linux-toradex.git/include/trace/ftrace.h, branch v3.10.2

tracing: Remove obsolete macro guard _TRACE_PROFILE_INIT

2013-04-13T03:02:33+00:00

The macro _TRACE_PROFILE_INIT was removed a long time ago,
but an "#undef" guard was left behind. Remove it.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/514684EE.6000805@huawei.com

Signed-off-by: zhangwei(Jovi) 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

tracing: Add a way to soft disable trace events

2013-03-15T04:36:03+00:00

In order to let triggers enable or disable events, we need a 'soft'
method for doing so. For example, if a function probe is added that
lets a user enable or disable events when a function is called, that
change must be done without taking locks or a mutex, and definitely
it can't sleep. But the full enabling of a tracepoint is expensive.

By adding a 'SOFT_DISABLE' flag, and converting the flags to be updated
without the protection of a mutex (using set/clear_bit()), this soft
disable flag can be used to allow critical sections to enable or disable
events from being traced (after the event has been placed into "SOFT_MODE").

Some caveats though: The comm recorder (to map pids with a comm) can not
be soft disabled (yet). If you disable an event with with a "soft"
disable and wait a while before reading the trace, the comm cache may be
replaced and you'll get a bunch of <...> for comms in the trace.

Reading the "enable" file for an event that is disabled will now give
you "0*" where the '*' denotes that the tracepoint is still active but
the event itself is "disabled".

[ fixed _BIT used in & operation : thanks to Dan Carpenter and smatch ]

Cc: Dan Carpenter 
Cc: Tom Zanussi 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

tracing: Fix some section mismatch warnings

2013-03-15T04:34:54+00:00

As we've added __init annotation to field-defining functions, we should
add __refdata annotation to event_call variables, which reference those
functions.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/51343C1F.2050502@huawei.com

Reported-by: Fengguang Wu 
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

tracing: Annotate event field-defining functions with __init

2013-03-15T04:34:51+00:00

Those functions are called either during kernel boot or module init.

Before:

$ dmesg | grep 'Freeing unused kernel memory'
Freeing unused kernel memory: 1208k freed
Freeing unused kernel memory: 1360k freed
Freeing unused kernel memory: 1960k freed

After:

$ dmesg | grep 'Freeing unused kernel memory'
Freeing unused kernel memory: 1236k freed
Freeing unused kernel memory: 1388k freed
Freeing unused kernel memory: 1960k freed

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5125877D.5000201@huawei.com

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

tracing: Add a helper function for event print functions

2013-03-15T04:34:51+00:00

Move duplicate code in event print functions to a helper function.

This shrinks the size of the kernel by ~13K.

   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
6596137 1743966 10138672        18478775        119f6b7 vmlinux.o.old
6583002 1743849 10138672        18465523        119c2f3 vmlinux.o.new

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/51258746.2060304@huawei.com

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

tracing: Pass the ftrace_file to the buffer lock reserve code

2013-03-15T04:34:42+00:00

Pass the struct ftrace_event_file *ftrace_file to the
trace_event_buffer_lock_reserve() (new function that replaces the
trace_current_buffer_lock_reserver()).

The ftrace_file holds a pointer to the trace_array that is in use.
In the case of multiple buffers with different trace_arrays, this
allows different events to be recorded into different buffers.

Also fixed some of the stale comments in include/trace/ftrace.h

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

tracing: Separate out trace events from global variables

2013-03-15T04:34:40+00:00

The trace events for ftrace are all defined via global variables.
The arrays of events and event systems are linked to a global list.
This prevents multiple users of the event system (what to enable and
what not to).

By adding descriptors to represent the event/file relation, as well
as to which trace_array descriptor they are associated with, allows
for more than one set of events to be defined. Once the trace events
files have a link between the trace event and the trace_array they
are associated with, we can create multiple trace_arrays that can
record separate events in separate buffers.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

tracing: Kill unused and puzzled sample code in ftrace.h

2012-11-13T20:51:21+00:00

When doing per-cpu helper optimizing work, find that this code is so puzzled.
1. It's mark as comment text, maybe a sample function for guidelines
   or a todo work.
2. But, this sample code is odd where struct perf_trace_buf is nonexistent.
   commit ce71b9 delete struct perf_trace_buf definition.

   Author: Frederic Weisbecker 
   Date:   Sun Nov 22 05:26:55 2009 +0100

   tracing: Use the perf recursion protection from trace event

Is it necessary to keep there?
just compile test.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/50949FC9.6050202@gmail.com

Signed-off-by: Shan Wei 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

tracing: Use irq_work for wake ups and remove _nowake_() functions

2012-11-02T14:21:52+00:00

Have the ring buffer commit function use the irq_work infrastructure to
wake up any waiters waiting on the ring buffer for new data. The irq_work
was created for such a purpose, where doing the actual wake up at the
time of adding data is too dangerous, as an event or function trace may
be in the midst of the work queue locks and cause deadlocks. The irq_work
will either delay the action to the next timer interrupt, or trigger an IPI
to itself forcing an interrupt to do the work (in a safe location).

With irq_work, all ring buffer commits can safely do wakeups, removing
the need for the ring buffer commit "nowake" variants, which were used
by events and function tracing. All commits can now safely use the
normal commit, and the "nowake" variants can be removed.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

perf/trace: Add ability to set a target task for events

2012-07-31T15:02:05+00:00

A few events are interesting not only for a current task.
For example, sched_stat_* events are interesting for a task
which wakes up. For this reason, it will be good if such
events will be delivered to a target task too.

Now a target task can be set by using __perf_task().

The original idea and a draft patch belongs to Peter Zijlstra.

I need these events for profiling sleep times. sched_switch is used for
getting callchains and sched_stat_* is used for getting time periods.
These events are combined in user space, then it can be analyzed by
perf tools.

Inspired-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Steven Rostedt 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: Steven Rostedt 
Cc: Arun Sharma 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Vagin 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1342016098-213063-1-git-send-email-avagin@openvz.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar