1. 29 5月, 2014 2 次提交
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      arm64: ftrace: Add dynamic ftrace support · bd7d38db
      AKASHI Takahiro 提交于
      This patch allows "dynamic ftrace" if CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE is enabled.
      Here we can turn on and off tracing dynamically per-function base.
      
      On arm64, this is done by patching single branch instruction to _mcount()
      inserted by gcc -pg option. The branch is replaced to NOP initially at
      kernel start up, and later on, NOP to branch to ftrace_caller() when
      enabled or branch to NOP when disabled.
      Please note that ftrace_caller() is a counterpart of _mcount() in case of
      'static' ftrace.
      
      More details on architecture specific requirements are described in
      Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.txt.
      Acked-by: NWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi@linaro.org>
      Signed-off-by: NWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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      arm64: Add ftrace support · 819e50e2
      AKASHI Takahiro 提交于
      This patch implements arm64 specific part to support function tracers,
      such as function (CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER), function_graph
      (CONFIG_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER) and function profiler
      (CONFIG_FUNCTION_PROFILER).
      
      With 'function' tracer, all the functions in the kernel are traced with
      timestamps in ${sysfs}/tracing/trace. If function_graph tracer is
      specified, call graph is generated.
      
      The kernel must be compiled with -pg option so that _mcount() is inserted
      at the beginning of functions. This function is called on every function's
      entry as long as tracing is enabled.
      In addition, function_graph tracer also needs to be able to probe function's
      exit. ftrace_graph_caller() & return_to_handler do this by faking link
      register's value to intercept function's return path.
      
      More details on architecture specific requirements are described in
      Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.txt.
      Reviewed-by: NGanapatrao Kulkarni <ganapatrao.kulkarni@cavium.com>
      Acked-by: NWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi@linaro.org>
      Signed-off-by: NWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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