linux/kernel
Steven Rostedt 12ef7d4486 ftrace: CPU buffer start annotation clean ups
Impact: better handling of CPU buffer start annotation

Because of the confusion with the per CPU buffers wrapping where
one CPU might be more active at the end of the trace than the other
CPUs causing that one CPU to have a shorter history. Kernel
developers were confused by the "missing" data of that one CPU
at the beginning of the trace output. An annotation was added to
the trace output to show that the buffer had started:

 # tracer: function
 #
 #           TASK-PID    CPU#    TIMESTAMP  FUNCTION
 #              | |       |          |         |
 ##### CPU 3 buffer started ####
          <idle>-0     [003]   158.192959: smp_apic_timer_interrupt
 [...]
           <idle>-0     [003]   161.556520: default_idle
 ##### CPU 1 buffer started ####
           <idle>-0     [001]   161.592494: hrtimer_force_reprogram
 [etc]

But this annotation gets a bit messy when tracers do not fill the
buffers. This patch does a couple of things:

 One) it adds a flag to trace_options to disable these annotations

 Two) it does not annotate if the tracer did not overflow its buffer.

This makes the output much cleaner.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-13 09:49:24 +01:00
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irq irq: make variable static 2008-10-22 07:37:17 +02:00
power PM_TEST_SUSPEND should depend on RTC_CLASS, not RTC_LIB 2008-11-01 12:40:38 -07:00
time nohz: disable tick_nohz_kick_tick() for now 2008-11-10 22:39:27 +01:00
trace ftrace: CPU buffer start annotation clean ups 2008-11-13 09:49:24 +01:00
.gitignore
acct.c tty: Fix abusers of current->sighand->tty 2008-10-13 09:51:42 -07:00
audit_tree.c [PATCH] get rid of nameidata in audit_tree 2008-10-23 05:12:53 -04:00
audit.c [PATCH] Fix the bug of using AUDIT_STATUS_RATE_LIMIT when set fail, no error output. 2008-08-01 12:15:16 -04:00
audit.h
auditfilter.c Re: [PATCH] the loginuid field should be output in all AUDIT_CONFIG_CHANGE audit messages 2008-08-01 12:15:03 -04:00
auditsc.c tty: Fix abusers of current->sighand->tty 2008-10-13 09:51:42 -07:00
backtracetest.c
bounds.c
capability.c security: Fix setting of PF_SUPERPRIV by __capable() 2008-08-14 22:59:43 +10:00
cgroup_debug.c cgroups: fix probable race with put_css_set[_taskexit] and find_css_set 2008-10-20 08:52:38 -07:00
cgroup_freezer.c freezer_cg: simplify freezer_change_state() 2008-10-30 11:38:45 -07:00
cgroup.c cgroups: fix invalid cgrp->dentry before cgroup has been completely removed 2008-11-06 15:41:19 -08:00
compat.c Merge branches 'timers/clocksource', 'timers/hrtimers', 'timers/nohz', 'timers/ntp', 'timers/posixtimers' and 'timers/debug' into v28-timers-for-linus 2008-10-20 13:14:06 +02:00
configs.c kernel/configs.c: remove useless comments 2008-10-20 08:52:34 -07:00
cpu.c cpumask: introduce new API, without changing anything 2008-11-06 09:05:33 +01:00
cpuset.c cpuset: use seq_*mask_* to print masks 2008-10-20 08:52:39 -07:00
delayacct.c per-task-delay-accounting: update taskstats for memory reclaim delay 2008-07-25 10:53:47 -07:00
dma-coherent.c dma-coherent: export dma_[alloc|release]_from_coherent methods 2008-08-22 08:34:53 +02:00
dma.c kernel/dma.c: remove a CVS keyword 2008-10-16 11:21:30 -07:00
exec_domain.c proc: move /proc/execdomains to kernel/exec_domain.c 2008-10-23 14:30:41 +04:00
exit.c fix for account_group_exec_runtime(), make sure ->signal can't be freed under rq->lock 2008-11-11 08:01:43 +01:00
extable.c
fork.c Merge branch 'timers/range-hrtimers' into v28-range-hrtimers-for-linus-v2 2008-10-22 09:48:06 +02:00
freezer.c freezer_cg: use thaw_process() in unfreeze_cgroup() 2008-10-30 11:38:45 -07:00
futex_compat.c
futex.c hrtimer: make the futex() system call use the per process slack value 2008-09-11 07:17:00 -07:00
hrtimer.c timers: handle HRTIMER_CB_IRQSAFE_UNLOCKED correctly from softirq context 2008-11-11 10:46:42 +01:00
itimer.c timers: fix itimer/many thread hang 2008-09-14 16:25:35 +02:00
kallsyms.c kernel/kallsyms.c: fix double return 2008-10-16 11:21:32 -07:00
Kconfig.freezer container freezer: implement freezer cgroup subsystem 2008-10-20 08:52:34 -07:00
Kconfig.hz sched: fix SCHED_HRTICK dependency 2008-07-28 14:37:38 +02:00
Kconfig.preempt
kexec.c kexec: fix crash_save_vmcoreinfo_init build problem 2008-10-20 15:28:50 -07:00
kfifo.c
kgdb.c kgdb: call touch_softlockup_watchdog on resume 2008-10-06 13:50:59 -05:00
kmod.c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus 2008-10-16 12:38:34 -07:00
kprobes.c make kprobes.c:kretprobe_table_lock() static 2008-10-16 11:21:52 -07:00
ksysfs.c profiling: dynamically enable readprofile at runtime 2008-10-16 11:21:31 -07:00
kthread.c Merge branch 'tracing-v28-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2008-10-20 13:35:07 -07:00
latencytop.c
lockdep_internals.h lockdep: build fix 2008-08-13 12:55:10 +02:00
lockdep_proc.c lockstat: fix numerical output rounding error 2008-08-26 10:37:46 +02:00
lockdep.c lockdep: fix irqs on/off ip tracing 2008-10-28 11:19:07 +01:00
Makefile tracing, x86: add low level support for ftrace return tracing 2008-11-11 10:29:11 +01:00
marker.c markers: break the redundant loop in kernel/marker.c 2008-10-27 13:02:23 +01:00
module.c Merge branch 'proc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/adobriyan/proc 2008-10-23 12:04:37 -07:00
mutex-debug.c
mutex-debug.h
mutex.c locking: fix mutex @key parameter kernel-doc notation 2008-07-28 18:12:36 +02:00
mutex.h
notifier.c ftrace: ignore functions that cannot be kprobe-ed 2008-10-14 10:34:22 +02:00
ns_cgroup.c cgroup_clone: use pid of newly created task for new cgroup 2008-07-25 10:53:37 -07:00
nsproxy.c removed unused #include <linux/version.h>'s 2008-08-23 12:14:12 -07:00
panic.c Make panic= and panic_on_oops into core_params 2008-10-22 10:00:25 +11:00
params.c Fix compile warning in kernel/params.c 2008-10-23 12:09:00 -07:00
pid_namespace.c pid_ns: (BUG 11391) change ->child_reaper when init->group_leader exits 2008-09-02 19:21:38 -07:00
pid.c pidns: remove now unused find_pid function. 2008-07-25 10:53:45 -07:00
pm_qos_params.c pm_qos_requirement might sleep 2008-09-02 19:21:40 -07:00
posix-cpu-timers.c timers: fix itimer/many thread hang, v2 2008-09-23 13:38:44 +02:00
posix-timers.c Merge branch 'timers/range-hrtimers' into v28-range-hrtimers-for-linus-v2 2008-10-22 09:48:06 +02:00
printk.c printk: remove unused code from kernel/printk.c 2008-10-23 21:54:29 +02:00
profile.c kernel/profile: fix profile_init() section mismatch 2008-10-30 11:38:46 -07:00
ptrace.c make ptrace_untrace() static 2008-10-20 08:52:39 -07:00
rcuclassic.c rcu: RCU-based detection of stalled CPUs for Classic RCU, fix 2008-10-03 10:41:00 +02:00
rcupdate.c rcupdate: fix bug of rcu_barrier*() 2008-10-21 15:59:53 +02:00
rcupreempt_trace.c rcu: trace fix possible mem-leak 2008-08-15 17:54:40 +02:00
rcupreempt.c byteorder: remove direct includes of linux/byteorder/swab[b].h 2008-10-20 08:52:40 -07:00
rcutorture.c byteorder: remove direct includes of linux/byteorder/swab[b].h 2008-10-20 12:51:53 -07:00
relay.c relay: fix "full buffer with exactly full last subbuffer" accounting problem 2008-08-05 14:33:46 -07:00
res_counter.c cgroup files: convert res_counter_write() to be a cgroups write_string() handler 2008-07-25 10:53:36 -07:00
resource.c reserve_region_with_split: Fix GFP_KERNEL usage under spinlock 2008-11-01 09:53:58 -07:00
rtmutex_common.h
rtmutex-debug.c
rtmutex-debug.h
rtmutex-tester.c sysdev: Pass the attribute to the low level sysdev show/store function 2008-07-21 21:55:02 -07:00
rtmutex.c hrtimer: convert kernel/* to the new hrtimer apis 2008-09-05 21:35:13 -07:00
rtmutex.h
rwsem.c
sched_clock.c sched_clock: prevent scd->clock from moving backwards 2008-10-10 11:17:04 +02:00
sched_cpupri.c
sched_cpupri.h
sched_debug.c sched: clean up debug info 2008-11-10 10:51:51 +01:00
sched_fair.c sched: release buddies on yield 2008-11-11 11:57:22 +01:00
sched_features.h sched: backward looking buddy 2008-11-05 10:30:14 +01:00
sched_idletask.c sched: add CONFIG_SMP consistency 2008-10-22 10:01:52 +02:00
sched_rt.c Merge commit 'v2.6.28-rc1' into sched/urgent 2008-10-24 12:48:46 +02:00
sched_stats.h Merge branch 'proc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/adobriyan/proc 2008-10-23 12:04:37 -07:00
sched.c fix for account_group_exec_runtime(), make sure ->signal can't be freed under rq->lock 2008-11-11 08:01:43 +01:00
seccomp.c
semaphore.c semaphore: __down_common: use signal_pending_state() 2008-08-05 14:33:47 -07:00
signal.c 'kill sig -1' must only apply to caller's namespace 2008-10-30 11:38:46 -07:00
smp.c generic-ipi: fix the smp_mb() placement 2008-11-06 08:41:56 +01:00
softirq.c irq: call __irq_enter() before calling the tick_idle_check 2008-11-10 22:36:39 +01:00
softlockup.c Make the taint flags reliable 2008-10-16 11:21:31 -07:00
spinlock.c lockdep: spin_lock_nest_lock(), checkpatch fixes 2008-08-13 13:56:51 +02:00
srcu.c
stacktrace.c
stop_machine.c Revert "Call init_workqueues before pre smp initcalls." 2008-10-25 19:53:38 -07:00
sys_ni.c Configure out AIO support 2008-10-16 11:21:51 -07:00
sys.c Merge branch 'timers/range-hrtimers' into v28-range-hrtimers-for-linus-v2 2008-10-22 09:48:06 +02:00
sysctl_check.c sysctl: check for bogus modes 2008-07-25 10:53:45 -07:00
sysctl.c ftrace: sysctl typo 2008-11-04 13:04:40 +01:00
taskstats.c taskstats: remove initialization of static per-cpu variable 2008-07-25 10:53:47 -07:00
test_kprobes.c
time.c select: add a timespec_add_safe() function 2008-09-05 21:34:57 -07:00
timeconst.pl
timer.c Add round_jiffies_up and related routines 2008-11-06 08:42:48 +01:00
tracepoint.c tracepoint: introduce *_noupdate APIs. 2008-11-03 10:28:52 +01:00
tsacct.c task IO accounting: move all IO statistics in struct task_io_accounting 2008-07-27 16:12:28 -07:00
uid16.c
user_namespace.c removed unused #include <linux/version.h>'s 2008-08-23 12:14:12 -07:00
user.c sched: rt-bandwidth for user grouping interface 2008-08-19 13:10:09 +02:00
utsname_sysctl.c sysctl: simplify ->strategy 2008-10-16 11:21:47 -07:00
utsname.c removed unused #include <linux/version.h>'s 2008-08-23 12:14:12 -07:00
wait.c wait: kill is_sync_wait() 2008-10-16 11:21:31 -07:00
workqueue.c cpumask: introduce new API, without changing anything 2008-11-06 09:05:33 +01:00