linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/8] ftrace: updates to tip

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Message-ID: <20090120120512.GA7790@elte.hu>
Date:	Tue, 20 Jan 2009 13:05:12 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] ftrace: updates to tip


* Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org> wrote:

> Ingo,
> 
> The one patch I did here, will need to go to stable as well. I'll write
> up a patch against stable, and as soon as it gets into Linus's tree,
> it should also be pulled into stable as well. Without the patch, some
> archs will not be able to perform any tracing. There is an alignment
> issue that will cause the ring buffer to fail to commit any transactions.
> 
> -- Steve
> 
> 
> The following patches are in:
> 
>   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace.git
> 
>     branch: tip/devel
> 
> 
> Lai Jiangshan (1):
>       trace_workqueue: use percpu data for workqueue stat
> 
> Markus Metzger (6):
>       x86, ftrace, hw-branch-tracer: support hotplug cpus
>       x86, ftrace, hw-branch-tracer: dump trace on oops
>       x86, ftrace, hw-branch-tracer: reset trace buffer on close
>       x86, ftrace, hw-branch-tracer: change trace format
>       x86, ftrace, hw-branch-tracer: documentation
>       x86, ds, bts: cleanup DS configuration
> 
> Steven Rostedt (1):
>       ring-buffer: fix alignment problem
> 
> ----
>  Documentation/ftrace.txt         |   74 ++++++++++++++++
>  arch/x86/kernel/ds.c             |   31 ++++---
>  arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c      |    6 ++
>  include/linux/ftrace.h           |   13 +++
>  kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c       |    2 +-
>  kernel/trace/trace.h             |    1 -
>  kernel/trace/trace_hw_branches.c |  173 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
>  kernel/trace/trace_workqueue.c   |   64 +++++++--------
>  8 files changed, 281 insertions(+), 83 deletions(-)

Pulled into tip/tracing/ftrace, thanks Steve!

	Ingo
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