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

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Tue Jan 20 2009 - 07:05:35 EST



* Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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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