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16 years agoftrace: add logic to record overruns
Steven Rostedt [Mon, 12 May 2008 19:21:01 +0000 (21:21 +0200)]
ftrace: add logic to record overruns

This patch sets up the infrastructure to record overruns of the tracing
buffer.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
16 years agox86_64: fix kernel rodata NX setting
Pekka Paalanen [Mon, 12 May 2008 19:21:01 +0000 (21:21 +0200)]
x86_64: fix kernel rodata NX setting

Without CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE, mark_rodata_ro() would mark a wrong
number of pages as no-execute. The bug was introduced in the patch
"ftrace: dont write protect kernel text". The symptom was machine reboot
after a CPU hotplug.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
16 years agoftrace: fix comm on function trace output
Steven Rostedt [Mon, 12 May 2008 19:21:00 +0000 (21:21 +0200)]
ftrace: fix comm on function trace output

In cleaning up of the sched_switch code, the function trace recording
of task comms was removed. This patch adds back the recording of comms
for function trace. The output of ftrace now has the task comm instead
of <...>.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
16 years agoftrace: comment code
Steven Rostedt [Mon, 12 May 2008 19:21:00 +0000 (21:21 +0200)]
ftrace: comment code

This is first installment of adding documentation to the ftrace.
Expect many more patches of this kind in the near future.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
16 years agoftrace: modulize the number of CPU buffers
Steven Rostedt [Mon, 12 May 2008 19:21:00 +0000 (21:21 +0200)]
ftrace: modulize the number of CPU buffers

Currently ftrace allocates a trace buffer for every possible CPU.
Work is being done to change it to only online CPUs and add hooks
to hotplug CPUS.

This patch lays out the infrastructure for such a change.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
16 years agoftrace: replace simple_strtoul with strict_strtoul
Steven Rostedt [Mon, 12 May 2008 19:21:00 +0000 (21:21 +0200)]
ftrace: replace simple_strtoul with strict_strtoul

Andrew Morton suggested using strict_strtoul over simple_strtoul.
This patch replaces them in ftrace.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
16 years agoftrace: simple clean ups
Steven Rostedt [Mon, 12 May 2008 19:21:00 +0000 (21:21 +0200)]
ftrace: simple clean ups

Andrew Morton mentioned some clean ups that should be done to ftrace.
This patch does some of the simple clean ups.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
16 years agoftrace: cleanups
Ingo Molnar [Mon, 12 May 2008 19:21:00 +0000 (21:21 +0200)]
ftrace: cleanups

no code changed.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
16 years agoftrace: simplify hexprint
Thomas Gleixner [Mon, 12 May 2008 19:21:00 +0000 (21:21 +0200)]
ftrace: simplify hexprint

simplify hex to ascii conversion.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
16 years agolockdep: update lockdep_recursion on graph_lock
Steven Rostedt [Mon, 12 May 2008 19:21:00 +0000 (21:21 +0200)]
lockdep: update lockdep_recursion on graph_lock

With the introduction of ftrace, it is possible to recurse into
the lockdep functions via the mcount call. To prevent possible
lockups, updating the lockdep_recursion counter on grabbing the internal
lockdep_lock should prevent deadlocks.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
16 years agoftrace: trace_entries to dynamically change trace buffer size
Steven Rostedt [Mon, 12 May 2008 19:20:59 +0000 (21:20 +0200)]
ftrace: trace_entries to dynamically change trace buffer size

This patch adds /debug/tracing/trace_entries that allows users to
see as well as modify the number of trace entries the buffers hold.

The number of entries only increments in ENTRIES_PER_PAGE which is
calculated by the size of an entry with the number of entries that
can fit in a page. The user does not need to use an exact size, but
the entries will be rounded to one of the increments.

Trying to set the entries to 0 will return with -EINVAL.

To avoid race conditions, the modification of the buffer size can only
be done when tracing is completely disabled (current_tracer == none).
A info message will be printed if a user tries to modify the buffer size
when not set to none.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
16 years agoftrace: user proper API for setting RT prios in selftest
Steven Rostedt [Mon, 12 May 2008 19:20:59 +0000 (21:20 +0200)]
ftrace: user proper API for setting RT prios in selftest

The wakeup selftest used an internal API for setting the test task priority.
This patch fixes it to use the proper API for performing such a task.

Thanks goes to Randy Dunlap for pointing out this build failure.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
16 years agoftrace: trace_pipe implement NONBLOCK
Steven Rostedt [Mon, 12 May 2008 19:20:58 +0000 (21:20 +0200)]
ftrace: trace_pipe implement NONBLOCK

This patch implements "NONBLOCK" for trace_pipe. If the trace_pipe is opened
with O_NONBLOCK, then the trace_pipe read will not block when buffer is empty.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
16 years agoftrace: return EOF in trace_pipe on change of tracer
Steven Rostedt [Mon, 12 May 2008 19:20:58 +0000 (21:20 +0200)]
ftrace: return EOF in trace_pipe on change of tracer

Break out of while loop with EOF when the current_trace changes.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
16 years agoftrace: restore iterator trace in pipe read
Steven Rostedt [Mon, 12 May 2008 19:20:58 +0000 (21:20 +0200)]
ftrace: restore iterator trace in pipe read

The trace iterator is reset in the read. We still need to restore the tracer
that the trace_pipe was opened with.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
16 years agoftrace: allow trace_pipe to block on all reads
Steven Rostedt [Mon, 12 May 2008 19:20:58 +0000 (21:20 +0200)]
ftrace: allow trace_pipe to block on all reads

We expect things like "cat" to block on reads to trace_pipe. That's what
trace_pipe is for.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
16 years agoftrace: fix conversion of task state to char in latency tracer
Ankita Garg [Mon, 12 May 2008 19:20:58 +0000 (21:20 +0200)]
ftrace: fix conversion of task state to char in latency tracer

The conversion of task states to a character in the sched_switch tracer (part
of latency tracer infrastructure), seems to be incorrect. We currently do it
by indexing into the state_to_char array using the state value. The state
values do not map directly into the array index and are thus incorrect. The
following patch addresses this issue. This is also what is being done even
in the show_task() routine in kernel/sched.c

The patch has been compile and run tested.

Signed-off-by: Ankita Garg <ankita@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
16 years agoftrace: move enums to ftrace.h and make helper function global
Thomas Gleixner [Fri, 23 May 2008 19:37:28 +0000 (21:37 +0200)]
ftrace: move enums to ftrace.h and make helper function global

picked from the mmiotracer patches to distangle the patch queues.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
16 years agox86: add a list for custom page fault handlers.
Pekka Paalanen [Mon, 12 May 2008 19:20:56 +0000 (21:20 +0200)]
x86: add a list for custom page fault handlers.

Provides kernel modules a way to register custom page fault handlers.
On every page fault this will call a list of registered functions. The
functions may handle the fault and force do_page_fault() to return
immediately.

This functionality is similar to the now removed page fault notifiers.
Custom page fault handlers are used by debugging and reverse engineering
tools. Mmiotrace is one such tool and a patch to add it into the tree
will follow.

The custom page fault handlers are called earlier in do_page_fault()
than the page fault notifiers were.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
16 years agoftrace: dont write protect kernel text
Steven Rostedt [Mon, 12 May 2008 19:20:56 +0000 (21:20 +0200)]
ftrace: dont write protect kernel text

Dynamic ftrace cant work when the kernel has its text write protected.
This patch keeps the kernel from being write protected when
dynamic ftrace is in place.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
16 years agoftrace: fix the fault label in updating code
Steven Rostedt [Mon, 12 May 2008 19:20:56 +0000 (21:20 +0200)]
ftrace: fix the fault label in updating code

The fault label to jump to on fault of updating the code was misplaced
preventing the fault from being recorded.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
16 years agoftrace: selftest protect againt max flip
Steven Rostedt [Mon, 12 May 2008 19:20:56 +0000 (21:20 +0200)]
ftrace: selftest protect againt max flip

There is a slight race condition in the selftest where the max update
of the wakeup and irqs/preemption off tests can be doing a max update as
the buffers are being tested. If this happens the system can crash with
a GPF.

This patch adds the max update spinlock around the checking of the
buffers to prevent such a race.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
16 years agoftrace: fix mutex unlock in trace output
Steven Rostedt [Mon, 12 May 2008 19:20:56 +0000 (21:20 +0200)]
ftrace: fix mutex unlock in trace output

If the trace output changes on reading the trace files, there is a chance
that the start function will return NULL. If the start function of a sequence
returns NULL the stop equivalent is not called. In this case, all locks
that are taken must be released even if they are released in the stop function.

This patch fixes a case that a mutex was not released on return of NULL
in the start sequence function.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
16 years agoftrace: add UNINTERRUPTIBLE state for kftraced on disable
Steven Rostedt [Mon, 12 May 2008 19:20:55 +0000 (21:20 +0200)]
ftrace: add UNINTERRUPTIBLE state for kftraced on disable

When dynamic ftrace fails and sets itself disabled, the ftraced daemon
will go back to sleep everytime it wakes up. The setting of the
ftraced state to UNINTERRUPTIBLE is skipped in this process, and the
daemon takes up 100% of the CPU.  This patch makes sure the ftraced daemon
sets itself to UNINTERRUPTIBLE in that loop.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
16 years agoftrace: restrict tracing to HAVE_FTRACE architectures
Ingo Molnar [Mon, 12 May 2008 19:20:55 +0000 (21:20 +0200)]
ftrace: restrict tracing to HAVE_FTRACE architectures

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
16 years agoftrace: use Makefile to remove tracing from lockdep
Steven Rostedt [Mon, 12 May 2008 19:20:55 +0000 (21:20 +0200)]
ftrace: use Makefile to remove tracing from lockdep

This patch removes the "notrace" annotation from lockdep and adds the debugging
files in the kernel director to those that should not be compiled with
"-pg" mcount tracing.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
16 years agoftrace: remove function tracing from spinlock debug
Steven Rostedt [Mon, 12 May 2008 19:20:55 +0000 (21:20 +0200)]
ftrace: remove function tracing from spinlock debug

The debug functions in spin_lock debugging pollute the output of the
function tracer. This patch adds the debug files in the lib director
to those that should not be compiled with mcount tracing.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
16 years agoftrace: user raw_spin_lock in tracing
Steven Rostedt [Mon, 12 May 2008 19:20:55 +0000 (21:20 +0200)]
ftrace: user raw_spin_lock in tracing

Lock debugging enabled cause huge performance problems for tracing. Having
the lock verification happening for every function that is called
because mcount calls spin_lock can cripple the system.

This patch converts the spin_locks used by ftrace into raw_spin_locks.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
16 years agoftrace: irqsoff use raw_smp_processor_id
Steven Rostedt [Mon, 12 May 2008 19:20:55 +0000 (21:20 +0200)]
ftrace: irqsoff use raw_smp_processor_id

This patch changes the use of __get_cpu_var to explicitly calling
raw_smp_processor_id and using the per_cpu() macro. On some debug
configurations, the use of __get_cpu_var may cause ftrace to trigger
and this can cause problems with the irqsoff tracing.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
16 years agoftrace: remove add-hoc code
Ingo Molnar [Mon, 12 May 2008 19:20:54 +0000 (21:20 +0200)]
ftrace: remove add-hoc code

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
16 years agoftrace: fix dynamic ftrace selftest
Steven Rostedt [Mon, 12 May 2008 19:20:54 +0000 (21:20 +0200)]
ftrace: fix dynamic ftrace selftest

With the adding of the configuration changes in the Makefile to prevent
tracing of functions in the ftrace code, all tracing of all the ftrace
code has been removed. Unfortunately, one of the selftests, relied on
a function to be traced. With the new change, the function was no longer
traced and the test failed.

This patch separates out the test function into its own file so that
we can add the "-pg" flag to the compilation of that function and the
adding of the mcount call to that function.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
16 years agoftrace: add TRACE_STACK and TRACE_SPECIAL to selftest validation
Steven Rostedt [Mon, 12 May 2008 19:20:54 +0000 (21:20 +0200)]
ftrace: add TRACE_STACK and TRACE_SPECIAL to selftest validation

The selftest validation code checks for valid entries in the trace buffer.
TRACE_STACK and TRACE_SPECIAL have been added to the code but not to
the validator. This patch adds the two to prevent them from flagging a
failure in the selftest.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
16 years agoftrace: printk and trace irqsoff and wakeups
Steven Rostedt [Mon, 12 May 2008 19:20:54 +0000 (21:20 +0200)]
ftrace: printk and trace irqsoff and wakeups

printk called from wakeup critical timings and irqs off can
cause deadlocks since printk might do a wakeup itself. If the
call to printk happens with the runqueue lock held, it can
deadlock.

This patch protects the printk from being called in trace irqs off
with a test to see if the runqueue for the current CPU is locked.
If it is locked, the printk is skipped.

The wakeup always holds the runqueue lock, so the printk is
simply removed.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
16 years agoftrace: remove wakeup from function trace
Steven Rostedt [Mon, 12 May 2008 19:20:54 +0000 (21:20 +0200)]
ftrace: remove wakeup from function trace

trace_function is called by mcount and calling wake_up from that
can have unpredictable results. This patch removes the wakeup from
trace_function.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
16 years agoftrace: make it more available in the Kconfig
Ingo Molnar [Mon, 12 May 2008 19:20:54 +0000 (21:20 +0200)]
ftrace: make it more available in the Kconfig

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
16 years agoftrace: fix wakeup callback
Peter Zijlstra [Mon, 12 May 2008 19:20:53 +0000 (21:20 +0200)]
ftrace: fix wakeup callback

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
16 years agoftrace: trace next state
Peter Zijlstra [Mon, 12 May 2008 19:20:53 +0000 (21:20 +0200)]
ftrace: trace next state

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
16 years agoftrace: sched special
Ingo Molnar [Mon, 12 May 2008 19:20:53 +0000 (21:20 +0200)]
ftrace: sched special

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
16 years agoftrace: sched tree fix
Ingo Molnar [Mon, 12 May 2008 19:20:53 +0000 (21:20 +0200)]
ftrace: sched tree fix

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
16 years agoftrace: include cpu in stacktrace
Ingo Molnar [Mon, 12 May 2008 19:20:53 +0000 (21:20 +0200)]
ftrace: include cpu in stacktrace

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
16 years agoftrace: iter ctrl fix
Ingo Molnar [Mon, 12 May 2008 19:20:53 +0000 (21:20 +0200)]
ftrace: iter ctrl fix

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
16 years agoftrace: fix cmdline tracing
Ingo Molnar [Mon, 12 May 2008 19:20:53 +0000 (21:20 +0200)]
ftrace: fix cmdline tracing

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
16 years agoftrace: make use of tracing_cpumask
Ingo Molnar [Mon, 12 May 2008 19:20:52 +0000 (21:20 +0200)]
ftrace: make use of tracing_cpumask

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
16 years agoftrace: add tracing_cpumask
Ingo Molnar [Mon, 12 May 2008 19:20:52 +0000 (21:20 +0200)]
ftrace: add tracing_cpumask

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
16 years agoftrace: trace scheduler rbtree
Ingo Molnar [Mon, 12 May 2008 19:20:52 +0000 (21:20 +0200)]
ftrace: trace scheduler rbtree

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
16 years agoftrace: fix __trace_special()
Ingo Molnar [Mon, 12 May 2008 19:20:52 +0000 (21:20 +0200)]
ftrace: fix __trace_special()

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
16 years agoftrace: fix wakeups
Ingo Molnar [Mon, 12 May 2008 19:20:52 +0000 (21:20 +0200)]
ftrace: fix wakeups

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
16 years agoftrace: trace curr/next tasks
Ingo Molnar [Mon, 12 May 2008 19:20:52 +0000 (21:20 +0200)]
ftrace: trace curr/next tasks

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
16 years agoftrace: sched tracer, trace full rbtree
Ingo Molnar [Mon, 12 May 2008 19:20:52 +0000 (21:20 +0200)]
ftrace: sched tracer, trace full rbtree

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
16 years agoftrace: make nostacktrace the default
Ingo Molnar [Mon, 12 May 2008 19:20:51 +0000 (21:20 +0200)]
ftrace: make nostacktrace the default

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
16 years agoftrace: sched tracer fix
Ingo Molnar [Mon, 12 May 2008 19:20:51 +0000 (21:20 +0200)]
ftrace: sched tracer fix

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
16 years agoftrace: add stack tracing
Ingo Molnar [Mon, 12 May 2008 19:20:51 +0000 (21:20 +0200)]
ftrace: add stack tracing

