The function graph tracer replaces the return address with a hook
to trace the exit of the function call. This hook will finish by
returning to the real location the function should return to.
But the current implementation uses a ret to jump to the real
return location. This causes a imbalance between calls and ret.
That is the original function does a call, the ret goes to the
handler and then the handler does a ret without a matching call.
Although the function graph tracer itself still breaks the branch
predictor by replacing the original ret, by using a second ret and
causing an imbalance, it breaks the predictor even more.
This patch replaces the ret with a jmp to keep the calls and ret
balanced. I tested this on one box and it showed a 1.7% increase in
performance. Another box only showed a small 0.3% increase. But no
box that I tested this on showed a decrease in performance by
making this change.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20091013203425.042034383@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Remove the ftrace_trace_addr() function as only its off-case is
implemented and there are no users of it currently.
But we keep ftrace_graph_addr() off-case, in case someone come to use
the function graph tracer to profit from top-level callers filtering.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Do this rename because set_ftrace is too much generic and not enough
self-explainable as a name.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Add a command line parameter to allow limiting the function graphs
that are traced on boot up from the given top-level callers , when
ftrace=function_graph is specified.
This patch adds the following command line option:
ftrace_graph_filter=function-list
Where function-list is a comma separated list of functions to filter.
[fweisbec@gmail.com: picked the documentation changes from the v2 patch]
Signed-off-by: Stefan Assmann <sassmann@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <4AD2DEB9.2@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
The addition of trace_array_{v}printk used the wrong function for
trace_vprintk to call. This broke trace_marker and trace_vprintk
itself. Although trace_printk may not have been affected by those
that end up calling trace_vbprintk.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Just using the tr->buffer for the API to trace_buffer_lock_reserve
is not good enough. This is because the tr->buffer may change, and we
do not want to commit with a different buffer that we reserved from.
This patch uses a local variable to hold the buffer that was used to
reserve and commit with.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
fix warnings that caused the API change of trace_buffer_lock_reserve()
change files: kernel/trace/trace_hw_branch.c
kernel/trace/trace_branch.c
Signed-off-by: Zhenwen Xu <helight.xu@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20091008012146.GA4170@helight>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Due to legacy code from back when the dynamic tracer used a daemon,
only core kernel code was checking for failures. This is no longer
the case. We must check for failures any time we perform text modifications.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
When the module is about the unload we release its call records.
The ftrace_release function was given wrong values representing
the module core boundaries, thus not releasing its call records.
Plus making ftrace_release function module specific.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1254934835-363-3-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The state char variable S should be reassigned, if S == 0.
We are missing the state of the task that is going to sleep for the
context switch events (in the raw mode).
Fortunately the problem arises with the sched_switch/wake_up
tracers, not the sched trace events.
The formers are legacy now. But still, that was buggy.
Signed-off-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4AC43118.6050409@ct.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
In the event->profile_enable() failure path, we release the per cpu
buffers using kfree which is wrong because they are per cpu pointers.
Although free_percpu only wraps kfree for now, that may change in the
future so lets use the correct way.
Reported-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
When we call the profile_enable() callback of an event, we release the
shared perf event tracing buffers unconditionnaly in the failure path.
This is wrong because there may be other users of these. Then check the
total refcount before doing this.
Reported-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
A couple of people have hit the WARN_ON() in drivers/char/tty_io.c,
tty_open() that is unhappy about seeing the tty line discipline go away
during the tty hangup. See for example
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14255
and the reason is that we do the tty_ldisc_halt() outside the
ldisc_mutex in order to be able to flush the scheduled work without a
deadlock with vhangup_work.
However, it turns out that we can solve this particular case by
- using "cancel_delayed_work_sync()" in tty_ldisc_halt(), which waits
for just the particular work, rather than synchronizing with any
random outstanding pending work.
This won't deadlock, since the buf.work we synchronize with doesn't
care about the ldisc_mutex, it just flushes the tty ldisc buffers.
- realize that for this particular case, we don't need to wait for any
hangup work, because we are inside the hangup codepaths ourselves.
so as a result we can just drop the flush_scheduled_work() entirely, and
then move the tty_ldisc_halt() call to inside the mutex. That way we
never expose the partially torn down ldisc state to tty_open(), and hold
the ldisc_mutex over the whole sequence.
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Reported-by: Heinz Diehl <htd@fancy-poultry.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch fixes the m32r SMP kernel after 2.6.27.
A part of the following patch breaks m32r SMP operation.
> m32r: convert to generic helpers for IPI function calls
> commit 7b7426c8a6
In the above patch, a CALL_FUNC_SINGLE_IPI was newly introduced,
but the its IPI vector number was wrong in the patch code.
The m32r SMP kernel hanged-up during boot operation, because
the CPU_BOOT_IPI was called instead of CALL_FUNC_SINGLE_IPI
(CPU_BOOT_IPI had no side effect at that time because the 2nd
core had already been started up),
as a result, csd_unlock() was not called, then a dead lock
occurred in csd_lock_wait() after the detection of Compact Flash
memory as IDE generic disk.
Signed-off-by: Toshihiro HANAWA <hanawa@ccs.tsukuba.ac.jp>
Signed-off-by: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
In case CONFIG_DISCONTIGMEM is set, the memory size of system was
always determined by CONFIG_MEMORY_SIZE and was not changeable.
This patch fixes set_memory() of arch/m32r/mm/discontig.c so that
we can specify memory size by the "mem=<size>" kernel parameter.
Signed-off-by: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
Define ioread* and iowrite* macros to fix the following build errors:
CC [M] drivers/uio/uio_smx.o
drivers/uio/uio_smx.c: In function 'smx_handler':
drivers/uio/uio_smx.c:31: error: implicit declaration of function 'ioread32'
drivers/uio/uio_smx.c:37: error: implicit declaration of function 'iowrite32'
Signed-off-by: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
jolsa@redhat.com
Steven Rostedt
Ingo Molnar
Frederic Weisbecker
Li Zefan
Stefan Assmann
Joe Perches
Zhenwen Xu
Hiroshi Shimamoto
Linus Torvalds
Toshihiro HANAWA
Hirokazu Takata