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author | Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2011-07-22 12:46:53 +0100 |
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committer | Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> | 2011-09-25 19:17:59 +0300 |
commit | 0d460ffc0956d2dbe12ca9f5f6aa0f8701ea9d73 (patch) | |
tree | 043ba67b92ac023b36bde109f15f5cff9d1c0091 /arch/x86/kvm/i8254.c | |
parent | e097e5ffd69cbd7be61466e2d54c145468d48073 (diff) | |
download | linux-0d460ffc0956d2dbe12ca9f5f6aa0f8701ea9d73.tar.bz2 |
KVM: Use __print_symbolic() for vmexit tracepoints
The vmexit tracepoints format the exit_reason to make it human-readable.
Since the exit_reason depends on the instruction set (vmx or svm),
formatting is handled with ftrace_print_symbols_seq() by referring to
the appropriate exit reason table.
However, the ftrace_print_symbols_seq() function is not meant to be used
directly in tracepoints since it does not export the formatting table
which userspace tools like trace-cmd and perf use to format traces.
In practice perf dies when formatting vmexit-related events and
trace-cmd falls back to printing the numeric value (with extra
formatting code in the kvm plugin to paper over this limitation). Other
userspace consumers of vmexit-related tracepoints would be in similar
trouble.
To avoid significant changes to the kvm_exit tracepoint, this patch
moves the vmx and svm exit reason tables into arch/x86/kvm/trace.h and
selects the right table with __print_symbolic() depending on the
instruction set. Note that __print_symbolic() is designed for exporting
the formatting table to userspace and allows trace-cmd and perf to work.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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