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Mark Brown fa73dc9400 tracing: Fix build breakage without CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS
Today's -next fails to build for me:

  CC      kernel/trace/trace_export.o
In file included from kernel/trace/trace_export.c:197: kernel/trace/trace_entries.h:58: error: 'perf_ftrace_event_register' undeclared here (not in a function)
make[2]: *** [kernel/trace/trace_export.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [kernel/trace] Error 2
make: *** [kernel] Error 2

because as of ced390 (ftrace, perf: Add support to use function
tracepoint in perf) perf_trace_event_register() is declared in trace.h
only if CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS is enabled but I don't have that set.

Ensure that we always have a definition of perf_trace_event_register()
by making the definition unconditional.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1330426967-17067-1-git-send-email-broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com

Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2012-03-13 18:34:59 -04:00
Steven Rostedt 499e547057 tracing/ring-buffer: Only have tracing_on disable tracing buffers
As the ring-buffer code is being used by other facilities in the
kernel, having tracing_on file disable *all* buffers is not a desired
affect. It should only disable the ftrace buffers that are being used.

Move the code into the trace.c file and use the buffer disabling
for tracing_on() and tracing_off(). This way only the ftrace buffers
will be affected by them and other kernel utilities will not be
confused to why their output suddenly stopped.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2012-02-22 15:50:28 -05:00
Jiri Olsa 5500fa5119 ftrace, perf: Add filter support for function trace event
Adding support to filter function trace event via perf
interface. It is now possible to use filter interface
in the perf tool like:

  perf record -e ftrace:function --filter="(ip == mm_*)" ls

The filter syntax is restricted to the the 'ip' field only,
and following operators are accepted '==' '!=' '||', ending
up with the filter strings like:

  ip == f1[, ]f2 ... || ip != f3[, ]f4 ...

with comma ',' or space ' ' as a function separator. If the
space ' ' is used as a separator, the right side of the
assignment needs to be enclosed in double quotes '"', e.g.:

  perf record -e ftrace:function --filter '(ip == do_execve,sys_*,ext*)' ls
  perf record -e ftrace:function --filter '(ip == "do_execve,sys_*,ext*")' ls
  perf record -e ftrace:function --filter '(ip == "do_execve sys_* ext*")' ls

The '==' operator adds trace filter with same effect as would
be added via set_ftrace_filter file.

The '!=' operator adds trace filter with same effect as would
be added via set_ftrace_notrace file.

The right side of the '!=', '==' operators is list of functions
or regexp. to be added to filter separated by space.

The '||' operator is used for connecting multiple filter definitions
together. It is possible to have more than one '==' and '!='
operators within one filter string.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1329317514-8131-8-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2012-02-21 11:08:30 -05:00
Jiri Olsa 02aa3162ed ftrace: Allow to specify filter field type for ftrace events
Adding FILTER_TRACE_FN event field type for function tracepoint
event, so it can be properly recognized within filtering code.

Currently all fields of ftrace subsystem events share the common
field type FILTER_OTHER. Since the function trace fields need
special care within the filtering code we need to recognize it
properly, hence adding the FILTER_TRACE_FN event type.

Adding filter parameter to the FTRACE_ENTRY macro, to specify the
filter field type for the event.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1329317514-8131-7-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2012-02-21 11:08:29 -05:00
Jiri Olsa ced39002f5 ftrace, perf: Add support to use function tracepoint in perf
Adding perf registration support for the ftrace function event,
so it is now possible to register it via perf interface.

The perf_event struct statically contains ftrace_ops as a handle
for function tracer. The function tracer is registered/unregistered
in open/close actions.

To be efficient, we enable/disable ftrace_ops each time the traced
process is scheduled in/out (via TRACE_REG_PERF_(ADD|DELL) handlers).
This way tracing is enabled only when the process is running.
Intentionally using this way instead of the event's hw state
PERF_HES_STOPPED, which would not disable the ftrace_ops.

It is now possible to use function trace within perf commands
like:

  perf record -e ftrace:function ls
  perf stat -e ftrace:function ls

Allowed only for root.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1329317514-8131-6-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com

Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2012-02-21 11:08:27 -05:00
Jiri Olsa e59a0bff3e ftrace: Add FTRACE_ENTRY_REG macro to allow event registration
Adding FTRACE_ENTRY_REG macro so particular ftrace entries
could specify registration function and thus become accesible
via perf.

This will be used in upcomming patch for function trace.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1329317514-8131-5-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com

Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2012-02-21 11:08:26 -05:00
Jiri Olsa e248491ac2 ftrace: Add enable/disable ftrace_ops control interface
Adding a way to temporarily enable/disable ftrace_ops. The change
follows the same way as 'global' ftrace_ops are done.

Introducing 2 global ftrace_ops - control_ops and ftrace_control_list
which take over all ftrace_ops registered with FTRACE_OPS_FL_CONTROL
flag. In addition new per cpu flag called 'disabled' is also added to
ftrace_ops to provide the control information for each cpu.

When ftrace_ops with FTRACE_OPS_FL_CONTROL is registered, it is
set as disabled for all cpus.

The ftrace_control_list contains all the registered 'control' ftrace_ops.
The control_ops provides function which iterates ftrace_control_list
and does the check for 'disabled' flag on current cpu.

Adding 3 inline functions:
  ftrace_function_local_disable/ftrace_function_local_enable
  - enable/disable the ftrace_ops on current cpu
  ftrace_function_local_disabled
  - get disabled ftrace_ops::disabled value for current cpu

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1329317514-8131-2-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com

Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2012-02-21 11:08:23 -05:00
Linus Torvalds 972b2c7199 Merge branch 'for-linus2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs
* 'for-linus2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (165 commits)
  reiserfs: Properly display mount options in /proc/mounts
  vfs: prevent remount read-only if pending removes
  vfs: count unlinked inodes
  vfs: protect remounting superblock read-only
  vfs: keep list of mounts for each superblock
  vfs: switch ->show_options() to struct dentry *
  vfs: switch ->show_path() to struct dentry *
  vfs: switch ->show_devname() to struct dentry *
  vfs: switch ->show_stats to struct dentry *
  switch security_path_chmod() to struct path *
  vfs: prefer ->dentry->d_sb to ->mnt->mnt_sb
  vfs: trim includes a bit
  switch mnt_namespace ->root to struct mount
  vfs: take /proc/*/mounts and friends to fs/proc_namespace.c
  vfs: opencode mntget() mnt_set_mountpoint()
  vfs: spread struct mount - remaining argument of next_mnt()
  vfs: move fsnotify junk to struct mount
  vfs: move mnt_devname
  vfs: move mnt_list to struct mount
  vfs: switch pnode.h macros to struct mount *
  ...
2012-01-08 12:19:57 -08:00
Al Viro f4ae40a6a5 switch debugfs to umode_t
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-01-03 22:54:56 -05:00
Steven Rostedt 77271ce4b2 tracing: Add irq, preempt-count and need resched info to default trace output
People keep asking how to get the preempt count, irq, and need resched info
and we keep telling them to enable the latency format. Some developers think
that traces without this info is completely useless, and for a lot of tasks
it is useless.

The first option was to enable the latency trace as the default format, but
the header for the latency format is pretty useless for most tracers and
it also does the timestamp in straight microseconds from the time the trace
started. This is sometimes more difficult to read as the default trace is
seconds from the start of boot up.

Latency format:

 # tracer: nop
 #
 # nop latency trace v1.1.5 on 3.2.0-rc1-test+
 # --------------------------------------------------------------------
 # latency: 0 us, #159771/64234230, CPU#1 | (M:preempt VP:0, KP:0, SP:0 HP:0 #P:4)
 #    -----------------
 #    | task: -0 (uid:0 nice:0 policy:0 rt_prio:0)
 #    -----------------
 #
 #                  _------=> CPU#
 #                 / _-----=> irqs-off
 #                | / _----=> need-resched
 #                || / _---=> hardirq/softirq
 #                ||| / _--=> preempt-depth
 #                |||| /     delay
 #  cmd     pid   ||||| time  |   caller
 #     \   /      |||||  \    |   /
 migratio-6       0...2 41778231us+: rcu_note_context_switch <-__schedule
 migratio-6       0...2 41778233us : trace_rcu_utilization <-rcu_note_context_switch
 migratio-6       0...2 41778235us+: rcu_sched_qs <-rcu_note_context_switch
 migratio-6       0d..2 41778236us+: rcu_preempt_qs <-rcu_note_context_switch
 migratio-6       0...2 41778238us : trace_rcu_utilization <-rcu_note_context_switch
 migratio-6       0...2 41778239us+: debug_lockdep_rcu_enabled <-__schedule

default format:

 # tracer: nop
 #
 #           TASK-PID    CPU#    TIMESTAMP  FUNCTION
 #              | |       |          |         |
      migration/0-6     [000]    50.025810: rcu_note_context_switch <-__schedule
      migration/0-6     [000]    50.025812: trace_rcu_utilization <-rcu_note_context_switch
      migration/0-6     [000]    50.025813: rcu_sched_qs <-rcu_note_context_switch
      migration/0-6     [000]    50.025815: rcu_preempt_qs <-rcu_note_context_switch
      migration/0-6     [000]    50.025817: trace_rcu_utilization <-rcu_note_context_switch
      migration/0-6     [000]    50.025818: debug_lockdep_rcu_enabled <-__schedule
      migration/0-6     [000]    50.025820: debug_lockdep_rcu_enabled <-__schedule

The latency format header has latency information that is pretty meaningless
for most tracers. Although some of the header is useful, and we can add that
later to the default format as well.

