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jolsa@redhat.com 566b0aaf79 tracing: Remove unused fields/variables
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
LKML-Reference: <1247773468-11594-2-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-07-18 12:21:16 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 45bceffc30 Merge branch 'linus' into tracing/core
Merge reason: tracing/core was on an older, pre-rc1 base.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-07-18 12:20:01 +02:00
Xiao Guangrong 6f2f3cf00e tracing/function: Cleanup for function tracer
We can directly use %pf input format instead of kallsyms_lookup()
and %s input format

Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2009-07-17 01:45:51 -04:00
Xiao Guangrong 64fbcd1628 tracing/function: Simplify __ftrace_replace_code()
Rewrite the __ftrace_replace_code() function, simplify it, but don't
change the code's logic.

First, we get the state we want to set, if the record has the same
state, then do nothing, otherwise enable/disable it.

Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2009-07-17 00:37:53 -04:00
Steven Rostedt 6ab5d668b1 tracing/function-profiler: do not free per cpu variable stat
The per cpu variable stat is freeded if we fail to allocate a name
on start up. This was due to stat at first being allocated in the
initial design. But since then, it has become a static per cpu variable
but the free on error was not removed.

Also added __init annotation to the function that this is in.

[ Impact: prevent possible memory corruption on low mem at boot up ]

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-07-13 11:01:10 +02:00
Li Zefan a32c7765e2 tracing: Fix stack tracer sysctl handling
This made my machine completely frozen:

  # echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/stack_tracer_enabled
  # echo 2 > /proc/sys/kernel/stack_tracer_enabled

The cause is register_ftrace_function() was called twice.

Also fix ftrace_enabled sysctl, though seems nothing bad happened
as I tested it.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A448D17.9010305@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-26 20:48:39 +02:00
Li Zefan 0296e4254f ftrace: Fix the output of profile
The first entry of the ftrace profile was always skipped when
reading trace_stat/functionX.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A443D59.4080307@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-26 09:25:42 +02:00
Li Zefan d82d62444f ftrace: Fix t_hash_start()
When the output of set_ftrace_filter is larger than PAGE_SIZE,
t_hash_start() will be called the 2nd time, and then we start
from the head of a hlist, which is wrong and causes some entries
to be outputed twice.

The worse is, if the hlist is large enough, reading set_ftrace_filter
won't stop but in a dead loop.

Reviewed-by: Liming Wang <liming.wang@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A41876E.2060407@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-24 11:02:53 +02:00
Li Zefan 694ce0a544 ftrace: Don't manipulate @pos in t_start()
It's rather confusing that in t_start(), in some cases @pos is
incremented, and in some cases it's decremented and then incremented.

This patch rewrites t_start() in a much more general way.

Thus we fix a bug that if ftrace_filtered == 1, functions have tracer
hooks won't be printed, because the branch is always unreachable:

static void *t_start(...)
{
	...
	if (!p)
		return t_hash_start(m, pos);
	return p;
}

Before:
  # echo 'sys_open' > /mnt/tracing/set_ftrace_filter
  # echo 'sys_write:traceon:4' >> /mnt/tracing/set_ftrace_filter
  sys_open

After:
  # echo 'sys_open' > /mnt/tracing/set_ftrace_filter
  # echo 'sys_write:traceon:4' >> /mnt/tracing/set_ftrace_filter
  sys_open
  sys_write:traceon:count=4

Reviewed-by: Liming Wang <liming.wang@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A41874B.4090507@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-24 11:02:53 +02:00
Li Zefan 85951842a1 ftrace: Don't increment @pos in g_start()
It's wrong to increment @pos in g_start(). It causes some entries
lost when reading set_graph_function, if the output of the file
is larger than PAGE_SIZE.

Reviewed-by: Liming Wang <liming.wang@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A418738.7090401@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-24 11:02:52 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker 9ea1a153a4 tracing/urgent: warn in case of ftrace_start_up inbalance
Prevent from further ftrace_start_up inbalances so that we avoid
future nop patching omissions with dynamic ftrace.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-06-20 06:52:21 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 991ec02cdc Merge branch 'tracing-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'tracing-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  function-graph: always initialize task ret_stack
  function-graph: move initialization of new tasks up in fork
  function-graph: add memory barriers for accessing task's ret_stack
  function-graph: enable the stack after initialization of other variables
  function-graph: only allocate init tasks if it was not already done

Manually fix trivial conflict in kernel/trace/ftrace.c
2009-06-10 19:58:10 -07:00
Steven Rostedt 84047e360a function-graph: always initialize task ret_stack
On creating a new task while running the function graph tracer, if
we fail to allocate the ret_stack, and then fail the fork, the
code will free the parent ret_stack. This is because the child
duplicated the parent and currently points to the parent's ret_stack.

This patch always initializes the task's ret_stack to NULL.

[ Impact: prevent crash of parent on low memory during fork ]

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-06-02 16:51:55 -04:00
Steven Rostedt 26c01624a2 function-graph: add memory barriers for accessing task's ret_stack
The code that handles the tasks ret_stack allocation for every task
assumes that only an interrupt can cause issues (even though interrupts
are disabled).

In reality, the code is allocating the ret_stack for tasks that may be
running on other CPUs and there are not efficient memory barriers to
handle this case.

[ Impact: prevent crash due to using of uninitialized ret_stack variables ]

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-06-02 14:42:17 -04:00
Steven Rostedt 82310a3272 function-graph: enable the stack after initialization of other variables
The function graph tracer checks if the task_struct has ret_stack defined
to know if it is OK or not to use it. The initialization is done for
all tasks by one process, but the idle tasks use the same initialization
used by new tasks.

If an interrupt happens on an idle task that just had the ret_stack
created, but before the rest of the initialization took place, then
we can corrupt the return address of the functions.

This patch moves the setting of the task_struct's ret_stack to after
the other variables have been initialized.

[ Impact: prevent kernel panic on idle task when starting function graph ]

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-06-02 14:41:50 -04:00
Steven Rostedt 179c498ae2 function-graph: only allocate init tasks if it was not already done
When the function graph tracer is enabled, it calls the initialization
needed for the init tasks that would be called on all created tasks.

The problem is that this is called every time the function graph tracer
is enabled, and the ret_stack is allocated for the idle tasks each time.
Thus, the old ret_stack is lost and a memory leak is created.

This is also dangerous because if an interrupt happened on another CPU
with the init task and the ret_stack is replaced, we then lose all the
return pointers for the interrupt, and a crash would take place.

[ Impact: fix memory leak and possible crash due to race ]

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-06-02 12:03:19 -04:00
Steven Rostedt 0f6ce3de4e ftrace: do not profile functions when disabled
A race was found that if one were to enable and disable the function
profiler repeatedly, then the system can panic. This was because a profiled
function may be preempted just before disabling interrupts. While
the profiler is disabled and then reenabled, the preempted function
could start again, and access the hash as it is being initialized.

This just adds a check in the irq disabled part to check if the profiler
is enabled, and if it is not then it will just exit.

When the system is disabled, the profile_enabled variable is cleared
before calling the unregistering of the function profiler. This
unregistering calls stop machine which also acts as a synchronize schedule.

[ Impact: fix panic in enabling/disabling function profiler ]

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-06-01 23:26:23 -04:00
Steven Rostedt 2af15d6a44 ftrace: add kernel command line function filtering
When using ftrace=function on the command line to trace functions
on boot up, one can not filter out functions that are commonly called.

This patch adds two new ftrace command line commands.

  ftrace_notrace=function-list
  ftrace_filter=function-list

Where function-list is a comma separated list of functions to filter.
The ftrace_notrace will make the functions listed not be included
in the function tracing, and ftrace_filter will only trace the functions
listed.

These two act the same as the debugfs/tracing/set_ftrace_notrace and
debugfs/tracing/set_ftrace_filter respectively.

The simple glob expressions that are allowed by the filter files can also
be used by the command line interface.

	ftrace_notrace=rcu*,*lock,*spin*

Will not trace any function that starts with rcu, ends with lock, or has
the word spin in it.

Note, if the self tests are enabled, they may interfere with the filtering
set by the command lines.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-06-01 23:23:10 -04:00
Ming Lei 24ed0c4bfc tracing: fix check for return value of register_module_notifier
return zero should be correct, so fix it.

[ Impact: eliminate incorrect syslog message ]

Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
LKML-Reference: <1242545498-7285-1-git-send-email-tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-18 10:24:13 +02:00
Steven Rostedt 93eb677d74 ftrace: use module notifier for function tracer
The hooks in the module code for the function tracer must be called
before any of that module code runs. The function tracer hooks
modify the module (replacing calls to mcount to nops). If the code
is executed while the change occurs, then the CPU can take a GPF.

To handle the above with a bit of paranoia, I originally implemented
the hooks as calls directly from the module code.

After examining the notifier calls, it looks as though the start up
notify is called before any of the module's code is executed. This makes
the use of the notify safe with ftrace.

Only the startup notify is required to be "safe". The shutdown simply
removes the entries from the ftrace function list, and does not modify
any code.

This change has another benefit. It removes a issue with a reverse dependency
in the mutexes of ftrace_lock and module_mutex.

[ Impact: fix lock dependency bug, cleanup ]

Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-04-17 16:59:15 +02:00
Steven Rostedt ad8d75fff8 tracing/events: move trace point headers into include/trace/events
Impact: clean up

Create a sub directory in include/trace called events to keep the
trace point headers in their own separate directory. Only headers that
declare trace points should be defined in this directory.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: Zhao Lei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-04-14 22:05:43 -04:00
Steven Rostedt 597af81537 function-graph: use int instead of atomic for ftrace_graph_active
Impact: cleanup

The variable ftrace_graph_active is only modified under the
ftrace_lock mutex, thus an atomic is not necessary for modification.

Reported-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-04-07 14:43:08 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker 5452af664f tracing/ftrace: factorize the tracing files creation
Impact: cleanup

Most of the tracing files creation follow the same pattern:

ret = debugfs_create_file(...)
if (!ret)
	pr_warning("Couldn't create ... entry\n")

Unify it!

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1238109938-11840-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-04-07 14:43:07 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 93776a8ec7 Merge branch 'linus' into tracing/core
Merge reason: update to upstream tracing facilities

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-07 13:47:45 +02:00
Steven Rostedt 2aad1b76e6 function-graph: allow unregistering twice
Impact: fix to permanent disabling of function graph tracer

There should be nothing to prevent a tracer from unregistering a
function graph callback more than once. This can simplify error paths.

But currently, the counter does not account for mulitple unregistering
of the function graph callback. If it happens, the function graph
tracer will be permanently disabled.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-01 14:47:42 +02:00
Steven Rostedt 34886c8bc5 tracing: add average time in function to function profiler
Show the average time in the function (Time / Hit)

  Function                               Hit    Time            Avg
  --------                               ---    ----            ---
  mwait_idle                              51    140326.6 us     2751.503 us
  smp_apic_timer_interrupt                47    3517.735 us     74.845 us
  schedule                                10    2738.754 us     273.875 us
  __schedule                              10    2732.857 us     273.285 us
  hrtimer_interrupt                       47    1896.104 us     40.342 us
  irq_exit                                56    1711.833 us     30.568 us
  __run_hrtimer                           47    1315.589 us     27.991 us
  tick_sched_timer                        47    1138.690 us     24.227 us
  do_softirq                              56    1116.829 us     19.943 us
  __do_softirq                            56    1066.932 us     19.052 us
  do_IRQ                                   9    926.153 us      102.905 us

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-03-25 21:03:36 -04:00
Steven Rostedt 318e0a73c9 tracing: remove on the fly allocator from function profiler
Impact: safer code

The on the fly allocator for the function profiler was to save
memory. But at the expense of stability. Although it survived several
tests, allocating from the function tracer is just too risky, just
to save space.

This patch removes the allocator and simply allocates enough entries
at start up.

Each function gets a profiling structure of 40 bytes. With an average
of 20K functions, and this is for each CPU, we have 800K per online
CPU. This is not too bad, at least for non-embedded.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-03-25 21:03:17 -04:00
Zhaolei 2a4efa4245 ftrace: Using FTRACE_WARN_ON() to check "freed record" in ftrace_release()
"Because when we call ftrace_free_rec we change the rec->ip to point to the
  next record in the chain. Something is very wrong if rec->ip >= s &&
  rec->ip < e and the record is already free."

