- 04 Feb, 2010 2 commits
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Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo authored
While debugging a problem reported by Pekka Enberg by printing the IP and all the maps for a thread when we don't find a map for an IP I noticed that dso__load_sym needs to fixup these extra maps it creates to hold symbols in different ELF sections than the main kernel one. Now we're back showing things like: [root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# perf report | grep vsyscall 0.02% mutt [kernel.kallsyms].vsyscall_fn [.] vread_hpet 0.01% named [kernel.kallsyms].vsyscall_fn [.] vread_hpet 0.01% NetworkManager [kernel.kallsyms].vsyscall_fn [.] vread_hpet 0.01% gconfd-2 [kernel.kallsyms].vsyscall_0 [.] vgettimeofday 0.01% hald-addon-rfki [kernel.kallsyms].vsyscall_fn [.] vread_hpet 0.00% dbus-daemon [kernel.kallsyms].vsyscall_fn [.] vread_hpet [root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> LKML-Reference: <1265223128-11786-2-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo authored
I noticed while writing the first test in 'perf regtest' that to just test the symbol handling routines one needs to create a perf session, that is a layer centered on a perf.data file, events, etc, so I untied these layers. This reduces the complexity for the users as the number of parameters to most of the symbols and session APIs now was reduced while not adding more state to all the map instances by only having data that is needed to split the kernel (kallsyms and ELF symtab sections) maps and do vmlinux relocation on the main kernel map. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> LKML-Reference: <1265223128-11786-1-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 03 Feb, 2010 1 commit
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Xiao Guangrong authored
Open perf data file with O_LARGEFILE flag since its size is easily larger that 2G. For example: # rm -rf perf.data # ./perf kmem record sleep 300 [ perf record: Woken up 0 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 3142.147 MB perf.data (~137282513 samples) ] # ll -h perf.data -rw------- 1 root root 3.1G ..... Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> LKML-Reference: <4B68F32A.9040203@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 31 Jan, 2010 6 commits
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Ingo Molnar authored
Fix up a few small stylistic details: - use consistent vertical spacing/alignment - remove line80 artifacts - group some global variables better - remove dead code Plus rename 'prof' to 'report' to make it more in line with other tools, and remove the line/file keying as we really want to use IPs like the other tools do. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <1264851813-8413-12-git-send-email-mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Hitoshi Mitake authored
Adding new subcommand "perf lock" to perf. I have a lot of remaining ToDos, but for now perf lock can already provide minimal functionality for analyzing lock statistics. Signed-off-by: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <1264851813-8413-12-git-send-email-mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Hitoshi Mitake authored
Add wait time and lock identification details. Signed-off-by: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <1264851813-8413-11-git-send-email-mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp> [ removed the file/line bits as we can do that better via IPs ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Hitoshi Mitake authored
linux/hash.h, hash header of kernel, is also useful for perf. util/include/linuxhash.h includes linux/hash.h, so we can use hash facilities (e.g. hash_long()) in perf now. Signed-off-by: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <1264851813-8413-3-git-send-email-mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Hitoshi Mitake authored
This patch is required to test the next patch for perf lock. At 064739bc , support for the modifier "__data_loc" of format is added. But, when I wanted to parse format of lock_acquired (or some event else), raw_field_ptr() did not returned correct pointer. So I modified raw_field_ptr() like this patch. Then raw_field_ptr() works well. Signed-off-by: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp> Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <1264851813-8413-2-git-send-email-mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp> [ v3: fixed minor stylistic detail ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Hitoshi Mitake authored
This reverts commit f5a2c3dc. This patch is required for making "perf lock rec" work. The commit f5a2c3dc changes write_event() of builtin-record.c . And changed write_event() sometimes doesn't stop with perf lock rec. Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> [ that commit also causes perf record to not be Ctrl-C-able, and it's concetually wrong to parse the data at record time (unconditionally - even when not needed), as we eventually want to be able to do zero-copy recording, at least for non-archive recordings. ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 29 Jan, 2010 29 commits
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John Kacur authored
Tell git to ignore perf-archive. Signed-off-by: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <1264633557-17597-6-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Thiago Farina authored
Checked with: ./../scripts/checkpatch.pl --terse --file perf.c perf.c: 51: ERROR: open brace '{' following function declarations go on the next line perf.c: 73: ERROR: "foo*** bar" should be "foo ***bar" perf.c:112: ERROR: space prohibited before that close parenthesis ')' perf.c:127: ERROR: space prohibited before that close parenthesis ')' perf.c:171: ERROR: "foo** bar" should be "foo **bar" perf.c:213: ERROR: "(foo*)" should be "(foo *)" perf.c:216: ERROR: "(foo*)" should be "(foo *)" perf.c:217: ERROR: space required before that '*' (ctx:OxV) perf.c:452: ERROR: do not initialise statics to 0 or NULL perf.c:453: ERROR: do not initialise statics to 0 or NULL Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <1264633557-17597-7-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar authored
Merge reason: We want to queue up a dependent patch. Also update to later -rc's. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo authored
Removing one extra step needed in the tools that need this, fixing a bug in 'perf probe' where this was not being done. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> LKML-Reference: <1264633557-17597-4-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo authored
To make it clear and allow for direct usage by, for instance, regression test suites. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> LKML-Reference: <1264633557-17597-3-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo authored
So that we can call it directly from regression tests, and also to reduce the size of dso__load_kernel_sym(), making it more clear. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> LKML-Reference: <1264633557-17597-2-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo authored
As we do lazy loading of symtabs we only will know if the specified vmlinux file is invalid when we actually have a hit in kernel space and then try to load it. So if we get kernel hits and there are _no_ symbols in the DSO backing the kernel map, bail out. Reported-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> LKML-Reference: <1264633557-17597-1-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Peter Zijlstra authored
One problem with frequency driven counters is that we cannot predict the rate at which they trigger, therefore we have to start them at period=1, this causes a ramp up effect. However, if we fail to propagate the stable state on fork each new child will have to ramp up again. This can lead to significant artifacts in sample data. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: eranian@google.com Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <1264752266.4283.2121.camel@laptop> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Peter Zijlstra authored
At enable time the counter might still have a ->idx pointing to a previously occupied location that might now be taken by another event. Resetting the counter at that location with data from this event will destroy the other counter's count. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> LKML-Reference: <20100127221122.261477183@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Peter Zijlstra authored
The new Intel documentation includes Westmere arch specific event maps that are significantly different from the Nehalem ones. Add support for this generation. Found the CPUID model numbers on wikipedia. Also ammend some Nehalem constraints, spotted those when looking for the differences between Nehalem and Westmere. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> LKML-Reference: <20100127221122.151865645@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Peter Zijlstra authored
Put the recursion avoidance code in the generic hook instead of replicating it in each implementation. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> LKML-Reference: <20100127221122.057507285@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Peter Zijlstra authored
Since constraints are specified on the event number, not number and unit mask shorten the constraint masks so that we'll actually match something. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> LKML-Reference: <20100127221121.967610372@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Peter Zijlstra authored
Share the meat of the x86_pmu_disable() code with hw_perf_enable(). Also remove the barrier() from that code, since I could not convince myself we actually need it. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar authored
- Remove stray debug code - Improve ugly macros a bit - Remove some whitespace damage - (Also fix up some accumulated damage in perf_event.h) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
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Peter Zijlstra authored
x86_pmu_disable() removes the event from the cpuc->event_list[], however since an event can only be on that list once, stop looking after we found it. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Peter Zijlstra authored
Remove num from the fast path and save a few ops. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> LKML-Reference: <20100122155536.056430539@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Peter Zijlstra authored
Add a weight member to the constraint structure and avoid recomputing the weight at runtime. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> LKML-Reference: <20100122155535.963944926@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Peter Zijlstra authored
Instead of copying bitmasks around, pass pointers to the constraint structure. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> LKML-Reference: <20100122155535.887853503@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Peter Zijlstra authored
Provide compile time versions of hweight. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> LKML-Reference: <20100122155535.797688466@chello.nl> [ Remove some whitespace damage while we are at it ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Peter Zijlstra authored
Introduce INTEL_EVENT_CONSTRAINT and FIXED_EVENT_CONSTRAINT to reduce some line length and typing work. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> LKML-Reference: <20100122155535.688730371@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Peter Zijlstra authored
We need this to be u64 for direct assigment, but the bitmask functions all work on unsigned long, leading to cast heaven, solve this by using a union. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> LKML-Reference: <20100122155535.595961269@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Peter Zijlstra authored
Constraints gets defined an u64 but in long quantities and then cast to long. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> LKML-Reference: <20100122155535.504916780@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Peter Zijlstra authored
GCC was complaining the stack usage was too large, so allocate the structure. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> LKML-Reference: <20100122155535.411197266@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Stephane Eranian authored
Implement correct fastpath scheduling, i.e., reuse previous assignment. Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> [ split from larger patch] Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <4b588464.1818d00a.4456.383b@mx.google.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Stephane Eranian authored
This patch improves event scheduling by maximizing the use of PMU registers regardless of the order in which events are created in a group. The algorithm takes into account the list of counter constraints for each event. It assigns events to counters from the most constrained, i.e., works on only one counter, to the least constrained, i.e., works on any counter. Intel Fixed counter events and the BTS special event are also handled via this algorithm which is designed to be fairly generic. The patch also updates the validation of an event to use the scheduling algorithm. This will cause early failure in perf_event_open(). The 2nd version of this patch follows the model used by PPC, by running the scheduling algorithm and the actual assignment separately. Actual assignment takes place in hw_perf_enable() whereas scheduling is implemented in hw_perf_group_sched_in() and x86_pmu_enable(). Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> [ fixup whitespace and style nits as well as adding is_x86_event() ] Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <4b5430c6.0f975e0a.1bf9.ffff85fe@mx.google.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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K.Prasad authored
Processing of debug exceptions in do_debug() can stop if it originated from a hw-breakpoint exception by returning NOTIFY_STOP in most cases. But for certain cases such as: a) user-space breakpoints with pending SIGTRAP signal delivery (as in the case of ptrace induced breakpoints). b) exceptions due to other causes than breakpoints We will continue to process the exception by returning NOTIFY_DONE. Signed-off-by: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Cc: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com> LKML-Reference: <20100128111415.GC13935@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
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K.Prasad authored
Clear the reserved bits from the stored copy of debug status register (DR6). This will help easy bitwise operations such as quick testing of a debug event origin. Signed-off-by: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com> Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> LKML-Reference: <20100128111401.GB13935@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
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Xiao Guangrong authored
The return values of the kprobe's tracing functions are meaningless, lets remove these. Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> LKML-Reference: <4B60E9A3.2040505@cn.fujitsu.com> [fweisbec@gmail: whitespace fixes, drop useless void returns in end of functions] Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
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Xiao Guangrong authored
Introduce ftrace_perf_buf_prepare() and ftrace_perf_buf_submit() to gather the common code that operates on raw events sampling buffer. This cleans up redundant code between regular trace events, syscall events and kprobe events. Changelog v1->v2: - Rename function name as per Masami and Frederic's suggestion - Add __kprobes for ftrace_perf_buf_prepare() and make ftrace_perf_buf_submit() inline as per Masami's suggestion - Export ftrace_perf_buf_prepare since modules will use it Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> LKML-Reference: <4B60E92D.9000808@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
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- 28 Jan, 2010 2 commits
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Anton Blanchard authored
When running perf across all cpus with backtracing (-a -g), sometimes we get samples without associated backtraces: 23.44% init [kernel] [k] restore 11.46% init eeba0c [k] 0x00000000eeba0c 6.77% swapper [kernel] [k] .perf_ctx_adjust_freq 5.73% init [kernel] [k] .__trace_hcall_entry 4.69% perf libc-2.9.so [.] 0x0000000006bb8c | |--11.11%-- 0xfffa941bbbc It turns out the backtrace code has a check for the idle task and the IP sampling does not. This creates problems when profiling an interrupt heavy workload (in my case 10Gbit ethernet) since we get no backtraces for interrupts received while idle (ie most of the workload). Right now x86 and sh check that current is not NULL, which should never happen so remove that too. Idle task's exclusion must be performed from the core code, on top of perf_event_attr:exclude_idle. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> LKML-Reference: <20100118054707.GT12666@kryten> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
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Mahesh Salgaonkar authored
On a given architecture, when hardware breakpoint registration fails due to un-supported access type (read/write/execute), we lose the bp slot since register_perf_hw_breakpoint() does not release the bp slot on failure. Hence, any subsequent hardware breakpoint registration starts failing with 'no space left on device' error. This patch introduces error handling in register_perf_hw_breakpoint() function and releases bp slot on error. Signed-off-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Cc: K. Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <20100121125516.GA32521@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
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