1. 13 4月, 2013 5 次提交
  2. 10 4月, 2013 1 次提交
  3. 09 4月, 2013 1 次提交
  4. 21 3月, 2013 1 次提交
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      tracing: Update debugfs README file · 22f45649
      Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) 提交于
      Update the README file in debugfs/tracing to something more useful.
      What's currently in the file is very old and what it shows doesn't
      have much use. Heck, it tells you how to mount debugfs! But to read
      this file you would have already needed to mount it.
      
      Replace the file with current up-to-date information. It's rather
      limited, but what do you expect from a pseudo README file.
      Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      22f45649
  5. 16 3月, 2013 8 次提交
  6. 15 3月, 2013 24 次提交
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      tracing: Bring Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt up to date · 8d016091
      Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) 提交于
      The ftrace.txt document has been suffering from some serious bit rot.
      
      Updated the current content to how things are as of v3.10.
      Remove things that no longer exist.
      Add documentation about new features:
        per_cpu
        stats
        instances
        stack trace
        etc.
      Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      8d016091
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      tracing: Add "perf" trace_clock · 76f11917
      Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) 提交于
      The function trace_clock() calls "local_clock()" which is exactly
      the same clock that perf uses. I'm not sure why perf doesn't call
      trace_clock(), as trace_clock() doesn't have any users.
      
      But now it does. As trace_clock() calls local_clock() like perf does,
      I added the trace_clock "perf" option that uses trace_clock().
      
      Now the ftrace buffers can use the same clock as perf uses. This
      will be useful when perf starts reading the ftrace buffers, and will
      be able to interleave them with the same clock data.
      
      Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      76f11917
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      tracing: Add "uptime" trace clock that uses jiffies · 8aacf017
      Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) 提交于
      Add a simple trace clock called "uptime" for those that are
      interested in the uptime of the trace. It uses jiffies as that's
      the safest method, as other uptime clocks grab seq locks, which could
      cause a deadlock if taken from an event or function tracer.
      Requested-by: NMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
      Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      8aacf017
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      tracing: Add function-trace option to disable function tracing of latency tracers · 328df475
      Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) 提交于
      Currently, the only way to stop the latency tracers from doing function
      tracing is to fully disable the function tracer from the proc file
      system:
      
        echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/ftrace_enabled
      
      This is a big hammer approach as it disables function tracing for
      all users. This includes kprobes, perf, stack tracer, etc.
      
      Instead, create a function-trace option that the latency tracers can
      check to determine if it should enable function tracing or not.
      This option can be set or cleared even while the tracer is active
      and the tracers will disable or enable function tracing depending
      on how the option was set.
      
      Instead of using the proc file, disable latency function tracing with
      
        echo 0 > /debug/tracing/options/function-trace
      
      Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      Cc: Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com>
      Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      328df475
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      tracing: Remove most or all of stack tracer stack size from stack_max_size · 4df29712
      Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) 提交于
      Currently, the depth reported in the stack tracer stack_trace file
      does not match the stack_max_size file. This is because the stack_max_size
      includes the overhead of stack tracer itself while the depth does not.
      
      The first time a max is triggered, a calculation is not performed that
      figures out the overhead of the stack tracer and subtracts it from
      the stack_max_size variable. The overhead is stored and is subtracted
      from the reported stack size for comparing for a new max.
      
      Now the stack_max_size corresponds to the reported depth:
      
       # cat stack_max_size
      4640
      
       # cat stack_trace
              Depth    Size   Location    (48 entries)
              -----    ----   --------
        0)     4640      32   _raw_spin_lock+0x18/0x24
        1)     4608     112   ____cache_alloc+0xb7/0x22d
        2)     4496      80   kmem_cache_alloc+0x63/0x12f
        3)     4416      16   mempool_alloc_slab+0x15/0x17
      [...]
      
      While testing against and older gcc on x86 that uses mcount instead
      of fentry, I found that pasing in ip + MCOUNT_INSN_SIZE let the
      stack trace show one more function deep which was missing before.
      
      Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
      Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      4df29712
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      tracing: Fix stack tracer with fentry use · d4ecbfc4
      Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) 提交于
      When gcc 4.6 on x86 is used, the function tracer will use the new
      option -mfentry which does a call to "fentry" at every function
      instead of "mcount". The significance of this is that fentry is
      called as the first operation of the function instead of the mcount
      usage of being called after the stack.
      
      This causes the stack tracer to show some bogus results for the size
      of the last function traced, as well as showing "ftrace_call" instead
      of the function. This is due to the stack frame not being set up
      by the function that is about to be traced.
      
       # cat stack_trace
              Depth    Size   Location    (48 entries)
              -----    ----   --------
        0)     4824     216   ftrace_call+0x5/0x2f
        1)     4608     112   ____cache_alloc+0xb7/0x22d
        2)     4496      80   kmem_cache_alloc+0x63/0x12f
      
      The 216 size for ftrace_call includes both the ftrace_call stack
      (which includes the saving of registers it does), as well as the
      stack size of the parent.
      
      To fix this, if CC_USING_FENTRY is defined, then the stack_tracer
      will reserve the first item in stack_dump_trace[] array when
      calling save_stack_trace(), and it will fill it in with the parent ip.
      Then the code will look for the parent pointer on the stack and
      give the real size of the parent's stack pointer:
      
       # cat stack_trace
              Depth    Size   Location    (14 entries)
              -----    ----   --------
        0)     2640      48   update_group_power+0x26/0x187
        1)     2592     224   update_sd_lb_stats+0x2a5/0x4ac
        2)     2368     160   find_busiest_group+0x31/0x1f1
        3)     2208     256   load_balance+0xd9/0x662
      
      I'm Cc'ing stable, although it's not urgent, as it only shows bogus
      size for item #0, the rest of the trace is legit. It should still be
      corrected in previous stable releases.
      
      Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
      Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      d4ecbfc4
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      tracing: Use stack of calling function for stack tracer · 87889501
      Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) 提交于
      Use the stack of stack_trace_call() instead of check_stack() as
      the test pointer for max stack size. It makes it a bit cleaner
      and a little more accurate.
      
      Adding stable, as a later fix depends on this patch.
      
      Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
      Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      87889501
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      tracing: Add function probe to trigger stack traces · dd42cd3e
      Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) 提交于
      Add a function probe that will cause a stack trace to be traced in
      the ring buffer when the given function(s) are called.
      
      format is:
      
       <function>:stacktrace[:<count>]
      
       echo 'schedule:stacktrace' > /debug/tracing/set_ftrace_filter
       cat /debug/tracing/trace_pipe
           kworker/2:0-4329  [002] ...2  2933.558007: <stack trace>
       => kthread
       => ret_from_fork
                <idle>-0     [000] .N.2  2933.558019: <stack trace>
       => rest_init
       => start_kernel
       => x86_64_start_reservations
       => x86_64_start_kernel
           kworker/2:0-4329  [002] ...2  2933.558109: <stack trace>
       => kthread
       => ret_from_fork
      [...]
      
      This can be set to only trace a specific amount of times:
      
       echo 'schedule:stacktrace:3' > /debug/tracing/set_ftrace_filter
       cat /debug/tracing/trace_pipe
                 <...>-58    [003] ...2   841.801694: <stack trace>
       => kthread
       => ret_from_fork
                <idle>-0     [001] .N.2   841.801697: <stack trace>
       => start_secondary
                 <...>-2059  [001] ...2   841.801736: <stack trace>
       => wait_for_common
       => wait_for_completion
       => flush_work
       => tty_flush_to_ldisc
       => input_available_p
       => n_tty_poll
       => tty_poll
       => do_select
       => core_sys_select
       => sys_select
       => system_call_fastpath
      
      To remove these:
      
       echo '!schedule:stacktrace' > /debug/tracing/set_ftrace_filter
       echo '!schedule:stacktrace:0' > /debug/tracing/set_ftrace_filter
      Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      dd42cd3e
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      tracing: Add skip argument to trace_dump_stack() · c142be8e
      Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) 提交于
      Altough the trace_dump_stack() already skips three functions in
      the call to stack trace, which gets the stack trace to start
      at the caller of the function, the caller may want to skip some
      more too (as it may have helper functions).
      
      Add a skip argument to the trace_dump_stack() that lets the caller
      skip back tracing functions that it doesn't care about.
      Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      c142be8e
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      tracing: Add function probe triggers to enable/disable events · 3cd715de
      Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) 提交于
      Add triggers to function tracer that lets an event get enabled or
      disabled when a function is called:
      
      format is:
      
       <function>:enable_event:<system>:<event>[:<count>]
       <function>:disable_event:<system>:<event>[:<count>]
      
       echo 'schedule:enable_event:sched:sched_switch' > /debug/tracing/set_ftrace_filter
      
      Every time schedule is called, it will enable the sched_switch event.
      
       echo 'schedule:disable_event:sched:sched_switch:2' > /debug/tracing/set_ftrace_filter
      
      The first two times schedule is called while the sched_switch
      event is enabled, it will disable it. It will not count for a time
      that the event is already disabled (or enabled for enable_event).
      
