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Masami Hiramatsu 6218bf9f4d tracing/probe: Add immediate parameter support
Add immediate value parameter (\1234) support to
probe events. This allows you to specify an immediate
(or dummy) parameter instead of fetching from memory
or register.

This feature looks odd, but imagine when you put a probe
on a code to trace some data. If the code is compiled into
2 instructions and 1 instruction has a value but other has
nothing since it is optimized out.
In that case, you can not fold those into one event, even
if ftrace supported multiple probes on one event.
With this feature, you can set a dummy value like
foo=\deadbeef instead of something like foo=%di.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/156095690733.28024.13258186548822649469.stgit@devnote2

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2019-08-31 12:19:39 -04:00
arch ftrace/x86: Remove mcount() declaration 2019-08-31 06:51:55 -04:00
block block: remove REQ_NOWAIT_INLINE 2019-08-15 11:09:16 -06:00
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Documentation tracing/probe: Add immediate parameter support 2019-08-31 12:19:39 -04:00
drivers A minor auxdisplay improvement: 2019-08-25 11:43:17 -07:00
fs This pull request contains the following fixes for UBIFS and JFFS2: 2019-08-25 11:29:27 -07:00
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