aha/kernel/trace
Steven Rostedt e4906eff9e ring-buffer: convert cpu buffer entries to local_t
The entries counter in cpu buffer is not atomic. It can be updated by
other interrupts or from another CPU (readers).

But making entries into "atomic_t" causes an atomic operation that can
hurt performance. Instead we convert it to a local_t that will increment
a counter with a local CPU atomic operation (if the arch supports it).

Instead of fighting with readers and overwrites that decrement the counter,
I added a "read" counter. Every time a reader reads an entry it is
incremented.

We already have a overrun counter and with that, the entries counter and
the read counter, we can calculate the total number of entries in the
buffer with:

  (entries - overrun) - read

As long as the total number of entries in the ring buffer is less than
the word size, this will work. But since the entries counter was previously
a long, this is no different than what we had before.

Thanks to Andrew Morton for pointing out in the first version that
atomic_t does not replace unsigned long. I switched to atomic_long_t
even though it is signed. A negative count is most likely a bug.

[ Impact: keep accurate count of cpu buffer entries ]

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-05-05 14:25:44 -04:00
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blktrace.c blktrace: fix context-info when mixed-using blk tracer and trace events 2009-04-16 10:11:01 +02:00
ftrace.c ftrace: use module notifier for function tracer 2009-04-17 16:59:15 +02:00
Kconfig tracing: rename EVENT_TRACER config to ENABLE_EVENT_TRACING 2009-04-20 17:55:35 +02:00
kmemtrace.c tracing/filters: use ring_buffer_discard_commit() in filter_check_discard() 2009-04-14 00:00:56 +02:00
Makefile tracing/events: move the ftrace event tracing code to core 2009-04-14 12:57:59 -04:00
ring_buffer.c ring-buffer: convert cpu buffer entries to local_t 2009-05-05 14:25:44 -04:00
trace.c tracing: export stats of ring buffers to userspace 2009-05-05 13:52:02 -04:00
trace.h tracing/filters: a better event parser 2009-04-29 14:06:11 +02:00
trace_boot.c tracing: use macros to denote usec and nsec per second 2009-04-07 14:43:06 +02:00
trace_branch.c tracing/filters: use ring_buffer_discard_commit() in filter_check_discard() 2009-04-14 00:00:56 +02:00
trace_clock.c tracing: fix four sparse warnings 2009-03-22 18:16:54 +01:00
trace_event_profile.c tracing/events: convert event call sites to use a link list 2009-04-14 12:58:00 -04:00
trace_event_types.h tracing/filters: distinguish between signed and unsigned fields 2009-04-29 14:06:03 +02:00
trace_events.c tracing/filters: a better event parser 2009-04-29 14:06:11 +02:00
trace_events_filter.c tracing/filters: a better event parser 2009-04-29 14:06:11 +02:00
trace_export.c tracing/filters: distinguish between signed and unsigned fields 2009-04-29 14:06:03 +02:00
trace_functions.c tracing/core: use appropriate waiting on trace_pipe 2009-02-18 01:40:20 +01:00
trace_functions_graph.c function-graph: add option to calculate graph time or not 2009-03-24 23:41:11 -04:00
trace_hw_branches.c tracing/filters: use ring_buffer_discard_commit() in filter_check_discard() 2009-04-14 00:00:56 +02:00
trace_irqsoff.c tracing: have latency tracers set the latency format 2009-03-04 22:15:30 -05:00
trace_mmiotrace.c tracing: use macros to denote usec and nsec per second 2009-04-07 14:43:06 +02:00
trace_nop.c tracing/ftrace: make nop-tracer use polling wait for events on pipe 2009-03-23 09:22:15 +01:00
trace_output.c tracing/events: reuse trace event ids after overflow 2009-04-24 23:06:00 -04:00
trace_output.h tracing/events: move declarations from trace directory to core include 2009-04-14 12:57:58 -04:00
trace_power.c tracing/filters: use ring_buffer_discard_commit() in filter_check_discard() 2009-04-14 00:00:56 +02:00
trace_printk.c tracing/ftrace: factorize the tracing files creation 2009-04-07 14:43:07 +02:00
trace_sched_switch.c tracing/events: move trace point headers into include/trace/events 2009-04-14 22:05:43 -04:00
trace_sched_wakeup.c tracing/wakeup: move access to wakeup_cpu into spinlock 2009-04-23 23:01:36 -04:00
trace_selftest.c tracing: keep the tracing buffer after self-test failure 2009-03-22 15:17:21 +01:00
trace_selftest_dynamic.c ftrace: fix dynamic ftrace selftest 2008-05-23 21:13:23 +02:00
trace_stack.c tracing/ftrace: factorize the tracing files creation 2009-04-07 14:43:07 +02:00
trace_stat.c Merge branch 'linus' into tracing/core 2009-04-07 13:47:45 +02:00
trace_stat.h tracing: add handler to trace_stat 2009-03-24 23:22:58 -04:00
trace_syscalls.c tracing/syscalls: use a dedicated file header 2009-04-09 05:43:32 +02:00
trace_sysprof.c tracing/ftrace: factorize the tracing files creation 2009-04-07 14:43:07 +02:00
trace_workqueue.c Merge branch 'linus' into tracing/core 2009-04-07 13:47:45 +02:00