1. 08 11月, 2008 7 次提交
  2. 07 11月, 2008 1 次提交
  3. 06 11月, 2008 5 次提交
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      ring-buffer: convert to raw spinlocks · 3e03fb7f
      Steven Rostedt 提交于
      Impact: no lockdep debugging of ring buffer
      
      The problem with running lockdep on the ring buffer is that the
      ring buffer is the core infrastructure of ftrace. What happens is
      that the tracer will start tracing the lockdep code while lockdep
      is testing the ring buffers locks.  This can cause lockdep to
      fail due to testing cases that have not fully finished their
      locking transition.
      
      This patch converts the spin locks used by the ring buffer back
      into raw spin locks which lockdep does not check.
      Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      3e03fb7f
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      ftrace: restructure tracing start/stop infrastructure · 9036990d
      Steven Rostedt 提交于
      Impact: change where tracing is started up and stopped
      
      Currently, when a new tracer is selected via echo'ing a tracer name into
      the current_tracer file, the startup is only done if tracing_enabled is
      set to one. If tracing_enabled is changed to zero (by echo'ing 0 into
      the tracing_enabled file) a full shutdown is performed.
      
      The full startup and shutdown of a tracer can be expensive and the
      user can lose out traces when echo'ing in 0 to the tracing_enabled file,
      because the process takes too long. There can also be places that
      the user would like to start and stop the tracer several times and
      doing the full startup and shutdown of a tracer might be too expensive.
      
      This patch performs the full startup and shutdown when a tracer is
      selected. It also adds a way to do a quick start or stop of a tracer.
      The quick version is just a flag that prevents the tracing from
      taking place, but the overhead of the code is still there.
      
      For example, the startup of a tracer may enable tracepoints, or enable
      the function tracer.  The stop and start will just set a flag to
      have the tracer ignore the calls when the tracepoint or function trace
      is called.  The overhead of the tracer may still be present when
      the tracer is stopped, but no tracing will occur. Setting the tracer
      to the 'nop' tracer (or any other tracer) will perform the shutdown
      of the tracer which will disable the tracepoint or disable the
      function tracer.
      
      The tracing_enabled file will simply start or stop tracing.
      
      This change is all internal. The end result for the user should be the same
      as before. If tracing_enabled is not set, no trace will happen.
      If tracing_enabled is set, then the trace will happen. The tracing_enabled
      variable is static between tracers. Enabling  tracing_enabled and
      going to another tracer will keep tracing_enabled enabled. Same
      is true with disabling tracing_enabled.
      
      This patch will now provide a fast start/stop method to the users
      for enabling or disabling tracing.
      
      Note: There were two methods to the struct tracer that were never
       used: The methods start and stop. These were to be used as a hook
       to the reading of the trace output, but ended up not being
       necessary. These two methods are now used to enable the start
       and stop of each tracer, in case the tracer needs to do more than
       just not write into the buffer. For example, the irqsoff tracer
       must stop recording max latencies when tracing is stopped.
      Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      9036990d
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      ftrace: soft tracing stop and start · 0f048701
      Steven Rostedt 提交于
      Impact: add way to quickly start stop tracing from the kernel
      
      This patch adds a soft stop and start to the trace. This simply
      disables function tracing via the ftrace_disabled flag, and
      disables the trace buffers to prevent recording. The tracing
      code may still be executed, but the trace will not be recorded.
      Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      0f048701
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      ftrace: add quick function trace stop · 60a7ecf4
      Steven Rostedt 提交于
      Impact: quick start and stop of function tracer
      
      This patch adds a way to disable the function tracer quickly without
      the need to run kstop_machine. It adds a new variable called
      function_trace_stop which will stop the calls to functions from mcount
      when set.  This is just an on/off switch and does not handle recursion
      like preempt_disable().
      
      It's main purpose is to help other tracers/debuggers start and stop tracing
      fuctions without the need to call kstop_machine.
      
      The config option HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACE_MCOUNT_TEST is added for archs
      that implement the testing of the function_trace_stop in the mcount
      arch dependent code. Otherwise, the test is done in the C code.
      
      x86 is the only arch at the moment that supports this.
      Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      60a7ecf4
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      Merge branch 'tracing/fastboot' into tracing/ftrace · 79c81d22
      Ingo Molnar 提交于
      79c81d22
  4. 05 11月, 2008 7 次提交
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