      [ fixed return without mutex_unlock() - thanks to Dan Carpenter and smatch ]
      
      Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
      Cc: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      3cd715de
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      tracing: Add a way to soft disable trace events · 417944c4
      Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) 提交于
      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 <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
      Cc: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      417944c4
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      ftrace: Use manual free after synchronize_sched() not call_rcu_sched() · 7818b388
      Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) 提交于
      The entries to the probe hash must be freed after a synchronize_sched()
      after the entry has been removed from the hash.
      
      As the entries are registered with ops that may have their own callbacks,
      and these callbacks may sleep, we can not use call_rcu_sched() because
      the rcu callbacks registered with that are called from a softirq context.
      
      Instead of using call_rcu_sched(), manually save the entries on a free_list
      and at the end of the loop that removes the entries, do a synchronize_sched()
      and then go through the free_list, freeing the entries.
      
      Cc: Paul McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      7818b388
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      ftrace: Clean up function probe methods · e67efb93
      Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) 提交于
      When a function probe is created, each function that the probe is
      attached to, a "callback" method is called. On release of the probe,
      each function entry calls the "free" method.
      
      First, "callback" is a confusing name and does not really match what
      it does. Callback sounds like it will be called when the probe
      triggers. But that's not the case. This is really an "init" function,
      so lets rename it as such.
      
      Secondly, both "init" and "free" do not pass enough information back
      to the handlers. Pass back the ops, ip and data for each time the
      method is called. We have the information, might as well use it.
      Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      e67efb93
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      tracing: Fix comments for ftrace_event_file/call flags · 57d01ad0
      Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) 提交于
      Most of the flags for the struct ftrace_event_file were moved over
      to the flags of the struct ftrace_event_call, but the comments were
      never updated.
      Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      57d01ad0
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      tracing: Add snapshot trigger to function probes · 77fd5c15
      Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) 提交于
       echo 'schedule:snapshot:1' > /debug/tracing/set_ftrace_filter
      
      This will cause the scheduler to trigger a snapshot the next time
      it's called (you can use any function that's not called by NMI).
      
      Even though it triggers only once, you still need to remove it with:
      
       echo '!schedule:snapshot:0' > /debug/tracing/set_ftrace_filter
      
      The :1 can be left off for the first command:
      
       echo 'schedule:snapshot' > /debug/tracing/set_ftrace_filter
      
      But this will cause all calls to schedule to trigger a snapshot.
      This must be removed without the ':0'
      
       echo '!schedule:snapshot' > /debug/tracing/set_ftrace_filter
      
      As adding a "count" is a different operation (internally).
      Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      77fd5c15
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      tracing: Add alloc/free_snapshot() to replace duplicate code · 3209cff4
      Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) 提交于
      Add alloc_snapshot() and free_snapshot() to allocate and free the
      snapshot buffer respectively, and use these to remove duplicate
      code.
      Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      3209cff4
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      ftrace: Fix function probe to only enable needed functions · e1df4cb6
      Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) 提交于
      Currently the function probe enables all functions and runs a "hash"
      against every function call to see if it should call a probe. This
      is extremely wasteful.
      
      Note, a probe is something like:
      
        echo schedule:traceoff > /debug/tracing/set_ftrace_filter
      
      When schedule is called, the probe will disable tracing. But currently,
      it has a call back for *all* functions, and checks to see if the
      called function is the probe that is needed.
      
      The probe function has been created before ftrace was rewritten to
      allow for more than one "op" to be registered by the function tracer.
      When probes were created, it couldn't limit the functions without also
      limiting normal function calls. But now we can, it's about time
      to update the probe code.
      
      Todo, have separate ops for different entries. That is, assign
      a ftrace_ops per probe, instead of one op for all probes. But
      as there's not many probes assigned, this may not be that urgent.
      Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      e1df4cb6
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      ftrace: Separate unlimited probes from count limited probes · 8380d248
      Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) 提交于
      The function tracing probes that trigger traceon or traceoff can be
      set to unlimited, or given a count of # of times to execute.
      
