Impact: prevent possible memory leak
The reader page of the ring buffer is special. Although it points
into the ring buffer, it is not part of the actual buffer. It is
a page used by the reader to swap with a page in the ring buffer.
Once the swap is made, the new reader page is again outside the
buffer.
Even though the reader page points into the buffer, it is really
pointing to residual data. Note, this data is used by the reader.
reader page
|
v
(prev) +---+ (next)
+----------| |----------+
| +---+ |
v v
+---+ +---+ +---+
-->| |------->| |------->| |--->
<--| |<-------| |<-------| |<---
+---+ +---+ +---+
^ ^ ^
\ | /
------- Buffer---------
If we perform a list_del_init() on the reader page we will actually remove
the last page the reader swapped with and not the reader page itself.
This will cause that page to not be freed, and thus is a memory leak.
Luckily, the only user of the ring buffer so far is ftrace. And ftrace
will not free its ring buffer after it allocates it. There is no current
possible memory leak. But once there are other users, or if ftrace
dynamically creates and frees its ring buffer, then this would be a
memory leak.
This patch fixes the leak for future cases.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This patch overloads RINGBUF_TYPE_PADDING to provide a way to discard
events from the ring buffer, for the event-filtering mechanism
introduced in a subsequent patch.
I did the initial version but thanks to Steven Rostedt for adding
the parts that actually made it work. ;-)
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: remove a section warning
CONFIG_DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH raises the following warning on -tip:
WARNING: kernel/trace/built-in.o(.text+0x5bc5): Section mismatch in
reference from the function ring_buffer_alloc() to the function
.cpuinit.text:rb_cpu_notify()
The function ring_buffer_alloc() references
the function __cpuinit rb_cpu_notify().
This is actually harmless. The code in the ring buffer don't build
rb_cpu_notify and other cpu hotplug stuffs when !CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU
so we have no risk to reference freed memory here (it would even
be harmless if we unconditionally build it because register_cpu_notifier
would do nothing when !CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU.
But since ring_buffer_alloc() can be called everytime, we don't want it
to be annotated with __cpuinit so we drop the __cpuinit from
rb_cpu_notify.
This is not a waste of memory because it is only defined and used on
CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <1237606416-22268-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: fix warning with irqsoff tracer
The ring buffer allocates its buffers on pre-smp time (early_initcall).
It means that, at first, only the boot cpu buffer is allocated and
the ring-buffer cpumask only has the boot cpu set (cpu_online_mask).
Later, the secondary cpu will show up and the ring-buffer will be notified
about this event: the appropriate buffer will be allocated and the cpumask
will be updated.
Unfortunately, if !CONFIG_CPU_HOTPLUG, the ring-buffer will not be
notified about the secondary cpus, meaning that the cpumask will have
only the cpu boot set, and only one cpu buffer allocated.
We fix that by using cpu_possible_mask if !CONFIG_CPU_HOTPLUG.
