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From: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
	Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>,
	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>, Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>,
	Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>, Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>,
	Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Subject: [RFC GIT PULL] hw-breakpoints: Rewrite on top of perf counters
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 10:29:22 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1252571367-25876-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> (raw)

Hi,

This is a rewrite of the hardware breakpoints on top of perf counters.

Most of the details can be found in the 3rd and 4th patches.

To sum-up, this brings the perf tunable features that a perf
counter can perform:

- Hardware registers scheduling through a pmu
- Pinned/flexible, exlusive/non-exclusive, tunable periodic
  events.
- Easier arch integration
- Optimized register allocation

There is still some work to do.
Beside the todo list found in individual patches:

- Fix a nasty bug: it doesn't properly free/unregister the breakpoint
  after a use through ptrace. I should fix it soon.

- Drop the struct hw_breakpoint type and integrate the breakpoint core
  fields into the counter structure (into the perf attributes)

Thanks,
Frederic.

---
The following changes since commit d6a65dffb30d8636b1e5d4c201564ef401a246cf:
  Frederic Weisbecker (1):
        tracing: Fix ring-buffer and ksym tracer merge interaction

are available in the git repository at:

  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/random-tracing.git
	tracing/hw-breakpoints

Frederic Weisbecker (4):
      perf_counter: Add open/close pmu callbacks
      perf_counter: Export various perf helpers for external users
      hw-breakpoints: Rewrite the hw-breakpoints layer on top of perf counters
      hw-breakpoints: Arbitrate access to pmu following registers constraints

Li Zefan (1):
      ksym_tracer: Remove KSYM_SELFTEST_ENTRY

 arch/Kconfig                         |    3 +
 arch/x86/include/asm/debugreg.h      |    7 -
 arch/x86/include/asm/hw_breakpoint.h |   31 ++-
 arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h     |   10 +-
 arch/x86/kernel/hw_breakpoint.c      |  217 ++++++++------
 arch/x86/kernel/process.c            |    4 +-
 arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c         |   28 +--
 arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c         |   28 +--
 arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c             |  163 +++++++----
 arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c            |    3 -
 arch/x86/power/cpu.c                 |    6 -
 include/asm-generic/hw_breakpoint.h  |   20 +-
 include/linux/perf_counter.h         |   42 +++
 kernel/hw_breakpoint.c               |  543 ++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 kernel/perf_counter.c                |  112 +++++--
 kernel/trace/trace.h                 |    1 -
 kernel/trace/trace_ksym.c            |  151 +++++++---
 kernel/trace/trace_selftest.c        |    2 +-
 18 files changed, 840 insertions(+), 531 deletions(-)

             reply	other threads:[~2009-09-10  8:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-10  8:29 Frederic Weisbecker [this message]
2009-09-10  8:29 ` [PATCH 1/5] perf_counter: Add open/close pmu callbacks Frederic Weisbecker
2009-09-10 11:22   ` Paul Mackerras
2009-09-10 18:46     ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-09-10  8:29 ` [PATCH 2/5] perf_counter: Export various perf helpers for external users Frederic Weisbecker
2009-09-10 11:28   ` Paul Mackerras
2009-09-10 18:43     ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-09-10  8:29 ` [PATCH 3/5] hw-breakpoints: Rewrite the hw-breakpoints layer on top of perf counters Frederic Weisbecker
2009-09-10 14:25   ` K.Prasad
2009-09-10 18:53     ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-09-10 21:18       ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-09-14 21:18         ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-09-14 17:17       ` K.Prasad
2009-09-14 21:33         ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-09-11 22:09   ` Jan Kiszka
2009-09-14  3:41     ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-09-14  6:24       ` Jan Kiszka
2009-09-14 18:01         ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-09-14 17:28   ` K.Prasad
2009-09-14 21:36     ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-09-10  8:29 ` [PATCH 4/5] hw-breakpoints: Arbitrate access to pmu following registers constraints Frederic Weisbecker
2009-09-10 14:41   ` Daniel Walker
2009-09-10 14:57     ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-09-10 14:59       ` Daniel Walker
2009-09-10 15:02       ` Steven Rostedt
2009-09-10 18:53     ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-09-10  8:29 ` [PATCH 5/5] ksym_tracer: Remove KSYM_SELFTEST_ENTRY Frederic Weisbecker
2009-09-10 10:09 ` [RFC GIT PULL] hw-breakpoints: Rewrite on top of perf counters Paul Mackerras
2009-09-10 17:23   ` Ingo Molnar
2009-09-10 18:24   ` Frederic Weisbecker

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