- 02 Dec, 2008 3 commits
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Frederic Weisbecker authored
Impact: extend and enable the function graph tracer to 64-bit x86 This patch implements the support for function graph tracer under x86-64. Both static and dynamic tracing are supported. This causes some small CPP conditional asm on arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c I wanted to use probe_kernel_read/write to make the return address saving/patching code more generic but it causes tracing recursion. That would be perhaps useful to implement a notrace version of these function for other archs ports. Note that arch/x86/process_64.c is not traced, as in X86-32. I first thought __switch_to() was responsible of crashes during tracing because I believed current task were changed inside but that's actually not the case (actually yes, but not the "current" pointer). So I will have to investigate to find the functions that harm here, to enable tracing of the other functions inside (but there is no issue at this time, while process_64.c stays out of -pg flags). A little possible race condition is fixed inside this patch too. When the tracer allocate a return stack dynamically, the current depth is not initialized before but after. An interrupt could occur at this time and, after seeing that the return stack is allocated, the tracer could try to trace it with a random uninitialized depth. It's a prevention, even if I hadn't problems with it. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Tim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar authored
Merge branches 'tracing/branch-tracer', 'tracing/ftrace', 'tracing/function-graph-tracer', 'tracing/markers', 'tracing/powerpc', 'tracing/stack-tracer' and 'tracing/tracepoints' into tracing/core
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Ingo Molnar authored
Conflicts: kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
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- 29 Nov, 2008 2 commits
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Nikanth Karthikesan authored
Impact: fix typo in documentation TPPROTO is misspelt in Documentation/tracepoints.txt Kept me wondering what was wrong, when I was trying to add a new tracepoint subsystem. Signed-off-by: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Frederic Weisbecker authored
Impact: fix build error on branch tracer This should fix a build error reported on alpha in linux-next: CC kernel/trace/trace_branch.o kernel/trace/trace_branch.c: In function 'probe_likely_condition': kernel/trace/trace_branch.c:44: error: implicit declaration of function 'raw_local_irq_save' kernel/trace/trace_branch.c:76: error: implicit declaration of function 'raw_local_irq_restore' Unfortunately, I can't test it since I don't have any Alpha build environment. Reported-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 28 Nov, 2008 12 commits
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Ingo Molnar authored
mangle_path() is trivial enough to make export restrictions on it pointless - so change the export from EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL to EXPORT_SYMBOL. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
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Wu Fengguang authored
Add document and comments on marker_synchronize_unregister(): it should be called before freeing resources that the probes depend on. Based on comments from Lai Jiangshan and Mathieu Desnoyers. Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <wfg@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Steven Rostedt authored
Impact: fix for PowerPC 32 code There were some early init code that was not safe for static ftrace to boot on my PowerBook. This code must only use relative addressing, and static mcount performs a compare of the ftrace_trace_function pointer, and gets that with an absolute address. In the early init boot up code, this will cause a fault. This patch removes tracing from the files containing the offending functions. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Steven Rostedt authored
Impact: clean up Paul Mackerras pointed out that the code to determine if the branch can reach the destination is incorrect. Michael Ellerman suggested to pull out the code from create_branch and use that. Simply using create_branch is probably the best. Reported-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Reported-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Steven Rostedt authored
Impact: fix to PowerPC code modification After modifying code it is essential to flush the icache. This patch adds the missing flush. Reported-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Steven Rostedt authored
