- 25 Feb, 2009 8 commits
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Frederic Weisbecker authored
Now that several per-cpu files can be read or spliced at the same, we want the read/splice callbacks for tracing files to be reentrants. Until now, a single global mutex (trace_types_lock) serialized the access to tracing_read_pipe(), tracing_splice_read_pipe(), and the seq helpers. Ie: it means that if a user tries to read trace_pipe0 and trace_pipe1 at the same time, the access to the function tracing_read_pipe() is contended and one reader must wait for the other to finish its read call. The trace_type_lock mutex is mostly here to serialize the access to the global current tracer (current_trace), which can be changed concurrently. Although the iter struct keeps a private pointer to this tracer, its callbacks can be changed by another function. The method used here is to not keep anymore private reference to the tracer inside the iterator but to make a copy of it inside the iterator. Then it checks on subsequents read calls if the tracer has changed. This is not costly because the current tracer is not expected to be changed often, so we use a branch prediction for that. Moreover, we add a private mutex to the iterator (there is one iterator per file descriptor) to serialize the accesses in case of multiple consumers per file descriptor (which would be a silly idea from the user). Note that this is not to protect the ring buffer, since the ring buffer already serializes the readers accesses. This is to prevent from traces weirdness in case of concurrent consumers. But these mutexes can be dropped anyway, that would not result in any crash. Just tell me what you think about it. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Frederic Weisbecker authored
Impact: split up tracing output per cpu Currently, on the tracing debugfs directory, three files are available to the user to let him extracting the trace output: - trace is an iterator through the ring-buffer. It's a reader but not a consumer It doesn't block when no more traces are available. - trace pretty similar to the former, except that it adds more informations such as prempt count, irq flag, ... - trace_pipe is a reader and a consumer, it will also block waiting for traces if necessary (heh, yes it's a pipe). The traces coming from different cpus are curretly mixed up inside these files. Sometimes it messes up the informations, sometimes it's useful, depending on what does the tracer capture. The tracing_cpumask file is useful to filter the output and select only the traces captured a custom defined set of cpus. But still it is not enough powerful to extract at the same time one trace buffer per cpu. So this patch creates a new directory: /debug/tracing/per_cpu/. Inside this directory, you will now find one trace_pipe file and one trace file per cpu. Which means if you have two cpus, you will have: trace0 trace1 trace_pipe0 trace_pipe1 And of course, reading these files will have the same effect than with the usual tracing files, except that you will only see the traces from the given cpu. The original all-in-one cpu trace file are still available on their original place. Until now, only one consumer was allowed on trace_pipe to avoid racy consuming on the ring-buffer. Now the approach changed a bit, you can have only one consumer per cpu. Which means you are allowed to read concurrently trace_pipe0 and trace_pipe1 But you can't have two readers on trace_pipe0 or trace_pipe1. Following the same logic, if there is one reader on the common trace_pipe, you can not have at the same time another reader on trace_pipe0 or in trace_pipe1. Because in trace_pipe is already a consumer in all cpu buffers in essence. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar authored
Merge branch 'tip/tracing/ftrace' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into tracing/ftrace
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Ingo Molnar authored
Impact: remove old debug/tracing API /debug/tracing/latency_trace is an old legacy format we kept from the old latency tracer. Remove the file for now. If there's any useful bit missing then we'll propagate any useful output bits into the /debug/tracing/trace output. Reported-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Steven Rostedt authored
This patch adds the directory /debug/tracing/events/ that will contain all the registered trace points. # ls /debug/tracing/events/ sched_kthread_stop sched_process_fork sched_switch sched_kthread_stop_ret sched_process_free sched_wait_task sched_migrate_task sched_process_wait sched_wakeup sched_process_exit sched_signal_send sched_wakeup_new # ls /debug/tracing/events/sched_switch/ enable # cat /debug/tracing/events/sched_switch/enable 1 # cat /debug/tracing/set_event sched_switch Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
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Steven Rostedt authored
This patch changes the trace/sched.h to use the DECLARE_TRACE_FMT such that they are automatically registered with the event tracer. And it also adds the tracing sched headers to kernel/trace/events.c Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
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Steven Rostedt authored
