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2009-02-18tracing: limit the number of loops the ring buffer self test can makeSteven Rostedt
Impact: prevent deadlock if ring buffer gets corrupted This patch adds a paranoid check to make sure the ring buffer consumer does not go into an infinite loop. Since the ring buffer has been set to read only, the consumer should not loop for more than the ring buffer size. A check is added to make sure the consumer does not loop more than the ring buffer size. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-02-18tracing: disable tracing while testing ring bufferSteven Rostedt
Impact: fix to prevent hard lockup on self tests If one of the tracers are broken and is constantly filling the ring buffer while the test of the ring buffer is running, it will hang the box. The reason is that the test is a consumer that will not stop till the ring buffer is empty. But if the tracer is broken and is constantly producing input to the buffer, this test will never end. The result is a lockup of the box. This happened when KALLSYMS was not defined and the dynamic ftrace test constantly filled the ring buffer, because the filter failed and all functions were being traced. Something was being called that constantly filled the buffer. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2008-11-16tracing/ftrace: change the type of the init() callbackFrederic Weisbecker
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>
2008-11-16ftrace: replace raw_local_irq_save with local_irq_saveSteven Rostedt
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>
2008-11-12ftrace: add tracer called branchSteven Rostedt
Impact: added new branch tracer Currently the tracing of branch profiling (unlikelys and likelys hit) is only activated by the iter_ctrl. This patch adds a tracer called "branch" that will just trace the branch profiling. The advantage of adding this tracer is that it can be added to the ftrace selftests on startup. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-08ftrace: force pass of preemptoff selftestSteven Rostedt
Impact: preemptoff not tested in selftest Due to the BKL not being preemptable anymore, the selftest of the preemptoff code can not be tested. It requires that it is called with preemption enabled, but since the BKL is held, that is no longer the case. This patch simply skips those tests if it detects that the context is not preemptable. The following will now show up in the tests: Testing tracer preemptoff: can not test ... force PASSED Testing tracer preemptirqsoff: can not test ... force PASSED When the BKL is removed, or it becomes preemptable once again, then the tests will be performed. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-08ftrace: remove trace array ctrlSteven Rostedt
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>
2008-11-08ftrace: remove ctrl_update methodSteven Rostedt
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>
2008-10-23ftrace: remove daemonSteven Rostedt
The ftrace daemon is complex and error prone. This patch strips it out of the code. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-20ftrace: rename FTRACE to FUNCTION_TRACERSteven Rostedt
Due to confusion between the ftrace infrastructure and the gcc profiling tracer "ftrace", this patch renames the config options from FTRACE to FUNCTION_TRACER. The other two names that are offspring from FTRACE DYNAMIC_FTRACE and FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD will stay the same. This patch was generated mostly by script, and partially by hand. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14ftrace: make work with new ring bufferSteven Rostedt
This patch ports ftrace over to the new ring buffer. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14ftrace: give time for wakeup test to runSteven Rostedt
It is possible that the testing thread in the ftrace wakeup test does not run before we stop the trace. This will cause the trace to fail since nothing will be in the buffers. This patch adds a small wait in the wakeup test to allow for the woken task to run and be traced. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14ftrace: add nop tracerSteven Noonan
A no-op tracer which can serve two purposes: 1. A template for development of a new tracer. 2. A convenient way to see ftrace_printk() calls without an irrelevant trace making the output messy. [ mingo@elte.hu: resolved conflicts ] Signed-off-by: Steven Noonan <steven@uplinklabs.net> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14ftrace: printk formatting infrastructureSteven Rostedt
This patch adds a feature that can help kernel developers debug their code using ftrace. int ftrace_printk(const char *fmt, ...); This records into the ftrace buffer using printf formatting. The entry size in the buffers are still a fixed length. A new type has been added that allows for more entries to be used for a single recording. The start of the print is still the same as the other entries. It returns the number of characters written to the ftrace buffer. For example: Having a module with the following code: static int __init ftrace_print_test(void) { ftrace_printk("jiffies are %ld\n", jiffies); return 0; } Gives me: insmod-5441 3...1 7569us : ftrace_print_test: jiffies are 4296626666 for the latency_trace file and: insmod-5441 [03] 1959.370498: ftrace_print_test jiffies are 4296626666 for the trace file. Note: Only the infrastructure should go into the kernel. It is to help facilitate debugging for other kernel developers. Calls to ftrace_printk is not intended to be left in the kernel, and should be frowned upon just like scattering printks around in the code. But having this easily at your fingertips helps the debugging go faster and bugs be solved quicker. Maybe later on, we can hook this with markers and have their printf format be sucked into ftrace output. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-10Merge branch 'tracing/sysprof' into auto-ftrace-nextIngo Molnar