This patch fixes the following warning with irqsoff tracer running:
[ 169.317794] WARNING: at kernel/trace/trace.c:466 update_max_tr_single+0xcc/0xf3()
[ 169.318002] Hardware name: AMILO Li 2727
[ 169.318002] Modules linked in:
[ 169.318002] Pid: 5624, comm: bash Not tainted 2.6.29-rc8-tip-02636-g6aafa6c #11
[ 169.318002] Call Trace:
[ 169.318002] [<ffffffff81036182>] warn_slowpath+0xea/0x13d
[ 169.318002] [<ffffffff8100b9d6>] ? ftrace_call+0x5/0x2b
[ 169.318002] [<ffffffff8100b9d6>] ? ftrace_call+0x5/0x2b
[ 169.318002] [<ffffffff8100b9d1>] ? ftrace_call+0x0/0x2b
[ 169.318002] [<ffffffff8101ef10>] ? ftrace_modify_code+0xa9/0x108
[ 169.318002] [<ffffffff8106e27f>] ? trace_hardirqs_off+0x25/0x27
[ 169.318002] [<ffffffff8149afe7>] ? _spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x1f/0x2d
[ 169.318002] [<ffffffff81064f52>] ? ring_buffer_reset_cpu+0xf6/0xfb
[ 169.318002] [<ffffffff8106637c>] ? ring_buffer_reset+0x36/0x48
[ 169.318002] [<ffffffff8106aeda>] update_max_tr_single+0xcc/0xf3
[ 169.318002] [<ffffffff8100bc17>] ? sysret_check+0x22/0x5d
[ 169.318002] [<ffffffff8106e3ea>] stop_critical_timing+0x142/0x204
[ 169.318002] [<ffffffff8106e4cf>] trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x23/0x25
[ 169.318002] [<ffffffff8149ac28>] trace_hardirqs_on_thunk+0x3a/0x3c
[ 169.318002] [<ffffffff8100bc17>] ? sysret_check+0x22/0x5d
[ 169.318002] ---[ end trace db76cbf775a750cf ]---
Because this tracer may try to swap two cpu ring buffers for an
unregistered cpu on the ring buffer.
This patch might also fix a fair loss of traces due to unallocated buffers
for secondary cpus.
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-b: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <1237470453-5427-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This patch adds a new function called ring_buffer_set_clock that
allows a tracer to assign its own clock source to the buffer.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
In a private email conversation I explained how the ring buffer
page worked by using silly ASCII art. Ingo suggested that I add
that to the comments of the code.
Here it is.
Requested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Impact: speed up and remove possible races
The get_online_cpus was added to the ring buffer because the original
design would free the ring buffer on a CPU that was being taken
off line. The final design kept the ring buffer around even when the
CPU was taken off line. This is to allow a user to still read the
information on that ring buffer.
Most of the get_online_cpus are no longer needed since the ring buffer will
not disappear from the use cases.
Reported-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
The hotplug code in the ring buffers is for use with CPU hotplug,
not generic hotplug.
Reported-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Impact: save on memory
Currently, a ring buffer was allocated for each "possible_cpus". On
some systems, this is the same as NR_CPUS. Thus, if a system defined
NR_CPUS = 64 but it only had 1 CPU, we could have possibly 63 useless
ring buffers taking up space. With a default buffer of 3 megs, this
could be quite drastic.
This patch changes the ring buffer code to only allocate ring buffers
for online CPUs. If a CPU goes off line, we do not free the buffer.
This is because the user may still have trace data in that buffer
that they would like to look at.
Perhaps in the future we could add code to delete a ring buffer if
the CPU is offline and the ring buffer becomes empty.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
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>
If a partial ring_buffer_page_read happens, then some of the
incremental timestamps may be lost. This patch writes the
recent timestamp into the page that is passed back to the caller.
A partial ring_buffer_page_read is where the full page would not
be written back to the user, and instead, just part of the page
is copied to the user. A full page would be a page swap with the
ring buffer and the timestamps would be correct.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Impact: dont leave holes in read buffer page
The ring_buffer_read_page swaps a given page with the reader page
of the ring buffer, if certain conditions are set:
1) requested length is big enough to hold entire page data
2) a writer is not currently on the page
3) the page is not partially consumed.
Instead of swapping with the supplied page. It copies the data to
the supplied page instead. But currently the data is copied in the
same offset as the source page. This causes a hole at the start
of the reader page. This complicates the use of this function.
Instead, it should copy the data at the beginning of the function
and update the index fields accordingly.
Other small clean ups are also done in this patch.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Impact: fix to possible alignment problems on some archs.
Some arch compilers include an NULL char array in the sizeof field.
Since the ring_buffer_event type includes one of these, it is better
to use the "offsetof" instead, to avoid strange bugs on these archs.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
The ring_buffer_read_page was broken if it were to only copy part
of the page. This patch fixes that up as well as adds a parameter
to allow a length field, in order to only copy part of the buffer page.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Impact: fix ring_buffer_read_page
After a page is swapped into the ring buffer, the write field must
also be reset.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Impact: implement new tracing timestamp APIs
Add three trace clock variants, with differing scalability/precision
tradeoffs:
- local: CPU-local trace clock
- medium: scalable global clock with some jitter
- global: globally monotonic, serialized clock
Make the ring-buffer use the local trace clock internally.
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: clean up
While reviewing the ring buffer code, I thougth I saw a bug with
if (!__raw_spin_trylock(&cpu_buffer->lock))
goto out_unlock;
But I forgot that we use a variable "lock_taken" that is set if
the spinlock is taken, and only unlock it if that variable is set.
To avoid further confusion from other reviewers, this patch
renames the label out_unlock with out_reset, which is the more
appropriate name.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Fix these sparse warnings:
kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c:70:37: warning: incorrect type in argument 2 (different signedness)
kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c:84:39: warning: incorrect type in argument 2 (different signedness)
kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c:96:43: warning: incorrect type in argument 2 (different signedness)
kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c:2475:13: warning: incorrect type in argument 2 (different signedness)
kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c:2475:13: warning: incorrect type in argument 2 (different signedness)
kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c:2478:42: warning: incorrect type in argument 2 (different signedness)
kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c:2478:42: warning: incorrect type in argument 2 (different signedness)
kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c:2500:40: warning: incorrect type in argument 3 (different signedness)
kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c:2505:44: warning: incorrect type in argument 2 (different signedness)
kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c:2507:46: warning: incorrect type in argument 2 (different signedness)
kernel/trace/trace.c:2130:40: warning: incorrect type in argument 3 (different signedness)
kernel/trace/trace.c:2280:40: warning: incorrect type in argument 3 (different signedness)
Signed-off-by: Hannes Eder <hannes@hanneseder.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: change API and init bpage when copy
ring_buffer_read_page()/rb_remove_entries() may be called for
a partially consumed page.
Add a parameter for rb_remove_entries() and make it update
cpu_buffer->entries correctly for partially consumed pages.
ring_buffer_read_page() now returns the offset to the next event.
Init the bpage's time_stamp when return value is 0.
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Impact: Fix bug
I found several very very curious line.
It's so curious that it may be brought by typing mistake.
When (cpu_buffer->reader_page == cpu_buffer->commit_page):
1) We haven't copied it for bpage is changed:
bpage = cpu_buffer->reader_page->page;
memcpy(bpage->data, cpu_buffer->reader_page->page->data + read ... )
2) We need update cpu_buffer->reader_page->read, but
"cpu_buffer->reader_page += read;" is not right.
[
This bug was a typo. The commit->reader_page is a page pointer
and not an index into the page. The line should have been
commit->reader_page->read += read. The other changes
by Lai are nice clean ups to the code. - SDR
]
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Impact: clean up
Now that a generic in_nmi is available, this patch removes the
special code in the ring_buffer and implements the in_nmi generic
version instead.
With this change, I was also able to rename the "arch_ftrace_nmi_enter"
back to "ftrace_nmi_enter" and remove the code from the ring buffer.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Impact: prevent deadlock in NMI
The ring buffers are not yet totally lockless with writing to
the buffer. When a writer crosses a page, it grabs a per cpu spinlock
to protect against a reader. The spinlocks taken by a writer are not
to protect against other writers, since a writer can only write to
its own per cpu buffer. The spinlocks protect against readers that
can touch any cpu buffer. The writers are made to be reentrant
with the spinlocks disabling interrupts.
The problem arises when an NMI writes to the buffer, and that write
crosses a page boundary. If it grabs a spinlock, it can be racing
with another writer (since disabling interrupts does not protect
against NMIs) or with a reader on the same CPU. Luckily, most of the
users are not reentrant and protects against this issue. But if a
user of the ring buffer becomes reentrant (which is what the ring
buffers do allow), if the NMI also writes to the ring buffer then
we risk the chance of a deadlock.
This patch moves the ftrace_nmi_enter called by nmi_enter() to the
ring buffer code. It replaces the current ftrace_nmi_enter that is
used by arch specific code to arch_ftrace_nmi_enter and updates
the Kconfig to handle it.
When an NMI is called, it will set a per cpu variable in the ring buffer
code and will clear it when the NMI exits. If a write to the ring buffer
crosses page boundaries inside an NMI, a trylock is used on the spin
lock instead. If the spinlock fails to be acquired, then the entry
is discarded.
This bug appeared in the ftrace work in the RT tree, where event tracing
is reentrant. This workaround solved the deadlocks that appeared there.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Impact: fix bad times of recent resets
The ring buffer needs to reset its timestamps when reseting of the
buffer, otherwise the timestamps are stale and might be used to
calculate times in the buffer causing funny timestamps to appear.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: fix bad times of recent resets
The ring buffer needs to reset its timestamps when reseting of the
buffer, otherwise the timestamps are stale and might be used to
calculate times in the buffer causing funny timestamps to appear.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
If the ring buffer recording has been disabled. Do not let
swapping of ring buffers occur. Simply return -EAGAIN.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: reset struct buffer_page.write when interrupt storm
if struct buffer_page.write is not reset, any succedent committing
will corrupted ring_buffer:
static inline void
rb_set_commit_to_write(struct ring_buffer_per_cpu *cpu_buffer)
{
......
cpu_buffer->commit_page->commit =
cpu_buffer->commit_page->write;
......
}
when "if (RB_WARN_ON(cpu_buffer, next_page == reader_page))", ring_buffer
is disabled, but some reserved buffers may haven't been committed.
we need reset struct buffer_page.write.
when "if (unlikely(next_page == cpu_buffer->commit_page))", ring_buffer
is still available, we should not corrupt it.
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: fix to allow some archs to use the ring buffer
Commits in the ring buffer are checked by pointer arithmetic.
If the calculation is incorrect, then the commits will never take
place and the buffer will simply fill up and report an error.
Each page in the ring buffer has a small header:
struct buffer_data_page {
u64 time_stamp;
local_t commit;
unsigned char data[];
};
Unfortuntely, some of the calculations used sizeof(struct buffer_data_page)
to know the size of the header. But this is incorrect on some archs,
where sizeof(struct buffer_data_page) does not equal
offsetof(struct buffer_data_page, data), and on those archs, the commits
are never processed.
This patch replaces the sizeof with offsetof.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: reset struct buffer_page.write when interrupt storm
if struct buffer_page.write is not reset, any succedent committing
will corrupted ring_buffer:
static inline void
rb_set_commit_to_write(struct ring_buffer_per_cpu *cpu_buffer)
{
......
cpu_buffer->commit_page->commit =
cpu_buffer->commit_page->write;
......
}
when "if (RB_WARN_ON(cpu_buffer, next_page == reader_page))", ring_buffer
is disabled, but some reserved buffers may haven't been committed.
we need reset struct buffer_page.write.
when "if (unlikely(next_page == cpu_buffer->commit_page))", ring_buffer
is still available, we should not corrupt it.
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rric/oprofile: (31 commits)
powerpc/oprofile: fix whitespaces in op_model_cell.c
powerpc/oprofile: IBM CELL: add SPU event profiling support
powerpc/oprofile: fix cell/pr_util.h
powerpc/oprofile: IBM CELL: cleanup and restructuring
oprofile: make new cpu buffer functions part of the api
oprofile: remove #ifdef CONFIG_OPROFILE_IBS in non-ibs code
ring_buffer: fix ring_buffer_event_length()
oprofile: use new data sample format for ibs
oprofile: add op_cpu_buffer_get_data()
oprofile: add op_cpu_buffer_add_data()
oprofile: rework implementation of cpu buffer events
oprofile: modify op_cpu_buffer_read_entry()
oprofile: add op_cpu_buffer_write_reserve()
oprofile: rename variables in add_ibs_begin()
oprofile: rename add_sample() in cpu_buffer.c
oprofile: rename variable ibs_allowed to has_ibs in op_model_amd.c
oprofile: making add_sample_entry() inline
oprofile: remove backtrace code for ibs
oprofile: remove unused ibs macro
oprofile: remove unused components in struct oprofile_cpu_buffer
...
