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<title>linux-stable.git/kernel/trace/trace_hw_branches.c, branch v2.6.30</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>tracing/hw-branch-tracing: convert bts-tracer mutex to a spinlock</title>
<updated>2009-02-25T08:16:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@elte.hu</email>
</author>
<published>2009-02-25T07:40:09+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=2d542cf34264ac92e9e7ac55c0b096b066d569d2'/>
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Impact: fix CPU hotplug lockup

bts_hotcpu_handler() is called with irqs disabled, so using mutex_lock()
is a no-no.

All the BTS codepaths here are atomic (they do not schedule), so using
a spinlock is the right solution.

Cc: Markus Metzger &lt;markus.t.metzger@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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Impact: fix CPU hotplug lockup

bts_hotcpu_handler() is called with irqs disabled, so using mutex_lock()
is a no-no.

All the BTS codepaths here are atomic (they do not schedule), so using
a spinlock is the right solution.

Cc: Markus Metzger &lt;markus.t.metzger@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86, ftrace: fix section mismatch in hw-branch-tracer</title>
<updated>2009-02-24T17:23:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Markus Metzger</name>
<email>markus.t.metzger@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-02-24T12:55:18+00:00</published>
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Fix an invalid memory reference problem when cpu hotplug support is
disabled and the hw-branch-tracer is set as current tracer.

Initializing the tracer calls bts_trace_init() which has already
been freed at this time.

Reported-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger &lt;markus.t.metzger@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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Fix an invalid memory reference problem when cpu hotplug support is
disabled and the hw-branch-tracer is set as current tracer.

Initializing the tracer calls bts_trace_init() which has already
been freed at this time.

Reported-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger &lt;markus.t.metzger@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: fix section mismatch in trace_hw_branches.c</title>
<updated>2009-02-15T19:41:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rakib Mullick</name>
<email>rakib.mullick@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-02-14T03:36:00+00:00</published>
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The function bts_trace_init() references a variable
bts_hotcpu_notifier which is marked
as __cpuinitdata. Thus causes section mismatch. This patch fixes it.

   LD      kernel/trace/built-in.o
 WARNING: kernel/trace/built-in.o(.text+0xc90c): Section mismatch in
 reference from the function bts_trace_init() to the variable
 .cpuinit.data:bts_hotcpu_notifier
 The function bts_trace_init() references
 the variable __cpuinitdata bts_hotcpu_notifier.
 This is often because bts_trace_init lacks a __cpuinitdata
 annotation or the annotation of bts_hotcpu_notifier is wrong.

 WARNING: kernel/trace/built-in.o(.text+0xc92a): Section mismatch in
 reference from the function bts_trace_reset() to the variable
 .cpuinit.data:bts_hotcpu_notifier
 The function bts_trace_reset() references
 the variable __cpuinitdata bts_hotcpu_notifier.
 This is often because bts_trace_reset lacks a __cpuinitdata
 annotation or the annotation of bts_hotcpu_notifier is wrong.

Signed-off-by: Rakib Mullick &lt;rakib.mullick@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: markus.t.metzger@gmail.com
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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The function bts_trace_init() references a variable
bts_hotcpu_notifier which is marked
as __cpuinitdata. Thus causes section mismatch. This patch fixes it.

   LD      kernel/trace/built-in.o
 WARNING: kernel/trace/built-in.o(.text+0xc90c): Section mismatch in
 reference from the function bts_trace_init() to the variable
 .cpuinit.data:bts_hotcpu_notifier
 The function bts_trace_init() references
 the variable __cpuinitdata bts_hotcpu_notifier.
 This is often because bts_trace_init lacks a __cpuinitdata
 annotation or the annotation of bts_hotcpu_notifier is wrong.

 WARNING: kernel/trace/built-in.o(.text+0xc92a): Section mismatch in
 reference from the function bts_trace_reset() to the variable
 .cpuinit.data:bts_hotcpu_notifier
 The function bts_trace_reset() references
 the variable __cpuinitdata bts_hotcpu_notifier.
 This is often because bts_trace_reset lacks a __cpuinitdata
 annotation or the annotation of bts_hotcpu_notifier is wrong.

Signed-off-by: Rakib Mullick &lt;rakib.mullick@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: markus.t.metzger@gmail.com
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: fix typos in comments</title>
<updated>2009-02-10T17:32:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Wenji Huang</name>
<email>wenji.huang@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-02-10T06:03:18+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=c3706f005c3aaf570e71f0f083fdbb59a5a9fa2e'/>
<id>c3706f005c3aaf570e71f0f083fdbb59a5a9fa2e</id>
<content type='text'>
Impact: clean up.

Fix typos in the comments.

Signed-off-by: Wenji Huang &lt;wenji.huang@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;srostedt@redhat.com&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
Impact: clean up.

Fix typos in the comments.

Signed-off-by: Wenji Huang &lt;wenji.huang@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;srostedt@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'tip/tracing/core/devel' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into tracing/ftrace</title>
<updated>2009-02-09T09:35:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@elte.hu</email>
</author>
<published>2009-02-09T09:35:12+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=44b0635481437140b0e29d6023f05e805d5e7620'/>
<id>44b0635481437140b0e29d6023f05e805d5e7620</id>
<content type='text'>
Conflicts:
	kernel/trace/trace_hw_branches.c
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<pre>
Conflicts:
	kernel/trace/trace_hw_branches.c
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>trace: remove deprecated entry-&gt;cpu</title>
<updated>2009-02-08T00:38:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt</name>
<email>srostedt@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-02-08T00:38:43+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=1830b52d0de8c60c4f5dfbac134aa8f69d815801'/>
<id>1830b52d0de8c60c4f5dfbac134aa8f69d815801</id>
<content type='text'>
Impact: fix to prevent developers from using entry-&gt;cpu

With the new ring buffer infrastructure, the cpu for the entry is
implicit with which CPU buffer it is on.

The original code use to record the current cpu into the generic
entry header, which can be retrieved by entry-&gt;cpu. When the
ring buffer was introduced, the users were convert to use the
the cpu number of which cpu ring buffer was in use (this was passed
to the tracers by the iterator: iter-&gt;cpu).

Unfortunately, the cpu item in the entry structure was never removed.
This allowed for developers to use it instead of the proper iter-&gt;cpu,
unknowingly, using an uninitialized variable. This was not the fault
of the developers, since it would seem like the logical place to
retrieve the cpu identifier.

This patch removes the cpu item from the entry structure and fixes
all the users that should have been using iter-&gt;cpu.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;srostedt@redhat.com&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
Impact: fix to prevent developers from using entry-&gt;cpu

With the new ring buffer infrastructure, the cpu for the entry is
implicit with which CPU buffer it is on.

The original code use to record the current cpu into the generic
entry header, which can be retrieved by entry-&gt;cpu. When the
ring buffer was introduced, the users were convert to use the
the cpu number of which cpu ring buffer was in use (this was passed
to the tracers by the iterator: iter-&gt;cpu).

Unfortunately, the cpu item in the entry structure was never removed.
This allowed for developers to use it instead of the proper iter-&gt;cpu,
unknowingly, using an uninitialized variable. This was not the fault
of the developers, since it would seem like the logical place to
retrieve the cpu identifier.

This patch removes the cpu item from the entry structure and fixes
all the users that should have been using iter-&gt;cpu.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;srostedt@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>trace: Call tracing_reset_online_cpus before tracer-&gt;init()</title>
<updated>2009-02-06T00:01:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo</name>
<email>acme@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-02-05T20:02:00+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=b6f11df26fdc28324cf9c9e3b77f2dc985c1bb13'/>
<id>b6f11df26fdc28324cf9c9e3b77f2dc985c1bb13</id>
<content type='text'>
Impact: cleanup

To make it easy for ftrace plugin writers, as this was open coded in
the existing plugins

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Frédéric Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
Impact: cleanup

To make it easy for ftrace plugin writers, as this was open coded in
the existing plugins

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Frédéric Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: Introduce trace_buffer_{lock_reserve,unlock_commit}</title>
<updated>2009-02-06T00:01:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo</name>
<email>acme@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-02-05T18:14:13+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=51a763dd84253bab1d0a1e68e11a7753d1b702ca'/>
<id>51a763dd84253bab1d0a1e68e11a7753d1b702ca</id>
<content type='text'>
Impact: new API

These new functions do what previously was being open coded, reducing
the number of details ftrace plugin writers have to worry about.

It also standardizes the handling of stacktrace, userstacktrace and
other trace options we may introduce in the future.

With this patch, for instance, the blk tracer (and some others already
in the tree) can use the "userstacktrace" /d/tracing/trace_options
facility.

$ codiff /tmp/vmlinux.before /tmp/vmlinux.after
linux-2.6-tip/kernel/trace/trace.c:
  trace_vprintk              |   -5
  trace_graph_return         |  -22
  trace_graph_entry          |  -26
  trace_function             |  -45
  __ftrace_trace_stack       |  -27
  ftrace_trace_userstack     |  -29
  tracing_sched_switch_trace |  -66
  tracing_stop               |   +1
  trace_seq_to_user          |   -1
  ftrace_trace_special       |  -63
  ftrace_special             |   +1
  tracing_sched_wakeup_trace |  -70
  tracing_reset_online_cpus  |   -1
 13 functions changed, 2 bytes added, 355 bytes removed, diff: -353

linux-2.6-tip/block/blktrace.c:
  __blk_add_trace |  -58
 1 function changed, 58 bytes removed, diff: -58

linux-2.6-tip/kernel/trace/trace.c:
  trace_buffer_lock_reserve  |  +88
  trace_buffer_unlock_commit |  +86
 2 functions changed, 174 bytes added, diff: +174

/tmp/vmlinux.after:
 16 functions changed, 176 bytes added, 413 bytes removed, diff: -237

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Frédéric Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
Impact: new API

These new functions do what previously was being open coded, reducing
the number of details ftrace plugin writers have to worry about.

