user/sven/linux.git/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c, branch v3.9.7

Merge tag 'metag-v3.9-rc1-v4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jhogan/metag

2013-03-03T20:06:09Z

Pull new ImgTec Meta architecture from James Hogan: "This adds core architecture support for Imagination's Meta processor cores, followed by some later miscellaneous arch/metag cleanups and fixes which I kept separate to ease review: - Support for basic Meta 1 (ATP) and Meta 2 (HTP) core architecture - A few fixes all over, particularly for symbol prefixes - A few privilege protection fixes - Several cleanups (setup.c includes, split out a lot of metag_ksyms.c) - Fix some missing exports - Convert hugetlb to use vm_unmapped_area() - Copy device tree to non-init memory - Provide dma_get_sgtable()" * tag 'metag-v3.9-rc1-v4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jhogan/metag: (61 commits) metag: Provide dma_get_sgtable() metag: prom.h: remove declaration of metag_dt_memblock_reserve() metag: copy devicetree to non-init memory metag: cleanup metag_ksyms.c includes metag: move mm/init.c exports out of metag_ksyms.c metag: move usercopy.c exports out of metag_ksyms.c metag: move setup.c exports out of metag_ksyms.c metag: move kick.c exports out of metag_ksyms.c metag: move traps.c exports out of metag_ksyms.c metag: move irq enable out of irqflags.h on SMP genksyms: fix metag symbol prefix on crc symbols metag: hugetlb: convert to vm_unmapped_area() metag: export clear_page and copy_page metag: export metag_code_cache_flush_all metag: protect more non-MMU memory regions metag: make TXPRIVEXT bits explicit metag: kernel/setup.c: sort includes perf: Enable building perf tools for Meta metag: add boot time LNKGET/LNKSET check metag: add __init to metag_cache_probe() ...

trace/ring_buffer: handle 64bit aligned structs

2013-03-02T20:09:16Z

Some 32 bit architectures require 64 bit values to be aligned (for example Meta which has 64 bit read/write instructions). These require 8 byte alignment of event data too, so use !CONFIG_HAVE_64BIT_ALIGNED_ACCESS instead of !CONFIG_64BIT || CONFIG_HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS to decide alignment, and align buffer_data_page::data accordingly. Signed-off-by: James Hogan Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Ingo Molnar Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (previous version subtly different)

ring-buffer: Add stats field for amount read from trace ring buffer

2013-01-30T16:01:53Z

Add a stat about the number of events read from the ring buffer: # cat /debug/tracing/per_cpu/cpu0/stats entries: 39869 overrun: 870512 commit overrun: 0 bytes: 1449912 oldest event ts: 6561.368690 now ts: 6565.246426 dropped events: 0 read events: 112 <-- Added Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

ring-buffer: Remove trace.h from ring_buffer.c

2013-01-23T04:38:03Z

ring_buffer.c use to require declarations from trace.h, but these have moved to the generic header files. There's nothing in trace.h that ring_buffer.c requires. There's some headers that trace.h included that ring_buffer.c needs, but it's best that it includes them directly, and not include trace.h. Also, some things may use ring_buffer.c without having tracing configured. This removes the dependency that may come in the future. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

ring-buffer: User context bit recursion checking

2013-01-23T04:38:03Z

Using context bit recursion checking, we can help increase the performance of the ring buffer. Before this patch: # echo function > /debug/tracing/current_tracer # for i in `seq 10`; do ./hackbench 50; done Time: 10.285 Time: 10.407 Time: 10.243 Time: 10.372 Time: 10.380 Time: 10.198 Time: 10.272 Time: 10.354 Time: 10.248 Time: 10.253 (average: 10.3012) Now we have: # echo function > /debug/tracing/current_tracer # for i in `seq 10`; do ./hackbench 50; done Time: 9.712 Time: 9.824 Time: 9.861 Time: 9.827 Time: 9.962 Time: 9.905 Time: 9.886 Time: 10.088 Time: 9.861 Time: 9.834 (average: 9.876) a 4% savings! Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

ring-buffer: Remove unnecessary recusive call in rb_advance_iter()

2013-01-21T18:22:29Z

The original ring-buffer code had special checks at the start of rb_advance_iter() and instead of repeating them again at the end of the function if a certain condition existed, I just did a recursive call to rb_advance_iter() because the special condition would cause rb_advance_iter() to return early (after the checks). But as things have changed, the special checks no longer exist and the only thing done for the special_condition is to call rb_inc_iter() and return. Instead of doing a confusing recursive call, just call rb_inc_iter instead. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

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

2012-12-12T02:18:58Z

Pull perf fixes from Ingo Molnar: "These are late-v3.7 pending fixes for tracing." Fix up trivial conflict in kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c: the NULL pointer fix clashed with the change of type of the 'ret' variable. * 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: ring-buffer: Fix race between integrity check and readers ring-buffer: Fix NULL pointer if rb_set_head_page() fails ftrace: Clear bits properly in reset_iter_read()

ring-buffer: Fix race between integrity check and readers

2012-11-30T16:09:57Z

The function rb_check_pages() was added to make sure the ring buffer's pages were sane. This check is done when the ring buffer size is modified as well as when the iterator is released (closing the "trace" file), as that was considered a non fast path and a good place to do a sanity check. The problem is that the check does not have any locks around it. If one process were to read the trace file, and another were to read the raw binary file, the check could happen while the reader is reading the file. The issues with this is that the check requires to clear the HEAD page before doing the full check and it restores it afterward. But readers require the HEAD page to exist before it can read the buffer, otherwise it gives a nasty warning and disables the buffer. By adding the reader lock around the check, this keeps the race from happening. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.6 Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

ring-buffer: Fix NULL pointer if rb_set_head_page() fails

2012-11-30T16:09:28Z

The function rb_set_head_page() searches the list of ring buffer pages for a the page that has the HEAD page flag set. If it does not find it, it will do a WARN_ON(), disable the ring buffer and return NULL, as this should never happen. But if this bug happens to happen, not all callers of this function can handle a NULL pointer being returned from it. That needs to be fixed. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.0+ Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

ring-buffer: Change unsigned long type of ring_buffer_oldest_event_ts() to u64

2012-11-02T14:21:48Z

ring_buffer_oldest_event_ts() should return a value of u64 type, because ring_buffer_per_cpu->buffer_page->buffer_data_page->time_stamp is u64 type. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1349998076-15495-5-git-send-email-dhsharp@google.com Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Vaibhav Nagarnaik Signed-off-by: Yoshihiro YUNOMAE Signed-off-by: David Sharp Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt