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2009-12-11Merge branch 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: itimer: Fix the itimer trace print format hrtimer: move timer stats helper functions to hrtimer.c hrtimer: Tune hrtimer_interrupt hang logic
2009-12-10Merge branch 'for_linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4 * 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (47 commits) ext4: Fix potential fiemap deadlock (mmap_sem vs. i_data_sem) ext4: Do not override ext2 or ext3 if built they are built as modules jbd2: Export jbd2_log_start_commit to fix ext4 build ext4: Fix insufficient checks in EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT ext4: Wait for proper transaction commit on fsync ext4: fix incorrect block reservation on quota transfer. ext4: quota macros cleanup ext4: ext4_get_reserved_space() must return bytes instead of blocks ext4: remove blocks from inode prealloc list on failure ext4: wait for log to commit when umounting ext4: Avoid data / filesystem corruption when write fails to copy data ext4: Use ext4 file system driver for ext2/ext3 file system mounts ext4: Return the PTR_ERR of the correct pointer in setup_new_group_blocks() jbd2: Add ENOMEM checking in and for jbd2_journal_write_metadata_buffer() ext4: remove unused parameter wbc from __ext4_journalled_writepage() ext4: remove encountered_congestion trace ext4: move_extent_per_page() cleanup ext4: initialize moved_len before calling ext4_move_extents() ext4: Fix double-free of blocks with EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT ext4: use ext4_data_block_valid() in ext4_free_blocks() ...
2009-12-10itimer: Fix the itimer trace print formatThomas Gleixner
Compiling powerpc64 results in: include/trace/events/timer.h:279: warning: format '%lu' expects type 'long unsigned int', but argument 4 has type 'cputime_t' .... cputime_t on power is u64, which triggers the above warning. Cast the cputime_t to unsigned long long and fix the print format string. That works on both 32 and 64 bit architectures. While at it change the print format for long variables from %lu to %ld. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
2009-12-05Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
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: (470 commits) x86: Fix comments of register/stack access functions perf tools: Replace %m with %a in sscanf hw-breakpoints: Keep track of user disabled breakpoints tracing/syscalls: Make syscall events print callbacks static tracing: Add DEFINE_EVENT(), DEFINE_SINGLE_EVENT() support to docbook perf: Don't free perf_mmap_data until work has been done perf_event: Fix compile error perf tools: Fix _GNU_SOURCE macro related strndup() build error trace_syscalls: Remove unused syscall_name_to_nr() trace_syscalls: Simplify syscall profile trace_syscalls: Remove duplicate init_enter_##sname() trace_syscalls: Add syscall_nr field to struct syscall_metadata trace_syscalls: Remove enter_id exit_id trace_syscalls: Set event_enter_##sname->data to its metadata trace_syscalls: Remove unused event_syscall_enter and event_syscall_exit perf_event: Initialize data.period in perf_swevent_hrtimer() perf probe: Simplify event naming perf probe: Add --list option for listing current probe events perf probe: Add argv_split() from lib/argv_split.c perf probe: Move probe event utility functions to probe-event.c ...
2009-12-03Merge branch 'perf/mce' into perf/coreIngo Molnar
Merge reason: It's ready for v2.6.33. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-26tracepoint: Add signal loss eventsMasami Hiramatsu
Add signal_overflow_fail and signal_lose_info tracepoints for signal-lost events. Changes in v3: - Add docbook style comments Changes in v2: - Use siginfo string macro Suggested-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: systemtap <systemtap@sources.redhat.com> Cc: DLE <dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <20091124215658.30449.9934.stgit@dhcp-100-2-132.bos.redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-26tracepoint: Add signal deliver eventMasami Hiramatsu
Add a tracepoint where a process gets a signal. This tracepoint shows signal-number, sa-handler and sa-flag. Changes in v3: - Add docbook style comments Changes in v2: - Add siginfo argument - Fix comment Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: systemtap <systemtap@sources.redhat.com> Cc: DLE <dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <20091124215651.30449.20926.stgit@dhcp-100-2-132.bos.redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-26tracepoint: Move signal sending tracepoint to events/signal.hMasami Hiramatsu
Move signal sending event to events/signal.h. This patch also renames sched_signal_send event to signal_generate. Changes in v4: - Fix a typo of task_struct pointer. Changes in v3: - Add docbook style comments Changes in v2: - Add siginfo argument - Add siginfo storing macro Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: systemtap <systemtap@sources.redhat.com> Cc: DLE <dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <20091124215645.30449.60208.stgit@dhcp-100-2-132.bos.redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-26tracing: Restore original format of sched eventsLi Zefan
The original format for sched_stat_iowait and sched_stat_sleep: $ cat events/sched/sched_stat_iowait/format ... print fmt: "comm=%s pid=%d delay=%Lu [ns]", ... $ cat events/sched/sched_stat_sleep/format ... print fmt: "comm=%s pid=%d delay=%Lu [ns]", ... But commit commit 75ec29ab848a7e92a41aaafaeb33d1afbc839be4 ("tracing: Convert some sched trace events to DEFINE_EVENT and _PRINT") broke the format: $ cat events/sched/sched_stat_iowait/format print fmt: "task: %s:%d iowait: %Lu [ns]", ... $ cat events/sched/sched_stat_sleep/format print fmt: "task: %s:%d sleep: %Lu [ns]", ... No change in functionality. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <4B0E2951.9050800@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-26tracing: Convert some ext4 events to DEFINE_TRACELi Zefan
Use DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS to remove duplicate code: text data bss dec hex filename 294695 6104 340 301139 49853 fs/ext4/ext4.o.old 289983 6104 324 296411 485db fs/ext4/ext4.o 5 events are convertd: ext4__write_begin: ext4_write_begin, ext4_da_write_begin ext4__write_end: ext4_{ordered, writeback, journalled}_write_end No change in functionality. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <4B0E2938.2040708@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-26tracing: Convert some jbd2 events to DEFINE_EVENTLi Zefan
Use DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS to remove duplicate code: text data bss dec hex filename 34903 1693 448 37044 90b4 fs/jbd2/journal.o.old 31931 1693 416 34040 84f8 fs/jbd2/journal.o Four events are converted: jbd2_commit: jbd2_start_commit, jbd2_commit_{locking, flushing, logging} No change in functionality. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <4B0E290F.7030909@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-26tracing: Convert some block events to DEFINE_EVENTLi Zefan
use DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS to remove duplicate code: text data bss dec hex filename 53570 3284 184 57038 dece block/blk-core.o.old 43702 3284 144 47130 b81a block/blk-core.o 12 events are converted: block_rq: block_rq_insert, block_rq_issue block_rq_with_error: block_rq_{abort, requeue, complete} block_bio: block_bio_{backmerge, frontmerge, queue} block_get_rq: block_getrq, block_sleeprq block_unplug: block_unplug_timer, block_unplug_io No change in functionality. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <4B0E28E6.7060609@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-26tracing: Convert some power events to DEFINE_EVENTLi Zefan
Use DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS to remove duplicate code: text data bss dec hex filename 4312 524 12 4848 12f0 kernel/trace/power-traces.o.old 3455 524 8 3987 f93 kernel/trace/power-traces.o Two events are converted: power: power_start, power_frequency No change in functionality. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> LKML-Reference: <4B0E28C2.1090906@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-26tracing: Convert some workqueue events to DEFINE_EVENTLi Zefan
Use DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS to remove duplicate code: text data bss dec hex filename 13171 800 72 14043 36db kernel/workqueue.o.old 12243 800 68 13111 3337 kernel/workqueue.o Two events are converted: workqueue: workqueue_insertion, workqueue_execution No change in functionality. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <4B0E289F.5010104@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-26tracing: Convert softirq events to DEFINE_EVENTLi Zefan
Use DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS to remove duplicate code: text data bss dec hex filename 12781 952 36 13769 35c9 kernel/softirq.o.old 11981 952 32 12965 32a5 kernel/softirq.o Two events are converted: softirq: softirq_entry, softirq_exit No change in functionality. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <4B0E287F.4030708@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-26tracing: Convert some kmem events to DEFINE_EVENTLi Zefan
Use DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS to remove duplicate code: text data bss dec hex filename 333987 69800 27228 431015 693a7 mm/built-in.o.old 330030 69800 27228 427058 68432 mm/built-in.o 8 events are converted: kmem_alloc: kmalloc, kmem_cache_alloc kmem_alloc_node: kmalloc_node, kmem_cache_alloc_node kmem_free: kfree, kmem_cache_free mm_page: mm_page_alloc_zone_locked, mm_page_pcpu_drain No change in functionality. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> LKML-Reference: <4B0E286A.2000405@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-26tracing: Convert module refcnt events to DEFINE_EVENTLi Zefan
Use DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS to remove duplicate code: text data bss dec hex filename 29854 1980 128 31962 7cda kernel/module.o.old 28750 1980 128 30858 788a kernel/module.o Two events are converted: module_refcnt: module_get, module_put No change in functionality. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <4B0E283B.3010508@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-26events: Rename TRACE_EVENT_TEMPLATE() to DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS()Ingo Molnar
It is not quite obvious at first sight what TRACE_EVENT_TEMPLATE does: does it define an event as well beyond defining a template? To clarify this, rename it to DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS, which follows the various 'DECLARE_*()' idioms we already have in the kernel: DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS(class) DEFINE_EVENT(class, event1) DEFINE_EVENT(class, event2) DEFINE_EVENT(class, event3) To complete this logic we should also rename TRACE_EVENT() to: DEFINE_SINGLE_EVENT(single_event) ... but in a more quiet moment of the kernel cycle. Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <4B0E286A.2000405@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-25tracing: Separate raw syscall from syscall tracerLai Jiangshan
The current syscall tracer mixes raw syscalls and real syscalls. echo 1 > events/syscalls/enable And we get these from the output: (XXXX insteads " grep-20914 [001] 588211.446347" .. etc) XXXX: sys_read(fd: 3, buf: 80609a8, count: 7000) XXXX: sys_enter: NR 3 (3, 80609a8, 7000, a, 1000, bfce8ef8) XXXX: sys_read -> 0x138 XXXX: sys_exit: NR 3 = 312 XXXX: sys_read(fd: 3, buf: 8060ae0, count: 7000) XXXX: sys_enter: NR 3 (3, 8060ae0, 7000, a, 1000, bfce8ef8) XXXX: sys_read -> 0x138 XXXX: sys_exit: NR 3 = 312 There are 2 drawbacks here. A) two almost identical records are saved in ringbuffer when a syscall enters or exits. (4 records for every syscall) This wastes precious space in the ring buffer. B) the lines including "sys_enter/sys_exit" produces hardly any useful information for the output (no labels). The user can use this method to prevent these drawbacks: echo 1 > events/syscalls/enable echo 0 > events/syscalls/sys_enter/enable echo 0 > events/syscalls/sys_exit/enable But this is not user friendly. So we separate raw syscall from syscall tracer. After this fix applied: syscall tracer's output (echo 1 > events/syscalls/enable): XXXX: sys_read(fd: 3, buf: bfe87d88, count: 200) XXXX: sys_read -> 0x200 XXXX: sys_fstat64(fd: 3, statbuf: bfe87c98) XXXX: sys_fstat64 -> 0x0 XXXX: sys_close(fd: 3) raw syscall tracer's output (echo 1 > events/raw_syscalls/enable): XXXX: sys_enter: NR 175 (0, bf92bf18, bf92bf98, 8, b748cff4, bf92bef8) XXXX: sys_exit: NR 175 = 0 XXXX: sys_enter: NR 175 (2, bf92bf98, 0, 8, b748cff4, bf92bef8) XXXX: sys_exit: NR 175 = 0 XXXX: sys_enter: NR 3 (9, bf927f9c, 4000, b77e2518, b77dce60, bf92bff8) Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> LKML-Reference: <4AEFC37C.5080609@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-11-24tracing: Convert some sched trace events to DEFINE_EVENT and _PRINTSteven Rostedt
Converting some of the scheduler trace events to use the TRACE_EVENT_TEMPLATE, DEFINE_EVENT and DEFINE_EVENT_PRINT helped to save some space: $ size kernel/sched.o-* text data bss dec hex filename 79299 6776 2520 88595 15a13 kernel/sched.o-notrace 101941 11896 2584 116421 1c6c5 kernel/sched.o-templ 104779 11896 2584 119259 1d1db kernel/sched.o-trace sched.o-notrace is without any tracepoints compiled sched.o-templ is with this patch sched.o-trace is the tracepoints before this patch The trace events converted to DEFINE_EVENT: sched_wakeup, sched_wakeup_new, sched_process_free, sched_process_exit, and sched_stat_wait. The trace events converted to DEFINE_EVENT_PRINT: sched_stat_sleep and sched_stat_iowait. Note, since the TRACE_EVENT_TEMPLATE always uses a print, the sched_stat_wait print format is defined in the template and this template is used by sched_stat_sleep and sched_stat_iowait. But the later two override the print format. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-11-24ext4: remove encountered_congestion traceWu Fengguang
It is no longer set and scheduled to be removed. Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-11-22ext4: print i_mode in octal in ext4 tracepointsTheodore Ts'o
Inode permissions are much easier to understand if they are printed in octal. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-11-23ext4: call ext4_forget() from ext4_free_blocks()Theodore Ts'o
Add the facility for ext4_forget() to be called from ext4_free_blocks(). This simplifies the code in a large number of places, and centralizes most of the work of calling ext4_forget() into a single place. Also fix a bug in the extents migration code; it wasn't calling ext4_forget() when releasing the indirect blocks during the conversion. As a result, if the system cashed during or shortly after the extents migration, and the released indirect blocks get reused as data blocks, the journal replay would corrupt the data blocks. With this new patch, fixing this bug was as simple as adding the EXT4_FREE_BLOCKS_FORGET flags to the call to ext4_free_blocks(). Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2009-11-23ext4: add tracepoint for ext4_forget()Theodore Ts'o
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-11-13tracing: Rename 'lockdep' event subsystem into 'lock'Frederic Weisbecker
Lockdep events subsystem gathers various locking related events such as a request, release, contention or acquisition of a lock. The name of this event subsystem is a bit of a misnomer since these events are not quite related to lockdep but more generally to locking, ie: these events are not reporting lock dependencies or possible deadlock scenario but pure locking events. Hence this rename. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> LKML-Reference: <1258103194-843-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-29Merge branch 'tracing/urgent' into tracing/coreIngo Molnar
Merge reason: Pick up fixes and move base from -rc1 to -rc5. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-15events: Harmonize event field names and print output namesIngo Molnar
Now that we can filter based on fields via perf record, people will start using filter expressions and will expect them to be obvious. The primary way to see which fields are available is by looking at the trace output, such as: gcc-18676 [000] 343.011728: irq_handler_entry: irq=0 handler=timer cc1-18677 [000] 343.012727: irq_handler_entry: irq=0 handler=timer cc1-18677 [000] 343.032692: irq_handler_entry: irq=0 handler=timer cc1-18677 [000] 343.033690: irq_handler_entry: irq=0 handler=timer cc1-18677 [000] 343.034687: irq_handler_entry: irq=0 handler=timer cc1-18677 [000] 343.035686: irq_handler_entry: irq=0 handler=timer cc1-18677 [000] 343.036684: irq_handler_entry: irq=0 handler=timer While 'irq==0' filters work, the 'handler==<x>' filter expression does not work: $ perf record -R -f -a -e irq:irq_handler_entry --filter handler=timer sleep 1 Error: failed to set filter with 22 (Invalid argument) The problem is that while an 'irq' field exists and is recognized as a filter field - 'handler' does not exist - its name is 'name' in the output. To solve this, we need to synchronize the printout and the field names, wherever possible. In cases where the printout prints a non-field, we enclose that information in square brackets, such as: perf-1380 [013] 724.903505: softirq_exit: vec=9 [action=RCU] perf-1380 [013] 724.904482: softirq_exit: vec=1 [action=TIMER] This way users can use filter expressions more intuitively: all fields that show up as 'primary' (non-bracketed) information is filterable. This patch harmonizes the field names for all irq, bkl, power, sched and timer events. We might in fact think about dropping the print format bit of generic tracepoints altogether, and just print the fields that are being recorded. Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-15Merge branch 'tracing/core' into perf/coreIngo Molnar
Merge reason: to add event filter support we need the following commits from the tracing tree: 3f6fe06: tracing/filters: Unify the regex parsing helpers 1889d20: tracing/filters: Provide basic regex support 737f453: tracing/filters: Cleanup useless headers Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-13perf_event, x86, mce: Use TRACE_EVENT() for MCE loggingHidetoshi Seto
This approach is the first baby step towards solving many of the structural problems the x86 MCE logging code is having today: - It has a private ring-buffer implementation that has a number of limitations and has been historically fragile and buggy. - It is using a quirky /dev/mcelog ioctl driven ABI that is MCE specific. /dev/mcelog is not part of any larger logging framework and hence has remained on the fringes for many years. - The MCE logging code is still very unclean partly due to its ABI limitations. Fields are being reused for multiple purposes, and the whole message structure is limited and x86 specific to begin with. All in one, the x86 tree would like to move away from this private implementation of an event logging facility to a broader framework. By using perf events we gain the following advantages: - Multiple user-space agents can access MCE events. We can have an mcelog daemon running but also a system-wide tracer capturing important events in flight-recorder mode. - Sampling support: the kernel and the user-space call-chain of MCE events can be stored and analyzed as well. This way actual patterns of bad behavior can be matched to precisely what kind of activity happened in the kernel (and/or in the app) around that moment in time. - Coupling with other hardware and software events: the PMU can track a number of other anomalies - monitoring software might chose to monitor those plus the MCE events as well - in one coherent stream of events. - Discovery of MCE sources - tracepoints are enumerated and tools can act upon the existence (or non-existence) of various channels of MCE information. - Filtering support: we just subscribe to and act upon the events we are interested in. Then even on a per event source basis there's in-kernel filter expressions available that can restrict the amount of data that hits the event channel. - Arbitrary deep per cpu buffering of events - we can buffer 32 entries or we can buffer as much as we want, as long as we have the RAM. - An NMI-safe ring-buffer implementation - mappable to user-space. - Built-in support for timestamping of events, PID markers, CPU markers, etc. - A rich ABI accessible over system call interface. Per cpu, per task and per workload monitoring of MCE events can be done this way. The ABI itself has a nice, meaningful structure. - Extensible ABI: new fields can be added without breaking tooling. New tracepoints can be added as the hardware side evolves. There's various parsers that can be used. - Lots of scheduling/buffering/batching modes of operandi for MCE events. poll() support. mmap() support. read() support. You name it. - Rich tooling support: even without any MCE specific extensions added the 'perf' tool today offers various views of MCE data: perf report, perf stat, perf trace can all be used to view logged MCE events and perhaps correlate them to certain user-space usage patterns. But it can be used directly as well, for user-space agents and policy action in mcelog, etc. With this we hope to achieve significant code cleanup and feature improvements in the MCE code, and we hope to be able to drop the /dev/mcelog facility in the end. This patch is just a plain dumb dump of mce_log() records to the tracepoints / perf events framework - a first proof of concept step. Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> LKML-Reference: <4AD42A0D.7050104@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-04Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-blockLinus Torvalds
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (41 commits) Revert "Seperate read and write statistics of in_flight requests" cfq-iosched: don't delay async queue if it hasn't dispatched at all block: Topology ioctls cfq-iosched: use assigned slice sync value, not default cfq-iosched: rename 'desktop' sysfs entry to 'low_latency' cfq-iosched: implement slower async initiate and queue ramp up cfq-iosched: delay async IO dispatch, if sync IO was just done cfq-iosched: add a knob for desktop interactiveness Add a tracepoint for block request remapping block: allow large discard requests block: use normal I/O path for discard requests swapfile: avoid NULL pointer dereference in swapon when s_bdev is NULL fs/bio.c: move EXPORT* macros to line after function Add missing blk_trace_remove_sysfs to be in pair with blk_trace_init_sysfs cciss: fix build when !PROC_FS block: Do not clamp max_hw_sectors for stacking devices block: Set max_sectors correctly for stacking devices cciss: cciss_host_attr_groups should be const cciss: Dynamically allocate the drive_info_struct for each logical drive. cciss: Add usage_count attribute to each logical drive in /sys ...
