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2009-05-05tracing: export stats of ring buffers to userspaceSteven Rostedt
This patch adds stats to the ftrace ring buffers: # cat /debugfs/tracing/per_cpu/cpu0/stats entries: 42360 overrun: 30509326 commit overrun: 0 nmi dropped: 0 Where entries are the total number of data entries in the buffer. overrun is the number of entries not consumed and were overwritten by the writer. commit overrun is the number of entries dropped due to nested writers wrapping the buffer before the initial writer finished the commit. nmi dropped is the number of entries dropped due to the ring buffer lock being held when an nmi was going to write to the ring buffer. Note, this field will be meaningless and will go away when the ring buffer becomes lockless. [ Impact: let userspace know what is happening in the ring buffers ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-05-05ring-buffer: add counters for commit overrun and nmi dropped entriesSteven Rostedt
The WARN_ON in the ring buffer when a commit is preempted and the buffer is filled by preceding writes can happen in normal operations. The WARN_ON makes it look like a bug, not to mention, because it does not stop tracing and calls printk which can also recurse, this is prone to deadlock (the WARN_ON is not in a position to recurse). This patch removes the WARN_ON and replaces it with a counter that can be retrieved by a tracer. This counter is called commit_overrun. While at it, I added a nmi_dropped counter to count any time an NMI entry is dropped because the NMI could not take the spinlock. [ Impact: prevent deadlock by printing normal case warning ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-05-05ring-buffer: export symbolsSteven Rostedt
I'm adding a module to do a series of tests on the ring buffer as well as benchmarks. This module needs to have more of the ring buffer API exported. There's nothing wrong with reading the ring buffer from a module. [ Impact: allow modules to read pages from the ring buffer ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-04-29tracing/filters: a better event parserTom Zanussi
Replace the current event parser hack with a better one. Filters are no longer specified predicate by predicate, but all at once and can use parens and any of the following operators: numeric fields: ==, !=, <, <=, >, >= string fields: ==, != predicates can be combined with the logical operators: &&, || examples: "common_preempt_count > 4" > filter "((sig >= 10 && sig < 15) || sig == 17) && comm != bash" > filter If there was an error, the erroneous string along with an error message can be seen by looking at the filter e.g.: ((sig >= 10 && sig < 15) || dsig == 17) && comm != bash ^ parse_error: Field not found Currently the caret for an error always appears at the beginning of the filter; a real position should be used, but the error message should be useful even without it. To clear a filter, '0' can be written to the filter file. Filters can also be set or cleared for a complete subsystem by writing the same filter as would be written to an individual event to the filter file at the root of the subsytem. Note however, that if any event in the subsystem lacks a field specified in the filter being set, the set will fail and all filters in the subsytem are automatically cleared. This change from the previous version was made because using only the fields that happen to exist for a given event would most likely result in a meaningless filter. Because the logical operators are now implemented as predicates, the maximum number of predicates in a filter was increased from 8 to 16. [ Impact: add new, extended trace-filter implementation ] Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> LKML-Reference: <1240905899.6416.121.camel@tropicana> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-29tracing/filters: distinguish between signed and unsigned fieldsTom Zanussi
The new filter comparison ops need to be able to distinguish between signed and unsigned field types, so add an is_signed flag/param to the event field struct/trace_define_fields(). Also define a simple macro, is_signed_type() to determine the signedness at compile time, used in the trace macros. If the is_signed_type() macro won't work with a specific type, a new slightly modified version of TRACE_FIELD() called TRACE_FIELD_SIGN(), allows the signedness to be set explicitly. [ Impact: extend trace-filter code for new feature ] Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> LKML-Reference: <1240905893.6416.120.camel@tropicana> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-29tracing/filters: move preds into event_filter objectTom Zanussi
Create a new event_filter object, and move the pred-related members out of the call and subsystem objects and into the filter object - the details of the filter implementation don't need to be exposed in the call and subsystem in any case, and it will also help make the new parser implementation a little cleaner. [ Impact: refactor trace-filter code to prepare for new features ] Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> LKML-Reference: <1240905887.6416.119.camel@tropicana> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-29ring-buffer: fix printk outputSteven Rostedt
The warning output in trace_recursive_lock uses %d for a long when it should be %ld. [ Impact: fix compile warning ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-04-29tracing: have splice only copy full pagesSteven Rostedt
Splice works with pages, it is much more effecient to use an entire page than to copy bits over several pages. Using logdev to trace the internals of the splice mechanism, I was able to see that splice can be very aggressive. When tracing is occurring, and the reader caught up to the writer, and the writer is on the reader page, the reader will copy what is there into the splice page. Splice may iterate over several pages and if the writer is still writing to the page, the reader will keep copying bits to new pages to pass to userspace. This patch changes it to only pass data to userspace if the page is full (the writer has left the page). This has a small side effect that splice can not read a partial page, and must wait for the page to fill. This should not be an issue. If tracing has stopped, then a use of "read" will still read all of the page. [ Impact: better performance for ring buffer splice code ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-04-29tracing: only add splice page if entries existSteven Rostedt
The splice code allocates a page even when the ring buffer is empty. It detects the ring buffer being empty when it it fails to copy anything from the ring buffer into the page. This patch adds a check to see if there is anything in the ring buffer before allocating a page. Thanks to logdev for letting me trace the tracer to find this. [ Impact: speed up due to removing unnecessary allocation ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-04-29tracing: fix ref count in splice pagesSteven Rostedt
The pages allocated for the splice binary buffer did not initialize the ref count correctly. This caused pages not to be freed and causes a drastic memory leak. Thanks to logdev I was able to trace the tracer to find where the leak was. [ Impact: stop memory leak when using splice ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-04-28tracing: convert ftrace_dump spinlocks to rawSteven Rostedt
ftrace_dump is used for printing out the contents of the ftrace ring buffer to the console on failure. Currently it uses a spinlock to synchronize the output from multiple failures on different CPUs. This spin lock currently is a normal spinlock and can cause issues with lockdep and lock tracing. This patch converts it to raw since it is for error handling only. The lock is local to the ftrace_dump and is not used by any other infrastructure. [ Impact: prevent ftrace_dump from locking up by internal tracing ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-04-26tracing/events: make modules have their own file_operations structureSteven Rostedt
For proper module reference counting, the file_operations that modules use must have the "owner" field set to the module. Unfortunately, the trace events use share file_operations. The same file_operations are used by all both kernel core and all modules. This patch makes the modules allocate their own file_operations and copies the functions from the core kernel. This allows those file operations to be owned by the module. Care is taken to free this code on module unload. Thanks to Greg KH for reminding me that file_operations must be owned by the module to have reference counting take place. [ Impact: fix modular tracepoints / potential crash ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-04-24tracing/events: reuse trace event ids after overflowSteven Rostedt
With modules being able to add trace events, and the max trace event counter is 16 bits (65536) we can overflow the counter easily with a simple while loop adding and removing modules that contain trace events. This patch links together the registered trace events and on overflow searches for available trace event ids. It will still fail if over 65536 events are registered, but considering that a typical kernel only has 22000 functions, 65000 events should be sufficient. Reported-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-04-24ring_buffer: compressed event headerLai Jiangshan
RB_MAX_SMALL_DATA = 28bytes is too small for most tracers, it wastes an 'u32' to save the actually length for events which data size > 28. This fix uses compressed event header and enlarges RB_MAX_SMALL_DATA. [ Impact: saves about 0%-12.5%(depends on tracer) memory in ring_buffer ] Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> LKML-Reference: <49F13189.3090000@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-04-23tracing: add size checks for exported ftrace internal structuresSteven Rostedt
The events exported by TRACE_EVENT are automated and are guaranteed to be correct when used. The internal ftrace structures on the other hand are more manually exported. These require the ftrace maintainer to make sure they are up to date. This patch adds a size check to help flag when a type changes in an internal ftrace data structure, and the update needs to be reflected in the export. If a export is incorrect, then the only harm is that the user space tools will not know how to correctly read the internal structures of ftrace. [ Impact: help prevent inconsistent ftrace format print outs ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-04-23tracing: increase size of number of possible eventsSteven Rostedt
With the new event tracing registration, we must increase the number of events that can be registered. Currently the type field is only one byte, which leaves us only 256 possible events. Since we do not save the CPU number in the tracer anymore (it is determined by the per cpu ring buffer that is used) we have an extra byte to use. This patch increases the size of type from 1 byte (256 events) to 2 bytes (65,536 events). It also adds a WARN_ON_ONCE if we exceed that limit. [ Impact: allow more than 255 events ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-04-23tracing/wakeup: move access to wakeup_cpu into spinlockSteven Rostedt
The code had the following outside the lock: if (next != wakeup_task) return; pc = preempt_count(); /* The task we are waiting for is waking up */ data = wakeup_trace->data[wakeup_cpu]; On initialization, wakeup_task is NULL and wakeup_cpu -1. This code is not under a lock. If wakeup_task is set on another CPU as that task is waking up, we can see the wakeup_task before wakeup_cpu is set. If we read wakeup_cpu while it is still -1 then we will have a bad data pointer. This patch moves the reading of wakeup_cpu within the protection of the spinlock used to protect the writing of wakeup_cpu and wakeup_task. [ Impact: remove possible race causing invalid pointer dereference ] Reported-by: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-04-22tracing/events: make struct trace_entry->type to be int typeLi Zefan
struct trace_entry->type is unsigned char, while trace event's id is int type, thus for a event with id >= 256, it's entry->type is cast to (id % 256), and then we can't see the trace output of this event. # insmod trace-events-sample.ko # echo foo_bar > /mnt/tracing/set_event # cat /debug/tracing/events/trace-events-sample/foo_bar/id 256 # cat /mnt/tracing/trace_pipe <...>-3548 [001] 215.091142: Unknown type 0 <...>-3548 [001] 216.089207: Unknown type 0 <...>-3548 [001] 217.087271: Unknown type 0 <...>-3548 [001] 218.085332: Unknown type 0 [ Impact: fix output for trace events with id >= 256 ] Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <49EEDB0E.5070207@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-21ring-buffer: only warn on wrap if buffer is bigger than two pagesSteven Rostedt
On boot up, to save memory, ftrace allocates the minimum buffer which is two pages. Ftrace also goes through a series of tests (when configured) on boot up. These tests can fill up a page within a single interrupt. The ring buffer also has a WARN_ON when it detects that the buffer was completely filled within a single commit (other commits are allowed to be nested). Combine the small buffer on start up, with the tests that can fill more than a single page within an interrupt, this can trigger the WARN_ON. This patch makes the WARN_ON only happen when the ring buffer consists of more than two pages. [ Impact: prevent false WARN_ON in ftrace startup tests ] Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> LKML-Reference: <20090421094616.GA14561@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-21tracing/filters: allow user-input to be integer-like stringLi Zefan
Suppose we would like to trace all tasks named '123', but this will fail: # echo 'parent_comm == 123' > events/sched/sched_process_fork/filter bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument Don't guess the type of the filter pred in filter_parse(), but instead we check it in __filter_add_pred(). [ Impact: extend allowed filter field string values ] Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <49ED8DEB.6000700@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-21tracing/filters: don't remove old filters when failed to write subsys->filterLi Zefan
If writing subsys->filter returns EINVAL or ENOSPC, the original filters in subsys/ and subsys/events/ will be removed. This is definitely wrong. [ Impact: fix filter setting semantics on error condition ] Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <49ED8DD2.2070700@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-20tracing: use nowakeup version of commit for function event trace testsSteven Rostedt
The startup tests for the event tracer also runs with the function tracer enabled. The "wakeup" version of the trace commit was used which can grab spinlocks. If a task was preempted by an NMI that called a function being traced, it could deadlock due to the function tracer trying to grab the same lock. Thanks to Frederic Weisbecker for pointing out where the bug was. Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Reported-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-04-20tracing: use recursive counter over irq levelSteven Rostedt
Althought using the irq level (hardirq_count, softirq_count and in_nmi) was nice to detect bad recursion right away, but since the counters are not atomically updated with respect to the interrupts, the function tracer might trigger the test from an interrupt handler before the hardirq_count is updated. This will trigger a false warning. This patch converts the recursive detection to a simple counter. If the depth is greater than 16 then the recursive detection will trigger. 16 is more than enough for any nested interrupts. [ Impact: fix false positive trace recursion detection ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-04-20tracing: remove recursive test from ring_buffer_event_discardSteven Rostedt
The ring_buffer_event_discard is not tied to ring_buffer_lock_reserve. It can be called inside or outside the reserve/commit. Even if it is called inside the reserve/commit the commit part must also be called. Only ring_buffer_discard_commit can be used as a replacement for ring_buffer_unlock_commit. This patch removes the trace_recursive_unlock from ring_buffer_event_discard since it would be the wrong place to do so. [Impact: prevent breakage in trace recursive testing ] Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-04-20tracing: fix recursive test level calculationSteven Rostedt
The recursive tests to detect same level recursion in the ring buffers did not account for the hard/softirq_counts to be shifted. Thus the numbers could be larger than then mask to be tested. This patch includes the shift for the calculation of the irq depth. [ Impact: stop false positives in trace recursion detection ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-04-20tracing/events: call the correct event trace selftest init functionSteven Rostedt
The late_initcall calls a helper function instead of the proper init event selftest function. This update may have been lost due to conflicting merges. [ Impact: fix compiler warning and call extended event trace self tests ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-04-20tracing: rename EVENT_TRACER config to ENABLE_EVENT_TRACINGSteven Rostedt
Currently we have two configs: EVENT_TRACING and EVENT_TRACER. All tracers enable EVENT_TRACING. The EVENT_TRACER is only a convenience to enable the EVENT_TRACING when no other tracers are enabled. The names EVENT_TRACER and EVENT_TRACING are too similar and confusing. This patch renames EVENT_TRACER to ENABLE_EVENT_TRACING to be more appropriate to what it actually does, as well as add a comment in the help menu to explain the option's purpose. [ Impact: rename config option to reduce confusion ] Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-04-20tracing: create menuconfig for tracing infrastructureSteven Rostedt
During testing we often use randconfig to test various kernels. The current configuration set up does not give an easy way to disable all tracing with a single config. The case where randconfig would test all tracing disabled is very unlikely. This patch adds a config option to enable or disable all tracing. It is hooked into the tracing menu just like other submenus are done. [ Impact: allow randconfig to easily produce all traces disabled ] Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-04-20tracing: change branch profiling to a choice selectionSteven Rostedt
This patch makes the branch profiling into a choice selection: None - no branch profiling likely/unlikely - only profile likely/unlikely branches all - profile all branches The all profiler will also enable the likely/unlikely branches. This does not change the way the profiler works or the dependencies between the profilers. What this patch does, is keep the branch profiling from being selected by an allyesconfig make. The branch profiler is very intrusive and it is known to break various architecture builds when selected as an allyesconfig. [ Impact: prevent branch profiler from being selected in allyesconfig ] Reported-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Reported-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Reported-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-04-20tracing/ring-buffer: Add unlock recursion protection on discardFrederic Weisbecker
The pair of helpers trace_recursive_lock() and trace_recursive_unlock() have been introduced recently to provide generic tracing recursion protection. They are used in a symetric way: - trace_recursive_lock() on buffer reserve - trace_recursive_unlock() on buffer commit However sometimes, we don't commit but discard on entry to the buffer, ie: in case of filter checking. Then we must also unlock the recursion protection on discard time, otherwise the tracing gets definitely deactivated and a warning is raised spuriously, such as: 111.119821] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 111.119829] WARNING: at kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c:1498 ring_buffer_lock_reserve+0x1b7/0x1d0() [ 111.119835] Hardware name: AMILO Li 2727 [ 111.119839] Modules linked in: [ 111.119846] Pid: 5731, comm: Xorg Tainted: G W 2.6.30-rc1 #69 [ 111.119851] Call Trace: [ 111.119863] [<ffffffff8025ce68>] warn_slowpath+0xd8/0x130 [ 111.119873] [<ffffffff8028a30f>] ? __lock_acquire+0x19f/0x1ae0 [ 111.119882] [<ffffffff8028a30f>] ? __lock_acquire+0x19f/0x1ae0 [ 111.119891] [<ffffffff802199b0>] ? native_sched_clock+0x20/0x70 [ 111.119899] [<ffffffff80286dee>] ? put_lock_stats+0xe/0x30 [ 111.119906] [<ffffffff80286eb8>] ? lock_release_holdtime+0xa8/0x150 [ 111.119913] [<ffffffff802c8ae7>] ring_buffer_lock_reserve+0x1b7/0x1d0 [ 111.119921] [<ffffffff802cd110>] trace_buffer_lock_reserve+0x30/0x70 [ 111.119930] [<ffffffff802ce000>] trace_current_buffer_lock_reserve+0x20/0x30 [ 111.119939] [<ffffffff802474e8>] ftrace_raw_event_sched_switch+0x58/0x100 [ 111.119948] [<ffffffff808103b7>] __schedule+0x3a7/0x4cd [ 111.119957] [<ffffffff80211b56>] ? ftrace_call+0x5/0x2b [ 111.119964] [<ffffffff80211b56>] ? ftrace_call+0x5/0x2b [ 111.119971] [<ffffffff80810c08>] schedule+0x18/0x40 [ 111.119977] [<ffffffff80810e09>] preempt_schedule+0x39/0x60 [ 111.119985] [<ffffffff80813bd3>] _read_unlock+0x53/0x60 [ 111.119993] [<ffffffff807259d2>] sock_def_readable+0x72/0x80 [ 111.120002] [<ffffffff807ad5ed>] unix_stream_sendmsg+0x24d/0x3d0 [ 111.120011] [<ffffffff807219a3>] sock_aio_write+0x143/0x160 [ 111.120019] [<ffffffff80211b56>] ? ftrace_call+0x5/0x2b [ 111.120026] [<ffffffff80721860>] ? sock_aio_write+0x0/0x160 [ 111.120033] [<ffffffff80721860>] ? sock_aio_write+0x0/0x160 [ 111.120042] [<ffffffff8031c283>] do_sync_readv_writev+0xf3/0x140 [ 111.120049] [<ffffffff80211b56>] ? ftrace_call+0x5/0x2b [ 111.120057] [<ffffffff80276ff0>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x40 [ 111.120067] [<ffffffff8045d489>] ? cap_file_permission+0x9/0x10 [ 111.120074] [<ffffffff8045c1e6>] ? security_file_permission+0x16/0x20 [ 111.120082] [<ffffffff8031cab4>] do_readv_writev+0xd4/0x1f0 [ 111.120089] [<ffffffff80211b56>] ? ftrace_call+0x5/0x2b [ 111.120097] [<ffffffff80211b56>] ? ftrace_call+0x5/0x2b [ 111.120105] [<ffffffff8031cc18>] vfs_writev+0x48/0x70 [ 111.120111] [<ffffffff8031cd65>] sys_writev+0x55/0xc0 [ 111.120119] [<ffffffff80211e32>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b [ 111.120125] ---[ end trace 15605f4e98d5ccb5 ]--- [ Impact: fix spurious warning triggering tracing shutdown ] Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2009-04-19tracing/core: Add current context on tracing recursion warningFrederic Weisbecker
In case of tracing recursion detection, we only get the stacktrace. But the current context may be very useful to debug the issue. This patch adds the softirq/hardirq/nmi context with the warning using lockdep context display to have a familiar output. v2: Use printk_once() v3: drop {hardirq,softirq}_context which depend on lockdep, only keep what is part of current->trace_recursion, sufficient to debug the warning source. [ Impact: print context necessary to debug recursion ] Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2009-04-17tracing: protect trace_printk from recursionSteven Rostedt
trace_printk can be called from any context, including NMIs. If this happens, then we must test for for recursion before grabbing any spinlocks. This patch prevents trace_printk from being called recursively. [ Impact: prevent hard lockup in lockdep event tracer ] Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-04-17tracing: add same level recursion detectionSteven Rostedt
The tracing infrastructure allows for recursion. That is, an interrupt may interrupt the act of tracing an event, and that interrupt may very well perform its own trace. This is a recursive trace, and is fine to do. The problem arises when there is a bug, and the utility doing the trace calls something that recurses back into the tracer. This recursion is not caused by an external event like an interrupt, but by code that is not expected to recurse. The result could be a lockup. This patch adds a bitmask to the task structure that keeps track of the trace recursion. To find the interrupt depth, the following algorithm is used: level = hardirq_count() + softirq_count() + in_nmi; Here, level will be the depth of interrutps and softirqs, and even handles the nmi. Then the corresponding bit is set in the recursion bitmask. If the bit was already set, we know we had a recursion at the same level and we warn about it and fail the writing to the buffer. After the data has been committed to the buffer, we clear the bit. No atomics are needed. The only races are with interrupts and they reset the bitmask before returning anywy. [ Impact: detect same irq level trace recursion ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-04-17tracing: add EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL for trace commitsSteven Rostedt
Not all the necessary symbols were exported to allow for tracing by modules. This patch adds them in. [ Impact: allow modules to commit data to the ring buffer ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-04-17tracing/filters: add filter_mutex to protect filter predicatesTom Zanussi
This patch adds a filter_mutex to prevent the filter predicates from being accessed concurrently by various external functions. It's based on a previous patch by Li Zefan: "[PATCH 7/7] tracing/filters: make filter preds RCU safe" v2 changes: - fixed wrong value returned in a add_subsystem_pred() failure case noticed by Li Zefan. [ Impact: fix trace filter corruption/crashes on parallel access ] Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Tested-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com LKML-Reference: <1239946028.6639.13.camel@tropicana> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-17tracing: fix file mode of trace and READMELi Zefan
trace is read-write and README is read-only. [ Impact: fix /debug/tracing/ file permissions. ] Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> LKML-Reference: <49E7EAB6.4070605@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-17tracing/events: perform function tracing in event selftestsSteven Rostedt
We can find some bugs in the trace events if we stress the writes as well. The function tracer is a good way to stress the events. [ Impact: extend scope of event tracer self-tests ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <20090416161746.604786131@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-17tracing: add saved_cmdlines file to show cached task commsAvadh Patel
Export the cached task comms to userspace. This allows user apps to translate the pids from a trace into their respective task command lines. [ Impact: let userspace apps reading binary buffer know comm's of pids ] Signed-off-by: Avadh Patel <avadh4all@gmail.com> [ added error checking and use of buf pointer to index file_buf ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-04-17tracing/events/ring-buffer: expose format of ring buffer headers to usersSteven Rostedt
Currently, every thing needed to read the binary output from the ring buffers is available, with the exception of the way the ring buffers handles itself internally. This patch creates two special files in the debugfs/tracing/events directory: # cat /debug/tracing/events/header_page field: u64 timestamp; offset:0; size:8; field: local_t commit; offset:8; size:8; field: char data; offset:16; size:4080; # cat /debug/tracing/events/header_event type : 2 bits len : 3 bits time_delta : 27 bits array : 32 bits padding : type == 0 time_extend : type == 1 data : type == 3 This is to allow a userspace app to see if the ring buffer format changes or not. [ Impact: allow userspace apps to know of ringbuffer format changes ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-04-17tracing/events: add startup tests for eventsSteven Rostedt
As events start to become popular, and the new way to add tracing infrastructure into ftrace, it is important to catch any problems that might happen with a mistake in the TRACE_EVENT macro. This patch introduces a startup self test on the registered trace events. Note, it can only do a generic test, any type of testing that needs more involement is needed to be implemented by the tracepoint creators. The test goes down one by one enabling a trace point and running some random tasks (random in the sense that I just made them up). Those tasks are creating threads, grabbing mutexes and spinlocks and using workqueues. After testing each event individually, it does the same test after enabling each system of trace points. Like sched, irq, lockdep. Then finally it enables all tracepoints and performs the tasks again. The output to the console on bootup will look like this when everything works: Running tests on trace events: Testing event kfree_skb: OK Testing event kmalloc: OK Testing event kmem_cache_alloc: OK Testing event kmalloc_node: OK Testing event kmem_cache_alloc_node: OK Testing event kfree: OK Testing event kmem_cache_free: OK Testing event irq_handler_exit: OK Testing event irq_handler_entry: OK Testing event softirq_entry: OK Testing event softirq_exit: OK Testing event lock_acquire: OK Testing event lock_release: OK Testing event sched_kthread_stop: OK Testing event sched_kthread_stop_ret: OK Testing event sched_wait_task: OK Testing event sched_wakeup: OK Testing event sched_wakeup_new: OK Testing event sched_switch: OK Testing event sched_migrate_task: OK Testing event sched_process_free: OK Testing event sched_process_exit: OK Testing event sched_process_wait: OK Testing event sched_process_fork: OK Testing event sched_signal_send: OK Running tests on trace event systems: Testing event system skb: OK Testing event system kmem: OK Testing event system irq: OK Testing event system lockdep: OK Testing event system sched: OK Running tests on all trace events: Testing all events: OK [ folded in: tracing: add #include <linux/delay.h> to fix build failure in test_work() This build failure occured on a few rare configs: kernel/trace/trace_events.c: In function ‘test_work’: kernel/trace/trace_events.c:975: error: implicit declaration of function ‘udelay’ kernel/trace/trace_events.c:980: error: implicit declaration of function ‘msleep’ delay.h is included in way too many other headers, hiding cases where new usage is added without header inclusion. [ Impact: build fix ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> ] [ Impact: add event tracer self-tests ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-04-17ftrace: use module notifier for function tracerSteven Rostedt
The hooks in the module code for the function tracer must be called before any of that module code runs. The function tracer hooks modify the module (replacing calls to mcount to nops). If the code is executed while the change occurs, then the CPU can take a GPF. To handle the above with a bit of paranoia, I originally implemented the hooks as calls directly from the module code. After examining the notifier calls, it looks as though the start up notify is called before any of the module's code is executed. This makes the use of the notify safe with ftrace. Only the startup notify is required to be "safe". The shutdown simply removes the entries from the ftrace function list, and does not modify any code. This change has another benefit. It removes a issue with a reverse dependency in the mutexes of ftrace_lock and module_mutex. [ Impact: fix lock dependency bug, cleanup ] Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-04-16blktrace: fix context-info when mixed-using blk tracer and trace eventsLi Zefan
When current tracer is set to blk tracer, TRACE_ITER_CONTEXT_INFO is unset, but actually context-info is printed: pdflush-431 [000] 821.181576: 8,0 P N [pdflush] And then if we enable TRACE_ITER_CONTEXT_INFO: # echo context-info > trace_options We'll see context-info printed twice. What's worse, when we use blk tracer and trace events at the same time, we'll see no context-info for trace events at all: jbd2_commit_logging: dev dm-0:8 transaction 333227 jbd2_end_commit: dev dm-0:8 transaction 333227 head 332814 rm-25433 [001] 9578.307485: 8,18 m N cfq25433 slice expired t=0 rm-25433 [001] 9578.307486: 8,18 m N cfq25433 put_queue This patch adds blk_tracer->set_flags(), and context-info flag is unset only when we set the output to classic mode. Note after this patch, one should unset context-info explicitly if he wants to get binary output that can be parsed by blkparse: # echo nocontext-info > trace_options # echo bin > trace_options # echo blk > current_tracer # cat trace_pipe | blkparse -i - Reported-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> LKML-Reference: <49E54E60.50408@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-16blktrace: add trace/ to /sys/block/sdaLi Zefan