2008-05-26ftrace: limit use of check pagesSteven Rostedt
The check_pages function is called often enough that it can cause problems with trace outputs or even bringing the system to a halt. This patch limits the check_pages to the places that are most likely to have problems. The check is made at the flip between the global array and the max save array, as well as when the size of the buffers changes and the self tests. This patch also removes the BUG_ON from check_pages and replaces it with a WARN_ON and disabling of the tracer. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Cc: pq@iki.fi Cc: proski@gnu.org Cc: sandmann@redhat.com Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-05-23ftrace: make sysprof dependent on x86 for nowIngo Molnar
that's the only tested platform for now. If there's interest we can make it generic easily. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-05-23ftrace: sysprof-plugin, add self-testsIngo Molnar
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-05-23ftrace: support for PowerPCSteven Rostedt
This patch adds full support for ftrace for PowerPC (both 64 and 32 bit). This includes dynamic tracing and function filtering. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-05-23ftrace: user proper API for setting RT prios in selftestSteven Rostedt
The wakeup selftest used an internal API for setting the test task priority. This patch fixes it to use the proper API for performing such a task. Thanks goes to Randy Dunlap for pointing out this build failure. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-05-23ftrace: selftest protect againt max flipSteven Rostedt
There is a slight race condition in the selftest where the max update of the wakeup and irqs/preemption off tests can be doing a max update as the buffers are being tested. If this happens the system can crash with a GPF. This patch adds the max update spinlock around the checking of the buffers to prevent such a race. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-05-23ftrace: fix dynamic ftrace selftestSteven Rostedt
With the adding of the configuration changes in the Makefile to prevent tracing of functions in the ftrace code, all tracing of all the ftrace code has been removed. Unfortunately, one of the selftests, relied on a function to be traced. With the new change, the function was no longer traced and the test failed. This patch separates out the test function into its own file so that we can add the "-pg" flag to the compilation of that function and the adding of the mcount call to that function. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-05-23ftrace: add TRACE_STACK and TRACE_SPECIAL to selftest validationSteven Rostedt
The selftest validation code checks for valid entries in the trace buffer. TRACE_STACK and TRACE_SPECIAL have been added to the code but not to the validator. This patch adds the two to prevent them from flagging a failure in the selftest. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-05-23ftrace: add wakeup events to sched tracerIngo Molnar
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-05-23ftrace: remove notraceIngo Molnar
now that we have a kbuild method for notrace, no need to pollute the C code with the annotations. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-05-23ftrace: cleanupsIngo Molnar
clean up recent code. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-05-23ftrace: disable tracing on failureSteven Rostedt
Since ftrace touches practically every function. If we detect any anomaly, we want to fully disable ftrace. This patch adds code to try shutdown ftrace as much as possible without doing any more harm is something is detected not quite correct. This only kills ftrace, this patch does have checks for other parts of the tracer (irqsoff, wakeup, etc.). Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-05-23ftrace: disable all tracers on corrupted bufferSteven Rostedt
If the trace buffer is detected to be corrupted, then we disable all tracers. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-05-23ftrace: startup tester on dynamic tracing.Steven Rostedt
This patch adds a startup self test on dynamic code modification and filters. The test filters on a specific function, makes sure that no other function is traced, exectutes the function, then makes sure that the function is traced. This patch also fixes a slight bug with the ftrace selftest, where tracer_enabled was not being set. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-05-23ftrace: cleanupsIngo Molnar
factor out code and clean it up. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-05-23ftrace: add self-testsSteven Rostedt
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>