linux-kernel - [PATCH v3] mips-specific ftrace support

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Date:	Sun, 14 Jun 2009 23:50:16 +0800
From:	Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@...il.com>
To:	linux-mips@...ux-mips.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Wang Liming <liming.wang@...driver.com>,
	Wu Zhangjin <wuzj@...ote.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Nicholas Mc Guire <der.herr@...r.at>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: [PATCH v3] mips-specific ftrace support 

From: Wu Zhangjin <wuzj@...ote.com>

ftrace is a mcount based kernel tracing tool/framework, which is originally
from RT_PREEMPT(http://rt.wiki.kernel.org).

ftrace is short for function tracer, this is its original name, but now, it
becomes a kernel tracing framework, lots of kernel tracers are built on it,
such as irqoff tracer, wakeup tracer and so forth.  these tracers are
arch-independent(?), but some of them are arch-dependent, such as the original
ftrace: function tracer, and dynamic function tracer, function graph tracer,
and also, system call tracer.

here is the mips porting of these four arch-dependent tracers, it will enable
the following new kernel config options in linux-mips system.

kernel hacking --->
           Tracers -->
                [*] Kernel Function Tracer
                [*]   Kernel Function Graph Tracer
                ...
                [*] Trace syscalls
                                ...
                [*] enable/disable ftrace tracepoints dynamically

in reality, because the timestamp getting function are arch-dependent, lots of
the tracers are arch-dependent. the arch-dependent part is that: sched_clock().
the original sched_clock() in mips is jiffes based, only give 10ms precision in
1000HZ, which is not enough for ftrace. to get high-precise timestamp, we must
implement a new native_sched_clock() via reading the MIPS clock counter, but
since it is only 32bit long, so, overflow should be handled carefully.

this -v3 patch series is based on the -v2 patch series and incorporates the
feedback from Steven Rostedt and Thomas Gleixner.

!!NOTE!!

this -v3 not support modules yet, really hope this can be fixed in -v4 patch.

read the following document, and play with it:
        Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt

Wu Zhangjin (7):
  mips static function tracer support
  add an endian argument to scripts/recordmcount.pl
  mips dynamic function tracer support
  filter local function prefixed by $L
  mips function graph tracer support
  mips specific clock function to get precise timestamp
  mips specific system call tracer

 arch/mips/Kconfig                   |    7 +
 arch/mips/Makefile                  |    2 +
 arch/mips/include/asm/ftrace.h      |   35 ++++-
 arch/mips/include/asm/ptrace.h      |    2 +
 arch/mips/include/asm/reg.h         |    5 +
 arch/mips/include/asm/syscall.h     |   84 +++++++++
 arch/mips/include/asm/thread_info.h |    5 +-
 arch/mips/kernel/Makefile           |   12 ++
 arch/mips/kernel/csrc-r4k.c         |    2 +-
 arch/mips/kernel/entry.S            |    2 +-
 arch/mips/kernel/ftrace.c           |  344 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 arch/mips/kernel/ftrace_clock.c     |   71 +++++++
 arch/mips/kernel/mcount.S           |  184 +++++++++++++++++++
 arch/mips/kernel/mips_ksyms.c       |    5 +
 arch/mips/kernel/ptrace.c           |   14 ++-
 arch/mips/kernel/scall64-o32.S      |    2 +-
 arch/mips/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S      |    1 +
 kernel/trace/trace_clock.c          |    2 +-
 scripts/Makefile.build              |    1 +
 scripts/recordmcount.pl             |   30 +++-
 20 files changed, 799 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 arch/mips/include/asm/syscall.h
 create mode 100644 arch/mips/kernel/ftrace.c
 create mode 100644 arch/mips/kernel/ftrace_clock.c
 create mode 100644 arch/mips/kernel/mcount.S

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