Impact: clean up and robustness addition This patch addresses the comments made by Paul Mackerras. It removes the type casting between unsigned int and unsigned char pointers, and replaces them with a use of all unsigned int. Verification that the jump is indeed made to a trampoline has also been added. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Steven Rostedt authored
Impact: quicken mcount calls that are not replaced by dyn ftrace Dynamic ftrace no longer does on the fly recording of mcount locations. The mcount locations are now found at compile time. The mcount function no longer needs to store registers and call a stub function. It can now just simply return. Since there are some functions that do not get converted to a nop (.init sections and other code that may disappear), this patch should help speed up that code. Also, the stub for mcount on PowerPC 32 can not be a simple branch link register like it is on PowerPC 64. According to the ABI specification: "The _mcount routine is required to restore the link register from the stack so that the profiling code can be inserted transparently, whether or not the profiled function saves the link register itself." This means that we must restore the link register that was used to make the call to mcount. The minimal mcount function for PPC32 ends up being: mcount: mflr r0 mtctr r0 lwz r0, 4(r1) mtlr r0 bctr Where we move the link register used to call mcount into the ctr register, and then restore the link register from the stack. Then we use the ctr register to jump back to the mcount caller. The r0 register is free for us to use. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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walimis authored
Impact: extend documentation with notice of using wild cards correctly We know that we can use wild cards to set set_ftrace_filter, but there's problem when using them naively such as: echo h* > /debug/tracing/set_ftrace_filter If there are files named with "h" prefix in current directory, echo "h*" will echo these filenames to set_ftrace_filter, not the intended "h*". For example: $ cat /debug/tracing/available_filter_functions |grep ^hr |wc -l 23 $ ls $ touch hraa hrdd $ ls hraa hrdd $ echo hr* > /debug/tracing/set_ftrace_filter $ cat /debug/tracing/set_ftrace_filter No output in /debug/tracing/set_ftrace_filter! If we use '' to escape wild cards, it works: $ ls hraa hrdd $ echo "hr*" > /debug/tracing/set_ftrace_filter $ cat /debug/tracing/set_ftrace_filter |wc -l 23 This problem can lead to unexpected result if current directory has a lot of files. Signed-off-by: walimis <walimisdev@gmail.com> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Liming Wang authored
Impact: make ftrace position computing more sane First remove useless ->pos field. Then we needn't check seq_printf in .show like other place. Signed-off-by: Liming Wang <liming.wang@windriver.com> Reviewed-by: Bruce Ashfield <bruce.ashfield@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Török Edwin authored
There are architectures that still have no stacktrace support. Signed-off-by: Török Edwin <edwintorok@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar authored
Impact: prettify the output some more Before: 0) | sys_read() { 0) 0.796 us | fget_light(); 0) | vfs_read() { 0) | rw_verify_area() { 0) | security_file_permission() { ------------8<---------- thread sshd-1755 ------------8<---------- After: 0) | sys_read() { 0) 0.796 us | fget_light(); 0) | vfs_read() { 0) | rw_verify_area() { 0) | security_file_permission() { ------------------------------------------ | 1) migration/0--1 => sshd-1755 ------------------------------------------ Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Frederic Weisbecker authored
Impact: increase the visual qualities of the call-graph-tracer output This patch applies various trace output formatting changes: - CPU is now a decimal number, followed by a parenthesis. - Overhead is now on the second column (gives a good visibility) - Cost is now on the third column, can't exceed 9999.99 us. It is followed by a virtual line based on a "|" character. - Functions calls are now the last column on the right. This way, we haven't dynamic column (which flow is harder to follow) on its right. - CPU and Overhead have their own option flag. They are default-on but you can disable them easily: echo nofuncgraph-cpu > trace_options echo nofuncgraph-overhead > trace_options TODO: _ Refactoring of the thread switch output. _ Give a default-off option to output the thread and its pid on each row. _ Provide headers _ .... Here is an example of the new trace style: 0) | mutex_unlock() { 0) 0.639 us | __mutex_unlock_slowpath(); 0) 1.607 us | } 0) | remove_wait_queue() { 0) 0.616 us | _spin_lock_irqsave(); 0) 0.616 us | _spin_unlock_irqrestore(); 0) 2.779 us | } 0) 0.495 us | n_tty_set_room(); 0) ! 