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tracing: Add config option to allow snapshot to swap per cpu

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When the preempt or irq latency tracers are enabled, they require
the ring buffer to be able to swap the per cpu sub buffers between
two main buffers. This adds a slight overhead to tracing as the
trace recording needs to perform some checks to synchronize
between recording and swaps that might be happening on other CPUs.

The config RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP is set when a user of the ring
buffer needs the "swap cpu" feature, otherwise the extra checks
are not implemented and removed from the tracing overhead.

The snapshot feature will swap per CPU if the RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP
config is set. But that only gets set by things like OPROFILE
and the irqs and preempt latency tracers.

This config is added to let the user decide to include this feature
with the snapshot agnostic from whether or not another user of
the ring buffer sets this config.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) 2013-03-05 14:50:23 -05:00 committed by Steven Rostedt
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@ -192,6 +192,7 @@ config IRQSOFF_TRACER
select TRACER_MAX_TRACE
select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP
select TRACER_SNAPSHOT
select TRACER_SNAPSHOT_PER_CPU_SWAP
help
This option measures the time spent in irqs-off critical
sections, with microsecond accuracy.
@ -215,6 +216,7 @@ config PREEMPT_TRACER
select TRACER_MAX_TRACE
select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP
select TRACER_SNAPSHOT
select TRACER_SNAPSHOT_PER_CPU_SWAP
help
This option measures the time spent in preemption-off critical
sections, with microsecond accuracy.
@ -266,6 +268,27 @@ config TRACER_SNAPSHOT
echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/snapshot
cat snapshot
config TRACER_SNAPSHOT_PER_CPU_SWAP
bool "Allow snapshot to swap per CPU"
depends on TRACER_SNAPSHOT
select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP
help
Allow doing a snapshot of a single CPU buffer instead of a
full swap (all buffers). If this is set, then the following is
allowed:
echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/per_cpu/cpu2/snapshot
After which, only the tracing buffer for CPU 2 was swapped with
the main tracing buffer, and the other CPU buffers remain the same.
When this is enabled, this adds a little more overhead to the
trace recording, as it needs to add some checks to synchronize
recording with swaps. But this does not affect the performance
of the overall system. This is enabled by default when the preempt
or irq latency tracers are enabled, as those need to swap as well
and already adds the overhead (plus a lot more).
config TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING
bool
select GENERIC_TRACER