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author | Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> | 2016-06-01 10:42:20 -0700 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2016-06-08 13:33:33 +0200 |
commit | d1898b733619bd46194bd25aa6452d238ff2dc4e (patch) | |
tree | 4cc10df3594b68becae9a7dac03e35025aa5c7d1 /init | |
parent | c8ae067f2635be0f8c7e5db1bb74b757d623e05b (diff) |
x86/fpu: Add tracepoints to dump FPU state at key points
I've been carrying this patch around for a bit and it's helped me
solve at least a couple FPU-related bugs. In addition to using
it for debugging, I also drug it out because using AVX (and
AVX2/AVX-512) can have serious power consequences for a modern
core. It's very important to be able to figure out who is using
it.
It's also insanely useful to go out and see who is using a given
feature, like MPX or Memory Protection Keys. If you, for
instance, want to find all processes using protection keys, you
can do:
echo 'xfeatures & 0x200' > filter
Since 0x200 is the protection keys feature bit.
Note that this touches the KVM code. KVM did a CREATE_TRACE_POINTS
and then included a bunch of random headers. If anyone one of
those included other tracepoints, it would have defined the *OTHER*
tracepoints. That's bogus, so move it to the right place.
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Quentin Casasnovas <quentin.casasnovas@oracle.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160601174220.3CDFB90E@viggo.jf.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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