linux/arch/x86
Frederic Weisbecker 06d65bda75 perf events, x86/stacktrace: Fix performance/softlockup by providing a special frame pointer-only stack walker
It's just wasteful for stacktrace users like perf to walk
through every entries on the stack whereas these only accept
reliable ones, ie: that the frame pointer validates.

Since perf requires pure reliable stacktraces, it needs a stack
walker based on frame pointers-only to optimize the stacktrace
processing.

This might solve some near-lockup scenarios that can be triggered
by call-graph tracing timer events.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1261024834-5336-2-git-send-regression-fweisbec@gmail.com>
[ v2: fix for modular builds and small detail tidyup ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-17 10:42:52 +01:00
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boot x86: Regex support and known-movable symbols for relocs, fix _end 2009-12-14 13:55:20 -08:00
configs tracing: Rename FTRACE_SYSCALLS for tracepoints 2009-08-26 00:17:35 +02:00
crypto Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 2009-12-01 15:16:22 +08:00
ia32 Unify sys_mmap* 2009-12-11 06:44:29 -05:00
include/asm perf events, x86/stacktrace: Fix performance/softlockup by providing a special frame pointer-only stack walker 2009-12-17 10:42:52 +01:00
kernel perf events, x86/stacktrace: Fix performance/softlockup by providing a special frame pointer-only stack walker 2009-12-17 10:42:52 +01:00
kvm Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu 2009-12-14 09:58:24 -08:00
lguest lguest: move panic notifier registration to its expected place. 2009-09-23 22:26:44 +09:30
lib Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-12-14 12:36:46 -08:00
math-emu
mm Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-12-14 12:36:46 -08:00
oprofile perf events, x86/stacktrace: Make stack walking optional 2009-12-17 09:56:19 +01:00
pci x86/PCI: claim SR-IOV BARs in pcibios_allocate_resource 2009-12-04 16:00:17 -08:00
power hw-breakpoints: Rewrite the hw-breakpoints layer on top of perf events 2009-11-08 15:34:42 +01:00
tools Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-12-16 12:02:37 -08:00
vdso sysctl x86: Remove dead binary sysctl support 2009-11-12 02:05:04 -08:00
video
xen locking: Convert raw_spinlock to arch_spinlock 2009-12-14 23:55:32 +01:00
Kbuild
Kconfig cs5535: drop the Geode-specific MFGPT/GPIO code 2009-12-15 08:53:28 -08:00
Kconfig.cpu Merge branch 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-12-08 13:27:33 -08:00
Kconfig.debug Merge branch 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-12-11 20:47:30 -08:00
Makefile Merge branch 'perf/core' into perf/probes 2009-11-17 10:17:47 +01:00
Makefile_32.cpu Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-12-08 13:38:11 -08:00