user/sven/linux.git/kernel/trace/trace_selftest.c, branch v3.2.61

tracing: Fix ftrace_dump()

2013-05-13T14:02:11Z

commit 7fe70b579c9e3daba71635e31b6189394e7b79d3 upstream. ftrace_dump() had a lot of issues. What ftrace_dump() does, is when ftrace_dump_on_oops is set (via a kernel parameter or sysctl), it will dump out the ftrace buffers to the console when either a oops, panic, or a sysrq-z occurs. This was written a long time ago when ftrace was fragile to recursion. But it wasn't written well even for that. There's a possible deadlock that can occur if a ftrace_dump() is happening and an NMI triggers another dump. This is because it grabs a lock before checking if the dump ran. It also totally disables ftrace, and tracing for no good reasons. As the ring_buffer now checks if it is read via a oops or NMI, where there's a chance that the buffer gets corrupted, it will disable itself. No need to have ftrace_dump() do the same. ftrace_dump() is now cleaned up where it uses an atomic counter to make sure only one dump happens at a time. A simple atomic_inc_return() is enough that is needed for both other CPUs and NMIs. No need for a spinlock, as if one CPU is running the dump, no other CPU needs to do it too. The tracing_on variable is turned off and not turned on. The original code did this, but it wasn't pretty. By just disabling this variable we get the result of not seeing traces that happen between crashes. For sysrq-z, it doesn't get turned on, but the user can always write a '1' to the tracing_on file. If they are using sysrq-z, then they should know about tracing_on. The new code is much easier to read and less error prone. No more deadlock possibility when an NMI triggers here. Reported-by: zhangwei(Jovi) Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

ftrace: Add self-tests for multiple function trace users

2011-05-18T23:24:51Z

Add some basic sanity tests for multiple users of the function tracer at startup. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

ftrace: Modify ftrace_set_filter/notrace to take ops

2011-05-18T23:22:52Z

Since users of the function tracer can now pick and choose which functions they want to trace agnostically from other users of the function tracer, we need to pass the ops struct to the ftrace_set_filter() functions. The functions ftrace_set_global_filter() and ftrace_set_global_notrace() is added to keep the old filter functions which are used to modify the generic function tracers. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

sched: Constify function scope static struct sched_param usage

2011-01-07T14:55:45Z

Function-scope statics are discouraged because they are easily overlooked and can cause subtle bugs/races due to their global (non-SMP safe) nature. Linus noticed that we did this for sched_param - at minimum make the const. Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra LKML-Reference: Message-ID: Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

sched: Make sched_param argument static in sched_setscheduler() callers

2010-10-23T15:56:48Z

Andrew Morton pointed out almost all sched_setscheduler() callers are using fixed parameters and can be converted to static. It reduces runtime memory use a little. Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro Reported-by: Andrew Morton Acked-by: James Morris Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Steven Rostedt Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

tracing: Remove special traces

2010-07-20T12:31:07Z

Special traces type was only used by sysprof. Lets remove it now that sysprof ftrace plugin has been dropped. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker Acked-by: Soeren Sandmann Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Li Zefan

tracing: Remove sysprof ftrace plugin

2010-07-20T12:29:46Z

The sysprof ftrace plugin doesn't seem to be seriously used somewhere. There is a branch in the sysprof tree that makes an interface to it, but the real sysprof tool uses either its own module or perf events. Drop the sysprof ftrace plugin then, as it's mostly useless. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker Acked-by: Soeren Sandmann Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Li Zefan

tracing: Remove ksym tracer

2010-07-15T21:59:33Z

The ksym (breakpoint) ftrace plugin has been superseded by perf tools that are much more poweful to use the cpu breakpoints. This tracer doesn't bring more feature. It has been deprecated for a while now, lets remove it. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Prasad Cc: Ingo Molnar

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

2010-05-18T15:35:04Z

* 'tracing-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: tracing: Fix "integer as NULL pointer" warning. tracing: Fix tracepoint.h DECLARE_TRACE() to allow more than one header tracing: Make the documentation clear on trace_event boot option ring-buffer: Wrap open-coded WARN_ONCE tracing: Convert nop macros to static inlines tracing: Fix sleep time function profiling tracing: Show sample std dev in function profiling tracing: Add documentation for trace commands mod, traceon/traceoff ring-buffer: Make benchmark handle missed events ring-buffer: Make non-consuming read less expensive with lots of cpus. tracing: Add graph output support for irqsoff tracer tracing: Have graph flags passed in to ouput functions tracing: Add ftrace events for graph tracer tracing: Dump either the oops's cpu source or all cpus buffers tracing: Fix uninitialized variable of tracing/trace output

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

2010-05-18T15:19:03Z

* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (311 commits) perf tools: Add mode to build without newt support perf symbols: symbol inconsistency message should be done only at verbose=1 perf tui: Add explicit -lslang option perf options: Type check all the remaining OPT_ variants perf options: Type check OPT_BOOLEAN and fix the offenders perf options: Check v type in OPT_U?INTEGER perf options: Introduce OPT_UINTEGER perf tui: Add workaround for slang < 2.1.4 perf record: Fix bug mismatch with -c option definition perf options: Introduce OPT_U64 perf tui: Add help window to show key associations perf tui: Make <- exit menus too perf newt: Add single key shortcuts for zoom into DSO and threads perf newt: Exit browser unconditionally when CTRL+C, q or Q is pressed perf newt: Fix the 'A'/'a' shortcut for annotate perf newt: Make <- exit the ui_browser x86, perf: P4 PMU - fix counters management logic perf newt: Make <- zoom out filters perf report: Report number of events, not samples perf hist: Clarify events_stats fields usage ... Fix up trivial conflicts in kernel/fork.c and tools/perf/builtin-record.c