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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 ...
2009-12-05Merge branch 'tracing-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'tracing-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (40 commits) tracing: Separate raw syscall from syscall tracer ring-buffer-benchmark: Add parameters to set produce/consumer priorities tracing, function tracer: Clean up strstrip() usage ring-buffer benchmark: Run producer/consumer threads at nice +19 tracing: Remove the stale include/trace/power.h tracing: Only print objcopy version warning once from recordmcount tracing: Prevent build warning: 'ftrace_graph_buf' defined but not used ring-buffer: Move access to commit_page up into function used tracing: do not disable interrupts for trace_clock_local ring-buffer: Add multiple iterations between benchmark timestamps kprobes: Sanitize struct kretprobe_instance allocations tracing: Fix to use __always_unused attribute compiler: Introduce __always_unused tracing: Exit with error if a weak function is used in recordmcount.pl tracing: Move conditional into update_funcs() in recordmcount.pl tracing: Add regex for weak functions in recordmcount.pl tracing: Move mcount section search to front of loop in recordmcount.pl tracing: Fix objcopy revision check in recordmcount.pl tracing: Check absolute path of input file in recordmcount.pl tracing: Correct the check for number of arguments in recordmcount.pl ...
2009-12-01trace_syscalls: Remove unused syscall_name_to_nr()Lai Jiangshan
After duplications are removed, syscall_name_to_nr() is unused. Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <4B14D2A6.6060803@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-01trace_syscalls: Simplify syscall profileLai Jiangshan
use only one prof_sysenter_enable() instead of prof_sysenter_enable_##sname() use only one prof_sysenter_disable() instead of prof_sysenter_disable_##sname() use only one prof_sysexit_enable() instead of prof_sysexit_enable_##sname() use only one prof_sysexit_disable() instead of prof_sysexit_disable_##sname() Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <4B14D2A1.8060304@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-01trace_syscalls: Remove duplicate init_enter_##sname()Lai Jiangshan
use only one init_syscall_trace instead of many init_enter_##sname()/init_exit_##sname() Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <4B14D29B.6090708@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-01trace_syscalls: Add syscall_nr field to struct syscall_metadataLai Jiangshan
Add syscall_nr field to struct syscall_metadata, it helps us to get syscall number easier. Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <4B14D293.6090800@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-01trace_syscalls: Remove enter_id exit_idLai Jiangshan
use ->enter_event->id instead of ->enter_id use ->exit_event->id instead of ->exit_id Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <4B14D288.7030001@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-01trace_syscalls: Set event_enter_##sname->data to its metadataLai Jiangshan
Set event_enter_##sname->data to its metadata, it makes codes simpler. Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <4B14D282.7050709@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-01trace_syscalls: Remove unused event_syscall_enter and event_syscall_exitLai Jiangshan
fix event_enter_##sname->event fix event_exit_##sname->event remove unused event_syscall_enter and event_syscall_exit Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <4B14D278.4090209@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-01trace_kprobes: Fix a memory leak bug and check kstrdup() return valueMasami Hiramatsu
Fix a memory leak case in create_trace_probe(). When an argument is too long (> MAX_ARGSTR_LEN), it just jumps to error path. In that case tp->args[i].name is not released. This also fixes a bug to check kstrdup()'s return value. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Cc: systemtap <systemtap@sources.redhat.com> Cc: DLE <dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com> Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Cc: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <20091201001919.10235.56455.stgit@harusame> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-27trace_kprobes: Don't output zero offsetLai Jiangshan
"symbol_name+0" is not so friendly. It makes the output longer. Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <4B0CEBCB.7080309@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-27trace_kprobes: Always show group nameLai Jiangshan
Sometimes the group name is not "kprobes", It'll be better if we can read it from tracing/kprobe_events. # echo 'r:laijs/vfs_read vfs_read %ax' > kprobe_events # cat kprobe_events r:laijs/vfs_read vfs_read %ax=%ax Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <4B0CEBAF.6000104@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-27trace_kprobes: Fix memory leakLai Jiangshan
tp->nr_args is not set before we "goto error", it causes memory leak for free_trace_probe() use tp->nr_args to free memory of args. Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <4B0CEB95.2060107@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-27trace_syscalls: Add syscall nr fieldLai Jiangshan
Field syscall number is missed in syscall_enter_define_fields()/ syscall_exit_define_fields(). Syscall number is also needed for event filter or other users. Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> LKML-Reference: <4B0E330D.1070206@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-27hw-breakpoints: Use struct perf_event_attr to define kernel breakpointsFrederic Weisbecker
Kernel breakpoints are created using functions in which we pass breakpoint parameters as individual variables: address, length and type. Although it fits well for x86, this just does not scale across architectures that may support this api later as these may have more or different needs. Pass in a perf_event_attr structure instead because it is meant to evolve as much as possible into a generic hardware breakpoint parameter structure. Reported-by: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <1259294154-5197-2-git-send-regression-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-26hw-breakpoints: Simplify error handling in breakpoint creation requestsFrederic Weisbecker
This simplifies the error handling when we create a breakpoint. We don't need to check the NULL return value corner case anymore since we have improved perf_event_create_kernel_counter() to always return an error code in the failure case. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <1259210142-5714-3-git-send-regression-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-26ksym_tracer: Fix breakpoint removal after modificationFrederic Weisbecker
The error path of a breakpoint modification is broken in the ksym tracer. A modified breakpoint hlist node is immediately released after its removal. Also we leak a breakpoint in this case. Fix the path. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <1259210142-5714-1-git-send-regression-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-25ring-buffer-benchmark: Add parameters to set produce/consumer prioritiesSteven Rostedt
Running the ring-buffer-benchmark's threads at the lowest priority may work well for keeping it in the background, but it is not appropriate for the benchmarks. This patch adds 4 parameters to the module: consumer_fifo consumer_nice producer_fifo producer_nice By default the consumer and producer still run at nice +19. If the *_fifo options are set, they will override the *_nice values. modprobe ring_buffer_benchmark consumer_nice=0 producer_fifo=10 The above will set the consumer thread to a nice value of 0, and the producer thread to a RT SCHED_FIFO priority of 10. Note, this patch also fixes a bug where calling set_user_nice on the consumer thread would oops the kernel when the parameter "disable_reader" is set. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-11-25trace/syscalls: Change ret param in struct syscall_trace_exit to longTom Zanussi
Commit ee949a86b3aef15845ea677aa60231008de62672 ("tracing/syscalls: Use long for syscall ret format and field definitions") changed the syscall exit return type to long, but forgot to change it in the struct. Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> 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> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <1259133299-23594-3-git-send-email-tzanussi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-23perf_events: Undo some recursion damagePeter Zijlstra
Make perf_swevent_get_recursion_context return a context number and disable preemption. This could be used to remove the IRQ disable from the trace bit and index the per-cpu buffer with. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> LKML-Reference: <20091123103819.993226816@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-23tracing, function tracer: Clean up strstrip() usageIngo Molnar
Clean up strstrip() usage - which also addresses this build warning: kernel/trace/ftrace.c: In function 'ftrace_pid_write': kernel/trace/ftrace.c:3004: warning: ignoring return value of 'strstrip', declared with attribute warn_unused_result Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> 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>