9999.999 us | } 0) | tty_ldisc_deref() { 0) 0.615 us | _spin_lock_irqsave(); 0) 0.616 us | _spin_unlock_irqrestore(); 0) 2.793 us | } 0) | current_fs_time() { 0) 0.488 us | current_kernel_time(); 0) 0.495 us | timespec_trunc(); 0) 2.486 us | } 0) ! 9999.999 us | } 0) ! 9999.999 us | } 0) ! 9999.999 us | } 0) | sys_read() { 0) 0.796 us | fget_light(); 0) | vfs_read() { 0) | rw_verify_area() { 0) | security_file_permission() { 0) 0.488 us | cap_file_permission(); 0) 1.720 us | } 0) 3. 4 us | } 0) | tty_read() { 0) 0.488 us | tty_paranoia_check(); 0) | tty_ldisc_ref_wait() { 0) | tty_ldisc_try() { 0) 0.615 us | _spin_lock_irqsave(); 0) 0.615 us | _spin_unlock_irqrestore(); 0) 5.436 us | } 0) 6.427 us | } Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 27 Nov, 2008 3 commits
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Frederic Weisbecker authored
Impact: enhance the output of the graph-tracer This patch applies some ideas of Ingo Molnar and Steven Rostedt. * Output leaf functions in one line with parenthesis, semicolon and duration output. * Add a second column (after cpu) for an overhead sign. if duration > 100 us, "!" if duration > 10 us, "+" else " " * Print output in us with remaining nanosec: u.n * Print duration on the right end, following the indentation of the functions. Use also visual clues: "-" on entry call (no duration to output) and "+" on return (duration output). The name of the tracer has been fixed as well: function-branch becomes function_branch. Here is an example of the new output: CPU[000] dequeue_entity() { - CPU[000] update_curr() { - CPU[000] update_min_vruntime(); + 0.512 us CPU[000] } + 1.504 us CPU[000] clear_buddies(); + 0.481 us CPU[000] update_min_vruntime(); + 0.504 us CPU[000] } + 4.557 us CPU[000] hrtick_update() { - CPU[000] hrtick_start_fair(); + 0.489 us CPU[000] } + 1.443 us CPU[000] + } + 14.655 us CPU[000] + } + 15.678 us CPU[000] + } + 16.686 us CPU[000] msecs_to_jiffies(); + 0.481 us CPU[000] put_prev_task_fair(); + 0.504 us CPU[000] pick_next_task_fair(); + 0.482 us CPU[000] pick_next_task_rt(); + 0.504 us CPU[000] pick_next_task_fair(); + 0.481 us CPU[000] pick_next_task_idle(); + 0.489 us CPU[000] _spin_trylock(); + 0.655 us CPU[000] _spin_unlock(); + 0.609 us CPU[000] ------------8<---------- thread bash-2794 ------------8<---------- CPU[000] finish_task_switch() { - CPU[000] _spin_unlock_irq(); + 0.722 us CPU[000] } + 2.369 us CPU[000] ! } + 501972.605 us CPU[000] ! } + 501973.763 us CPU[000] copy_from_read_buf() { - CPU[000] _spin_lock_irqsave(); + 0.670 us CPU[000] _spin_unlock_irqrestore(); + 0.699 us CPU[000] copy_to_user() { - CPU[000] might_fault() { - CPU[000] __might_sleep(); + 0.503 us CPU[000] } + 1.632 us CPU[000] __copy_to_user_ll(); + 0.542 us CPU[000] } + 3.858 us CPU[000] tty_audit_add_data() { - CPU[000] _spin_lock_irq(); + 0.609 us CPU[000] _spin_unlock_irq(); + 0.624 us CPU[000] } + 3.196 us CPU[000] _spin_lock_irqsave(); + 0.624 us CPU[000] _spin_unlock_irqrestore(); + 0.625 us CPU[000] + } + 13.611 us CPU[000] copy_from_read_buf() { - CPU[000] _spin_lock_irqsave(); + 0.624 us CPU[000] _spin_unlock_irqrestore(); + 0.616 us CPU[000] } + 2.820 us CPU[000] Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar authored
Merge branches 'tracing/blktrace', 'tracing/ftrace', 'tracing/function-graph-tracer' and 'tracing/power-tracer' into tracing/core
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Lai Jiangshan authored
Impact: prevent unnecessary stack recursion if the resched flag was set before we entered, then don't reschedule. Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 26 Nov, 2008 13 commits
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Ingo Molnar authored
Port to the new tracepoints API: split DEFINE_TRACE() and DECLARE_TRACE() sites. Spread them out to the usage sites, as suggested by Mathieu Desnoyers. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
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Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo authored
This was a forward port of work done by Mathieu Desnoyers, I changed it to encode the 'what' parameter on the tracepoint name, so that one can register interest in specific events and not on classes of events to then check the 'what' parameter. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Arjan van de Ven authored
Impact: new "power-tracer" ftrace plugin This patch adds a C/P-state ftrace plugin that will generate detailed statistics about the C/P-states that are being used, so that we can look at detailed decisions that the C/P-state code is making, rather than the too high level "average" that we have today. An example way of using this is: mount -t debugfs none /sys/kernel/debug echo cstate > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/current_tracer echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/tracing_enabled sleep 1 echo 0 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/tracing_enabled cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace | perl scripts/trace/cstate.pl > out.svg Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Steven Rostedt authored
Impact: enhancement for function graph tracer When run on a SMP box, the function graph tracer is confusing because it shows the different CPUS as changes in the trace. This patch adds the annotation of 'CPU[###]' where ### is a three digit number. The output will look similar to this: CPU[001] dput() { CPU[000] } 726 CPU[001] } 487 CPU[000] do_softirq() { CPU[001] } 2221 CPU[000] __do_softirq() { CPU[000] __local_bh_disable() { CPU[001] unroll_tree_refs() { CPU[000] } 569 CPU[001] } 501 CPU[000] rcu_process_callbacks() { CPU[001] kfree() { What makes this nice is that now you can grep the file and produce readable format for a particular CPU. # cat /debug/tracing/trace > /tmp/trace # grep '^CPU\[000\]' /tmp/trace > /tmp/trace0 # grep '^CPU\[001\]' /tmp/trace > /tmp/trace1 Will give you: # head /tmp/trace0 CPU[000] ------------8<---------- thread sshd-3899 ------------8<---------- CPU[000] inotify_dentry_parent_queue_event() { CPU[000] } 2531 CPU[000] inotify_inode_queue_event() { CPU[000] } 505 CPU[000] } 69626 CPU[000] } 73089 CPU[000] audit_syscall_exit() { CPU[000] path_put() { CPU[000] dput() { # head /tmp/trace1 CPU[001] ------------8<---------- thread pcscd-3446 ------------8<---------- CPU[001] } 4186 CPU[001] dput() { CPU[001] } 543 CPU[001] vfs_permission() { CPU[001] inode_permission() { CPU[001] shmem_permission() { CPU[001] generic_permission() { CPU[001] } 501 CPU[001] } 2205 Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Steven Rostedt authored
Impact: enhancement to function graph tracer Export the trace_find_cmdline so the function graph tracer can use it to print the comms of the threads. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Steven Rostedt authored
Impact: feature This patch enables function tracing and function return to run together. I've tested this by enabling the stack tracer and return tracer, where both the function entry and function return are used together with dynamic ftrace. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Steven Rostedt authored
Impact: more efficient code for ftrace graph tracer This patch uses the dynamic patching, when available, to patch the function graph code into the kernel. This patch will ease the way for letting both function tracing and function graph tracing run together. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Steven Rostedt authored
Impact: feature to function trace a single thread This patch adds the ability to function trace a single thread. The file: /debugfs/tracing/set_ftrace_pid contains the pid to trace. Valid pids are any positive integer. Writing any negative number to this file will disable the pid tracing and the function tracer will go back to tracing all of threads. This feature works with both static and dynamic function tracing. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Liming Wang authored
Impact: widen the scope of recordmcount.pl Besides .text section, there are three .text sections that won't be freed after kernel booting. They are: .sched.text, .spinlock.text and .kprobes.text, which contain functions we can trace. But the last section ".kprobes.text" is particular, which has been marked as "notrace", we ignore it. Thus we add other two sections. Signed-off-by: Liming Wang <liming.wang@windriver.com> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar authored
fix return-tracer => graph-tracer namespace rename fallout. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Frederic Weisbecker authored
Impact: feature This patch sets a C-like output for the function graph tracing. For this aim, we now call two handler for each function: one on the entry and one other on return. This way we can draw a well-ordered call stack. The pid of the previous trace is loosely stored to be compared against the one of the current trace to see if there were a context switch. Without this little feature, the call tree would seem broken at some locations. We could use the sched_tracer to capture these sched_events but this way of processing is much more simpler. 