[PATCH -tip tracing/kprobes 0/9] tracing/kprobes,perf: perf probe and kprobe-tracer bugfixes

From: Masami Hiramatsu
Date: Fri Oct 16 2009 - 20:09:12 EST


Hi Ingo and Frederic,

Here are the bugfix and update (mostly cleanup) patches for
previous patchset.

> I hope it's part of the last family of instruction set we
> are missing.

I added missing SSE opcodes and 3DNow! support too.
However, near future, x86 decoder may need AVX support.
(AFAIK, currently, there are no code using it.)

Thank you,

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Masami Hiramatsu (9):
perf: Add perf-probe document
perf: Add DIE_IF() macro for error checking
perf: Use eprintf() for debug messages in perf-probe
perf: Use die() for error cases in perf-probe
perf: Check libdwarf APIs for perf probe
x86: Add AMD prefetch and 3DNow! opcodes to opcode map
x86: Add MMX/SSE opcode groups to opcode map
tracing/kprobes: Add failure messages for debugging
tracing/kprobes: Update kprobe-tracer selftest against new syntax


arch/x86/lib/x86-opcode-map.txt | 23 ++++-
kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c | 39 ++++++--
tools/perf/Documentation/perf-probe.txt | 48 ++++++++++
tools/perf/Makefile | 5 +
tools/perf/builtin-probe.c | 70 ++++++---------
tools/perf/command-list.txt | 1
tools/perf/util/probe-finder.c | 149 ++++++++++++++-----------------
tools/perf/util/probe-finder.h | 17 ----
tools/perf/util/util.h | 9 ++
9 files changed, 206 insertions(+), 155 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 tools/perf/Documentation/perf-probe.txt

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Masami Hiramatsu

Software Engineer
Hitachi Computer Products (America), Inc.
Software Solutions Division
e-mail: mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx
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