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<title>linux-toradex.git/kernel/trace/trace_selftest.c, branch v2.6.34-rc3</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>locking: Convert __raw_spin* functions to arch_spin*</title>
<updated>2009-12-14T22:55:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2009-12-02T19:01:25+00:00</published>
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Name space cleanup. No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
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Name space cleanup. No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ksym_tracer: Remove KSYM_SELFTEST_ENTRY</title>
<updated>2009-11-08T15:21:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Li Zefan</name>
<email>lizf@cn.fujitsu.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-09-10T01:35:20+00:00</published>
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The macro used to be used in both trace_selftest.c and
trace_ksym.c, but no longer, so remove it from header file.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan &lt;lizf@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Prasad &lt;prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
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<pre>
The macro used to be used in both trace_selftest.c and
trace_ksym.c, but no longer, so remove it from header file.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan &lt;lizf@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Prasad &lt;prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>hw-breakpoints: Rewrite the hw-breakpoints layer on top of perf events</title>
<updated>2009-11-08T14:34:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Frederic Weisbecker</name>
<email>fweisbec@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-09-09T17:22:48+00:00</published>
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This patch rebase the implementation of the breakpoints API on top of
perf events instances.

Each breakpoints are now perf events that handle the
register scheduling, thread/cpu attachment, etc..

The new layering is now made as follows:

       ptrace       kgdb      ftrace   perf syscall
          \          |          /         /
           \         |         /         /
                                        /
            Core breakpoint API        /
                                      /
                     |               /
                     |              /

              Breakpoints perf events

                     |
                     |

               Breakpoints PMU ---- Debug Register constraints handling
                                    (Part of core breakpoint API)
                     |
                     |

             Hardware debug registers

Reasons of this rewrite:

- Use the centralized/optimized pmu registers scheduling,
  implying an easier arch integration
- More powerful register handling: perf attributes (pinned/flexible
  events, exclusive/non-exclusive, tunable period, etc...)

Impact:

- New perf ABI: the hardware breakpoints counters
- Ptrace breakpoints setting remains tricky and still needs some per
  thread breakpoints references.

Todo (in the order):

- Support breakpoints perf counter events for perf tools (ie: implement
  perf_bpcounter_event())
- Support from perf tools

Changes in v2:

- Follow the perf "event " rename
- The ptrace regression have been fixed (ptrace breakpoint perf events
  weren't released when a task ended)
- Drop the struct hw_breakpoint and store generic fields in
  perf_event_attr.
- Separate core and arch specific headers, drop
  asm-generic/hw_breakpoint.h and create linux/hw_breakpoint.h
- Use new generic len/type for breakpoint
- Handle off case: when breakpoints api is not supported by an arch

Changes in v3:

- Fix broken CONFIG_KVM, we need to propagate the breakpoint api
  changes to kvm when we exit the guest and restore the bp registers
  to the host.

Changes in v4:

- Drop the hw_breakpoint_restore() stub as it is only used by KVM
- EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL hw_breakpoint_restore() as KVM can be built as a
  module
- Restore the breakpoints unconditionally on kvm guest exit:
  TIF_DEBUG_THREAD doesn't anymore cover every cases of running
  breakpoints and vcpu-&gt;arch.switch_db_regs might not always be
  set when the guest used debug registers.
  (Waiting for a reliable optimization)

Changes in v5:

- Split-up the asm-generic/hw-breakpoint.h moving to
  linux/hw_breakpoint.h into a separate patch
- Optimize the breakpoints restoring while switching from kvm guest
  to host. We only want to restore the state if we have active
  breakpoints to the host, otherwise we don't care about messed-up
  address registers.
- Add asm/hw_breakpoint.h to Kbuild
- Fix bad breakpoint type in trace_selftest.c

Changes in v6:

- Fix wrong header inclusion in trace.h (triggered a build
  error with CONFIG_FTRACE_SELFTEST

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Prasad &lt;prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Alan Stern &lt;stern@rowland.harvard.edu&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: Jan Kiszka &lt;jan.kiszka@web.de&gt;
Cc: Jiri Slaby &lt;jirislaby@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Li Zefan &lt;lizf@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Avi Kivity &lt;avi@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Mundt &lt;lethal@linux-sh.org&gt;
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<pre>
This patch rebase the implementation of the breakpoints API on top of
perf events instances.

Each breakpoints are now perf events that handle the
register scheduling, thread/cpu attachment, etc..

The new layering is now made as follows:

       ptrace       kgdb      ftrace   perf syscall
          \          |          /         /
           \         |         /         /
                                        /
            Core breakpoint API        /
                                      /
                     |               /
                     |              /

              Breakpoints perf events

                     |
                     |

               Breakpoints PMU ---- Debug Register constraints handling
                                    (Part of core breakpoint API)
                     |
                     |

             Hardware debug registers

Reasons of this rewrite:

- Use the centralized/optimized pmu registers scheduling,
  implying an easier arch integration
- More powerful register handling: perf attributes (pinned/flexible
  events, exclusive/non-exclusive, tunable period, etc...)

Impact:

- New perf ABI: the hardware breakpoints counters
- Ptrace breakpoints setting remains tricky and still needs some per
  thread breakpoints references.

Todo (in the order):

- Support breakpoints perf counter events for perf tools (ie: implement
  perf_bpcounter_event())
- Support from perf tools

Changes in v2:

- Follow the perf "event " rename
- The ptrace regression have been fixed (ptrace breakpoint perf events
  weren't released when a task ended)
- Drop the struct hw_breakpoint and store generic fields in
  perf_event_attr.
- Separate core and arch specific headers, drop
  asm-generic/hw_breakpoint.h and create linux/hw_breakpoint.h
- Use new generic len/type for breakpoint
- Handle off case: when breakpoints api is not supported by an arch

Changes in v3:

- Fix broken CONFIG_KVM, we need to propagate the breakpoint api
  changes to kvm when we exit the guest and restore the bp registers
  to the host.

Changes in v4:

- Drop the hw_breakpoint_restore() stub as it is only used by KVM
- EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL hw_breakpoint_restore() as KVM can be built as a
  module
- Restore the breakpoints unconditionally on kvm guest exit:
  TIF_DEBUG_THREAD doesn't anymore cover every cases of running
  breakpoints and vcpu-&gt;arch.switch_db_regs might not always be
  set when the guest used debug registers.
  (Waiting for a reliable optimization)

Changes in v5:

- Split-up the asm-generic/hw-breakpoint.h moving to
  linux/hw_breakpoint.h into a separate patch
- Optimize the breakpoints restoring while switching from kvm guest
  to host. We only want to restore the state if we have active
  breakpoints to the host, otherwise we don't care about messed-up
  address registers.
- Add asm/hw_breakpoint.h to Kbuild
- Fix bad breakpoint type in trace_selftest.c

Changes in v6:

- Fix wrong header inclusion in trace.h (triggered a build
  error with CONFIG_FTRACE_SELFTEST

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Prasad &lt;prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Alan Stern &lt;stern@rowland.harvard.edu&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: Jan Kiszka &lt;jan.kiszka@web.de&gt;
Cc: Jiri Slaby &lt;jirislaby@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Li Zefan &lt;lizf@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Avi Kivity &lt;avi@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Mundt &lt;lethal@linux-sh.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'tracing/core' into tracing/hw-breakpoints</title>
<updated>2009-09-07T06:19:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@elte.hu</email>
</author>
<published>2009-09-07T06:19:51+00:00</published>
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Conflicts:
	arch/Kconfig
	kernel/trace/trace.h

Merge reason: resolve the conflicts, plus adopt to the new
              ring-buffer APIs.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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<pre>
Conflicts:
	arch/Kconfig
	kernel/trace/trace.h

Merge reason: resolve the conflicts, plus adopt to the new
              ring-buffer APIs.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing/function-graph-tracer: Move graph event insertion helpers in the graph tracer file</title>
<updated>2009-08-06T05:28:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Frederic Weisbecker</name>
<email>fweisbec@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-07-29T16:59:58+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
The function graph events helpers which insert the function entry and
return events into the ring buffer currently reside in trace.c
But this file is quite overloaded and the right place for these helpers
is in the function graph tracer file.