2 spaces have been chosen for indentation to fit the screen while deep calls. The time of execution in nanosecs is printed just after closed braces, it seems more easy this way to find the corresponding function. If the time was printed as a first column, it would be not so easy to find the corresponding function if it is called on a deep depth. I plan to output the return value but on 32 bits CPU, the return value can be 32 or 64, and its difficult to guess on which case we are. I don't know what would be the better solution on X86-32: only print eax (low-part) or even edx (high-part). Actually it's thee same problem when a function return a 8 bits value, the high part of eax could contain junk values... Here is an example of trace: sys_read() { fget_light() { } 526 vfs_read() { rw_verify_area() { security_file_permission() { cap_file_permission() { } 519 } 1564 } 2640 do_sync_read() { pipe_read() { __might_sleep() { } 511 pipe_wait() { prepare_to_wait() { } 760 deactivate_task() { dequeue_task() { dequeue_task_fair() { dequeue_entity() { update_curr() { update_min_vruntime() { } 504 } 1587 clear_buddies() { } 512 add_cfs_task_weight() { } 519 update_min_vruntime() { } 511 } 5602 dequeue_entity() { update_curr() { update_min_vruntime() { } 496 } 1631 clear_buddies() { } 496 update_min_vruntime() { } 527 } 4580 hrtick_update() { hrtick_start_fair() { } 488 } 1489 } 13700 } 14949 } 16016 msecs_to_jiffies() { } 496 put_prev_task_fair() { } 504 pick_next_task_fair() { } 489 pick_next_task_rt() { } 496 pick_next_task_fair() { } 489 pick_next_task_idle() { } 489 ------------8<---------- thread 4 ------------8<---------- finish_task_switch() { } 1203 do_softirq() { __do_softirq() { __local_bh_disable() { } 669 rcu_process_callbacks() { __rcu_process_callbacks() { cpu_quiet() { rcu_start_batch() { } 503 } 1647 } 3128 __rcu_process_callbacks() { } 542 } 5362 _local_bh_enable() { } 587 } 8880 } 9986 kthread_should_stop() { } 669 deactivate_task() { dequeue_task() { dequeue_task_fair() { dequeue_entity() { update_curr() { calc_delta_mine() { } 511 update_min_vruntime() { } 511 } 2813 Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Frederic Weisbecker authored
Impact: cleanup This patch changes the name of the "return function tracer" into function-graph-tracer which is a more suitable name for a tracing which makes one able to retrieve the ordered call stack during the code flow. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar authored
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- 25 Nov, 2008 7 commits
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Markus Metzger authored
Impact: add new ftrace plugin A prototype for a BTS ftrace plug-in. The tracer collects branch trace in a cyclic buffer for each cpu. The tracer is not configurable and the trace for each snapshot is appended when doing cat /debug/tracing/trace. This is a proof of concept that will be extended with future patches to become a (hopefully) useful tool. Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Markus Metzger authored
Add a callback to allow an ftrace plug-in to write its own header. Move the call to trace->open() up a few lines. The changes are required by the BTS ftrace plug-in. Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Markus Metzger authored
Impact: restructure DS memory allocation to be done by the usage site of DS Require pre-allocated buffers in ds.h. Move the BTS buffer allocation for ptrace into ptrace.c. The pointer to the allocated buffer is stored in the traced task's task_struct together with the handle returned by ds_request_bts(). Removes memory accounting code. Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Markus Metzger authored
Impact: generalize the DS code to shared buffers Change the in-kernel ds.h interface to identify the tracer via a handle returned on ds_request_~(). Tracers used to be identified via their task_struct. The changes are required to allow DS to be shared between different tasks, which is needed for perfmon2 and for ftrace. For ptrace, the handle is stored in the traced task's task_struct. This should probably go into a (arch-specific) ptrace context some time. Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar authored
This pulls together all the topic branches that are needed for the DS/BTS/PEBS tracing work.
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Markus Metzger authored
Impact: fix sleeping-with-spinlock-held bugs/crashes - Turn a wrmsr to write the DS_AREA MSR into a wrmsrl. - Use irqsave variants of spinlocks. - Do not allocate memory while holding spinlocks. Reported-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@googlemail.com> Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Markus Metzger authored
Impact: fix DS hw enablement on 64-bit x86 Fix the PEBS record size in the DS configuration. Reported-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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