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zhangwei(Jovi)
b3a8c6fd7b tracing: Move find_event_field() into trace_events.c
By moving find_event_field() and trace_find_field() into trace_events.c,
the ftrace_common_fields list and trace_get_fields() can become local to
the trace_events.c file.

find_event_field() is renamed to trace_find_event_field() to conform to
the tracing global function names.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/513D8426.9070109@huawei.com

Signed-off-by: zhangwei(Jovi) <jovi.zhangwei@huawei.com>
[ rostedt: Modified trace_find_field() to trace_find_event_field() ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-03-15 13:22:07 -04:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)
328df4759c tracing: Add function-trace option to disable function tracing of latency tracers
Currently, the only way to stop the latency tracers from doing function
tracing is to fully disable the function tracer from the proc file
system:

  echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/ftrace_enabled

This is a big hammer approach as it disables function tracing for
all users. This includes kprobes, perf, stack tracer, etc.

Instead, create a function-trace option that the latency tracers can
check to determine if it should enable function tracing or not.
This option can be set or cleared even while the tracer is active
and the tracers will disable or enable function tracing depending
on how the option was set.

Instead of using the proc file, disable latency function tracing with

  echo 0 > /debug/tracing/options/function-trace

Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com>
Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-03-15 00:36:08 -04:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)
ca268da6e4 tracing: Add internal ftrace trace_puts() for ftrace to use
There's a few places that ftrace uses trace_printk() for internal
use, but this requires context (normal, softirq, irq, NMI) buffers
to keep things lockless. But the trace_puts() does not, as it can
write the string directly into the ring buffer. Make a internal helper
for trace_puts() and have the internal functions use that.

This way the extra context buffers are not used.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-03-15 00:35:56 -04:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)
09ae72348e tracing: Add trace_puts() for even faster trace_printk() tracing
The trace_printk() is extremely fast and is very handy as it can be
used in any context (including NMIs!). But it still requires scanning
the fmt string for parsing the args. Even the trace_bprintk() requires
a scan to know what args will be saved, although it doesn't copy the
format string itself.

Several times trace_printk() has no args, and wastes cpu cycles scanning
the fmt string.

Adding trace_puts() allows the developer to use an even faster
tracing method that only saves the pointer to the string in the
ring buffer without doing any format parsing at all. This will
help remove even more of the "Heisenbug" effect, when debugging.

Also fixed up the F_printk()s for the ftrace internal bprint and print events.

Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-03-15 00:35:55 -04:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)
55034cd6e6 tracing: Add alloc_snapshot kernel command line parameter
If debugging the kernel, and the developer wants to use
tracing_snapshot() in places where tracing_snapshot_alloc() may
be difficult (or more likely, the developer is lazy and doesn't
want to bother with tracing_snapshot_alloc() at all), then adding

  alloc_snapshot

to the kernel command line parameter will tell ftrace to allocate
the snapshot buffer (if configured) when it allocates the main
tracing buffer.

I also noticed that ring_buffer_expanded and tracing_selftest_disabled
had inconsistent use of boolean "true" and "false" with "0" and "1".
I cleaned that up too.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-03-15 00:35:53 -04:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)
a695cb5816 tracing: Prevent deleting instances when they are being read
Add a ref count to the trace_array structure and prevent removal
of instances that have open descriptors.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-03-15 00:35:51 -04:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)
45ad21ca55 tracing: Have trace_array keep track if snapshot buffer is allocated
The snapshot buffer belongs to the trace array not the tracer that is
running. The trace array should be the data structure that keeps track
of whether or not the snapshot buffer is allocated, not the tracer
desciptor. Having the trace array keep track of it makes modifications
so much easier.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-03-15 00:35:48 -04:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)
12883efb67 tracing: Consolidate max_tr into main trace_array structure
Currently, the way the latency tracers and snapshot feature works
is to have a separate trace_array called "max_tr" that holds the
snapshot buffer. For latency tracers, this snapshot buffer is used
to swap the running buffer with this buffer to save the current max
latency.

The only items needed for the max_tr is really just a copy of the buffer
itself, the per_cpu data pointers, the time_start timestamp that states
when the max latency was triggered, and the cpu that the max latency
was triggered on. All other fields in trace_array are unused by the
max_tr, making the max_tr mostly bloat.

This change removes the max_tr completely, and adds a new structure
called trace_buffer, that holds the buffer pointer, the per_cpu data
pointers, the time_start timestamp, and the cpu where the latency occurred.

The trace_array, now has two trace_buffers, one for the normal trace and
one for the max trace or snapshot. By doing this, not only do we remove
the bloat from the max_trace but the instances of traces can now use
their own snapshot feature and not have just the top level global_trace have
the snapshot feature and latency tracers for itself.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-03-15 00:35:40 -04:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)
873c642f59 tracing: Clear all trace buffers when unloaded module event was used
Currently we do not know what buffer a module event was enabled in.
On unload, it is safest to clear all buffer instances, not just the
top level buffer.

Todo: Clear only the buffer that the event was used in. The
infrastructure is there to do this, but it makes the code a bit
more complex. Lets get the current code vetted before we add that.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-03-15 00:34:57 -04:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)
34ef61b1fa tracing: Add __per_cpu annotation to trace array percpu data pointer
With the conversion of the data array to per cpu, sparse now complains
about the use of per_cpu_ptr() on the variable. But The variable is
allocated with alloc_percpu() and is fine to use. But since the structure
that contains the data variable does not annotate it as such, sparse
gives out a lot of false warnings.

Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-03-15 00:34:52 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
92edca073c tracing: Use direct field, type and system names
The names used to display the field and type in the event format
files are copied, as well as the system name that is displayed.

All these names are created by constant values passed in.
If one of theses values were to be removed by a module, the module
would also be required to remove any event it created.

By using the strings directly, we can save over 100K of memory.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-03-15 00:34:47 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
0c8916c342 tracing: Add rmdir to remove multibuffer instances
Add a method to the hijacked dentry descriptor of the
"instances" directory to allow for rmdir to remove an
instance of a multibuffer.

Example:

  cd /debug/tracing/instances
  mkdir hello
  ls
hello/
  rmdir hello
  ls

Like the mkdir method, the i_mutex is dropped for the instances
directory. The instances directory is created at boot up and can
not be renamed or removed. The trace_types_lock mutex is used to
synchronize adding and removing of instances.

I've run several stress tests with different threads trying to
create and delete directories of the same name, and it has stood
up fine.

Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-03-15 00:34:45 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
277ba04461 tracing: Add interface to allow multiple trace buffers
Add the interface ("instances" directory) to add multiple buffers
to ftrace. To create a new instance, simply do a mkdir in the
instances directory:

This will create a directory with the following:

 # cd instances
 # mkdir foo
 # ls foo
buffer_size_kb        free_buffer  trace_clock    trace_pipe
buffer_total_size_kb  set_event    trace_marker   tracing_enabled
events/               trace        trace_options  tracing_on

Currently only events are able to be set, and there isn't a way
to delete a buffer when one is created (yet).

Note, the i_mutex lock is dropped from the parent "instances"
directory during the mkdir operation. As the "instances" directory
can not be renamed or deleted (created on boot), I do not see
any harm in dropping the lock. The creation of the sub directories
is protected by trace_types_lock mutex, which only lets one
instance get into the code path at a time. If two tasks try to
create or delete directories of the same name, only one will occur
and the other will fail with -EEXIST.

Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-03-15 00:34:44 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
12ab74ee00 tracing: Make syscall events suitable for multiple buffers
Currently the syscall events record into the global buffer. But if
multiple buffers are in place, then we need to have syscall events
record in the proper buffers.

By adding descriptors to pass to the syscall event functions, the
syscall events can now record into the buffers that have been assigned
to them (one event may be applied to mulitple buffers).

This will allow tracing high volume syscalls along with seldom occurring
syscalls without losing the seldom syscall events.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-03-15 00:34:44 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
a7603ff4b5 tracing: Replace the static global per_cpu arrays with allocated per_cpu
The global and max-tr currently use static per_cpu arrays for the CPU data
descriptors. But in order to get new allocated trace_arrays, they need to
be allocated per_cpu arrays. Instead of using the static arrays, switch
the global and max-tr to use allocated data.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-03-15 00:34:43 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
2b6080f28c tracing: Encapsulate global_trace and remove dependencies on global vars
The global_trace variable in kernel/trace/trace.c has been kept 'static' and
local to that file so that it would not be used too much outside of that
file. This has paid off, even though there were lots of changes to make
the trace_array structure more generic (not depending on global_trace).

Removal of a lot of direct usages of global_trace is needed to be able to
create more trace_arrays such that we can add multiple buffers.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-03-15 00:34:42 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
ae3b5093ad tracing: Use RING_BUFFER_ALL_CPUS for TRACE_PIPE_ALL_CPU
Both RING_BUFFER_ALL_CPUS and TRACE_PIPE_ALL_CPU are defined as
-1 and used to say that all the ring buffers are to be modified
or read (instead of just a single cpu, which would be >= 0).

There's no reason to keep TRACE_PIPE_ALL_CPU as it is also started
to be used for more than what it was created for, and now that
the ring buffer code added a generic RING_BUFFER_ALL_CPUS define,
we can clean up the trace code to use that instead and remove
the TRACE_PIPE_ALL_CPU macro.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-03-15 00:34:41 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
ae63b31e4d tracing: Separate out trace events from global variables
The trace events for ftrace are all defined via global variables.
The arrays of events and event systems are linked to a global list.
This prevents multiple users of the event system (what to enable and
what not to).

By adding descriptors to represent the event/file relation, as well
as to which trace_array descriptor they are associated with, allows
for more than one set of events to be defined. Once the trace events
files have a link between the trace event and the trace_array they
are associated with, we can create multiple trace_arrays that can
record separate events in separate buffers.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-03-15 00:34:40 -04:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)
613f04a0f5 tracing: Prevent buffer overwrite disabled for latency tracers
The latency tracers require the buffers to be in overwrite mode,
otherwise they get screwed up. Force the buffers to stay in overwrite
mode when latency tracers are enabled.

Added a flag_changed() method to the tracer structure to allow
the tracers to see what flags are being changed, and also be able
to prevent the change from happing.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-03-14 23:40:21 -04:00
Hiraku Toyooka
debdd57f51 tracing: Make a snapshot feature available from userspace
Ftrace has a snapshot feature available from kernel space and
latency tracers (e.g. irqsoff) are using it. This patch enables
user applictions to take a snapshot via debugfs.

Add "snapshot" debugfs file in "tracing" directory.

  snapshot:
    This is used to take a snapshot and to read the output of the
    snapshot.

     # echo 1 > snapshot

    This will allocate the spare buffer for snapshot (if it is
    not allocated), and take a snapshot.

     # cat snapshot

    This will show contents of the snapshot.

     # echo 0 > snapshot

    This will free the snapshot if it is allocated.

    Any other positive values will clear the snapshot contents if
    the snapshot is allocated, or return EINVAL if it is not allocated.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20121226025300.3252.86850.stgit@liselsia

Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: David Sharp <dhsharp@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Hiraku Toyooka <hiraku.toyooka.gu@hitachi.com>
[
   Fixed irqsoff selftest and also a conflict with a change
   that fixes the update_max_tr.
]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-01-30 11:02:06 -05:00
Steven Rostedt
567cd4da54 ring-buffer: User context bit recursion checking
Using context bit recursion checking, we can help increase the
performance of the ring buffer.

Before this patch:

 # echo function > /debug/tracing/current_tracer
 # for i in `seq 10`; do ./hackbench 50; done
Time: 10.285
Time: 10.407
Time: 10.243
Time: 10.372
Time: 10.380
Time: 10.198
Time: 10.272
Time: 10.354
Time: 10.248
Time: 10.253

(average: 10.3012)

Now we have:

 # echo function > /debug/tracing/current_tracer
 # for i in `seq 10`; do ./hackbench 50; done
Time: 9.712
Time: 9.824
Time: 9.861
Time: 9.827
Time: 9.962
Time: 9.905
Time: 9.886
Time: 10.088
Time: 9.861
Time: 9.834

(average: 9.876)

 a 4% savings!

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-01-22 23:38:03 -05:00
Steven Rostedt
edc15cafcb tracing: Avoid unnecessary multiple recursion checks
When function tracing occurs, the following steps are made:
  If arch does not support a ftrace feature:
   call internal function (uses INTERNAL bits) which calls...
  If callback is registered to the "global" list, the list
   function is called and recursion checks the GLOBAL bits.
   then this function calls...
  The function callback, which can use the FTRACE bits to
   check for recursion.

Now if the arch does not suppport a feature, and it calls
the global list function which calls the ftrace callback
all three of these steps will do a recursion protection.
There's no reason to do one if the previous caller already
did. The recursion that we are protecting against will
go through the same steps again.

To prevent the multiple recursion checks, if a recursion
bit is set that is higher than the MAX bit of the current
check, then we know that the check was made by the previous
caller, and we can skip the current check.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-01-22 23:38:01 -05:00
Steven Rostedt
e46cbf75c6 tracing: Make the trace recursion bits into enums
Convert the bits into enums which makes the code a little easier
to maintain.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-01-22 23:38:00 -05:00
Steven Rostedt
c29f122cd7 ftrace: Add context level recursion bit checking
Currently for recursion checking in the function tracer, ftrace
tests a task_struct bit to determine if the function tracer had
recursed or not. If it has, then it will will return without going
further.

But this leads to races. If an interrupt came in after the bit
was set, the functions being traced would see that bit set and
think that the function tracer recursed on itself, and would return.

Instead add a bit for each context (normal, softirq, irq and nmi).

A check of which context the task is in is made before testing the
associated bit. Now if an interrupt preempts the function tracer
after the previous context has been set, the interrupt functions
can still be traced.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-01-22 23:38:00 -05:00
David Sharp
8be0709f10 tracing: Format non-nanosec times from tsc clock without a decimal point.
With the addition of the "tsc" clock, formatting timestamps to look like
fractional seconds is misleading. Mark clocks as either in nanoseconds or
not, and format non-nanosecond timestamps as decimal integers.

Tested:
$ cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
$ cat trace_clock
[local] global tsc
$ echo sched_switch > set_event
$ echo 1 > tracing_on ; sleep 0.0005 ; echo 0 > tracing_on
$ cat trace
          <idle>-0     [000]  6330.555552: sched_switch: prev_comm=swapper prev_pid=0 prev_prio=120 prev_state=R ==> next_comm=bash next_pid=29964 next_prio=120
           sleep-29964 [000]  6330.555628: sched_switch: prev_comm=bash prev_pid=29964 prev_prio=120 prev_state=S ==> next_comm=swapper next_pid=0 next_prio=120
  ...
$ echo 1 > options/latency-format
$ cat trace
  <idle>-0       0 4104553247us+: sched_switch: prev_comm=swapper prev_pid=0 prev_prio=120 prev_state=R ==> next_comm=bash next_pid=29964 next_prio=120
   sleep-29964   0 4104553322us+: sched_switch: prev_comm=bash prev_pid=29964 prev_prio=120 prev_state=S ==> next_comm=swapper next_pid=0 next_prio=120
  ...
$ echo tsc > trace_clock
$ cat trace
$ echo 1 > tracing_on ; sleep 0.0005 ; echo 0 > tracing_on
$ echo 0 > options/latency-format
$ cat trace
          <idle>-0     [000] 16490053398357: sched_switch: prev_comm=swapper prev_pid=0 prev_prio=120 prev_state=R ==> next_comm=bash next_pid=31128 next_prio=120
           sleep-31128 [000] 16490053588518: sched_switch: prev_comm=bash prev_pid=31128 prev_prio=120 prev_state=S ==> next_comm=swapper next_pid=0 next_prio=120
  ...
echo 1 > options/latency-format
$ cat trace
  <idle>-0       0 91557653238+: sched_switch: prev_comm=swapper prev_pid=0 prev_prio=120 prev_state=R ==> next_comm=bash next_pid=31128 next_prio=120
   sleep-31128   0 91557843399+: sched_switch: prev_comm=bash prev_pid=31128 prev_prio=120 prev_state=S ==> next_comm=swapper next_pid=0 next_prio=120
  ...

v2:
Move arch-specific bits out of generic code.
v4:
Fix x86_32 build due to 64-bit division.

Google-Bug-Id: 6980623
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1352837903-32191-2-git-send-email-dhsharp@google.com

Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sharp <dhsharp@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2012-11-13 15:48:40 -05:00
Steven Rostedt
0d5c6e1c19 tracing: Use irq_work for wake ups and remove *_nowake_*() functions
Have the ring buffer commit function use the irq_work infrastructure to
wake up any waiters waiting on the ring buffer for new data. The irq_work
was created for such a purpose, where doing the actual wake up at the
time of adding data is too dangerous, as an event or function trace may
be in the midst of the work queue locks and cause deadlocks. The irq_work
will either delay the action to the next timer interrupt, or trigger an IPI
to itself forcing an interrupt to do the work (in a safe location).

With irq_work, all ring buffer commits can safely do wakeups, removing
the need for the ring buffer commit "nowake" variants, which were used
by events and function tracing. All commits can now safely use the
normal commit, and the "nowake" variants can be removed.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2012-11-02 10:21:52 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
c7b84ecada tracing: Remove unused function unregister_tracer()
The function register_tracer() is only used by kernel core code,
that never needs to remove the tracer. As trace_events have become
the main way to add new tracing to the kernel, the need to
unregister a tracer has diminished. Remove the unused function
unregister_tracer(). If a need arises where we need it, then we
can always add it back.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2012-11-02 10:21:50 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
7ffbd48d5c tracing: Cache comms only after an event occurred
Whenever an event is registered, the comm of tasks are saved at
every task switch instead of saving them at every event. But if
an event isn't executed much, the comm cache will be filled up
by tasks that did not record the event and you lose out on the comms
that did.

Here's an example, if you enable the following events:

echo 1 > /debug/tracing/events/kvm/kvm_cr/enable
echo 1 > /debug/tracing/events/net/net_dev_xmit/enable

Note, there's no kvm running on this machine so the first event will
never be triggered, but because it is enabled, the storing of comms
will continue. If we now disable the network event:

echo 0 > /debug/tracing/events/net/net_dev_xmit/enable

and look at the trace:

cat /debug/tracing/trace
            sshd-2672  [001] ..s2   375.731616: net_dev_xmit: dev=eth0 skbaddr=ffff88005cbb6de0 len=242 rc=0
            sshd-2672  [001] ..s1   375.731617: net_dev_xmit: dev=br0 skbaddr=ffff88005cbb6de0 len=242 rc=0
            sshd-2672  [001] ..s2   375.859356: net_dev_xmit: dev=eth0 skbaddr=ffff88005cbb6de0 len=242 rc=0
            sshd-2672  [001] ..s1   375.859357: net_dev_xmit: dev=br0 skbaddr=ffff88005cbb6de0 len=242 rc=0
            sshd-2672  [001] ..s2   375.947351: net_dev_xmit: dev=eth0 skbaddr=ffff88005cbb6de0 len=242 rc=0
            sshd-2672  [001] ..s1   375.947352: net_dev_xmit: dev=br0 skbaddr=ffff88005cbb6de0 len=242 rc=0
            sshd-2672  [001] ..s2   376.035383: net_dev_xmit: dev=eth0 skbaddr=ffff88005cbb6de0 len=242 rc=0
            sshd-2672  [001] ..s1   376.035383: net_dev_xmit: dev=br0 skbaddr=ffff88005cbb6de0 len=242 rc=0
            sshd-2672  [001] ..s2   377.563806: net_dev_xmit: dev=eth0 skbaddr=ffff88005cbb6de0 len=226 rc=0
            sshd-2672  [001] ..s1   377.563807: net_dev_xmit: dev=br0 skbaddr=ffff88005cbb6de0 len=226 rc=0
            sshd-2672  [001] ..s2   377.563834: net_dev_xmit: dev=eth0 skbaddr=ffff88005cbb6be0 len=114 rc=0
            sshd-2672  [001] ..s1   377.563842: net_dev_xmit: dev=br0 skbaddr=ffff88005cbb6be0 len=114 rc=0

We see that process 2672 which triggered the events has the comm "sshd".
But if we run hackbench for a bit and look again:

cat /debug/tracing/trace
           <...>-2672  [001] ..s2   375.731616: net_dev_xmit: dev=eth0 skbaddr=ffff88005cbb6de0 len=242 rc=0
           <...>-2672  [001] ..s1   375.731617: net_dev_xmit: dev=br0 skbaddr=ffff88005cbb6de0 len=242 rc=0
           <...>-2672  [001] ..s2   375.859356: net_dev_xmit: dev=eth0 skbaddr=ffff88005cbb6de0 len=242 rc=0
           <...>-2672  [001] ..s1   375.859357: net_dev_xmit: dev=br0 skbaddr=ffff88005cbb6de0 len=242 rc=0
           <...>-2672  [001] ..s2   375.947351: net_dev_xmit: dev=eth0 skbaddr=ffff88005cbb6de0 len=242 rc=0
           <...>-2672  [001] ..s1   375.947352: net_dev_xmit: dev=br0 skbaddr=ffff88005cbb6de0 len=242 rc=0
           <...>-2672  [001] ..s2   376.035383: net_dev_xmit: dev=eth0 skbaddr=ffff88005cbb6de0 len=242 rc=0
           <...>-2672  [001] ..s1   376.035383: net_dev_xmit: dev=br0 skbaddr=ffff88005cbb6de0 len=242 rc=0
           <...>-2672  [001] ..s2   377.563806: net_dev_xmit: dev=eth0 skbaddr=ffff88005cbb6de0 len=226 rc=0
           <...>-2672  [001] ..s1   377.563807: net_dev_xmit: dev=br0 skbaddr=ffff88005cbb6de0 len=226 rc=0
           <...>-2672  [001] ..s2   377.563834: net_dev_xmit: dev=eth0 skbaddr=ffff88005cbb6be0 len=114 rc=0
           <...>-2672  [001] ..s1   377.563842: net_dev_xmit: dev=br0 skbaddr=ffff88005cbb6be0 len=114 rc=0

The stored "sshd" comm has been flushed out and we get a useless "<...>".

But by only storing comms after a trace event occurred, we can run
hackbench all day and still get the same output.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2012-10-31 16:45:31 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
81698831bc tracing: Enable comm recording if trace_printk() is used
If comm recording is not enabled when trace_printk() is used then
you just get this type of output:

[ adding trace_printk("hello! %d", irq); in do_IRQ ]

           <...>-2843  [001] d.h.    80.812300: do_IRQ: hello! 14
           <...>-2734  [002] d.h2    80.824664: do_IRQ: hello! 14
           <...>-2713  [003] d.h.    80.829971: do_IRQ: hello! 14
           <...>-2814  [000] d.h.    80.833026: do_IRQ: hello! 14

By enabling the comm recorder when trace_printk is enabled:

       hackbench-6715  [001] d.h.   193.233776: do_IRQ: hello! 21
            sshd-2659  [001] d.h.   193.665862: do_IRQ: hello! 21
          <idle>-0     [001] d.h1   193.665996: do_IRQ: hello! 21

Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2012-10-31 16:45:29 -04:00
Hiraku Toyooka
f43c738bfa tracing: Change tracer's integer flags to bool
print_max and use_max_tr in struct tracer are "int" variables and
used like flags. This is wasteful, so change the type to "bool".

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20121002082710.9807.86393.stgit@falsita

Signed-off-by: Hiraku Toyooka <hiraku.toyooka.gu@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2012-10-31 16:45:25 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
437589a74b Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace
Pull user namespace changes from Eric Biederman:
 "This is a mostly modest set of changes to enable basic user namespace
  support.  This allows the code to code to compile with user namespaces
  enabled and removes the assumption there is only the initial user
  namespace.  Everything is converted except for the most complex of the
  filesystems: autofs4, 9p, afs, ceph, cifs, coda, fuse, gfs2, ncpfs,
  nfs, ocfs2 and xfs as those patches need a bit more review.

  The strategy is to push kuid_t and kgid_t values are far down into
  subsystems and filesystems as reasonable.  Leaving the make_kuid and
  from_kuid operations to happen at the edge of userspace, as the values
  come off the disk, and as the values come in from the network.
  Letting compile type incompatible compile errors (present when user
  namespaces are enabled) guide me to find the issues.

  The most tricky areas have been the places where we had an implicit
  union of uid and gid values and were storing them in an unsigned int.
  Those places were converted into explicit unions.  I made certain to
  handle those places with simple trivial patches.

  Out of that work I discovered we have generic interfaces for storing
  quota by projid.  I had never heard of the project identifiers before.
  Adding full user namespace support for project identifiers accounts
  for most of the code size growth in my git tree.

  Ultimately there will be work to relax privlige checks from
  "capable(FOO)" to "ns_capable(user_ns, FOO)" where it is safe allowing
  root in a user names to do those things that today we only forbid to
  non-root users because it will confuse suid root applications.

  While I was pushing kuid_t and kgid_t changes deep into the audit code
  I made a few other cleanups.  I capitalized on the fact we process
  netlink messages in the context of the message sender.  I removed
  usage of NETLINK_CRED, and started directly using current->tty.

  Some of these patches have also made it into maintainer trees, with no
  problems from identical code from different trees showing up in
  linux-next.

  After reading through all of this code I feel like I might be able to
  win a game of kernel trivial pursuit."

Fix up some fairly trivial conflicts in netfilter uid/git logging code.

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace: (107 commits)
  userns: Convert the ufs filesystem to use kuid/kgid where appropriate
  userns: Convert the udf filesystem to use kuid/kgid where appropriate
  userns: Convert ubifs to use kuid/kgid
  userns: Convert squashfs to use kuid/kgid where appropriate
  userns: Convert reiserfs to use kuid and kgid where appropriate
  userns: Convert jfs to use kuid/kgid where appropriate
  userns: Convert jffs2 to use kuid and kgid where appropriate
  userns: Convert hpfs to use kuid and kgid where appropriate
  userns: Convert btrfs to use kuid/kgid where appropriate
  userns: Convert bfs to use kuid/kgid where appropriate
  userns: Convert affs to use kuid/kgid wherwe appropriate
  userns: On alpha modify linux_to_osf_stat to use convert from kuids and kgids
  userns: On ia64 deal with current_uid and current_gid being kuid and kgid
  userns: On ppc convert current_uid from a kuid before printing.
  userns: Convert s390 getting uid and gid system calls to use kuid and kgid
  userns: Convert s390 hypfs to use kuid and kgid where appropriate
  userns: Convert binder ipc to use kuids
  userns: Teach security_path_chown to take kuids and kgids
  userns: Add user namespace support to IMA
  userns: Convert EVM to deal with kuids and kgids in it's hmac computation
  ...
2012-10-02 11:11:09 -07:00
Mandeep Singh Baines
5224c3a315 tracing: Add an option for disabling markers
In our application, we have trace markers spread through user-space.
We have markers in GL, X, etc. These are super handy for Chrome's
about:tracing feature (Chrome + system + kernel trace view), but
can be very distracting when you're trying to debug a kernel issue.

I normally, use "grep -v tracing_mark_write" but it would be nice
if I could just temporarily disable markers all together.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1347066739-26285-1-git-send-email-msb@chromium.org

CC: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2012-09-24 14:10:44 -04:00
Eric W. Biederman
d20b92ab66 userns: Teach trace to use from_kuid
- When tracing capture the kuid.
- When displaying the data to user space convert the kuid into the
  user namespace of the process that opened the report file.

Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2012-09-18 01:01:34 -07:00
Steven Rostedt
ad97772ad8 ftrace: Add selftest to test function save-regs support
Add selftests to test the save-regs functionality of ftrace.

If the arch supports saving regs, then it will make sure that regs is
at least not NULL in the callback.

If the arch does not support saving regs, it makes sure that the
registering of the ftrace_ops that requests saving regs fails.
It then tests the registering of the ftrace_ops succeeds if the
'IF_SUPPORTED' flag is set. Then it makes sure that the regs passed to
the function is NULL.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2012-07-31 10:29:54 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
6d158a813e tracing: Remove NR_CPUS array from trace_iterator
Replace the NR_CPUS array of buffer_iter from the trace_iterator
with an allocated array. This will just create an array of
possible CPUS instead of the max number specified.

The use of NR_CPUS in that array caused allocation failures for
machines that were tight on memory. This did not cause any failures
to the system itself (no crashes), but caused unnecessary failures
for reading the trace files.

Added a helper function called 'trace_buffer_iter()' that returns
the buffer_iter item or NULL if it is not defined or the array was
not allocated. Some routines do not require the array
(tracing_open_pipe() for one).

Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2012-06-28 13:52:15 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
654443e20d Merge branch 'perf-uprobes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull user-space probe instrumentation from Ingo Molnar:
 "The uprobes code originates from SystemTap and has been used for years
  in Fedora and RHEL kernels.  This version is much rewritten, reviews
  from PeterZ, Oleg and myself shaped the end result.

  This tree includes uprobes support in 'perf probe' - but SystemTap
  (and other tools) can take advantage of user probe points as well.

  Sample usage of uprobes via perf, for example to profile malloc()
  calls without modifying user-space binaries.

  First boot a new kernel with CONFIG_UPROBE_EVENT=y enabled.

  If you don't know which function you want to probe you can pick one
  from 'perf top' or can get a list all functions that can be probed
  within libc (binaries can be specified as well):

	$ perf probe -F -x /lib/libc.so.6

  To probe libc's malloc():

	$ perf probe -x /lib64/libc.so.6 malloc
	Added new event:
	probe_libc:malloc    (on 0x7eac0)

  You can now use it in all perf tools, such as:

	perf record -e probe_libc:malloc -aR sleep 1

  Make use of it to create a call graph (as the flat profile is going to
  look very boring):

	$ perf record -e probe_libc:malloc -gR make
	[ perf record: Woken up 173 times to write data ]
	[ perf record: Captured and wrote 44.190 MB perf.data (~1930712

	$ perf report | less

	  32.03%            git  libc-2.15.so   [.] malloc
	                    |
	                    --- malloc

	  29.49%            cc1  libc-2.15.so   [.] malloc
	                    |
	                    --- malloc
	                       |
	                       |--0.95%-- 0x208eb1000000000
	                       |
	                       |--0.63%-- htab_traverse_noresize

	  11.04%             as  libc-2.15.so   [.] malloc
	                     |
	                     --- malloc
	                        |

	   7.15%             ld  libc-2.15.so   [.] malloc
	                     |
	                     --- malloc
	                        |

	   5.07%             sh  libc-2.15.so   [.] malloc
	                     |
	                     --- malloc
	                        |
	   4.99%  python-config  libc-2.15.so   [.] malloc
	          |
	          --- malloc
	             |
	   4.54%           make  libc-2.15.so   [.] malloc
	                   |
	                   --- malloc
	                      |
	                      |--7.34%-- glob
	                      |          |
	                      |          |--93.18%-- 0x41588f
	                      |          |
	                      |           --6.82%-- glob
	                      |                     0x41588f

	   ...

  Or:

	$ perf report -g flat | less

	# Overhead        Command  Shared Object      Symbol
	# ........  .............  .............  ..........
	#
	  32.03%            git  libc-2.15.so   [.] malloc
	          27.19%
	              malloc

	  29.49%            cc1  libc-2.15.so   [.] malloc
	          24.77%
	              malloc

	  11.04%             as  libc-2.15.so   [.] malloc
	          11.02%
	              malloc

	   7.15%             ld  libc-2.15.so   [.] malloc
	           6.57%
	              malloc

	 ...

  The core uprobes design is fairly straightforward: uprobes probe
  points register themselves at (inode:offset) addresses of
  libraries/binaries, after which all existing (or new) vmas that map
  that address will have a software breakpoint injected at that address.
  vmas are COW-ed to preserve original content.  The probe points are
  kept in an rbtree.

  If user-space executes the probed inode:offset instruction address
  then an event is generated which can be recovered from the regular
  perf event channels and mmap-ed ring-buffer.

  Multiple probes at the same address are supported, they create a
  dynamic callback list of event consumers.

  The basic model is further complicated by the XOL speedup: the
  original instruction that is probed is copied (in an architecture
  specific fashion) and executed out of line when the probe triggers.
  The XOL area is a single vma per process, with a fixed number of
  entries (which limits probe execution parallelism).

  The API: uprobes are installed/removed via
  /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/uprobe_events, the API is integrated to
  align with the kprobes interface as much as possible, but is separate
  to it.

  Injecting a probe point is privileged operation, which can be relaxed
  by setting perf_paranoid to -1.

  You can use multiple probes as well and mix them with kprobes and
  regular PMU events or tracepoints, when instrumenting a task."

Fix up trivial conflicts in mm/memory.c due to previous cleanup of
unmap_single_vma().

* 'perf-uprobes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (21 commits)
  perf probe: Detect probe target when m/x options are absent
  perf probe: Provide perf interface for uprobes
  tracing: Fix kconfig warning due to a typo
  tracing: Provide trace events interface for uprobes
  tracing: Extract out common code for kprobes/uprobes trace events
  tracing: Modify is_delete, is_return from int to bool
  uprobes/core: Decrement uprobe count before the pages are unmapped
  uprobes/core: Make background page replacement logic account for rss_stat counters
  uprobes/core: Optimize probe hits with the help of a counter
  uprobes/core: Allocate XOL slots for uprobes use
  uprobes/core: Handle breakpoint and singlestep exceptions
  uprobes/core: Rename bkpt to swbp
  uprobes/core: Make order of function parameters consistent across functions
  uprobes/core: Make macro names consistent
  uprobes: Update copyright notices
  uprobes/core: Move insn to arch specific structure
  uprobes/core: Remove uprobe_opcode_sz
  uprobes/core: Make instruction tables volatile
  uprobes: Move to kernel/events/
  uprobes/core: Clean up, refactor and improve the code
  ...
2012-05-24 11:39:34 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
16ee6576e2 Merge remote-tracking branch 'tip/perf/urgent' into perf/core
Merge reason: We are going to queue up a dependent patch:

"perf tools: Move parse event automated tests to separated object"

That depends on:

commit e7c72d8
perf tools: Add 'G' and 'H' modifiers to event parsing

Conflicts:
	tools/perf/builtin-stat.c

Conflicted with the recent 'perf_target' patches when checking the
result of perf_evsel open routines to see if a retry is needed to cope
with older kernels where the exclude guest/host perf_event_attr bits
were not used.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-05-18 13:13:33 -03:00
Ingo Molnar
9cba26e66d Merge branch 'perf/uprobes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux into perf/uprobes 2012-05-14 14:43:40 +02:00
Srikar Dronamraju
f3f096cfed tracing: Provide trace events interface for uprobes
Implements trace_event support for uprobes. In its current form
it can be used to put probes at a specified offset in a file and
dump the required registers when the code flow reaches the
probed address.

The following example shows how to dump the instruction pointer
and %ax a register at the probed text address.  Here we are
trying to probe zfree in /bin/zsh:

 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
 # cat /proc/`pgrep  zsh`/maps | grep /bin/zsh | grep r-xp
 00400000-0048a000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 130904 /bin/zsh
 # objdump -T /bin/zsh | grep -w zfree
 0000000000446420 g    DF .text  0000000000000012  Base
 zfree # echo 'p /bin/zsh:0x46420 %ip %ax' > uprobe_events
 # cat uprobe_events
 p:uprobes/p_zsh_0x46420 /bin/zsh:0x0000000000046420
 # echo 1 > events/uprobes/enable
 # sleep 20
 # echo 0 > events/uprobes/enable
 # cat trace
 # tracer: nop
 #
 #           TASK-PID    CPU#    TIMESTAMP  FUNCTION
 #              | |       |          |         |
              zsh-24842 [006] 258544.995456: p_zsh_0x46420: (0x446420) arg1=446421 arg2=79
              zsh-24842 [007] 258545.000270: p_zsh_0x46420: (0x446420) arg1=446421 arg2=79
              zsh-24842 [002] 258545.043929: p_zsh_0x46420: (0x446420) arg1=446421 arg2=79
              zsh-24842 [004] 258547.046129: p_zsh_0x46420: (0x446420) arg1=446421 arg2=79

Signed-off-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
Cc: Anton Arapov <anton@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120411103043.GB29437@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-05-07 14:30:17 +02:00
Vaibhav Nagarnaik
438ced1720 ring-buffer: Add per_cpu ring buffer control files
Add a debugfs entry under per_cpu/ folder for each cpu called
buffer_size_kb to control the ring buffer size for each CPU
independently.

If the global file buffer_size_kb is used to set size, the individual
ring buffers will be adjusted to the given size. The buffer_size_kb will
report the common size to maintain backward compatibility.

If the buffer_size_kb file under the per_cpu/ directory is used to
change buffer size for a specific CPU, only the size of the respective
ring buffer is updated. When tracing/buffer_size_kb is read, it reports
'X' to indicate that sizes of per_cpu ring buffers are not equivalent.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1328212844-11889-1-git-send-email-vnagarnaik@google.com

Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Michael Rubin <mrubin@google.com>
Cc: David Sharp <dhsharp@google.com>
Cc: Justin Teravest <teravest@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Vaibhav Nagarnaik <vnagarnaik@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2012-04-23 21:17:51 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
07d777fe8c tracing: Add percpu buffers for trace_printk()
Currently, trace_printk() uses a single buffer to write into
to calculate the size and format needed to save the trace. To
do this safely in an SMP environment, a spin_lock() is taken
to only allow one writer at a time to the buffer. But this could
also affect what is being traced, and add synchronization that
would not be there otherwise.

Ideally, using percpu buffers would be useful, but since trace_printk()
is only used in development, having per cpu buffers for something
never used is a waste of space. Thus, the use of the trace_bprintk()
format section is changed to be used for static fmts as well as dynamic ones.
Then at boot up, we can check if the section that holds the trace_printk
formats is non-empty, and if it does contain something, then we
know a trace_printk() has been added to the kernel. At this time
the trace_printk per cpu buffers are allocated. A check is also
done at module load time in case a module is added that contains a
trace_printk().

Once the buffers are allocated, they are never freed. If you use
a trace_printk() then you should know what you are doing.

A buffer is made for each type of context:

  normal
  softirq
  irq
  nmi

The context is checked and the appropriate buffer is used.
This allows for totally lockless usage of trace_printk(),
and they no longer even disable interrupts.

Requested-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2012-04-23 21:15:55 -04:00
Mark Brown
6e48b550d1 tracing: Fix build breakage without CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS (again)
Today's -next fails to link for me:

kernel/built-in.o:(.data+0x178e50): undefined reference to `perf_ftrace_event_register'

It looks like multiple fixes have been merged for the issue fixed by
commit fa73dc9 (tracing: Fix build breakage without CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS)
though I can't identify the other changes that have gone in at the
minute, it's possible that the changes which caused the breakage fixed
by the previous commit got dropped but the fix made it in.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1334307179-21255-1-git-send-email-broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com

Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2012-04-13 21:37:04 -04:00
Mark Brown
fa73dc9400 tracing: Fix build breakage without CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS
Today's -next fails to build for me:

  CC      kernel/trace/trace_export.o
In file included from kernel/trace/trace_export.c:197: kernel/trace/trace_entries.h:58: error: 'perf_ftrace_event_register' undeclared here (not in a function)
make[2]: *** [kernel/trace/trace_export.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [kernel/trace] Error 2
make: *** [kernel] Error 2

because as of ced390 (ftrace, perf: Add support to use function
tracepoint in perf) perf_trace_event_register() is declared in trace.h
only if CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS is enabled but I don't have that set.

Ensure that we always have a definition of perf_trace_event_register()
by making the definition unconditional.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1330426967-17067-1-git-send-email-broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com

Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2012-03-13 18:34:59 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
499e547057 tracing/ring-buffer: Only have tracing_on disable tracing buffers
As the ring-buffer code is being used by other facilities in the
kernel, having tracing_on file disable *all* buffers is not a desired
affect. It should only disable the ftrace buffers that are being used.

Move the code into the trace.c file and use the buffer disabling
for tracing_on() and tracing_off(). This way only the ftrace buffers
will be affected by them and other kernel utilities will not be
confused to why their output suddenly stopped.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2012-02-22 15:50:28 -05:00
Jiri Olsa
5500fa5119 ftrace, perf: Add filter support for function trace event
Adding support to filter function trace event via perf
interface. It is now possible to use filter interface
in the perf tool like:

  perf record -e ftrace:function --filter="(ip == mm_*)" ls

The filter syntax is restricted to the the 'ip' field only,
and following operators are accepted '==' '!=' '||', ending
up with the filter strings like:

  ip == f1[, ]f2 ... || ip != f3[, ]f4 ...

with comma ',' or space ' ' as a function separator. If the
space ' ' is used as a separator, the right side of the
assignment needs to be enclosed in double quotes '"', e.g.:

  perf record -e ftrace:function --filter '(ip == do_execve,sys_*,ext*)' ls
  perf record -e ftrace:function --filter '(ip == "do_execve,sys_*,ext*")' ls
  perf record -e ftrace:function --filter '(ip == "do_execve sys_* ext*")' ls

The '==' operator adds trace filter with same effect as would
be added via set_ftrace_filter file.