      By separating these two types of probes, we can then use the dynamic
      ftrace function filtering directly, and remove the brute force
      "check if this function called is my probe" routines in ftrace.
      Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      8380d248
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      tracing: Consolidate ftrace_trace_onoff_unreg() into callback · 8b8fa62c
      Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) 提交于
      The only thing ftrace_trace_onoff_unreg() does is to do a strcmp()
      against the cmd parameter to determine what op to unregister. But
      this compare is also done after the location that this function is
      called (and returns). By moving the check for '!' to unregister after
      the strcmp(), the callback function itself can just do the unregister
      and we can get rid of the helper function.
      Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      8b8fa62c
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      tracing: Consolidate updating of count for traceon/off · 1c317143
      Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) 提交于
      Remove some duplicate code and replace it with a helper function.
      This makes the code a it cleaner.
      Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      1c317143
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      tracing: Let tracing_snapshot() be used by modules but not NMI · 1b22e382
      Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) 提交于
      Add EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() to let the tracing_snapshot() functions be
      called from modules.
      
      Also add a test to see if the snapshot was called from NMI context
      and just warn in the tracing buffer if so, and return.
      Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      1b22e382
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      tracing: Add internal ftrace trace_puts() for ftrace to use · ca268da6
      Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) 提交于
      There's a few places that ftrace uses trace_printk() for internal
      use, but this requires context (normal, softirq, irq, NMI) buffers
      to keep things lockless. But the trace_puts() does not, as it can
      write the string directly into the ring buffer. Make a internal helper
      for trace_puts() and have the internal functions use that.
      
      This way the extra context buffers are not used.
      Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      ca268da6
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      tracing: Optimize trace_printk() with one arg to use trace_puts() · 9d3c752c
      Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) 提交于
      Although trace_printk() is extremely fast, especially when it uses
      trace_bprintk() (writes args straight to buffer instead of inserting
      into string), it still has the overhead of calling one of the printf
      sprintf() functions, that need to scan the fmt string to determine
      what, if any args it has.
      
      This is a waste of precious CPU cycles if the printk format has no
      args but a single constant string. It is better to use trace_puts()
      which does not have the overhead of the fmt scanning.
      
      But wouldn't it be nice if the developer didn't have to think about
      such things, and the compile would just do it for them?
      
        trace_printk("this string has no args\n");
        [...]
        trace_printk("this sting does %p %d\n", foo, bar);
      
      As tracing is critical to have the least amount of overhead,
      especially when dealing with race conditions, and you want to
      eliminate any "Heisenbugs", you want the trace_printk() to use the
      fastest possible means of tracing.
      
      Currently the macro magic determines if it will use trace_bprintk()
      or if the fmt is a dynamic string (a variable), it will fall
      back to the slow trace_printk() method that does a full snprintf()
      before copying it into the buffer, where as trace_bprintk() only
      copys the pointer to the fmt and the args into the buffer.
      
      Well, now there's a way to spend some more Hogwarts cash and come
      up with new fancy macro magic.
      
        #define trace_printk(fmt, ...)			\
        do {							\
      	char _______STR[] = __stringify((__VA_ARGS__));	\
      	if (sizeof(_______STR) > 3)			\
      		do_trace_printk(fmt, ##__VA_ARGS__);	\
      	else						\
      		trace_puts(fmt);			\
        } while (0)
      
      The above needs a bit of explaining (both here and in the comments).
      
      By stringifying the __VA_ARGS__, we can, at compile time, determine
      the number of args that are being passed to trace_printk(). The extra
      parenthesis are required, otherwise the compiler complains about
      too many parameters for __stringify if there is more than one arg.
      
      When there are no args, the __stringify((__VA_ARGS__)) converts into
      "()\0", a string of 3 characters. Anything else, will be a string
      containing more than 3 characters. Now we assign that string to a
      dynamic char array, and then take the sizeof() of that array.
      If it is greater than 3 characters, we know trace_printk() has args
      and we need to do the full "do_trace_printk()" on them, otherwise
      it was only passed a single arg and we can optimize to use trace_puts().
      
      Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: NSteven "The King of Nasty Macros!" Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      9d3c752c
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      tracing: Add trace_puts() for even faster trace_printk() tracing · 09ae7234
      Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) 提交于
      The trace_printk() is extremely fast and is very handy as it can be
      used in any context (including NMIs!). But it still requires scanning
      the fmt string for parsing the args. Even the trace_bprintk() requires
      a scan to know what args will be saved, although it doesn't copy the
      format string itself.
      
      Several times trace_printk() has no args, and wastes cpu cycles scanning
      the fmt string.
      
      Adding trace_puts() allows the developer to use an even faster
      tracing method that only saves the pointer to the string in the
      ring buffer without doing any format parsing at all. This will
      help remove even more of the "Heisenbug" effect, when debugging.
      
      Also fixed up the F_printk()s for the ftrace internal bprint and print events.
      
      Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      09ae7234