As we are working to remove the generic "ring_buffer" name that is used by
both tracing and perf, the ring_buffer name for tracing will be renamed to
trace_buffer, and perf's ring buffer will be renamed to perf_buffer.
As there already exists a trace_buffer that is used by the trace_arrays, it
needs to be first renamed to array_buffer.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191213153553.GE20583@krava
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
- Add "onchange(var)" histogram handler that executes a action when $var
changes.
- Add new "snapshot()" action for histogram handlers, that causes a
snapshot of the ring buffer when triggered.
ie. onchange(var).snapshot() will trigger a snapshot if var changes.
- Add alternative for "trace()" action.
Currently, to trigger a synthetic event, the name of that event is used
as the handler name, which is inconsistent with the other actions.
onchange(var).synthetic(param) where it can now be
onchange(var).trace(synthetic, param). The older method will still be
allowed, as long as the synthetic events do not overlap with other
handler names.
- The histogram documentation at testcases were updated for the new
changes.
Added a quicker way to enable set_ftrace_filter files, that will make
it much quicker to bisect tracing a function that shouldn't be traced and
crashes the kernel. (You can echo in numbers to set_ftrace_filter, and it
will select the corresponding function that is in
available_filter_functions).
Some better displaying of the tracing data (and more information was added).
The rest are small fixes and more clean ups to the code.
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Merge tag 'trace-v5.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace
Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
"The biggest change for this release is in the histogram code:
- Add "onchange(var)" histogram handler that executes a action when
$var changes.
- Add new "snapshot()" action for histogram handlers, that causes a
snapshot of the ring buffer when triggered. ie.
onchange(var).snapshot() will trigger a snapshot if var changes.
- Add alternative for "trace()" action. Currently, to trigger a
synthetic event, the name of that event is used as the handler
name, which is inconsistent with the other actions.
onchange(var).synthetic(param) where it can now be
onchange(var).trace(synthetic, param). The older method will still
be allowed, as long as the synthetic events do not overlap with
other handler names.
- The histogram documentation at testcases were updated for the new
changes.
Outside of the histogram code, we have:
- Added a quicker way to enable set_ftrace_filter files, that will
make it much quicker to bisect tracing a function that shouldn't be
traced and crashes the kernel. (You can echo in numbers to
set_ftrace_filter, and it will select the corresponding function
that is in available_filter_functions).
- Some better displaying of the tracing data (and more information
was added).
The rest are small fixes and more clean ups to the code"
* tag 'trace-v5.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (37 commits)
tracing: Use strncpy instead of memcpy when copying comm in trace.c
tracing: Use strncpy instead of memcpy when copying comm for hist triggers
tracing: Use strncpy instead of memcpy for string keys in hist triggers
tracing: Use str_has_prefix() in synth_event_create()
x86/ftrace: Fix warning and considate ftrace_jmp_replace() and ftrace_call_replace()
tracing/perf: Use strndup_user() instead of buggy open-coded version
doc: trace: Fix documentation for uprobe_profile
tracing: Fix spelling mistake: "analagous" -> "analogous"
tracing: Comment why cond_snapshot is checked outside of max_lock protection
tracing: Add hist trigger action 'expected fail' test case
tracing: Add alternative synthetic event trace action test case
tracing: Add hist trigger onchange() handler test case
tracing: Add hist trigger snapshot() action test case
tracing: Add SPDX license GPL-2.0 license identifier to inter-event testcases
tracing: Add alternative synthetic event trace action syntax
tracing: Add hist trigger onchange() handler Documentation
tracing: Add hist trigger onchange() handler
tracing: Add hist trigger snapshot() action Documentation
tracing: Add hist trigger snapshot() action
tracing: Add conditional snapshot
...
Currently the registering of function graph is to pass in a entry and return
function. We need to have a way to associate those functions together where
the entry can determine to run the return hook. Having a structure that
contains both functions will facilitate the process of converting the code
to be able to do such.
This is similar to the way function hooks are enabled (it passes in
ftrace_ops). Instead of passing in the functions to use, a single structure
is passed in to the registering function.
The unregister function is now passed in the fgraph_ops handle. When we
allow more than one callback to the function graph hooks, this will let the
system know which one to remove.
Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The tracefs file set_graph_function is used to only function graph functions
that are listed in that file (or all functions if the file is empty). The
way this is implemented is that the function graph tracer looks at every
function, and if the current depth is zero and the function matches
something in the file then it will trace that function. When other functions
are called, the depth will be greater than zero (because the original
function will be at depth zero), and all functions will be traced where the
depth is greater than zero.
The issue is that when a function is first entered, and the handler that
checks this logic is called, the depth is set to zero. If an interrupt comes
in and a function in the interrupt handler is traced, its depth will be
greater than zero and it will automatically be traced, even if the original
function was not. But because the logic only looks at depth it may trace
interrupts when it should not be.
The recent design change of the function graph tracer to fix other bugs
caused the depth to be zero while the function graph callback handler is
being called for a longer time, widening the race of this happening. This
bug was actually there for a longer time, but because the race window was so
small it seldom happened. The Fixes tag below is for the commit that widen
the race window, because that commit belongs to a series that will also help
fix the original bug.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Fixes: 39eb456dac ("function_graph: Use new curr_ret_depth to manage depth instead of curr_ret_stack")
Reported-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Joel Fernandes created a nice patch that cleaned up the duplicate hooks used
by lockdep and irqsoff latency tracer. It made both use tracepoints. But the
latency tracer is triggering warnings when using tracepoints to call into
the latency tracer's routines. Mainly, they can be called from NMI context.
If that happens, then the SRCU may not work properly because on some
architectures, SRCU is not safe to be called in both NMI and non-NMI
context.
This is a partial revert of the clean up patch c3bc8fd637 ("tracing:
Centralize preemptirq tracepoints and unify their usage") that adds back the
direct calls into the latency tracer. It also only calls the trace events
when not in NMI.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180809210654.622445925@goodmis.org
Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Fixes: c3bc8fd637 ("tracing: Centralize preemptirq tracepoints and unify their usage")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
I was hitting the following warning:
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1 at kernel/trace/trace_irqsoff.c:631 tracer_hardirqs_off+0x15/0x2a
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 4.18.0-rc6-test+ #13
Hardware name: MSI MS-7823/CSM-H87M-G43 (MS-7823), BIOS V1.6 02/22/2014
EIP: tracer_hardirqs_off+0x15/0x2a
Code: ff 85 c0 74 0e 8b 45 00 8b 50 04 8b 45 04 e8 35 ff ff ff 5d c3 55 64 a1 cc 37 51 c1 a9 ff ff ff 7f 89 e5 53 89 d3 89 ca 75 02 <0f> 0b e8 90 fc ff ff 85 c0 74 07 89 d8 e8 0c ff ff ff 5b 5d c3 55
EAX: 80000000 EBX: c04337f0 ECX: c04338e3 EDX: c04338e3
ESI: c04337f0 EDI: c04338e3 EBP: f2aa1d68 ESP: f2aa1d64
DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 00e0 SS: 0068 EFLAGS: 00210046
CR0: 80050033 CR2: 00000000 CR3: 01668000 CR4: 001406f0
Call Trace:
trace_irq_disable_rcuidle+0x63/0x6c
trace_hardirqs_off+0x26/0x30
default_send_IPI_mask_allbutself_logical+0x31/0x93
default_send_IPI_allbutself+0x37/0x48
native_send_call_func_ipi+0x4d/0x6a
smp_call_function_many+0x165/0x19d
? add_nops+0x34/0x34
? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x2d/0x2d
? add_nops+0x34/0x34
smp_call_function+0x1f/0x23
on_each_cpu+0x15/0x43
? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x2d/0x2d
? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x2d/0x2d
? trace_irq_disable_rcuidle+0x1/0x6c
text_poke_bp+0xa0/0xc2
? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x2d/0x2d
arch_jump_label_transform+0xa7/0xcb
? trace_irq_disable_rcuidle+0x5/0x6c
__jump_label_update+0x3e/0x6d
jump_label_update+0x7d/0x81
static_key_slow_inc_cpuslocked+0x58/0x6d
static_key_slow_inc+0x19/0x20
tracepoint_probe_register_prio+0x19e/0x1d1
? start_critical_timings+0x1c/0x1c
tracepoint_probe_register+0xf/0x11
irqsoff_tracer_init+0x21/0xf2
tracer_init+0x16/0x1a
trace_selftest_startup_irqsoff+0x25/0xc4
run_tracer_selftest+0xca/0x131
register_tracer+0xd5/0x172
? trace_event_define_fields_preemptirq_template+0x45/0x45
init_irqsoff_tracer+0xd/0x11
do_one_initcall+0xab/0x1e8
? rcu_read_lock_sched_held+0x3d/0x44
? trace_initcall_level+0x52/0x86
kernel_init_freeable+0x195/0x21a
? rest_init+0xb4/0xb4
kernel_init+0xd/0xe4
ret_from_fork+0x2e/0x38
It is due to running a CONFIG_PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY kernel, which would trigger
this warning every time:
WARN_ON_ONCE(preempt_count());
Because on CONFIG_PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY, preempt_count() is always zero.
This warning is to make sure preempt_count is set because
tracer_hardirqs_on() does a preempt_enable_notrace() to make the
preempt_trace() work properly, as being called by a trace event, the trace
event code disables preemption, and the tracer wants to know what the
preemption was before it was called.
Instead of enabling preemption like this, just record the preempt_count,
subtract PREEMPT_DISABLE_OFFSET from it (which is zero with !CONFIG_PREEMPT
set), and pass that value to the necessary functions, which should use the
passed in parameter instead of calling preempt_count() directly.
Fixes: da5b3ebb45 ("tracing: irqsoff: Account for additional preempt_disable")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Recently we tried to make the preemptirqsoff tracer to use irqsoff
tracepoint probes. However this causes issues as reported by Masami:
[2.271078] Testing tracer preemptirqsoff: .. no entries found ..FAILED!
[2.381015] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1 at /home/mhiramat/ksrc/linux/kernel/
trace/trace.c:1512 run_tracer_selftest+0xf3/0x154
This is due to the tracepoint code increasing the preempt nesting count
by calling an additional preempt_disable before calling into the
preemptoff tracer which messes up the preempt_count() check in
tracer_hardirqs_off.
To fix this, make the irqsoff tracer probes balance the additional outer
preempt_disable with a preempt_enable_notrace.
The other way to fix this is to just use SRCU for all tracepoints.
However we can't do that because we can't use NMIs from RCU context.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180806034049.67949-1-joel@joelfernandes.org
Fixes: c3bc8fd637 ("tracing: Centralize preemptirq tracepoints and unify their usage")
Fixes: e6753f23d9 ("tracepoint: Make rcuidle tracepoint callers use SRCU")
Reported-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
This patch detaches the preemptirq tracepoints from the tracers and
keeps it separate.
Advantages:
* Lockdep and irqsoff event can now run in parallel since they no longer
have their own calls.
* This unifies the usecase of adding hooks to an irqsoff and irqson
event, and a preemptoff and preempton event.
3 users of the events exist:
- Lockdep
- irqsoff and preemptoff tracers
- irqs and preempt trace events
The unification cleans up several ifdefs and makes the code in preempt
tracer and irqsoff tracers simpler. It gets rid of all the horrific
ifdeferry around PROVE_LOCKING and makes configuration of the different
users of the tracepoints more easy and understandable. It also gets rid
of the time_* function calls from the lockdep hooks used to call into
the preemptirq tracer which is not needed anymore. The negative delta in
lines of code in this patch is quite large too.
In the patch we introduce a new CONFIG option PREEMPTIRQ_TRACEPOINTS
as a single point for registering probes onto the tracepoints. With
this,
the web of config options for preempt/irq toggle tracepoints and its
users becomes:
PREEMPT_TRACER PREEMPTIRQ_EVENTS IRQSOFF_TRACER PROVE_LOCKING
| | \ | |
\ (selects) / \ \ (selects) /
TRACE_PREEMPT_TOGGLE ----> TRACE_IRQFLAGS
\ /
\ (depends on) /
PREEMPTIRQ_TRACEPOINTS
Other than the performance tests mentioned in the previous patch, I also
ran the locking API test suite. I verified that all tests cases are
passing.
I also injected issues by not registering lockdep probes onto the
tracepoints and I see failures to confirm that the probes are indeed
working.
This series + lockdep probes not registered (just to inject errors):
[ 0.000000] hard-irqs-on + irq-safe-A/21: ok | ok | ok |
[ 0.000000] soft-irqs-on + irq-safe-A/21: ok | ok | ok |
[ 0.000000] sirq-safe-A => hirqs-on/12:FAILED|FAILED| ok |
[ 0.000000] sirq-safe-A => hirqs-on/21:FAILED|FAILED| ok |
[ 0.000000] hard-safe-A + irqs-on/12:FAILED|FAILED| ok |
[ 0.000000] soft-safe-A + irqs-on/12:FAILED|FAILED| ok |
[ 0.000000] hard-safe-A + irqs-on/21:FAILED|FAILED| ok |
[ 0.000000] soft-safe-A + irqs-on/21:FAILED|FAILED| ok |
[ 0.000000] hard-safe-A + unsafe-B #1/123: ok | ok | ok |
[ 0.000000] soft-safe-A + unsafe-B #1/123: ok | ok | ok |
With this series + lockdep probes registered, all locking tests pass:
[ 0.000000] hard-irqs-on + irq-safe-A/21: ok | ok | ok |
[ 0.000000] soft-irqs-on + irq-safe-A/21: ok | ok | ok |
[ 0.000000] sirq-safe-A => hirqs-on/12: ok | ok | ok |
[ 0.000000] sirq-safe-A => hirqs-on/21: ok | ok | ok |
[ 0.000000] hard-safe-A + irqs-on/12: ok | ok | ok |
[ 0.000000] soft-safe-A + irqs-on/12: ok | ok | ok |
[ 0.000000] hard-safe-A + irqs-on/21: ok | ok | ok |
[ 0.000000] soft-safe-A + irqs-on/21: ok | ok | ok |
[ 0.000000] hard-safe-A + unsafe-B #1/123: ok | ok | ok |
[ 0.000000] soft-safe-A + unsafe-B #1/123: ok | ok | ok |
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180730222423.196630-4-joel@joelfernandes.org
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Split reset functions into seperate functions in preparation
of future patches that need to do tracer specific reset.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180628182149.226164-4-joel@joelfernandes.org
Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Preempt and irq trace events can be used for tracing the start and
end of an atomic section which can be used by a trace viewer like
systrace to graphically view the start and end of an atomic section and
correlate them with latencies and scheduling issues.
This also serves as a prelude to using synthetic events or probes to
rewrite the preempt and irqsoff tracers, along with numerous benefits of
using trace events features for these events.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171006005432.14244-3-joelaf@google.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171010225137.17370-1-joelaf@google.com
Cc: Peter Zilstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: kernel-team@android.com
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
In preparation of adding irqsoff and preemptsoff enable and disable trace
events, move required functions and code to make it easier to add these events
in a later patch. This patch is just code movement and no functional change.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171006005432.14244-2-joelaf@google.com
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: kernel-team@android.com
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
There is no point in having an extra type for extra confusion. u64 is
unambiguous.
Conversion was done with the following coccinelle script:
@rem@
@@
-typedef u64 cycle_t;
@fix@
typedef cycle_t;
@@
-cycle_t
+u64
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Currently both the wakeup and irqsoff traces do not handle set_graph_notrace
well. The ftrace infrastructure will ignore the return paths of all
functions leaving them hanging without an end:
# echo '*spin*' > set_graph_notrace
# cat trace
[...]
_raw_spin_lock() {
preempt_count_add() {
do_raw_spin_lock() {
update_rq_clock();
Where the '*spin*' functions should have looked like this:
_raw_spin_lock() {
preempt_count_add();
do_raw_spin_lock();
}
update_rq_clock();
Instead, have the wakeup and irqsoff tracers ignore the functions that are
set by the set_graph_notrace like the function_graph tracer does. Move
the logic in the function_graph tracer into a header to allow wakeup and
irqsoff tracers to use it as well.
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
There is no reason to do it twice: from commit b6f11df26f
("trace: Call tracing_reset_online_cpus before tracer->init()")
resetting of per-CPU buffers done before tracer->init() call.
tracer->init() calls {irqs,preempt,preemptirqs}off_tracer_init() and it
calls __irqsoff_tracer_init(), which resets per-CPU ringbuffer second
time.
It's slowpath, but anyway.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1445278226-16187-1-git-send-email-0x7f454c46@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Safonov <0x7f454c46@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Joel Fernandes reported that the function tracing of preempt disabled
sections was not being reported when running either the preemptirqsoff or
preemptoff tracers. This was due to the fact that the function tracer
callback for those tracers checked if irqs were disabled before tracing. But
this fails when we want to trace preempt off locations as well.
Joel explained that he wanted to see funcitons where interrupts are enabled
but preemption was disabled. The expected output he wanted:
<...>-2265 1d.h1 3419us : preempt_count_sub <-irq_exit
<...>-2265 1d..1 3419us : __do_softirq <-irq_exit
<...>-2265 1d..1 3419us : msecs_to_jiffies <-__do_softirq
<...>-2265 1d..1 3420us : irqtime_account_irq <-__do_softirq
<...>-2265 1d..1 3420us : __local_bh_disable_ip <-__do_softirq
<...>-2265 1..s1 3421us : run_timer_softirq <-__do_softirq
<...>-2265 1..s1 3421us : hrtimer_run_pending <-run_timer_softirq
<...>-2265 1..s1 3421us : _raw_spin_lock_irq <-run_timer_softirq
<...>-2265 1d.s1 3422us : preempt_count_add <-_raw_spin_lock_irq
<...>-2265 1d.s2 3422us : _raw_spin_unlock_irq <-run_timer_softirq
<...>-2265 1..s2 3422us : preempt_count_sub <-_raw_spin_unlock_irq
<...>-2265 1..s1 3423us : rcu_bh_qs <-__do_softirq
<...>-2265 1d.s1 3423us : irqtime_account_irq <-__do_softirq
<...>-2265 1d.s1 3423us : __local_bh_enable <-__do_softirq
There's a comment saying that the irq disabled check is because there's a
possible race that tracing_cpu may be set when the function is executed. But
I don't remember that race. For now, I added a check for preemption being
enabled too to not record the function, as there would be no race if that
was the case. I need to re-investigate this, as I'm now thinking that the
tracing_cpu will always be correct. But no harm in keeping the check for
now, except for the slight performance hit.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1457770386-88717-1-git-send-email-agnel.joel@gmail.com
Fixes: 5e6d2b9cfa "tracing: Use one prologue for the preempt irqs off tracer function tracers"
Cc: stable@vget.kernel.org # 2.6.37+
Reported-by: Joel Fernandes <agnel.joel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
This patch makes report_latency return bool due to this
particular function only using either one or zero as its
return value.
No functional change.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1443537816-5788-3-git-send-email-bywxiaobai@163.com
Signed-off-by: Yaowei Bai <bywxiaobai@163.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
In preparation to make trace options per instance, the global trace_flags
needs to be moved from being a global variable to a field within the trace
instance trace_array structure.
There's still more work to do, as there's some functions that use
trace_flags without passing in a way to get to the current_trace array. For
those, the global_trace is used directly (from trace.c). This includes
setting and clearing the trace_flags. This means that when a new instance is
created, it just gets the trace_flags of the global_trace and will not be
able to modify them. Depending on the functions that have access to the
trace_array, the flags of an instance may not affect parts of its trace,
where the global_trace is used. These will be fixed in future changes.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
When the function tracer is not compiled in, do not create the option files
for it.
Fix up both the sched_wakeup and irqsoff tracers to handle the change.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
In order to facilitate making all tracer options visible even when the
tracer is not active, we need to get rid of duplicate options. Any option
that is shared between multiple tracers really should be a main option.
As the wakeup and irqsoff tracers both use the "display-graph" option, and
use it exactly the same way, move that option from the tracer options to the
main options and consolidate them.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The creation of tracing files and directories is for the most part
encapsulated in helper functions in trace.c. Other files do not need to
include debugfs.h or fs.h, as they may have needed to in the past.
Remove them from the files that do not need them.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The irqsoff, preemptoff and preemptirqsoff tracers can now be used by
instances. But they may only be used by one instance at a time (including
the top level directory). This allows multiple tracers to run while the
irqsoff (and friends) tracer is running simultaneously.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
In preparation for letting the latency tracers be used by instances,
remove the global tracing_max_latency variable and add a max_latency
field to the trace_array that the latency tracers will now use.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Instead of having a list of global functions that are called,
as only one global function is allow to be enabled at a time, there's
no reason to have a list.
Instead, simply have all the users of the global ops, use the global ops
directly, instead of registering their own ftrace_ops. Just switch what
function is used before enabling the function tracer.
This removes a lot of code as well as the complexity involved with it.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
But there were a few features that were added.
Uprobes now work with event triggers and multi buffers.
Uprobes have support under ftrace and perf.
The big feature is that the function tracer can now be used within the
multi buffer instances. That is, you can now trace some functions
in one buffer, others in another buffer, all functions in a third buffer
and so on. They are basically agnostic from each other. This only
works for the function tracer and not for the function graph trace,
although you can have the function graph tracer running in the top level
buffer (or any tracer for that matter) and have different function tracing
going on in the sub buffers.
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Merge tag 'trace-3.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace
Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
"Most of the changes were largely clean ups, and some documentation.
But there were a few features that were added:
Uprobes now work with event triggers and multi buffers and have
support under ftrace and perf.
The big feature is that the function tracer can now be used within the
multi buffer instances. That is, you can now trace some functions in
one buffer, others in another buffer, all functions in a third buffer
and so on. They are basically agnostic from each other. This only
works for the function tracer and not for the function graph trace,
although you can have the function graph tracer running in the top
level buffer (or any tracer for that matter) and have different
function tracing going on in the sub buffers"
* tag 'trace-3.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (45 commits)
tracing: Add BUG_ON when stack end location is over written
tracepoint: Remove unused API functions
Revert "tracing: Move event storage for array from macro to standalone function"
ftrace: Constify ftrace_text_reserved
tracepoints: API doc update to tracepoint_probe_register() return value
tracepoints: API doc update to data argument
ftrace: Fix compilation warning about control_ops_free
ftrace/x86: BUG when ftrace recovery fails
ftrace: Warn on error when modifying ftrace function
ftrace: Remove freelist from struct dyn_ftrace
ftrace: Do not pass data to ftrace_dyn_arch_init
ftrace: Pass retval through return in ftrace_dyn_arch_init()
ftrace: Inline the code from ftrace_dyn_table_alloc()
ftrace: Cleanup of global variables ftrace_new_pgs and ftrace_update_cnt
tracing: Evaluate len expression only once in __dynamic_array macro
tracing: Correctly expand len expressions from __dynamic_array macro
tracing/module: Replace include of tracepoint.h with jump_label.h in module.h
tracing: Fix event header migrate.h to include tracepoint.h
tracing: Fix event header writeback.h to include tracepoint.h
tracing: Warn if a tracepoint is not set via debugfs
...
As options (flags) may affect instances instead of being global
the flag_changed() callbacks need to receive the trace_array descriptor
of the instance they will be modifying.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
As options (flags) may affect instances instead of being global
the set_flag() callbacks need to receive the trace_array descriptor
of the instance they will be modifying.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
If the ring buffer is disabled and the irqsoff tracer records a trace it
will clear out its buffer and lose the data it had previously recorded.
Currently there's a callback when writing to the tracing_of file, but if
tracing is disabled via the function tracer trigger, it will not inform
the irqsoff tracer to stop recording.
By using the "mirror" flag (buffer_disabled) in the trace_array, that keeps
track of the status of the trace_array's buffer, it gives the irqsoff
tracer a fast way to know if it should record a new trace or not.
The flag may be a little behind the real state of the buffer, but it
should not affect the trace too much. It's more important for the irqsoff
tracer to be fast.
Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Currently, the only way to stop the latency tracers from doing function
tracing is to fully disable the function tracer from the proc file
system:
echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/ftrace_enabled
This is a big hammer approach as it disables function tracing for
all users. This includes kprobes, perf, stack tracer, etc.
Instead, create a function-trace option that the latency tracers can
check to determine if it should enable function tracing or not.
This option can be set or cleared even while the tracer is active
and the tracers will disable or enable function tracing depending
on how the option was set.
Instead of using the proc file, disable latency function tracing with
echo 0 > /debug/tracing/options/function-trace
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com>
Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Currently, the way the latency tracers and snapshot feature works
is to have a separate trace_array called "max_tr" that holds the
snapshot buffer. For latency tracers, this snapshot buffer is used
to swap the running buffer with this buffer to save the current max
latency.
The only items needed for the max_tr is really just a copy of the buffer
itself, the per_cpu data pointers, the time_start timestamp that states
when the max latency was triggered, and the cpu that the max latency
was triggered on. All other fields in trace_array are unused by the
max_tr, making the max_tr mostly bloat.
This change removes the max_tr completely, and adds a new structure
called trace_buffer, that holds the buffer pointer, the per_cpu data
pointers, the time_start timestamp, and the cpu where the latency occurred.
The trace_array, now has two trace_buffers, one for the normal trace and
one for the max trace or snapshot. By doing this, not only do we remove
the bloat from the max_trace but the instances of traces can now use
their own snapshot feature and not have just the top level global_trace have
the snapshot feature and latency tracers for itself.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The global and max-tr currently use static per_cpu arrays for the CPU data
descriptors. But in order to get new allocated trace_arrays, they need to
be allocated per_cpu arrays. Instead of using the static arrays, switch
the global and max-tr to use allocated data.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The global_trace variable in kernel/trace/trace.c has been kept 'static' and
local to that file so that it would not be used too much outside of that
file. This has paid off, even though there were lots of changes to make
the trace_array structure more generic (not depending on global_trace).
Removal of a lot of direct usages of global_trace is needed to be able to
create more trace_arrays such that we can add multiple buffers.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The latency tracers require the buffers to be in overwrite mode,
otherwise they get screwed up. Force the buffers to stay in overwrite
mode when latency tracers are enabled.
Added a flag_changed() method to the tracer structure to allow
the tracers to see what flags are being changed, and also be able
to prevent the change from happing.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Pull trivial branch from Jiri Kosina:
"Usual stuff -- comment/printk typo fixes, documentation updates, dead
code elimination."
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (39 commits)
HOWTO: fix double words typo
x86 mtrr: fix comment typo in mtrr_bp_init
propagate name change to comments in kernel source
doc: Update the name of profiling based on sysfs
treewide: Fix typos in various drivers
treewide: Fix typos in various Kconfig
wireless: mwifiex: Fix typo in wireless/mwifiex driver
messages: i2o: Fix typo in messages/i2o
scripts/kernel-doc: check that non-void fcts describe their return value
Kernel-doc: Convention: Use a "Return" section to describe return values
radeon: Fix typo and copy/paste error in comments
doc: Remove unnecessary declarations from Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c
various: Fix spelling of "asynchronous" in comments.
Fix misspellings of "whether" in comments.
eisa: Fix spelling of "asynchronous".
various: Fix spelling of "registered" in comments.
doc: fix quite a few typos within Documentation
target: iscsi: fix comment typos in target/iscsi drivers
treewide: fix typo of "suport" in various comments and Kconfig
treewide: fix typo of "suppport" in various comments
...
I've legally changed my name with New York State, the US Social Security
Administration, et al. This patch propagates the name change and change
in initials and login to comments in the kernel source as well.
Signed-off-by: Nadia Yvette Chambers <nyc@holomorphy.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
print_max and use_max_tr in struct tracer are "int" variables and
used like flags. This is wasteful, so change the type to "bool".
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20121002082710.9807.86393.stgit@falsita
Signed-off-by: Hiraku Toyooka <hiraku.toyooka.gu@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
There's times during debugging that it is helpful to see traces of early
boot functions. But the tracers are initialized at device_initcall()
which is quite late during the boot process. Setting the kernel command
line parameter ftrace=function will not show anything until the function
tracer is initialized. This prevents being able to trace functions before
device_initcall().
There's no reason that the tracers need to be initialized so late in the
boot process. Move them up to core_initcall() as they still need to come
after early_initcall() which initializes the tracing buffers.
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
As more users of the function tracer utility are being added, they do
not always add the necessary recursion protection. To protect from
function recursion due to tracing, if the callback ftrace_ops does not
specifically specify that it protects against recursion (by setting
the FTRACE_OPS_FL_RECURSION_SAFE flag), the list operation will be
called by the mcount trampoline which adds recursion protection.
If the flag is set, then the function will be called directly with no
extra protection.
Note, the list operation is called if more than one function callback
is registered, or if the arch does not support all of the function
tracer features.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Return as the 4th paramater to the function tracer callback the pt_regs.
Later patches that implement regs passing for the architectures will require
having the ftrace_ops set the SAVE_REGS flag, which will tell the arch
to take the time to pass a full set of pt_regs to the ftrace_ops callback
function. If the arch does not support it then it should pass NULL.
If an arch can pass full regs, then it should define:
ARCH_SUPPORTS_FTRACE_SAVE_REGS to 1
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120702201821.019966811@goodmis.org
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Currently the function trace callback receives only the ip and parent_ip
of the function that it traced. It would be more powerful to also return
the ops that registered the function as well. This allows the same function
to act differently depending on what ftrace_ops registered it.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120612225424.267254552@goodmis.org
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (121 commits)
perf symbols: Increase symbol KSYM_NAME_LEN size
perf hists browser: Refuse 'a' hotkey on non symbolic views
perf ui browser: Use libslang to read keys
perf tools: Fix tracing info recording
perf hists browser: Elide DSO column when it is set to just one DSO, ditto for threads
perf hists: Don't consider filtered entries when calculating column widths
perf hists: Don't decay total_period for filtered entries
perf hists browser: Honour symbol_conf.show_{nr_samples,total_period}
perf hists browser: Do not exit on tab key with single event
perf annotate browser: Don't change selection line when returning from callq
perf tools: handle endianness of feature bitmap
perf tools: Add prelink suggestion to dso update message
perf script: Fix unknown feature comment
perf hists browser: Apply the dso and thread filters when merging new batches
perf hists: Move the dso and thread filters from hist_browser
perf ui browser: Honour the xterm colors
perf top tui: Give color hints just on the percentage, like on --stdio
perf ui browser: Make the colors configurable and change the defaults
perf tui: Remove unneeded call to newtCls on startup
perf hists: Don't format the percentage on hist_entry__snprintf
...
Fix up conflicts in arch/x86/kernel/kprobes.c manually.
Ingo's tree did the insane "add volatile to const array", which just
doesn't make sense ("volatile const"?). But we could remove the const
*and* make the array volatile to make doubly sure that gcc doesn't
optimize it away..
Also fix up kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c non-data-conflicts manually: the
reader_lock has been turned into a raw lock by the core locking merge,
and there was a new user of it introduced in this perf core merge. Make
sure that new use also uses the raw accessor functions.
If irqs are disabled when preemption count reaches zero, the
preemptirqsoff tracer should not flag that as the end.
When interrupts are enabled and preemption count is not zero
the preemptirqsoff correctly continues its tracing.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The tracing locks can be taken in atomic context and therefore
cannot be preempted on -rt - annotate it.
In mainline this change documents the low level nature of
the lock - otherwise there's no functional difference. Lockdep
and Sparse checking will work as usual.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The display of absolute time and duration fields is based on the
latency field. This was added during the irqsoff/wakeup tracers
graph support changes.
It's causing confusion in what fields will be displayed for the
function_graph tracer itself. So I'm removing this depency, and
adding absolute time and duration fields to the preemptirqsoff
preemptoff irqsoff wakeup tracers.
With following commands:
# echo function_graph > ./current_tracer
# cat trace
This is what it looked like before:
# tracer: function_graph
#
# TIME CPU DURATION FUNCTION CALLS
# | | | | | | | |
0) 0.068 us | } /* page_add_file_rmap */
0) | _raw_spin_unlock() {
...
This is what it looks like now:
# tracer: function_graph
#
# CPU DURATION FUNCTION CALLS
# | | | | | | |
0) 0.068 us | } /* add_preempt_count */
0) 0.993 us | } /* vfsmount_lock_local_lock */
...
For preemptirqsoff preemptoff irqsoff wakeup tracers,
this is what it looked like before:
SNIP
# _-----=> irqs-off
# / _----=> need-resched
# | / _---=> hardirq/softirq
# || / _--=> preempt-depth
# ||| / _-=> lock-depth
# |||| /
# CPU TASK/PID ||||| DURATION FUNCTION CALLS
# | | | ||||| | | | | | |
1) <idle>-0 | d..1 0.000 us | acpi_idle_enter_simple();
...
This is what it looks like now:
SNIP
#
# _-----=> irqs-off
# / _----=> need-resched
# | / _---=> hardirq/softirq
# || / _--=> preempt-depth
# ||| /
# TIME CPU TASK/PID |||| DURATION FUNCTION CALLS
# | | | | |||| | | | | | |
19.847735 | 1) <idle>-0 | d..1 0.000 us | acpi_idle_enter_simple();
...
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1307113131-10045-2-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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