 "Note, use FTRACE_WARN_ON() macro. This way it shuts down ftrace if it is
  hit and helps to avoid further damage later."
                   -- Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

Signed-off-by: Zhao Lei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-03-25 17:45:36 -04:00
Steven Rostedt fb9fb015e9 tracing: clean up tracing profiler
Ingo Molnar suggested clean ups for the profiling code. This patch
makes those updates.

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-03-25 13:26:41 -04:00
Steven Rostedt a2a16d6a31 function-graph: add option to calculate graph time or not
graph time is the time that a function is executing another function.
Thus if function A calls B, if graph-time is set, then the time for
A includes B. This is the default behavior. But if graph-time is off,
then the time spent executing B is subtracted from A.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-03-24 23:41:11 -04:00
Steven Rostedt cafb168a1c tracing: make the function profiler per cpu
Impact: speed enhancement

By making the function profiler record in per cpu data we not only
get better readings, avoid races, we also do not have to take any
locks.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-03-24 23:41:10 -04:00
Steven Rostedt 0706f1c48c tracing: adding function timings to function profiler
If the function graph trace is enabled, the function profiler will
use it to take the timing of the functions.

 cat /debug/tracing/trace_stat/functions

  Function                               Hit    Time
  --------                               ---    ----
  mwait_idle                             127    183028.4 us
  schedule                                26    151997.7 us
  __schedule                              31    151975.1 us
  sys_wait4                                2    74080.53 us
  do_wait                                  2    74077.80 us
  sys_newlstat                           138    39929.16 us
  do_path_lookup                         179    39845.79 us
  vfs_lstat_fd                           138    39761.97 us
  user_path_at                           153    39469.58 us
  path_walk                              179    39435.76 us
  __link_path_walk                       189    39143.73 us
[...]

Note the times are skewed due to the function graph tracer not taking
into account schedules.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-03-24 23:41:09 -04:00
Steven Rostedt 493762fc53 tracing: move function profiler data out of function struct
Impact: reduce size of memory in function profiler

The function profiler originally introduces its counters into the
function records itself. There is 20 thousand different functions on
a normal system, and that is adding 20 thousand counters for profiling
event when not needed.

A normal run of the profiler yields only a couple of thousand functions
executed, depending on what is being profiled. This means we have around
18 thousand useless counters.

This patch rectifies this by moving the data out of the function
records used by dynamic ftrace. Data is preallocated to hold the functions
when the profiling begins. Checks are made during profiling to see if
more recorcds should be allocated, and they are allocated if it is safe
to do so.

This also removes the dependency from using dynamic ftrace, and also
removes the overhead by having it enabled.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-03-24 23:41:06 -04:00
Steven Rostedt bac429f037 tracing: add function profiler
Impact: new profiling feature

This patch adds a function profiler. In debugfs/tracing/ two new
files are created.

  function_profile_enabled  - to enable or disable profiling

  trace_stat/functions   - the profiled functions.

For example:

  echo 1 > /debugfs/tracing/function_profile_enabled
  ./hackbench 50
  echo 0 > /debugfs/tracing/function_profile_enabled

yields:

  cat /debugfs/tracing/trace_stat/functions

  Function                               Hit
  --------                               ---
  _spin_lock                        10106442
  _spin_unlock                      10097492
  kfree                              6013704
  _spin_unlock_irqrestore            4423941
  _spin_lock_irqsave                 4406825
  __phys_addr                        4181686
  __slab_free                        4038222
  dput                               4030130
  path_put                           4023387
  unroll_tree_refs                   4019532
[...]

The most hit functions are listed first. Functions that are not
hit are not listed.

This feature depends on and uses dynamic function tracing. When the
function profiling is disabled, no overhead occurs. But it still
takes up around 300KB to hold the data, thus it is not recomended
to keep it enabled for systems low on memory.

When a '1' is echoed into the function_profile_enabled file, the
counters for is function is reset back to zero. Thus you can see what
functions are hit most by different programs.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-03-24 23:40:00 -04:00
Lai Jiangshan ee000b7f9f tracing: use union for multi-usages field
Impact: cleanup

struct dyn_ftrace::ip has different usages in his lifecycle,
we use union for it. And also for struct dyn_ftrace::flags.

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <49C871BE.3080405@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-24 16:43:12 +01:00
Lai Jiangshan cc59c9e8d0 ftrace: show virtual PID
Impact: fix PID output under namespaces

When current namespace is not the global namespace,
pid read from set_ftrace_pid is no correct.

 # ~/newpid_namespace_run bash
 # echo $$
 1
 # echo 1 > set_ftrace_pid
 # cat set_ftrace_pid
 3756

Since we write virtual PID to set_ftrace_pid, we need get
virtual PID when we read it.

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <49C84D65.9050606@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-24 16:42:49 +01:00
Steven Rostedt be6f164a02 function-graph: add option for include sleep times
Impact: give user a choice to show times spent while sleeping

The user may want to see the time a function spent sleeping.
This patch adds the trace option "sleep-time" to allow that.
The "sleep-time" option is default on.

 echo sleep-time > /debug/tracing/trace_options

produces:

 ------------------------------------------
 2)  avahi-d-3428  =>    <idle>-0
 ------------------------------------------

 2)               |      finish_task_switch() {
 2)   0.621 us    |        _spin_unlock_irq();
 2)   2.202 us    |      }
 2) ! 1002.197 us |    }
 2) ! 1003.521 us |  }

where as,

 echo nosleep-time > /debug/tracing/trace_options

produces:

 0)    <idle>-0    =>  yum-upd-3416
 ------------------------------------------

 0)               |              finish_task_switch() {
 0)   0.643 us    |                _spin_unlock_irq();
 0)   2.342 us    |              }
 0) + 41.302 us   |            }
 0) + 42.453 us   |          }

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-03-24 11:06:24 -04:00
Steven Rostedt 8aef2d2856 function-graph: ignore times across schedule
Impact: more accurate timings

The current method of function graph tracing does not take into
account the time spent when a task is not running. This shows functions
that call schedule have increased costs:

 3) + 18.664 us   |      }
 ------------------------------------------
 3)    <idle>-0    =>  kblockd-123
 ------------------------------------------

 3)               |      finish_task_switch() {
 3)   1.441 us    |        _spin_unlock_irq();
 3)   3.966 us    |      }
 3) ! 2959.433 us |    }
 3) ! 2961.465 us |  }

This patch uses the tracepoint in the scheduling context switch to
account for time that has elapsed while a task is scheduled out.
Now we see:

 ------------------------------------------
 3)    <idle>-0    =>  edac-po-1067
 ------------------------------------------

 3)               |      finish_task_switch() {
 3)   0.685 us    |        _spin_unlock_irq();
 3)   2.331 us    |      }
 3) + 41.439 us   |    }
 3) + 42.663 us   |  }

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-03-24 09:33:30 -04:00
Steven Rostedt 05ce5818ad function-graph: prevent more than one tracer registering
Impact: prevent crash due to multiple function graph tracers

The function graph tracer can currently only handle a single tracer
being registered. If another tracer registers with the function
graph tracer it can crash the system.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-03-24 09:32:52 -04:00
Frederic Weisbecker 03303549b1 tracing/ftrace: fix the check on nopped sites
Impact: fix a dynamic tracing failure

Recently, the function and function graph tracers failed to use dynamic
tracing after the following commit:

fa9d13cf13
(ftrace: don't try to __ftrace_replace_code on !FTRACE_FL_CONVERTED rec)

The patch is right except a mistake on the check for the FTRACE_FL_CONVERTED
flag. The code patching is aborted in case of successfully nopped sites.
What we want is the opposite: ignore the callsites that haven't been nopped.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-03-16 22:15:36 -04:00
Lai Jiangshan e94142a67f ftrace: remove struct list_head from struct dyn_ftrace
Impact: save memory

The struct dyn_ftrace table is very large, this patch will save
about 50%.

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <49BA2C9F.8020009@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-13 11:36:20 +01:00
Lai Jiangshan 850a80cfaa ftrace: use seq_read
Impact: cleanup

VFS layer has tested the file mode, we do not need test it.

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <49BA2BAB.6010608@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-13 11:35:31 +01:00
Zhaolei fa9d13cf13 ftrace: don't try to __ftrace_replace_code on !FTRACE_FL_CONVERTED rec
Do __ftrace_replace_code for !FTRACE_FL_CONVERTED rec will always
fail, we should ignore this rec.

Signed-off-by: Zhao Lei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: "Steven Rostedt ;" <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <49BA2472.4060206@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-13 10:25:06 +01:00
Zhaolei b00f0b6dc1 ftrace: avoid double-free of dyn_ftrace
If dyn_ftrace is freed before ftrace_release(), ftrace_release()
will free it again and make ftrace_free_records wrong.

Signed-off-by: Zhao Lei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: "Steven Rostedt ;" <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <49BA23D9.1050900@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-13 10:25:06 +01:00
KOSAKI Motohiro 10dd3ebe21 tracing: fix deadlock when setting set_ftrace_pid
Impact: fix deadlock while using set_ftrace_pid

Reproducer:

	# cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing
	# echo $$ > set_ftrace_pid

	then, console becomes hung.

Details:

when writing set_ftracepid, kernel callstack is following

	ftrace_pid_write()
		mutex_lock(&ftrace_lock);
		ftrace_update_pid_func()
			mutex_lock(&ftrace_lock);
			mutex_unlock(&ftrace_lock);
		mutex_unlock(&ftrace_lock);

then, system always deadlocks when ftrace_pid_write() is called.

In past days, ftrace_pid_write() used ftrace_start_lock, but
commit e6ea44e9b4 consolidated
ftrace_start_lock to ftrace_lock.

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090306151155.0778.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-06 12:07:38 +01:00
Steven Rostedt 5e2336a0d4 tracing: make all file_operations const
Impact: cleanup

All file_operations structures should be constant. No one is going to
change them.

Reported-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-03-05 21:46:40 -05:00
Ingo Molnar c478f87869 Merge branch 'tip/x86/ftrace' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into tracing/ftrace
Conflicts:
	include/linux/ftrace.h
	kernel/trace/ftrace.c
2009-02-22 18:12:01 +01:00
Steven Rostedt 4377245aa9 ftrace: break out modify loop immediately on detection of error
Impact: added precaution on failure detection

Break out of the modifying loop as soon as a failure is detected.
This is just an added precaution found by code review and was not
found by any bug chasing.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-02-20 14:30:20 -05:00
Steven Rostedt 000ab69117 ftrace: allow archs to preform pre and post process for code modification
This patch creates the weak functions: ftrace_arch_code_modify_prepare
and ftrace_arch_code_modify_post_process that are called before and
after the stop machine is called to modify the kernel text.

If the arch needs to do pre or post processing, it only needs to define
these functions.

[ Update: Ingo Molnar suggested using the name ftrace_arch_code_modify_*
          over using ftrace_arch_modify_* ]

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-02-20 13:16:18 -05:00
Frederic Weisbecker f9349a8f97 tracing/function-graph-tracer: make set_graph_function file support ftrace regex
Impact: trace only functions matching a pattern

The set_graph_function file let one to trace only one or several
chosen functions and follow all their code flow.

Currently, only a constant function name is allowed so this patch
allows the ftrace_regex functions:

- matches all functions that end with "name":
  echo *name > set_graph_function

- matches all functions that begin with "name":
  echo name* > set_graph_function

- matches all functions that contains "name":
  echo *name* > set_graph_function

Example:

echo mutex* > set_graph_function

 0)               |  mutex_lock_nested() {
 0)   0.563 us    |    __might_sleep();
 0)   2.072 us    |  }
 0)               |  mutex_unlock() {
 0)   1.036 us    |    __mutex_unlock_slowpath();
 0)   2.433 us    |  }
 0)               |  mutex_unlock() {
 0)   0.691 us    |    __mutex_unlock_slowpath();
 0)   1.787 us    |  }
 0)               |  mutex_lock_interruptible_nested() {
 0)   0.548 us    |    __might_sleep();
 0)   1.945 us    |  }

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-20 11:36:24 +01:00
Ingo Molnar ac07bcaa82 Merge branch 'tip/tracing/ftrace' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into tracing/ftrace 2009-02-18 01:09:07 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 37bd824a35 Merge branches 'tracing/ftrace' and 'tracing/urgent' into tracing/core 2009-02-18 01:08:13 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker 5b058bcde9 tracing/function-graph-tracer: trace the idle tasks
When the function graph tracer is activated, it iterates over the task_list
to allocate a stack to store the return addresses.

But the per cpu idle tasks are not iterated by using
do_each_thread / while_each_thread.

So we have to iterate on them manually.

This fixes somes weirdness in the traces and many losses of traces.
Examples on two cpus:

 0)   Xorg-4287    |   2.906 us    |              }
 0)   Xorg-4287    |   3.965 us    |            }
 0)   Xorg-4287    |   5.302 us    |          }
 ------------------------------------------
 0)   Xorg-4287    =>    <idle>-0
 ------------------------------------------

 0)    <idle>-0    |   2.861 us    |                        }
 0)    <idle>-0    |   0.526 us    |                        set_normalized_timespec();
 0)    <idle>-0    |   7.201 us    |                      }
 0)    <idle>-0    |   8.214 us    |                    }
 0)    <idle>-0    |               |                    clockevents_program_event() {
 0)    <idle>-0    |               |                      lapic_next_event() {
 0)    <idle>-0    |   0.510 us    |                        native_apic_mem_write();
 0)    <idle>-0    |   1.546 us    |                      }
 0)    <idle>-0    |   2.583 us    |                    }
 0)    <idle>-0    | + 12.435 us   |                  }
 0)    <idle>-0    | + 13.470 us   |                }
 0)    <idle>-0    |   0.608 us    |                _spin_unlock_irqrestore();
 0)    <idle>-0    | + 23.270 us   |              }
 0)    <idle>-0    | + 24.336 us   |            }
 0)    <idle>-0    | + 25.417 us   |          }
 0)    <idle>-0    |   0.593 us    |          _spin_unlock();
 0)    <idle>-0    | + 41.869 us   |        }
 0)    <idle>-0    | + 42.906 us   |      }
 0)    <idle>-0    | + 95.035 us   |    }
 0)    <idle>-0    |   0.540 us    |    menu_reflect();
 0)    <idle>-0    | ! 100.404 us  |  }
 0)    <idle>-0    |   0.564 us    |  mce_idle_callback();
 0)    <idle>-0    |               |  enter_idle() {
 0)    <idle>-0    |   0.526 us    |    mce_idle_callback();
 0)    <idle>-0    |   1.757 us    |  }
 0)    <idle>-0    |               |  cpuidle_idle_call() {
 0)    <idle>-0    |               |    menu_select() {
 0)    <idle>-0    |   0.525 us    |      pm_qos_requirement();
 0)    <idle>-0    |   0.518 us    |      tick_nohz_get_sleep_length();
 0)    <idle>-0    |   2.621 us    |    }
[...]
 1)    <idle>-0    |   0.518 us    |              touch_softlockup_watchdog();
 1)    <idle>-0    | + 14.355 us   |            }
 1)    <idle>-0    | + 22.840 us   |          }
 1)    <idle>-0    | + 25.949 us   |        }
 1)    <idle>-0    |               |        handle_irq() {
 1)    <idle>-0    |   0.511 us    |          irq_to_desc();
 1)    <idle>-0    |               |          handle_edge_irq() {
 1)    <idle>-0    |   0.638 us    |            _spin_lock();
 1)    <idle>-0    |               |            ack_apic_edge() {
 1)    <idle>-0    |   0.510 us    |              irq_to_desc();
 1)    <idle>-0    |               |              move_native_irq() {
 1)    <idle>-0    |   0.510 us    |                irq_to_desc();
 1)    <idle>-0    |   1.532 us    |              }
 1)    <idle>-0    |   0.511 us    |              native_apic_mem_write();
 ------------------------------------------
 1)    <idle>-0    =>    cat-5073
 ------------------------------------------

 1)    cat-5073    |   3.731 us    |                    }
 1)    cat-5073    |               |                    run_local_timers() {
 1)    cat-5073    |   0.533 us    |                      hrtimer_run_queues();
 1)    cat-5073    |               |                      raise_softirq() {
 1)    cat-5073    |               |                        __raise_softirq_irqoff() {
 1)    cat-5073    |               |                          /* nr: 1 */
 1)    cat-5073    |   2.718 us    |                        }
 1)    cat-5073    |   3.814 us    |                      }

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-17 19:20:17 +01:00
Steven Rostedt b6887d7916 ftrace: rename _hook to _probe
Impact: clean up

Ingo Molnar did not like the _hook naming convention used by the
select function tracer. Luis Claudio R. Goncalves suggested using
the "_probe" extension. This patch implements the change of
calling the functions and variables "_hook" and replacing them
with "_probe".

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-02-17 12:32:04 -05:00
Steven Rostedt 6a24a244cd ftrace: clean up coding style
Ingo Molnar pointed out some coding style issues with the recent ftrace
updates. This patch cleans them up.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-02-17 11:20:26 -05:00
Ingo Molnar 73d3fd96e7 ftrace: fix !CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE ftrace_swapper_pid definition
Impact: build fix

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-17 11:50:42 +01:00
Steven Rostedt 809dcf29ce ftrace: add pretty print to selected fuction traces
This patch adds a call back for the tracers that have hooks to
selected functions. This allows the tracer to show better output
in the set_ftrace_filter file.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-02-16 23:06:01 -05:00
Steven Rostedt 8fc0c701c5 ftrace: show selected functions in set_ftrace_filter
This patch adds output to show what functions have tracer hooks
attached to them.

  # echo 'sys_open:traceon:4' > /debug/tracing/set_ftrace_filter
  # cat set_ftrace_filter

 #### all functions enabled ####
 sys_open:ftrace_traceon:0000000000000004

  # echo 'do_fork:traceoff:' > set_ftrace_filter
  # cat set_ftrace_filter

 #### all functions enabled ####
 sys_open:ftrace_traceon:0000000000000002
 do_fork:ftrace_traceoff:ffffffffffffffff

Note the 4 changed to a 2. This is because The code was executed twice
since the traceoff was added. If a cat is done again:

 #### all functions enabled ####
 sys_open:ftrace_traceon
 do_fork:ftrace_traceoff:ffffffffffffffff

The number disappears. That is because it will not print a NULL.

Callbacks to allow the tracer to pretty print will be implemented soon.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-02-16 22:50:06 -05:00
Steven Rostedt 59df055f19 ftrace: trace different functions with a different tracer
Impact: new feature

Currently, the function tracer only gives you an ability to hook
a tracer to all functions being traced. The dynamic function trace
allows you to pick and choose which of those functions will be
traced, but all functions being traced will call all tracers that
registered with the function tracer.

This patch adds a new feature that allows a tracer to hook to specific
functions, even when all functions are being traced. It allows for
different functions to call different tracer hooks.

The way this is accomplished is by a special function that will hook
to the function tracer and will set up a hash table knowing which
tracer hook to call with which function. This is the most general
and easiest method to accomplish this. Later, an arch may choose
to supply their own method in changing the mcount call of a function
to call a different tracer. But that will be an exercise for the
future.

To register a function:

 struct ftrace_hook_ops {
	void			(*func)(unsigned long ip,
					unsigned long parent_ip,
					void **data);
	int			(*callback)(unsigned long ip, void **data);
	void			(*free)(void **data);
 };

 int register_ftrace_function_hook(char *glob, struct ftrace_hook_ops *ops,
				  void *data);

glob is a simple glob to search for the functions to hook.
ops is a pointer to the operations (listed below)
data is the default data to be passed to the hook functions when traced

ops:
 func is the hook function to call when the functions are traced
 callback is a callback function that is called when setting up the hash.
   That is, if the tracer needs to do something special for each
   function, that is being traced, and wants to give each function
   its own data. The address of the entry data is passed to this
   callback, so that the callback may wish to update the entry to
   whatever it would like.
 free is a callback for when the entry is freed. In case the tracer
   allocated any data, it is give the chance to free it.

To unregister we have three functions:

  void
  unregister_ftrace_function_hook(char *glob, struct ftrace_hook_ops *ops,
				void *data)

This will unregister all hooks that match glob, point to ops, and
have its data matching data. (note, if glob is NULL, blank or '*',
all functions will be tested).

  void
  unregister_ftrace_function_hook_func(char *glob,
				 struct ftrace_hook_ops *ops)

This will unregister all functions matching glob that has an entry
pointing to ops.

  void unregister_ftrace_function_hook_all(char *glob)

This simply unregisters all funcs.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-02-16 22:44:09 -05:00
Steven Rostedt e6ea44e9b4 ftrace: consolidate mutexes
Impact: clean up

Now that ftrace_lock is a mutex, there is no reason to have three
different mutexes protecting similar data. All the mutex paths
are not in hot paths, so having a mutex to cover more data is
not a problem.

This patch removes the ftrace_sysctl_lock and ftrace_start_lock
and uses the ftrace_lock to protect the locations that were protected
by these locks. By doing so, this change also removes some of
the lock nesting that was taking place.

There are still more mutexes in ftrace.c that can probably be
consolidated, but they can be dealt with later. We need to be careful
about the way the locks are nested, and by consolidating, we can cause
a recursive deadlock.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-02-16 18:15:31 -05:00
Steven Rostedt 52baf11922 ftrace: convert ftrace_lock from a spinlock to mutex
Impact: clean up

The older versions of ftrace required doing the ftrace list
search under atomic context. Now all the calls are in non-atomic
context. There is no reason to keep the ftrace_lock as a spinlock.

This patch converts it to a mutex.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-02-16 17:33:14 -05:00
Steven Rostedt f6180773d9 ftrace: add command interface for function selection
Allow for other tracers to add their own commands for function
selection. This interface gives a trace the ability to name a
command for function selection. Right now it is pretty limited
in what it offers, but this is a building step for more features.

The :mod: command is converted to this interface and also serves
as a template for other implementations.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-02-16 17:06:02 -05:00
Steven Rostedt e68746a271 ftrace: enable filtering only when a function is filtered on
Impact: fix to prevent empty set_ftrace_filter and no ftrace output

The function filter is used to only trace a given set of functions.
The filter is enabled when a function name is echoed into the
set_ftrace_filter file. But if the name has a typo and the function
is not found, the filter is enabled, but no function is listed.

This makes a confusing situation where set_ftrace_filter is empty
but no functions ever get enabled for tracing.

For example:

 # cat /debug/tracing/set_ftrace_filter

  #### all functions enabled ####

 # echo bad_name > set_ftrace_filter
 # cat /debug/tracing/set_ftrace_filter

 # echo function > current_tracer
 # cat trace

  # tracer: nop
  #
  #           TASK-PID    CPU#    TIMESTAMP  FUNCTION
  #              | |       |          |         |

This patch changes that to only enable filtering if a function
is set to be filtered on. Now, the filter is not enabled if
a bad name is echoed into set_ftrace_filter.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-02-16 17:03:49 -05:00
Steven Rostedt 64e7c44061 ftrace: add module command function filter selection
This patch adds a "command" syntax to the function filtering files:

  /debugfs/tracing/set_ftrace_filter
  /debugfs/tracing/set_ftrace_notrace

Of the format:  <function>:<command>:<parameter>

The command is optional, and dependent on the command, so are
the parameters.

 echo do_fork > set_ftrace_filter

Will only trace 'do_fork'.

 echo 'sched_*' > set_ftrace_filter

Will only trace functions starting with the letters 'sched_'.

 echo '*:mod:ext3' > set_ftrace_filter

Will trace only the ext3 module functions.

 echo '*write*:mod:ext3' > set_ftrace_notrace

Will prevent the ext3 functions with the letters 'write' in
the name from being traced.

 echo '!*_allocate:mod:ext3' > set_ftrace_filter

Will remove the functions in ext3 that end with the letters
'_allocate' from the ftrace filter.

Although this patch implements the 'command' format, only the
'mod' command is supported. More commands to follow.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-02-16 16:55:50 -05:00
Steven Rostedt 9f4801e30a ftrace: break up ftrace_match_records into smaller components
Impact: clean up

ftrace_match_records does a lot of things that other features
can use. This patch breaks up ftrace_match_records and pulls
out ftrace_setup_glob and ftrace_match_record.

ftrace_setup_glob prepares a simple glob expression for use with
ftrace_match_record. ftrace_match_record compares a single record
with a glob type.

Breaking this up will allow for more features to run on individual
records.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-02-16 16:49:57 -05:00
Steven Rostedt 7f24b31b01 ftrace: rename ftrace_match to ftrace_match_records
Impact: clean up

ftrace_match is too generic of a name. What it really does is
search all records and matches the records with the given string,
and either sets or unsets the functions to be traced depending
on if the parameter 'enable' is set or not.

This allows us to make another function called ftrace_match that
can be used to test a single record.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-02-16 16:33:15 -05:00
Steven Rostedt 265c831cb0 ftrace: add do_for_each_ftrace_rec and while_for_each_ftrace_rec
Impact: clean up

To iterate over all the functions that dynamic trace knows about
it requires two for loops. One to iterate over the pages and the
other to iterate over the records within the page.

There are several duplications of these loops in ftrace.c. This
patch creates the macros do_for_each_ftrace_rec and
while_for_each_ftrace_rec to handle this logic, and removes the
duplicate code.

While making this change, I also discovered and fixed a small
bug that one of the iterations should exit the loop after it found the
record it was searching for. This used a break when it should have
used a goto, since there were two loops it needed to break out
from.  No real harm was done by this bug since it would only continue
to search the other records, and the code was in a slow path anyway.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-02-16 16:25:12 -05:00
Steven Rostedt 0c75a3ed63 ftrace: state that all functions are enabled in set_ftrace_filter
Impact: clean up, make set_ftrace_filter less confusing

The set_ftrace_filter shows only the functions that will be traced.
But when it is empty, it will trace all functions. This can be a bit
confusing.

This patch makes set_ftrace_filter show:

  #### all functions enabled ####

When all functions will be traced, and we do not filter only a select
few.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-02-16 16:21:35 -05:00
Wenji Huang 57794a9d48 trace: trivial fixes in comment typos.
Impact: clean up

Fixed several typos in the comments.

Signed-off-by: Wenji Huang <wenji.huang@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-02-07 20:03:36 -05:00
Ingo Molnar ce70a0b472 Merge branches 'tracing/blktrace', 'tracing/ftrace', 'tracing/urgent' and 'linus' into tracing/core 2009-02-04 20:45:41 +01:00
Oleg Nesterov 229c4ef8ae ftrace: do_each_pid_task() needs rcu lock
"ftrace: use struct pid" commit 978f3a45d9
converted ftrace_pid_trace to "struct pid*".

But we can't use do_each_pid_task() without rcu_read_lock() even if
we know the pid itself can't go away (it was pinned in ftrace_pid_write).
The exiting task can detach itself from this pid at any moment.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-03 22:50:58 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker 00f57f545a tracing/function-graph-tracer: fix a regression while suspend to disk
Impact: fix a crash while kernel image restore

When the function graph tracer is running and while suspend to disk, some racy
and dangerous things happen against this tracer.

The current task will save its registers including the stack pointer which
contains the return address hooked by the tracer. But the current task will
continue to enter other functions after that to save the memory, and then
it will store other return addresses, and finally loose the old depth which
matches the return address saved in the old stack (during the registers saving).

So on image restore, the code will return to wrong addresses.
And there are other things: on restore, the task will have it's "current"
pointer overwritten during registers restoring....switching from one task to
another... That would be insane to try to trace function graphs at these
stages.

This patch makes the function graph tracer listening on power events, making
it's tracing disabled for the current task (the one that performs the
hibernation work) while suspend/resume to disk, making the tracing safe
during hibernation.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-21 15:21:30 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker 4a2b8dda3f tracing/function-graph-tracer: fix a regression while suspend to disk
Impact: fix a crash while kernel image restore

When the function graph tracer is running and while suspend to disk, some racy
and dangerous things happen against this tracer.

The current task will save its registers including the stack pointer which
contains the return address hooked by the tracer. But the current task will
continue to enter other functions after that to save the memory, and then
it will store other return addresses, and finally loose the old depth which
matches the return address saved in the old stack (during the registers saving).

So on image restore, the code will return to wrong addresses.
And there are other things: on restore, the task will have it's "current"
pointer overwritten during registers restoring....switching from one task to
another... That would be insane to try to trace function graphs at these
stages.

This patch makes the function graph tracer listening on power events, making
it's tracing disabled for the current task (the one that performs the
hibernation work) while suspend/resume to disk, making the tracing safe
during hibernation.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-15 09:47:40 +01:00
Uwe Kleine-Koenig 32632920a7 ftrace, trivial: fix typo "resgister" -> "register"
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-Koenig <ukleinek@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-14 12:11:49 +01:00
Shaohua Li f00012074b ftrace, ia64: Add macro for ftrace_caller
Define FTRACE_ADDR. In IA64, a function pointer isn't a 'unsigned long' but a
'struct {unsigned long ip, unsigned long gp}'.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-14 12:11:18 +01:00
Shaohua Li 25aac9dc7c ftrace, ia64: explictly ignore a file in recordmcount.pl
In IA64, a function pointer isn't a 'unsigned long' but a
'struct {unsigned long ip, unsigned long gp}'. MCOUNT_ADDR is determined
at link time not compile time, so explictly ignore kernel/trace/ftrace.o
in recordmcount.pl.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-14 12:11:13 +01:00
Steven Rostedt 431aa3fbf5 ftrace: convert unsigned index to signed
Impact: fix to unsigned compared to less than zero

Roel Kluin pointed out that there is a compare of an unsigned number
to less than zero. A previous clean up had the unsigned index set
to -1 for certain cases, but never converted it to signed.

Frederic Weisbecker noticed that another index is used to compare
the above index to and it also needs to be converted to signed.

[
  Converted ftrace_page->index to int from unsigned long as
  Andrew Morton pointed out that there's no need for it to
  stay a long.
]

Reported-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-07 10:43:52 +01:00
Steven Rostedt ea3a6d6d60 ftrace: add not to regex on filtering functions
Impact: enhancement

Ingo Molnar has asked about a way to remove items from the filter
lists. Currently, you can only add or replace items. The way
items are added to the list is through opening one of the list
files (set_ftrace_filter or set_ftrace_notrace) via append.
If the file is opened for truncate, the list is cleared.

  echo spin_lock > /debug/tracing/set_ftrace_filter

The above will replace the list with only spin_lock

  echo spin_lock >> /debug/tracing/set_ftrace_filter

The above will add spin_lock to the list.

Now this patch adds:

  echo '!spin_lock' >> /debug/tracing/set_ftrace_filter

This will remove spin_lock from the list.

The limited glob features of these lists also can be notted.

  echo '!spin_*' >> /debug/tracing/set_ftrace_filter

This will remove all functions that start with 'spin_'

Note:

  echo '!spin_*' > /debug/tracing/set_ftrace_filter

will simply clear out the list (notice the '>' instead of '>>')

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-18 12:57:09 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker 380c4b1411 tracing/function-graph-tracer: append the tracing_graph_flag
Impact: Provide a way to pause the function graph tracer

As suggested by Steven Rostedt, the previous patch that prevented from
spinlock function tracing shouldn't use the raw_spinlock to fix it.
It's much better to follow lockdep with normal spinlock, so this patch
adds a new flag for each task to make the function graph tracer able
to be paused. We also can send an ftrace_printk whithout worrying of
the irrelevant traced spinlock during insertion.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-08 15:11:45 +01:00
Steven Rostedt 21bbecdaae ftrace: use init_struct_pid as swapper pid
Impact: clean up

Using (struct pid *)-1 as the pointer for ftrace_swapper_pid is
a little confusing for others. This patch uses the address of the
actual init pid structure instead. This change is only for
clarity. It does not affect the code itself. Hopefully soon the
swapper tasks will all have their own pid structure and then
we can clean up the code a bit more.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-05 14:51:29 +01:00
Liming Wang faec2ec505 ftrace: avoid duplicated function when writing set_graph_function
Impact: fix a bug in function filter setting

when writing function to set_graph_function, we should check whether it
has existed in set_graph_function to avoid duplicating.

Signed-off-by: Liming Wang <liming.wang@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-04 09:42:35 +01:00
Steven Rostedt e32d895691 ftrace: add ability to only trace swapper tasks
Impact: new feature

This patch lets the swapper tasks of all CPUS be filtered by the
set_ftrace_pid file.

If '0' is echoed into this file, then all the idle tasks (aka swapper)
is flagged to be traced.  This affects all CPU idle tasks.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-04 09:09:38 +01:00
Steven Rostedt 978f3a45d9 ftrace: use struct pid
Impact: clean up, extend PID filtering to PID namespaces

Eric Biederman suggested using the struct pid for filtering on
pids in the kernel. This patch is based off of a demonstration
of an implementation that Eric sent me in an email.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-04 09:09:37 +01:00
Steven Rostedt 804a685162 ftrace: trace single pid for function graph tracer
Impact: New feature

This patch makes the changes to set_ftrace_pid apply to the function
graph tracer.

  # echo $$ > /debugfs/tracing/set_ftrace_pid
  # echo function_graph > /debugfs/tracing/current_tracer

Will cause only the current task to be traced. Note, the trace flags are
also inherited by child processes, so the children of the shell
will also be traced.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-04 09:09:36 +01:00
Steven Rostedt 0ef8cde56a ftrace: use task struct trace flag to filter on pid
Impact: clean up

Use the new task struct trace flags to determine if a process should be
traced or not.

Note: this moves the searching of the pid to the slow path of setting
the pid field. This needs to be converted to the pid name space.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-04 09:09:35 +01:00
Steven Rostedt ea4e2bc4d9 ftrace: graph of a single function
This patch adds the file:

   /debugfs/tracing/set_graph_function

which can be used along with the function graph tracer.

When this file is empty, the function graph tracer will act as
usual. When the file has a function in it, the function graph
tracer will only trace that function.

For example:

 # echo blk_unplug > /debugfs/tracing/set_graph_function
 # cat /debugfs/tracing/trace
 [...]
 ------------------------------------------
 | 2)  make-19003  =>  kjournald-2219
 ------------------------------------------

 2)               |  blk_unplug() {
 2)               |    dm_unplug_all() {
 2)               |      dm_get_table() {
 2)      1.381 us |        _read_lock();
 2)      0.911 us |        dm_table_get();
 2)      1. 76 us |        _read_unlock();
 2) +   12.912 us |      }
 2)               |      dm_table_unplug_all() {
 2)               |        blk_unplug() {
 2)      0.778 us |          generic_unplug_device();
 2)      2.409 us |        }
 2)      5.992 us |      }
 2)      0.813 us |      dm_table_put();
 2) +   29. 90 us |    }
 2) +   34.532 us |  }

You can add up to 32 functions into this file. Currently we limit it
to 32, but this may change with later improvements.

To add another function, use the append '>>':

  # echo sys_read >> /debugfs/tracing/set_graph_function
  # cat /debugfs/tracing/set_graph_function
  blk_unplug
  sys_read

Using the '>' will clear out the function and write anew:

  # echo sys_write > /debug/tracing/set_graph_function
  # cat /debug/tracing/set_graph_function
  sys_write

Note, if you have function graph running while doing this, the small
time between clearing it and updating it will cause the graph to
record all functions. This should not be an issue because after
it sets the filter, only those functions will be recorded from then on.
If you need to only record a particular function then set this
file first before starting the function graph tracer. In the future
this side effect may be corrected.

The set_graph_function file is similar to the set_ftrace_filter but
it does not take wild cards nor does it allow for more than one
function to be set with a single write. There is no technical reason why
this is the case, I just do not have the time yet to implement that.

Note, dynamic ftrace must be enabled for this to appear because it
uses the dynamic ftrace records to match the name to the mcount
call sites.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-04 09:09:34 +01:00
Steven Rostedt e49dc19c6a ftrace: function graph return for function entry
Impact: feature, let entry function decide to trace or not

This patch lets the graph tracer entry function decide if the tracing
should be done at the end as well. This requires all function graph
entry functions return 1 if it should trace, or 0 if the return should
not be traced.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-03 08:56:26 +01:00
Steven Rostedt 14a866c567 ftrace: add ftrace_graph_stop()
Impact: new ftrace_graph_stop function

While developing more features of function graph, I hit a bug that
caused the WARN_ON to trigger in the prepare_ftrace_return function.
Well, it was hard for me to find out that was happening because the
bug would not print, it would just cause a hard lockup or reboot.
The reason is that it is not safe to call printk from this function.

Looking further, I also found that it calls unregister_ftrace_graph,
which grabs a mutex and calls kstop machine. This would definitely
lock the box up if it were to trigger.

This patch adds a fast and safe ftrace_graph_stop() which will
stop the function tracer. Then it is safe to call the WARN ON.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-03 08:56:23 +01:00
Ingo Molnar f0461d0146 Merge branches 'tracing/ftrace' and 'tracing/function-graph-tracer' into tracing/core 2008-12-03 08:49:21 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker 48d68b20d0 tracing/function-graph-tracer: support for x86-64
Impact: extend and enable the function graph tracer to 64-bit x86

This patch implements the support for function graph tracer under x86-64.
Both static and dynamic tracing are supported.

This causes some small CPP conditional asm on arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c I
wanted to use probe_kernel_read/write to make the return address
saving/patching code more generic but it causes tracing recursion.

That would be perhaps useful to implement a notrace version of these
function for other archs ports.

Note that arch/x86/process_64.c is not traced, as in X86-32. I first
thought __switch_to() was responsible of crashes during tracing because I
believed current task were changed inside but that's actually not the
case (actually yes, but not the "current" pointer).

So I will have to investigate to find the functions that harm here, to
enable tracing of the other functions inside (but there is no issue at
this time, while process_64.c stays out of -pg flags).

A little possible race condition is fixed inside this patch too. When the
tracer allocate a return stack dynamically, the current depth is not
initialized before but after. An interrupt could occur at this time and,
after seeing that the return stack is allocated, the tracer could try to
trace it with a random uninitialized depth. It's a prevention, even if I
hadn't problems with it.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Tim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-02 09:47:48 +01:00
Liming Wang 66eafebc10 function trace: fix a bug of single thread function trace
Impact: fix "no output from tracer" bug caused by ftrace_update_pid_func()

When disabling single thread function trace using
"echo -1 > set_ftrace_pid", the normal function trace
has to restore to original function, otherwise the normal
function trace will not work well.

Without this commit, something like below:

	$ ps |grep 850
	  850 root      2556 S    -/bin/sh
	$ echo 850 > /debug/tracing/set_ftrace_pid
	$ echo function > /debug/tracing/current_tracer
	$ echo 1 > /debug/tracing/tracing_enabled
	$ sleep 1
	$ echo 0 > /debug/tracing/tracing_enabled
	$ cat /debug/tracing/trace_pipe |wc -l
	59704
	$ echo -1 > /debug/tracing/set_ftrace_pid
	$ echo 1 > /debug/tracing/tracing_enabled
	$ sleep 1
	$ echo 0 > /debug/tracing/tracing_enabled
	$ more /debug/tracing/trace_pipe
		<====== nothing output now!
			it should output trace record.

Signed-off-by: Liming Wang <liming.wang@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-02 09:23:24 +01:00
Liming Wang 50cdaf08a8 ftrace: improve seq_operation of ftrace
Impact: make ftrace position computing more sane

First remove useless ->pos field. Then we needn't check seq_printf
in .show like other place.

Signed-off-by: Liming Wang <liming.wang@windriver.com>
Reviewed-by: Bruce Ashfield <bruce.ashfield@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-28 12:30:40 +01:00
Steven Rostedt e53a6319cc ftrace: let function tracing and function return run together
Impact: feature

This patch enables function tracing and function return to run together.
I've tested this by enabling the stack tracer and return tracer, where
both the function entry and function return are used together with
dynamic ftrace.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-26 06:52:55 +01:00
Steven Rostedt 5a45cfe1c6 ftrace: use code patching for ftrace graph tracer
Impact: more efficient code for ftrace graph tracer

This patch uses the dynamic patching, when available, to patch
the function graph code into the kernel.

This patch will ease the way for letting both function tracing
and function graph tracing run together.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-26 06:52:54 +01:00
Steven Rostedt df4fc31558 ftrace: add function tracing to single thread
Impact: feature to function trace a single thread

This patch adds the ability to function trace a single thread.
The file:

  /debugfs/tracing/set_ftrace_pid

contains the pid to trace. Valid pids are any positive integer.
Writing any negative number to this file will disable the pid
tracing and the function tracer will go back to tracing all of
threads.

This feature works with both static and dynamic function tracing.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-26 06:52:52 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker 287b6e68ca tracing/function-return-tracer: set a more human readable output
Impact: feature

This patch sets a C-like output for the function graph tracing.
For this aim, we now call two handler for each function: one on the entry
and one other on return. This way we can draw a well-ordered call stack.

The pid of the previous trace is loosely stored to be compared against
the one of the current trace to see if there were a context switch.

Without this little feature, the call tree would seem broken at
some locations.
We could use the sched_tracer to capture these sched_events but this
way of processing is much more simpler.

2 spaces have been chosen for indentation to fit the screen while deep
calls. The time of execution in nanosecs is printed just after closed
braces, it seems more easy this way to find the corresponding function.
If the time was printed as a first column, it would be not so easy to
find the corresponding function if it is called on a deep depth.

I plan to output the return value but on 32 bits CPU, the return value
can be 32 or 64, and its difficult to guess on which case we are.
I don't know what would be the better solution on X86-32: only print
eax (low-part) or even edx (high-part).

Actually it's thee same problem when a function return a 8 bits value, the
high part of eax could contain junk values...

Here is an example of trace:

sys_read() {
  fget_light() {
  } 526
  vfs_read() {
    rw_verify_area() {
      security_file_permission() {
        cap_file_permission() {
        } 519
      } 1564
    } 2640
    do_sync_read() {
      pipe_read() {
        __might_sleep() {
        } 511
        pipe_wait() {
          prepare_to_wait() {
          } 760
          deactivate_task() {
            dequeue_task() {
              dequeue_task_fair() {
                dequeue_entity() {
                  update_curr() {
                    update_min_vruntime() {
                    } 504
                  } 1587
                  clear_buddies() {
                  } 512
                  add_cfs_task_weight() {
                  } 519
                  update_min_vruntime() {
                  } 511
                } 5602
                dequeue_entity() {
                  update_curr() {
                    update_min_vruntime() {
                    } 496
                  } 1631
                  clear_buddies() {
                  } 496
                  update_min_vruntime() {
                  } 527
                } 4580
                hrtick_update() {
                  hrtick_start_fair() {
                  } 488
                } 1489
              } 13700
            } 14949
          } 16016
          msecs_to_jiffies() {
          } 496
          put_prev_task_fair() {
          } 504
          pick_next_task_fair() {
          } 489
          pick_next_task_rt() {
          } 496
          pick_next_task_fair() {
          } 489
          pick_next_task_idle() {
          } 489

------------8<---------- thread 4 ------------8<----------

finish_task_switch() {
} 1203
do_softirq() {
  __do_softirq() {
    __local_bh_disable() {
    } 669
    rcu_process_callbacks() {
      __rcu_process_callbacks() {
        cpu_quiet() {
          rcu_start_batch() {
          } 503
        } 1647
      } 3128
      __rcu_process_callbacks() {
      } 542
    } 5362
    _local_bh_enable() {
    } 587
  } 8880
} 9986
kthread_should_stop() {
} 669
deactivate_task() {
  dequeue_task() {
    dequeue_task_fair() {
      dequeue_entity() {
        update_curr() {
          calc_delta_mine() {
          } 511
          update_min_vruntime() {
          } 511
        } 2813

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-26 01:59:45 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker fb52607afc tracing/function-return-tracer: change the name into function-graph-tracer
Impact: cleanup

This patch changes the name of the "return function tracer" into
function-graph-tracer which is a more suitable name for a tracing
which makes one able to retrieve the ordered call stack during
the code flow.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-26 01:59:45 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker eae849ca03 tracing/function-return-tracer: don't trace kfree while it frees the return stack
Impact: fix a crash

While I killed the cat process, I got sometimes the following (but rare)
crash:

[   65.689027] Pid: 2969, comm: cat Not tainted (2.6.28-rc6-tip #83) AMILO Li 2727
[   65.689027] EIP: 0060:[<00000000>] EFLAGS: 00010082 CPU: 1
[   65.689027] EIP is at 0x0
[   65.689027] EAX: 00000000 EBX: f66cd780 ECX: c019a64a EDX: f66cd780
[   65.689027] ESI: 00000286 EDI: f66cd780 EBP: f630be2c ESP: f630be24
[   65.689027]  DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0000 SS: 0068
[   65.689027] Process cat (pid: 2969, ti=f630a000 task=f66cd780 task.ti=f630a000)
[   65.689027] Stack:
[   65.689027]  00000012 f630bd54 f630be7c c012c853 00000000 c0133cc9 f66cda54 f630be5c
[   65.689027]  f630be68 f66cda54 f66cd88c f66cd878 f7070000 00000001 f630be90 c0135dbc
[   65.689027]  f614a614 f630be68 f630be68 f65ba200 00000002 f630bf10 f630be90 c012cad6
[   65.689027] Call Trace:
[   65.689027]  [<c012c853>] ? do_exit+0x603/0x850
[   65.689027]  [<c0133cc9>] ? next_signal+0x9/0x40
[   65.689027]  [<c0135dbc>] ? dequeue_signal+0x8c/0x180
[   65.689027]  [<c012cad6>] ? do_group_exit+0x36/0x90
[   65.689027]  [<c013709c>] ? get_signal_to_deliver+0x20c/0x390
[   65.689027]  [<c0102b69>] ? do_notify_resume+0x99/0x8b0
[   65.689027]  [<c02e6d1a>] ? tty_ldisc_deref+0x5a/0x80
[   65.689027]  [<c014db9b>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xb/0x10
[   65.689027]  [<c02e6d1a>] ? tty_ldisc_deref+0x5a/0x80
[   65.689027]  [<c02e39b0>] ? n_tty_write+0x0/0x340
[   65.689027]  [<c02e1812>] ? redirected_tty_write+0x82/0x90
[   65.689027]  [<c019ee99>] ? vfs_write+0x99/0xd0
[   65.689027]  [<c02e1790>] ? redirected_tty_write+0x0/0x90
[   65.689027]  [<c019f342>] ? sys_write+0x42/0x70
[   65.689027]  [<c01035ca>] ? work_notifysig+0x13/0x19
[   65.689027] Code:  Bad EIP value.
[   65.689027] EIP: [<00000000>] 0x0 SS:ESP 0068:f630be24

This is because on do_exit(), kfree is called to free the return addresses stack
but kfree is traced and stored its return address in this stack.
This patch fixes it.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-23 17:39:03 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker f201ae2356 tracing/function-return-tracer: store return stack into task_struct and allocate it dynamically
Impact: use deeper function tracing depth safely

Some tests showed that function return tracing needed a more deeper depth
of function calls. But it could be unsafe to store these return addresses
to the stack.

So these arrays will now be allocated dynamically into task_struct of current
only when the tracer is activated.

Typical scheme when tracer is activated:
- allocate a return stack for each task in global list.
- fork: allocate the return stack for the newly created task
- exit: free return stack of current
- idle init: same as fork

I chose a default depth of 50. I don't have overruns anymore.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-23 09:17:26 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 3f8e402f34 Merge branches 'tracing/branch-tracer', 'tracing/ftrace', 'tracing/function-return-tracer', 'tracing/tracepoints' and 'tracing/urgent' into tracing/core 2008-11-17 09:36:22 +01:00
walimis 5821e1b74f function tracing: fix wrong pos computing when read buffer has been fulfilled
Impact: make output of available_filter_functions complete

phenomenon:

The first value of dyn_ftrace_total_info is not equal with
`cat available_filter_functions | wc -l`, but they should be equal.

root cause:

When printing functions with seq_printf in t_show, if the read buffer
is just overflowed by current function record, then this function
won't be printed to user space through read buffer, it will
just be dropped. So we can't see this function printing.

So, every time the last function to fill the read buffer, if overflowed,
will be dropped.

This also applies to set_ftrace_filter if set_ftrace_filter has
more bytes than read buffer.

fix:

Through checking return value of seq_printf, if less than 0, we know
this function doesn't be printed. Then we decrease position to force
this function to be printed next time, in next read buffer.

Another little fix is to show correct allocating pages count.

Signed-off-by: walimis <walimisdev@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-16 08:32:05 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker e7d3737ea1 tracing/function-return-tracer: support for dynamic ftrace on function return tracer
This patch adds the support for dynamic tracing on the function return tracer.
The whole difference with normal dynamic function tracing is that we don't need
to hook on a particular callback. The only pro that we want is to nop or set
dynamically the calls to ftrace_caller (which is ftrace_return_caller here).

Some security checks ensure that we are not trying to launch dynamic tracing for
return tracing while normal function tracing is already running.

An example of trace with getnstimeofday set as a filter:

ktime_get_ts+0x22/0x50 -> getnstimeofday (2283 ns)
ktime_get_ts+0x22/0x50 -> getnstimeofday (1396 ns)
ktime_get_ts+0x22/0x50 -> getnstimeofday (1382 ns)
ktime_get_ts+0x22/0x50 -> getnstimeofday (1825 ns)
ktime_get_ts+0x22/0x50 -> getnstimeofday (1426 ns)
ktime_get_ts+0x22/0x50 -> getnstimeofday (1464 ns)
ktime_get_ts+0x22/0x50 -> getnstimeofday (1524 ns)
ktime_get_ts+0x22/0x50 -> getnstimeofday (1382 ns)
ktime_get_ts+0x22/0x50 -> getnstimeofday (1382 ns)
ktime_get_ts+0x22/0x50 -> getnstimeofday (1434 ns)
ktime_get_ts+0x22/0x50 -> getnstimeofday (1464 ns)
ktime_get_ts+0x22/0x50 -> getnstimeofday (1502 ns)
ktime_get_ts+0x22/0x50 -> getnstimeofday (1404 ns)
ktime_get_ts+0x22/0x50 -> getnstimeofday (1397 ns)
ktime_get_ts+0x22/0x50 -> getnstimeofday (1051 ns)
ktime_get_ts+0x22/0x50 -> getnstimeofday (1314 ns)
ktime_get_ts+0x22/0x50 -> getnstimeofday (1344 ns)
ktime_get_ts+0x22/0x50 -> getnstimeofday (1163 ns)
ktime_get_ts+0x22/0x50 -> getnstimeofday (1390 ns)
ktime_get_ts+0x22/0x50 -> getnstimeofday (1374 ns)

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-16 07:57:38 +01:00
Steven Rostedt ee02a2e5c8 ftrace: make filtered functions effective on setting
Impact: set filtered functions at time the filter is set

It can be confusing when the set_filter_functions is set (or cleared)
and the functions being recorded by the dynamic tracer does not
match.

This patch causes the code to be updated if the function tracer is
enabled and the filter is changed.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-16 07:37:46 +01:00
Steven Rostedt 982c350b9e ftrace: fix dyn ftrace filter
Impact: correct implementation of dyn ftrace filter

The old decisions made by the filter algorithm was complex and incorrect.
This lead to inconsistent enabling or disabling of functions when
the filter was used.

This patch simplifies that code and in doing so, corrects the usage
of the filters.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-16 07:37:17 +01:00
Steven Rostedt 20e5227e9f ftrace: allow NULL pointers in mcount_loc
Impact: make ftrace_convert_nops() more permissive

Due to the way different architecture linkers combine the data sections
of the mcount_loc (the section that lists all the locations that
call mcount), there may be zeros added in that section. This is usually
due to strange alignments that the linker performs, that pads in zeros.

This patch makes the conversion code to nops skip any pointer in
the mcount_loc section that is NULL.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-16 07:36:42 +01:00
Steven Rostedt 31e889098a ftrace: pass module struct to arch dynamic ftrace functions
Impact: allow archs more flexibility on dynamic ftrace implementations

Dynamic ftrace has largly been developed on x86. Since x86 does not
have the same limitations as other architectures, the ftrace interaction
between the generic code and the architecture specific code was not
flexible enough to handle some of the issues that other architectures
have.

Most notably, module trampolines. Due to the limited branch distance
that archs make in calling kernel core code from modules, the module
load code must create a trampoline to jump to what will make the
larger jump into core kernel code.

The problem arises when this happens to a call to mcount. Ftrace checks
all code before modifying it and makes sure the current code is what
it expects. Right now, there is not enough information to handle modifying
module trampolines.

This patch changes the API between generic dynamic ftrace code and
the arch dependent code. There is now two functions for modifying code:

  ftrace_make_nop(mod, rec, addr) - convert the code at rec->ip into
       a nop, where the original text is calling addr. (mod is the
       module struct if called by module init)

  ftrace_make_caller(rec, addr) - convert the code rec->ip that should
       be a nop into a caller to addr.

The record "rec" now has a new field called "arch" where the architecture
can add any special attributes to each call site record.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-16 07:36:02 +01:00
Steven Rostedt 918c115410 ftrace: do not process freed records
Impact: keep from converting freed records

When the tracer is started or stopped, it converts all code pointed
to by the saved records into callers to ftrace or nops. When modules
are unloaded, their records are freed, but they still exist within
the record pages.

This patch changes the code to skip over freed records.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-16 07:30:17 +01:00
Steven Rostedt b17e8a37a1 ftrace: disable ftrace on anomalies in trace start and stop
Impact: robust feature to disable ftrace on start or stop tracing on error

Currently only the initial conversion to nops will disable ftrace
on an anomaly. But if an anomaly happens on start or stopping of the
tracer, it will silently fail.

This patch adds a check there too, to disable ftrace and warn if the
conversion fails.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-16 07:30:07 +01:00
Steven Rostedt f3c7ac40a9 ftrace: remove condition from ftrace_record_ip
Impact: let module functions be recorded when dyn ftrace not enabled

When dynamic ftrace had a daemon and a hash to record the locations
of mcount callers at run time, the recording needed to stop when
ftrace was disabled. But now that the recording is done at compile time
and the ftrace_record_ip is only called at boot up and when a module
is loaded, we no longer need to check if ftrace_enabled is set.
In fact, this breaks module load if it is not set because we skip
over module functions.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-16 07:29:53 +01:00
walimis b3535c6390 ftrace: remove unnecessary if condition of __unregister_ftrace_function
Because it has goto out before ftrace_list == &ftrace_list_end,
that's to say, we never meet this condition.

Signed-off-by: walimis <walimisdev@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-13 19:36:30 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 60a011c736 Merge branch 'tracing/function-return-tracer' into tracing/fastboot 2008-11-12 10:17:09 +01:00
Ingo Molnar d06bbd6695 Merge branches 'tracing/ftrace' and 'tracing/urgent' into tracing/core
Conflicts:
	kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
2008-11-12 10:11:37 +01:00
Steven Rostedt a358324466 ring-buffer: buffer record on/off switch
Impact: enable/disable ring buffer recording API added

Several kernel developers have requested that there be a way to stop
recording into the ring buffers with a simple switch that can also
be enabled from userspace. This patch addes a new kernel API to the
ring buffers called:

 tracing_on()
 tracing_off()

When tracing_off() is called, all ring buffers will not be able to record
into their buffers.

tracing_on() will enable the ring buffers again.

These two act like an on/off switch. That is, there is no counting of the
number of times tracing_off or tracing_on has been called.

A new file is added to the debugfs/tracing directory called

  tracing_on

This allows for userspace applications to also flip the switch.

  echo 0 > debugfs/tracing/tracing_on

disables the tracing.

  echo 1 > /debugfs/tracing/tracing_on

enables it.

Note, this does not disable or enable any tracers. It only sets or clears
a flag that needs to be set in order for the ring buffers to write to
their buffers. It is a global flag, and affects all ring buffers.

The buffers start out with tracing_on enabled.

There are now three flags that control recording into the buffers:

 tracing_on: which affects all ring buffer tracers.

 buffer->record_disabled: which affects an allocated buffer, which may be set
     if an anomaly is detected, and tracing is disabled.

 cpu_buffer->record_disabled: which is set by tracing_stop() or if an
     anomaly is detected. tracing_start can not reenable this if
     an anomaly occurred.

The userspace debugfs/tracing/tracing_enabled is implemented with
tracing_stop() but the user space code can not enable it if the kernel
called tracing_stop().

Userspace can enable the tracing_on even if the kernel disabled it.
It is just a switch used to stop tracing if a condition was hit.
tracing_on is not for protecting critical areas in the kernel nor is
it for stopping tracing if an anomaly occurred. This is because userspace
can reenable it at any time.

Side effect: With this patch, I discovered a dead variable in ftrace.c
  called tracing_on. This patch removes it.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2008-11-11 15:02:04 -05:00
Frederic Weisbecker 15e6cb3673 tracing: add a tracer to catch execution time of kernel functions
Impact: add new tracing plugin which can trace full (entry+exit) function calls

This tracer uses the low level function return ftrace plugin to
measure the execution time of the kernel functions.

The first field is the caller of the function, the second is the
measured function, and the last one is the execution time in
nanoseconds.

- v3:

- HAVE_FUNCTION_RET_TRACER have been added. Each arch that support ftrace return
  should enable it.
- ftrace_return_stub becomes ftrace_stub.
- CONFIG_FUNCTION_RET_TRACER depends now on CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER
- Return traces printing can be used for other tracers on trace.c
- Adapt to the new tracing API (no more ctrl_update callback)
- Correct the check of "disabled" during insertion.
- Minor changes...

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-11 10:29:12 +01:00
Steven Rostedt 0183fb1c94 ftrace: fix set_ftrace_filter
Impact: fix of output of set_ftrace_filter

Commit ftrace: do not show freed records in available_filter_functions

Removed a bit too much from the set_ftrace_filter code, where we now see
all functions in the set_ftrace_filter file even when we set a filter.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-08 09:51:02 +01:00
Steven Rostedt 60a7ecf426 ftrace: add quick function trace stop
Impact: quick start and stop of function tracer

This patch adds a way to disable the function tracer quickly without
the need to run kstop_machine. It adds a new variable called
function_trace_stop which will stop the calls to functions from mcount
when set.  This is just an on/off switch and does not handle recursion
like preempt_disable().

It's main purpose is to help other tracers/debuggers start and stop tracing
fuctions without the need to call kstop_machine.

The config option HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACE_MCOUNT_TEST is added for archs
that implement the testing of the function_trace_stop in the mcount
arch dependent code. Otherwise, the test is done in the C code.

x86 is the only arch at the moment that supports this.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-06 07:50:51 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker 0b6e4d56bf ftrace: perform an initialization for ftrace to enable it
Impact: corrects a bug which made the non-dyn function tracer not functional

With latest git, the non-dynamic function tracer didn't get any trace.

The problem was the fact that ftrace_enabled wasn't initialized to 1
because ftrace hasn't any init function when DYNAMIC_FTRACE is disabled.

So when a tracer tries to register an ftrace_ops struct,
__register_ftrace_function failed to set the hook.

This patch corrects it by setting an init function to initialize
ftrace during the boot.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-28 19:15:58 +01:00
Ingo Molnar f17845e5d9 ftrace: warning in kernel/trace/ftrace.c
this warning:

  kernel/trace/ftrace.c:189: warning: ‘frozen_record_count’ defined but not used

triggers because frozen_record_count is only used in the KCONFIG_MARKERS
case. Move the variable it there.

Alas, this frozen-record facility seems to have little use. The
frozen_record_count variable is not used by anything, nor the flags.

So this section might need a bit of dead-code-removal care as well.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-24 12:52:44 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 66b0de3569 ftrace: fix build failure
fix:

 kernel/trace/ftrace.c: In function 'ftrace_release':
 kernel/trace/ftrace.c:271: error: implicit declaration of function 'ftrace_release_hash'

release_hash is not needed without dftraced.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-23 16:11:03 +02:00
Steven Rostedt 08f5ac906d ftrace: remove ftrace hash
The ftrace hash was used by the ftrace_daemon code. The record ip function
would place the calling address (ip) into the hash. The daemon would later
read the hash and modify that code.

The hash complicates the code. This patch removes it.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-23 16:00:24 +02:00
Steven Rostedt 4d296c2432 ftrace: remove mcount set
The arch dependent function ftrace_mcount_set was only used by the daemon
start up code. This patch removes it.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-23 16:00:23 +02:00
Steven Rostedt cb7be3b2fc ftrace: remove daemon
The ftrace daemon is complex and error prone.  This patch strips it out
of the code.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-23 16:00:22 +02:00
Steven Rostedt 6912896e99 ftrace: add ftrace warn on to disable ftrace
Add ftrace warn on to disable ftrace as well as report a warning.

[ Thanks to Andrew Morton for suggesting using the WARN_ON return value ]

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-23 16:00:20 +02:00
Steven Rostedt 81adbdc029 ftrace: only have ftrace_kill atomic
When an anomaly is detected, we need a way to completely disable
ftrace. Right now we have two functions: ftrace_kill and ftrace_kill_atomic.
The ftrace_kill tries to do it in a "nice" way by converting everything
back to a nop.

The "nice" way is dangerous itself, so this patch removes it and only
has the "atomic" version, which is all that is needed.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-23 16:00:19 +02:00
Steven Rostedt 593eb8a2d6 ftrace: return error on failed modified text.
Have the ftrace_modify_code return error values:

  -EFAULT on error of reading the address

  -EINVAL if what is read does not match what it expected

  -EPERM  if the write fails to update after a successful match.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-23 16:00:13 +02:00
Steven Rostedt bd95b88d9e ftrace: release functions from hash
The x86 architecture uses a static recording of mcount caller locations
and is not affected by this patch.

For architectures still using the dynamic ftrace daemon, this patch is
critical. It removes the race between the recording of a function that
calls mcount, the unloading of a module, and the ftrace daemon updating
the call sites.

This patch adds the releasing of the hash functions that the daemon uses
to update the mcount call sites. When a module is unloaded, not only
are the replaced call site table update, but now so is the hash recorded
functions that the ftrace daemon will use.

Again, architectures that implement MCOUNT_RECORD are not affected by
this (which currently only x86 has).

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-20 18:27:01 +02:00
Steven Rostedt 05736a427f ftrace: warn on failure to disable mcount callers
With the recent updates to ftrace, there should not be any failures when
modifying the code. If there is, then we need to warn about it.

This patch has a cleaned up version of the code that I used to discover
that the weak symbols were causing failures.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:38:11 +02:00
Steven Noonan 71c67d58b5 ftrace: mcount_addr defined but not used
When CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE isn't used, neither is mcount_addr. This
patch eliminates that warning.

Signed-off-by: Steven Noonan <steven@uplinklabs.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:37:58 +02:00
Steven Rostedt 644f991d4b ftrace: fix unlocking of hash
This must be brown paper bag week for Steven Rostedt!

While working on ftrace for PPC, I discovered that the hash locking done
when CONFIG_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD is not set, is totally incorrect.

With a cut and paste error, I had the hash lock macro to lock for both
hash_lock _and_ hash_unlock!

This bug did not affect x86 since this bug was introduced when
CONFIG_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD was added to x86.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:36:58 +02:00
Steven Rostedt 3b47bfc1fc ftrace: remove direct reference to mcount in trace code
The mcount record method of ftrace scans objdump for references to mcount.
Using mcount as the reference to test if the calls to mcount being replaced
are indeed calls to mcount, this use of mcount was also caught as a
location to change. Using a variable that points to the mcount address
moves this reference into the data section that is not scanned, and
we do not use a false location to try and modify.

The warn on code was what was used to detect this bug.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:36:22 +02:00
Ingo Molnar ac8825ec6d ftrace: clean up macro usage
enclose the argument in parenthesis. (especially since we cast it,
which is a high prio operation)

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:36:09 +02:00
Stephen Rothwell 2d7da80f71 ftrace: fix build failure
After disabling FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD via a patch, a dormant build
failure surfaced:

 kernel/trace/ftrace.c: In function 'ftrace_record_ip':
 kernel/trace/ftrace.c:416: error: incompatible type for argument 1 of '_spin_lock_irqsave'
 kernel/trace/ftrace.c:433: error: incompatible type for argument 1 of '_spin_lock_irqsave'

Introduced by commit 6dad8e07f4c10b17b038e84d29f3ca41c2e55cd0 ("ftrace:
add necessary locking for ftrace records").

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:36:06 +02:00
Steven Rostedt 99ecdc43bc ftrace: add necessary locking for ftrace records
The new design of pre-recorded mcounts and updating the code outside of
kstop_machine has changed the way the records themselves are protected.

This patch uses the ftrace_lock to protect the records. Note, the lock
still does not need to be taken within calls that are only called via
kstop_machine, since the that code can not run while the spin lock is held.

Also removed the hash_lock needed for the daemon when MCOUNT_RECORD is
configured. Also did a slight cleanup of an unused variable.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:35:47 +02:00
Steven Rostedt 00fd61aee1 ftrace: do not init module on ftrace disabled
If one of the self tests of ftrace has disabled the function tracer,
do not run the code to convert the mcount calls in modules.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:35:43 +02:00
Steven Rostedt fed1939c64 ftrace: remove old pointers to mcount
When a mcount pointer is recorded into a table, it is used to add or
remove calls to mcount (replacing them with nops). If the code is removed
via removing a module, the pointers still exist.  At modifying the code
a check is always made to make sure the code being replaced is the code
expected. In-other-words, the code being replaced is compared to what
it is expected to be before being replaced.

There is a very small chance that the code being replaced just happens
to look like code that calls mcount (very small since the call to mcount
is relative). To remove this chance, this patch adds ftrace_release to
allow module unloading to remove the pointers to mcount within the module.

Another change for init calls is made to not trace calls marked with
__init. The tracing can not be started until after init is done anyway.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:35:12 +02:00
Steven Rostedt a9fdda33cd ftrace: do not show freed records in available_filter_functions
Seems that freed records can appear in the available_filter_functions list.
This patch fixes that.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:35:05 +02:00
Steven Rostedt 90d595fe5c ftrace: enable mcount recording for modules
This patch enables the loading of the __mcount_section of modules and
changing all the callers of mcount into nops.

The modification is done before the init_module function is called, so
again, we do not need to use kstop_machine to make these changes.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:34:47 +02:00
Steven Rostedt 68bf21aa15 ftrace: mcount call site on boot nops core
This is the infrastructure to the converting the mcount call sites
recorded by the __mcount_loc section into nops on boot. It also allows
for using these sites to enable tracing as normal. When the __mcount_loc
section is used, the "ftraced" kernel thread is disabled.

This uses the current infrastructure to record the mcount call sites
as well as convert them to nops. The mcount function is kept as a stub
on boot up and not converted to the ftrace_record_ip function. We use the
ftrace_record_ip to only record from the table.

This patch does not handle modules. That comes with a later patch.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:34:44 +02:00
Rusty Russell 784e2d7600 stop_machine: fix up ftrace.c
Simple conversion.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Abhishek Sagar <sagar.abhishek@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2008-07-28 12:16:31 +10:00
Ingo Molnar b2613e370d ftrace: build fix for ftraced_suspend
fix:

 kernel/trace/ftrace.c:1615: error: 'ftraced_suspend' undeclared (first use in this function)
 kernel/trace/ftrace.c:1615: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
 kernel/trace/ftrace.c:1615: error: for each function it appears in.)

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-11 16:46:50 +02:00
Steven Rostedt a2bb6a3d85 ftrace: add ftrace_kill_atomic
It has been suggested that I add a way to disable the function tracer
on an oops. This code adds a ftrace_kill_atomic. It is not meant to be
used in normal situations. It will disable the ftrace tracer, but will
not perform the nice shutdown that requires scheduling.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-11 15:49:21 +02:00
Abhishek Sagar 98a05ed4bd ftrace: prevent ftrace modifications while being kprobe'd, v2
add two missing chunks for ftrace+kprobe.

Signed-off-by: Abhishek Sagar <sagar.abhishek@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-03 14:46:24 +02:00
Abhishek Sagar f22f9a89ce ftrace: avoid modifying kprobe'd records
Avoid modifying the mcount call-site if there is a kprobe installed on it.
These records are not marked as failed however. This allowed the filter
rules on them to remain up-to-date. Whenever the kprobe on the corresponding
record is removed, the record gets updated as normal.

Signed-off-by: Abhishek Sagar <sagar.abhishek@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-23 22:10:59 +02:00
Abhishek Sagar ecea656d1d ftrace: freeze kprobe'd records
Let records identified as being kprobe'd be marked as "frozen". The trouble
with records which have a kprobe installed on their mcount call-site is
that they don't get updated. So if such a function which is currently being
traced gets its tracing disabled due to a new filter rule (or because it
was added to the notrace list) then it won't be updated and continue being
traced. This patch allows scanning of all frozen records during tracing to
check if they should be traced.

Signed-off-by: Abhishek Sagar <sagar.abhishek@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-23 22:10:58 +02:00
Abhishek Sagar 395a59d0f8 ftrace: store mcount address in rec->ip
Record the address of the mcount call-site. Currently all archs except sparc64
record the address of the instruction following the mcount call-site. Some
general cleanups are entailed. Storing mcount addresses in rec->ip enables
looking them up in the kprobe hash table later on to check if they're kprobe'd.

Signed-off-by: Abhishek Sagar <sagar.abhishek@gmail.com>
Cc: davem@davemloft.net
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-23 22:10:56 +02:00
Ingo Molnar f22529351f namespacecheck: fixes
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-16 14:44:13 +02:00
Abhishek Sagar a4500b84c5 ftrace: fix "notrace" filtering priority
This is a fix to give notrace filter rules priority over "set_ftrace_filter"
rules.

This fix ensures that functions which are set to be filtered and are
concurrently marked as "notrace" don't get recorded. As of now, if
a record is marked as FTRACE_FL_FILTER and is enabled, then the notrace
flag is not checked. Tested on x86-32.

Signed-off-by: Abhishek Sagar <sagar.abhishek@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-14 08:32:29 +02:00
Abhishek Sagar 34078a5e44 ftrace: prevent freeing of all failed updates
Steven Rostedt wrote:
> If we unload a module and reload it, will it ever get converted again?

The intent was always to filter core kernel functions to prevent their freeing.
Here's a fix which should allow re-recording of module call-sites.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-10 11:59:05 +02:00
Abhishek Sagar eb9a7bf091 ftrace: add debugfs entry 'failures'
Identify functions which had their mcount call-site updates failed. This can
help us track functions which ftrace shouldn't fiddle with, and are thus not
being traced. If there is no race with any external agent which is modifying
the mcount call-site, then this file displays no entries (normal case).

Signed-off-by: Abhishek Sagar <sagar.abhishek@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-10 11:58:17 +02:00
Abhishek Sagar 1d74f2a0f6 ftrace: remove ftrace_ip_converted()
Remove the unneeded function ftrace_ip_converted().

Signed-off-by: Abhishek Sagar <sagar.abhishek@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-10 11:57:49 +02:00
Abhishek Sagar 0eb967012e ftrace: prevent freeing of all failed updates
Prevent freeing of records which cause problems and correspond to function from
core kernel text. A new flag, FTRACE_FL_CONVERTED is used to mark a record
as "converted". All other records are patched lazily to NOPs. Failed records
now also remain on frace_hash table. Each invocation of ftrace_record_ip now
checks whether the traced function has ever been recorded (including past
failures) and doesn't re-record it again.

Signed-off-by: Abhishek Sagar <sagar.abhishek@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-10 11:56:57 +02:00
Steven Rostedt ad90c0e3ce ftrace: user update and disable dynamic ftrace daemon
In dynamic ftrace, the mcount function starts off pointing to a stub
function that just returns.

On start up, the call to the stub is modified to point to a "record_ip"
function. The job of the record_ip function is to add the function to
a pre-allocated hash list. If the function is already there, it simply is
ignored, otherwise it is added to the list.

Later, a ftraced daemon wakes up and calls kstop_machine if any functions
have been recorded, and changes the calls to the recorded functions to
a simple nop.  If no functions were recorded, the daemon goes back to sleep.

The daemon wakes up once a second to see if it needs to update any newly
recorded functions into nops.  Usually it does not, but if a lot of code
has been executed for the first time in the kernel, the ftraced daemon
will call kstop_machine to update those into nops.

The problem currently is that there's no way to stop the daemon from doing
this, and it can cause unneeded latencies (800us which for some is bothersome).

This patch adds a new file /debugfs/tracing/ftraced_enabled. If the daemon
is active, reading this will return "enabled\n" and "disabled\n" when the
daemon is not running. To disable the daemon, the user can echo "0" or
"disable" into this file, and "1" or "enable" to re-enable the daemon.

