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>
Increase the maximum object size in SLUB so that 8k objects are not
passed through to the page allocator anymore. The network stack uses 8k
objects for performance critical operations.
The patch is motivated by a SLAB vs. SLUB regression in the netperf
benchmark. The problem is that the kfree(skb->head) call in
skb_release_data() that is subject to page allocator pass-through as the
size passed to __alloc_skb() is larger than 4 KB in this test.
As explained by Yanmin Zhang:
I use 2.6.29-rc2 kernel to run netperf UDP-U-4k CPU_NUM client/server
pair loopback testing on x86-64 machines. Comparing with SLUB, SLAB's
result is about 2.3 times of SLUB's. After applying the reverting patch,
the result difference between SLUB and SLAB becomes 1% which we might
consider as fluctuation.
[ penberg@cs.helsinki.fi: fix oops in kmalloc() ]
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>
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>
Kernel module providing implementation of LED netfilter target. Each
instance of the target appears as a led-trigger device, which can be
associated with one or more LEDs in /sys/class/leds/
Signed-off-by: Adam Nielsen <a.nielsen@shikadi.net>
Acked-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
The reader/writer lock in ip_tables is acquired in the critical path of
processing packets and is one of the reasons just loading iptables can cause
a 20% performance loss. The rwlock serves two functions:
1) it prevents changes to table state (xt_replace) while table is in use.
This is now handled by doing rcu on the xt_table. When table is
replaced, the new table(s) are put in and the old one table(s) are freed
after RCU period.
2) it provides synchronization when accesing the counter values.
This is now handled by swapping in new table_info entries for each cpu
then summing the old values, and putting the result back onto one
cpu. On a busy system it may cause sampling to occur at different
times on each cpu, but no packet/byte counts are lost in the process.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Sucessfully tested on my dual quad core machine too, but iptables only (no ipv6 here)
BTW, my new "tbench 8" result is 2450 MB/s, (it was 2150 MB/s not so long ago)
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
This patch adds NETLINK_BROADCAST_ERROR which is a netlink
socket option that the listener can set to make netlink_broadcast()
return errors in the delivery to the caller. This option is useful
if the caller of netlink_broadcast() do something with the result
of the message delivery, like in ctnetlink where it drops a network
packet if the event delivery failed, this is used to enable reliable
logging and state-synchronization. If this socket option is not set,
netlink_broadcast() only reports ESRCH errors and silently ignore
ENOBUFS errors, which is what most netlink_broadcast() callers
should do.
This socket option is based on a suggestion from Patrick McHardy.
Patrick McHardy can exchange this patch for a beer from me ;).
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Acked-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Impact: new scalable dynamic percpu allocator which allows dynamic
percpu areas to be accessed the same way as static ones
Implement scalable dynamic percpu allocator which can be used for both
static and dynamic percpu areas. This will allow static and dynamic
areas to share faster direct access methods. This feature is optional
and enabled only when CONFIG_HAVE_DYNAMIC_PER_CPU_AREA is defined by
arch. Please read comment on top of mm/percpu.c for details.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Impact: two more public map/unmap functions
Implement map_kernel_range_noflush() and unmap_kernel_range_noflush().
These functions respectively map and unmap address range in kernel VM
area but doesn't do any vcache or tlb flushing. These will be used by
new percpu allocator.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Impact: allow multiple early vm areas
There are places where kernel VM area needs to be allocated before
vmalloc is initialized. This is done by allocating static vm_struct,
initializing several fields and linking it to vmlist and later vmalloc
initialization picking up these from vmlist. This is currently done
manually and if there's more than one such areas, there's no defined
way to arbitrate who gets which address.
This patch implements vm_area_register_early(), which takes vm_area
struct with flags and size initialized, assigns address to it and puts
it on the vmlist. This way, multiple early vm areas can determine
which addresses they should use. The only current user - alpha mm
init - is converted to use it.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Impact: kill unused functions
percpu_alloc() and its friends never saw much action. It was supposed
to replace the cpu-mask unaware __alloc_percpu() but it never happened
and in fact __percpu_alloc_mask() itself never really grew proper
up/down handling interface either (no exported interface for
populate/depopulate).
percpu allocation is about to go through major reimplementation and
there's no reason to carry this unused interface around. Replace it
with __alloc_percpu() and free_percpu().
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
This prepares for a real __alloc_percpu, by adding an alignment argument.
Only one place uses __alloc_percpu directly, and that's for a string.
tj: af_inet also uses __alloc_percpu(), update it.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Impact: cleanup
There are two allocated per-cpu accessor macros with almost identical
spelling. The original and far more popular is per_cpu_ptr (44
files), so change over the other 4 files.
tj: kill percpu_ptr() and update UP too
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: mingo@redhat.com
Cc: lenb@kernel.org
Cc: cpufreq@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
After moving mac addresses in __vlan_put_tag() skb->mac_header needs
to be updated.