2009-11-23ring-buffer benchmark: Run producer/consumer threads at nice +19Ingo Molnar
The ring-buffer benchmark threads run on nice 0 by default, using up a lot of CPU time and slowing down the system: PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 1024 root 20 0 0 0 0 D 95.3 0.0 4:01.67 rb_producer 1023 root 20 0 0 0 0 R 93.5 0.0 2:54.33 rb_consumer 21569 mingo 40 0 14852 1048 772 R 3.6 0.1 0:00.05 top 1 root 40 0 4080 928 668 S 0.0 0.0 0:23.98 init Renice them to +19 to make them less intrusive. Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-22tracing: Forget about the NMI buffer for syscall eventsFrederic Weisbecker
We are never in an NMI context when we commit a syscall trace to perf. So just forget about the nmi buffer there. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <1258863695-10464-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-22tracing: Use the perf recursion protection from trace eventFrederic Weisbecker
When we commit a trace to perf, we first check if we are recursing in the same buffer so that we don't mess-up the buffer with a recursing trace. But later on, we do the same check from perf to avoid commit recursion. The recursion check is desired early before we touch the buffer but we want to do this check only once. Then export the recursion protection from perf and use it from the trace events before submitting a trace. v2: Put appropriate Reported-by tag Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <1258864015-10579-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-21Merge branch 'tracing/hw-breakpoints' into perf/coreIngo Molnar
Conflicts: arch/x86/kernel/kprobes.c kernel/trace/Makefile Merge reason: hw-breakpoints perf integration is looking good in testing and in reviews, plus conflicts are mounting up - so merge & resolve. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-17tracing: Prevent build warning: 'ftrace_graph_buf' defined but not usedLai Jiangshan
Prevent build warning when CONFIG_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER is not set. Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> LKML-Reference: <4AF24381.5060307@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-11-17tracing: Fix trace_marker outputCarsten Emde
When a string was written to <debugfs>/tracing/trace_marker, some strange characters appeared in the trace output instead of the string, since a vprint function erroneously called a vararg print function with a va_list argument. This patch fixes the problem and simplifies the related code. Signed-off-by: Carsten Emde <C.Emde@osadl.org> LKML-Reference: <4B01AE5D.1010801@osadl.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-11-17ring-buffer: Move access to commit_page up into function usedSteven Rostedt
With the change of the way we process commits. Where a commit only happens at the outer most level, and that we don't need to worry about a commit ending after the rb_start_commit() has been called, the code use to grab the commit page before the tail page to prevent a possible race. But this race no longer exists with the rb_start_commit() rb_end_commit() interface. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-11-17Merge branch 'perf/core' into perf/probesIngo Molnar
Resolved merge conflict in tools/perf/Makefile Merge reason: we want to queue up a dependent patch. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-15Merge commit 'v2.6.32-rc7' into perf/coreIngo Molnar
Merge reason: pick up perf fixlets Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-11tracing: do not disable interrupts for trace_clock_localSteven Rostedt
Disabling interrupts in trace_clock_local takes quite a performance hit to the recording of traces. Using perf top we see: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ PerfTop: 244 irqs/sec kernel:100.0% [1000Hz cpu-clock-msecs], (all, 4 CPUs) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ samples pcnt kernel function _______ _____ _______________ 2842.00 - 40.4% : trace_clock_local 1043.00 - 14.8% : rb_reserve_next_event 784.00 - 11.1% : ring_buffer_lock_reserve 600.00 - 8.5% : __rb_reserve_next 579.00 - 8.2% : rb_end_commit 440.00 - 6.3% : ring_buffer_unlock_commit 290.00 - 4.1% : ring_buffer_producer_thread [ring_buffer_benchmark] 155.00 - 2.2% : debug_smp_processor_id 117.00 - 1.7% : trace_recursive_unlock 103.00 - 1.5% : ring_buffer_event_data 28.00 - 0.4% : do_gettimeofday 22.00 - 0.3% : _spin_unlock_irq 14.00 - 0.2% : native_read_tsc 11.00 - 0.2% : getnstimeofday Where trace_clock_local is 40% of the tracing, and the time for recording a trace according to ring_buffer_benchmark is 210ns. After converting the interrupts to preemption disabling we have from perf top: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ PerfTop: 1084 irqs/sec kernel:99.9% [1000Hz cpu-clock-msecs], (all, 4 CPUs) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ samples pcnt kernel function _______ _____ _______________ 1277.00 - 16.8% : native_read_tsc 1148.00 - 15.1% : rb_reserve_next_event 896.00 - 11.8% : ring_buffer_lock_reserve 688.00 - 9.1% : __rb_reserve_next 664.00 - 8.8% : rb_end_commit 563.00 - 7.4% : ring_buffer_unlock_commit 508.00 - 6.7% : _spin_unlock_irq 365.00 - 4.8% : debug_smp_processor_id 321.00 - 4.2% : trace_clock_local 303.00 - 4.0% : ring_buffer_producer_thread [ring_buffer_benchmark] 273.00 - 3.6% : native_sched_clock 122.00 - 1.6% : trace_recursive_unlock 113.00 - 1.5% : sched_clock 101.00 - 1.3% : ring_buffer_event_data 53.00 - 0.7% : tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick Where trace_clock_local drops from 40% to only taking 4% of the total time. The trace time also goes from 210ns down to 179ns (31ns). I talked with Peter Zijlstra about the impact that sched_clock may have without having interrupts disabled, and he told me that if a timer interrupt comes in, sched_clock may report a wrong time. Balancing a seldom incorrect timestamp with a 15% performance boost, I'll take the performance boost. Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-11-11ring-buffer: Add multiple iterations between benchmark timestampsSteven Rostedt
The ring_buffer_benchmark does a gettimeofday after every write to the ring buffer in its measurements. This adds the overhead of the call to gettimeofday to the measurements and does not give an accurate picture of the length of time it takes to record a trace. This was first noticed with perf top: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ PerfTop: 679 irqs/sec kernel:99.9% [1000Hz cpu-clock-msecs], (all, 4 CPUs) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ samples pcnt kernel function _______ _____ _______________ 1673.00 - 27.8% : trace_clock_local 806.00 - 13.4% : do_gettimeofday 590.00 - 9.8% : rb_reserve_next_event 554.00 - 9.2% : native_read_tsc 431.00 - 7.2% : ring_buffer_lock_reserve 365.00 - 6.1% : __rb_reserve_next 355.00 - 5.9% : rb_end_commit 322.00 - 5.4% : getnstimeofday 268.00 - 4.5% : ring_buffer_unlock_commit 262.00 - 4.4% : ring_buffer_producer_thread [ring_buffer_benchmark] 113.00 - 1.9% : read_tsc 91.00 - 1.5% : debug_smp_processor_id 69.00 - 1.1% : trace_recursive_unlock 66.00 - 1.1% : ring_buffer_event_data 25.00 - 0.4% : _spin_unlock_irq And the length of each write to the ring buffer measured at 310ns. This patch adds a new module parameter called "write_interval" which is defaulted to 50. This is the number of writes performed between timestamps. After this patch perf top shows: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ PerfTop: 244 irqs/sec kernel:100.0% [1000Hz cpu-clock-msecs], (all, 4 CPUs) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ samples pcnt kernel function _______ _____ _______________ 2842.00 - 40.4% : trace_clock_local 1043.00 - 14.8% : rb_reserve_next_event 784.00 - 11.1% : ring_buffer_lock_reserve 600.00 - 8.5% : __rb_reserve_next 579.00 - 8.2% : rb_end_commit 440.00 - 6.3% : ring_buffer_unlock_commit 290.00 - 4.1% : ring_buffer_producer_thread [ring_buffer_benchmark] 155.00 - 2.2% : debug_smp_processor_id 117.00 - 1.7% : trace_recursive_unlock 103.00 - 1.5% : ring_buffer_event_data 28.00 - 0.4% : do_gettimeofday 22.00 - 0.3% : _spin_unlock_irq 14.00 - 0.2% : native_read_tsc 11.00 - 0.2% : getnstimeofday do_gettimeofday dropped from 13% usage to a mere 0.4%! (using the default 50 interval) The measurement for each timestamp went from 310ns to 210ns. That's 100ns (1/3rd) overhead that the gettimeofday call was introducing. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-11-11tracing: Fix return value of tracing_stats_read()Roel Kluin
The function tracing_stats_read() mistakenly returns ENOMEM instead of the negative value -ENOMEM. Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <4AFB2C0B.50605@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-11-10ksym_tracer: Support read accesses independent of read/write.Paul Mundt
All of the infrastructure already exists to support read accesses for platforms that support a read access independently of read/write (such as in the case of the SuperH UBC). This just trivially hooks up the read case by itself. Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> LKML-Reference: <20091109083733.GA25848@linux-sh.org> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2009-11-08ksym_tracer: Remove KSYM_SELFTEST_ENTRYLi Zefan
The macro used to be used in both trace_selftest.c and trace_ksym.c, but no longer, so remove it from header file. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2009-11-08hw-breakpoints: Rewrite the hw-breakpoints layer on top of perf eventsFrederic Weisbecker
This patch rebase the implementation of the breakpoints API on top of perf events instances. Each breakpoints are now perf events that handle the register scheduling, thread/cpu attachment, etc.. The new layering is now made as follows: ptrace kgdb ftrace perf syscall \ | / / \ | / / / Core breakpoint API / / | / | / Breakpoints perf events | | Breakpoints PMU ---- Debug Register constraints handling (Part of core breakpoint API) | | Hardware debug registers Reasons of this rewrite: - Use the centralized/optimized pmu registers scheduling, implying an easier arch integration - More powerful register handling: perf attributes (pinned/flexible events, exclusive/non-exclusive, tunable period, etc...) Impact: - New perf ABI: the hardware breakpoints counters - Ptrace breakpoints setting remains tricky and still needs some per thread breakpoints references. Todo (in the order): - Support breakpoints perf counter events for perf tools (ie: implement perf_bpcounter_event()) - Support from perf tools Changes in v2: - Follow the perf "event " rename - The ptrace regression have been fixed (ptrace breakpoint perf events weren't released when a task ended) - Drop the struct hw_breakpoint and store generic fields in perf_event_attr. - Separate core and arch specific headers, drop asm-generic/hw_breakpoint.h and create linux/hw_breakpoint.h - Use new generic len/type for breakpoint - Handle off case: when breakpoints api is not supported by an arch Changes in v3: - Fix broken CONFIG_KVM, we need to propagate the breakpoint api changes to kvm when we exit the guest and restore the bp registers to the host. Changes in v4: - Drop the hw_breakpoint_restore() stub as it is only used by KVM - EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL hw_breakpoint_restore() as KVM can be built as a module - Restore the breakpoints unconditionally on kvm guest exit: TIF_DEBUG_THREAD doesn't anymore cover every cases of running breakpoints and vcpu->arch.switch_db_regs might not always be set when the guest used debug registers. (Waiting for a reliable optimization) Changes in v5: - Split-up the asm-generic/hw-breakpoint.h moving to linux/hw_breakpoint.h into a separate patch - Optimize the breakpoints restoring while switching from kvm guest to host. We only want to restore the state if we have active breakpoints to the host, otherwise we don't care about messed-up address registers. - Add asm/hw_breakpoint.h to Kbuild - Fix bad breakpoint type in trace_selftest.c Changes in v6: - Fix wrong header inclusion in trace.h (triggered a build error with CONFIG_FTRACE_SELFTEST Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
2009-11-08tracing, perf_events: Protect the buffer from recursion in perfFrederic Weisbecker
While tracing using events with perf, if one enables the lockdep:lock_acquire event, it will infect every other perf trace events. Basically, you can enable whatever set of trace events through perf but if this event is part of the set, the only result we can get is a long list of lock_acquire events of rcu read lock, and only that. This is because of a recursion inside perf. 1) When a trace event is triggered, it will fill a per cpu buffer and submit it to perf. 2) Perf will commit this event but will also protect some data using rcu_read_lock 3) A recursion appears: rcu_read_lock triggers a lock_acquire event that will fill the per cpu event and then submit the buffer to perf. 4) Perf detects a recursion and ignores it 5) Perf continues its work on the previous event, but its buffer has been overwritten by the lock_acquire event, it has then been turned into a lock_acquire event of rcu read lock Such scenario also happens with lock_release with rcu_read_unlock(). We could turn the rcu_read_lock() into __rcu_read_lock() to drop the lock debugging from perf fast path, but that would make us lose the rcu debugging and that doesn't prevent from other possible kind of recursion from perf in the future. This patch adds a recursion protection based on a counter on the perf trace per cpu buffers to solve the problem. -v2: Fixed lost whitespace, added reviewed-by tag Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> 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> Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <1257477185-7838-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-04tracing/kprobes: Rename Kprobe-tracer to kprobe-eventMasami Hiramatsu