Since the daemon is used to convert the functions into nops to increase
the performance of the system, I also added that anytime something is
written into the ftraced_enabled file, kstop_machine will run if there
are new functions that have been detected that need to be converted.

This way the user can disable the daemon but still be able to control the
conversion of the mcount calls to nops by simply,

  "echo 0 > /debugfs/tracing/ftraced_enabled"

when they need to do more conversions.

To see the number of converted functions:

  "cat /debugfs/tracing/dyn_ftrace_total_info"

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-02 12:50:04 +02:00
Abhishek Sagar 492a7ea5bc ftrace: fix updating of ftrace_update_cnt
Hi Ingo/Steven,

Ftrace currently maintains an update count which includes false updates,
i.e, updates which failed. If anything, such failures should be tracked
by some separate variable, but this patch provides a minimal fix.

Signed-off-by: Abhishek Sagar <sagar.abhishek@gmail.com>
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-05-26 22:52:10 +02:00
Abhishek Sagar ffdaa3582b ftrace: safe traversal of ftrace_hash hlist
Hi Steven,

I noticed that concurrent instances of ftrace_record_ip()
have a race between ftrace_hash list traversal during
ftrace_ip_in_hash() (before acquiring ftrace_shutdown_lock)
and ftrace_add_hash(). If it's so then this should fix it.

Signed-off-by: Abhishek Sagar <sagar.abhishek@gmail.com>
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-05-26 22:52:04 +02:00
Steven Rostedt 41c52c0db9 ftrace: set_ftrace_notrace feature
While debugging latencies in the RT kernel, I found that it would be nice
to be able to filter away functions from the trace than just to filter
on functions.

I added a new interface to the debugfs tracing directory called

  set_ftrace_notrace

When dynamic frace is enabled, this lets you filter away functions that will
not be recorded in the trace. It is similar to adding 'notrace' to those
functions but by doing it without recompiling the kernel.

Here's how set_ftrace_filter and set_ftrace_notrace interact. Remember, if
set_ftrace_filter is set, it removes all functions from the trace execpt for
those listed in the set_ftrace_filter. set_ftrace_notrace will prevent those
functions from being traced.

If you were to set one function in both set_ftrace_filter and
set_ftrace_notrace and that function was the same, then you would end up
with an empty trace.

the set of functions to trace is:

  set_ftrace_filter == empty then

     all functions not in set_ftrace_notrace

  else

     set of the set_ftrace_filter and not in set of set_ftrace_notrace.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-05-26 22:51:37 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 2d8b820b2e ftrace: cleanups
factor out code and clean it up.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-05-23 22:36:37 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 37135677e6 ftrace: fix mcount export bug
David S. Miller noticed the following bug: the -pg instrumentation
function callback is named differently on each platform. On x86 it
is mcount, on sparc it is _mcount. So the export does not make sense
in kernel/trace/ftrace.c - move it to x86.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-05-23 22:36:24 +02:00
David Miller aa5e5ceaf5 ftrace: remove packed attribute on ftrace_page.
It causes unaligned access traps on platforms like sparc
(ftrace_page may be marked packed, but once we return
a dyn_ftrace sub-object from this array to another piece
of code, the "packed" part of the typing information doesn't
propagate).

But also, it didn't serve any purpose either.  Even if packed,
on 64-bit or 32-bit, it didn't give us any more dyn_ftrace
entries per-page.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-05-23 22:35:57 +02:00
Steven Rostedt 2bb6f8d638 ftrace: use raw_smp_processor_id for mcount functions
Due to debug hooks in the kernel that can change the way smp_processor_id
works, use raw_smp_processor_id in mcount called functions (namely
ftrace_record_ip). Currently we annotate most debug functions from calling
mcount, but we should not rely on that to prevent kernel lockups.

This patch uses the raw_smp_processor_id to prevent a recusive crash
that can happen if a debug hook in smp_processor_id calls mcount.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-05-23 22:01:34 +02:00
Steven Rostedt 07a267cdd2 ftrace: add UNINTERRUPTIBLE state for kftraced on disable
When dynamic ftrace fails and sets itself disabled, the ftraced daemon
will go back to sleep everytime it wakes up. The setting of the
ftraced state to UNINTERRUPTIBLE is skipped in this process, and the
daemon takes up 100% of the CPU.  This patch makes sure the ftraced daemon
sets itself to UNINTERRUPTIBLE in that loop.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-05-23 21:15:42 +02:00
Ingo Molnar e309b41dd6 ftrace: remove notrace
now that we have a kbuild method for notrace, no need to pollute the
C code with the annotations.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-05-23 20:58:28 +02:00
Steven Rostedt caf8cdebfb ftrace: remove address of function names
PowerPC is very fragile when it comes to use of function names
and function addresses.  ftrace needs to either use all function
addresses or function names (i.e. my_func as suppose to &my_func).

This patch chooses to use the names and not the addresses, and
makes ftrace consistent.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-05-23 20:56:31 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 9ff9cdb2d3 ftrace: cleanups
clean up recent code.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-05-23 20:56:05 +02:00
Steven Rostedt 4eebcc81a3 ftrace: disable tracing on failure
Since ftrace touches practically every function. If we detect any
anomaly, we want to fully disable ftrace. This patch adds code
to try shutdown ftrace as much as possible without doing any more
harm is something is detected not quite correct.

This only kills ftrace, this patch does have checks for other parts of
the tracer (irqsoff, wakeup, etc.).

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-05-23 20:54:16 +02:00
Steven Rostedt 37ad508419 ftrace - fix dynamic ftrace memory leak
The ftrace dynamic function update allocates a record to store the
instruction pointers that are being modified. If the modified
instruction pointer fails to update, then the record is marked as
failed and nothing more is done.

Worse, if the modification fails, but the record ip function is still
called, it will allocate a new record and try again. In just a matter
of time, will this cause a serious memory leak and crash the system.

This patch plugs this memory leak. When a record fails, it is
included back into the pool of records to be used. Now a record may
fail over and over again, but the number of allocated records will
not increase.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-05-23 20:54:04 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 750ed1a407 ftrace: timestamp syncing, prepare
rename and uninline now() to ftrace_now().

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-05-23 20:42:31 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 4bf39a9411 ftrace: cleanups
no code changed.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-05-23 20:42:20 +02:00
Steven Rostedt 77a2b37d22 ftrace: startup tester on dynamic tracing.
This patch adds a startup self test on dynamic code modification
and filters. The test filters on a specific function, makes sure that
no other function is traced, exectutes the function, then makes sure that
the function is traced.

This patch also fixes a slight bug with the ftrace selftest, where
tracer_enabled was not being set.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-05-23 20:41:06 +02:00
Ingo Molnar c7aafc5497 ftrace: cleanups
factor out code and clean it up.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-05-23 20:40:46 +02:00
Steven Rostedt e1c08bdd9f ftrace: force recording
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-05-23 20:40:29 +02:00
Steven Rostedt 5072c59fd4 ftrace: add filter select functions to trace
This patch adds two files to the debugfs system:

 /debugfs/tracing/available_filter_functions

and

 /debugfs/tracing/set_ftrace_filter

The available_filter_functions lists all functions that has been
recorded by the ftraced that has called the ftrace_record_ip function.
This is to allow users to see what functions have been converted
to nops and can be enabled for tracing.

To enable functions, simply echo the names (whitespace delimited)
into set_ftrace_filter. Simple wildcards are also allowed.

echo 'scheduler' > /debugfs/tracing/set_ftrace_filter

Will have only the scheduler be activated when tracing is enabled.

echo 'sched_*' > /debugfs/tracing/set_ftrace_filter

Will have only the functions starting with 'sched_' be activated.

echo '*lock' > /debugfs/tracing/set_ftrace_filter

Will have only functions ending with 'lock' be activated.

echo '*lock*' > /debugfs/tracing/set_ftrace_filter

Will have only functions with 'lock' in its name be activated.

Note: 'sched*lock' will not work. The only wildcards that are
allowed is an asterisk and the beginning and or end of the string
passed in.

Multiple names can be passed in with whitespace delimited:

echo 'scheduler *lock *acpi*' > /debugfs/tracing/set_ftrace_filter

is also the same as:

echo 'scheduler' > /debugfs/tracing/set_ftrace_filter
echo '*lock' >> /debugfs/tracing/set_ftrace_filter
echo '*acpi*' >> /debugfs/tracing/set_ftrace_filter

Appending does just that. It appends to the list.

To disable all filters simply echo an empty line in:

echo > /debugfs/tracing/set_ftrace_filter

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-05-23 20:38:41 +02:00
Steven Rostedt d61f82d066 ftrace: use dynamic patching for updating mcount calls
This patch replaces the indirect call to the mcount function
pointer with a direct call that will be patched by the
dynamic ftrace routines.

On boot up, the mcount function calls the ftace_stub function.
When the dynamic ftrace code is initialized, the ftrace_stub
is replaced with a call to the ftrace_record_ip, which records
the instruction pointers of the locations that call it.

Later, the ftraced daemon will call kstop_machine and patch all
the locations to nops.

When a ftrace is enabled, the original calls to mcount will now
be set top call ftrace_caller, which will do a direct call
to the registered ftrace function. This direct call is also patched
when the function that should be called is updated.

All patching is performed by a kstop_machine routine to prevent any
type of race conditions that is associated with modifying code
on the fly.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-05-23 20:33:47 +02:00
Steven Rostedt 3c1720f00b ftrace: move memory management out of arch code
This patch moves the memory management of the ftrace
records out of the arch code and into the generic code
making the arch code simpler.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-05-23 20:33:35 +02:00
Steven Rostedt b0fc494fae ftrace: add ftrace_enabled sysctl to disable mcount function
This patch adds back the sysctl ftrace_enabled. This time it is
defaulted to on, if DYNAMIC_FTRACE is configured. When ftrace_enabled
is disabled, the ftrace function is set to the stub return.

If DYNAMIC_FTRACE is also configured, on ftrace_enabled = 0,
the registered ftrace functions will all be set to jmps, but no more
new calls to ftrace recording (used to find the ftrace calling sites)
will be called.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-05-23 20:33:19 +02:00
Steven Rostedt 3d0833953e ftrace: dynamic enabling/disabling of function calls
This patch adds a feature to dynamically replace the ftrace code
with the jmps to allow a kernel with ftrace configured to run
as fast as it can without it configured.

The way this works, is on bootup (if ftrace is enabled), a ftrace
function is registered to record the instruction pointer of all
places that call the function.

Later, if there's still any code to patch, a kthread is awoken
(rate limited to at most once a second) that performs a stop_machine,
and replaces all the code that was called with a jmp over the call
to ftrace. It only replaces what was found the previous time. Typically
the system reaches equilibrium quickly after bootup and there's no code
patching needed at all.

e.g.

  call ftrace  /* 5 bytes */

is replaced with

  jmp 3f  /* jmp is 2 bytes and we jump 3 forward */
3:

When we want to enable ftrace for function tracing, the IP recording
is removed, and stop_machine is called again to replace all the locations
of that were recorded back to the call of ftrace.  When it is disabled,
we replace the code back to the jmp.

Allocation is done by the kthread. If the ftrace recording function is
called, and we don't have any record slots available, then we simply
skip that call. Once a second a new page (if needed) is allocated for
recording new ftrace function calls.  A large batch is allocated at
boot up to get most of the calls there.

Because we do this via stop_machine, we don't have to worry about another
CPU executing a ftrace call as we modify it. But we do need to worry
about NMI's so all functions that might be called via nmi must be
annotated with notrace_nmi. When this code is configured in, the NMI code
will not call notrace.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-05-23 20:33:09 +02:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 16444a8a40 ftrace: add basic support for gcc profiler instrumentation
If CONFIG_FTRACE is selected and /proc/sys/kernel/ftrace_enabled is
set to a non-zero value the ftrace routine will be called everytime
we enter a kernel function that is not marked with the "notrace"
attribute.

The ftrace routine will then call a registered function if a function
happens to be registered.

[ This code has been highly hacked by Steven Rostedt and Ingo Molnar,
  so don't blame Arnaldo for all of this ;-) ]

Update:
  It is now possible to register more than one ftrace function.
  If only one ftrace function is registered, that will be the
  function that ftrace calls directly. If more than one function
  is registered, then ftrace will call a function that will loop
  through the functions to call.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-05-23 20:31:58 +02:00