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authorSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>2008-11-21 07:30:54 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-11-23 11:41:01 +0100
commit2bcd521a684cc94befbe2ce7d5b613c841b0d304 (patch)
tree63bc4dbc52defa27c8cac9e46dddadfcb36c1c7a /include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
parenttrace: branch profiling should not print percent without data (diff)
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trace: profile all if conditionals
Impact: feature to profile if statements This patch adds a branch profiler for all if () statements. The results will be found in: /debugfs/tracing/profile_branch For example: miss hit % Function File Line ------- --------- - -------- ---- ---- 0 1 100 x86_64_start_reservations head64.c 127 0 1 100 copy_bootdata head64.c 69 1 0 0 x86_64_start_kernel head64.c 111 32 0 0 set_intr_gate desc.h 319 1 0 0 reserve_ebda_region head.c 51 1 0 0 reserve_ebda_region head.c 47 0 1 100 reserve_ebda_region head.c 42 0 0 X maxcpus main.c 165 Miss means the branch was not taken. Hit means the branch was taken. The percent is the percentage the branch was taken. This adds a significant amount of overhead and should only be used by those analyzing their system. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h')
-rw-r--r--include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h11
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
index 8bccb49981e5..eba835a2c2cd 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
@@ -53,6 +53,14 @@
#define LIKELY_PROFILE()
#endif
+#ifdef CONFIG_PROFILE_ALL_BRANCHES
+#define BRANCH_PROFILE() VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__start_branch_profile) = .; \
+ *(_ftrace_branch) \
+ VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__stop_branch_profile) = .;
+#else
+#define BRANCH_PROFILE()
+#endif
+
/* .data section */
#define DATA_DATA \
*(.data) \
@@ -72,7 +80,8 @@
VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__start___tracepoints) = .; \
*(__tracepoints) \
VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__stop___tracepoints) = .; \
- LIKELY_PROFILE()
+ LIKELY_PROFILE() \
+ BRANCH_PROFILE()
#define RO_DATA(align) \
. = ALIGN((align)); \