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Steven Rostedt d769041f86 ring_buffer: implement new locking
The old "lock always" scheme had issues with lockdep, and was not very
efficient anyways.

This patch does a new design to be partially lockless on writes.
Writes will add new entries to the per cpu pages by simply disabling
interrupts. When a write needs to go to another page than it will
grab the lock.

A new "read page" has been added so that the reader can pull out a page
from the ring buffer to read without worrying about the writer writing over
it. This allows us to not take the lock for all reads. The lock is
now only taken when a read needs to go to a new page.

This is far from lockless, and interrupts still need to be disabled,
but it is a step towards a more lockless solution, and it also
solves a lot of the issues that were noticed by the first conversion
of ftrace to the ring buffers.

Note: the ring_buffer_{un}lock API has been removed.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:39:05 +02:00
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Kconfig tracing: unified trace buffer 2008-10-14 10:38:54 +02:00
Makefile tracing: unified trace buffer 2008-10-14 10:38:54 +02:00
ftrace.c ftrace: warn on failure to disable mcount callers 2008-10-14 10:38:11 +02:00
ring_buffer.c ring_buffer: implement new locking 2008-10-14 10:39:05 +02:00
trace.c ring_buffer: implement new locking 2008-10-14 10:39:05 +02:00
trace.h tracing/ftrace: change the type of the print_line callback 2008-10-14 10:39:00 +02:00
trace_boot.c tracing/ftrace: adapt the boot tracer to the new print_line type 2008-10-14 10:39:03 +02:00
trace_functions.c ftrace: make work with new ring buffer 2008-10-14 10:38:57 +02:00
trace_irqsoff.c ftrace: make work with new ring buffer 2008-10-14 10:38:57 +02:00
trace_mmiotrace.c tracing/ftrace: adapt mmiotrace to the new type of print_line 2008-10-14 10:39:02 +02:00
trace_nop.c ftrace: make work with new ring buffer 2008-10-14 10:38:57 +02:00
trace_sched_switch.c ftrace: make work with new ring buffer 2008-10-14 10:38:57 +02:00
trace_sched_wakeup.c ftrace: make work with new ring buffer 2008-10-14 10:38:57 +02:00
trace_selftest.c ftrace: make work with new ring buffer 2008-10-14 10:38:57 +02:00
trace_selftest_dynamic.c ftrace: fix dynamic ftrace selftest 2008-05-23 21:13:23 +02:00
trace_stack.c ftrace: stack trace add indexes 2008-10-14 10:36:28 +02:00
trace_sysprof.c ftrace: make work with new ring buffer 2008-10-14 10:38:57 +02:00