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Amir Livneh 2a1e03ca33 doc: tracing: Fix a number of typos
Trivial fixes to spelling mistakes in ftrace.rst

v2: tripple -> triple

Signed-off-by: Amir Livneh <alivneh@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-11-07 15:52:39 -07:00
Masami Hiramatsu 8a2933cfe7 docs: tracing: Add stacktrace filter command
Add a description of stacktrace filter command.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-08-31 16:34:49 -06:00
Masami Hiramatsu 1fee4f7752 doc: tracing: Fix a typo of trace_stat
The name of the directory for per-cpu function statistics
is trace_stat, not trace_stats.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-07-26 15:48:10 -06:00
Linus Torvalds 5eb6eed7e0 One new feature was added to ftrace, which is the trace_marker now supports
triggers. For example:
 
   # cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing
   # echo 'snapshot' > events/ftrace/print/trigger
   # echo 'cause snapshot' > trace_marker
 
 The rest of the changes are various clean ups and also one stable fix that
 was added late in the cycle.
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Merge tag 'trace-v4.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace

Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
 "One new feature was added to ftrace, which is the trace_marker now
  supports triggers. For example:

    # cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing
    # echo 'snapshot' > events/ftrace/print/trigger
    # echo 'cause snapshot' > trace_marker

  The rest of the changes are various clean ups and also one stable fix
  that was added late in the cycle"

* tag 'trace-v4.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (21 commits)
  tracing: Use match_string() instead of open coding it in trace_set_options()
  branch-check: fix long->int truncation when profiling branches
  ring-buffer: Fix typo in comment
  ring-buffer: Fix a bunch of typos in comments
  tracing/selftest: Add test to test simple snapshot trigger for trace_marker
  tracing/selftest: Add test to test hist trigger between kernel event and trace_marker
  tracing/selftest: Add selftests to test trace_marker histogram triggers
  ftrace/selftest: Fix reset_trigger() to handle triggers with filters
  ftrace/selftest: Have the reset_trigger code be a bit more careful
  tracing: Document trace_marker triggers
  tracing: Allow histogram triggers to access ftrace internal events
  tracing: Prevent further users of zero size static arrays in trace events
  tracing: Have zero size length in filter logic be full string
  tracing: Add trigger file for trace_markers tracefs/ftrace/print
  tracing: Do not show filter file for ftrace internal events
  tracing: Add brackets in ftrace event dynamic arrays
  tracing: Have event_trace_init() called by trace_init_tracefs()
  tracing: Add __find_event_file() to find event files without restrictions
  tracing: Do not reference event data in post call triggers
  tracepoints: Fix the descriptions of tracepoint_probe_register{_prio}
  ...
2018-06-06 16:39:18 -07:00
Linus Torvalds eeee3149aa There's been a fair amount of work in the docs tree this time around,
including:
 
  - Extensive RST conversions and organizational work in the
    memory-management docs thanks to Mike Rapoport.
 
  - An update of Documentation/features from Andrea Parri and a script to
    keep it updated.
 
  - Various LICENSES updates from Thomas, along with a script to check SPDX
    tags.
 
  - Work to fix dangling references to documentation files; this involved a
    fair number of one-liner comment changes outside of Documentation/
 
 ...and the usual list of documentation improvements, typo fixes, etc.
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Merge tag 'docs-4.18' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "There's been a fair amount of work in the docs tree this time around,
  including:

   - Extensive RST conversions and organizational work in the
     memory-management docs thanks to Mike Rapoport.

   - An update of Documentation/features from Andrea Parri and a script
     to keep it updated.

   - Various LICENSES updates from Thomas, along with a script to check
     SPDX tags.

   - Work to fix dangling references to documentation files; this
     involved a fair number of one-liner comment changes outside of
     Documentation/

  ... and the usual list of documentation improvements, typo fixes, etc"

* tag 'docs-4.18' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (103 commits)
  Documentation: document hung_task_panic kernel parameter
  docs/admin-guide/mm: add high level concepts overview
  docs/vm: move ksm and transhuge from "user" to "internals" section.
  docs: Use the kerneldoc comments for memalloc_no*()
  doc: document scope NOFS, NOIO APIs
  docs: update kernel versions and dates in tables
  docs/vm: transhuge: split userspace bits to admin-guide/mm/transhuge
  docs/vm: transhuge: minor updates
  docs/vm: transhuge: change sections order
  Documentation: arm: clean up Marvell Berlin family info
  Documentation: gpio: driver: Fix a typo and some odd grammar
  docs: ranoops.rst: fix location of ramoops.txt
  scripts/documentation-file-ref-check: rewrite it in perl with auto-fix mode
  docs: uio-howto.rst: use a code block to solve a warning
  mm, THP, doc: Add document for thp_swpout/thp_swpout_fallback
  w1: w1_io.c: fix a kernel-doc warning
  Documentation/process/posting: wrap text at 80 cols
  docs: admin-guide: add cgroup-v2 documentation
  Revert "Documentation/features/vm: Remove arch support status file for 'pte_special'"
  Documentation: refcount-vs-atomic: Update reference to LKMM doc.
  ...
2018-06-04 12:34:27 -07:00
Steven Rostedt (VMware) d3439f9d6c tracing: Document trace_marker triggers
Add documentation and an example on how to use trace_marker triggers.

Reviewed-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2018-05-29 08:29:30 -04:00
Thomas Gleixner a3ed0e4393 Revert: Unify CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_BOOTTIME
Revert commits

92af4dcb4e ("tracing: Unify the "boot" and "mono" tracing clocks")
127bfa5f43 ("hrtimer: Unify MONOTONIC and BOOTTIME clock behavior")
7250a4047a ("posix-timers: Unify MONOTONIC and BOOTTIME clock behavior")
d6c7270e91 ("timekeeping: Remove boot time specific code")
f2d6fdbfd2 ("Input: Evdev - unify MONOTONIC and BOOTTIME clock behavior")
d6ed449afd ("timekeeping: Make the MONOTONIC clock behave like the BOOTTIME clock")
72199320d4 ("timekeeping: Add the new CLOCK_MONOTONIC_ACTIVE clock")

As stated in the pull request for the unification of CLOCK_MONOTONIC and
CLOCK_BOOTTIME, it was clear that we might have to revert the change.

As reported by several folks systemd and other applications rely on the
documented behaviour of CLOCK_MONOTONIC on Linux and break with the above
changes. After resume daemons time out and other timeout related issues are
observed. Rafael compiled this list:

* systemd kills daemons on resume, after >WatchdogSec seconds
  of suspending (Genki Sky).  [Verified that that's because systemd uses
  CLOCK_MONOTONIC and expects it to not include the suspend time.]

* systemd-journald misbehaves after resume:
  systemd-journald[7266]: File /var/log/journal/016627c3c4784cd4812d4b7e96a34226/system.journal
corrupted or uncleanly shut down, renaming and replacing.
  (Mike Galbraith).

* NetworkManager reports "networking disabled" and networking is broken
  after resume 50% of the time (Pavel).  [May be because of systemd.]

* MATE desktop dims the display and starts the screensaver right after
  system resume (Pavel).

* Full system hang during resume (me).  [May be due to systemd or NM or both.]

That happens on debian and open suse systems.

It's sad, that these problems were neither catched in -next nor by those
folks who expressed interest in this change.

Reported-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
Reported-by: Genki Sky <sky@genki.is>,
Reported-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Kevin Easton <kevin@guarana.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mark Salyzyn <salyzyn@android.com>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2018-04-26 14:53:32 +02:00
Steffen Maier 32fb7ef69a Documentation: ftrace: clarify filters with dynamic ftrace and graph
I fell into the trap of having set up function tracer with a very
limited filter and then switched over to function_graph and was
erroneously wondering why the latter did not trace what I expected,
which was the full unabridged graph recursion.

Signed-off-by: Steffen Maier <maier@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-04-16 14:04:26 -06:00
Linus Torvalds 2a56bb596b New features:
- Tom Zanussi's extended histogram work
    This adds the synthetic events to have histograms from multiple event data
    Adds triggers "onmatch" and "onmax" to call the synthetic events
    Several updates to the histogram code from this
 
  - Allow way to nest ring buffer calls in the same context
 
  - Allow absolute time stamps in ring buffer
 
  - Rewrite of filter code parsing based on Al Viro's suggestions
 
  - Setting of trace_clock to global if TSC is unstable (on boot)
 
  - Better OOM handling when allocating large ring buffers
 
  - Added initcall tracepoints (consolidated initcall_debug code with them)
 
 And other various fixes and clean ups
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Merge tag 'trace-v4.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace

Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
 "New features:

   - Tom Zanussi's extended histogram work.

     This adds the synthetic events to have histograms from multiple
     event data Adds triggers "onmatch" and "onmax" to call the
     synthetic events Several updates to the histogram code from this

   - Allow way to nest ring buffer calls in the same context

   - Allow absolute time stamps in ring buffer

   - Rewrite of filter code parsing based on Al Viro's suggestions

   - Setting of trace_clock to global if TSC is unstable (on boot)

   - Better OOM handling when allocating large ring buffers

   - Added initcall tracepoints (consolidated initcall_debug code with
     them)

  And other various fixes and clean ups"

* tag 'trace-v4.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (68 commits)
  init: Have initcall_debug still work without CONFIG_TRACEPOINTS
  init, tracing: Have printk come through the trace events for initcall_debug
  init, tracing: instrument security and console initcall trace events
  init, tracing: Add initcall trace events
  tracing: Add rcu dereference annotation for test func that touches filter->prog
  tracing: Add rcu dereference annotation for filter->prog
  tracing: Fixup logic inversion on setting trace_global_clock defaults
  tracing: Hide global trace clock from lockdep
  ring-buffer: Add set/clear_current_oom_origin() during allocations
  ring-buffer: Check if memory is available before allocation
  lockdep: Add print_irqtrace_events() to __warn
  vsprintf: Do not preprocess non-dereferenced pointers for bprintf (%px and %pK)
  tracing: Uninitialized variable in create_tracing_map_fields()
  tracing: Make sure variable string fields are NULL-terminated
  tracing: Add action comparisons when testing matching hist triggers
  tracing: Don't add flag strings when displaying variable references
  tracing: Fix display of hist trigger expressions containing timestamps
  ftrace: Drop a VLA in module_exists()
  tracing: Mention trace_clock=global when warning about unstable clocks
  tracing: Default to using trace_global_clock if sched_clock is unstable
  ...
2018-04-10 11:27:30 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 680014d6d1 Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull time(r) updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "A small set of updates for timers and timekeeping:

   - The most interesting change is the consolidation of clock MONOTONIC
     and clock BOOTTIME.

     Clock MONOTONIC behaves now exactly like clock BOOTTIME and does
     not longer ignore the time spent in suspend. A new clock
     MONOTONIC_ACTIVE is provived which behaves like clock MONOTONIC in
     kernels before this change. This allows applications to
     programmatically check for the clock MONOTONIC behaviour.

     As discussed in the review thread, this has the potential of
     breaking user space and we might have to revert this. Knock on wood
     that we can avoid that exercise.

   - Updates to the NTP mechanism to improve accuracy

   - A new kernel internal data structure to aid the ongoing Y2038 work.

   - Cleanups and simplifications of the clocksource code.

   - Make the alarmtimer code play nicely with debugobjects"

* 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  alarmtimer: Init nanosleep alarm timer on stack
  y2038: Introduce struct __kernel_old_timeval
  tracing: Unify the "boot" and "mono" tracing clocks
  hrtimer: Unify MONOTONIC and BOOTTIME clock behavior
  posix-timers: Unify MONOTONIC and BOOTTIME clock behavior
  timekeeping: Remove boot time specific code
  Input: Evdev - unify MONOTONIC and BOOTTIME clock behavior
  timekeeping: Make the MONOTONIC clock behave like the BOOTTIME clock
  timekeeping: Add the new CLOCK_MONOTONIC_ACTIVE clock
  timekeeping/ntp: Determine the multiplier directly from NTP tick length
  timekeeping/ntp: Don't align NTP frequency adjustments to ticks
  clocksource: Use ATTRIBUTE_GROUPS
  clocksource: Use DEVICE_ATTR_RW/RO/WO to define device attributes
  clocksource: Don't walk the clocksource list for empty override
2018-04-04 14:50:29 -07:00
Jonathan Corbet 6234c7bd8c docs: ftrace: fix a few formatting issues
Make sure that literal * characters are not interpreted as emphasis
markers.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-03-07 10:44:08 -07:00
Changbin Du 1f198e22bc trace doc: convert trace/ftrace.txt to rst format
This converts the plain text documentation to reStructuredText format and
add it into Sphinx TOC tree. No essential content change.

Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-03-07 10:23:10 -07:00