lwn.git/kernel/trace/trace_sysprof.c, branch doc/4.8-fixes

tracing: Remove sysprof ftrace plugin

2010-07-20T12:29:46+00:00

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

x86: Unify dumpstack.h and stacktrace.h

2010-06-08T21:29:52+00:00

arch/x86/include/asm/stacktrace.h and arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.h declare headers of objects that deal with the same topic. Actually most of the files that include stacktrace.h also include dumpstack.h Although dumpstack.h seems more reserved for internals of stack traces, those are quite often needed to define specialized stack trace operations. And perf event arch headers are going to need access to such low level operations anyway. So don't continue to bother with dumpstack.h as it's not anymore about isolated deep internals. v2: fix struct stack_frame definition conflict in sysprof Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: H. Peter Anvin Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Soeren Sandmann

perf events, x86/stacktrace: Make stack walking optional

2009-12-17T08:56:19+00:00

The current print_context_stack helper that does the stack walking job is good for usual stacktraces as it walks through all the stack and reports even addresses that look unreliable, which is nice when we don't have frame pointers for example. But we have users like perf that only require reliable stacktraces, and those may want a more adapted stack walker, so lets make this function a callback in stacktrace_ops that users can tune for their needs. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Paul Mackerras LKML-Reference: <1261024834-5336-1-git-send-regression-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

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

2009-06-15T17:06:19+00:00

* 'timers-for-linus-migration' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: timers: Logic to move non pinned timers timers: /proc/sys sysctl hook to enable timer migration timers: Identifying the existing pinned timers timers: Framework for identifying pinned timers timers: allow deferrable timers for intervals tv2-tv5 to be deferred Fix up conflicts in kernel/sched.c and kernel/timer.c manually

timers: Identifying the existing pinned timers

2009-05-13T14:52:42+00:00

* Arun R Bharadwaj [2009-04-16 12:11:36]: The following pinned hrtimers have been identified and marked: 1)sched_rt_period_timer 2)tick_sched_timer 3)stack_trace_timer_fn [ tglx: fixup the hrtimer pinned mode ] Signed-off-by: Arun R Bharadwaj Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

tracing/ftrace: factorize the tracing files creation

2009-04-07T12:43:07+00:00

Impact: cleanup Most of the tracing files creation follow the same pattern: ret = debugfs_create_file(...) if (!ret) pr_warning("Couldn't create ... entry\n") Unify it! Reported-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker LKML-Reference: <1238109938-11840-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

tracing: make all file_operations const

2009-03-06T02:46:40+00:00

Impact: cleanup All file_operations structures should be constant. No one is going to change them. Reported-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

tracing: fix typing mistake in hint message and comments

2009-02-17T17:38:24+00:00

Impact: cleanup Fix incorrect hint message in code and typos in comments. Signed-off-by: Wenji Huang Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

Merge branches 'tracing/ftrace', 'tracing/ring-buffer', 'tracing/sysprof', 'tracing/urgent' and 'linus' into tracing/core

2009-02-13T09:25:18+00:00

tracing/sysprof: add missing tracing_{start,stop}_record_cmdline()

2009-02-11T11:55:19+00:00

Add the missing pair tracing_{start,stop}_record_cmdline() to record well the cmdline associated with pid. Changes in v2: - fix a build error, the sched_switch tracer is needed to record the cmdline. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker Acked-by: Steven Rostedt Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar