perf, trace: Optimize tracepoints by removing IRQ-disable from perf/tracepoint interaction

Improves performance.

Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <1274259525.5605.10352.camel@twins>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c b/kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c
index 9eff1a4b49b..a657cefbb13 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c
@@ -438,7 +438,6 @@ static void perf_syscall_enter(struct pt_regs *regs, long id)
 {
         struct syscall_metadata *sys_data;
         struct syscall_trace_enter *rec;
-        unsigned long flags;
         int syscall_nr;
         int rctx;
         int size;
@@ -461,14 +460,14 @@ static void perf_syscall_enter(struct pt_regs *regs, long id)
                 return;
 
         rec = (struct syscall_trace_enter *)perf_trace_buf_prepare(size,
-                                sys_data->enter_event->id, &rctx, &flags);
+                                sys_data->enter_event->id, regs, &rctx);
         if (!rec)
                 return;
 
         rec->nr = syscall_nr;
         syscall_get_arguments(current, regs, 0, sys_data->nb_args,
                                (unsigned long *)&rec->args);
-        perf_trace_buf_submit(rec, size, rctx, 0, 1, flags, regs,
+        perf_trace_buf_submit(rec, size, rctx, 0, 1, regs,
                         sys_data->enter_event->perf_data);
 }
 
@@ -511,7 +510,6 @@ static void perf_syscall_exit(struct pt_regs *regs, long ret)
 {
         struct syscall_metadata *sys_data;
         struct syscall_trace_exit *rec;
-        unsigned long flags;
         int syscall_nr;
         int rctx;
         int size;
@@ -537,14 +535,14 @@ static void perf_syscall_exit(struct pt_regs *regs, long ret)
                 return;
 
         rec = (struct syscall_trace_exit *)perf_trace_buf_prepare(size,
-                                sys_data->exit_event->id, &rctx, &flags);
+                                sys_data->exit_event->id, regs, &rctx);
         if (!rec)
                 return;
 
         rec->nr = syscall_nr;
         rec->ret = syscall_get_return_value(current, regs);
 
-        perf_trace_buf_submit(rec, size, rctx, 0, 1, flags, regs,
+        perf_trace_buf_submit(rec, size, rctx, 0, 1, regs,
                         sys_data->exit_event->perf_data);
 }