It also standardizes the handling of stacktrace, userstacktrace and
other trace options we may introduce in the future.

With this patch, for instance, the blk tracer (and some others already
in the tree) can use the "userstacktrace" /d/tracing/trace_options
facility.

$ codiff /tmp/vmlinux.before /tmp/vmlinux.after
linux-2.6-tip/kernel/trace/trace.c:
  trace_vprintk              |   -5
  trace_graph_return         |  -22
  trace_graph_entry          |  -26
  trace_function             |  -45
  __ftrace_trace_stack       |  -27
  ftrace_trace_userstack     |  -29
  tracing_sched_switch_trace |  -66
  tracing_stop               |   +1
  trace_seq_to_user          |   -1
  ftrace_trace_special       |  -63
  ftrace_special             |   +1
  tracing_sched_wakeup_trace |  -70
  tracing_reset_online_cpus  |   -1
 13 functions changed, 2 bytes added, 355 bytes removed, diff: -353

linux-2.6-tip/block/blktrace.c:
  __blk_add_trace |  -58
 1 function changed, 58 bytes removed, diff: -58

linux-2.6-tip/kernel/trace/trace.c:
  trace_buffer_lock_reserve  |  +88
  trace_buffer_unlock_commit |  +86
 2 functions changed, 174 bytes added, diff: +174

/tmp/vmlinux.after:
 16 functions changed, 176 bytes added, 413 bytes removed, diff: -237

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Frédéric Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ring_buffer: remove unused flags parameter</title>
<updated>2009-02-06T00:01:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo</name>
<email>acme@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-02-05T18:12:56+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=0a9877514c4fed10a70720293b37213dd172ee3e'/>
<id>0a9877514c4fed10a70720293b37213dd172ee3e</id>
<content type='text'>
Impact: API change, cleanup

&gt;From ring_buffer_{lock_reserve,unlock_commit}.

$ codiff /tmp/vmlinux.before /tmp/vmlinux.after
linux-2.6-tip/kernel/trace/trace.c:
  trace_vprintk              |  -14
  trace_graph_return         |  -14
  trace_graph_entry          |  -10
  trace_function             |   -8
  __ftrace_trace_stack       |   -8
  ftrace_trace_userstack     |   -8
  tracing_sched_switch_trace |   -8
  ftrace_trace_special       |  -12
  tracing_sched_wakeup_trace |   -8
 9 functions changed, 90 bytes removed, diff: -90

linux-2.6-tip/block/blktrace.c:
  __blk_add_trace |   -1
 1 function changed, 1 bytes removed, diff: -1

/tmp/vmlinux.after:
 10 functions changed, 91 bytes removed, diff: -91

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Frédéric Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
Impact: API change, cleanup

&gt;From ring_buffer_{lock_reserve,unlock_commit}.

$ codiff /tmp/vmlinux.before /tmp/vmlinux.after
linux-2.6-tip/kernel/trace/trace.c:
  trace_vprintk              |  -14
  trace_graph_return         |  -14
  trace_graph_entry          |  -10
  trace_function             |   -8
  __ftrace_trace_stack       |   -8
  ftrace_trace_userstack     |   -8
  tracing_sched_switch_trace |   -8
  ftrace_trace_special       |  -12
  tracing_sched_wakeup_trace |   -8
 9 functions changed, 90 bytes removed, diff: -90

linux-2.6-tip/block/blktrace.c:
  __blk_add_trace |   -1
 1 function changed, 1 bytes removed, diff: -1

/tmp/vmlinux.after:
 10 functions changed, 91 bytes removed, diff: -91

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Frédéric Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86, ftrace, hw-branch-tracer: change trace format</title>
<updated>2009-01-20T12:04:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Markus Metzger</name>
<email>markus.t.metzger@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-01-19T09:29:16+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=11edda06289d412d13ff7c672bd72e043f637e74'/>
<id>11edda06289d412d13ff7c672bd72e043f637e74</id>
<content type='text'>
Change the hw-branch-tracer format to be more readable.

Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger &lt;markus.t.metzger@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;srostedt@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
</content>
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Change the hw-branch-tracer format to be more readable.

Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger &lt;markus.t.metzger@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;srostedt@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
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