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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2017-05-02 06:23:17 +0300 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2017-05-02 06:23:17 +0300 |
commit | 7c8c03bfc7b9f5211d8a69eab7fee99c9fb4f449 (patch) | |
tree | a5cee67325e50e893bf0cc0a0d060983a0df6653 /Documentation | |
parent | 6dc2cce9321198172cd96f955a5fc798a4cc35a6 (diff) | |
parent | fd7647979a3948dae4fc6f25dbbdf9ba269bed78 (diff) | |
download | linux-7c8c03bfc7b9f5211d8a69eab7fee99c9fb4f449.tar.xz |
Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull perf updates from Ingo Molnar:
"The main changes in this cycle were:
Kernel side changes:
- Kprobes and uprobes changes:
- Make their trampolines read-only while they are used
- Make UPROBES_EVENTS default-y which is the distro practice
- Apply misc fixes and robustization to probe point insertion.
- add support for AMD IOMMU events
- extend hw events on Intel Goldmont CPUs
- ... plus misc fixes and updates.
Tooling side changes:
- support s390 jump instructions in perf annotate (Christian
Borntraeger)
- vendor hardware events updates (Andi Kleen)
- add argument support for SDT events in powerpc (Ravi Bangoria)
- beautify the statx syscall arguments in 'perf trace' (Arnaldo
Carvalho de Melo)
- handle inline functions in callchains (Jin Yao)
- enable sorting by srcline as key (Milian Wolff)
- add 'brstackinsn' field in 'perf script' to reuse the x86
instruction decoder used in the Intel PT code to study hot paths to
samples (Andi Kleen)
- add PERF_RECORD_NAMESPACES so that the kernel can record
information required to associate samples to namespaces, helping in
container problem characterization. (Hari Bathini)
- allow sorting by symbol_size in 'perf report' and 'perf top'
(Charles Baylis)
- in perf stat, make system wide (-a) the default option if no target
was specified and one of following conditions is met:
- no workload specified (current behaviour)
- a workload is specified but all requested events are system wide
ones, like uncore ones. (Jiri Olsa)
- ... plus lots of other updates, enhancements, cleanups and fixes"
* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (235 commits)
perf tools: Fix the code to strip command name
tools arch x86: Sync cpufeatures.h
tools arch: Sync arch/x86/lib/memcpy_64.S with the kernel
tools: Update asm-generic/mman-common.h copy from the kernel
perf tools: Use just forward declarations for struct thread where possible
perf tools: Add the right header to obtain PERF_ALIGN()
perf tools: Remove poll.h and wait.h from util.h
perf tools: Remove string.h, unistd.h and sys/stat.h from util.h
perf tools: Remove stale prototypes from builtin.h
perf tools: Remove string.h from util.h
perf tools: Remove sys/ioctl.h from util.h
perf tools: Remove a few more needless includes from util.h
perf tools: Include sys/param.h where needed
perf callchain: Move callchain specific routines from util.[ch]
perf tools: Add compress.h for the *_decompress_to_file() headers
perf mem: Fix display of data source snoop indication
perf debug: Move dump_stack() and sighandler_dump_stack() to debug.h
perf kvm: Make function only used by 'perf kvm' static
perf tools: Move timestamp routines from util.h to time-utils.h
perf tools: Move units conversion/formatting routines to separate object
...
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt b/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt index 41ef9d8efe95..5ea85059db3b 100644 --- a/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt +++ b/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt @@ -8,8 +8,9 @@ Overview -------- These events are similar to tracepoint based events. Instead of Tracepoint, this is based on kprobes (kprobe and kretprobe). So it can probe wherever -kprobes can probe (this means, all functions body except for __kprobes -functions). Unlike the Tracepoint based event, this can be added and removed +kprobes can probe (this means, all functions except those with +__kprobes/nokprobe_inline annotation and those marked NOKPROBE_SYMBOL). +Unlike the Tracepoint based event, this can be added and removed dynamically, on the fly. To enable this feature, build your kernel with CONFIG_KPROBE_EVENTS=y. |