android_kernel_samsung_msm8976/kernel/trace
Frederic Weisbecker 24f1e32c60 hw-breakpoints: Rewrite the hw-breakpoints layer on top of perf events
This patch rebase the implementation of the breakpoints API on top of
perf events instances.

Each breakpoints are now perf events that handle the
register scheduling, thread/cpu attachment, etc..

The new layering is now made as follows:

       ptrace       kgdb      ftrace   perf syscall
          \          |          /         /
           \         |         /         /
                                        /
            Core breakpoint API        /
                                      /
                     |               /
                     |              /

              Breakpoints perf events

                     |
                     |

               Breakpoints PMU ---- Debug Register constraints handling
                                    (Part of core breakpoint API)
                     |
                     |

             Hardware debug registers

Reasons of this rewrite:

- Use the centralized/optimized pmu registers scheduling,
  implying an easier arch integration
- More powerful register handling: perf attributes (pinned/flexible
  events, exclusive/non-exclusive, tunable period, etc...)

Impact:

- New perf ABI: the hardware breakpoints counters
- Ptrace breakpoints setting remains tricky and still needs some per
  thread breakpoints references.

Todo (in the order):

- Support breakpoints perf counter events for perf tools (ie: implement
  perf_bpcounter_event())
- Support from perf tools

Changes in v2:

- Follow the perf "event " rename
- The ptrace regression have been fixed (ptrace breakpoint perf events
  weren't released when a task ended)
- Drop the struct hw_breakpoint and store generic fields in
  perf_event_attr.
- Separate core and arch specific headers, drop
  asm-generic/hw_breakpoint.h and create linux/hw_breakpoint.h
- Use new generic len/type for breakpoint
- Handle off case: when breakpoints api is not supported by an arch

Changes in v3:

- Fix broken CONFIG_KVM, we need to propagate the breakpoint api
  changes to kvm when we exit the guest and restore the bp registers
  to the host.

Changes in v4:

- Drop the hw_breakpoint_restore() stub as it is only used by KVM
- EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL hw_breakpoint_restore() as KVM can be built as a
  module
- Restore the breakpoints unconditionally on kvm guest exit:
  TIF_DEBUG_THREAD doesn't anymore cover every cases of running
  breakpoints and vcpu->arch.switch_db_regs might not always be
  set when the guest used debug registers.
  (Waiting for a reliable optimization)

Changes in v5:

- Split-up the asm-generic/hw-breakpoint.h moving to
  linux/hw_breakpoint.h into a separate patch
- Optimize the breakpoints restoring while switching from kvm guest
  to host. We only want to restore the state if we have active
  breakpoints to the host, otherwise we don't care about messed-up
  address registers.
- Add asm/hw_breakpoint.h to Kbuild
- Fix bad breakpoint type in trace_selftest.c

Changes in v6:

- Fix wrong header inclusion in trace.h (triggered a build
  error with CONFIG_FTRACE_SELFTEST

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
2009-11-08 15:34:42 +01:00
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blktrace.c Add a tracepoint for block request remapping 2009-10-01 21:19:34 +02:00
ftrace.c ftrace: Copy ftrace_graph_filter boot param using strlcpy 2009-10-14 20:43:39 +02:00
Kconfig Merge commit 'perf/core' into perf/hw-breakpoint 2009-10-18 01:12:33 +02:00
kmemtrace.c kmemtrace: Fix up tracer registration 2009-10-01 11:53:44 +02:00
Makefile Merge commit 'perf/core' into perf/hw-breakpoint 2009-10-18 01:12:33 +02:00
power-traces.c tracing, perf: Convert the power tracer into an event tracer 2009-09-19 11:42:12 +02:00
ring_buffer.c tracing/events: Add 'signed' field to format files 2009-10-06 15:04:45 +02:00
ring_buffer_benchmark.c ring-buffer: have benchmark test print to trace buffer 2009-06-17 17:01:09 -04:00
trace.c ftrace: Rename set_bootup_ftrace into set_cmdline_ftrace 2009-10-14 20:55:55 +02:00
trace.h hw-breakpoints: Rewrite the hw-breakpoints layer on top of perf events 2009-11-08 15:34:42 +01:00
trace_boot.c tracing: add filter event logic to special, mmiotrace and boot tracers 2009-09-12 23:34:04 -04:00
trace_branch.c tracing: user local buffer variable for trace branch tracer 2009-10-07 21:53:41 -04:00
trace_clock.c tracing: optimize global_trace_clock cachelines 2009-09-15 12:24:22 -04:00
trace_entries.h hw-breakpoints: Rewrite the hw-breakpoints layer on top of perf events 2009-11-08 15:34:42 +01:00
trace_event_profile.c tracing: Use free_percpu instead of kfree 2009-10-05 10:57:56 +02:00
trace_events.c Merge branch 'tracing/core' into perf/core 2009-10-15 11:34:00 +02:00
trace_events_filter.c tracing/events: Fix locking imbalance in the filter code 2009-10-15 12:41:56 +02:00
trace_export.c tracing/events: Add 'signed' field to format files 2009-10-06 15:04:45 +02:00
trace_functions.c tracing: switch function prints from %pf to %ps 2009-09-17 15:53:40 -04:00
trace_functions_graph.c tracing: switch function prints from %pf to %ps 2009-09-17 15:53:40 -04:00
trace_hw_branches.c tracing: fix warning on kernel/trace/trace_branch.c andtrace_hw_branches.c 2009-10-07 21:52:03 -04:00
trace_irqsoff.c tracing: do not update tracing_max_latency when tracer is stopped 2009-09-12 21:45:17 -04:00
trace_ksym.c hw-breakpoints: Rewrite the hw-breakpoints layer on top of perf events 2009-11-08 15:34:42 +01:00
trace_mmiotrace.c tracing: add filter event logic to special, mmiotrace and boot tracers 2009-09-12 23:34:04 -04:00
trace_nop.c
trace_output.c tracing: fix transposed numbers of lock_depth and preempt_count 2009-10-07 14:05:04 -04:00
trace_output.h tracing: consolidate code between trace_output.c and trace_function_graph.c 2009-09-11 14:24:13 -04:00
trace_printk.c tracing: Remove markers 2009-09-18 21:22:08 +02:00
trace_sched_switch.c tracing: pass around ring buffer instead of tracer 2009-09-04 18:59:39 -04:00
trace_sched_wakeup.c tracing: do not update tracing_max_latency when tracer is stopped 2009-09-12 21:45:17 -04:00
trace_selftest.c hw-breakpoints: Rewrite the hw-breakpoints layer on top of perf events 2009-11-08 15:34:42 +01:00
trace_selftest_dynamic.c
trace_stack.c sysctl: remove "struct file *" argument of ->proc_handler 2009-09-24 07:21:04 -07:00
trace_stat.c trace_stat: Fix missing entry in stat file 2009-08-17 11:25:09 +02:00
trace_stat.h tracing/stat: Add stat_release() callback 2009-07-10 12:14:05 +02:00
trace_syscalls.c Merge branch 'tracing/core' into perf/core 2009-10-15 11:34:00 +02:00
trace_sysprof.c Merge branch 'timers-for-linus-migration' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-06-15 10:06:19 -07:00
trace_workqueue.c tracing/workqueues: Add refcnt to struct cpu_workqueue_stats 2009-07-10 12:14:07 +02:00