Impact: allow ftrace-plugin blktrace to trace device-mapper devices To trace a single partition: # echo 1 > /sys/block/sda/sda1/enable To trace the whole sda instead: # echo 1 > /sys/block/sda/enable Thus we also fix an issue reported by Ted, that ftrace-plugin blktrace can't be used to trace device-mapper devices. Now: # echo 1 > /sys/block/dm-0/trace/enable echo: write error: No such device or address # mount -t ext4 /dev/dm-0 /mnt # echo 1 > /sys/block/dm-0/trace/enable # echo blk > /debug/tracing/current_tracer Reported-by: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Shawn Du <duyuyang@gmail.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> LKML-Reference: <49E42665.6020506@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-16blktrace: support per-partition tracing for ftrace pluginLi Zefan
The previous patch adds support to trace a single partition for relay+ioctl blktrace, and this patch is for ftrace plugin blktrace: # echo 1 > /sys/block/sda/sda7/enable # cat start_lba 102398373 # cat end_lba 102703545 Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Shawn Du <duyuyang@gmail.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> LKML-Reference: <49E42646.4060608@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-16blktrace: support per-partition tracingShawn Du
Though one can specify '-d /dev/sda1' when using blktrace, it still traces the whole sda. To support per-partition tracing, when we start tracing, we initialize bt->start_lba and bt->end_lba to the start and end sector of that partition. Note some actions are per device, thus we don't filter 0-sector events. The original patch and discussion can be found here: http://marc.info/?l=linux-btrace&m=122949374214540&w=2 Signed-off-by: Shawn Du <duyuyang@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> LKML-Reference: <49E42620.4050701@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-14tracing/events: move trace point headers into include/trace/eventsSteven Rostedt
Impact: clean up Create a sub directory in include/trace called events to keep the trace point headers in their own separate directory. Only headers that declare trace points should be defined in this directory. Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Cc: Zhao Lei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-04-14tracing/events: fix compile for modules disabledSteven Rostedt
Impact: compile fix The addition of TRACE_EVENT for modules breaks the build for when modules are disabled. This code fixes that. Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-04-14tracing/events: add support for modules to TRACE_EVENTSteven Rostedt
Impact: allow modules to add TRACE_EVENTS on load This patch adds the final hooks to allow modules to use the TRACE_EVENT macro. A notifier and a data structure are used to link the TRACE_EVENTs defined in the module to connect them with the ftrace event tracing system. It also adds the necessary automated clean ups to the trace events when a module is removed. Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-04-14tracing/events: add export symbols for trace events in modulesSteven Rostedt
Impact: let modules add trace events The trace event code requires some functions to be exported to allow modules to use TRACE_EVENT. This patch adds EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL to the necessary functions. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-04-14tracing/events: convert event call sites to use a link listSteven Rostedt
Impact: makes it possible to define events in modules The events are created by reading down the section that they are linked in by the macros. But this is not scalable to modules. This patch converts the manipulations to use a global link list, and on boot up it adds the items in the section to the list. This change will allow modules to add their tracing events to the list as well. Note, this change alone does not permit modules to use the TRACE_EVENT macros, but the change is needed for them to eventually do so. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>