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<title>linux-toradex.git/include/linux/ftrace.h, branch v2.6.36-rc5</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>tracing/documentation: Document dynamic ftracer internals</title>
<updated>2010-07-21T15:00:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mike Frysinger</name>
<email>vapier@gentoo.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-07-20T07:13:35+00:00</published>
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Add more details to the dynamic function tracing design implementation.

Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger &lt;vapier@gentoo.org&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;1279610015-10250-1-git-send-email-vapier@gentoo.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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Add more details to the dynamic function tracing design implementation.

Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger &lt;vapier@gentoo.org&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;1279610015-10250-1-git-send-email-vapier@gentoo.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'tracing-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip</title>
<updated>2010-05-18T15:35:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-05-18T15:35:04+00:00</published>
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* 'tracing-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  tracing: Fix "integer as NULL pointer" warning.
  tracing: Fix tracepoint.h DECLARE_TRACE() to allow more than one header
  tracing: Make the documentation clear on trace_event boot option
  ring-buffer: Wrap open-coded WARN_ONCE
  tracing: Convert nop macros to static inlines
  tracing: Fix sleep time function profiling
  tracing: Show sample std dev in function profiling
  tracing: Add documentation for trace commands mod, traceon/traceoff
  ring-buffer: Make benchmark handle missed events
  ring-buffer: Make non-consuming read less expensive with lots of cpus.
  tracing: Add graph output support for irqsoff tracer
  tracing: Have graph flags passed in to ouput functions
  tracing: Add ftrace events for graph tracer
  tracing: Dump either the oops's cpu source or all cpus buffers
  tracing: Fix uninitialized variable of tracing/trace output
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* 'tracing-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  tracing: Fix "integer as NULL pointer" warning.
  tracing: Fix tracepoint.h DECLARE_TRACE() to allow more than one header
  tracing: Make the documentation clear on trace_event boot option
  ring-buffer: Wrap open-coded WARN_ONCE
  tracing: Convert nop macros to static inlines
  tracing: Fix sleep time function profiling
  tracing: Show sample std dev in function profiling
  tracing: Add documentation for trace commands mod, traceon/traceoff
  ring-buffer: Make benchmark handle missed events
  ring-buffer: Make non-consuming read less expensive with lots of cpus.
  tracing: Add graph output support for irqsoff tracer
  tracing: Have graph flags passed in to ouput functions
  tracing: Add ftrace events for graph tracer
  tracing: Dump either the oops's cpu source or all cpus buffers
  tracing: Fix uninitialized variable of tracing/trace output
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: Convert nop macros to static inlines</title>
<updated>2010-05-04T15:24:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt</name>
<email>srostedt@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-05-04T15:24:01+00:00</published>
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The ftrace.h file contains several functions as macros when the
functions are disabled due to config options. This patch converts
most of them to static inlines.

There are two exceptions:

  register_ftrace_function() and unregister_ftrace_function()

This is because their parameter "ops" must not be evaluated since
code using the function is allowed to #ifdef out the creation of
the parameter.

This also fixes an error caused by recent changes:

 kernel/trace/trace_irqsoff.c: In function 'start_irqsoff_tracer':
 kernel/trace/trace_irqsoff.c:571: error: expected expression before 'do'

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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The ftrace.h file contains several functions as macros when the
functions are disabled due to config options. This patch converts
most of them to static inlines.

There are two exceptions:

  register_ftrace_function() and unregister_ftrace_function()

This is because their parameter "ops" must not be evaluated since
code using the function is allowed to #ifdef out the creation of
the parameter.

This also fixes an error caused by recent changes:

 kernel/trace/trace_irqsoff.c: In function 'start_irqsoff_tracer':
 kernel/trace/trace_irqsoff.c:571: error: expected expression before 'do'

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: Add graph output support for irqsoff tracer</title>
<updated>2010-04-27T16:36:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiri Olsa</name>
<email>jolsa@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-04-02T17:01:22+00:00</published>
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Add function graph output to irqsoff tracer.

The graph output is enabled by setting new 'display-graph' trace option.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;1270227683-14631-4-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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Add function graph output to irqsoff tracer.

The graph output is enabled by setting new 'display-graph' trace option.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;1270227683-14631-4-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: Dump either the oops's cpu source or all cpus buffers</title>
<updated>2010-04-21T21:11:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Frederic Weisbecker</name>
<email>fweisbec@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-04-18T17:08:41+00:00</published>
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The ftrace_dump_on_oops kernel parameter, sysctl and sysrq let one
dump every cpu buffers when an oops or panic happens.

It's nice when you have few cpus but it may take ages if have many,
plus you miss the real origin of the problem in all the cpu traces.

Sometimes, all you need is to dump the cpu buffer that triggered the
opps, most of the time it is our main interest.

This patch modifies ftrace_dump_on_oops to handle this choice.

The ftrace_dump_on_oops kernel parameter, when it comes alone, has
the same behaviour than before. But ftrace_dump_on_oops=orig_cpu
will only dump the buffer of the cpu that oops'ed.

Similarly, sysctl kernel.ftrace_dump_on_oops=1 and
echo 1 &gt; /proc/sys/kernel/ftrace_dump_on_oops keep their previous
behaviour. But setting 2 jumps into cpu origin dump mode.

v2: Fix double setup
v3: Fix spelling issues reported by Randy Dunlap
v4: Also update __ftrace_dump in the selftests

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Li Zefan &lt;lizf@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Lai Jiangshan &lt;laijs@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
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The ftrace_dump_on_oops kernel parameter, sysctl and sysrq let one
dump every cpu buffers when an oops or panic happens.

It's nice when you have few cpus but it may take ages if have many,
plus you miss the real origin of the problem in all the cpu traces.

Sometimes, all you need is to dump the cpu buffer that triggered the
opps, most of the time it is our main interest.

This patch modifies ftrace_dump_on_oops to handle this choice.

The ftrace_dump_on_oops kernel parameter, when it comes alone, has
the same behaviour than before. But ftrace_dump_on_oops=orig_cpu
will only dump the buffer of the cpu that oops'ed.

Similarly, sysctl kernel.ftrace_dump_on_oops=1 and
echo 1 &gt; /proc/sys/kernel/ftrace_dump_on_oops keep their previous
behaviour. But setting 2 jumps into cpu origin dump mode.

v2: Fix double setup
v3: Fix spelling issues reported by Randy Dunlap
v4: Also update __ftrace_dump in the selftests

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Li Zefan &lt;lizf@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Lai Jiangshan &lt;laijs@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86, perf, bts, mm: Delete the never used BTS-ptrace code</title>
<updated>2010-03-26T10:33:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl</email>
</author>
<published>2010-03-25T13:51:50+00:00</published>
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Support for the PMU's BTS features has been upstreamed in
v2.6.32, but we still have the old and disabled ptrace-BTS,
as Linus noticed it not so long ago.

It's buggy: TIF_DEBUGCTLMSR is trampling all over that MSR without
regard for other uses (perf) and doesn't provide the flexibility
needed for perf either.

Its users are ptrace-block-step and ptrace-bts, since ptrace-bts
was never used and ptrace-block-step can be implemented using a
much simpler approach.

So axe all 3000 lines of it. That includes the *locked_memory*()
APIs in mm/mlock.c as well.

Reported-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Roland McGrath &lt;roland@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Markus Metzger &lt;markus.t.metzger@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;20100325135413.938004390@chello.nl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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Support for the PMU's BTS features has been upstreamed in
v2.6.32, but we still have the old and disabled ptrace-BTS,
as Linus noticed it not so long ago.

It's buggy: TIF_DEBUGCTLMSR is trampling all over that MSR without
regard for other uses (perf) and doesn't provide the flexibility
needed for perf either.

Its users are ptrace-block-step and ptrace-bts, since ptrace-bts
was never used and ptrace-block-step can be implemented using a
much simpler approach.

So axe all 3000 lines of it. That includes the *locked_memory*()
APIs in mm/mlock.c as well.

Reported-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Roland McGrath &lt;roland@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Markus Metzger &lt;markus.t.metzger@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;20100325135413.938004390@chello.nl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
</pre>
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip</title>
<updated>2010-02-28T18:20:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-02-28T18:20:25+00:00</published>
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* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (172 commits)
  perf_event, amd: Fix spinlock initialization
  perf_event: Fix preempt warning in perf_clock()
  perf tools: Flush maps on COMM events
  perf_events, x86: Split PMU definitions into separate files
  perf annotate: Handle samples not at objdump output addr boundaries
  perf_events, x86: Remove superflous MSR writes
  perf_events: Simplify code by removing cpu argument to hw_perf_group_sched_in()
  perf_events, x86: AMD event scheduling
  perf_events: Add new start/stop PMU callbacks
  perf_events: Report the MMAP pgoff value in bytes
  perf annotate: Defer allocating sym_priv-&gt;hist array
  perf symbols: Improve debugging information about symtab origins
  perf top: Use a macro instead of a constant variable
  perf symbols: Check the right return variable
  perf/scripts: Tag syscall_name helper as not yet available
  perf/scripts: Add perf-trace-python Documentation
  perf/scripts: Remove unnecessary PyTuple resizes
  perf/scripts: Add syscall tracing scripts
  perf/scripts: Add Python scripting engine
  perf/scripts: Remove check-perf-trace from listed scripts
  ...

Fix trivial conflict in tools/perf/util/probe-event.c
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* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (172 commits)
  perf_event, amd: Fix spinlock initialization
  perf_event: Fix preempt warning in perf_clock()
  perf tools: Flush maps on COMM events
  perf_events, x86: Split PMU definitions into separate files
  perf annotate: Handle samples not at objdump output addr boundaries
  perf_events, x86: Remove superflous MSR writes
  perf_events: Simplify code by removing cpu argument to hw_perf_group_sched_in()
  perf_events, x86: AMD event scheduling
  perf_events: Add new start/stop PMU callbacks
  perf_events: Report the MMAP pgoff value in bytes
  perf annotate: Defer allocating sym_priv-&gt;hist array
  perf symbols: Improve debugging information about symtab origins
  perf top: Use a macro instead of a constant variable
  perf symbols: Check the right return variable
  perf/scripts: Tag syscall_name helper as not yet available
  perf/scripts: Add perf-trace-python Documentation
  perf/scripts: Remove unnecessary PyTuple resizes
  perf/scripts: Add syscall tracing scripts
  perf/scripts: Add Python scripting engine
  perf/scripts: Remove check-perf-trace from listed scripts
  ...

Fix trivial conflict in tools/perf/util/probe-event.c
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: Unify arch_syscall_addr() implementations</title>
<updated>2010-02-17T12:07:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mike Frysinger</name>
<email>vapier@gentoo.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-01-26T09:40:03+00:00</published>
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Most implementations of arch_syscall_addr() are the same, so create a
default version in common code and move the one piece that differs (the
syscall table) to asm/syscall.h.  New arch ports don't have to waste
time copying &amp; pasting this simple function.

The s390/sparc versions need to be different, so document why.

Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger &lt;vapier@gentoo.org&gt;
Acked-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Acked-by: Paul Mundt &lt;lethal@linux-sh.org&gt;
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;1264498803-17278-1-git-send-email-vapier@gentoo.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
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Most implementations of arch_syscall_addr() are the same, so create a
default version in common code and move the one piece that differs (the
syscall table) to asm/syscall.h.  New arch ports don't have to waste
time copying &amp; pasting this simple function.

The s390/sparc versions need to be different, so document why.

Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger &lt;vapier@gentoo.org&gt;
Acked-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Acked-by: Paul Mundt &lt;lethal@linux-sh.org&gt;
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;1264498803-17278-1-git-send-email-vapier@gentoo.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ftrace: Remove record freezing</title>
<updated>2010-02-04T08:36:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masami Hiramatsu</name>
<email>mhiramat@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-02-02T21:49:25+00:00</published>
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Remove record freezing. Because kprobes never puts probe on
ftrace's mcount call anymore, it doesn't need ftrace to check
whether kprobes on it.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: systemtap &lt;systemtap@sources.redhat.com&gt;
Cc: DLE &lt;dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: przemyslaw@pawelczyk.it
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;20100202214925.4694.73469.stgit@dhcp-100-2-132.bos.redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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Remove record freezing. Because kprobes never puts probe on
ftrace's mcount call anymore, it doesn't need ftrace to check
whether kprobes on it.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: systemtap &lt;systemtap@sources.redhat.com&gt;
Cc: DLE &lt;dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: przemyslaw@pawelczyk.it
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;20100202214925.4694.73469.stgit@dhcp-100-2-132.bos.redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ftrace/alternatives: Introducing *_text_reserved functions</title>
<updated>2010-02-04T08:36:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masami Hiramatsu</name>
<email>mhiramat@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-02-02T21:49:11+00:00</published>
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Introducing *_text_reserved functions for checking the text
address range is partially reserved or not. This patch provides
checking routines for x86 smp alternatives and dynamic ftrace.
Since both functions modify fixed pieces of kernel text, they
should reserve and protect those from other dynamic text
modifier, like kprobes.

This will also be extended when introducing other subsystems
which modify fixed pieces of kernel text. Dynamic text modifiers
should avoid those.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: systemtap &lt;systemtap@sources.redhat.com&gt;
Cc: DLE &lt;dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: przemyslaw@pawelczyk.it
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli &lt;ananth@in.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Jim Keniston &lt;jkenisto@us.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;compudj@krystal.dyndns.org&gt;
Cc: Jason Baron &lt;jbaron@redhat.com&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;20100202214911.4694.16587.stgit@dhcp-100-2-132.bos.redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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Introducing *_text_reserved functions for checking the text
address range is partially reserved or not. This patch provides
checking routines for x86 smp alternatives and dynamic ftrace.
Since both functions modify fixed pieces of kernel text, they
should reserve and protect those from other dynamic text
modifier, like kprobes.

This will also be extended when introducing other subsystems
which modify fixed pieces of kernel text. Dynamic text modifiers
should avoid those.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: systemtap &lt;systemtap@sources.redhat.com&gt;
Cc: DLE &lt;dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: przemyslaw@pawelczyk.it
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli &lt;ananth@in.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Jim Keniston &lt;jkenisto@us.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;compudj@krystal.dyndns.org&gt;
Cc: Jason Baron &lt;jbaron@redhat.com&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;20100202214911.4694.16587.stgit@dhcp-100-2-132.bos.redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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