What is really useful with the latency format is the irqs-off, need-resched
hard/softirq context and the preempt count.

This commit adds the option irq-info which is on by default that adds this
information:

 # tracer: nop
 #
 #                              _-----=> irqs-off
 #                             / _----=> need-resched
 #                            | / _---=> hardirq/softirq
 #                            || / _--=> preempt-depth
 #                            ||| /     delay
 #           TASK-PID   CPU#  ||||    TIMESTAMP  FUNCTION
 #              | |       |   ||||       |         |
           <idle>-0     [000] d..2    49.309305: cpuidle_get_driver <-cpuidle_idle_call
           <idle>-0     [000] d..2    49.309307: mwait_idle <-cpu_idle
           <idle>-0     [000] d..2    49.309309: need_resched <-mwait_idle
           <idle>-0     [000] d..2    49.309310: test_ti_thread_flag <-need_resched
           <idle>-0     [000] d..2    49.309312: trace_power_start.constprop.13 <-mwait_idle
           <idle>-0     [000] d..2    49.309313: trace_cpu_idle <-mwait_idle
           <idle>-0     [000] d..2    49.309315: need_resched <-mwait_idle

If a user wants the old format, they can disable the 'irq-info' option:

 # tracer: nop
 #
 #           TASK-PID   CPU#      TIMESTAMP  FUNCTION
 #              | |       |          |         |
           <idle>-0     [000]     49.309305: cpuidle_get_driver <-cpuidle_idle_call
           <idle>-0     [000]     49.309307: mwait_idle <-cpu_idle
           <idle>-0     [000]     49.309309: need_resched <-mwait_idle
           <idle>-0     [000]     49.309310: test_ti_thread_flag <-need_resched
           <idle>-0     [000]     49.309312: trace_power_start.constprop.13 <-mwait_idle
           <idle>-0     [000]     49.309313: trace_cpu_idle <-mwait_idle
           <idle>-0     [000]     49.309315: need_resched <-mwait_idle

Requested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-11-17 09:58:48 -05:00
Jiri Olsa 7e9a49ef54 tracing/latency: Fix header output for latency tracers
In case the the graph tracer (CONFIG_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER) or even the
function tracer (CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER) are not set, the latency tracers
do not display proper latency header.

The involved/fixed latency tracers are:
        wakeup_rt
        wakeup
        preemptirqsoff
        preemptoff
        irqsoff

The patch adds proper handling of tracer configuration options for latency
tracers, and displaying correct header info accordingly.

* The current output (for wakeup tracer) with both graph and function
  tracers disabled is:

  # tracer: wakeup
  #
    <idle>-0       0d.h5    1us+:      0:120:R   + [000]     7:  0:R watchdog/0
    <idle>-0       0d.h5    3us+: ttwu_do_activate.clone.1 <-try_to_wake_up
    ...

* The fixed output is:

  # tracer: wakeup
  #
  # wakeup latency trace v1.1.5 on 3.1.0-tip+
  # --------------------------------------------------------------------
  # latency: 55 us, #4/4, CPU#0 | (M:preempt VP:0, KP:0, SP:0 HP:0 #P:2)
  #    -----------------
  #    | task: migration/0-6 (uid:0 nice:0 policy:1 rt_prio:99)
  #    -----------------
  #
  #                  _------=> CPU#
  #                 / _-----=> irqs-off
  #                | / _----=> need-resched
  #                || / _---=> hardirq/softirq
  #                ||| / _--=> preempt-depth
  #                |||| /     delay
  #  cmd     pid   ||||| time  |   caller
  #     \   /      |||||  \    |   /
       cat-1129    0d..4    1us :   1129:120:R   + [000]     6:  0:R migration/0
       cat-1129    0d..4    2us+: ttwu_do_activate.clone.1 <-try_to_wake_up

* The current output (for wakeup tracer) with only function
  tracer enabled is:

  # tracer: wakeup
  #
       cat-1140    0d..4    1us+:   1140:120:R   + [000]     6:  0:R migration/0
       cat-1140    0d..4    2us : ttwu_do_activate.clone.1 <-try_to_wake_up

* The fixed output is:
  # tracer: wakeup
  #
  # wakeup latency trace v1.1.5 on 3.1.0-tip+
  # --------------------------------------------------------------------
  # latency: 207 us, #109/109, CPU#1 | (M:preempt VP:0, KP:0, SP:0 HP:0 #P:2)
  #    -----------------
  #    | task: watchdog/1-12 (uid:0 nice:0 policy:1 rt_prio:99)
  #    -----------------
  #
  #                  _------=> CPU#
  #                 / _-----=> irqs-off
  #                | / _----=> need-resched
  #                || / _---=> hardirq/softirq
  #                ||| / _--=> preempt-depth
  #                |||| /     delay
  #  cmd     pid   ||||| time  |   caller
  #     \   /      |||||  \    |   /
    <idle>-0       1d.h5    1us+:      0:120:R   + [001]    12:  0:R watchdog/1
    <idle>-0       1d.h5    3us : ttwu_do_activate.clone.1 <-try_to_wake_up

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111107150849.GE1807@m.brq.redhat.com

Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-11-07 13:48:35 -05:00
Steven Rostedt e0a413f619 tracing: Warn on output if the function tracer was found corrupted
As the function tracer is very intrusive, lots of self checks are
performed on the tracer and if something is found to be strange
it will shut itself down keeping it from corrupting the rest of the
kernel. This shutdown may still allow functions to be traced, as the
tracing only stops new modifications from happening. Trying to stop
the function tracer itself can cause more harm as it requires code
modification.

Although a WARN_ON() is executed, a user may not notice it. To help
the user see that something isn't right with the tracing of the system
a big warning is added to the output of the tracer that lets the user
know that their data may be incomplete.

Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-10-11 09:13:25 -04:00
Jiri Olsa 1d0e78e380 tracing/filter: Add startup tests for events filter
Adding automated tests running as late_initcall. Tests are
compiled in with CONFIG_FTRACE_STARTUP_TEST option.

Adding test event "ftrace_test_filter" used to simulate
filter processing during event occurance.

String filters are compiled and tested against several
test events with different values.

Also testing that evaluation of explicit predicates is ommited
due to the lazy filter evaluation.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1313072754-4620-11-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-08-19 14:35:59 -04:00
Jiri Olsa 61aaef5530 tracing/filter: Remove field_name from filter_pred struct
The field_name was used just for finding event's fields. This way we
don't need to care about field_name allocation/free.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1313072754-4620-4-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-08-19 14:35:52 -04:00
Arun Sharma 60063497a9 atomic: use <linux/atomic.h>
This allows us to move duplicated code in <asm/atomic.h>
(atomic_inc_not_zero() for now) to <linux/atomic.h>

Signed-off-by: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-26 16:49:47 -07:00
Ingo Molnar 40bcea7bbe Merge branch 'tip/perf/core' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into perf/core 2011-07-21 09:32:40 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 492f73a303 Merge branch 'perf/urgent' into perf/core
Merge reason: pick up the latest fixes - they won't make v3.0.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-07-21 09:29:21 +02:00
Steven Rostedt e4a3f541f0 tracing: Still trace filtered irq functions when irq trace is disabled
If a function is set to be traced by the set_graph_function, but the
option funcgraph-irqs is zero, and the traced function happens to be
called from a interrupt, it will not be traced.

The point of funcgraph-irqs is to not trace interrupts when we are
preempted by an irq, not to not trace functions we want to trace that
happen to be *in* a irq.

Luckily the current->trace_recursion element is perfect to add a flag
to help us be able to trace functions within an interrupt even when
we are not tracing interrupts that preempt the trace.

Reported-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-07-07 22:26:27 -04:00
Steven Rostedt e9dbfae53e tracing: Fix bug when reading system filters on module removal
The event system is freed when its nr_events is set to zero. This happens
when a module created an event system and then later the module is
removed. Modules may share systems, so the system is allocated when
it is created and freed when the modules are unloaded and all the
events under the system are removed (nr_events set to zero).

The problem arises when a task opened the "filter" file for the
system. If the module is unloaded and it removed the last event for
that system, the system structure is freed. If the task that opened
the filter file accesses the "filter" file after the system has
been freed, the system will access an invalid pointer.

By adding a ref_count, and using it to keep track of what
is using the event system, we can free it after all users
are finished with the event system.

Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-07-07 11:19:18 -04:00
Masami Hiramatsu 1fd8df2c39 tracing/kprobes: Fix kprobe-tracer to support stack trace
Fix to support kernel stack trace correctly on kprobe-tracer.
Since the execution path of kprobe-based dynamic events is different
from other tracepoint-based events, normal ftrace_trace_stack() doesn't
work correctly. To fix that, this introduces ftrace_trace_stack_regs()
which traces stack via pt_regs instead of current stack register.

e.g.

 # echo p schedule+4 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/kprobe_events
 # echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/options/stacktrace
 # echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/kprobes/enable
 # head -n 20 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace
            bash-2968  [000] 10297.050245: p_schedule_4: (schedule+0x4/0x4ca)
            bash-2968  [000] 10297.050247: <stack trace>
 => schedule_timeout
 => n_tty_read
 => tty_read
 => vfs_read
 => sys_read
 => system_call_fastpath
     kworker/0:1-2940  [000] 10297.050265: p_schedule_4: (schedule+0x4/0x4ca)
     kworker/0:1-2940  [000] 10297.050266: <stack trace>
 => worker_thread
 => kthread
 => kernel_thread_helper
            sshd-1132  [000] 10297.050365: p_schedule_4: (schedule+0x4/0x4ca)
            sshd-1132  [000] 10297.050365: <stack trace>
 => sysret_careful

Note: Even with this fix, the first entry will be skipped
if the probe is put on the function entry area before
the frame pointer is set up (usually, that is 4 bytes
 (push %bp; mov %sp %bp) on x86), because stack unwinder
depends on the frame pointer.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: yrl.pp-manager.tt@hitachi.com
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110608070934.17777.17116.stgit@fedora15
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-06-14 22:48:53 -04:00
Steven Rostedt cf30cf67d6 tracing: Add disable_on_free option
Add a trace option to disable tracing on free. When this option is
set, a write into the free_buffer file will not only shrink the
ring buffer down to zero, but it will also disable tracing.

Cc: Vaibhav Nagarnaik <vnagarnaik@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-06-14 22:48:45 -04:00
Steven Rostedt b1cff0ad10 ftrace: Add internal recursive checks
Witold reported a reboot caused by the selftests of the dynamic function
tracer. He sent me a config and I used ktest to do a config_bisect on it
(as my config did not cause the crash). It pointed out that the problem
config was CONFIG_PROVE_RCU.

What happened was that if multiple callbacks are attached to the
function tracer, we iterate a list of callbacks. Because the list is
managed by synchronize_sched() and preempt_disable, the access to the
pointers uses rcu_dereference_raw().

When PROVE_RCU is enabled, the rcu_dereference_raw() calls some
debugging functions, which happen to be traced. The tracing of the debug
function would then call rcu_dereference_raw() which would then call the
debug function and then... well you get the idea.

I first wrote two different patches to solve this bug.

1) add a __rcu_dereference_raw() that would not do any checks.
2) add notrace to the offending debug functions.

Both of these patches worked.

Talking with Paul McKenney on IRC, he suggested to add recursion
detection instead. This seemed to be a better solution, so I decided to
implement it. As the task_struct already has a trace_recursion to detect
recursion in the ring buffer, and that has a very small number it
allows, I decided to use that same variable to add flags that can detect
the recursion inside the infrastructure of the function tracer.

I plan to change it so that the task struct bit can be checked in
mcount, but as that requires changes to all archs, I will hold that off
to the next merge window.

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1306348063.1465.116.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com
Reported-by: Witold Baryluk <baryluk@smp.if.uj.edu.pl>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-05-25 22:13:49 -04:00
Steven Rostedt 95950c2ecb ftrace: Add self-tests for multiple function trace users
Add some basic sanity tests for multiple users of the function
tracer at startup.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-05-18 19:24:51 -04:00
Steven Rostedt 9a24470b28 tracing: Align 4 byte ints together in struct tracer
Move elements in struct tracer for better alignment.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-03-10 10:34:54 -05:00
David Sharp 750912fa36 tracing: Add an 'overwrite' trace_option.
Add an "overwrite" trace_option for ftrace to control whether the buffer should
be overwritten on overflow or not. The default remains to overwrite old events
when the buffer is full. This patch adds the option to instead discard newest
events when the buffer is full. This is useful to get a snapshot of traces just
after enabling traces. Dropping the current event is also a simpler code path.

Signed-off-by: David Sharp <dhsharp@google.com>
LKML-Reference: <1291844807-15481-1-git-send-email-dhsharp@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-03-09 13:52:27 -05:00
Steven Rostedt bf93f9ed3a tracing/filter: Increase the max preds to 2^14
Now that the filter logic does not require to save the pred results
on the stack, we can increase the max number of preds we allow.
As the preds are index by a short value, and we use the MSBs as flags
we can increase the max preds to 2^14 (16384) which should be way
more than enough.

Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-02-07 20:56:20 -05:00
Steven Rostedt 4a3d27e98a tracing/filter: Move MAX_FILTER_PRED to local tracing directory
The MAX_FILTER_PRED is only needed by the kernel/trace/*.c files.
Move it to kernel/trace/trace.h.

Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-02-07 20:56:20 -05:00
Steven Rostedt 43cd414552 tracing/filter: Optimize filter by folding the tree
There are many cases that a filter will contain multiple ORs or
ANDs together near the leafs. Walking up and down the tree to get
to the next compare can be a waste.

If there are several ORs or ANDs together, fold them into a single
pred and allocate an array of the conditions that they check.
This will speed up the filter by linearly walking an array
and can still break out if a short circuit condition is met.

Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-02-07 20:56:19 -05:00
Steven Rostedt 61e9dea20e tracing/filter: Use a tree instead of stack for filter_match_preds()
Currently the filter_match_preds() requires a stack to push
and pop the preds to determine if the filter matches the record or not.
This has two drawbacks:

1) It requires a stack to store state information. As this is done
   in fast paths we can't allocate the storage for this stack, and
   we can't use a global as it must be re-entrant. The stack is stored
   on the kernel stack and this greatly limits how many preds we
   may allow.

2) All conditions are calculated even when a short circuit exists.
   a || b  will always calculate a and b even though a was determined
   to be true.

Using a tree we can walk a constant structure that will save
the state as we go. The algorithm is simply:

  pred = root;
  do {
	switch (move) {
	case MOVE_DOWN:
		if (OR or AND) {
			pred = left;
			continue;
		}
		if (pred == root)
			break;
		match = pred->fn();
		pred = pred->parent;
		move = left child ? MOVE_UP_FROM_LEFT : MOVE_UP_FROM_RIGHT;
		continue;

	case MOVE_UP_FROM_LEFT:
		/* Only OR or AND can be a parent */
		if (match && OR || !match && AND) {
			/* short circuit */
			if (pred == root)
				break;
			pred = pred->parent;
			move = left child ?
				MOVE_UP_FROM_LEFT :
				MOVE_UP_FROM_RIGHT;
			continue;
		}
		pred = pred->right;
		move = MOVE_DOWN;
		continue;

	case MOVE_UP_FROM_RIGHT:
		if (pred == root)
			break;
		pred = pred->parent;
		move = left child ? MOVE_UP_FROM_LEFT : MOVE_UP_FROM_RIGHT;
		continue;
	}
	done = 1;
  } while (!done);

This way there's no strict limit to how many preds we allow
and it also will short circuit the logical operations when possible.

Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-02-07 20:56:19 -05:00
Steven Rostedt 74e9e58c35 tracing/filter: Allocate the preds in an array
Currently we allocate an array of pointers to filter_preds, and then
allocate a separate filter_pred for each item in the array.
This adds slight overhead in the filters as it needs to derefernce
twice to get to the op condition.

Allocating the preds themselves in a single array removes a dereference
as well as helps on the cache footprint.

Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-02-07 20:56:18 -05:00
Steven Rostedt c9c53ca03d tracing/filter: Dynamically allocate preds
For every filter that is made, we create predicates to hold every
operation within the filter. We have a max of 32 predicates that we
can hold. Currently, we allocate all 32 even if we only need to
use one.

Part of the reason we do this is that the filter can be used at
any moment by any event. Fortunately, the filter is only used
with preemption disabled. By reseting the count of preds used "n_preds"
to zero, then performing a synchronize_sched(), we can safely
free and reallocate a new array of preds.

Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-02-07 20:56:18 -05:00
Steven Rostedt 58d9a597c4 tracing/filter: Move OR and AND logic out of fn() method
The ops OR and AND act different from the other ops, as they
are the only ones to take other ops as their arguements.
These ops als change the logic of the filter_match_preds.

By removing the OR and AND fn's we can also remove the val1 and val2
that is passed to all other fn's and are unused.

Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-02-07 20:56:18 -05:00
Jiri Olsa 0a772620a2 tracing: Make graph related irqs/preemptsoff functions global
Move trace_graph_function() and print_graph_headers_flags() functions
to the trace_function_graph.c to be globaly available.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1285243253-7372-3-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-10-18 10:53:28 -04:00
Linus Torvalds 4aed2fd8e3 Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (162 commits)
  tracing/kprobes: unregister_trace_probe needs to be called under mutex
  perf: expose event__process function
  perf events: Fix mmap offset determination
  perf, powerpc: fsl_emb: Restore setting perf_sample_data.period
  perf, powerpc: Convert the FSL driver to use local64_t
  perf tools: Don't keep unreferenced maps when unmaps are detected
  perf session: Invalidate last_match when removing threads from rb_tree
  perf session: Free the ref_reloc_sym memory at the right place
  x86,mmiotrace: Add support for tracing STOS instruction
  perf, sched migration: Librarize task states and event headers helpers
  perf, sched migration: Librarize the GUI class
  perf, sched migration: Make the GUI class client agnostic
  perf, sched migration: Make it vertically scrollable
  perf, sched migration: Parameterize cpu height and spacing
  perf, sched migration: Fix key bindings
  perf, sched migration: Ignore unhandled task states
  perf, sched migration: Handle ignored migrate out events
  perf: New migration tool overview
  tracing: Drop cpparg() macro
  perf: Use tracepoint_synchronize_unregister() to flush any pending tracepoint call
  ...

Fix up trivial conflicts in Makefile and drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
2010-08-06 09:30:52 -07:00
Jason Wessel 955b61e597 ftrace,kdb: Extend kdb to be able to dump the ftrace buffer
Add in a helper function to allow the kdb shell to dump the ftrace
buffer.

Modify trace.c to expose the capability to iterate over the ftrace
buffer in a read only capacity.

Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
CC: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2010-08-05 09:22:23 -05:00
Ingo Molnar 3a01736e70 Merge branch 'tip/perf/core' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into perf/core 2010-07-23 09:10:29 +02:00
KOSAKI Motohiro ef710e100c tracing: Shrink max latency ringbuffer if unnecessary
Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt says

  buffer_size_kb:

        This sets or displays the number of kilobytes each CPU
        buffer can hold. The tracer buffers are the same size
        for each CPU. The displayed number is the size of the
        CPU buffer and not total size of all buffers. The
        trace buffers are allocated in pages (blocks of memory
        that the kernel uses for allocation, usually 4 KB in size).
        If the last page allocated has room for more bytes
        than requested, the rest of the page will be used,
        making the actual allocation bigger than requested.
        ( Note, the size may not be a multiple of the page size
          due to buffer management overhead. )

        This can only be updated when the current_tracer
        is set to "nop".

But it's incorrect. currently total memory consumption is
'buffer_size_kb x CPUs x 2'.

Why two times difference is there? because ftrace implicitly allocate
the buffer for max latency too.

That makes sad result when admin want to use large buffer. (If admin
want full logging and makes detail analysis). example, If admin
have 24 CPUs machine and write 200MB to buffer_size_kb, the system
consume ~10GB memory (200MB x 24 x 2). umm.. 5GB memory waste is
usually unacceptable.

Fortunatelly, almost all users don't use max latency feature.
The max latency buffer can be disabled easily.

This patch shrink buffer size of the max latency buffer if
unnecessary.

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100701104554.DA2D.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-07-21 10:20:17 -04:00
Li Zefan e870e9a124 tracing: Allow to disable cmdline recording
We found that even enabling a single trace event that will rarely be
triggered can add big overhead to context switch.

(lmbench context switch test)
 -------------------------------------------------
 2p/0K 2p/16K 2p/64K 8p/16K 8p/64K 16p/16K 16p/64K
 ctxsw  ctxsw  ctxsw ctxsw  ctxsw   ctxsw   ctxsw
------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------- -------
  2.19   2.3   2.21   2.56   2.13     2.54    2.07
  2.39   2.51  2.35   2.75   2.27     2.81    2.24

The overhead is 6% ~ 11%.

It's because when a trace event is enabled 3 tracepoints (sched_switch,
sched_wakeup, sched_wakeup_new) will be activated to map pid to cmdname.

We'd like to avoid this overhead, so add a trace option '(no)record-cmd'
to allow to disable cmdline recording.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4C2D57F4.2050204@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-07-20 21:52:33 -04:00
Frederic Weisbecker eb7beb5c09 tracing: Remove special traces
Special traces type was only used by sysprof. Lets remove it now
that sysprof ftrace plugin has been dropped.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Soeren Sandmann <sandmann@daimi.au.dk>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
2010-07-20 14:31:07 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker f376bf5ffb tracing: Remove sysprof ftrace plugin
The sysprof ftrace plugin doesn't seem to be seriously used
somewhere. There is a branch in the sysprof tree that makes
an interface to it, but the real sysprof tool uses either its
own module or perf events.

Drop the sysprof ftrace plugin then, as it's mostly useless.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Soeren Sandmann <sandmann@daimi.au.dk>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
2010-07-20 14:29:46 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker 5d550467b9 tracing: Remove ksym tracer
The ksym (breakpoint) ftrace plugin has been superseded by perf
tools that are much more poweful to use the cpu breakpoints.
This tracer doesn't bring more feature. It has been deprecated
for a while now, lets remove it.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-07-15 23:59:33 +02:00
Li Zefan 8728fe501e tracing: Don't allocate common fields for every trace events
Every event has the same common fields, so it's a big waste of
memory to have a copy of those fields for every event.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4BFA3759.30105@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-06-28 17:12:46 -04:00
Ingo Molnar c726b61c6a Merge branch 'perf/core' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/random-tracing into perf/core 2010-06-09 18:55:57 +02:00
Li Zefan 039ca4e74a tracing: Remove kmemtrace ftrace plugin
We have been resisting new ftrace plugins and removing existing
ones, and kmemtrace has been superseded by kmem trace events
and perf-kmem, so we remove it.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Acked-by: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
[ remove kmemtrace from the makefile, handle slob too ]
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2010-06-09 17:31:22 +02:00
Américo Wang 30dbb20e68 tracing: Remove boot tracer
The boot tracer is useless. It simply logs the initcalls
but in fact these initcalls are also logged through printk
while using the initcall_debug kernel parameter.

Nobody seem to be using it so far. Then just remove it.

Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Cc: Chase Douglas <chase.douglas@canonical.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100526105753.GA5677@cr0.nay.redhat.com>
[ remove the hooks in main.c, and the headers ]
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2010-06-08 23:31:28 +02:00
Steven Rostedt 5168ae50a6 tracing: Remove ftrace_preempt_disable/enable
The ftrace_preempt_disable/enable functions were to address a
recursive race caused by the function tracer. The function tracer
traces all functions which makes it easily susceptible to recursion.
One area was preempt_enable(). This would call the scheduler and
the schedulre would call the function tracer and loop.
(So was it thought).

The ftrace_preempt_disable/enable was made to protect against recursion
inside the scheduler by storing the NEED_RESCHED flag. If it was
set before the ftrace_preempt_disable() it would not call schedule
on ftrace_preempt_enable(), thinking that if it was set before then
it would have already scheduled unless it was already in the scheduler.

This worked fine except in the case of SMP, where another task would set
the NEED_RESCHED flag for a task on another CPU, and then kick off an
IPI to trigger it. This could cause the NEED_RESCHED to be saved at
ftrace_preempt_disable() but the IPI to arrive in the the preempt
disabled section. The ftrace_preempt_enable() would not call the scheduler
because the flag was already set before entring the section.

This bug would cause a missed preemption check and cause lower latencies.

Investigating further, I found that the recusion caused by the function
tracer was not due to schedule(), but due to preempt_schedule(). Now
that preempt_schedule is completely annotated with notrace, the recusion
no longer is an issue.

Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-06-03 19:32:38 -04:00
Steven Rostedt f0218b3e99 Merge branch 'perf/core' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip into trace/tip/tracing/core-6
Conflicts:
	include/trace/ftrace.h
	kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c

Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-05-18 00:35:23 -04:00
Li Zefan e1f7992e01 tracing: Fix function declarations if !CONFIG_STACKTRACE
ftrace_trace_stack() and frace_trace_userstacke() take a
struct ring_buffer argument, not struct trace_array. Commit
e77405ad("tracing: pass around ring buffer instead of tracer")
made this change.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4BE77C14.5010806@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-05-14 14:33:24 -04:00
Steven Rostedt 553552ce17 tracing: Combine event filter_active and enable into single flags field
The filter_active and enable both use an int (4 bytes each) to
set a single flag. We can save 4 bytes per event by combining the
two into a single integer.

   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
4913961	1088356	 861512	6863829	 68bbd5	vmlinux.orig
4894944	1018052	 861512	6774508	 675eec	vmlinux.id
4894871	1012292	 861512	6768675	 674823	vmlinux.flags

This gives us another 5K in savings.

The modification of both the enable and filter fields are done
under the event_mutex, so it is still safe to combine the two.

Note: Although Mathieu gave his Acked-by, he would like it documented
 that the reads of flags are not protected by the mutex. The way the
 code works, these reads will not break anything, but will have a
 residual effect. Since this behavior is the same even before this
 patch, describing this situation is left to another patch, as this
 patch does not change the behavior, but just brought it to Mathieu's
 attention.

v2: Updated the event trace self test to for this change.

Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-05-14 14:33:22 -04:00
Steven Rostedt 2e33af0295 tracing: Move fields from event to class structure
Move the defined fields from the event to the class structure.
Since the fields of the event are defined by the class they belong
to, it makes sense to have the class hold the information instead
of the individual events. The events of the same class would just
hold duplicate information.

After this change the size of the kernel dropped another 3K:

   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
4913961	1088356	 861512	6863829	 68bbd5	vmlinux.orig
4900252	1057412	 861512	6819176	 680d68	vmlinux.regs
4900375	1053380	 861512	6815267	 67fe23	vmlinux.fields

Although the text increased, this was mainly due to the C files
having to adapt to the change. This is a constant increase, where
new tracepoints will not increase the Text. But the big drop is
in the data size (as well as needed allocations to hold the fields).
This will give even more savings as more tracepoints are created.

Note, if just TRACE_EVENT()s are used and not DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS()
with several DEFINE_EVENT()s, then the savings will be lost. But
we are pushing developers to consolidate events with DEFINE_EVENT()
so this should not be an issue.

The kprobes define a unique class to every new event, but are dynamic
so it should not be a issue.

The syscalls however have a single class but the fields for the individual
events are different. The syscalls use a metadata to define the
fields. I moved the fields list from the event to the metadata and
added a "get_fields()" function to the class. This function is used
to find the fields. For normal events and kprobes, get_fields() just
returns a pointer to the fields list_head in the class. For syscall
events, it returns the fields list_head in the metadata for the event.

v2:  Fixed the syscall fields. The syscall metadata needs a list
     of fields for both enter and exit.

Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-05-14 14:20:23 -04:00