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  1. Dec 07, 2010
    • Masami Hiramatsu's avatar
      kprobes: Support delayed unoptimizing · 6274de49
      Masami Hiramatsu authored 
      

Unoptimization occurs when a probe is unregistered or disabled,
and is heavy because it recovers instructions by using
stop_machine(). This patch delays unoptimization operations and
unoptimize several probes at once by using
text_poke_smp_batch(). This can avoid unexpected system slowdown
coming from stop_machine().

Changes in v5:
- Split this patch into several cleanup patches and this patch.
- Fix some text_mutex lock miss.
- Use bool instead of int for behavior flags.
- Add additional comment for (un)optimizing path.

Changes in v2:
- Use dynamic allocated buffers and params.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMasami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: 2nddept-manager@sdl.hitachi.co.jp
LKML-Reference: <20101203095409.2961.82733.stgit@ltc236.sdl.hitachi.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      6274de49
    • Masami Hiramatsu's avatar
      kprobes: Separate kprobe optimizing code from optimizer · 61f4e13f
      Masami Hiramatsu authored 
      

Separate kprobe optimizing code from optimizer, this
will make easy to introducing unoptimizing code in
optimizer.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMasami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: 2nddept-manager@sdl.hitachi.co.jp
LKML-Reference: <20101203095403.2961.91201.stgit@ltc236.sdl.hitachi.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      61f4e13f
    • Masami Hiramatsu's avatar
      kprobes: Cleanup disabling and unregistering path · 6f0f1dd7
      Masami Hiramatsu authored 
      

Merge disabling kprobe to unregistering kprobe function
and add comments for disabing/unregistring process.

Current unregistering code disables(disarms) kprobes after
checking target kprobe status. This patch changes it to
disabling kprobe first after that it changing the kprobe's
state. This allows to share probe disabling code between
disable_kprobe() and unregister_kprobe().

Signed-off-by: default avatarMasami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: 2nddept-manager@sdl.hitachi.co.jp
LKML-Reference: <20101203095356.2961.30152.stgit@ltc236.sdl.hitachi.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      6f0f1dd7
    • Masami Hiramatsu's avatar
      kprobes: Rename old_p to more appropriate name · 6d8e40a8
      Masami Hiramatsu authored 
      

Rename irrelevant uses of "old_p" to more appropriate names.
Originally, "old_p" just meant "the old kprobe on given address"
but current code uses that name as "just another kprobe" or
something like that. This patch renames those pointer names
to more appropriate one for maintainability.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMasami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: 2nddept-manager@sdl.hitachi.co.jp
LKML-Reference: <20101203095350.2961.48110.stgit@ltc236.sdl.hitachi.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      6d8e40a8
  3. Dec 02, 2010
  5. Dec 01, 2010
  7. Nov 27, 2010
    • Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo's avatar
      perf tools: Fix lost and unknown events handling · 068ffaa8
      Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo authored 
      

Fix it by explaining what can be happening and giving the number of processed
and lost events.

Also holler if unknown events were found, that can be due to processing a
perf.data file collected using a newer tool where newer events got added on
reporting using an older perf tool, that or a bug, so ask for a report to be
made.

Works on both --tui and --stdio.

Suggested-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      068ffaa8
    • Shawn Bohrer's avatar
      perf trace: Handle DT_UNKNOWN on filesystems that don't support d_type · 008f29d3
      Shawn Bohrer authored 
      

Some filesystems like xfs and reiserfs will return DT_UNKNOWN for the
d_type.  Handle this case by calling stat() to determine the type.

Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1290355779-3276-1-git-send-email-sbohrer@rgmadvisors.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarShawn Bohrer <sbohrer@rgmadvisors.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      008f29d3
    • Ian Munsie's avatar
      perf symbols: Correct final kernel map guesses · 9d1faba5
      Ian Munsie authored 
      

If a 32bit userspace perf is running on a 64bit kernel, the end of the final
map in the kernel would incorrectly be set to 2^32-1 rather than 2^64-1.

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1290658375-10342-1-git-send-email-imunsie@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIan Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      9d1faba5
    • Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo's avatar
      perf events: Default to using event__process_lost · 37982ba0
      Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo authored 
      

Tool developers have to fill in a 'perf_event_ops' method table to
specify how to handle each event, so far the ones that were not
explicitely especified would get a stub that would just discard the
event.

Change that so that tool developers can get the lost event details and
the total number of such events at the end of 'perf report -D' output.

Suggested-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      37982ba0
    • Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo's avatar
      perf record: Add option to disable collecting build-ids · baa2f6ce
      Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo authored 
      

Collecting build-ids for long running sessions may take a long time
because it needs to traverse the whole just collected perf.data stream
of events, marking the DSOs that had hits and then looking for the
.note.gnu.build-id ELF section.

For things like the 'trace' tool that records and right away consumes
the data on systems where its unlikely that the DSOs being monitored
will change while 'trace' runs, it is desirable to remove build id
collection, so add a -B/--no-buildid option to perf record to allow such
use case.

Longer term we'll avoid all this if we, at DSO load time, in the kernel,
take advantage of this slow code path to collect the build-id and stash
it somewhere, so that we can insert it in the PERF_RECORD_MMAP event.

Reported-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      baa2f6ce