Then move them to trace_functions_graph.c

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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<pre>
The function graph events helpers which insert the function entry and
return events into the ring buffer currently reside in trace.c
But this file is quite overloaded and the right place for these helpers
is in the function graph tracer file.

Then move them to trace_functions_graph.c

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>hw-breakpoints: ftrace plugin for kernel symbol tracing using HW Breakpoint interfaces</title>
<updated>2009-06-02T20:47:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>K.Prasad</name>
<email>prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-06-01T18:16:40+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
This patch adds an ftrace plugin to detect and profile memory access over kernel
variables. It uses HW Breakpoint interfaces to 'watch memory addresses.

Signed-off-by: K.Prasad &lt;prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
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<pre>
This patch adds an ftrace plugin to detect and profile memory access over kernel
variables. It uses HW Breakpoint interfaces to 'watch memory addresses.

Signed-off-by: K.Prasad &lt;prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86, hw-branch-tracer: allocate selftest iterator on heap</title>
<updated>2009-04-07T11:36:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Markus Metzger</name>
<email>markus.t.metzger@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-04-03T14:43:41+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Allocate the trace_iterator for the hw-branch-tracer selftest on the heap.

Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger &lt;markus.t.metzger@intel.com&gt;
Cc: roland@redhat.com
Cc: eranian@googlemail.com
Cc: oleg@redhat.com
Cc: juan.villacis@intel.com
Cc: ak@linux.jf.intel.com
LKML-Reference: &lt;20090403144556.578777000@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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<pre>
Allocate the trace_iterator for the hw-branch-tracer selftest on the heap.

Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger &lt;markus.t.metzger@intel.com&gt;
Cc: roland@redhat.com
Cc: eranian@googlemail.com
Cc: oleg@redhat.com
Cc: juan.villacis@intel.com
Cc: ak@linux.jf.intel.com
LKML-Reference: &lt;20090403144556.578777000@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'linus' into tracing/hw-branch-tracing</title>
<updated>2009-04-07T11:34:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@elte.hu</email>
</author>
<published>2009-04-07T11:34:26+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Merge reason: update to latest tracing and ptrace APIs

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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<pre>
Merge reason: update to latest tracing and ptrace APIs

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: keep the tracing buffer after self-test failure</title>
<updated>2009-03-22T14:17:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Frederic Weisbecker</name>
<email>fweisbec@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-03-22T14:13:07+00:00</published>
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Instead of using ftrace_dump_on_oops, it's far more convenient
to have the trace leading up to a self-test failure available
in /debug/tracing/trace.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;1237694675-23509-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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<pre>
Instead of using ftrace_dump_on_oops, it's far more convenient
to have the trace leading up to a self-test failure available
in /debug/tracing/trace.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;1237694675-23509-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing/function-graph-tracer: prevent hangs during self-tests</title>
<updated>2009-03-22T13:06:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Frederic Weisbecker</name>
<email>fweisbec@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-03-22T04:04:35+00:00</published>
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Impact: detect tracing related hangs

Sometimes, with some configs, the function graph tracer can make
the timer interrupt too much slow, hanging the kernel in an endless
loop of timer interrupts servicing.

As suggested by Ingo, this patch brings a watchdog which stops the
selftest after a defined number of functions traced, definitely
disabling this tracer.

For those who want to debug the cause of the function graph trace
hang, you can pass the ftrace_dump_on_oops kernel parameter to dump
the traces after this hang detection.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;1237694675-23509-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
Impact: detect tracing related hangs

Sometimes, with some configs, the function graph tracer can make
the timer interrupt too much slow, hanging the kernel in an endless
loop of timer interrupts servicing.

As suggested by Ingo, this patch brings a watchdog which stops the
selftest after a defined number of functions traced, definitely
disabling this tracer.

For those who want to debug the cause of the function graph trace
hang, you can pass the ftrace_dump_on_oops kernel parameter to dump
the traces after this hang detection.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;1237694675-23509-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
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