There are two outstanding fashions for archs to implement hardware breakpoints. The first is to separate breakpoint address pattern definition space between data and instruction breakpoints. We then have typically distinct instruction address breakpoint registers and data address breakpoint registers, delivered with separate control registers for data and instruction breakpoints as well. This is the case of PowerPc and ARM for example. The second consists in having merged breakpoint address space definition between data and instruction breakpoint. Address registers can host either instruction or data address and the access mode for the breakpoint is defined in a control register. This is the case of x86 and Super H. This patch adds a new CONFIG_HAVE_MIXED_BREAKPOINTS_REGS config that archs can select if they belong to the second case. Those will have their slot allocation merged for instructions and data breakpoints. The others will have a separate slot tracking between data and instruction breakpoints. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: K. Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Hide CONFIG_OPTPROBES and set if the arch supports optimized kprobes (IOW, HAVE_OPTPROBES=y), since this option doesn't change the major behavior of kprobes, and workarounds for minor changes are documented. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Cc: systemtap <systemtap@sources.redhat.com> Cc: DLE <dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net> Cc: Dieter Ries <mail@dieterries.net> Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> 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: <20100315170054.31593.3153.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* 'perf-probes-for-linus-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: x86: Issue at least one memory barrier in stop_machine_text_poke() perf probe: Correct probe syntax on command line help perf probe: Add lazy line matching support perf probe: Show more lines after last line perf probe: Check function address range strictly in line finder perf probe: Use libdw callback routines perf probe: Use elfutils-libdw for analyzing debuginfo perf probe: Rename probe finder functions perf probe: Fix bugs in line range finder perf probe: Update perf probe document perf probe: Do not show --line option without dwarf support kprobes: Add documents of jump optimization kprobes/x86: Support kprobes jump optimization on x86 x86: Add text_poke_smp for SMP cross modifying code kprobes/x86: Cleanup save/restore registers kprobes/x86: Boost probes when reentering kprobes: Jump optimization sysctl interface kprobes: Introduce kprobes jump optimization kprobes: Introduce generic insn_slot framework kprobes/x86: Cleanup RELATIVEJUMP_INSTRUCTION to RELATIVEJUMP_OPCODE
* 'tracing-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (28 commits) ftrace: Add function names to dangling } in function graph tracer tracing: Simplify memory recycle of trace_define_field tracing: Remove unnecessary variable in print_graph_return tracing: Fix typo of info text in trace_kprobe.c tracing: Fix typo in prof_sysexit_enable() tracing: Remove CONFIG_TRACE_POWER from kernel config tracing: Fix ftrace_event_call alignment for use with gcc 4.5 ftrace: Remove memory barriers from NMI code when not needed tracing/kprobes: Add short documentation for HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API s390: Add pt_regs register and stack access API tracing/kprobes: Make Kconfig dependencies generic tracing: Unify arch_syscall_addr() implementations tracing: Add notrace to TRACE_EVENT implementation functions ftrace: Allow to remove a single function from function graph filter tracing: Add correct/incorrect to sort keys for branch annotation output tracing: Simplify test for function_graph tracing start point tracing: Drop the tr check from the graph tracing path tracing: Add stack dump to trace_printk if stacktrace option is set tracing: Use appropriate perl constructs in recordmcount.pl tracing: optimize recordmcount.pl for offsets-handling ...
OProfile support for IBS is now for several versions in the kernel. The feature is stable now and the code can be activated permanently. As a side effect IBS now works also on nosmp configs. Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
OProfile is already used for a long time and no longer experimental. Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
The commit 1155de4 ring-buffer: Make it generally available already made ring-buffer available without the TRACING option enabled. This patch removes the TRACING dependency from oprofile. Fixes also oprofile configuration on ia64. The patch also applies to the 2.6.32-stable kernel. Reported-by: Tony Jones <tonyj@suse.de> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Introduce kprobes jump optimization arch-independent parts. Kprobes uses breakpoint instruction for interrupting execution flow, on some architectures, it can be replaced by a jump instruction and interruption emulation code. This gains kprobs' performance drastically. To enable this feature, set CONFIG_OPTPROBES=y (default y if the arch supports OPTPROBE). Changes in v9: - Fix a bug to optimize probe when enabling. - Check nearby probes can be optimize/unoptimize when disarming/arming kprobes, instead of registering/unregistering. This will help kprobe-tracer because most of probes on it are usually disabled. Changes in v6: - Cleanup coding style for readability. - Add comments around get/put_online_cpus(). Changes in v5: - Use get_online_cpus()/put_online_cpus() for avoiding text_mutex deadlock. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Cc: systemtap <systemtap@sources.redhat.com> Cc: DLE <dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net> Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com> Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@ksplice.com> Cc: Tim Abbott <tabbott@ksplice.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <compudj@krystal.dyndns.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <20100225133407.6725.81992.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
So that arch developers know how to implement it without the need to dig into changelogs. Reported-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: "David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> LKML-Reference: <20100218132521.GB2406@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> [added reference to ptrace.h in the config help] Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
KPROBES_EVENT actually depends on the regs and stack access API (b1cf540f) and not on x86. So introduce a new config option which architectures can select if they have the API implemented and switch x86. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <20100210162517.GB6933@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>