kernel/linux.git/include/linux/ring_buffer.h, branch v2.6.30

tracing: add ring_buffer_event_discard() to ring buffer

2009-03-22T17:38:25+00:00

This patch overloads RINGBUF_TYPE_PADDING to provide a way to discard events from the ring buffer, for the event-filtering mechanism introduced in a subsequent patch. I did the initial version but thanks to Steven Rostedt for adding the parts that actually made it work. ;-) Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

ring-buffer: add api to allow a tracer to change clock source

2009-03-18T03:06:31+00:00

This patch adds a new function called ring_buffer_set_clock that allows a tracer to assign its own clock source to the buffer. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

tracing: add tracing_on/tracing_off to kernel.h

2009-03-05T15:35:56+00:00

Impact: cleanup The functions tracing_start/tracing_stop have been moved to kernel.h. These are not the functions a developer most likely wants to use when they want to insert a place to stop tracing and restart it from user space. tracing_start/tracing_stop was created to work with things like suspend to ram, where even calling smp_processor_id() can crash the system. The tracing_start/tracing_stop was used to stop the tracer from doing anything. These are still light weight functions, but add a bit more overhead to be able to stop the tracers. They also have no interface back to userland. That is, if the kernel calls tracing_stop, userland can not start tracing. What a developer most likely wants to use is tracing_on/tracing_off. These are very light weight functions (simply sets or clears a bit). These functions just stop recording into the ring buffer. The tracers don't even know that this happens except that they would receive NULL from the ring_buffer_lock_reserve function. Also, there's a way for the user land to enable or disable this bit. In debugfs/tracing/tracing_on, a user may echo "0" (same as tracing_off()) or echo "1" (same as tracing_on()) into this file. This becomes handy when a kernel developer is debugging and wants tracing to turn off when it hits an anomaly. Then the developer can examine the trace, and restart tracing if they want to try again (echo 1 > tracing_on). This patch moves the prototypes for tracing_on/tracing_off to kernel.h and comments their use, so that a kernel developer will know how to use them. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

ring-buffer: fix ring_buffer_read_page

2009-03-04T01:51:24+00:00

The ring_buffer_read_page was broken if it were to only copy part of the page. This patch fixes that up as well as adds a parameter to allow a length field, in order to only copy part of the buffer page. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

ring-buffer: add tracing_is_on to test if ring buffer is enabled

2009-02-17T03:50:01+00:00

This patch adds the tracing_is_on() interface to tell if the ring buffer is turned on or not. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

tracing: fix typos in comments

2009-02-10T17:32:35+00:00

Impact: clean up. Fix typos in the comments. Signed-off-by: Wenji Huang Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

Merge branch 'tip/tracing/core/devel' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into tracing/ftrace

2009-02-09T09:35:12+00:00

Conflicts: kernel/trace/trace_hw_branches.c

ring-buffer: allow tracing_off to be used in core kernel code

2009-02-08T01:01:18+00:00

tracing_off() is the fastest way to stop recording to the ring buffers. This may be used in places like panic and die, just before the ftrace_dump is called. This patch adds the appropriate CPP conditionals to make it a stub function when the ring buffer is not configured it. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

ring_buffer: remove unused flags parameter

2009-02-06T00:01:40+00:00

Impact: API change, cleanup >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 Acked-by: Frédéric Weisbecker Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

Merge branch 'oprofile-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

2008-12-31T01:31:25+00:00

* 'oprofile-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: oprofile: select RING_BUFFER ring_buffer: adding EXPORT_SYMBOLs oprofile: fix lost sample counter oprofile: remove nr_available_slots() oprofile: port to the new ring_buffer ring_buffer: add remaining cpu functions to ring_buffer.h oprofile: moving cpu_buffer_reset() to cpu_buffer.h oprofile: adding cpu_buffer_entries() oprofile: adding cpu_buffer_write_commit() oprofile: adding cpu buffer r/w access functions ftrace: remove unused function arg in trace_iterator_increment() ring_buffer: update description for ring_buffer_alloc() oprofile: set values to default when creating oprofilefs oprofile: implement switch/case in buffer_sync.c x86/oprofile: cleanup IBS init/exit functions in op_model_amd.c x86/oprofile: reordering IBS code in op_model_amd.c oprofile: fix typo oprofile: whitspace changes only oprofile: update comment for oprofile_add_sample() oprofile: comment cleanup