1. 19 Oct, 2011 3 commits
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  7. 12 Oct, 2011 2 commits
  8. 11 Oct, 2011 3 commits
    • Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo's avatar
      perf hists browser: Recalculate browser pointers after resort/decay · 900e14a8
      Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo authored
      In browsers that access dynamic underlying data structures, like in the
      hists browser and its hist_entry rb_tree, we need to revalidate any
      reference to the underlying data structure, because they can have gone
      away, decayed.
      
      This fixes a problem where after a while the top entries get behind the
      top of the screen, i.e. the top_idx stays at 0, which means it is at the
      first entry in the rb_tree when in fact it wasn't because the
      browser->top didn't got revalidated after the timer ran and the
      underlying data structure got updated.
      
      Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
      Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
      Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-mhje66qssdko24q67a2lhlho@git.kernel.orgSigned-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      900e14a8
    • Steven Rostedt's avatar
      tracing: Do not allocate buffer for trace_marker · d696b58c
      Steven Rostedt authored
      When doing intense tracing, the kmalloc inside trace_marker can
      introduce side effects to what is being traced.
      
      As trace_marker() is used by userspace to inject data into the
      kernel ring buffer, it needs to do so with the least amount
      of intrusion to the operations of the kernel or the user space
      application.
      
      As the ring buffer is designed to write directly into the buffer
      without the need to make a temporary buffer, and userspace already
      went through the hassle of knowing how big the write will be,
      we can simply pin the userspace pages and write the data directly
      into the buffer. This improves the impact of tracing via trace_marker
      tremendously!
      
      Thanks to Peter Zijlstra and Thomas Gleixner for pointing out the
      use of get_user_pages_fast() and kmap_atomic().
      Suggested-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Suggested-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      d696b58c
    • Steven Rostedt's avatar
      tracing: Warn on output if the function tracer was found corrupted · e0a413f6
      Steven Rostedt authored
      As the function tracer is very intrusive, lots of self checks are
      performed on the tracer and if something is found to be strange
      it will shut itself down keeping it from corrupting the rest of the
      kernel. This shutdown may still allow functions to be traced, as the
      tracing only stops new modifications from happening. Trying to stop
      the function tracer itself can cause more harm as it requires code
      modification.
      
      Although a WARN_ON() is executed, a user may not notice it. To help
      the user see that something isn't right with the tracing of the system
      a big warning is added to the output of the tracer that lets the user
      know that their data may be incomplete.
      Reported-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      e0a413f6
  9. 10 Oct, 2011 3 commits