Reported-by: Karl Hiramoto <karl@hiramoto.org>
Signed-off-by: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block:
block: fix deadlock in blk_abort_queue() for drivers that readd to timeout list
block: fix booting from partitioned md array
block: revert part of 18ce3751cc
cciss: PCI power management reset for kexec
paride/pg.c: xs(): &&/|| confusion
fs/bio: bio_alloc_bioset: pass right object ptr to mempool_free
block: fix bad definition of BIO_RW_SYNC
bsg: Fix sense buffer bug in SG_IO
Since I don't work for SUSE any more and the bwalle@suse.de address is
invalid, correct it in the copyright headers and documentation.
Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bernhard.walle@gmx.de>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
I have a Digi Neo 8 PCI card (114f:00b1) Serial controller: Digi
International Digi Neo 8 (rev 05)
that works with the jsm driver after using the following patch.
Signed-off-by: Adam Lackorzynski <adam@os.inf.tu-dresden.de>
Cc: Scott H Kilau <Scott_Kilau@digi.com>
Cc: Wendy Xiong <wendyx@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Now, early_pfn_in_nid(PFN, NID) may returns false if PFN is a hole.
and memmap initialization was not done. This was a trouble for
sparc boot.
To fix this, the PFN should be initialized and marked as PG_reserved.
This patch changes early_pfn_in_nid() return true if PFN is a hole.
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reported-by: David Miller <davem@davemlloft.net>
Tested-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> [2.6.25.x, 2.6.26.x, 2.6.27.x, 2.6.28.x]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
What's happening is that the assertion in mm/page_alloc.c:move_freepages()
is triggering:
BUG_ON(page_zone(start_page) != page_zone(end_page));
Once I knew this is what was happening, I added some annotations:
if (unlikely(page_zone(start_page) != page_zone(end_page))) {
printk(KERN_ERR "move_freepages: Bogus zones: "
"start_page[%p] end_page[%p] zone[%p]\n",
start_page, end_page, zone);
printk(KERN_ERR "move_freepages: "
"start_zone[%p] end_zone[%p]\n",
page_zone(start_page), page_zone(end_page));
printk(KERN_ERR "move_freepages: "
"start_pfn[0x%lx] end_pfn[0x%lx]\n",
page_to_pfn(start_page), page_to_pfn(end_page));
printk(KERN_ERR "move_freepages: "
"start_nid[%d] end_nid[%d]\n",
page_to_nid(start_page), page_to_nid(end_page));
...
And here's what I got:
move_freepages: Bogus zones: start_page[2207d0000] end_page[2207dffc0] zone[fffff8103effcb00]
move_freepages: start_zone[fffff8103effcb00] end_zone[fffff8003fffeb00]
move_freepages: start_pfn[0x81f600] end_pfn[0x81f7ff]
move_freepages: start_nid[1] end_nid[0]
My memory layout on this box is:
[ 0.000000] Zone PFN ranges:
[ 0.000000] Normal 0x00000000 -> 0x0081ff5d
[ 0.000000] Movable zone start PFN for each node
[ 0.000000] early_node_map[8] active PFN ranges
[ 0.000000] 0: 0x00000000 -> 0x00020000
[ 0.000000] 1: 0x00800000 -> 0x0081f7ff
[ 0.000000] 1: 0x0081f800 -> 0x0081fe50
[ 0.000000] 1: 0x0081fed1 -> 0x0081fed8
[ 0.000000] 1: 0x0081feda -> 0x0081fedb
[ 0.000000] 1: 0x0081fedd -> 0x0081fee5
[ 0.000000] 1: 0x0081fee7 -> 0x0081ff51
[ 0.000000] 1: 0x0081ff59 -> 0x0081ff5d
So it's a block move in that 0x81f600-->0x81f7ff region which triggers
the problem.
This patch:
Declaration of early_pfn_to_nid() is scattered over per-arch include
files, and it seems it's complicated to know when the declaration is used.
I think it makes fix-for-memmap-init not easy.
This patch moves all declaration to include/linux/mm.h
After this,
if !CONFIG_NODES_POPULATES_NODE_MAP && !CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_EARLY_PFN_TO_NID
-> Use static definition in include/linux/mm.h
else if !CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_EARLY_PFN_TO_NID
-> Use generic definition in mm/page_alloc.c
else
-> per-arch back end function will be called.
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Tested-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reported-by: David Miller <davem@davemlloft.net>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> [2.6.25.x, 2.6.26.x, 2.6.27.x, 2.6.28.x]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The conversion of atmel-mci to dma_request_channel missed the
initialization of the channel dma_slave information. The filter_fn passed
to dma_request_channel is responsible for initializing the channel's
private data. This implementation has the additional benefit of enabling
a generic client-channel data passing mechanism.
