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2008-05-24	ftrace: mmiotrace update, #2	Pekka Paalanen	1	-3/+44
	another weekend, another patch. This should apply on top of my previous patch from March 23rd. Summary of changes: - Print PCI device list in output header - work around recursive probe hits on SMP - refactor dis/arm_kmmio_fault_page() and add check for page levels - remove un/reference_kmmio(), the die notifier hook is registered permanently into the list - explicitly check for single stepping in die notifier callback I have tested this version on my UP Athlon64 desktop with Nouveau, and SMP Core 2 Duo laptop with the proprietary nvidia driver. Both systems are 64-bit. One previously unknown bug crept into daylight: the ftrace framework's output routines print the first entry last after buffer has wrapped around. The most important regressions compared to non-ftrace mmiotrace at this time are: - failure of trace_pipe file - illegal lines in output file - unaware of losing data due to buffer full Personally I'd like to see these three solved before submitting to mainline. Other issues may come up once we know when we lose events. Signed-off-by: Pekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-05-24	ftrace: mmiotrace, updates	Pekka Paalanen	1	-28/+123
	here is a patch that makes mmiotrace work almost well within the tracing framework. The patch applies on top of my previous patch. I have my own output formatting in place now. Summary of changes: - fix the NULL dereference that was due to not calling tracing_reset() - add print_line() callback into struct tracer - implement print_line() for mmiotrace, producing up-to-spec text - add my output header, but that is not really called in the right place - rewrote the main structs in mmiotrace - added two new trace entry types: TRACE_MMIO_RW and TRACE_MMIO_MAP - made some functions in trace.c non-static - check current==NULL in tracing_generic_entry_update() - fix(?) comparison in trace_seq_printf() Things seem to work fine except a few issues. Markers (text lines injected into mmiotrace log) are missing, I did not feel hacking them in before we have variable length entries. My output header is printed only for 'trace' file, but not 'trace_pipe'. For some reason, despite my quick fix, iter->trace is NULL in print_trace_line() when called from 'trace_pipe' file, which means I don't get proper output formatting. I only tried by loading nouveau.ko, which just detects the card, and that is traced fine. I didn't try further. Map, two reads and unmap. Works perfectly. I am missing the information about overflows, I'd prefer to have a counter for lost events. I didn't try, but I guess currently there is no way of knowning when it overflows? So, not too far from being fully operational, it seems :-) And looking at the diffstat, there also is some 700-900 lines of user space code that just became obsolete. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-05-24	ftrace: add mmiotrace plugin	Pekka Paalanen	1	-0/+84
	On Sat, 22 Mar 2008 13:07:47 +0100 Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote: > > > i'd suggest the following: pull x86.git and sched-devel.git into a > > > single tree [the two will combine without rejects]. Then try to add a > > > kernel/tracing/trace_mmiotrace.c ftrace plugin. The trace_sysprof.c > > > plugin might be a good example. > > > > I did this and now I have mmiotrace enabled/disabled via the tracing > > framework (what do we call this, since ftrace is one of the tracers?). > > cool! could you send the patches for that? (even if they are not fully > functional yet) Patch attached in the end. Nice to see how much code disappeared. I tried to mark all the features I had to break with XXX-comments. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>