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
16 years agoftrace: add wakeup events to sched tracer
Ingo Molnar [Mon, 12 May 2008 19:20:51 +0000 (21:20 +0200)]
ftrace: add wakeup events to sched tracer

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
16 years agoftrace: remove notrace
Ingo Molnar [Mon, 12 May 2008 19:20:51 +0000 (21:20 +0200)]
ftrace: remove notrace

now that we have a kbuild method for notrace, no need to pollute the
C code with the annotations.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
16 years agoftrace: disable -pg for the tracer itself
Ingo Molnar [Mon, 12 May 2008 19:20:51 +0000 (21:20 +0200)]
ftrace: disable -pg for the tracer itself

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
16 years agoftrace: do not profile lib/string.o
Steven Rostedt [Mon, 12 May 2008 19:20:50 +0000 (21:20 +0200)]
ftrace: do not profile lib/string.o

Most archs define the string and memory compare functions in assembly.
Some do not. But these functions may be used in some archs at early
boot up.

Since most archs define this code in assembly and they are not usually
traced, there's no need to trace them when they are not defined in
assembly.

This patch removes the -pg from the CFLAGS for lib/string.o.
This prevents the string functions use in either vdso or early bootup
from crashing the system.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
16 years agoftrace: remove address of function names
Steven Rostedt [Mon, 12 May 2008 19:20:50 +0000 (21:20 +0200)]
ftrace: remove address of function names

PowerPC is very fragile when it comes to use of function names
and function addresses.  ftrace needs to either use all function
addresses or function names (i.e. my_func as suppose to &my_func).

This patch chooses to use the names and not the addresses, and
makes ftrace consistent.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
16 years agoftrace: cleanups
Ingo Molnar [Mon, 12 May 2008 19:20:50 +0000 (21:20 +0200)]
ftrace: cleanups

clean up recent code.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
16 years agoftrace: add trace_function api for other tracers to use
Steven Rostedt [Mon, 12 May 2008 19:20:49 +0000 (21:20 +0200)]
ftrace: add trace_function api for other tracers to use

A new check was added in the ftrace function that wont trace if the CPU
trace buffer is disabled.  Unfortunately, other tracers used ftrace() to
write to the buffer after they disabled it. The new disable check makes
these calls into a nop.

This patch changes the __ftrace that is called without the check into a
new api for the other tracers to use, called "trace_function". The other
tracers use this interface instead when the trace CPU buffer is already
disabled.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
16 years agoftrace: allow the event pipe to be polled
Soeren Sandmann Pedersen [Mon, 12 May 2008 19:20:49 +0000 (21:20 +0200)]
ftrace: allow the event pipe to be polled

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
16 years agoftrace: build fix
Ingo Molnar [Mon, 12 May 2008 19:20:49 +0000 (21:20 +0200)]
ftrace: build fix

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
16 years agoftrace: build fix
Ingo Molnar [Mon, 12 May 2008 19:20:49 +0000 (21:20 +0200)]
ftrace: build fix

no need to backmerge, only affects ftrace-enabled kernels. (which is
not the default)

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
16 years agoftrace: introduce the "hex" output method
Ingo Molnar [Mon, 12 May 2008 19:20:49 +0000 (21:20 +0200)]
ftrace: introduce the "hex" output method

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
16 years agoftrace: build fix
Ingo Molnar [Mon, 12 May 2008 19:20:49 +0000 (21:20 +0200)]
ftrace: build fix

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
16 years agoftrace: use cpu clock again
Ingo Molnar [Mon, 12 May 2008 19:20:48 +0000 (21:20 +0200)]
ftrace: use cpu clock again

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
16 years agoftrace: enabled tracing by default
Steven Rostedt [Mon, 12 May 2008 19:20:48 +0000 (21:20 +0200)]
ftrace: enabled tracing by default

This patch is the correct way to have tracing enabled by default.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
16 years agoftrace: disable tracing on failure
Steven Rostedt [Mon, 12 May 2008 19:20:48 +0000 (21:20 +0200)]
ftrace: disable tracing on failure

Since ftrace touches practically every function. If we detect any
anomaly, we want to fully disable ftrace. This patch adds code
to try shutdown ftrace as much as possible without doing any more
harm is something is detected not quite correct.

This only kills ftrace, this patch does have checks for other parts of
the tracer (irqsoff, wakeup, etc.).

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
16 years agoftrace - fix dynamic ftrace memory leak
Steven Rostedt [Mon, 12 May 2008 19:20:48 +0000 (21:20 +0200)]
ftrace - fix dynamic ftrace memory leak

The ftrace dynamic function update allocates a record to store the
instruction pointers that are being modified. If the modified
instruction pointer fails to update, then the record is marked as
failed and nothing more is done.

Worse, if the modification fails, but the record ip function is still
called, it will allocate a new record and try again. In just a matter
of time, will this cause a serious memory leak and crash the system.

This patch plugs this memory leak. When a record fails, it is
included back into the pool of records to be used. Now a record may
fail over and over again, but the number of allocated records will
not increase.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
16 years agoftrace: pipe fixes
Steven Rostedt [Mon, 12 May 2008 19:20:48 +0000 (21:20 +0200)]
ftrace: pipe fixes

Some fixes for better output with the trace pipe.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
16 years agoftrace, locking fix
Ingo Molnar [Mon, 12 May 2008 19:20:48 +0000 (21:20 +0200)]
ftrace, locking fix

should be an irq-safe lock ...

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
16 years agoftrace: add trace_special()
Ingo Molnar [Mon, 12 May 2008 19:20:47 +0000 (21:20 +0200)]
ftrace: add trace_special()

for ad-hoc tracing.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
16 years agoftrace: bin-output
Ingo Molnar [Mon, 12 May 2008 19:20:47 +0000 (21:20 +0200)]
ftrace: bin-output

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
16 years agoftrace: add raw output
Ingo Molnar [Mon, 12 May 2008 19:20:47 +0000 (21:20 +0200)]
ftrace: add raw output

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
16 years agoftrace: clean-up-pipe-iteration
Ingo Molnar [Mon, 12 May 2008 19:20:46 +0000 (21:20 +0200)]
ftrace: clean-up-pipe-iteration

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
16 years agoftrace: remove-idx-sync
Ingo Molnar [Mon, 12 May 2008 19:20:46 +0000 (21:20 +0200)]
ftrace: remove-idx-sync

remove idx syncing - it's expensive on SMP.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
16 years agoftrace: fast, scalable, synchronized timestamps
Ingo Molnar [Mon, 12 May 2008 19:20:46 +0000 (21:20 +0200)]
ftrace: fast, scalable, synchronized timestamps

implement globally synchronized, fast and scalable time source for tracing.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
16 years agoftrace: timestamp syncing, prepare
Ingo Molnar [Mon, 12 May 2008 19:20:46 +0000 (21:20 +0200)]
ftrace: timestamp syncing, prepare

rename and uninline now() to ftrace_now().

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
16 years agoftrace: cleanups
Ingo Molnar [Mon, 12 May 2008 19:20:46 +0000 (21:20 +0200)]
ftrace: cleanups

no code changed.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
16 years agoftrace: fix locking
Ingo Molnar [Mon, 12 May 2008 19:20:46 +0000 (21:20 +0200)]
ftrace: fix locking

we can hold all cpu trace buffer locks at once - put each into a
separate lock class.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
16 years agoftrace: user run time file reading
Steven Rostedt [Mon, 12 May 2008 19:20:46 +0000 (21:20 +0200)]
ftrace: user run time file reading

This patch creates a file called trace_pipe in the tracing
debug directory. This file is a consumer of the trace buffers.
This means that reads of this file consumes the entries from
the trace buffers so that they will not be read a second time,
as contrast to the static buffers latency_trace and trace.

Reading from the trace_pipe will remove the entries from trace
and latency_trace too.

The advantage that trace_pipe has is that it can record live
traces. It will block when there is nothing in the buffer,
and read the entries as they are entered.  An EOF happens when
tracing is disabled (tracing_enabled = 0).

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
16 years agoftrace: add a buffer for output
Steven Rostedt [Mon, 12 May 2008 19:20:46 +0000 (21:20 +0200)]
ftrace: add a buffer for output

Later patches will need to print the same things as the seq output
does. But those outputs will not use the seq utility. This patch
adds a buffer to the iterator, that can be used by either the
seq utility or other output.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
16 years agoftrace: change buffers to producer consumer
Steven Rostedt [Mon, 12 May 2008 19:20:45 +0000 (21:20 +0200)]
ftrace: change buffers to producer consumer

This patch changes the way the CPU trace buffers are handled.
Instead of always starting from the trace page head, the logic
is changed to a producer consumer logic. This allows for the
buffers to be drained while they are alive.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
16 years agoftrace: reset selftests
Steven Rostedt [Mon, 12 May 2008 19:20:45 +0000 (21:20 +0200)]
ftrace: reset selftests

The tests may leave stuff in the buffers. This resets the buffers
after each test is run. If a test fails, it does not reset the
buffer to avoid touching a buffer that is corrupted.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
16 years agoftrace: disable all tracers on corrupted buffer
Steven Rostedt [Mon, 12 May 2008 19:20:45 +0000 (21:20 +0200)]
ftrace: disable all tracers on corrupted buffer

If the trace buffer is detected to be corrupted, then we
disable all tracers.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
16 years agoftrace: fix time offset
Ingo Molnar [Mon, 12 May 2008 19:20:45 +0000 (21:20 +0200)]
ftrace: fix time offset

fix time offset calculations and ordering, plus make code more consistent.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
16 years agoftrace: startup tester on dynamic tracing.
Steven Rostedt [Mon, 12 May 2008 19:20:45 +0000 (21:20 +0200)]
ftrace: startup tester on dynamic tracing.

This patch adds a startup self test on dynamic code modification
and filters. The test filters on a specific function, makes sure that
no other function is traced, exectutes the function, then makes sure that
the function is traced.

This patch also fixes a slight bug with the ftrace selftest, where
tracer_enabled was not being set.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
16 years agoftrace: add README
Ingo Molnar [Mon, 12 May 2008 19:20:45 +0000 (21:20 +0200)]
ftrace: add README

make it easier for newbies to find their way around.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
16 years agoftrace: cleanups
Ingo Molnar [Mon, 12 May 2008 19:20:45 +0000 (21:20 +0200)]
ftrace: cleanups

factor out code and clean it up.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
16 years agoftrace: add self-tests
Steven Rostedt [Mon, 12 May 2008 19:20:44 +0000 (21:20 +0200)]
ftrace: add self-tests

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
16 years agoftrace: force recording
Steven Rostedt [Mon, 12 May 2008 19:20:44 +0000 (21:20 +0200)]
ftrace: force recording

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
16 years agoftrace: fix max latency
Steven Rostedt [Mon, 12 May 2008 19:20:44 +0000 (21:20 +0200)]
ftrace: fix max latency

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
16 years agoftrace: fix updates to max trace
Steven Rostedt [Mon, 12 May 2008 19:20:44 +0000 (21:20 +0200)]
ftrace: fix updates to max trace

This patch fixes some bugs to the updating of the max trace that
was caused by implementing the new buffering.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
16 years agoftrace: don't use raw_local_irq_save/restore
Steven Rostedt [Mon, 12 May 2008 19:20:44 +0000 (21:20 +0200)]
ftrace: don't use raw_local_irq_save/restore

Using raw_local_irq_save/restore confuses lockdep.
It's fine to use the normal ones.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
16 years agoftrace: lockdep notrace annotations
Steven Rostedt [Mon, 12 May 2008 19:20:44 +0000 (21:20 +0200)]
ftrace: lockdep notrace annotations

Add notrace annotations to lockdep to keep ftrace from causing
recursive problems with lock tracing and debugging.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
16 years agoftrace: irqs off smp_processor_id() fix
Steven Rostedt [Mon, 12 May 2008 19:20:44 +0000 (21:20 +0200)]
ftrace: irqs off smp_processor_id() fix

The irqsoff function tracer did a __get_cpu_var to determine
if it should trace the function or not. The problem is that
__get_cpu_var can preempt between getting the CPU and reading
the cpu variable. This means that the cpu variable that is
being read is not from the cpu being run on.

At worst, this can give a false positive, where we trace the
function when we should not.  It will never give a false negative
since we only want to trace when interrupts are disabled
and we never preempt when they are.

This fix adds a check after reading the irq flags to only
trace if the interrupts are actually disabled. It also changes
the reading of the cpu variable to use a raw_smp_processor_id
since we now don't care if we preempt. We still catch that fact.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
16 years agoftrace: debug smp_processor_id, use notrace preempt disable
Steven Rostedt [Mon, 12 May 2008 19:20:44 +0000 (21:20 +0200)]
ftrace: debug smp_processor_id, use notrace preempt disable

The debug smp_processor_id caused a recursive fault in debugging
the irqsoff tracer. The tracer used a smp_processor_id in the
ftrace callback, and this function called preempt_disable which
also is traced. This caused a recursive fault (stack overload).

Since using smp_processor_id without debugging on does not cause
faults with the tracer (even when the tracer is wrong), the
debug version should not cause a system reboot.

This changes the debug_smp_processor_id to use the notrace versions
of preempt_disable and enable.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
16 years agoftrace: fix kexec
Ingo Molnar [Mon, 12 May 2008 19:20:43 +0000 (21:20 +0200)]
ftrace: fix kexec

disable the tracer while kexec pulls the rug from under the old
kernel.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
16 years agoftrace: convert single large buffer into single pages.
Steven Rostedt [Mon, 12 May 2008 19:20:43 +0000 (21:20 +0200)]
ftrace: convert single large buffer into single pages.

Allocating large buffers for the tracer may fail easily.
This patch converts the buffer from a large ordered allocation
to single pages. It uses the struct page LRU field to link the
pages together.

Later patches may also implement dynamic increasing and decreasing
of the trace buffers.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
16 years agoftrace: add filter select functions to trace
Steven Rostedt [Mon, 12 May 2008 19:20:43 +0000 (21:20 +0200)]
ftrace: add filter select functions to trace

This patch adds two files to the debugfs system:

 /debugfs/tracing/available_filter_functions

and

 /debugfs/tracing/set_ftrace_filter

The available_filter_functions lists all functions that has been
recorded by the ftraced that has called the ftrace_record_ip function.
This is to allow users to see what functions have been converted
to nops and can be enabled for tracing.

To enable functions, simply echo the names (whitespace delimited)
into set_ftrace_filter. Simple wildcards are also allowed.

echo 'scheduler' > /debugfs/tracing/set_ftrace_filter

Will have only the scheduler be activated when tracing is enabled.

echo 'sched_*' > /debugfs/tracing/set_ftrace_filter

Will have only the functions starting with 'sched_' be activated.

echo '*lock' > /debugfs/tracing/set_ftrace_filter

Will have only functions ending with 'lock' be activated.

echo '*lock*' > /debugfs/tracing/set_ftrace_filter

Will have only functions with 'lock' in its name be activated.

Note: 'sched*lock' will not work. The only wildcards that are
allowed is an asterisk and the beginning and or end of the string
passed in.

Multiple names can be passed in with whitespace delimited:

echo 'scheduler *lock *acpi*' > /debugfs/tracing/set_ftrace_filter

is also the same as:

echo 'scheduler' > /debugfs/tracing/set_ftrace_filter
echo '*lock' >> /debugfs/tracing/set_ftrace_filter
echo '*acpi*' >> /debugfs/tracing/set_ftrace_filter

Appending does just that. It appends to the list.

To disable all filters simply echo an empty line in:

echo > /debugfs/tracing/set_ftrace_filter

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
16 years agoftrace: use dynamic patching for updating mcount calls
Steven Rostedt [Mon, 12 May 2008 19:20:43 +0000 (21:20 +0200)]
ftrace: use dynamic patching for updating mcount calls

This patch replaces the indirect call to the mcount function
pointer with a direct call that will be patched by the
dynamic ftrace routines.

On boot up, the mcount function calls the ftace_stub function.
When the dynamic ftrace code is initialized, the ftrace_stub
is replaced with a call to the ftrace_record_ip, which records
the instruction pointers of the locations that call it.

Later, the ftraced daemon will call kstop_machine and patch all
the locations to nops.

When a ftrace is enabled, the original calls to mcount will now
be set top call ftrace_caller, which will do a direct call
to the registered ftrace function. This direct call is also patched
when the function that should be called is updated.

All patching is performed by a kstop_machine routine to prevent any
type of race conditions that is associated with modifying code
on the fly.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>