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* [PATCH 00/15] xen: use tracing to replace ad-hoc debug/stats stuff
@ 2011-06-20 22:14 Jeremy Fitzhardinge
  2011-06-20 22:14 ` [PATCH 01/15] trace/xen: add skeleton for Xen trace events Jeremy Fitzhardinge
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  0 siblings, 15 replies; 30+ messages in thread
From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge @ 2011-06-20 22:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Xen Devel
  Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk, Steven Rostedt, Ingo Molnar,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List, Jeremy Fitzhardinge

From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>

Hi all,

This series (RFC for 3.1) introduces a set of trace events to keep
track of what's going on within the Xen code.  This allows us to
replace a pile of ad-hoc debug and stats code.

The latter part of the series implements some improvements the better
tracing highlighted, specifically to reduce hypercall overhead by
making multicalls cheaper and to increase the multicall batch size.

Also at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeremy/xen.git upstream/xen-tracing2

Thanks,
	J

Jeremy Fitzhardinge (15):
  trace/xen: add skeleton for Xen trace events
  xen/multicalls: remove debugfs stats
  xen/trace: set up tracepoint skeleton
  xen/trace: add multicall tracing
  xen/trace: add mmu tracepoints
  xen/trace: add ptpage alloc/release tracepoints
  xen/trace: add xen_pgd_(un)pin tracepoints
  xen/trace: add segment desc tracing
  xen/trace: add tlb flush tracepoints
  xen/mmu: use extend_args for more mmuext updates
  xen/mmu: tune pgtable alloc/release
  xen/multicalls: disable MC_DEBUG
  xen/multicalls: add unlikely around slowpath in __xen_mc_entry()
  xen/multicall: special-case singleton hypercalls
  xen/multicall: move *idx fields to start of mc_buffer

 arch/x86/include/asm/xen/hypercall.h   |   22 ++
 arch/x86/include/asm/xen/trace_types.h |   18 +
 arch/x86/xen/Makefile                  |    2 +-
 arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c               |   16 +-
 arch/x86/xen/mmu.c                     |  139 +++++++--
 arch/x86/xen/multicalls.c              |  169 +++--------
 arch/x86/xen/multicalls.h              |    6 +
 arch/x86/xen/trace.c                   |   61 ++++
 include/trace/events/xen.h             |  534 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 9 files changed, 817 insertions(+), 150 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 arch/x86/include/asm/xen/trace_types.h
 create mode 100644 arch/x86/xen/trace.c
 create mode 100644 include/trace/events/xen.h

-- 
1.7.5.4


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2011-06-20 22:14 [PATCH 00/15] xen: use tracing to replace ad-hoc debug/stats stuff Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-06-20 22:14 ` [PATCH 01/15] trace/xen: add skeleton for Xen trace events Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-06-20 22:14 ` [PATCH 02/15] xen/multicalls: remove debugfs stats Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-06-20 22:14 ` [PATCH 03/15] xen/trace: set up tracepoint skeleton Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-06-20 22:15 ` [PATCH 04/15] xen/trace: add multicall tracing Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-06-21 13:52   ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-06-21 17:11     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-06-21 17:21       ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-06-20 22:15 ` [PATCH 05/15] xen/trace: add mmu tracepoints Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-06-21  0:27   ` Steven Rostedt
2011-06-20 22:15 ` [PATCH 06/15] xen/trace: add ptpage alloc/release tracepoints Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-06-21 13:55   ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-06-20 22:15 ` [PATCH 07/15] xen/trace: add xen_pgd_(un)pin tracepoints Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-06-21  0:28   ` Steven Rostedt
2011-06-21 17:30     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-06-20 22:15 ` [PATCH 08/15] xen/trace: add segment desc tracing Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-06-21 14:03   ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-06-21 17:14     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-06-20 22:15 ` [PATCH 09/15] xen/trace: add tlb flush tracepoints Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-06-21 14:07   ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-06-23 19:52     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-06-23 20:23       ` Steven Rostedt
2011-06-23 22:58         ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-06-24  2:00           ` Steven Rostedt
2011-06-20 22:15 ` [PATCH 10/15] xen/mmu: use extend_args for more mmuext updates Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-06-20 22:15 ` [PATCH 11/15] xen/mmu: tune pgtable alloc/release Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-06-20 22:15 ` [PATCH 12/15] xen/multicalls: disable MC_DEBUG Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-06-20 22:15 ` [PATCH 13/15] xen/multicalls: add unlikely around slowpath in __xen_mc_entry() Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-06-20 22:15 ` [PATCH 14/15] xen/multicall: special-case singleton hypercalls Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-06-20 22:15 ` [PATCH 15/15] xen/multicall: move *idx fields to start of mc_buffer Jeremy Fitzhardinge

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