarchies expecting completely different behaviors depending on the mounted subsystem is deterimental to making any progress on this front. This patch adds cgroup_subsys.broken_hierarchy and sets it to %true for controllers which are lacking in hierarchy support. The goal of this patch is two-fold. * Move users away from using hierarchy on currently non-hierarchical subsystems, so that implementing proper hierarchy support on those doesn't surprise them. * Keep track of which controllers are broken how and nudge the subsystems to implement proper hierarchy support. For now, start with a single warning message. We can whine louder later on. v2: Fixed a typo spotted by Michal. Warning message updated. v3: Updated memcg part so that it doesn't generate warning in the cases where .use_hierarchy=false doesn't make the behavior different from root.use_hierarchy=true. Fixed a typo spotted by Glauber. v4: Check ->broken_hierarchy after cgroup creation is complete so that ->create() can affect the result per Michal. Dropped unnecessary memcg root handling per Michal. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com> Acked-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net> Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-09-04perf/hwpb: Invoke __perf_event_disable() if interrupts are already disabledK.Prasad
While debugging a warning message on PowerPC while using hardware breakpoints, it was discovered that when perf_event_disable is invoked through hw_breakpoint_handler function with interrupts disabled, a subsequent IPI in the code path would trigger a WARN_ON_ONCE message in smp_call_function_single function. This patch calls __perf_event_disable() when interrupts are already disabled, instead of perf_event_disable(). Reported-by: Edjunior Barbosa Machado <emachado@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: K.Prasad <Prasad.Krishnan@gmail.com> [naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com: v3: Check to make sure we target current task] Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120802081635.5811.17737.stgit@localhost.localdomain [ Fixed build error on MIPS. ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-09-04perf_event: Switch to internal refcount, fix race with close()Al Viro
Don't mess with file refcounts (or keep a reference to file, for that matter) in perf_event. Use explicit refcount of its own instead. Deal with the race between the final reference to event going away and new children getting created for it by use of atomic_long_inc_not_zero() in inherit_event(); just have the latter free what it had allocated and return NULL, that works out just fine (children of siblings of something doomed are created as singletons, same as if the child of leader had been created and immediately killed). Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120820135925.GG23464@ZenIV.linux.org.uk Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-08-28uprobes: Remove "verify" argument from set_orig_insn()Oleg Nesterov
Nobody does set_orig_insn(verify => false), and I think nobody will. Remove this argument. IIUC set_orig_insn(verify => false) was needed to single-step without xol area. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-08-28uprobes: Fold uprobe_reset_state() into uprobe_dup_mmap()Oleg Nesterov
Now that we have uprobe_dup_mmap() we can fold uprobe_reset_state() into the new hook and remove it. mmput()->uprobe_clear_state() can't be called before dup_mmap(). Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-08-28uprobes: Introduce MMF_HAS_UPROBESOleg Nesterov
Add the new MMF_HAS_UPROBES flag. It is set by install_breakpoint() and it is copied by dup_mmap(), uprobe_pre_sstep_notifier() checks it to avoid the slow path if the task was never probed. Perhaps it makes sense to check it in valid_vma(is_register => false) as well. This needs the new dup_mmap()->uprobe_dup_mmap() hook. We can't use uprobe_reset_state() or put MMF_HAS_UPROBES into MMF_INIT_MASK, we need oldmm->mmap_sem to avoid the race with uprobe_register() or mmap() from another thread. Currently we never clear this bit, it can be false-positive after uprobe_unregister() or uprobe_munmap() or if dup_mmap() hits the probed VM_DONTCOPY vma. But this is fine correctness-wise and has no effect unless the task hits the non-uprobe breakpoint. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-08-28uprobes: Do not use -EEXIST in install_breakpoint() pathsOleg Nesterov
-EEXIST from install_breakpoint() no longer makes sense, all callers should simply treat it as "success". Change the code to return zero and simplify register_for_each_vma(). Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-08-28uprobes: Change uprobe_mmap() to ignore the errors but check ↵Oleg Nesterov
fatal_signal_pending() Once install_breakpoint() fails uprobe_mmap() "ignores" all other uprobes and returns the error. It was never really needed to to stop after the first error, and in fact it was always wrong at least in -ENOTSUPP case. Change uprobe_mmap() to ignore the errors and always return 0. This is not what we want in the long term, but until we teach the callers to handle the failure it would be better to remove the pointless complications. And this doesn't look too bad, the only "reasonable" error is ENOMEM but in this case the caller should be oom-killed in the likely case or the system has more serious problems. However it makes sense to stop if fatal_signal_pending() == T. In particular this helps if the task was oom-killed. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-08-28uprobes: Kill dup_mmap()->uprobe_mmap(), simplify uprobe_mmap/munmapOleg Nesterov
