linux/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c, branch v4.4-rc3

ring-buffer: rb_event_is_commit() can return boolean

2015-11-02T19:25:29Z

Make rb_event_is_commit() return bool to improve readability due to this particular function only using either one or zero as its return value. No functional change. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1443537816-5788-7-git-send-email-bywxiaobai@163.com Signed-off-by: Yaowei Bai Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

ring-buffer: rb_per_cpu_empty() can return boolean

2015-11-02T19:24:27Z

Makes rb_per_cpu_empty() return bool to improve readability. No functional change. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1443537816-5788-6-git-send-email-bywxiaobai@163.com Signed-off-by: Yaowei Bai Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

ring_buffer: ring_buffer_empty{cpu}() can return boolean

2015-11-02T19:23:38Z

Make ring_buffer_empty() and ring_buffer_empty_cpu() return bool. No functional change. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1443537816-5788-5-git-send-email-bywxiaobai@163.com Signed-off-by: Yaowei Bai Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

ring-buffer: rb_is_reader_page() can return boolean

2015-11-02T19:23:20Z

Make rb_is_reader_page() return bool to improve readability due to this particular function only using either true or false as its return value. No functional change. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1443537816-5788-4-git-send-email-bywxiaobai@163.com Signed-off-by: Yaowei Bai Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

ring-buffer: Revert "ring-buffer: Get timestamp after event is allocated"

2015-09-03T12:57:12Z

The commit a4543a2fa9ef31 "ring-buffer: Get timestamp after event is allocated" is needed for some future work. But after adding it, there is a race somewhere that causes the saved timestamp to have a slight shift, and get ahead of the actual timestamp and make it look like time goes backwards. I'm still looking into why this happens, but in the mean time, this is holding up other work to get in. I'm reverting the change for now (which makes the problem go away), and will add it back after I know what is wrong and fix it. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

ring-buffer: Reorganize function locations

2015-07-21T02:30:49Z

Functions in ring-buffer.c have gotten interleaved between different use cases. Move the functions around to get like functions closer together. This may or may not help gcc keep cache locality, but it makes it a little easier to work with the code. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

ring-buffer: Make sure event has enough room for extend and padding

2015-07-21T02:30:49Z

Now that events only add time extends after it is committed, in case an event comes in before it can discard the allocated event, the time extend needs to be stored within the event. If the event is bigger than then size needed for the time extend, padding must be added. The minimum padding size is 8 bytes. Thus if the event is 12 bytes (size of time extend + 4), there will not be enough room to add both the time extend and padding. Make sure all events are either 8 bytes or 16 or more bytes. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

ring-buffer: Get timestamp after event is allocated

2015-07-21T02:30:48Z

Move the capturing of the timestamp to after an event is allocated. If the event is not a commit (where it is an event that preempted another event), then no timestamp is needed, because the delta of nested events is always zero. If the event starts on a new page, no delta needs to be calculated as the full timestamp will be added to the page header, and the event will have a delta of zero. Now if the event requires a time extend (the delta does not fit in the 27 bit delta slot in the header), then the event is discarded, the length is extended to hold the TIME_EXTEND event that allows for a 59 bit delta, and the commit is tried again. If the event can't be discarded (another event came in after it), then the TIME_EXTEND is added directly to the allocated event and the rest of the event is given padding. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

ring-buffer: Move the adding of the extended timestamp out of line

2015-07-21T02:30:47Z

Requiring a extended time stamp is an uncommon occurrence, and it is best to do it out of line when needed. Add a noinline function that handles the extended timestamp and have it called with an unlikely to completely move it out of the fast path. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

ring-buffer: Add event descriptor to simplify passing data

2015-07-21T02:30:46Z

Add rb_event_info descriptor to pass event info to functions a bit easier than using a bunch of parameters. This will also allow for changing the code around a bit to find better fast paths. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt