linux/kernel/trace/Makefile, branch v2.6.35

x86, perf, bts, mm: Delete the never used BTS-ptrace code

2010-03-26T10:33:55Z

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: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Roland McGrath Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Markus Metzger Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Andrew Morton LKML-Reference: <20100325135413.938004390@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf: Drop the obsolete profile naming for trace events

2010-03-10T13:47:18Z

Drop the obsolete "profile" naming used by perf for trace events. Perf can now do more than simple events counting, so generalize the API naming. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: Jason Baron

perf events: Remove CONFIG_EVENT_PROFILE

2009-12-28T09:33:06Z

Quoted from Ingo: | This reminds me - i think we should eliminate CONFIG_EVENT_PROFILE - | it's an unnecessary Kconfig complication. If both PERF_EVENTS and | EVENT_TRACING is enabled we should expose generic tracepoints. | | Nor is it limited to event 'profiling', so it has become a misnomer as | well. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Paul Mackerras LKML-Reference: <4B2F1557.2050705@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

Merge branch 'tracing/hw-breakpoints' into perf/core

2009-11-21T13:07:23Z

Conflicts: arch/x86/kernel/kprobes.c kernel/trace/Makefile Merge reason: hw-breakpoints perf integration is looking good in testing and in reviews, plus conflicts are mounting up - so merge & resolve. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

tracing/kprobes: Rename Kprobe-tracer to kprobe-event

2009-11-04T12:02:48Z

Rename Kprobes-based event tracer to kprobes-based tracing event (kprobe-event), since it is not a tracer but an extensible tracing event interface. This also changes CONFIG_KPROBE_TRACER to CONFIG_KPROBE_EVENT and sets it y by default. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Jim Keniston Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli Cc: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler Cc: Jason Baron Cc: K.Prasad Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Srikar Dronamraju LKML-Reference: <20091104001247.3454.14131.stgit@harusame> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

Merge commit 'perf/core' into perf/hw-breakpoint

2009-10-17T23:12:33Z

Conflicts: kernel/Makefile kernel/trace/Makefile kernel/trace/trace.h samples/Makefile Merge reason: We need to be uptodate with the perf events development branch because we plan to rewrite the breakpoints API on top of perf events.

Merge commit 'linus/master' into tracing/kprobes

2009-09-23T21:08:43Z

Conflicts: kernel/trace/Makefile kernel/trace/trace.h kernel/trace/trace_event_types.h kernel/trace/trace_export.c Merge reason: Sync with latest significant tracing core changes.

tracing, perf: Convert the power tracer into an event tracer

2009-09-19T09:42:12Z

This patch converts the existing power tracer into an event tracer, so that power events (C states and frequency changes) can be tracked via "perf". This also removes the perl script that was used to demo the tracer; its functionality is being replaced entirely with timechart. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Frederic Weisbecker LKML-Reference: <20090912130542.6d314860@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

tracing: Add kprobe-based event tracer

2009-08-27T00:31:54Z

Add kprobes-based event tracer on ftrace. This tracer is similar to the events tracer which is based on Tracepoint infrastructure. Instead of Tracepoint, this tracer is based on kprobes (kprobe and kretprobe). It probes anywhere where kprobes can probe(this means, all functions body except for __kprobes functions). Similar to the events tracer, this tracer doesn't need to be activated via current_tracer, instead of that, just set probe points via /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/kprobe_events. And you can set filters on each probe events via /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/kprobes//filter. This tracer supports following probe arguments for each probe. %REG : Fetch register REG sN : Fetch Nth entry of stack (N >= 0) sa : Fetch stack address. @ADDR : Fetch memory at ADDR (ADDR should be in kernel) @SYM[+|-offs] : Fetch memory at SYM +|- offs (SYM should be a data symbol) aN : Fetch function argument. (N >= 0) rv : Fetch return value. ra : Fetch return address. +|-offs(FETCHARG) : fetch memory at FETCHARG +|- offs address. See Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt in the next patch for details. Changes from v13: - Support 'sa' for stack address. - Use call->data instead of container_of() macro. [fweisbec@gmail.com: Fixed conflict against latest tracing/core] Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu Acked-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli Cc: Avi Kivity Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler Cc: H. Peter Anvin Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jason Baron Cc: Jim Keniston Cc: K.Prasad Cc: Lai Jiangshan Cc: Li Zefan Cc: Przemysław Pawełczyk Cc: Roland McGrath Cc: Sam Ravnborg Cc: Srikar Dronamraju Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Tom Zanussi Cc: Vegard Nossum LKML-Reference: <20090813203510.31965.29123.stgit@localhost.localdomain> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker

Merge branch 'linus' into tracing/hw-breakpoints

2009-06-17T10:56:49Z

Conflicts: arch/x86/Kconfig arch/x86/kernel/traps.c arch/x86/power/cpu.c arch/x86/power/cpu_32.c kernel/Makefile Semantic conflict: arch/x86/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c Merge reason: Resolve the conflicts, move from put_cpu_no_sched() to put_cpu() in arch/x86/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar