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* x86: use possible_cpus=NUM to extend the possible cpus allowedMike Travis2008-12-181-8/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | | Impact: add new boot parameter Use possible_cpus=NUM kernel parameter to extend the number of possible cpus. The ability to HOTPLUG ON cpus that are "possible" but not "present" is dealt with in a later patch. Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
* Merge branch 'linus' into cpus4096Ingo Molnar2008-12-183-9/+13
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| * USB: fix comment about endianness of descriptorsPhil Endecott2008-12-171-2/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch fixes a comment and clarifies the documentation about the endianness of descriptors. The current policy is that descriptors will be little-endian at the API even on big-endian systems; however the /proc/bus/usb API predates this policy and presents descriptors with some multibyte fields byte-swapped. Signed-off-by: Phil Endecott <usb_endian_patch@chezphil.org> Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
| * USB: Documentation/usb/gadget_serial.txt: update to match driver use_acm ↵Peter Korsgaard2008-12-171-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | behaviour Commit 7bb5ea54 (usb gadget serial: use composite gadget framework) changed the default for the use_acm parameter from 0 to 1. Update the documentation to match. Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk> Acked-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
| * usbmon: drop bogus 0t from usbmon.txtPete Zaitcev2008-12-171-5/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The example is incorrect: there is no 0t socket (the '1t' format has no bus number in it). Also, correct the broken sentence for USB Tag. Signed-off-by: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* | Merge branch 'linus' into cpus4096Ingo Molnar2008-12-171-1/+1
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| * [ARM] 5348/1: fix documentation wrt location of the alignment trap interfaceNicolas Pitre2008-12-151-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
* | Merge branch 'sched/core' into cpus4096Ingo Molnar2008-12-121-1/+1
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| * \ Merge commit 'v2.6.28-rc8' into sched/coreIngo Molnar2008-12-125-10/+32
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| | * Merge branch 'core-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2008-12-041-1/+1
| | |\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: check_hung_task(): unsigned sysctl_hung_task_warnings cannot be less than 0 documentation: local_ops fix on_each_cpu
| | | * documentation: local_ops fix on_each_cpuMathieu Desnoyers2008-12-011-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Impact: update code example in documentation * Dr. David Alan Gilbert (dave@treblig.org) wrote: [...] > I noticed while looking at something else that the example in > local_ops.txt still has the 4 operand on_each_cpu in the latest git; > I don't know the rest of the code around there very well so I thought > it best to mention it rather than post a patch. Reported-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dave@treblig.org> Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * | | Merge branch 'sched/urgent' into sched/coreIngo Molnar2008-12-085-10/+28
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* | | | Merge branch 'tracing/fastboot' into cpus4096Ingo Molnar2008-12-123-9/+97
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| * \ \ \ Merge commit 'v2.6.28-rc7' into tracing/coreIngo Molnar2008-12-048-17/+55
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| *-----. \ \ \ Merge branches 'tracing/branch-tracer', 'tracing/ftrace', ↵Ingo Molnar2008-12-023-9/+18
| |\ \ \ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 'tracing/function-graph-tracer', 'tracing/markers', 'tracing/powerpc', 'tracing/stack-tracer' and 'tracing/tracepoints' into tracing/core
| | | | | * | | | tracepoints: Documentation TPPROTO misspelt in Documentation/tracepoints.txtNikanth Karthikesan2008-11-291-2/+2
| | |_|_|/ / / / | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Impact: fix typo in documentation TPPROTO is misspelt in Documentation/tracepoints.txt Kept me wondering what was wrong, when I was trying to add a new tracepoint subsystem. Signed-off-by: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| | | * | | | | markers: comment marker_synchronize_unregister() on data dependencyWu Fengguang2008-11-281-5/+10
| | |/ / / / / | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add document and comments on marker_synchronize_unregister(): it should be called before freeing resources that the probes depend on. Based on comments from Lai Jiangshan and Mathieu Desnoyers. Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <wfg@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| | * | | | | ftrace: improve documentationwalimis2008-11-281-2/+6
| |/ / / / / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Impact: extend documentation with notice of using wild cards correctly We know that we can use wild cards to set set_ftrace_filter, but there's problem when using them naively such as: echo h* > /debug/tracing/set_ftrace_filter If there are files named with "h" prefix in current directory, echo "h*" will echo these filenames to set_ftrace_filter, not the intended "h*". For example: $ cat /debug/tracing/available_filter_functions |grep ^hr |wc -l 23 $ ls $ touch hraa hrdd $ ls hraa hrdd $ echo hr* > /debug/tracing/set_ftrace_filter $ cat /debug/tracing/set_ftrace_filter No output in /debug/tracing/set_ftrace_filter! If we use '' to escape wild cards, it works: $ ls hraa hrdd $ echo "hr*" > /debug/tracing/set_ftrace_filter $ cat /debug/tracing/set_ftrace_filter |wc -l 23 This problem can lead to unexpected result if current directory has a lot of files. Signed-off-by: walimis <walimisdev@gmail.com> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * | | | | ftrace: add function tracing to single threadSteven Rostedt2008-11-261-0/+79
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Impact: feature to function trace a single thread This patch adds the ability to function trace a single thread. The file: /debugfs/tracing/set_ftrace_pid contains the pid to trace. Valid pids are any positive integer. Writing any negative number to this file will disable the pid tracing and the function tracer will go back to tracing all of threads. This feature works with both static and dynamic function tracing. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | | | | | Merge branch 'linus' into cpus4096Ingo Molnar2008-12-028-17/+55
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| * | | | | DMA-API.txt: fix description of pci_map_sg/dma_map_sg scatterlists handlingFUJITA Tomonori2008-12-011-5/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | - pci_map_sg/dma_map_sg are used with a scatter gather list that doesn't come from the block layer (e.g. some network drivers do). - how IOMMUs merge adjacent elements of the scatter/gather list is independent of how the block layer determines sees elements. Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| * | | | | epoll: introduce resource usage limitsDavide Libenzi2008-12-011-0/+27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | It has been thought that the per-user file descriptors limit would also limit the resources that a normal user can request via the epoll interface. Vegard Nossum reported a very simple program (a modified version attached) that can make a normal user to request a pretty large amount of kernel memory, well within the its maximum number of fds. To solve such problem, default limits are now imposed, and /proc based configuration has been introduced. A new directory has been created, named /proc/sys/fs/epoll/ and inside there, there are two configuration points: max_user_instances = Maximum number of devices - per user max_user_watches = Maximum number of "watched" fds - per user The current default for "max_user_watches" limits the memory used by epoll to store "watches", to 1/32 of the amount of the low RAM. As example, a 256MB 32bit machine, will have "max_user_watches" set to roughly 90000. That should be enough to not break existing heavy epoll users. The default value for "max_user_instances" is set to 128, that should be enough too. This also changes the userspace, because a new error code can now come out from EPOLL_CTL_ADD (-ENOSPC). The EMFILE from epoll_create() was already listed, so that should be ok. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: use get_current_user()] Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com> Reported-by: Vegard Nossum <vegardno@ifi.uio.no> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| * | | | | spi documentation: use __initdata on structroel kluin2008-12-011-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Use __initdata for data, not __init. Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| * | | | | ocfs2: Small documentation updateMark Fasheh2008-12-011-3/+0
| | |_|_|/ | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Remove some features from the "not-supported" list that are actually supported now. Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
| * | | | Merge branch 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2008-11-301-2/+4
| |\ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: ftrace: prevent recursion tracing, doc: update mmiotrace documentation x86, mmiotrace: fix buffer overrun detection function tracing: fix wrong position computing of stack_trace
| * \ \ \ \ Merge branch 'fixes' of ↵Linus Torvalds2008-11-301-0/+12
| |\ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq * 'fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq: [CPUFREQ] powernow-k8: ignore out-of-range PstateStatus value [CPUFREQ] Documentation: Add Blackfin to list of supported processors
| | * | | | | [CPUFREQ] Documentation: Add Blackfin to list of supported processorsRobin Getz2008-11-251-0/+12
| | | |_|/ / | | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Robin Getz <rgetz@blackfin.uclinux.org> Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
| * | | | | Trivial Documentation/filesystems/ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt fixfrans2008-11-301-6/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | A very minor patch on ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt: update the location where CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE lives in menuconfig Signed-off-by: Frans Meulenbroeks <fransmeulenbroeks@gmail.com> Acked-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| * | | | | Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2008-11-301-1/+4