2009-10-01Add a tracepoint for block request remappingJun'ichi Nomura
Since 2.6.31 now has request-based device-mapper, it's useful to have a tracepoint for request-remapping as well as bio-remapping. This patch adds a tracepoint for request-remapping, trace_block_rq_remap(). Signed-off-by: Kiyoshi Ueda <k-ueda@ct.jp.nec.com> Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com> Cc: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-10-01Merge branch 'tracing/urgent' into tracing/coreIngo Molnar
Merge reason: Pick up latest fixes and update to latest upstream. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-30Merge branch 'for_linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4 * 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: ext4: Fix time encoding with extra epoch bits ext4: Add a stub for mpage_da_data in the trace header jbd2: Use tracepoints for history file ext4: Use tracepoints for mb_history trace file ext4, jbd2: Drop unneeded printks at mount and unmount time ext4: Handle nested ext4_journal_start/stop calls without a journal ext4: Make sure ext4_dirty_inode() updates the inode in no journal mode ext4: Avoid updating the inode table bh twice in no journal mode ext4: EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT: Check for different original and donor inodes first ext4: async direct IO for holes and fallocate support ext4: Use end_io callback to avoid direct I/O fallback to buffered I/O ext4: Split uninitialized extents for direct I/O ext4: release reserved quota when block reservation for delalloc retry ext4: Adjust ext4_da_writepages() to write out larger contiguous chunks ext4: Fix hueristic which avoids group preallocation for closed files ext4: Use ext4_msg() for ext4_da_writepage() errors ext4: Update documentation about quota mount options
2009-09-30ext4: Add a stub for mpage_da_data in the trace headerJosh Stone
The tracepoint ext4_da_write_pages has a struct mpage_da_data* parameter, but that struct is only defined in fs/ext4/ext4.h. This patch adds a forward declaration for that struct, so this tracepoint header can still be used by tools like SystemTap. This is a continuation of the fix in commit 3661d286. http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10703 Signed-off-by: Josh Stone <jistone@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-09-30jbd2: Use tracepoints for history fileTheodore Ts'o
The /proc/fs/jbd2/<dev>/history was maintained manually; by using tracepoints, we can get all of the existing functionality of the /proc file plus extra capabilities thanks to the ftrace infrastructure. We save memory as a bonus. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-09-30ext4: Use tracepoints for mb_history trace fileTheodore Ts'o
The /proc/fs/ext4/<dev>/mb_history was maintained manually, and had a number of problems: it required a largish amount of memory to be allocated for each ext4 filesystem, and the s_mb_history_lock introduced a CPU contention problem. By ripping out the mb_history code and replacing it with ftrace tracepoints, and we get more functionality: timestamps, event filtering, the ability to correlate mballoc history with other ext4 tracepoints, etc. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-09-29ext4: Adjust ext4_da_writepages() to write out larger contiguous chunksTheodore Ts'o
Work around problems in the writeback code to force out writebacks in larger chunks than just 4mb, which is just too small. This also works around limitations in the ext4 block allocator, which can't allocate more than 2048 blocks at a time. So we need to defeat the round-robin characteristics of the writeback code and try to write out as many blocks in one inode before allowing the writeback code to move on to another inode. We add a a new per-filesystem tunable, max_writeback_mb_bump, which caps this to a default of 128mb per inode. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-09-26Merge branch 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: modules, tracing: Remove stale struct marker signature from module_layout() tracing/workqueue: Use %pf in workqueue trace events tracing: Fix a comment and a trivial format issue in tracepoint.h tracing: Fix failure path in ftrace_regex_open() tracing: Fix failure path in ftrace_graph_write() tracing: Check the return value of trace_get_user() tracing: Fix off-by-one in trace_get_user()
2009-09-24tracing/bkl: Add bkl ftrace eventsFrederic Weisbecker
Add two events lock_kernel and unlock_kernel() to trace the bkl uses. This opens the door for userspace tools to perform statistics about the callsites that use it, dependencies with other locks (by pairing the trace with lock events), use with recursivity and so on... The {__reacquire,release}_kernel_lock() events are not traced because these are called from schedule, thus the sched events are sufficient to trace them. Example of a trace: hald-addon-stor-4152 [000] 165.875501: unlock_kernel: depth: 0, fs/block_dev.c:1358 __blkdev_put() hald-addon-stor-4152 [000] 167.832974: lock_kernel: depth: 0, fs/block_dev.c:1167 __blkdev_get() How to get the callsites that acquire it recursively: cd /debug/tracing/events/bkl echo "lock_depth > 0" > filter firefox-4951 [001] 206.276967: unlock_kernel: depth: 1, fs/reiserfs/super.c:575 reiserfs_dirty_inode() You can also filter by file and/or line. v2: Use of FILTER_PTR_STRING attribute for files and lines fields to make them traceable. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
2009-09-23Merge branch 'timers-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'timers-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: itimers: Add tracepoints for itimer hrtimer: Add tracepoint for hrtimers timers: Add tracepoints for timer_list timers cputime: Optimize jiffies_to_cputime(1) itimers: Simplify arm_timer() code a bit itimers: Fix periodic tics precision itimers: Merge ITIMER_VIRT and ITIMER_PROF Trivial header file include conflicts in kernel/fork.c
2009-09-22tracing/workqueue: Use %pf in workqueue trace eventsAnton Blanchard
Using %pf instead of %pF supresses printing of the function offset which will always be 0 in the case of worklet functions. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Zhaolei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> LKML-Reference: <20090922024033.GB31801@kryten> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2009-09-22tracing, page-allocator: add trace event for page traffic related to the ↵Mel Gorman
buddy lists The page allocation trace event reports that a page was successfully allocated but it does not specify where it came from. When analysing performance, it can be important to distinguish between pages coming from the per-cpu allocator and pages coming from the buddy lists as the latter requires the zone lock to the taken and more data structures to be examined. This patch adds a trace event for __rmqueue reporting when a page is being allocated from the buddy lists. It distinguishes between being called to refill the per-cpu lists or whether it is a high-order allocation. Similarly, this patch adds an event to catch when the PCP lists are being drained a little and pages are going back to the buddy lists. This is trickier to draw conclusions from but high activity on those events could explain why there were a large number of cache misses on a page-allocator-intensive workload. The coalescing and splitting of buddies involves a lot of writing of page metadata and cache line bounces not to mention the acquisition of an interrupt-safe lock necessary to enter this path. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Larry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Li Ming Chun <macli@brc.ubc.ca> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22tracing, page-allocator: add trace events for anti-fragmentation falling ↵Mel Gorman
back to other migratetypes Fragmentation avoidance depends on being able to use free pages from lists of the appropriate migrate type. In the event this is not possible, __rmqueue_fallback() selects a different list and in some circumstances change the migratetype of the pageblock. Simplistically, the more times this event occurs, the more likely that fragmentation will be a problem later for hugepage allocation at least but there are other considerations such as the order of page being split to satisfy the allocation. This patch adds a trace event for __rmqueue_fallback() that reports what page is being used for the fallback, the orders of relevant pages, the desired migratetype and the migratetype of the lists being used, whether the pageblock changed type and whether this event is important with respect to fragmentation avoidance or not. This information can be used to help analyse fragmentation avoidance and help decide whether min_free_kbytes should be increased or not. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Larry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Li Ming Chun <macli@brc.ubc.ca> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22tracing, page-allocator: add trace events for page allocation and page freeingMel Gorman
This patch adds trace events for the allocation and freeing of pages, including the freeing of pagevecs. Using the events, it will be known what struct page and pfns are being allocated and freed and what the call site was in many cases. The page alloc tracepoints be used as an indicator as to whether the workload was heavily dependant on the page allocator or not. You can make a guess based on vmstat but you can't get a per-process breakdown. Depending on the call path, the call_site for page allocation may be __get_free_pages() instead of a useful callsite. Instead of passing down a return address similar to slab debugging, the user should enable the stacktrace and seg-addr options to get a proper stack trace. The pagevec free tracepoint has a different usecase. It can be used to get a idea of how many pages are being dumped off the LRU and whether it is kswapd doing the work or a process doing direct reclaim. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Larry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Li Ming Chun <macli@brc.ubc.ca> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-20Merge branch 'perfcounters-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'perfcounters-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (58 commits) perf_counter: Fix perf_copy_attr() pointer arithmetic perf utils: Use a define for the maximum length of a trace event perf: Add timechart help text and add timechart to "perf help" tracing, x86, cpuidle: Move the end point of a C state in the power tracer perf utils: Be consistent about minimum text size in the svghelper perf timechart: Add "perf timechart record" perf: Add the timechart tool perf: Add a SVG helper library file tracing, perf: Convert the power tracer into an event tracer perf: Add a sample_event type to the event_union perf: Allow perf utilities to have "callback" options without arguments perf: Store trace event name/id pairs in perf.data perf: Add a timestamp to fork events sched_clock: Make it NMI safe perf_counter: Fix up swcounter throttling x86, perf_counter, bts: Optimize BTS overflow handling perf sched: Add --input=file option to builtin-sched.c perf trace: Sample timestamp and cpu when using record flag perf tools: Increase MAX_EVENT_LENGTH perf tools: Fix memory leak in read_ftrace_printk() ...
2009-09-19tracing, perf: Convert the power tracer into an event tracerArjan van de Ven
This patch converts the existing power tracer into an event tracer, so that power events (C states and frequency changes) can be tracked via "perf". This also removes the perl script that was used to demo the tracer; its functionality is being replaced entirely with timechart. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <20090912130542.6d314860@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-19Merge branch 'linus' into perfcounters/coreIngo Molnar
Merge reason: Bring in tracing changes we depend on. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-18Merge branch 'for_linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4 * 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (64 commits) ext4: Update documentation about quota mount options ext4: replace MAX_DEFRAG_SIZE with EXT_MAX_BLOCK ext4: Fix the alloc on close after a truncate hueristic ext4: Add a tracepoint for ext4_alloc_da_blocks() ext4: store EXT4_EXT_MIGRATE in i_state instead of i_flags ext4: limit block allocations for indirect-block files to < 2^32 ext4: Fix different block exchange issue in EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT ext4: Add null extent check to ext_get_path ext4: Replace BUG_ON() with ext4_error() in move_extents.c ext4: Replace get_ext_path macro with an inline funciton ext4: Fix include/trace/events/ext4.h to work with Systemtap ext4: Fix initalization of s_flex_groups ext4: Always set dx_node's fake_dirent explicitly. ext4: Fix async commit mode to be safe by using a barrier ext4: Don't update superblock write time when filesystem is read-only ext4: Clarify the locking details in mballoc ext4: check for need init flag in ext4_mb_load_buddy ext4: move ext4_mb_init_group() function earlier in the mballoc.c ext4: Make non-journal fsync work properly ext4: Assure that metadata blocks are written during fsync in no journal mode ...
2009-09-17softirq: add BLOCK_IOPOLL to softirq_to_nameLi Zefan
With BLOCK_IOPOLL_SOFTIRQ added, softirq_to_name[] and show_softirq_name() needs to be updated. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> LKML-Reference: <4AB20398.8070209@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-09-17Merge branch 'linus' into tracing/coreIngo Molnar
Merge reason: Pick up kernel/softirq.c update for dependent fix. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>