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Impact: fix refcounting/object-access bug
Hold mmap_sem while looking up/accessing vma.
Hold the RCU lock while using the task we looked up.
Signed-off-by: Török Edwin <edwintorok@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Impact: cleanup
Signed-off-by: Török Edwin <edwintorok@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Impact: modify+improve the userstacktrace tracing visualization feature
Store thread group leader id, and use it to lookup the address in the
process's map. We could have looked up the address on thread's map,
but the thread might not exist by the time we are called. The process
might not exist either, but if you are reading trace_pipe, that is
unlikely.
Example usage:
mount -t debugfs nodev /sys/kernel/debug
cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing
echo userstacktrace >iter_ctrl
echo sym-userobj >iter_ctrl
echo sched_switch >current_tracer
echo 1 >tracing_enabled
cat trace_pipe >/tmp/trace&
.... run application ...
echo 0 >tracing_enabled
cat /tmp/trace
You'll see stack entries like:
/lib/libpthread-2.7.so[+0xd370]
You can convert them to function/line using:
addr2line -fie /lib/libpthread-2.7.so 0xd370
Or:
addr2line -fie /usr/lib/debug/libpthread-2.7.so 0xd370
For non-PIC/PIE executables this won't work:
a.out[+0x73b]
You need to run the following: addr2line -fie a.out 0x40073b
(where 0x400000 is the default load address of a.out)
Signed-off-by: Török Edwin <edwintorok@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Impact: add new (default-off) tracing visualization feature
Usage example:
mount -t debugfs nodev /sys/kernel/debug
cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing
echo userstacktrace >iter_ctrl
echo sched_switch >current_tracer
echo 1 >tracing_enabled
.... run application ...
echo 0 >tracing_enabled
Then read one of 'trace','latency_trace','trace_pipe'.
To get the best output you can compile your userspace programs with
frame pointers (at least glibc + the app you are tracing).
Signed-off-by: Török Edwin <edwintorok@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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into tracing/core
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Conflicts:
kernel/trace/ftrace.c
[ We conflicted here because we backported a few fixes to
tracing/urgent - which has different internal APIs. ]
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Impact: fix self-test boot crash
Self-test failure forgot to re-lock the BKL - crashing the next
initcall:
Testing tracer irqsoff: .. no entries found ..FAILED!
initcall init_irqsoff_tracer+0x0/0x11 returned 0 after 3906 usecs
calling init_mmio_trace+0x0/0xf @ 1
------------[ cut here ]------------
Kernel BUG at c0c0a915 [verbose debug info unavailable]
invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
last sysfs file:
Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted (2.6.28-rc5-tip #53704)
EIP: 0060:[<c0c0a915>] EFLAGS: 00010286 CPU: 1
EIP is at unlock_kernel+0x10/0x2b
EAX: ffffffff EBX: 00000000 ECX: 00000000 EDX: f7030000
ESI: c12da19c EDI: 00000000 EBP: f7039f54 ESP: f7039f54
DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0000 SS: 0068
Process swapper (pid: 1, ti=f7038000 task=f7030000 task.ti=f7038000)
Stack:
f7039f6c c0164d30 c013fed8 a7d8d7b4 00000000 00000000 f7039f74 c12fb78a
f7039fd0 c0101132 c12fb77d 00000000 6f727200 6f632072 2d206564 c1002031
0000000f f7039fa2 f7039fb0 3531b171 00000000 00000000 0000002f c12ca480
Call Trace:
[<c0164d30>] ? register_tracer+0x66/0x13f
[<c013fed8>] ? ktime_get+0x19/0x1b
[<c12fb78a>] ? init_mmio_trace+0xd/0xf
[<c0101132>] ? do_one_initcall+0x4a/0x111
[<c12fb77d>] ? init_mmio_trace+0x0/0xf
[<c015c7e6>] ? init_irq_proc+0x46/0x59
[<c12e851d>] ? kernel_init+0x104/0x152
[<c12e8419>] ? kernel_init+0x0/0x152
[<c01038b7>] ? kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10
Code: 58 14 43 75 0a b8 00 9b 2d c1 e8 51 43 7a ff 64 a1 00 a0 37 c1 89 58 14 5b 5d c3 55 64 8b 15 00 a0 37 c1 83 7a 14 00 89 e5 79 04 <0f> 0b eb fe 8b 42 14 48 85 c0 89 42 14 79 0a b8 00 9b 2d c1 e8
EIP: [<c0c0a915>] unlock_kernel+0x10/0x2b SS:ESP 0068:f7039f54
---[ end trace a7919e7f17c0a725 ]---
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
So clean up the flow a bit.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Impact: fix preemptoff and preemptirqsoff tracer self-tests
I was wondering why the preemptoff and preemptirqsoff tracer selftests
don't work on s390. After all its just that they get called from
non-preemptible context:
kernel_init() will execute all initcalls, however the first line in
kernel_init() is lock_kernel(), which causes the preempt_count to be
increased. Any later calls to add_preempt_count() (especially those
from the selftests) will therefore not result in a call to
trace_preempt_off() since the check below in add_preempt_count()
will be false:
if (preempt_count() == val)
trace_preempt_off(CALLER_ADDR0, get_parent_ip(CALLER_ADDR1));
Hence the trace buffer will be empty.
Fix this by releasing the BKL during the self-tests.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Impact: fix memory leak
Error handling code following a kzalloc should free the allocated data.
The semantic match that finds the problem is as follows:
(http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/)
// <smpl>
@r exists@
local idexpression x;
statement S;
expression E;
identifier f,l;
position p1,p2;
expression *ptr != NULL;
@@
(
if ((x@p1 = \(kmalloc\|kzalloc\|kcalloc\)(...)) == NULL) S
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x@p1 = \(kmalloc\|kzalloc\|kcalloc\)(...);
...
if (x == NULL) S
)
<... when != x
when != if (...) { <+...x...+> }
x->f = E
...>
(
return \(0\|<+...x...+>\|ptr\);
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return@p2 ...;
)
@script:python@
p1 << r.p1;
p2 << r.p2;
@@
print "* file: %s kmalloc %s return %s" % (p1[0].file,p1[0].line,p2[0].line)
// </smpl>
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Impact: help to find the better depth of trace
We decided to arbitrary define the depth of function return trace as
"20". Perhaps this is not enough. To help finding an optimal depth, we
measure now the overrun: the number of functions that have been missed
for the current thread. By default this is not displayed, we have to
do set a particular flag on the return tracer: echo overrun >
/debug/tracing/trace_options And the overrun will be printed on the
right.
As the trace shows below, the current 20 depth is not enough.
update_wall_time+0x37f/0x8c0 -> update_xtime_cache (345 ns) (Overruns: 2838)
update_wall_time+0x384/0x8c0 -> clocksource_get_next (1141 ns) (Overruns: 2838)
do_timer+0x23/0x100 -> update_wall_time (3882 ns) (Overruns: 2838)
tick_do_update_jiffies64+0xbf/0x160 -> do_timer (5339 ns) (Overruns: 2838)
tick_sched_timer+0x6a/0xf0 -> tick_do_update_jiffies64 (7209 ns) (Overruns: 2838)
vgacon_set_cursor_size+0x98/0x120 -> native_io_delay (2613 ns) (Overruns: 274)
vgacon_cursor+0x16e/0x1d0 -> vgacon_set_cursor_size (33151 ns) (Overruns: 274)
set_cursor+0x5f/0x80 -> vgacon_cursor (36432 ns) (Overruns: 274)
con_flush_chars+0x34/0x40 -> set_cursor (38790 ns) (Overruns: 274)
release_console_sem+0x1ec/0x230 -> up (721 ns) (Overruns: 274)
release_console_sem+0x225/0x230 -> wake_up_klogd (316 ns) (Overruns: 274)
con_flush_chars+0x39/0x40 -> release_console_sem (2996 ns) (Overruns: 274)
con_write+0x22/0x30 -> con_flush_chars (46067 ns) (Overruns: 274)
n_tty_write+0x1cc/0x360 -> con_write (292670 ns) (Overruns: 274)
smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x2a/0x90 -> native_apic_mem_write (330 ns) (Overruns: 274)
irq_enter+0x17/0x70 -> idle_cpu (413 ns) (Overruns: 274)
smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x2f/0x90 -> irq_enter (1525 ns) (Overruns: 274)
ktime_get_ts+0x40/0x70 -> getnstimeofday (465 ns) (Overruns: 274)
ktime_get_ts+0x60/0x70 -> set_normalized_timespec (436 ns) (Overruns: 274)
ktime_get+0x16/0x30 -> ktime_get_ts (2501 ns) (Overruns: 274)
hrtimer_interrupt+0x77/0x1a0 -> ktime_get (3439 ns) (Overruns: 274)
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Impact: give a way to send specific messages to tracers
The current implementation of tracing uses some flags to control the
output of general tracers. But we have no way to implement custom
flags handling for a specific tracer. This patch proposes a new
callback for the struct tracer which called set_flag and a structure
that represents a 32 bits variable flag.
A tracer can implement a struct tracer_flags on which it puts the
initial value of the flag integer. Than it can place a range of flags
with their name and their flag mask on the flag integer. The structure
that implement a single flag is called struct tracer_opt.
These custom flags will be available through the trace_options file
like the general tracing flags. Changing their value is done like the
other general flags. For example if you have a flag that calls "foo",
you can activate it by writing "foo" or "nofoo" on trace_options.
Note that the set_flag callback is optional and is only needed if you
want the flags changing to be signaled to your tracer and let it to
accept or refuse their assignment.
V2: Some arrangements in coding style....
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Impact: fix trace_options behavior
writing to trace/trace_options use the index of the array
to find the value of the flag. With branch tracer flag
defined conditionally, this breaks writing to trace_options
with branch tracer disabled.
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Impact: extend the ->init() method with the ability to fail
This bring a way to know if the initialization of a tracer successed.
A tracer must return 0 on success and a traditional error (ie:
-ENOMEM) if it fails.
If a tracer fails to init, it is free to print a detailed warn. The
tracing api will not and switch to a new tracer will just return the
error from the init callback.
Note: this will be used for the return tracer.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Impact: fix confusing write() -EINVAL when changing the tracer
The following commit d9e540762f5cdd89f24e518ad1fd31142d0b9726 remade
alive the bug which made the set of a new tracer returning -EINVAL if
this is the longest name of tracer. This patch corrects it.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Impact: fix lockdep disabling itself when function tracing is enabled
The raw_local_irq_saves used in ftrace is causing problems with
lockdep. (it thinks the irq flags are out of sync and disables
itself with a warning)
The raw ops here are not needed, and the normal local_irq_save is fine.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Impact: better handling of CPU buffer start annotation
Because of the confusion with the per CPU buffers wrapping where
one CPU might be more active at the end of the trace than the other
CPUs causing that one CPU to have a shorter history. Kernel
developers were confused by the "missing" data of that one CPU
at the beginning of the trace output. An annotation was added to
the trace output to show that the buffer had started:
# tracer: function
#
# TASK-PID CPU# TIMESTAMP FUNCTION
# | | | | |
##### CPU 3 buffer started ####
<idle>-0 [003] 158.192959: smp_apic_timer_interrupt
[...]
<idle>-0 [003] 161.556520: default_idle
##### CPU 1 buffer started ####
<idle>-0 [001] 161.592494: hrtimer_force_reprogram
[etc]
But this annotation gets a bit messy when tracers do not fill the
buffers. This patch does a couple of things:
One) it adds a flag to trace_options to disable these annotations
Two) it does not annotate if the tracer did not overflow its buffer.
This makes the output much cleaner.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Impact: rename file /debug/tracing/iter_ctrl to /debug/tracing/trace_options
The original ftrace had a file called "iter_ctrl" that would control
the way the output was iterated. But this file grew into a catch all
for different trace options. This patch renames the file from iter_ctrl
to trace_options to reflect this change.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Impact: change the units of buffer_size_kb to kilobytes
This patch changes the units of the buffer_size_kb file to kilobytes.
Reading and writing to the file uses kilobytes as units. To help
users to know what units are used, the output of the file now
looks like:
# cat /debug/tracing/buffer_size_kb
1408
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Impact: rename of debugfs file trace_entries to buffer_size_kb
The original ftrace had fixed size entries, and the number of entries
was shown and modified via the file called trace_entries. By converting
to the unified trace buffer, we now allow for variable size entries
which makes the meaning of trace_entries pointless.
Since trace_size might be confused to the size of the trace, this patch
names it "buffer_size_kb" (thanks to Arjan van de Ven for this idea).
[ mingo@elte.hu: changed from buffer_size to buffer_size_kb ]
( Note, the units are still bytes - the next patch changes that,
to keep the wide rename patch separate from the unit-change patch. )
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Impact: rename of iter_ctrl unlikely to branch
The unlikely name is ugly. This patch converts the iter_ctrl command
"unlikely" and "nounlikely" to "branch" and "nobranch" respectively.
It also renames a lot of internal functions to use "branch" instead
of "unlikely".
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Impact: name change of unlikely tracer and profiler
Ingo Molnar suggested changing the config from UNLIKELY_PROFILE
to BRANCH_PROFILING. I never did like the "unlikely" name so I
went one step farther, and renamed all the unlikely configurations
to a "BRANCH" variant.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Steve suggested the to change the output from this:
> bash-3471 [003] 357.014755: [ MISS ] sched_info_dequeued:sched_stats.h:177
> bash-3471 [003] 357.014756: [ .... ] update_curr:sched_fair.c:489
> bash-3471 [003] 357.014758: [ .... ] calc_delta_fair:sched_fair.c:411
to this:
> bash-3471 [003] 357.014755: [ MISS ] sched_info_dequeued:sched_stats.h:177
> bash-3471 [003] 357.014756: [ ok ] update_curr:sched_fair.c:489
> bash-3471 [003] 357.014758: [ ok ] calc_delta_fair:sched_fair.c:411
as it makes it clearer to the user what it means exactly.
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Impact: modify the tracer output, to make it a bit easier to read
Change the output from:
> bash-3471 [003] 357.014755: [INCORRECT] sched_info_dequeued:sched_stats.h:177
> bash-3471 [003] 357.014756: [correct] update_curr:sched_fair.c:489
> bash-3471 [003] 357.014758: [correct] calc_delta_fair:sched_fair.c:411
to:
> bash-3471 [003] 357.014755: [ MISS ] sched_info_dequeued:sched_stats.h:177
> bash-3471 [003] 357.014756: [ .... ] update_curr:sched_fair.c:489
> bash-3471 [003] 357.014758: [ .... ] calc_delta_fair:sched_fair.c:411
it's good to have fields aligned vertically, and the only important
information is a prediction miss, so display only that information.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Impact: new likely/unlikely branch tracer
This patch adds a way to record the instances of the likely() and unlikely()
branch condition annotations.
When "unlikely" is set in /debugfs/tracing/iter_ctrl the unlikely conditions
will be added to any of the ftrace tracers. The change takes effect when
a new tracer is passed into the current_tracer file.
For example:
bash-3471 [003] 357.014755: [INCORRECT] sched_info_dequeued:sched_stats.h:177
bash-3471 [003] 357.014756: [correct] update_curr:sched_fair.c:489
bash-3471 [003] 357.014758: [correct] calc_delta_fair:sched_fair.c:411
bash-3471 [003] 357.014759: [correct] account_group_exec_runtime:sched_stats.h:356
bash-3471 [003] 357.014761: [correct] update_curr:sched_fair.c:489
bash-3471 [003] 357.014763: [INCORRECT] calc_delta_fair:sched_fair.c:411
bash-3471 [003] 357.014765: [correct] calc_delta_mine:sched.c:1279
Which shows the normal tracer heading, as well as whether the condition was
correct "[correct]" or was mistaken "[INCORRECT]", followed by the function,
file name and line number.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Impact: add new tracing plugin which can trace full (entry+exit) function calls
This tracer uses the low level function return ftrace plugin to
measure the execution time of the kernel functions.
The first field is the caller of the function, the second is the
measured function, and the last one is the execution time in
nanoseconds.
- v3:
- HAVE_FUNCTION_RET_TRACER have been added. Each arch that support ftrace return
should enable it.
- ftrace_return_stub becomes ftrace_stub.
- CONFIG_FUNCTION_RET_TRACER depends now on CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER
- Return traces printing can be used for other tracers on trace.c
- Adapt to the new tracing API (no more ctrl_update callback)
- Correct the check of "disabled" during insertion.
- Minor changes...
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Impact: stop ftrace_special from recursion
The ftrace_special is used to help debug areas of the kernel.
Because of this, if it is put in certain locations, the fact that
it allows recursion can become a problem if the kernel developer
using does not realize that.
This patch changes ftrace_special to not allow recursion into itself
to make it more robust.
It also changes from preempt disable interrupts disable to prevent
any loss of trace entries.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Conflicts:
kernel/trace/trace.c
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into tracing/urgent
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Impact: fix for bug on resize
This patch addresses the bug found here:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11996
When ftrace converted to the new unified trace buffer, the resizing of
the buffer was not protected as much as it was originally. If tracing
is performed while the resize occurs, then the buffer can be corrupted.
This patch disables all ftrace buffer modifications before a resize
takes place.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
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Impact: change in trace output
Because the trace buffers are per cpu ring buffers, the start of
the trace can be confusing. If one CPU is very active at the
end of the trace, its history will not go as far back as the
other CPU traces. This means that output for a particular CPU
may not appear for the first part of a trace.
To help annotate what is happening, and to prevent any more
confusion, this patch adds a line that annotates the start of
a CPU buffer output.
For example:
automount-3495 [001] 184.596443: dnotify_parent <-vfs_write
[...]
automount-3495 [001] 184.596449: dput <-path_put
automount-3496 [002] 184.596450: down_read_trylock <-do_page_fault
[...]
sshd-3497 [001] 184.597069: up_read <-do_page_fault
<idle>-0 [000] 184.597074: __exit_idle <-exit_idle
[...]
automount-3496 [002] 184.597257: filemap_fault <-__do_fault
<idle>-0 [003] 184.597261: exit_idle <-smp_apic_timer_interrupt
Note, parsers of a trace output should always ignore any lines that
start with a '#'.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Impact: remove obsolete variable in trace_array structure
With the new start / stop method of ftrace, the ctrl variable
in the trace_array structure is now obsolete. Remove it.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Impact: Remove the ctrl_update tracer method
With the new quick start/stop method of tracing, the ctrl_update
method is out of date.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Impact: have the ftrace_printk enabled on startup
It is confusing to have to "echo trace_printk > /debug/tracing/iter_ctrl"
after adding ftrace_printk in the kernel.
Currently the trace_printk is set to off by default. ftrace_printk
should only be in open kernel code when used for debugging, and thus
it should be enabled by default.
It may also be used to record data within a tracer, but those ftrace_printks
should be within wrappers that are either enabled by trace_points or
have a variable protecting the code path from being entered when the
tracer is disabled.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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'tracing/urgent' into tracing/core
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Impact: change where tracing is started up and stopped
Currently, when a new tracer is selected via echo'ing a tracer name into
the current_tracer file, the startup is only done if tracing_enabled is
set to one. If tracing_enabled is changed to zero (by echo'ing 0 into
the tracing_enabled file) a full shutdown is performed.
The full startup and shutdown of a tracer can be expensive and the
user can lose out traces when echo'ing in 0 to the tracing_enabled file,
because the process takes too long. There can also be places that
the user would like to start and stop the tracer several times and
doing the full startup and shutdown of a tracer might be too expensive.
This patch performs the full startup and shutdown when a tracer is
selected. It also adds a way to do a quick start or stop of a tracer.
The quick version is just a flag that prevents the tracing from
taking place, but the overhead of the code is still there.
For example, the startup of a tracer may enable tracepoints, or enable
the function tracer. The stop and start will just set a flag to
have the tracer ignore the calls when the tracepoint or function trace
is called. The overhead of the tracer may still be present when
the tracer is stopped, but no tracing will occur. Setting the tracer
to the 'nop' tracer (or any other tracer) will perform the shutdown
of the tracer which will disable the tracepoint or disable the
function tracer.
The tracing_enabled file will simply start or stop tracing.
This change is all internal. The end result for the user should be the same
as before. If tracing_enabled is not set, no trace will happen.
If tracing_enabled is set, then the trace will happen. The tracing_enabled
variable is static between tracers. Enabling tracing_enabled and
going to another tracer will keep tracing_enabled enabled. Same
is true with disabling tracing_enabled.
This patch will now provide a fast start/stop method to the users
for enabling or disabling tracing.
Note: There were two methods to the struct tracer that were never
used: The methods start and stop. These were to be used as a hook
to the reading of the trace output, but ended up not being
necessary. These two methods are now used to enable the start
and stop of each tracer, in case the tracer needs to do more than
just not write into the buffer. For example, the irqsoff tracer
must stop recording max latencies when tracing is stopped.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Impact: add way to quickly start stop tracing from the kernel
This patch adds a soft stop and start to the trace. This simply
disables function tracing via the ftrace_disabled flag, and
disables the trace buffers to prevent recording. The tracing
code may still be executed, but the trace will not be recorded.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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In 777e208d40d0953efc6fb4ab58590da3f7d8f02d we changed from outputting
field->cpu (a char) to iter->cpu (unsigned int), increasing the resulting
structure size by 3 bytes.
Signed-off-by: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Impact: enhance boot trace output with scheduling events
Use the sched_switch tracer from the boot tracer.
We also can trace schedule events inside the initcalls.
Sched tracing is disabled after the initcall has finished and
then reenabled before the next one is started.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Impact: disable interrupts during trace entry creation (as opposed to preempt)
To help with performance, I set the ftracer to not disable interrupts,
and only to disable preemption. If an interrupt occurred, it would not
be traced, because the function tracer protects itself from recursion.
This may be faster, but the trace output might miss some traces.
This patch makes the fuction trace disable interrupts, but it also
adds a runtime feature to disable preemption instead. It does this by
having two different tracer functions. When the function tracer is
enabled, it will check to see which version is requested (irqs disabled
or preemption disabled). Then it will use the corresponding function
as the tracer.
Irq disabling is the default behaviour, but if the user wants better
performance, with the chance of missing traces, then they can choose
the preempt disabled version.
Running hackbench 3 times with the irqs disabled and 3 times with
the preempt disabled function tracer yielded:
tracing type times entries recorded
------------ -------- ----------------
irq disabled 43.393 166433066
43.282 166172618
43.298 166256704
preempt disabled 38.969 159871710
38.943 159972935
39.325 161056510
Average:
irqs disabled: 43.324 166287462
preempt disabled: 39.079 160300385
preempt is 10.8 percent faster than irqs disabled.
I wrote a patch to count function trace recursion and reran hackbench.
With irq disabled: 1,150 times the function tracer did not trace due to
recursion.
with preempt disabled: 5,117,718 times.
The thousand times with irq disabled could be due to NMIs, or simply a case
where it called a function that was not protected by notrace.
But we also see that a large amount of the trace is lost with the
preempt version.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Impact: use new, consolidated APIs in ftrace plugins
This patch replaces the schedule safe preempt disable code with the
ftrace_preempt_disable() and ftrace_preempt_enable() safe functions.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Impact: ia64+tracing build fix
When a function is kprobed, the return address is set to the
kprobe_trampoline, or something similar. This caused the output
of the trace to look confusing when the parent seemed to be this
"kprobe_trampoline" function.
To fix this, Abhishek Sagar added a test of the instruction pointer
of the parent to see if it matched the kprobe_trampoline. If it
did, the output would print a "[unknown/kretprobe'd]" instead.
Unfortunately, not all archs do this the same way, and the trampoline
function may not be exported, which causes failures in builds.
This patch will compare the name instead of the pointer to see
if it matches. This prevents us from depending on a function from
being exported, and should work on all archs. The worst that can
happen is that an arch might use a different name and then we
go back to the confusing output. At least the arch will still build.
Reported-by: Abhishek Sagar <sagar.abhishek@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Tested-by: Abhishek Sagar <sagar.abhishek@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Abhishek Sagar <sagar.abhishek@gmail.com>
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'tracing/nmisafe', 'tracing/tracepoints' and 'tracing/urgent' into tracing/core
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Impact: build fix on !stacktrace architectures
only select STACKTRACE on architectures that have STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
... since we also need to ifdef out the guts of ftrace_trace_stack().
We also want to disallow setting TRACE_ITER_STACKTRACE in trace_flags
on such configs, but that can wait.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Impact: add new (optional) debug boot option
In order to facilitate early boot trouble, allow one to specify a tracer
on the kernel boot line.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Impact: cleanup
This patch cleans up the NMI safe code for dynamic ftrace as suggested
by Andrew Morton.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Impact: build fix on non-lockdep architectures
Some architectures do not support a way to read the irq flags that
is set from "local_irq_save(flags)" to determine if interrupts were
disabled or enabled. Ftrace uses this information to display to the user
if the trace occurred with interrupts enabled or disabled.
Besides the fact that those archs that do not support this will fail to
compile, unless they fix it, we do not want to have the trace simply
say interrupts were not disabled or they were enabled, without knowing
the real answer.
This patch adds a 'X' in the output to let the user know that the
architecture they are running on does not support a way for the tracer
to determine if interrupts were enabled or disabled. It also lets those
same archs compile with tracing enabled.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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