1. 10 3月, 2011 1 次提交
  2. 02 11月, 2010 1 次提交
  3. 20 7月, 2010 1 次提交
  4. 16 7月, 2010 1 次提交
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      tracing: Remove ksym tracer · 5d550467
      Frederic Weisbecker 提交于
      The ksym (breakpoint) ftrace plugin has been superseded by perf
      tools that are much more poweful to use the cpu breakpoints.
      This tracer doesn't bring more feature. It has been deprecated
      for a while now, lets remove it.
      Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      Cc: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      5d550467
  5. 09 6月, 2010 2 次提交
  6. 26 3月, 2010 1 次提交
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      x86, perf, bts, mm: Delete the never used BTS-ptrace code · faa4602e
      Peter Zijlstra 提交于
      Support for the PMU's BTS features has been upstreamed in
      v2.6.32, but we still have the old and disabled ptrace-BTS,
      as Linus noticed it not so long ago.
      
      It's buggy: TIF_DEBUGCTLMSR is trampling all over that MSR without
      regard for other uses (perf) and doesn't provide the flexibility
      needed for perf either.
      
      Its users are ptrace-block-step and ptrace-bts, since ptrace-bts
      was never used and ptrace-block-step can be implemented using a
      much simpler approach.
      
      So axe all 3000 lines of it. That includes the *locked_memory*()
      APIs in mm/mlock.c as well.
      Reported-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
      Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
      Cc: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
      Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      LKML-Reference: <20100325135413.938004390@chello.nl>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      faa4602e
  7. 08 11月, 2009 1 次提交
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      hw-breakpoints: Rewrite the hw-breakpoints layer on top of perf events · 24f1e32c
      Frederic Weisbecker 提交于
      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->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: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      Cc: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
      Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Cc: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>
      Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
      Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
      Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
      Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
      Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
      24f1e32c
  8. 19 9月, 2009 1 次提交
  9. 14 9月, 2009 2 次提交
  10. 13 9月, 2009 2 次提交
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      tracing: show details of structures within the ftrace structures · d7315094
      Steven Rostedt 提交于
      Some of the internal ftrace structures use structures within. The
      output of a field saying it is just a structure is useless for a format
      file. A binary reader of the ring buffer needs to know more about
      how the fields are broken up.
      
      This patch adds to the ftrace structure macros new fields to
      describe the structures inside a structure.
      Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      d7315094
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      tracing: use macros to create internal ftrace entry ring buffer structures · 0a1c49db
      Steven Rostedt 提交于
      The entries used by ftrace internal code (plugins) currently have their
      formats manually exported to userspace. That is, the format files in
      debugfs/tracing/events/ftrace/*/format are currently created by hand.
      This is a maintenance nightmare, and can easily become out of sync
      with what is actually shown.
      
      This patch uses the methodology of the TRACE_EVENT macros to build
      the structures so that their formats can be automated and this
      will keep the structures in sync with what users can see.
      
      This patch only changes the way the structures are created. Further
      patches will build off of this to automate the format files.
      Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      0a1c49db