| |\ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6 * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6: ALSA: hda - Check model for Dell 92HD73xx laptops ALSA: hda - mark Dell studio 1535 quirk ALSA: hda - No 'Headphone as Line-out' swich without line-outs ALSA: hda - Fix AFG power management on IDT 92HD* codecs ALSA: hda - Fix caching of SPDIF status bits ALSA: hda - Add a quirk for Dell Studio 15 ALSA: hda: Add STAC_DELL_M4_3 quirk sound/sound_core: Fix sparse warnings ALSA: hda: STAC_DELL_M6 EAPD
| | * \ \ \ \ Merge branch 'topic/fix/hda' into for-linusTakashi Iwai2008-11-251-1/+3
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| | | * | | | | ALSA: hda - Check model for Dell 92HD73xx laptopsTakashi Iwai2008-11-251-1/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Check the model type instead of PCI SSID for detection of the mic types on Dell laptops with IDT 92HD73xx codecs. In this way, a new laptop can be tested via model module option. Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
| | * | | | | | Merge branches 'topic/fix/hda' and 'topic/fix/sound-core' into for-linusTakashi Iwai2008-11-211-0/+1
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| | | * | | | | ALSA: hda: Add STAC_DELL_M4_3 quirkMatthew Ranostay2008-11-211-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Added STAC_DELL_M4_3 quirk for Dell systems, also reorganized the board config switch to assign number of digital muxes, microphones, and SPDIF muxes via the PCI quirk defined. Signed-off-by: Matthew Ranostay <mranostay@embeddedalley.com> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
| * | | | | | | Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2008-11-301-1/+2
| |\ \ \ \ \ \ \ | | |_|_|/ / / / | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input: Input: wacom - add support for new USB Tablet PCs Input: replace spin_lock_bh with spin_lock_irqsave in ml_ff_playback Input: i8042 - add Compal Hel80 laptop to nomux blacklist Input: cm109 - add keymap for ATCom AU-100 phone Input: fix the example of an input device driver Input: psmouse - fix incorrect validate_byte check in OLPC protocol Input: atkbd - cancel delayed work before freeing its structure Input: atkbd - add keymap quirk for Inventec Symphony systems Input: i8042 - add Dell XPS M1530 to nomux list Input: elo - fix format string in elo driver
| | * | | | | | Input: fix the example of an input device driverDmitri Vorobiev2008-11-111-1/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch fixes a wrong interrupt handler example given in the "Hello, world!"-like input driver in Documentation/input/input-programming.txt. Signed-off-by: Dmitri Vorobiev <dmitri.vorobiev@movial.fi> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
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| | *---. \ \ \ \ \ Merge branches 'tracing/branch-tracer', 'tracing/fastboot', ↵Ingo Molnar2008-11-242-3/+19
| | |\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ | | | | |_|/ / / / / | | | |/| | | | | / | | | | | | |_|_|/ | | | | | |/| | | 'tracing/ftrace', 'tracing/function-return-tracer', 'tracing/power-tracer', 'tracing/powerpc', 'tracing/ring-buffer', 'tracing/stack-tracer' and 'tracing/urgent' into tracing/core
| | | | | * | | | tracing, doc: update mmiotrace documentationPekka Paalanen2008-11-231-2/+4
| | | | |/ / / / | | | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Impact: update documentation Update to reflect the current state of the tracing framework: - "none" tracer has been replaced by "nop" tracer - tracing_enabled must be toggled when changing buffer size Signed-off-by: Pekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| | | | * | | | tracing: identify which executable object the userspace address belongs toTörök Edwin2008-11-231-1/+12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Impact: modify+improve the userstacktrace tracing visualization feature Store thread group leader id, and use it to lookup the address in the process's map. We could have looked up the address on thread's map, but the thread might not exist by the time we are called. The process might not exist either, but if you are reading trace_pipe, that is unlikely. Example usage: mount -t debugfs nodev /sys/kernel/debug cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing echo userstacktrace >iter_ctrl echo sym-userobj >iter_ctrl echo sched_switch >current_tracer echo 1 >tracing_enabled cat trace_pipe >/tmp/trace& .... run application ... echo 0 >tracing_enabled cat /tmp/trace You'll see stack entries like: /lib/libpthread-2.7.so[+0xd370] You can convert them to function/line using: addr2line -fie /lib/libpthread-2.7.so 0xd370 Or: addr2line -fie /usr/lib/debug/libpthread-2.7.so 0xd370 For non-PIC/PIE executables this won't work: a.out[+0x73b] You need to run the following: addr2line -fie a.out 0x40073b (where 0x400000 is the default load address of a.out) Signed-off-by: Török Edwin <edwintorok@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| | | | * | | | tracing: add support for userspace stacktraces in tracing/iter_ctrlTörök Edwin2008-11-231-1/+4
| | | |/ / / / | | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Impact: add new (default-off) tracing visualization feature Usage example: mount -t debugfs nodev /sys/kernel/debug cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing echo userstacktrace >iter_ctrl echo sched_switch >current_tracer echo 1 >tracing_enabled .... run application ... echo 0 >tracing_enabled Then read one of 'trace','latency_trace','trace_pipe'. To get the best output you can compile your userspace programs with frame pointers (at least glibc + the app you are tracing). Signed-off-by: Török Edwin <edwintorok@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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| | *-. \ \ \ \ \ Merge branches 'tracing/ftrace' and 'tracing/urgent' into tracing/coreIngo Molnar2008-11-1937-126/+683
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| | * | | | | | tracepoints: format documentationIngo Molnar2008-11-161-40/+47
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Impact: documentation update Properly format Documentation/tracepoints.txt - it was full of overlong lines and other typographical problems. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| | * | | | | | tracepoints, docs: ↵Mathieu Desnoyers2008-11-161-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | marker_synchronize_unregister->tracepoint_synchronize_unregister Impact: documentation update. Signed-off-by: Zhaolei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| | * | | | | | tracepoints: documentation fix for teardownMathieu Desnoyers2008-11-161-4/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Impact: documentation update Need a tracepoint_synchronize_unregister() before the end of exit() to make sure every probe callers have exited the non preemptible section and thus are not executing the probe code anymore. Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| | * | | | | | tracepoints: add DECLARE_TRACE() and DEFINE_TRACE()Mathieu Desnoyers2008-11-161-1/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Impact: API *CHANGE*. Must update all tracepoint users. Add DEFINE_TRACE() to tracepoints to let them declare the tracepoint structure in a single spot for all the kernel. It helps reducing memory consumption, especially when declaring a lot of tracepoints, e.g. for kmalloc tracing. *API CHANGE WARNING*: now, DECLARE_TRACE() must be used in headers for tracepoint declarations rather than DEFINE_TRACE(). This is the sane way to do it. The name previously used was misleading. Updates scheduler instrumentation to follow this API change. Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| | * | | | | | markers: create DEFINE_MARKER and GET_MARKER (new API)Mathieu Desnoyers2008-11-161-0/+14
| | |/ / / / / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Impact: new API. Allow markers to be used only for declaration, without function call associated. Useful to create specialized probes. The problem we had is that two function calls were required when one wanted to put a marker in a tracepoint probe. Now the marker can be used simply for trace data type declaration, leaving the trace write work within the tracepoint probe without any additional function call. Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| | * | | | | ftrace: rename iter_ctrl to trace_optionsSteven Rostedt2008-11-131-7/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Impact: rename file /debug/tracing/iter_ctrl to /debug/tracing/trace_options The original ftrace had a file called "iter_ctrl" that would control the way the output was iterated. But this file grew into a catch all for different trace options. This patch renames the file from iter_ctrl to trace_options to reflect this change. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| | * | | | | ftrace: show buffer size in kilobytesSteven Rostedt2008-11-131-17/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Impact: change the units of buffer_size_kb to kilobytes This patch changes the units of the buffer_size_kb file to kilobytes. Reading and writing to the file uses kilobytes as units. To help users to know what units are used, the output of the file now looks like: # cat /debug/tracing/buffer_size_kb 1408 Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| | * | | | | ftrace: rename trace_entries to buffer_size_kbSteven Rostedt2008-11-131-9/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Impact: rename of debugfs file trace_entries to buffer_size_kb The original ftrace had fixed size entries, and the number of entries was shown and modified via the file called trace_entries. By converting to the unified trace buffer, we now allow for variable size entries which makes the meaning of trace_entries pointless. Since trace_size might be confused to the size of the trace, this patch names it "buffer_size_kb" (thanks to Arjan van de Ven for this idea). [ mingo@elte.hu: changed from buffer_size to buffer_size_kb ] ( Note, the units are still bytes - the next patch changes that, to keep the wide rename patch separate from the unit-change patch. ) Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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