linux/arch/ia64
Masami Hiramatsu 34e1ceb188 [IA64] kprobes: kprobe-booster for ia64
Add kprobe-booster support on ia64.

Kprobe-booster improves the performance of kprobes by eliminating single-step,
where possible.  Currently, kprobe-booster is implemented on x86 and x86-64.
This is an ia64 port.

On ia64, kprobe-booster executes a copied bundle directly, instead of single
stepping.  Bundles which have B or X unit and which may cause an exception
(including break) are not executed directly.  And also, to prevent hitting
break exceptions on the copied bundle, only the hindmost kprobe is executed
directly if several kprobes share a bundle and are placed in different slots.
Note: set_brl_inst() is used for preparing an instruction buffer(it does not
modify any active code), so it does not need any atomic operation.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: bibo,mao <bibo.mao@intel.com>
Cc: Rusty Lynch <rusty.lynch@intel.com>
Cc: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2008-04-09 10:36:43 -07:00
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configs [IA64] move defconfig to arch/ia64/configs/ 2008-03-04 14:19:06 -08:00
dig [PATCH] tty: Remove include of screen_info.h from tty.h 2006-07-10 13:24:16 -07:00
hp [IA64] remove remaining __FUNCTION__ occurrences 2008-03-06 09:19:27 -08:00
ia32 [IA64] remove unnecessary nfs includes from sys_ia32.c 2008-03-06 09:18:12 -08:00
kernel [IA64] kprobes: kprobe-booster for ia64 2008-04-09 10:36:43 -07:00
lib [IA64] export copy_page() to modules 2007-12-07 16:10:19 -08:00
mm [IA64] kprobes arch consolidation build fix 2008-03-06 09:49:01 -08:00
oprofile Combine instrumentation menus in kernel/Kconfig.instrumentation 2007-10-19 11:53:54 -07:00
pci [IA64] use dev_printk in video quirk 2008-03-06 09:20:07 -08:00
scripts [IA64] don't assume that unwcheck.py is executable 2007-12-07 14:42:08 -08:00
sn [IA64] Replace explicit jiffies tests with time_* macros. 2008-04-09 10:28:10 -07:00
install.sh Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
Kconfig Merge branch 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6 2008-03-04 16:39:23 -08:00
Kconfig.debug [PATCH] Move Kprobes and Oprofile to "Instrumentation Support" menu 2005-11-07 07:53:35 -08:00
Makefile [IA64] move defconfig to arch/ia64/configs/ 2008-03-04 14:19:06 -08:00
module.lds Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00