[GIT PULL] perf fixes

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Mon Jan 03 2011 - 14:04:38 EST


Linus,

Please pull the latest perf-fixes-for-linus git tree from:

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip.git perf-fixes-for-linus

Thanks,

Ingo

------------------>
Ben Hutchings (1):
watchdog: Improve initialisation error message and documentation

Frederic Weisbecker (1):
perf: Fix callchain hit bad cast on ascii display

Robert Richter (1):
arch/x86/oprofile/op_model_amd.c: Perform initialisation on a single CPU


Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 2 +-
arch/x86/oprofile/op_model_amd.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++--------
kernel/watchdog.c | 3 ++-
tools/perf/util/hist.c | 2 +-
4 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index 8b61c93..01ece1b 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -1759,7 +1759,7 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file

nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem

- nowatchdog [KNL] Disable the lockup detector.
+ nowatchdog [KNL] Disable the lockup detector (NMI watchdog).

nowb [ARM]

diff --git a/arch/x86/oprofile/op_model_amd.c b/arch/x86/oprofile/op_model_amd.c
index a011bcc..7d90d47 100644
--- a/arch/x86/oprofile/op_model_amd.c
+++ b/arch/x86/oprofile/op_model_amd.c
@@ -630,21 +630,29 @@ static int __init_ibs_nmi(void)
return 0;
}

-/* initialize the APIC for the IBS interrupts if available */
+/*
+ * check and reserve APIC extended interrupt LVT offset for IBS if
+ * available
+ *
+ * init_ibs() preforms implicitly cpu-local operations, so pin this
+ * thread to its current CPU
+ */
+
static void init_ibs(void)
{
- ibs_caps = get_ibs_caps();
+ preempt_disable();

+ ibs_caps = get_ibs_caps();
if (!ibs_caps)
- return;
+ goto out;

- if (__init_ibs_nmi()) {
+ if (__init_ibs_nmi() < 0)
ibs_caps = 0;
- return;
- }
+ else
+ printk(KERN_INFO "oprofile: AMD IBS detected (0x%08x)\n", ibs_caps);

- printk(KERN_INFO "oprofile: AMD IBS detected (0x%08x)\n",
- (unsigned)ibs_caps);
+out:
+ preempt_enable();
}

static int (*create_arch_files)(struct super_block *sb, struct dentry *root);
diff --git a/kernel/watchdog.c b/kernel/watchdog.c
index 6e3c41a..5b08215 100644
--- a/kernel/watchdog.c
+++ b/kernel/watchdog.c
@@ -364,7 +364,8 @@ static int watchdog_nmi_enable(int cpu)
goto out_save;
}

- printk(KERN_ERR "NMI watchdog failed to create perf event on cpu%i: %p\n", cpu, event);
+ printk(KERN_ERR "NMI watchdog disabled for cpu%i: unable to create perf event: %ld\n",
+ cpu, PTR_ERR(event));
return PTR_ERR(event);

/* success path */
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/hist.c b/tools/perf/util/hist.c
index 2022e87..76bcc35 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/hist.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/hist.c
@@ -356,7 +356,7 @@ static size_t ipchain__fprintf_graph_line(FILE *fp, int depth, int depth_mask,

static size_t ipchain__fprintf_graph(FILE *fp, struct callchain_list *chain,
int depth, int depth_mask, int period,
- u64 total_samples, int hits,
+ u64 total_samples, u64 hits,
int left_margin)
{
int i;
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