user/sven/linux.git/kernel/trace/trace_clock.c, branch v3.8-rc4

tracing: Add a counter clock for those that do not trust clocks

2011-09-19T15:35:58Z

When debugging tight race conditions, it can be helpful to have a synchronized tracing method. Although in most cases the global clock provides this functionality, if timings is not the issue, it is more comforting to know that the order of events really happened in a precise order. Instead of using a clock, add a "counter" that is simply an incrementing atomic 64bit counter that orders the events as they are perceived to happen. The trace_clock_counter() is added from the attempt by Peter Zijlstra trying to convert the trace_clock_global() to it. I took Peter's counter code and made trace_clock_counter() instead, and added it to the choice of clocks. Just echo counter > /debug/tracing/trace_clock to activate it. Requested-by: Thomas Gleixner Requested-by: Peter Zijlstra Reviewed-By: Valdis Kletnieks Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

Fix common misspellings

2011-03-31T14:26:23Z

Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed. Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi

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

2010-08-06T16:39:22Z

* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (27 commits) sched: Use correct macro to display sched_child_runs_first in /proc/sched_debug sched: No need for bootmem special cases sched: Revert nohz_ratelimit() for now sched: Reduce update_group_power() calls sched: Update rq->clock for nohz balanced cpus sched: Fix spelling of sibling sched, cpuset: Drop __cpuexit from cpu hotplug callbacks sched: Fix the racy usage of thread_group_cputimer() in fastpath_timer_check() sched: run_posix_cpu_timers: Don't check ->exit_state, use lock_task_sighand() sched: thread_group_cputime: Simplify, document the "alive" check sched: Remove the obsolete exit_state/signal hacks sched: task_tick_rt: Remove the obsolete ->signal != NULL check sched: __sched_setscheduler: Read the RLIMIT_RTPRIO value lockless sched: Fix comments to make them DocBook happy sched: Fix fix_small_capacity powerpc: Exclude arch_sd_sibiling_asym_packing() on UP powerpc: Enable asymmetric SMT scheduling on POWER7 sched: Add asymmetric group packing option for sibling domain sched: Fix capacity calculations for SMT4 sched: Change nohz idle load balancing logic to push model ...

sched_clock: Add local_clock() API and improve documentation

2010-06-09T08:34:49Z

For people who otherwise get to write: cpu_clock(smp_processor_id()), there is now: local_clock(). Also, as per suggestion from Andrew, provide some documentation on the various clock interfaces, and minimize the unsigned long long vs u64 mess. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Jens Axboe LKML-Reference: <1275052414.1645.52.camel@laptop> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

tracing: Remove ftrace_preempt_disable/enable

2010-06-03T23:32:38Z

The ftrace_preempt_disable/enable functions were to address a recursive race caused by the function tracer. The function tracer traces all functions which makes it easily susceptible to recursion. One area was preempt_enable(). This would call the scheduler and the schedulre would call the function tracer and loop. (So was it thought). The ftrace_preempt_disable/enable was made to protect against recursion inside the scheduler by storing the NEED_RESCHED flag. If it was set before the ftrace_preempt_disable() it would not call schedule on ftrace_preempt_enable(), thinking that if it was set before then it would have already scheduled unless it was already in the scheduler. This worked fine except in the case of SMP, where another task would set the NEED_RESCHED flag for a task on another CPU, and then kick off an IPI to trigger it. This could cause the NEED_RESCHED to be saved at ftrace_preempt_disable() but the IPI to arrive in the the preempt disabled section. The ftrace_preempt_enable() would not call the scheduler because the flag was already set before entring the section. This bug would cause a missed preemption check and cause lower latencies. Investigating further, I found that the recusion caused by the function tracer was not due to schedule(), but due to preempt_schedule(). Now that preempt_schedule is completely annotated with notrace, the recusion no longer is an issue. Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

tracing: Fix lockdep warning in global_clock()

2010-03-29T19:16:44Z

# echo 1 > events/enable # echo global > trace_clock ------------[ cut here ]------------ WARNING: at kernel/lockdep.c:3162 check_flags+0xb2/0x190() ... ---[ end trace 3f86734a89416623 ]--- possible reason: unannotated irqs-on. ... There's no reason to use the raw_local_irq_save() in trace_clock_global. The local_irq_save() version is fine, and does not cause the bug in lockdep. Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra Signed-off-by: Li Zefan LKML-Reference: <4BA97FA1.7030606@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

tracing: Include irqflags headers from trace clock

2010-02-28T18:45:01Z

trace_clock.c includes spinlock.h, which ends up including asm/system.h, which in turn includes linux/irqflags.h in x86. So the definition of raw_local_irq_save is luckily covered there, but this is not the case in parisc: tip/kernel/trace/trace_clock.c:86: error: implicit declaration of function 'raw_local_irq_save' tip/kernel/trace/trace_clock.c:112: error: implicit declaration of function 'raw_local_irq_restore' We need to include linux/irqflags.h directly from trace_clock.c to avoid such build error. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Robert Richter Cc: Peter Zijlstra Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

locking: Convert __raw_spin* functions to arch_spin*

2009-12-14T22:55:32Z

Name space cleanup. No functional change. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra Acked-by: David S. Miller Acked-by: Ingo Molnar Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org

locking: Rename __RAW_SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED to __ARCH_SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED

2009-12-14T22:55:32Z

Further name space cleanup. No functional change Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra Acked-by: David S. Miller Acked-by: Ingo Molnar Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org

locking: Convert raw_spinlock to arch_spinlock

2009-12-14T22:55:32Z

The raw_spin* namespace was taken by lockdep for the architecture specific implementations. raw_spin_* would be the ideal name space for the spinlocks which are not converted to sleeping locks in preempt-rt. Linus suggested to convert the raw_ to arch_ locks and cleanup the name space instead of using an artifical name like core_spin, atomic_spin or whatever No functional change. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra Acked-by: David S. Miller Acked-by: Ingo Molnar Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org