linux-stable.git/include/linux/ftrace.h, branch v4.12.7

scripts/spelling.txt: add regsiter -> register spelling mistake

2017-05-09T00:15:13+00:00

This typo is quite common.  Fix it and add it to the spelling file so
that checkpatch catches it earlier.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170317011131.6881-2-sboyd@codeaurora.org
Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

ftrace: Have the function probes call their own function

2017-04-21T02:06:43+00:00

Now that the function probes have their own ftrace_ops, there's no reason to
continue using the ftrace_func_hash to find which probe to call in the
function callback. The ops that is passed in to the function callback is
part of the probe_ops to call.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

ftrace: Move the function commands into the tracing directory

2017-04-21T02:06:33+00:00

As nothing outside the tracing directory uses the function command mechanism,
I'm moving the prototypes out of the include/linux/ftrace.h and into the
local kernel/trace/trace.h header. I plan on making them hook to the
trace_array structure which is local to kernel/trace, and I do not want to
expose it to the rest of the kernel. This requires that the command functions
must also be local to tracing. But luckily nothing else uses them.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

ftrace: Move the probe function into the tracing directory

2017-04-18T17:49:59+00:00

As nothing outside the tracing directory uses the function probes mechanism,
I'm moving the prototypes out of the include/linux/ftrace.h and into the
local kernel/trace/trace.h header. I plan on making them hook to the
trace_array structure which is local to kernel/trace, and I do not want to
expose it to the rest of the kernel. This requires that the probe functions
must also be local to tracing. But luckily nothing else uses them.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

tracing: Rename trace_active to disable_stack_tracer and inline its modification

2017-04-10T19:21:47+00:00

In order to eliminate a function call, make "trace_active" into
"disable_stack_tracer" and convert stack_tracer_disable() and friends into
static inline functions.

Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

tracing: Add stack_tracer_disable/enable() functions

2017-04-10T18:34:10+00:00

There are certain parts of the kernel that cannot let stack tracing
proceed (namely in RCU), because the stack tracer uses RCU, and parts of RCU
internals cannot handle having RCU read side locks taken.

Add stack_tracer_disable() and stack_tracer_enable() functions to let RCU
stop stack tracing on the current CPU when it is in those critical sections.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

ftrace: Have init/main.c call ftrace directly to free init memory

2017-04-03T18:04:00+00:00

Relying on free_reserved_area() to call ftrace to free init memory proved to
not be sufficient. The issue is that on x86, when debug_pagealloc is
enabled, the init memory is not freed, but simply set as not present. Since
ftrace was uninformed of this, starting function tracing still tries to
update pages that are not present according to the page tables, causing
ftrace to bug, as well as killing the kernel itself.

Instead of relying on free_reserved_area(), have init/main.c call ftrace
directly just before it frees the init memory. Then it needs to use
__init_begin and __init_end to know where the init memory location is.
Looking at all archs (and testing what I can), it appears that this should
work for each of them.

Reported-by: kernel test robot 
Reported-by: Fengguang Wu 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

ftrace: Allow for function tracing to record init functions on boot up

2017-03-25T00:51:49+00:00

Adding a hook into free_reserve_area() that informs ftrace that boot up init
text is being free, lets ftrace safely remove those init functions from its
records, which keeps ftrace from trying to modify text that no longer
exists.

Note, this still does not allow for tracing .init text of modules, as
modules require different work for freeing its init code.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1488502497.7212.24.camel@linux.intel.com

Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: Vlastimil Babka 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Requested-by: Todd Brandt 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

tracing: Split tracing initialization into two for early initialization

2017-03-24T17:08:43+00:00

Create an early_trace_init() function that will initialize the buffers and
allow for ealier use of trace_printk(). This will also allow for future work
to have function tracing start earlier at boot up.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

Merge tag 'trace-v4.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace

2016-12-15T21:49:34+00:00

Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
 "This release has a few updates:

   - STM can hook into the function tracer
   - Function filtering now supports more advance glob matching
   - Ftrace selftests updates and added tests
   - Softirq tag in traces now show only softirqs
   - ARM nop added to non traced locations at compile time
   - New trace_marker_raw file that allows for binary input
   - Optimizations to the ring buffer
   - Removal of kmap in trace_marker
   - Wakeup and irqsoff tracers now adhere to the set_graph_notrace file
   - Other various fixes and clean ups"

* tag 'trace-v4.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (42 commits)
  selftests: ftrace: Shift down default message verbosity
  kprobes/trace: Fix kprobe selftest for newer gcc
  tracing/kprobes: Add a helper method to return number of probe hits
  tracing/rb: Init the CPU mask on allocation
  tracing: Use SOFTIRQ_OFFSET for softirq dectection for more accurate results
  tracing/fgraph: Have wakeup and irqsoff tracers ignore graph functions too
  fgraph: Handle a case where a tracer ignores set_graph_notrace
  tracing: Replace kmap with copy_from_user() in trace_marker writing
  ftrace/x86_32: Set ftrace_stub to weak to prevent gcc from using short jumps to it
  tracing: Allow benchmark to be enabled at early_initcall()
  tracing: Have system enable return error if one of the events fail
  tracing: Do not start benchmark on boot up
  tracing: Have the reg function allow to fail
  ring-buffer: Force rb_end_commit() and rb_set_commit_to_write() inline
  ring-buffer: Froce rb_update_write_stamp() to be inlined
  ring-buffer: Force inline of hotpath helper functions
  tracing: Make __buffer_unlock_commit() always_inline
  tracing: Make tracepoint_printk a static_key
  ring-buffer: Always inline rb_event_data()
  ring-buffer: Make rb_reserve_next_event() always inlined
  ...