MIPS: Tracing: Reduce the overhead of dynamic Function Tracer

With the help of uasm this patch encodes the instructions of the dynamic
function tracer in ftrace_dyn_arch_init() when initializing it.

MIPS: Tracing: Reduce the overhead of dynamic Function Tracer

With the help of uasm this patch encodes the instructions of the dynamic
function tracer in ftrace_dyn_arch_init() when initializing it.

As a result we can remove the dynamic encoding of instructions in
ftrace_make_nop()/call(), ftrace_enable_ftrace_graph_caller() and remove
the macro jump_insn_encode() and at last this reduce the overhead of
dynamic Function Tracer. This also is cleaner.

Signed-off-by: Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-mips <linux-mips@linux-mips.org>
Cc: David Daney <david.s.daney@gmail.com>
Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/1230/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>

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MIPS: Tracing: Cleanup of instructions used

This patch adds some cleanups of the instructions:
o use macros instead of magic numbers
o use macros instead of variables to reduce some overhead
o

MIPS: Tracing: Cleanup of instructions used

This patch adds some cleanups of the instructions:
o use macros instead of magic numbers
o use macros instead of variables to reduce some overhead
o add new macro for the jal instruction

Signed-off-by: Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-mips <linux-mips@linux-mips.org>
Cc: David Daney <david.s.daney@gmail.com>
Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/1229/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>

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MIPS: Tracing: Fix 32-bit support with -mmcount-ra-address

For 32-bit kernel the -mmcount-ra-address option of gcc 4.5 emits one
extra instruction before calling to _mcount so we need to use a diffe

MIPS: Tracing: Fix 32-bit support with -mmcount-ra-address

For 32-bit kernel the -mmcount-ra-address option of gcc 4.5 emits one
extra instruction before calling to _mcount so we need to use a different
"b 1f" for it.

Signed-off-by: Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-mips <linux-mips@linux-mips.org>
Cc: David Daney <david.s.daney@gmail.com>
Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/1228/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>

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Merge mainline (v2.6.34-rc7)

Merge commit 'v2.6.34-rc7' into perf/nmi

Merge reason: catch up with latest softlockup detector changes.

Merge branch 'x86/asm' into x86/atomic

Merge reason:
Conflict between LOCK_PREFIX_HERE and relative alternatives
pointers

Resolved Conflicts:
arch/x86/include/asm/alternative.h
arch/x86/kernel/

Merge branch 'x86/asm' into x86/atomic

Merge reason:
Conflict between LOCK_PREFIX_HERE and relative alternatives
pointers

Resolved Conflicts:
arch/x86/include/asm/alternative.h
arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>

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Merge commit 'v2.6.34-rc5' into oprofile/core

Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6

Merge branch 'v2.6.34-rc2' into drm-linus

Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6

Conflicts:
drivers/mtd/nand/sh_flctl.c

Maxim's patch to initialise sysfs attributes depends on the patch w

Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6

Conflicts:
drivers/mtd/nand/sh_flctl.c

Maxim's patch to initialise sysfs attributes depends on the patch which
actually adds sysfs_attr_init().

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Merge branch 'topic/misc' into topic/usb

Merge branches 'battery-2.6.34', 'bugzilla-10805', 'bugzilla-14668', 'bugzilla-531916-power-state', 'ht-warn-2.6.34', 'pnp', 'processor-rename', 'sony-2.6.34', 'suse-bugzilla-531547', 'tz-check', 'vi

Merge branches 'battery-2.6.34', 'bugzilla-10805', 'bugzilla-14668', 'bugzilla-531916-power-state', 'ht-warn-2.6.34', 'pnp', 'processor-rename', 'sony-2.6.34', 'suse-bugzilla-531547', 'tz-check', 'video' and 'misc-2.6.34' into release

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Merge commit 'v2.6.34-rc1' into for-2.6.35

Merge commit 'v2.6.34-rc1' into for-2.6.35-incoming

Merge commit 'v2.6.34-rc1' into perf/urgent

Conflicts:
tools/perf/util/probe-event.c

Merge reason: Pick up -rc1 and resolve the conflict as well.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Merge commit 'v2.6.34-rc1' into for-linus

Merge branch 'origin' into devel-stable

Conflicts:
arch/arm/mach-mx2/devices.c
arch/arm/mach-mx2/devices.h
sound/soc/pxa/pxa-ssp.c

Merge branch 'master' of /repos/git/linux-2.6

Conflicts:
net/ipv4/netfilter/nf_nat_core.c
net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c
net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <k

Merge branch 'master' of /repos/git/linux-2.6

Conflicts:
net/ipv4/netfilter/nf_nat_core.c
net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c
net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>

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Merge branch 'writeback-for-2.6.34' into nfs-for-2.6.34

Merge branch 'tip/tracing/urgent' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into tracing/urgent

Merge with mainline to remove plat-omap/Kconfig conflict

Conflicts:
arch/arm/plat-omap/Kconfig

Merge branch 'linus' into core/rcu

Merge reason: Backmerge latest upstream to queue up dependent fix in the
scheduler.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Merge branch 'next' into for-linus

Merge branch 'master' of /home/davem/src/GIT/linux-2.6/

Conflicts:
drivers/firmware/iscsi_ibft.c

Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6

The SmartMedia FTL code depends on new kfifo bits from 2.6.33