This patch creates the event tracing infrastructure of ftrace. It will create the files: /debug/tracing/available_events /debug/tracing/set_event The available_events will list the trace points that have been registered with the event tracer. set_events will allow the user to enable or disable an event hook. example: # echo sched_wakeup > /debug/tracing/set_event Will enable the sched_wakeup event (if it is registered). # echo "!sched_wakeup" >> /debug/tracing/set_event Will disable the sched_wakeup event (and only that event). # echo > /debug/tracing/set_event Will disable all events (notice the '>') # cat /debug/tracing/available_events > /debug/tracing/set_event Will enable all registered event hooks. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
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Steven Rostedt authored
This patch creates a DEFINE_TRACE_FMT to map to DECLARE_TRACE. This allows for the developers to place format strings and args in with their tracepoint declaration. A tracer may now override the DEFINE_TRACE_FMT macro and use it to record a default format. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
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- 22 Feb, 2009 2 commits
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Ingo Molnar authored
Merge branch 'tip/x86/ftrace' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into tracing/ftrace Conflicts: include/linux/ftrace.h kernel/trace/ftrace.c
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Ingo Molnar authored
Merge branches 'tracing/function-graph-tracer', 'tracing/kmemtrace' and 'tracing/markers' into tracing/core
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- 20 Feb, 2009 11 commits
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Steven Rostedt authored
Impact: added precaution on failure detection Break out of the modifying loop as soon as a failure is detected. This is just an added precaution found by code review and was not found by any bug chasing. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
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Steven Rostedt authored
Impact: fix to prevent NMI lockup If the page fault handler produces a WARN_ON in the modifying of text, and the system is setup to have a high frequency of NMIs, we can lock up the system on a failure to modify code. The modifying of code with NMIs allows all NMIs to modify the code if it is about to run. This prevents a modifier on one CPU from modifying code running in NMI context on another CPU. The modifying is done through stop_machine, so only NMIs must be considered. But if the write causes the page fault handler to produce a warning, the print can slow it down enough that as soon as it is done it will take another NMI before going back to the process context. The new NMI will perform the write again causing another print and this will hang the box. This patch turns off the writing as soon as a failure is detected and does not wait for it to be turned off by the process context. This will keep NMIs from getting stuck in this back and forth of print outs. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
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Steven Rostedt authored
Impact: keep kernel text read only Because dynamic ftrace converts the calls to mcount into and out of nops at run time, we needed to always keep the kernel text writable. But this defeats the point of CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA. This patch converts the kernel code to writable before ftrace modifies the text, and converts it back to read only afterward. The kernel text is converted to read/write, stop_machine is called to modify the code, then the kernel text is converted back to read only. The original version used SYSTEM_STATE to determine when it was OK or not to change the code to rw or ro. Andrew Morton pointed out that using SYSTEM_STATE is a bad idea since there is no guarantee to what its state will actually be. Instead, I moved the check into the set_kernel_text_* functions themselves, and use a local variable to determine when it is OK to change the kernel text RW permissions. [ Update: Ingo Molnar suggested moving the prototypes to cacheflush.h ] Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
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Frederic Weisbecker authored
Sometimes it happens that KConfig dependencies are not handled like in the following scenario: - config A bool - config B bool depends on A - config C bool select B If one selects C, then it will select B without checking its dependency to A, if A hasn't been selected elsewhere, it will result in a build failure. This is what happens on the following build error: kernel/built-in.o: In function `marker_update_probe_range': (.text+0x52f64): undefined reference to `tracepoint_probe_register_noupdate' kernel/built-in.o: In function `marker_update_probe_range': (.text+0x52f74): undefined reference to `tracepoint_probe_unregister_noupdate' kernel/built-in.o: In function `marker_update_probe_range': (.text+0x52fb9): undefined reference to `tracepoint_probe_unregister_noupdate' kernel/built-in.o: In function `marker_update_probes': marker.c:(.text+0x530ba): undefined reference to `tracepoint_probe_update_all' CONFIG_KVM_TRACE will select CONFIG_MARKER, but the latter depends on CONFIG_TRACEPOINTS which will not be selected. Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Steven Rostedt authored
This patch creates the weak functions: ftrace_arch_code_modify_prepare and ftrace_arch_code_modify_post_process that are called before and after the stop machine is called to modify the kernel text. If the arch needs to do pre or post processing, it only needs to define these functions. [ Update: Ingo Molnar suggested using the name ftrace_arch_code_modify_* over using ftrace_arch_modify_* ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
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Ingo Molnar authored
Merge branch 'for-ingo' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6 into tracing/kmemtrace Conflicts: mm/slub.c
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Frederic Weisbecker authored
Impact: trace only functions matching a pattern The set_graph_function file let one to trace only one or several chosen functions and follow all their code flow. Currently, only a constant function name is allowed so this patch allows the ftrace_regex functions: - matches all functions that end with "name": echo *name > set_graph_function - matches all functions that begin with "name": echo name* > set_graph_function - matches all functions that contains "name": echo *name* > set_graph_function Example: echo mutex* > set_graph_function 0) | mutex_lock_nested() { 0) 0.563 us | __might_sleep(); 0) 2.072 us | } 0) | mutex_unlock() { 0) 1.036 us | __mutex_unlock_slowpath(); 0) 2.433 us | } 0) | mutex_unlock() { 0) 0.691 us | __mutex_unlock_slowpath(); 0) 1.787 us | } 0) | mutex_lock_interruptible_nested() { 0) 0.548 us | __might_sleep(); 0) 1.945 us | } Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar authored
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Christoph Lameter authored
As a preparational patch to bump up page allocator pass-through threshold, introduce two new constants SLUB_MAX_SIZE and SLUB_PAGE_SHIFT and convert mm/slub.c to use them. Reported-by: "Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com> Tested-by: "Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
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Ingo Molnar authored
Steven Rostedt found a bug in where in his modified kernel ftrace was unable to modify the kernel text, due to the PMD itself having been marked read-only as well in split_large_page(). The fix, suggested by Linus, is to not try to 'clone' the reference protection of a huge-page, but to use the standard (and permissive) page protection bits of KERNPG_TABLE. The 'cloning' makes sense for the ptes but it's a confused and incorrect concept at the page table level - because the pagetable entry is a set of all ptes and hence cannot 'clone' any single protection attribute - the ptes can be any mixture of protections. With the permissive KERNPG_TABLE, even if the pte protections get changed after this point (due to ftrace doing code-patching or other similar activities like kprobes), the resulting combined protections will still be correct and the pte's restrictive (or permissive) protections will control it. Also update the comment. This bug was there for a long time but has not caused visible problems before as it needs a rather large read-only area to trigger. Steve possibly hacked his kernel with some really large arrays or so. Anyway, the bug is definitely worth fixing. [ Huang Ying also experienced problems in this area when writing the EFI code, but the real bug in split_large_page() was not realized back then. ] Reported-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Reported-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Alok N Kataria authored
Impact: fix time warps under vmware Similar to the check for TSC going backwards in the TSC clocksource, we also need this check for VMI clocksource. Signed-off-by: Alok N Kataria <akataria@vmware.com> Cc: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: stable@kernel.org
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- 19 Feb, 2009 19 commits
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Linus Torvalds authored
* master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm: [ARM] 5405/1: ep93xx: remove unused gesbc9312.h header [ARM] 5404/1: Fix condition in arm_elf_read_implies_exec() to set READ_IMPLIES_EXEC [ARM] omap: fix clock reparenting in omap2_clk_set_parent() [ARM] 5403/1: pxa25x_ep_fifo_flush() *ep->reg_udccs always set to 0 [ARM] 5402/1: fix a case of wrap-around in sanity_check_meminfo() [ARM] 5401/1: Orion: fix edge triggered GPIO interrupt support [ARM] 5400/1: Add support for inverted rdy_busy pin for Atmel nand device controller [ARM] 5391/1: AT91: Enable GPIO clocks earlier [ARM] 5390/1: AT91: Watchdog fixes [ARM] 5398/1: Add Wan ZongShun to MAINTAINERS for W90P910 [ARM] omap: fix _omap2_clksel_get_src_field() [ARM] omap: fix omap2_divisor_to_clksel() error return value
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Linus Torvalds authored
Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: x86, mce: fix ifdef for 64bit thermal apic vector clear on shutdown x86, mce: use force_sig_info to kill process in machine check x86, mce: reinitialize per cpu features on resume x86, rcu: fix strange load average and ksoftirqd behavior
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Linus Torvalds authored