1. Kill dup_mmap()->uprobe_mmap(), it was only needed to calculate new_mm->uprobes_state.count removed by the previous patch. If the forking process has a pending uprobe (int3) in vma, it will be copied by copy_page_range(), note that it checks vma->anon_vma so "Don't copy ptes" is not possible after install_breakpoint() which does anon_vma_prepare(). 2. Remove is_swbp_at_addr() and "int count" in uprobe_mmap(). Again, this was needed for uprobes_state.count. As a side effect this fixes the bug pointed out by Srikar, this code lacked the necessary put_uprobe(). 3. uprobe_munmap() becomes a nop after the previous patch. Remove the meaningless code but do not remove the helper, we will need it. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-08-28uprobes: Kill uprobes_state->countOleg Nesterov
uprobes_state->count is only needed to avoid the slow path in uprobe_pre_sstep_notifier(). It is also checked in uprobe_munmap() but ironically its only goal to decrement this counter. However, it is very broken. Just some examples: - uprobe_mmap() can race with uprobe_unregister() and wrongly increment the counter if it hits the non-uprobe "int3". Note that install_breakpoint() checks ->consumers first and returns -EEXIST if it is NULL. "atomic_sub() if error" in uprobe_mmap() looks obviously wrong too. - uprobe_munmap() can race with uprobe_register() and wrongly decrement the counter by the same reason. - Suppose an appication tries to increase the mmapped area via sys_mremap(). vma_adjust() does uprobe_munmap(whole_vma) first, this can nullify the counter temporarily and race with another thread which can hit the bp, the application will be killed by SIGTRAP. - Suppose an application mmaps 2 consecutive areas in the same file and one (or both) of these areas has uprobes. In the likely case mmap_region()->vma_merge() suceeds. Like above, this leads to uprobe_munmap/uprobe_mmap from vma_merge()->vma_adjust() but then mmap_region() does another uprobe_mmap(resulting_vma) and doubles the counter. This patch only removes this counter and fixes the compile errors, then we will try to cleanup the changed code and add something else instead. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-08-28uprobes: Remove check for uprobe variable in handle_swbp()Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
by the time we get here (after we pass cleanup_ret) uprobe is always is set. If it is NULL we leave very early in the code. Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
2012-08-28uprobes: Remove redundant lock_page/unlock_pageSrikar Dronamraju
Since read_opcode() reads from the referenced page and doesnt modify the page contents nor the page attributes, there is no need to lock the page. Signed-off-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
2012-08-10perf: Add attribute to filter out callchainsFrederic Weisbecker
Introducing following bits to the the perf_event_attr struct: - exclude_callchain_kernel to filter out kernel callchain from the sample dump - exclude_callchain_user to filter out user callchain from the sample dump We need to be able to disable standard user callchain dump when we use the dwarf cfi callchain mode, because frame pointer based user callchains are useless in this mode. Implementing also exclude_callchain_kernel to have complete set of options. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> [ Added kernel callchains filtering ] Cc: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com> Cc: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com> Cc: Benjamin Redelings <benjamin.redelings@nescent.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1344345647-11536-7-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-08-10perf: Add ability to attach user stack dump to sampleJiri Olsa
Introducing PERF_SAMPLE_STACK_USER sample type bit to trigger the dump of the user level stack on sample. The size of the dump is specified by sample_stack_user value. Being able to dump parts of the user stack, starting from the stack pointer, will be useful to make a post mortem dwarf CFI based stack unwinding. Added HAVE_PERF_USER_STACK_DUMP config option to determine if the architecture provides user stack dump on perf event samples. This needs access to the user stack pointer which is not unified across architectures. Enabling this for x86 architecture. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Original-patch-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com> Cc: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com> Cc: Benjamin Redelings <benjamin.redelings@nescent.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1344345647-11536-6-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-08-10perf: Add perf_output_skip function to skip bytes in sampleJiri Olsa
Introducing perf_output_skip function to be able to skip data within the perf ring buffer. When writing data into perf ring buffer we first reserve needed place in ring buffer and then copy the actual data. There's a possibility we won't be able to fill all the reserved size with data, so we need a way to skip the remaining bytes. This is going to be useful when storing the user stack dump, where we might end up with less data than we originally requested. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com> Cc: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com> Cc: Benjamin Redelings <benjamin.redelings@nescent.org> Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1344345647-11536-5-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>