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<title>arm64: ftrace: eliminate literal pool entries</title>
<updated>2014-11-07T15:04:49+00:00</updated>
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<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org</email>
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<published>2014-11-07T14:12:33+00:00</published>
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Replace ldr xN, =&lt;symbol&gt; with adrp/add or adrp/ldr [as appropriate]
in the implementation of _mcount(), which may be called very often.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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Replace ldr xN, =&lt;symbol&gt; with adrp/add or adrp/ldr [as appropriate]
in the implementation of _mcount(), which may be called very often.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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<title>arm64, ftrace: Remove check of obsolete variable function_trace_stop</title>
<updated>2014-07-18T17:58:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
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<published>2014-06-25T18:41:21+00:00</published>
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Nothing sets function_trace_stop to disable function tracing anymore.
Remove the check for it in the arch code.

arm64 was broken anyway, as it had an ifdef testing
 CONFIG_HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACE_MCOUNT_TEST which is only set if
the arch supports the code (which it obviously did not), and
it was testing a non existent ftrace_trace_stop instead of
function_trace_stop.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140627124421.GP26276@arm.com

Cc: AKASHI Takahiro &lt;takahiro.akashi@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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Nothing sets function_trace_stop to disable function tracing anymore.
Remove the check for it in the arch code.

arm64 was broken anyway, as it had an ifdef testing
 CONFIG_HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACE_MCOUNT_TEST which is only set if
the arch supports the code (which it obviously did not), and
it was testing a non existent ftrace_trace_stop instead of
function_trace_stop.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140627124421.GP26276@arm.com

Cc: AKASHI Takahiro &lt;takahiro.akashi@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm64: ftrace: Fix comment typo 'CONFIG_FUNCTION_GRAPH_FP_TEST'</title>
<updated>2014-06-18T11:40:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Bolle</name>
<email>pebolle@tiscali.nl</email>
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<published>2014-06-11T09:44:21+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle &lt;pebolle@tiscali.nl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle &lt;pebolle@tiscali.nl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm64: ftrace: Add dynamic ftrace support</title>
<updated>2014-05-29T08:08:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>AKASHI Takahiro</name>
<email>takahiro.akashi@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-04-30T09:54:34+00:00</published>
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This patch allows "dynamic ftrace" if CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE is enabled.
Here we can turn on and off tracing dynamically per-function base.

On arm64, this is done by patching single branch instruction to _mcount()
inserted by gcc -pg option. The branch is replaced to NOP initially at
kernel start up, and later on, NOP to branch to ftrace_caller() when
enabled or branch to NOP when disabled.
Please note that ftrace_caller() is a counterpart of _mcount() in case of
'static' ftrace.

More details on architecture specific requirements are described in
Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.txt.

Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: AKASHI Takahiro &lt;takahiro.akashi@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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This patch allows "dynamic ftrace" if CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE is enabled.
Here we can turn on and off tracing dynamically per-function base.

On arm64, this is done by patching single branch instruction to _mcount()
inserted by gcc -pg option. The branch is replaced to NOP initially at
kernel start up, and later on, NOP to branch to ftrace_caller() when
enabled or branch to NOP when disabled.
Please note that ftrace_caller() is a counterpart of _mcount() in case of
'static' ftrace.

More details on architecture specific requirements are described in
Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.txt.

Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: AKASHI Takahiro &lt;takahiro.akashi@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm64: Add ftrace support</title>
<updated>2014-05-29T08:08:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>AKASHI Takahiro</name>
<email>takahiro.akashi@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-04-30T09:54:33+00:00</published>
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This patch implements arm64 specific part to support function tracers,
such as function (CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER), function_graph
(CONFIG_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER) and function profiler
(CONFIG_FUNCTION_PROFILER).

With 'function' tracer, all the functions in the kernel are traced with
timestamps in ${sysfs}/tracing/trace. If function_graph tracer is
specified, call graph is generated.

The kernel must be compiled with -pg option so that _mcount() is inserted
at the beginning of functions. This function is called on every function's
entry as long as tracing is enabled.
In addition, function_graph tracer also needs to be able to probe function's
exit. ftrace_graph_caller() &amp; return_to_handler do this by faking link
register's value to intercept function's return path.

More details on architecture specific requirements are described in
Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.txt.

Reviewed-by: Ganapatrao Kulkarni &lt;ganapatrao.kulkarni@cavium.com&gt;
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: AKASHI Takahiro &lt;takahiro.akashi@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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This patch implements arm64 specific part to support function tracers,
such as function (CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER), function_graph
(CONFIG_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER) and function profiler
(CONFIG_FUNCTION_PROFILER).

With 'function' tracer, all the functions in the kernel are traced with
timestamps in ${sysfs}/tracing/trace. If function_graph tracer is
specified, call graph is generated.

The kernel must be compiled with -pg option so that _mcount() is inserted
at the beginning of functions. This function is called on every function's
entry as long as tracing is enabled.
In addition, function_graph tracer also needs to be able to probe function's
exit. ftrace_graph_caller() &amp; return_to_handler do this by faking link
register's value to intercept function's return path.

More details on architecture specific requirements are described in
Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.txt.

Reviewed-by: Ganapatrao Kulkarni &lt;ganapatrao.kulkarni@cavium.com&gt;
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: AKASHI Takahiro &lt;takahiro.akashi@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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