linux/Documentation/trace, branch v3.0.87

mm: change isolate mode from #define to bitwise type

2012-08-01T19:27:16Z

commit 4356f21d09283dc6d39a6f7287a65ddab61e2808 upstream. Stable note: Not tracked in Bugzilla. This patch makes later patches easier to apply but has no other impact. Change ISOLATE_XXX macro with bitwise isolate_mode_t type. Normally, macro isn't recommended as it's type-unsafe and making debugging harder as symbol cannot be passed throught to the debugger. Quote from Johannes " Hmm, it would probably be cleaner to fully convert the isolation mode into independent flags. INACTIVE, ACTIVE, BOTH is currently a tri-state among flags, which is a bit ugly." This patch moves isolate mode from swap.h to mmzone.h by memcontrol.h Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

sched: Get rid of lock_depth

2011-04-24T11:18:38Z

Neil Brown pointed out that lock_depth somehow escaped the BKL removal work. Let's get rid of it now. Note that the perf scripting utilities still have a bunch of code for dealing with common_lock_depth in tracepoints; I have left that in place in case anybody wants to use that code with older kernels. Suggested-by: Neil Brown Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Andrew Morton Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110422111910.456c0e84@bike.lwn.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

Fix common misspellings

2011-03-31T14:26:23Z

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

tracing: Add an 'overwrite' trace_option.

2011-03-09T18:52:27Z

Add an "overwrite" trace_option for ftrace to control whether the buffer should be overwritten on overflow or not. The default remains to overwrite old events when the buffer is full. This patch adds the option to instead discard newest events when the buffer is full. This is useful to get a snapshot of traces just after enabling traces. Dropping the current event is also a simpler code path. Signed-off-by: David Sharp LKML-Reference: <1291844807-15481-1-git-send-email-dhsharp@google.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

Merge branch 'tip/perf/core' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into perf/core

2011-02-17T13:11:15Z

tracing: Deprecate tracing_enabled for tracing_on

2011-02-08T22:14:58Z

tracing_enabled should not be used, it is heavy weight and does not do much in helping lower the overhead. tracing_on should be used instead. Warn users to use tracing_on when tracing_enabled is used as it will soon be removed from the tracing directory. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

tracing: Remove obsolete sched_switch tracer

2011-02-08T22:14:56Z

The trace events sched_switch and sched_wakeup do the same thing as the stand alone sched_switch tracer does. It is no longer needed. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

tracing/syscalls: Allow arch specific syscall symbol matching

2011-02-08T02:29:03Z

Some architectures have unusual symbol names and the generic code to match the symbol name with the function name for the syscall metadata will fail. For example, symbols on PPC64 start with a period and the generic code will fail to match them. This patch moves the match logic out into a separate function which an arch can override by defining ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_MATCH_SYM_NAME in asm/ftrace.h and implementing arch_syscall_match_sym_name. Signed-off-by: Ian Munsie LKML-Reference: <1296703645-18718-5-git-send-email-imunsie@au1.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

tracing/syscalls: Make arch_syscall_addr weak

2011-02-08T02:26:22Z

Some architectures use non-trivial system call tables and will not work with the generic arch_syscall_addr code. For example, PowerPC64 uses a table of twin long longs. This patch makes the generic arch_syscall_addr weak to allow architectures with non-trivial system call tables to override it. Signed-off-by: Ian Munsie LKML-Reference: <1296703645-18718-4-git-send-email-imunsie@au1.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

tracing/kprobes: Add bitfield type

2011-02-07T11:18:11Z

Add bitfield type for tracing arguments on kprobe-tracer. The syntax of a bitfield type is: b@/ e.g. Accessing 2 bits-width field with 4 bits-offset in 32 bits-width data at 4 bytes offseted from the address pointed by AX register: +4(%ax):b2@4/32 Since the width of container data depends on the arch, so I just added the container-size at the end. Cc: 2nddept-manager@sdl.hitachi.co.jp Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Srikar Dronamraju Cc: Steven Rostedt LKML-Reference: <20110204125205.9507.11363.stgit@ltc236.sdl.hitachi.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo