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Check we have enough mmaped space to read the current event
size from its headers, otherwise we may dereference some
hell there.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
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Some architectures such as Alpha do not define _sdata but _data:
kernel/built-in.o: In function `core_kernel_data':
kernel/extable.c:77: undefined reference to `_sdata'
So expand the scope of the data range to the text addresses too,
this might be more correct anyway because this way we can
cover readonly variables as well.
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-i878c8a0e0g0ep4v7i6vxnhz@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into perf/core
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into perf/core
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Print out the cache-miss percentage as well if the cache refs were
collected, for all the generic cache event types.
Before:
11,103,723,230 dTLB-loads # 622.471 M/sec ( +- 0.30% )
87,065,337 dTLB-load-misses # 4.881 M/sec ( +- 0.90% )
After:
11,353,713,242 dTLB-loads # 626.020 M/sec ( +- 0.35% )
113,393,472 dTLB-load-misses # 1.00% of all dTLB cache hits ( +- 0.49% )
Also ASCII color highlight too high percentages, them when it's executed on the console.
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-lkhwxsevdbd9a8nymx0vxc3y@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Print even more detailed statistics if requested via perf stat -d:
-d: detailed events, L1 and LLC data cache
-d -d: more detailed events, dTLB and iTLB events
-d -d -d: very detailed events, adding prefetch events
Full output looks like this now:
Performance counter stats for '/home/mingo/hackbench 10' (5 runs):
1703.674707 task-clock # 8.709 CPUs utilized ( +- 4.19% )
49,068 context-switches # 0.029 M/sec ( +- 16.66% )
8,303 CPU-migrations # 0.005 M/sec ( +- 24.90% )
17,397 page-faults # 0.010 M/sec ( +- 0.46% )
2,345,389,239 cycles # 1.377 GHz ( +- 4.61% ) [55.90%]
1,884,503,527 stalled-cycles-frontend # 80.35% frontend cycles idle ( +- 5.67% ) [50.39%]
743,919,737 stalled-cycles-backend # 31.72% backend cycles idle ( +- 8.75% ) [49.91%]
1,314,416,379 instructions # 0.56 insns per cycle
# 1.43 stalled cycles per insn ( +- 2.53% ) [60.87%]
272,592,567 branches # 160.003 M/sec ( +- 1.74% ) [56.56%]
3,794,846 branch-misses # 1.39% of all branches ( +- 6.59% ) [58.50%]
449,982,778 L1-dcache-loads # 264.125 M/sec ( +- 2.47% ) [49.88%]
22,404,961 L1-dcache-load-misses # 4.98% of all L1-dcache hits ( +- 6.08% ) [55.05%]
6,204,750 LLC-loads # 3.642 M/sec ( +- 8.91% ) [43.75%]
1,837,411 LLC-load-misses # 1.078 M/sec ( +- 7.27% ) [12.07%]
411,440,421 L1-icache-loads # 241.502 M/sec ( +- 5.60% ) [36.52%]
27,556,832 L1-icache-load-misses # 16.175 M/sec ( +- 7.46% ) [46.72%]
464,067,627 dTLB-loads # 272.392 M/sec ( +- 4.46% ) [54.17%]
10,765,648 dTLB-load-misses # 6.319 M/sec ( +- 3.18% ) [48.68%]
1,273,080,386 iTLB-loads # 747.256 M/sec ( +- 3.38% ) [47.53%]
117,481 iTLB-load-misses # 0.069 M/sec ( +- 14.99% ) [47.01%]
4,590,653 L1-dcache-prefetches # 2.695 M/sec ( +- 4.49% ) [46.19%]
1,712,660 L1-dcache-prefetch-misses # 1.005 M/sec ( +- 3.75% ) [44.82%]
0.195622057 seconds time elapsed ( +- 6.84% )
Also clean up the attribute construction code to be appending, and factor
it out into add_default_attributes().
Tweak the coverage percentage printout a bit, so that it's easier to view it
alongside the +- sttddev colum.
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-to3kgu04449s64062val8b62@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Modifications to recordmcount must be performed on all object
files to stay consistent with what the kernel code may expect.
Add the recordmcount files to the main dependencies to make sure
any change to them causes a full recompile.
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110517133646.GP13293@sepie.suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Add some basic sanity tests for multiple users of the function
tracer at startup.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Since users of the function tracer can now pick and choose which
functions they want to trace agnostically from other users of the
function tracer, we need to pass the ops struct to the ftrace_set_filter()
functions.
The functions ftrace_set_global_filter() and ftrace_set_global_notrace()
is added to keep the old filter functions which are used to modify
the generic function tracers.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Now that functions may be selected individually, it only makes sense
that we should allow dynamically allocated trace structures to
be traced. This will allow perf to allocate a ftrace_ops structure
at runtime and use it to pick and choose which functions that
structure will trace.
Note, a dynamically allocated ftrace_ops will always be called
indirectly instead of being called directly from the mcount in
entry.S. This is because there's no safe way to prevent mcount
from being preempted before calling the function, unless we
modify every entry.S to do so (not likely). Thus, dynamically allocated
functions will now be called by the ftrace_ops_list_func() that
loops through the ops that are allocated if there are more than
one op allocated at a time. This loop is protected with a
preempt_disable.
To determine if an ftrace_ops structure is allocated or not, a new
util function was added to the kernel/extable.c called
core_kernel_data(), which returns 1 if the address is between
_sdata and _edata.
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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ftrace_ops that are registered to trace functions can now be
agnostic to each other in respect to what functions they trace.
Each ops has their own hash of the functions they want to trace
and a hash to what they do not want to trace. A empty hash for
the functions they want to trace denotes all functions should
be traced that are not in the notrace hash.
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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When a hash is modified and might be in use, we need to perform
a schedule RCU operation on it, as the hashes will soon be used
directly in the function tracer callback.
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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This is a step towards each ops structure defining its own set
of functions to trace. As the current code with pid's and such
are specific to the global_ops, it is restructured to be used
with the global ops.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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In order to allow different ops to enable different functions,
the ftrace_startup() and ftrace_shutdown() functions need the
ops parameter passed to them.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Add the enabled_functions file that is used to show all the
functions that have been enabled for tracing as well as their
ref counts. This helps seeing if any function has been registered
and what functions are being traced.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Every function has its own record that stores the instruction
pointer and flags for the function to be traced. There are only
two flags: enabled and free. The enabled flag states that tracing
for the function has been enabled (actively traced), and the free
flag states that the record no longer points to a function and can
be used by new functions (loaded modules).
These flags are now moved to the MSB of the flags (actually just
the top 32bits). The rest of the bits (30 bits) are now used as
a ref counter. Everytime a tracer register functions to trace,
those functions will have its counter incremented.
When tracing is enabled, to determine if a function should be traced,
the counter is examined, and if it is non-zero it is set to trace.
When a ftrace_ops is registered to trace functions, its hashes
are examined. If the ftrace_ops filter_hash count is zero, then
all functions are set to be traced, otherwise only the functions
in the hash are to be traced. The exception to this is if a function
is also in the ftrace_ops notrace_hash. Then that function's counter
is not incremented for this ftrace_ops.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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When filtering, allocate a hash to insert the function records.
After the filtering is complete, assign it to the ftrace_ops structure.
This allows the ftrace_ops structure to have a much smaller array of
hash buckets instead of wasting a lot of memory.
A read only empty_hash is created to be the minimum size that any ftrace_ops
can point to.
When a new hash is created, it has the following steps:
o Allocate a default hash.
o Walk the function records assigning the filtered records to the hash
o Allocate a new hash with the appropriate size buckets
o Move the entries from the default hash to the new hash.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Combine the filter and notrace hashes to be accessed by a single entity,
the global_ops. The global_ops is a ftrace_ops structure that is passed
to different functions that can read or modify the filtering of the
function tracer.
The ftrace_ops structure was modified to hold a filter and notrace
hashes so that later patches may allow each ftrace_ops to have its own
set of rules to what functions may be filtered.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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When multiple users are allowed to have their own set of functions
to trace, having the FTRACE_FL_FILTER flag will not be enough to
handle the accounting of those users. Each user will need their own
set of functions.
Replace the FTRACE_FL_FILTER with a filter_hash instead. This is
temporary until the rest of the function filtering accounting
gets in.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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To prepare for the accounting system that will allow multiple users of
the function tracer, having the FTRACE_FL_NOTRACE as a flag in the
dyn_trace record does not make sense.
All ftrace_ops will soon have a hash of functions they should trace
and not trace. By making a global hash of functions not to trace makes
this easier for the transition.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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perf bench needs this to build the kernel's memcpy routine:
In file included from bench/mem-memcpy-x86-64-asm.S:2:0:
bench/../../../arch/x86/lib/memcpy_64.S:7:33: fatal error: asm/alternative-asm.h: No such file or directory
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-c5d41xibgullk8h2280q4gv0@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Merge reason: memcpy_64.S changes an assumption perf bench has, so merge this
here so we can fix it.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into perf/core
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As reported in BZ #30352:
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30352
there's a kernel bug related to reading the last allowed page on x86_64.
The _copy_to_user() and _copy_from_user() functions use the following
check for address limit:
if (buf + size >= limit)
fail();
while it should be more permissive:
if (buf + size > limit)
fail();
That's because the size represents the number of bytes being
read/write from/to buf address AND including the buf address.
So the copy function will actually never touch the limit
address even if "buf + size == limit".
Following program fails to use the last page as buffer
due to the wrong limit check:
#include <sys/mman.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <assert.h>
#define PAGE_SIZE (4096)
#define LAST_PAGE ((void*)(0x7fffffffe000))
int main()
{
int fds[2], err;
void * ptr = mmap(LAST_PAGE, PAGE_SIZE, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_FIXED, -1, 0);
assert(ptr == LAST_PAGE);
err = socketpair(AF_LOCAL, SOCK_STREAM, 0, fds);
assert(err == 0);
err = send(fds[0], ptr, PAGE_SIZE, 0);
perror("send");
assert(err == PAGE_SIZE);
err = recv(fds[1], ptr, PAGE_SIZE, MSG_WAITALL);
perror("recv");
assert(err == PAGE_SIZE);
return 0;
}
The other place checking the addr limit is the access_ok() function,
which is working properly. There's just a misleading comment
for the __range_not_ok() macro - which this patch fixes as well.
The last page of the user-space address range is a guard page and
Brian Gerst observed that the guard page itself due to an erratum on K8 cpus
(#121 Sequential Execution Across Non-Canonical Boundary Causes Processor
Hang).
However, the test code is using the last valid page before the guard page.
The bug is that the last byte before the guard page can't be read
because of the off-by-one error. The guard page is left in place.
This bug would normally not show up because the last page is
part of the process stack and never accessed via syscalls.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1305210630-7136-1-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Support memset() with enhanced rep stosb. On processors supporting enhanced
REP MOVSB/STOSB, the alternative memset_c_e function using enhanced rep stosb
overrides the fast string alternative memset_c and the original function.
Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1305671358-14478-10-git-send-email-fenghua.yu@intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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Support memmove() by enhanced rep movsb. On processors supporting enhanced
REP MOVSB/STOSB, the alternative memmove() function using enhanced rep movsb
overrides the original function.
The patch doesn't change the backward memmove case to use enhanced rep
movsb.
Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1305671358-14478-9-git-send-email-fenghua.yu@intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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Support memcpy() with enhanced rep movsb. On processors supporting enhanced
rep movsb, the alternative memcpy() function using enhanced rep movsb overrides the original function and the fast string
function.
Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1305671358-14478-8-git-send-email-fenghua.yu@intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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Support copy_to_user/copy_from_user() by enhanced REP MOVSB/STOSB.
On processors supporting enhanced REP MOVSB/STOSB, the alternative
copy_user_enhanced_fast_string function using enhanced rep movsb overrides the
original function and the fast string function.
Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1305671358-14478-7-git-send-email-fenghua.yu@intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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Intel processors are adding enhancements to REP MOVSB/STOSB and the use of
REP MOVSB/STOSB for optimal memcpy/memset or similar functions is recommended.
Enhancement availability is indicated by CPUID.7.0.EBX[9] (Enhanced REP MOVSB/
STOSB).
Support clear_page() with rep stosb for processor supporting enhanced REP MOVSB
/STOSB. On processors supporting enhanced REP MOVSB/STOSB, the alternative
clear_page_c_e function using enhanced REP STOSB overrides the original function
and the fast string function.
Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1305671358-14478-6-git-send-email-fenghua.yu@intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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Add altinstruction_entry macro to generate .altinstructions section
entries from assembly code. This should be less failure-prone than
open-coding.
Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1305671358-14478-5-git-send-email-fenghua.yu@intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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Some string operation functions may be patched twice, e.g. on enhanced REP MOVSB
/STOSB processors, memcpy is patched first by fast string alternative function,
then it is patched by enhanced REP MOVSB/STOSB alternative function.
Add comment for applying alternatives order to warn people who may change the
applying alternatives order for any reason.
[ Documentation-only patch ]
Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1305671358-14478-4-git-send-email-fenghua.yu@intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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If kernel intends to use enhanced REP MOVSB/STOSB, it must ensure
IA32_MISC_ENABLE.Fast_String_Enable (bit 0) is set and CPUID.(EAX=07H, ECX=0H):
EBX[bit 9] also reports 1.
Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1305671358-14478-3-git-send-email-fenghua.yu@intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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Intel processors are adding enhancements to REP MOVSB/STOSB and the use of
REP MOVSB/STOSB for optimal memcpy/memset or similar functions is recommended.
Enhancement availability is indicated by CPUID.7.0.EBX[9] (Enhanced REP MOVSB/
STOSB).
Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1305671358-14478-2-git-send-email-fenghua.yu@intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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CPUID leaf 7, subleaf 0 returns the maximum subleaf in EAX, not the
number of subleaves. Since so far only subleaf 0 is defined (and only
the EBX bitfield) we do not need to qualify the test.
Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1305660806-17519-1-git-send-email-fenghua.yu@intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> 2.6.36..39
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This patch fixes an issue with event parsing.
The following commit appears to have broken the
ability to specify a comma separated list of events:
commit ceb53fbf6dbb1df26d38379a262c6981fe73dd36
Author: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Date: Wed Apr 27 04:06:33 2011 +0200
perf stat: Fail more clearly when an invalid modifier is specified
This patch fixes this while preserving the desired effect:
$ perf stat -e instructions:u,instructions:k ls /dev/null /dev/null
Performance counter stats for 'ls /dev/null':
365956 instructions:u # 0.00 insns per cycle
731806 instructions:k # 0.00 insns per cycle
0.001108862 seconds time elapsed
$ perf stat -e task-clock-msecs true
invalid event modifier: '-msecs'
Run 'perf list' for a list of valid events and modifiers
Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: acme@redhat.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110517133619.GA6999@quad
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Do the mcount offset adjustment in the recordmcount.pl/recordmcount.[ch]
at compile time and not in ftrace_call_adjust at run time.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Do the mcount offset adjustment in the recordmcount.pl/recordmcount.[ch]
at compile time and not in ftrace_call_adjust at run time.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Introduce mcount_adjust{,_32,_64} to the C implementation of
recordmcount analog to $mcount_adjust in the perl script.
The adjustment is added to the address of the relocations
against the mcount symbol. If this adjustment is done by
recordmcount at compile time the ftrace_call_adjust function
can be turned into a nop.
Cc: John Reiser <jreiser@bitwagon.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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The code to get the symbol, string, and relp pointers in the two functions
sift_rel_mcount() and nop_mcount() are identical and also non-trivial.
Moving this duplicate code into a single helper function makes the code
easier to read and more maintainable.
Cc: John Reiser <jreiser@bitwagon.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110421023739.723658553@goodmis.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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The code in sift_rel_mcount() and nop_mcount() to get the mcount symbol
number is identical. Replace the two locations with a call to a function
that does the work.
Cc: John Reiser <jreiser@bitwagon.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110421023739.488093407@goodmis.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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The section called .discard.text has tracing attached to it and is
currently ignored by ftrace. But it does include a call to the mcount
stub. Adding a notrace to the code keeps gcc from adding the useless
mcount caller to it.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110421023739.243651696@goodmis.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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The init and exit sections should not be traced and adding a call to
mcount to them is a waste of text and instruction cache. Have the
macro section attributes include notrace to ignore these functions
for tracing from the build.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110421023738.953028219@goodmis.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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When mcount is called in a section that ftrace will not modify it into
a nop, we want to warn about this. But not warn about this always. Now
if the user builds the kernel with the option RECORDMCOUNT_WARN=1 then
the build will warn about mcount callers that are ignored and will just
waste execution time.
Acked-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110421023738.714956282@goodmis.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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There's some sections that should not have mcount recorded and should not have
modifications to the that code. But currently they waste some time by calling
mcount anyway (which simply returns). As the real answer should be to
either whitelist the section or have gcc ignore it fully.
This change adds a option to recordmcount to warn when it finds a section
that is ignored by ftrace but still contains mcount callers. This is not on
by default as developers may not know if the section should be completely
ignored or added to the whitelist.
Cc: John Reiser <jreiser@bitwagon.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110421023738.476989377@goodmis.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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There are sections that are ignored by ftrace for the function tracing because
the text is in a section that can be removed without notice. The mcount calls
in these sections are ignored and ftrace never sees them. The downside of this
is that the functions in these sections still call mcount. Although the mcount
function is defined in assembly simply as a return, this added overhead is
unnecessary.
The solution is to convert these callers into nops at compile time.
A better solution is to add 'notrace' to the section markers, but as new sections
come up all the time, it would be nice that they are delt with when they
are created.
Later patches will deal with finding these sections and doing the proper solution.
Thanks to H. Peter Anvin for giving me the right nops to use for x86.
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: John Reiser <jreiser@bitwagon.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110421023738.237101176@goodmis.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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PROGBITS is not enough to determine if the section should be modified
or not. Only process sections that are marked as executable.
Cc: John Reiser <jreiser@bitwagon.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110421023737.991485123@goodmis.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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The .kprobe.text section is safe to modify mcount to nop and tracing.
Add it to the whitelist in recordmcount.c and recordmcount.pl.
Cc: John Reiser <jreiser@bitwagon.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110421023737.743350547@goodmis.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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The Linux style for switch statements is:
switch (var) {
case x:
[...]
break;
}
Not:
switch (var) {
case x: {
[...]
} break;
Cc: John Reiser <jreiser@bitwagon.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110421023737.523968644@goodmis.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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The Linux ftrace subsystem style for comparing is:
var == 1
var > 0
and not:
1 == var
0 < var
It is considered that Linux developers are smart enough not to do the
if (var = 1)
mistake.
Cc: John Reiser <jreiser@bitwagon.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110421023737.290712238@goodmis.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Both warning and warning_symbol are nowhere used.
Let's get rid of them.
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Soeren Sandmann Pedersen <ssp@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: x86 <x86@kernel.org>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1305205872-10321-2-git-send-email-richard@nod.at
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
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