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Vegard Nossum b618ad31bb stacktrace: add forward-declaration struct task_struct
This is needed if the header is to be free-standing.

Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
2009-06-12 23:04:12 +02:00
Vegard Nossum acc6be5405 x86: add save_stack_trace_bp() for tracing from a specific stack frame
This will help kmemcheck (and possibly other debugging tools) since we
can now simply pass regs->bp to the stack tracer instead of specifying
the number of stack frames to skip, which is unreliable if gcc decides
to inline functions, etc.

Note that this makes the API incomplete for other architectures, but I
expect that those can be updated lazily, e.g. when they need it.

Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
2009-06-12 23:01:05 +02:00
Török Edwin 8d26487fd4 tracing/stack-tracer: introduce CONFIG_USER_STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
Impact: cleanup

User stack tracing is just implemented for x86, but it is not x86 specific.

Introduce a generic config flag, that is currently enabled only for x86.
When other arches implement it, they will have to
SELECT USER_STACKTRACE_SUPPORT.

Signed-off-by: Török Edwin <edwintorok@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-23 11:53:50 +01:00
Török Edwin 8d7c6a9616 tracing/stack-tracer: fix style issues
Impact: cleanup

Signed-off-by: Török Edwin <edwintorok@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-23 11:53:48 +01:00
Török Edwin 02b67518e2 tracing: add support for userspace stacktraces in tracing/iter_ctrl
Impact: add new (default-off) tracing visualization feature

Usage example:

 mount -t debugfs nodev /sys/kernel/debug
 cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing
 echo userstacktrace >iter_ctrl
 echo sched_switch >current_tracer
 echo 1 >tracing_enabled
 .... run application ...
 echo 0 >tracing_enabled

Then read one of 'trace','latency_trace','trace_pipe'.

To get the best output you can compile your userspace programs with
frame pointers (at least glibc + the app you are tracing).

Signed-off-by: Török Edwin <edwintorok@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-23 09:25:15 +01:00
Andrew Morton 897312bd24 include/linux/stacktrace.h: declare struct task_struct
include/linux/stacktrace.h:13: warning:
 'struct task_struct' declared inside parameter list

(This might be a hard error on sparc64, which uses this header and has
-Werror)

Reported-by: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-03 18:22:18 -07:00
Arjan van de Ven 9745512ce7 sched: latencytop support
LatencyTOP kernel infrastructure; it measures latencies in the
scheduler and tracks it system wide and per process.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:34 +01:00
Johannes Berg 3b5ad0797c stacktrace: fix header file for !CONFIG_STACKTRACE
The print_stack_trace macro in stacktrace.h has a wrong number of
arguments, fix it.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-19 10:04:49 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig ab1b6f03a1 simplify the stacktrace code
Simplify the stacktrace code:

 - remove the unused task argument to save_stack_trace, it's always
   current
 - remove the all_contexts flag, it's alwasy 0

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:14:58 -07:00
Andi Kleen 5a1b3999d6 [PATCH] x86: Some preparationary cleanup for stack trace
- Remove unused all_contexts parameter
No caller used it
- Move skip argument into the structure (needed for
followon patches)

Cc: mingo@elte.hu

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:34 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 8637c09901 [PATCH] lockdep: stacktrace subsystem, core
Framework to generate and save stacktraces quickly, without printing anything
to the console.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-03 15:27:02 -07:00