Re: [PATCH 0/4] [GIT PULL][RCU][3.12] tracing/rcu: Export stringsto userspace

[Steven Rostedt]

On Mon, 2013-07-29 at 15:21 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> Paul,
> 
> As we talked about earlier, I set up a branch based off of v3.11-rc2 which
> the first patch has my tracing patch I need for other updates, and
> the other three are RCU specific patches that you should take.
> 
> You can either just pull this branch from my tree, or you can pull
> just the first patch (to keep the same SHA1) and apply the other three
> patches any way you want.
> 
> I tested all these patches through my standard tests, but I did not run
> the RCU ones through any specific RCU tests (like rcutorture). They
> shouldn't affect the process of RCU in anyway and only should touch
> the way trace points export their strings. You may want to run them through
> other tests just to make sure there isn't some strange side effect I
> caused. :-)
> 
> -- Steve
> 
> Please pull the latest ftrace/rcu tree, which can be found at:
> 
>   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace.git
> ftrace/rcu
> 
> Head SHA1: b7c2caaa81e8ce2643db611a661d1ef7f9fe6db8
> SHA1 of first patch: 102c9323c35a83789ad5ebd3c45fa8fb389add88
> 
> Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) (4):
>       tracing: Add __tracepoint_string() to export string pointers
>       rcu: Add const annotation to char * for RCU tracepoints and functions

Paul,

Hold off. Fengguang's tests found a few places that I was a bit
overzealous with my const char *. Let me fix that and try again.

-- Steve

>       rcu: Simplify RCU_STATE_INITIALIZER() macro
>       rcu: Have the RCU tracepoints use the tracepoint_string infrastructure
> 
> ----
>  include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h |    7 ++-
>  include/linux/ftrace_event.h      |   34 ++++++++++++
>  include/linux/rcupdate.h          |    4 +-
>  include/trace/events/rcu.h        |   82 ++++++++++++++---------------
>  kernel/rcu.h                      |    2 +-
>  kernel/rcupdate.c                 |    2 +-
>  kernel/rcutiny.c                  |    2 +-
>  kernel/rcutiny_plugin.h           |    2 +-
>  kernel/rcutorture.c               |    8 +--
>  kernel/rcutree.c                  |  105 +++++++++++++++++++++----------------
>  kernel/rcutree.h                  |    2 +-
>  kernel/rcutree_plugin.h           |   42 +++++++--------
>  kernel/trace/trace.h              |    3 ++
>  kernel/trace/trace_printk.c       |   19 +++++++
>  14 files changed, 195 insertions(+), 119 deletions(-)


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