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<title>linux/kernel/trace/trace_events.c, branch v3.0-rc6</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel source tree</subtitle>
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<updated>2011-05-26T02:13:39Z</updated>
<entry>
<title>tracing: Have event with function tracer check error return</title>
<updated>2011-05-26T02:13:39Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt</name>
<email>srostedt@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-05-23T19:27:46Z</published>
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The self tests for event tracer does not check if the function
tracing was successfully activated. It needs to before it continues
the tests, otherwise the wrong errors may be reported.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Regression: partial revert "tracing: Remove lock_depth from event entry"</title>
<updated>2011-05-06T20:20:59Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Arjan van de Ven</name>
<email>arjan@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-05-06T03:55:18Z</published>
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This partially reverts commit e6e1e2593592a8f6f6380496655d8c6f67431266.

That commit changed the structure layout of the trace structure, which
in turn broke PowerTOP (1.9x generation) quite badly.

I appreciate not wanting to expose the variable in question, and
PowerTOP was not using it, so I've replaced the variable with just a
padding field - that way if in the future a new field is needed it can
just use this padding field.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven &lt;arjan@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: Export trace_set_clr_event()</title>
<updated>2011-03-10T15:34:51Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Yuanhan Liu</name>
<email>yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-11-08T06:05:12Z</published>
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Trace events belonging to a module only exists when the module is
loaded. Well, we can use trace_set_clr_event funtion to enable some
trace event at the module init routine, so that we will not miss
something while loading then module.

So, Export the trace_set_clr_event function so that module can use it.

Signed-off-by: Yuanhan Liu &lt;yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;1289196312-25323-1-git-send-email-yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: Remove lock_depth from event entry</title>
<updated>2011-03-10T15:31:48Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt</name>
<email>srostedt@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-03-09T15:41:56Z</published>
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The lock_depth field in the event headers was added as a temporary
data point for help in removing the BKL. Now that the BKL is pretty
much been removed, we can remove this field.

This in turn changes the header from 12 bytes to 8 bytes,
removing the 4 byte buffer that gcc would insert if the first field
in the data load was 8 bytes in size.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: Replace trace_event struct array with pointer array</title>
<updated>2011-02-03T02:37:13Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt</name>
<email>srostedt@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-01-27T14:15:30Z</published>
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Currently the trace_event structures are placed in the _ftrace_events
section, and at link time, the linker makes one large array of all
the trace_event structures. On boot up, this array is read (much like
the initcall sections) and the events are processed.

The problem is that there is no guarantee that gcc will place complex
structures nicely together in an array format. Two structures in the
same file may be placed awkwardly, because gcc has no clue that they
are suppose to be in an array.

A hack was used previous to force the alignment to 4, to pack the
structures together. But this caused alignment issues with other
architectures (sparc).

Instead of packing the structures into an array, the structures' addresses
are now put into the _ftrace_event section. As pointers are always the
natural alignment, gcc should always pack them tightly together
(otherwise initcall, extable, etc would also fail).

By having the pointers to the structures in the section, we can still
iterate the trace_events without causing unnecessary alignment problems
with other architectures, or depending on the current behaviour of
gcc that will likely change in the future just to tick us kernel developers
off a little more.

The _ftrace_event section is also moved into the .init.data section
as it is now only needed at boot up.

Suggested-by: David Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Acked-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing/events: Show real number in array fields</title>
<updated>2010-11-19T15:18:47Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt</name>
<email>srostedt@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-11-13T03:32:11Z</published>
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Currently we have in something like the sched_switch event:

  field:char prev_comm[TASK_COMM_LEN];	offset:12;	size:16;	signed:1;

When a userspace tool such as perf tries to parse this, the
TASK_COMM_LEN is meaningless. This is done because the TRACE_EVENT() macro
simply uses a #len to show the string of the length. When the length is
an enum, we get a string that means nothing for tools.

By adding a static buffer and a mutex to protect it, we can store the
string into that buffer with snprintf and show the actual number.
Now we get:

  field:char prev_comm[16];       offset:12;      size:16;        signed:1;

Something much more useful.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'llseek' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/bkl</title>
<updated>2010-10-22T17:52:56Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-10-22T17:52:56Z</published>
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* 'llseek' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/bkl:
  vfs: make no_llseek the default
  vfs: don't use BKL in default_llseek
  llseek: automatically add .llseek fop
  libfs: use generic_file_llseek for simple_attr
  mac80211: disallow seeks in minstrel debug code
  lirc: make chardev nonseekable
  viotape: use noop_llseek
  raw: use explicit llseek file operations
  ibmasmfs: use generic_file_llseek
  spufs: use llseek in all file operations
  arm/omap: use generic_file_llseek in iommu_debug
  lkdtm: use generic_file_llseek in debugfs
  net/wireless: use generic_file_llseek in debugfs
  drm: use noop_llseek
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>llseek: automatically add .llseek fop</title>
<updated>2010-10-15T13:53:27Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
</author>
<published>2010-08-15T16:52:59Z</published>
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All file_operations should get a .llseek operation so we can make
nonseekable_open the default for future file operations without a
.llseek pointer.

The three cases that we can automatically detect are no_llseek, seq_lseek
and default_llseek. For cases where we can we can automatically prove that
the file offset is always ignored, we use noop_llseek, which maintains
the current behavior of not returning an error from a seek.

New drivers should normally not use noop_llseek but instead use no_llseek
and call nonseekable_open at open time.  Existing drivers can be converted
to do the same when the maintainer knows for certain that no user code
relies on calling seek on the device file.

The generated code is often incorrectly indented and right now contains
comments that clarify for each added line why a specific variant was
chosen. In the version that gets submitted upstream, the comments will
be gone and I will manually fix the indentation, because there does not
seem to be a way to do that using coccinelle.

Some amount of new code is currently sitting in linux-next that should get
the same modifications, which I will do at the end of the merge window.

Many thanks to Julia Lawall for helping me learn to write a semantic
patch that does all this.

===== begin semantic patch =====
// This adds an llseek= method to all file operations,
// as a preparation for making no_llseek the default.
//
// The rules are
// - use no_llseek explicitly if we do nonseekable_open
// - use seq_lseek for sequential files
// - use default_llseek if we know we access f_pos
// - use noop_llseek if we know we don't access f_pos,
//   but we still want to allow users to call lseek
//
@ open1 exists @
identifier nested_open;
@@
nested_open(...)
{
&lt;+...
nonseekable_open(...)
...+&gt;
}

@ open exists@
identifier open_f;
identifier i, f;
identifier open1.nested_open;
@@
int open_f(struct inode *i, struct file *f)
{
&lt;+...
(
nonseekable_open(...)
|
nested_open(...)
)
...+&gt;
}

@ read disable optional_qualifier exists @
identifier read_f;
identifier f, p, s, off;
type ssize_t, size_t, loff_t;
expression E;
identifier func;
@@
ssize_t read_f(struct file *f, char *p, size_t s, loff_t *off)
{
&lt;+...
(
   *off = E
|
   *off += E
|
   func(..., off, ...)
|
   E = *off
)
...+&gt;
}

@ read_no_fpos disable optional_qualifier exists @
identifier read_f;
identifier f, p, s, off;
type ssize_t, size_t, loff_t;
@@
ssize_t read_f(struct file *f, char *p, size_t s, loff_t *off)
{
... when != off
}

@ write @
identifier write_f;
identifier f, p, s, off;
type ssize_t, size_t, loff_t;
expression E;
identifier func;
@@
ssize_t write_f(struct file *f, const char *p, size_t s, loff_t *off)
{
&lt;+...
(
  *off = E
|
  *off += E
|
  func(..., off, ...)
|
  E = *off
)
...+&gt;
}

@ write_no_fpos @
identifier write_f;
identifier f, p, s, off;
type ssize_t, size_t, loff_t;
@@
ssize_t write_f(struct file *f, const char *p, size_t s, loff_t *off)
{
... when != off
}

@ fops0 @
identifier fops;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
 ...
};

@ has_llseek depends on fops0 @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier llseek_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...
 .llseek = llseek_f,
...
};

@ has_read depends on fops0 @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier read_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...
 .read = read_f,
...
};

@ has_write depends on fops0 @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier write_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...
 .write = write_f,
...
};

@ has_open depends on fops0 @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier open_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...
 .open = open_f,
...
};

// use no_llseek if we call nonseekable_open
////////////////////////////////////////////
@ nonseekable1 depends on !has_llseek &amp;&amp; has_open @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier nso ~= "nonseekable_open";
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...  .open = nso, ...
+.llseek = no_llseek, /* nonseekable */
};

@ nonseekable2 depends on !has_llseek @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier open.open_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...  .open = open_f, ...
+.llseek = no_llseek, /* open uses nonseekable */
};

// use seq_lseek for sequential files
/////////////////////////////////////
@ seq depends on !has_llseek @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier sr ~= "seq_read";
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...  .read = sr, ...
+.llseek = seq_lseek, /* we have seq_read */
};

// use default_llseek if there is a readdir
///////////////////////////////////////////
@ fops1 depends on !has_llseek &amp;&amp; !nonseekable1 &amp;&amp; !nonseekable2 &amp;&amp; !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier readdir_e;
@@
// any other fop is used that changes pos
struct file_operations fops = {
... .readdir = readdir_e, ...
+.llseek = default_llseek, /* readdir is present */
};

// use default_llseek if at least one of read/write touches f_pos
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
@ fops2 depends on !fops1 &amp;&amp; !has_llseek &amp;&amp; !nonseekable1 &amp;&amp; !nonseekable2 &amp;&amp; !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier read.read_f;
@@
// read fops use offset
struct file_operations fops = {
... .read = read_f, ...
+.llseek = default_llseek, /* read accesses f_pos */
};

@ fops3 depends on !fops1 &amp;&amp; !fops2 &amp;&amp; !has_llseek &amp;&amp; !nonseekable1 &amp;&amp; !nonseekable2 &amp;&amp; !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier write.write_f;
@@
// write fops use offset
struct file_operations fops = {
... .write = write_f, ...
+	.llseek = default_llseek, /* write accesses f_pos */
};

// Use noop_llseek if neither read nor write accesses f_pos
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

@ fops4 depends on !fops1 &amp;&amp; !fops2 &amp;&amp; !fops3 &amp;&amp; !has_llseek &amp;&amp; !nonseekable1 &amp;&amp; !nonseekable2 &amp;&amp; !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier read_no_fpos.read_f;
identifier write_no_fpos.write_f;
@@
// write fops use offset
struct file_operations fops = {
...
 .write = write_f,
 .read = read_f,
...
+.llseek = noop_llseek, /* read and write both use no f_pos */
};

@ depends on has_write &amp;&amp; !has_read &amp;&amp; !fops1 &amp;&amp; !fops2 &amp;&amp; !has_llseek &amp;&amp; !nonseekable1 &amp;&amp; !nonseekable2 &amp;&amp; !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier write_no_fpos.write_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
... .write = write_f, ...
+.llseek = noop_llseek, /* write uses no f_pos */
};

@ depends on has_read &amp;&amp; !has_write &amp;&amp; !fops1 &amp;&amp; !fops2 &amp;&amp; !has_llseek &amp;&amp; !nonseekable1 &amp;&amp; !nonseekable2 &amp;&amp; !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier read_no_fpos.read_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
... .read = read_f, ...
+.llseek = noop_llseek, /* read uses no f_pos */
};

@ depends on !has_read &amp;&amp; !has_write &amp;&amp; !fops1 &amp;&amp; !fops2 &amp;&amp; !has_llseek &amp;&amp; !nonseekable1 &amp;&amp; !nonseekable2 &amp;&amp; !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...
+.llseek = noop_llseek, /* no read or write fn */
};
===== End semantic patch =====

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Julia Lawall &lt;julia@diku.dk&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: Clean up seqfile code for format file</title>
<updated>2010-08-18T15:09:14Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Li Zefan</name>
<email>lizf@cn.fujitsu.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-08-17T05:53:06Z</published>
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Remove the nasty hack that marks a pointer's LSB to distinguish common
fields from event fields. Replace it with a more sane approach.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan &lt;lizf@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;4C6A23C2.9020606@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'tip/perf/urgent-3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into trace/tip/perf/urgent-4</title>
<updated>2010-08-16T15:17:30Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt</name>
<email>srostedt@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-08-16T15:17:30Z</published>
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<content type='text'>
Conflicts:
	kernel/trace/trace_events.c

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
</content>
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