linux/kernel/trace/Kconfig, branch v2.6.30

tracing: fix document references

2009-04-10T11:08:50Z

When moving documents to Documentation/trace/, I forgot to grep Kconfig to find out those references. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Pekka Enberg Cc: Pekka Paalanen Cc: eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro LKML-Reference: <49DE97EF.7080208@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

Merge branch 'tracing-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

2009-04-05T18:04:19Z

* 'tracing-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (413 commits) tracing, net: fix net tree and tracing tree merge interaction tracing, powerpc: fix powerpc tree and tracing tree interaction ring-buffer: do not remove reader page from list on ring buffer free function-graph: allow unregistering twice trace: make argument 'mem' of trace_seq_putmem() const tracing: add missing 'extern' keywords to trace_output.h tracing: provide trace_seq_reserve() blktrace: print out BLK_TN_MESSAGE properly blktrace: extract duplidate code blktrace: fix memory leak when freeing struct blk_io_trace blktrace: fix blk_probes_ref chaos blktrace: make classic output more classic blktrace: fix off-by-one bug blktrace: fix the original blktrace blktrace: fix a race when creating blk_tree_root in debugfs blktrace: fix timestamp in binary output tracing, Text Edit Lock: cleanup tracing: filter fix for TRACE_EVENT_FORMAT events ftrace: Using FTRACE_WARN_ON() to check "freed record" in ftrace_release() x86: kretprobe-booster interrupt emulation code fix ... Fix up trivial conflicts in arch/parisc/include/asm/ftrace.h include/linux/memory.h kernel/extable.c kernel/module.c

trivial: fix typos/grammar errors in Kconfig texts

2009-03-30T13:22:01Z

Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante Acked-by: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina

tracing: Fix TRACING_SUPPORT dependency for PPC32

2009-03-23T22:23:03Z

commit 40ada30f9621fbd831ac2437b9a2a399aa ("tracing: clean up menu"), despite the "clean up" in its purpose, introduced a behavioural change for Kconfig symbols: we no longer able to select tracing support on PPC32 (because IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT isn't yet implemented). The IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT is not mandatory for most tracers, tracing core has a special case for platforms w/o irqflags (which, by the way, has become useless as of the commit above). Though according to Ingo Molnar, there was periodic build failures on weird, unmaintained architectures that had no irqflags-tracing support and hence didn't know the raw_irqs_save/restore primitives. Thus we'd better not enable irqflags-less tracing for all architectures. This patch restores the old behaviour for PPC32, and thus brings the tracing back. Other architectures can either add themselves to the exception list or (better) implement TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT. Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov Acked-b: Steven Rostedt Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org LKML-Reference: <20090323220724.GA9851@oksana.dev.rtsoft.ru> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

tracing/syscalls: select kallsysms

2009-03-16T08:13:17Z

Syscall tracing must select kallsysms. The arch code builds a table to find the syscall metadata by syscall number. It needs the syscalls names resolution from the symbol table to know which name found on the syscalls metadatas match a function pointer from the arch sys_call_table. Reported-by: Andrew Morton Reported-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker LKML-Reference: <1237151439-6755-4-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

tracing/ftrace: syscall tracing infrastructure, basics

2009-03-13T05:25:43Z

Provide basic callbacks to do syscall tracing. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker Acked-by: Steven Rostedt Cc: Lai Jiangshan LKML-Reference: <1236401580-5758-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> [ simplified it to a trace_printk() for now. ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

tracing/core: drop the old trace_printk() implementation in favour of trace_bprintk()

2009-03-06T16:59:12Z

Impact: faster and lighter tracing Now that we have trace_bprintk() which is faster and consume lesser memory than trace_printk() and has the same purpose, we can now drop the old implementation in favour of the binary one from trace_bprintk(), which means we move all the implementation of trace_bprintk() to trace_printk(), so the Api doesn't change except that we must now use trace_seq_bprintk() to print the TRACE_PRINT entries. Some changes result of this: - Previously, trace_bprintk depended of a single tracer and couldn't work without. This tracer has been dropped and the whole implementation of trace_printk() (like the module formats management) is now integrated in the tracing core (comes with CONFIG_TRACING), though we keep the file trace_printk (previously trace_bprintk.c) where we can find the module management. Thus we don't overflow trace.c - changes some parts to use trace_seq_bprintk() to print TRACE_PRINT entries. - change a bit trace_printk/trace_vprintk macros to support non-builtin formats constants, and fix 'const' qualifiers warnings. But this is all transparent for developers. - etc... V2: - Rebase against last changes - Fix mispell on the changelog V3: - Rebase against last changes (moving trace_printk() to kernel.h) Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker Acked-by: Steven Rostedt LKML-Reference: <1236356510-8381-5-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

tracing: infrastructure for supporting binary record

2009-03-06T16:59:11Z

Impact: save on memory for tracing Current tracers are typically using a struct(like struct ftrace_entry, struct ctx_switch_entry, struct special_entr etc...)to record a binary event. These structs can only record a their own kind of events. A new kind of tracer need a new struct and a lot of code too handle it. So we need a generic binary record for events. This infrastructure is for this purpose. [fweisbec@gmail.com: rebase against latest -tip, make it safe while sched tracing as reported by Steven Rostedt] Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker Acked-by: Steven Rostedt LKML-Reference: <1236356510-8381-3-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

tracing: current tip/master can't enable ftrace

2009-03-06T10:56:42Z

After commit 40ada30f9621fbd831ac2437b9a2a399aad34b00, "make menuconfig" doesn't display "Tracer" item. Following modification restores it.

tracing: clean up menu

2009-03-05T20:53:25Z

Clean up menu structure, introduce TRACING_SUPPORT switch that signals whether an architecture supports various instrumentation mechanisms. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar