linux/kernel/trace
Steven Rostedt 897f68a48b ftrace: Use only the preempt version of function tracing
The function tracer had two different versions of function tracing.

The disabling of irqs version and the preempt disable version.

As function tracing in very intrusive and can cause nasty recursion
issues, it has its own recursion protection. But the old method to
do this was a flat layer. If it detected that a recursion was happening
then it would just return without recording.

This made the preempt version (much faster than the irq disabling one)
not very useful, because if an interrupt were to occur after the
recursion flag was set, the interrupt would not be traced at all,
because every function that was traced would think it recursed on
itself (due to the context it preempted setting the recursive flag).

Now that we have a recursion flag for every context level, we
no longer need to worry about that. We can disable preemption,
set the current context recursion check bit, and go on. If an
interrupt were to come along, it would check its own context bit
and happily continue to trace.

As the preempt version is faster than the irq disable version,
there's no more reason to keep the preempt version around.
And the irq disable version still had an issue with missing
out on tracing NMI code.

Remove the irq disable function tracer version and have the
preempt disable version be the default (and only version).

Before this patch we had from running:

 # echo function > /debug/tracing/current_tracer
 # for i in `seq 10`; do ./hackbench 50; done
Time: 12.028
Time: 11.945
Time: 11.925
Time: 11.964
Time: 12.002
Time: 11.910
Time: 11.944
Time: 11.929
Time: 11.941
Time: 11.924

(average: 11.9512)

Now we have:

 # echo function > /debug/tracing/current_tracer
 # for i in `seq 10`; do ./hackbench 50; done
Time: 10.285
Time: 10.407
Time: 10.243
Time: 10.372
Time: 10.380
Time: 10.198
Time: 10.272
Time: 10.354
Time: 10.248
Time: 10.253

(average: 10.3012)

 a 13.8% savings!

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-01-22 23:38:02 -05:00
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Kconfig ftrace: Move ARCH_SUPPORTS_FTRACE_SAVE_REGS in Kconfig 2013-01-21 13:22:35 -05:00
Makefile trace: Stop compiling in trace_clock unconditionally 2012-09-13 22:52:08 -04:00
blktrace.c tracing: Use this_cpu_ptr per-cpu helper 2013-01-21 13:22:30 -05:00
ftrace.c tracing: Avoid unnecessary multiple recursion checks 2013-01-22 23:38:01 -05:00
power-traces.c perf: Clean up power events by introducing new, more generic ones 2011-01-04 08:16:54 +01:00
ring_buffer.c ring-buffer: Remove unnecessary recusive call in rb_advance_iter() 2013-01-21 13:22:29 -05:00
ring_buffer_benchmark.c tracing: Use NUMA allocation for per-cpu ring buffer pages 2011-06-14 22:04:39 -04:00
rpm-traces.c PM / Runtime: Introduce trace points for tracing rpm_* functions 2011-09-27 22:53:27 +02:00
trace.c tracing: Fix race with max_tr and changing tracers 2013-01-22 23:33:07 -05:00
trace.h tracing: Avoid unnecessary multiple recursion checks 2013-01-22 23:38:01 -05:00
trace_branch.c tracing: Cache comms only after an event occurred 2012-10-31 16:45:31 -04:00
trace_clock.c tracing: Remove trace.h header from trace_clock.c 2013-01-22 12:06:56 -05:00
trace_entries.h Merge branch 'tip/perf/urgent' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace into perf/urgent 2012-03-24 08:19:09 +01:00
trace_event_perf.c perf/core improvements and fixes: 2012-08-21 11:27:00 +02:00
trace_events.c tracing: Remove the extra 4 bytes of padding in events 2013-01-21 21:05:41 -05:00
trace_events_filter.c tracing: Replace strict_strto* with kstrto* 2012-10-31 16:45:23 -04:00
trace_events_filter_test.h tracing/filter: Add startup tests for events filter 2011-08-19 14:35:59 -04:00
trace_export.c tracing: Do not enable function event with enable 2012-05-10 15:55:43 -04:00
trace_functions.c ftrace: Use only the preempt version of function tracing 2013-01-22 23:38:02 -05:00
trace_functions_graph.c tracing/fgraph: Add max_graph_depth to limit function_graph depth 2013-01-21 13:22:34 -05:00
trace_irqsoff.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2012-12-13 12:00:02 -08:00
trace_kdb.c kdb,ftdump: Remove reference to internal kdb include 2010-10-22 15:34:11 -05:00
trace_kprobe.c tracing: Use irq_work for wake ups and remove *_nowake_*() functions 2012-11-02 10:21:52 -04:00
trace_mmiotrace.c atomic: use <linux/atomic.h> 2011-07-26 16:49:47 -07:00
trace_nop.c
trace_output.c tracing: Format non-nanosec times from tsc clock without a decimal point. 2012-11-13 15:48:40 -05:00
trace_output.h tracing: Allow events to share their print functions 2010-05-14 14:20:32 -04:00
trace_printk.c tracing: Add percpu buffers for trace_printk() 2012-04-23 21:15:55 -04:00
trace_probe.c tracing: Replace strict_strto* with kstrto* 2012-10-31 16:45:23 -04:00
trace_probe.h tracing: Provide trace events interface for uprobes 2012-05-07 14:30:17 +02:00
trace_sched_switch.c tracing: Use irq_work for wake ups and remove *_nowake_*() functions 2012-11-02 10:21:52 -04:00
trace_sched_wakeup.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2012-12-13 12:00:02 -08:00
trace_selftest.c ftrace: Fix function tracing recursion self test 2013-01-22 23:37:58 -05:00
trace_selftest_dynamic.c ftrace: Add self-tests for multiple function trace users 2011-05-18 19:24:51 -04:00
trace_stack.c tracing: Remove unneeded checks from the stack tracer 2012-11-19 15:07:13 -05:00
trace_stat.c include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
trace_stat.h
trace_syscalls.c tracing/syscalls: Make local functions static 2013-01-21 13:22:31 -05:00
trace_uprobe.c tracing: Verify target file before registering a uprobe event 2013-01-21 13:22:31 -05:00