Function ring_buffer_event_length() provides an interface to detect
the length of data stored in an entry. However, the length contains
offsets depending on the internal usage. This makes it unusable. This
patch fixes this and now ring_buffer_event_length() returns the
alligned length that has been used in ring_buffer_lock_reserve().
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Impact: Reduce future memory usage, use new cpumask API.
(Eventually, cpumask_var_t will be allocated based on nr_cpu_ids, not NR_CPUS).
Convert kernel trace functions to use struct cpumask API:
1) Use cpumask_copy/cpumask_test_cpu/for_each_cpu.
2) Use cpumask_var_t and alloc_cpumask_var/free_cpumask_var everywhere.
3) Use on_each_cpu instead of playing with current->cpus_allowed.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
* 'oprofile-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
oprofile: select RING_BUFFER
ring_buffer: adding EXPORT_SYMBOLs
oprofile: fix lost sample counter
oprofile: remove nr_available_slots()
oprofile: port to the new ring_buffer
ring_buffer: add remaining cpu functions to ring_buffer.h
oprofile: moving cpu_buffer_reset() to cpu_buffer.h
oprofile: adding cpu_buffer_entries()
oprofile: adding cpu_buffer_write_commit()
oprofile: adding cpu buffer r/w access functions
ftrace: remove unused function arg in trace_iterator_increment()
ring_buffer: update description for ring_buffer_alloc()
oprofile: set values to default when creating oprofilefs
oprofile: implement switch/case in buffer_sync.c
x86/oprofile: cleanup IBS init/exit functions in op_model_amd.c
x86/oprofile: reordering IBS code in op_model_amd.c
oprofile: fix typo
oprofile: whitspace changes only
oprofile: update comment for oprofile_add_sample()
oprofile: comment cleanup
Impact: eliminate false WARN_ON message
If an interrupt goes off after the setting of the local variable
tail_page and before incrementing the write index of that page,
the interrupt could push the commit forward to the next page.
Later a check is made to see if interrupts pushed the buffer around
the entire ring buffer by comparing the next page to the last commited
page. This can produce a false positive if the interrupt had pushed
the commit page forward as stated above.
Thanks to Jiaying Zhang for finding this race.
Reported-by: Jiaying Zhang <jiayingz@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: fix stuck trace-buffers
If an interrupt comes in during the rb_set_commit_to_write and
pushes the tail page forward just at the right time, the commit
updates will miss the adding of the interrupt data. This will
cause the commit pointer to cease from moving forward.
Thanks to Jiaying Zhang for finding this race.
Reported-by: Jiaying Zhang <jiayingz@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: remove dead code
struct ring_buffer.size is not set after ring_buffer is initialized
or resized. it is always 0.
we can use "buffer->pages * PAGE_SIZE" to get ring_buffer's size
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: prevent a trace recursion
After some tests with function graph tracer under x86-32, I saw some recursions
caused by ring_buffer_time_stamp() that calls preempt_enable_no_notrace() which
calls preempt_schedule() which is traced itself.
This patch re-enables preemption without rescheduling.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
I added EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPLs for all functions part of the API
(ring_buffer.h). This is required since oprofile is using the ring
buffer and the compilation as modules would fail otherwise.
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: clean up
Andrew Morton pointed out that the kernel convention of a variable
named page should be of type page struct. The ring buffer uses
a variable named "page" for a pointer to something else.
This patch converts those to be called "bpage" (as in "buffer page").
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Steven Rostedt