Reviewed-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Acked-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
YAMAMOTO-san noticed that task_dirty_inc doesn't seem to be called properly for
cases where set_page_dirty is not used to dirty a page (eg. mark_buffer_dirty).
Additionally, there is some inconsistency about when task_dirty_inc is
called. It is used for dirty balancing, however it even gets called for
__set_page_dirty_no_writeback.
So rather than increment it in a set_page_dirty wrapper, move it down to
exactly where the dirty page accounting stats are incremented.
Cc: YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamamoto@valinux.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
As requested by Michael, add a missing check for valid flags in
timerfd_settime(), and make it return EINVAL in case some extra bits are
set.
Michael said:
If this is to be any use to userland apps that want to check flag
support (perhaps it is too late already), then the sooner we get it
into the kernel the better: 2.6.29 would be good; earlier stables as
well would be even better.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove unused TFD_FLAGS_SET]
Acked-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> [2.6.27.x, 2.6.28.x]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Currently seq_read assumes that the offset passed to it is always the
offset it passed to user space. In the case pread this assumption is
broken and we do the wrong thing when presented with pread.
To solve this I introduce an offset cache inside of struct seq_file so we
know where our logical file position is. Then in seq_read if we try to
read from another offset we reset our data structures and attempt to go to
the offset user space wanted.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: restore FMODE_PWRITE]
[pjt@google.com: seq_open needs its fmode opened up to take advantage of this]
Signed-off-by: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> [2.6.25.x, 2.6.26.x, 2.6.27.x, 2.6.28.x]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Separate FMODE_PREAD and FMODE_PWRITE into separate flags to reflect the
reality that the read and write paths may have independent restrictions.
A git grep verifies that these flags are always cleared together so this
new behavior will only apply to interfaces that change to clear flags
individually.
This is required for "seq_file: properly cope with pread", a post-2.6.25
regression fix.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: add comment]
Signed-off-by: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> [2.6.25.x, 2.6.26.x, 2.6.27.x, 2.6.28.x]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
We have get_vm_area_caller() and __get_vm_area() but not
__get_vm_area_caller()
On powerpc, I use __get_vm_area() to separate the ranges of addresses
given to vmalloc vs. ioremap (various good reasons for that) so in order
to be able to implement the new caller tracking in /proc/vmallocinfo, I
need a "_caller" variant of it.
(akpm: needed for ongoing powerpc development, so merge it early)
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
There is nothing really arch specific of the push and pop functions
used by the function graph tracer. This patch moves them to generic
code.
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Impact: new timer API
Based on an idea from Martin Josefsson with the help of
Patrick McHardy and Stephen Hemminger:
introduce the mod_timer_pending() API which is a mod_timer()
offspring that is an invariant on already removed timers.
(regular mod_timer() re-activates non-pending timers.)
This is useful for the networking code in that it can
allow unserialized mod_timer_pending() timer-forwarding
calls, but a single del_timer*() will stop the timer
from being reactivated again.
Also while at it:
- optimize the regular mod_timer() path some more, the
timer-stat and a debug check was needlessly duplicated
in __mod_timer().
- make the exports come straight after the function, as
most other exports in timer.c already did.
- eliminate __mod_timer() as an external API, change the
users to mod_timer().
The regular mod_timer() code path is not impacted
significantly, due to inlining optimizations and due to
the simplifications.
Based-on-patch-from: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Change to proper type on private pointer rather than anonymous void.
Keep active elements on same cache line.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
In NFLOG the per-rule qthreshold should overrides per-instance only
it is set. With current code, the per-rule qthreshold is 1 if not set
and it overrides the per-instance qthreshold.
This patch modifies the default xt_NFLOG threshold from 1 to
0. Thus a value of 0 means there is no per-rule setting and the instance
parameter has to apply.
Signed-off-by: Eric Leblond <eric@inl.fr>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
We can't OR shift values, so get rid of BIO_RW_SYNC and use BIO_RW_SYNCIO
and BIO_RW_UNPLUG explicitly. This brings back the behaviour from before
213d9417fe.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
This is based on a report and patch by Geert Uytterhoeven.
The functions crypto_alloc_tfm and create_create_tfm return a
pointer that needs to be adjusted by the caller when successful
and otherwise an error value. This means that the caller has
to check for the error and only perform the adjustment if the
pointer returned is valid.
Since all callers want to make the adjustment and we know how
to adjust it ourselves, it's much easier to just return adjusted
pointer directly.
The only caveat is that we have to return a void * instead of
struct crypto_tfm *. However, this isn't that bad because both
of these functions are for internal use only (by types code like
shash.c, not even algorithms code).
This patch also moves crypto_alloc_tfm into crypto/internal.h
(crypto_create_tfm is already there) to reflect this.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
A long time ago we had bugs, primarily in TCP, where we would modify
skb->truesize (for TSO queue collapsing) in ways which would corrupt
the socket memory accounting.
skb_truesize_check() was added in order to try and catch this error
more systematically.
However this debugging check has morphed into a Frankenstein of sorts
and these days it does nothing other than catch false-positives.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Fix this sparse warnings:
drivers/net/hamradio/hdlcdrv.c:274:34: warning: incorrect type in argument 2 (different signedness)
drivers/net/hamradio/hdlcdrv.c:279:47: warning: incorrect type in argument 2 (different signedness)
drivers/net/hamradio/hdlcdrv.c:288:39: warning: incorrect type in argument 2 (different signedness)
drivers/net/hamradio/hdlcdrv.c:300:47: warning: incorrect type in argument 2 (different signedness)
Signed-off-by: Hannes Eder <hannes@hanneseder.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86, vm86: fix preemption bug
x86, olpc: fix model detection without OFW
x86, hpet: fix for LS21 + HPET = boot hang
x86: CPA avoid repeated lazy mmu flush
x86: warn if arch_flush_lazy_mmu_cpu is called in preemptible context
x86/paravirt: make arch_flush_lazy_mmu/cpu disable preemption
x86, pat: fix warn_on_once() while mapping 0-1MB range with /dev/mem
x86/cpa: make sure cpa is safe to call in lazy mmu mode
x86, ptrace, mm: fix double-free on race
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4:
ext4: Fix NULL dereference in ext4_ext_migrate()'s error handling
ext4: Implement range_cyclic in ext4_da_writepages instead of write_cache_pages
ext4: Initialize preallocation list_head's properly
ext4: Fix lockdep warning
ext4: Fix to read empty directory blocks correctly in 64k
jbd2: Avoid possible NULL dereference in jbd2_journal_begin_ordered_truncate()
Revert "ext4: wait on all pending commits in ext4_sync_fs()"
jbd2: Fix return value of jbd2_journal_start_commit()
Impact: clean up
Ingo Molnar did not like the _hook naming convention used by the
select function tracer. Luis Claudio R. Goncalves suggested using
the "_probe" extension. This patch implements the change of
calling the functions and variables "_hook" and replacing them
with "_probe".
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
This patch adds a call back for the tracers that have hooks to
selected functions. This allows the tracer to show better output
in the set_ftrace_filter file.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Impact: new feature
Currently, the function tracer only gives you an ability to hook
a tracer to all functions being traced. The dynamic function trace
allows you to pick and choose which of those functions will be
traced, but all functions being traced will call all tracers that
registered with the function tracer.
This patch adds a new feature that allows a tracer to hook to specific
functions, even when all functions are being traced. It allows for
different functions to call different tracer hooks.
The way this is accomplished is by a special function that will hook
to the function tracer and will set up a hash table knowing which
tracer hook to call with which function. This is the most general
and easiest method to accomplish this. Later, an arch may choose
to supply their own method in changing the mcount call of a function
to call a different tracer. But that will be an exercise for the
future.
To register a function:
struct ftrace_hook_ops {
void (*func)(unsigned long ip,
unsigned long parent_ip,
void **data);
int (*callback)(unsigned long ip, void **data);
void (*free)(void **data);
};
int register_ftrace_function_hook(char *glob, struct ftrace_hook_ops *ops,
void *data);
glob is a simple glob to search for the functions to hook.
ops is a pointer to the operations (listed below)
data is the default data to be passed to the hook functions when traced
ops:
func is the hook function to call when the functions are traced
callback is a callback function that is called when setting up the hash.
That is, if the tracer needs to do something special for each
function, that is being traced, and wants to give each function
its own data. The address of the entry data is passed to this
callback, so that the callback may wish to update the entry to
whatever it would like.
free is a callback for when the entry is freed. In case the tracer
allocated any data, it is give the chance to free it.
To unregister we have three functions:
void
unregister_ftrace_function_hook(char *glob, struct ftrace_hook_ops *ops,
void *data)
This will unregister all hooks that match glob, point to ops, and
have its data matching data. (note, if glob is NULL, blank or '*',
all functions will be tested).
void
unregister_ftrace_function_hook_func(char *glob,
struct ftrace_hook_ops *ops)
This will unregister all functions matching glob that has an entry
pointing to ops.
void unregister_ftrace_function_hook_all(char *glob)
This simply unregisters all funcs.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Allow for other tracers to add their own commands for function
selection. This interface gives a trace the ability to name a
command for function selection. Right now it is pretty limited
in what it offers, but this is a building step for more features.
The :mod: command is converted to this interface and also serves
as a template for other implementations.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>