trace: profile all if conditionals

Impact: feature to profile if statements

This patch adds a branch profiler for all if () statements.
The results will be found in:

  /debugfs/tracing/profile_branch

For example:

   miss      hit    %        Function                  File              Line
 ------- ---------  -        --------                  ----              ----
       0        1 100 x86_64_start_reservations      head64.c             127
       0        1 100 copy_bootdata                  head64.c             69
       1        0   0 x86_64_start_kernel            head64.c             111
      32        0   0 set_intr_gate                  desc.h               319
       1        0   0 reserve_ebda_region            head.c               51
       1        0   0 reserve_ebda_region            head.c               47
       0        1 100 reserve_ebda_region            head.c               42
       0        0   X maxcpus                        main.c               165

Miss means the branch was not taken. Hit means the branch was taken.
The percent is the percentage the branch was taken.

This adds a significant amount of overhead and should only be used
by those analyzing their system.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
index 8bccb49981e5..eba835a2c2cd 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
@@ -53,6 +53,14 @@
 #define LIKELY_PROFILE()
 #endif
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_PROFILE_ALL_BRANCHES
+#define BRANCH_PROFILE()        VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__start_branch_profile) = .;   \
+                                *(_ftrace_branch)                             \
+                                VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__stop_branch_profile) = .;
+#else
+#define BRANCH_PROFILE()
+#endif
+
 /* .data section */
 #define DATA_DATA                                                       \
         *(.data)                                                        \
@@ -72,7 +80,8 @@
         VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__start___tracepoints) = .;                      \
         *(__tracepoints)                                                \
         VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__stop___tracepoints) = .;                       \
-        LIKELY_PROFILE()
+        LIKELY_PROFILE()                                                \
+        BRANCH_PROFILE()
 
 #define RO_DATA(align)                                                  \
         . = ALIGN((align));                                             \