Rename Kprobes-based event tracer to kprobes-based tracing event (kprobe-event), since it is not a tracer but an extensible tracing event interface. This also changes CONFIG_KPROBE_TRACER to CONFIG_KPROBE_EVENT and sets it y by default. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com> Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com> Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Cc: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <20091104001247.3454.14131.stgit@harusame> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-04Merge commit 'v2.6.32-rc6' into perf/coreIngo Molnar
Conflicts: tools/perf/Makefile Merge reason: Resolve the conflict, merge to upstream and merge in perf fixes so we can add a dependent patch. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-04ftrace: Fix unmatched locking in ftrace_regex_write()Li Zefan
When a command is passed to the set_ftrace_filter, then the ftrace_regex_lock is still held going back to user space. # echo 'do_open : foo' > set_ftrace_filter (still holding ftrace_regex_lock when returning to user space!) Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> LKML-Reference: <4AEF7F8A.3080300@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-11-04ring-buffer: Synchronize resizing buffer with reader lockLai Jiangshan
We got a sudden panic when we reduced the size of the ringbuffer. We can reproduce the panic by the following steps: echo 1 > events/sched/enable cat trace_pipe > /dev/null & while ((1)) do echo 12000 > buffer_size_kb echo 512 > buffer_size_kb done (not more than 5 seconds, panic ...) Reported-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> LKML-Reference: <4AF01735.9060409@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-11-02tracing: Fix to use __always_unused attributeLi Zefan
____ftrace_check_##name() is used for compile-time check on F_printk() only, so it should be marked as __unused instead of __used. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> LKML-Reference: <4AEE2D01.4010305@cn.fujitsu.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>
2009-10-29tracing/filters: Fix to make system filter workLi Zefan
commit fce29d15b59245597f7f320db4a9f2be0f5fb512 ("tracing/filters: Refactor subsystem filter code") broke system filter accidentally. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <4AE810BD.3070009@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-29kprobe-tracer: Compare both of event-name and event-group to find probeMasami Hiramatsu
Fix find_probe_event() to compare both of event-name and event-group. Without this fix, kprobe-tracer overwrites existing same event-name probe even if its group-name is different. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com> Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Cc: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <20091027204244.30545.27516.stgit@harusame> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-24tracing: Remove cpu arg from the rb_time_stamp() functionJiri Olsa
The cpu argument is not used inside the rb_time_stamp() function. Plus fix a typo. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <20091023233647.118547500@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-24tracing: Fix comment typo and documentation exampleJiri Olsa
Trivial patch to fix a documentation example and to fix a comment. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <20091023233646.871719877@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-24tracing: Fix trace_seq_printf() return valueJiri Olsa
trace_seq_printf() return value is a little ambiguous. It currently returns the length of the space available in the buffer. printf usually returns the amount written. This is not adequate here, because: trace_seq_printf(s, ""); is perfectly legal, and returning 0 would indicate that it failed. We can always see the amount written by looking at the before and after values of s->len. This is not quite the same use as printf. We only care if the string was successfully written to the buffer or not. Make trace_seq_printf() return 0 if the trace oversizes the buffer's free space, 1 otherwise. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <20091023233646.631787612@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-24tracing: Update *ppos instead of filp->f_posJiri Olsa
Instead of directly updating filp->f_pos we should update the *ppos argument. The filp->f_pos gets updated within the file_pos_write() function called from sys_write(). Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <20091023233646.399670810@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-23Merge branch 'perf/core' into perf/probesIngo Molnar
Conflicts: tools/perf/Makefile Merge reason: - fix the conflict - pick up the pr_*() infrastructure to queue up dependent patch Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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