Merge branch 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: tracing: limit the number of loops the ring buffer self test can make tracing: have function trace select kallsyms tracing: disable tracing while testing ring buffer tracing/function-graph-tracer: trace the idle tasks
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git://git390.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* 'for-linus' of git://git390.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6: [S390] fix "mem=" handling in case of standby memory [S390] Fix timeval regression on s390 [S390] sclp: handle empty event buffers
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6: sound: virtuoso: revert "do not overwrite EEPROM on Xonar D2/D2X" ALSA: jack - Use card->shortname for input name ALSA: usb-audio - Workaround for misdetected sample rate with CM6207 ALSA: usb-audio - Fix non-continuous rate detection sound: usb-audio: fix uninitialized variable with M-Audio MIDI interfaces Revert "Sound: hda - Restore PCI configuration space with interrupts off"
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Hartley Sweeten authored
Remove the gesbc9312.h header since it is unused. Signed-off-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Makito SHIOKAWA authored
READ_IMPLIES_EXEC must be set when: o binary _is_ an executable stack (i.e. not EXSTACK_DISABLE_X) o processor architecture is _under_ ARMv6 (XN bit is supported from ARMv6) Signed-off-by: Makito SHIOKAWA <lkhmkt@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Heiko Carstens authored
Standby memory detected with the sclp interface gets always registered with add_memory calls without considering the limitationt that the "mem=" kernel paramater implies. So fix this and only register standby memory that is below the specified limit. This fixes zfcpdump since it uses "mem=32M". In case there is appr. 2GB standby memory present all of usable memory would be used for the struct pages needed for standby memory. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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Christian Borntraeger authored
commit aa5e97ce [PATCH] improve precision of process accounting. Introduced a timing regression: -bash-3.2# time ls real 0m0.006s user 0m1.754s sys 0m1.094s The problem was introduced by an error in cputime_to_timeval. Cputime is now 1/4096 microsecond, therefore, we have to divide the remainder with 4096 to get the microseconds. Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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Peter Oberparleiter authored
Handle a malformed hardware response which some versions of the Support Element (SE) may present during SE restart and which otherwise would result in an endless loop in function sclp_dispatch_evbufs. Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter <peter.oberparleiter@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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Russell King authored
When changing the parent of a clock, it is necessary to keep the clock use counts balanced otherwise things the parent state will get corrupted. Since we already disable and re-enable the clock, we might as well use the recursive versions instead. Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Takashi Iwai authored
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Takashi Iwai authored
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Takashi Iwai authored
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Ingo Molnar authored
Merge artifact: pid got changed to ent->pid meanwhile. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar authored
- fix typos/grammos and clarify the text - prettify the document some more Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Frederic Weisbecker authored
Update documentation for the function graph tracer. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Frederic Weisbecker authored
Impact: trace output cleanup/reordering When an interrupt occurs and and the abstime option is selected: echo funcgraph-abstime > /debug/tracing/trace_options then we observe broken traces: 30581.025422 | 0) Xorg-4291 | 0.503 us | idle_cpu(); 30581.025424 | 0) Xorg-4291 | 2.576 us | } 30581.025424 | 0) Xorg-4291 | + 75.771 us | } 0) Xorg-4291 | <========== | 30581.025425 | 0) Xorg-4291 | | schedule() { 30581.025426 | 0) Xorg-4291 | | __schedule() { 30581.025426 | 0) Xorg-4291 | 0.705 us | _spin_lock_irq(); With this patch, the interrupts output better adapts to absolute time printing: 414.856543 | 1) Xorg-4279 | 8.816 us | } 414.856544 | 1) Xorg-4279 | 0.525 us | rcu_irq_exit(); 414.856545 | 1) Xorg-4279 | 0.526 us | idle_cpu(); 414.856546 | 1) Xorg-4279 | + 12.157 us | } 414.856549 | 1) Xorg-4279 | ! 104.114 us | } 414.856549 | 1) Xorg-4279 | <========== | 414.856549 | 1) Xorg-4279 | ! 107.944 us | } 414.856550 | 1) Xorg-4279 | ! 137.010 us | } 414.856551 | 1) Xorg-4279 | 0.624 us | _read_unlock(); 414.856552 | 1) Xorg-4279 | ! 140.930 us | } 414.856552 | 1) Xorg-4279 | ! 166.159 us | } Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar authored
Merge branch 'mainline/function-graph' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into tracing/function-graph-tracer
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