The '!=' operator adds trace filter with same effect as would
be added via set_ftrace_notrace file.

The right side of the '!=', '==' operators is list of functions
or regexp. to be added to filter separated by space.

The '||' operator is used for connecting multiple filter definitions
together. It is possible to have more than one '==' and '!='
operators within one filter string.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1329317514-8131-8-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2012-02-21 11:08:30 -05:00
Jiri Olsa
02aa3162ed ftrace: Allow to specify filter field type for ftrace events
Adding FILTER_TRACE_FN event field type for function tracepoint
event, so it can be properly recognized within filtering code.

Currently all fields of ftrace subsystem events share the common
field type FILTER_OTHER. Since the function trace fields need
special care within the filtering code we need to recognize it
properly, hence adding the FILTER_TRACE_FN event type.

Adding filter parameter to the FTRACE_ENTRY macro, to specify the
filter field type for the event.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1329317514-8131-7-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2012-02-21 11:08:29 -05:00
Jiri Olsa
ced39002f5 ftrace, perf: Add support to use function tracepoint in perf
Adding perf registration support for the ftrace function event,
so it is now possible to register it via perf interface.

The perf_event struct statically contains ftrace_ops as a handle
for function tracer. The function tracer is registered/unregistered
in open/close actions.

To be efficient, we enable/disable ftrace_ops each time the traced
process is scheduled in/out (via TRACE_REG_PERF_(ADD|DELL) handlers).
This way tracing is enabled only when the process is running.
Intentionally using this way instead of the event's hw state
PERF_HES_STOPPED, which would not disable the ftrace_ops.

It is now possible to use function trace within perf commands
like:

  perf record -e ftrace:function ls
  perf stat -e ftrace:function ls

Allowed only for root.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1329317514-8131-6-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com

Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2012-02-21 11:08:27 -05:00
Jiri Olsa
e59a0bff3e ftrace: Add FTRACE_ENTRY_REG macro to allow event registration
Adding FTRACE_ENTRY_REG macro so particular ftrace entries
could specify registration function and thus become accesible
via perf.

This will be used in upcomming patch for function trace.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1329317514-8131-5-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com

Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2012-02-21 11:08:26 -05:00
Jiri Olsa
e248491ac2 ftrace: Add enable/disable ftrace_ops control interface
Adding a way to temporarily enable/disable ftrace_ops. The change
follows the same way as 'global' ftrace_ops are done.

Introducing 2 global ftrace_ops - control_ops and ftrace_control_list
which take over all ftrace_ops registered with FTRACE_OPS_FL_CONTROL
flag. In addition new per cpu flag called 'disabled' is also added to
ftrace_ops to provide the control information for each cpu.

When ftrace_ops with FTRACE_OPS_FL_CONTROL is registered, it is
set as disabled for all cpus.

The ftrace_control_list contains all the registered 'control' ftrace_ops.
The control_ops provides function which iterates ftrace_control_list
and does the check for 'disabled' flag on current cpu.

Adding 3 inline functions:
  ftrace_function_local_disable/ftrace_function_local_enable
  - enable/disable the ftrace_ops on current cpu
  ftrace_function_local_disabled
  - get disabled ftrace_ops::disabled value for current cpu

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1329317514-8131-2-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com

Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2012-02-21 11:08:23 -05:00
Linus Torvalds
972b2c7199 Merge branch 'for-linus2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs
* 'for-linus2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (165 commits)
  reiserfs: Properly display mount options in /proc/mounts
  vfs: prevent remount read-only if pending removes
  vfs: count unlinked inodes
  vfs: protect remounting superblock read-only
  vfs: keep list of mounts for each superblock
  vfs: switch ->show_options() to struct dentry *
  vfs: switch ->show_path() to struct dentry *
  vfs: switch ->show_devname() to struct dentry *
  vfs: switch ->show_stats to struct dentry *
  switch security_path_chmod() to struct path *
  vfs: prefer ->dentry->d_sb to ->mnt->mnt_sb
  vfs: trim includes a bit
  switch mnt_namespace ->root to struct mount
  vfs: take /proc/*/mounts and friends to fs/proc_namespace.c
  vfs: opencode mntget() mnt_set_mountpoint()
  vfs: spread struct mount - remaining argument of next_mnt()
  vfs: move fsnotify junk to struct mount
  vfs: move mnt_devname
  vfs: move mnt_list to struct mount
  vfs: switch pnode.h macros to struct mount *
  ...
2012-01-08 12:19:57 -08:00
Al Viro
f4ae40a6a5 switch debugfs to umode_t
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-01-03 22:54:56 -05:00
Steven Rostedt
77271ce4b2 tracing: Add irq, preempt-count and need resched info to default trace output
People keep asking how to get the preempt count, irq, and need resched info
and we keep telling them to enable the latency format. Some developers think
that traces without this info is completely useless, and for a lot of tasks
it is useless.

The first option was to enable the latency trace as the default format, but
the header for the latency format is pretty useless for most tracers and
it also does the timestamp in straight microseconds from the time the trace
started. This is sometimes more difficult to read as the default trace is
seconds from the start of boot up.

Latency format:

 # tracer: nop
 #
 # nop latency trace v1.1.5 on 3.2.0-rc1-test+
 # --------------------------------------------------------------------
 # latency: 0 us, #159771/64234230, CPU#1 | (M:preempt VP:0, KP:0, SP:0 HP:0 #P:4)
 #    -----------------
 #    | task: -0 (uid:0 nice:0 policy:0 rt_prio:0)
 #    -----------------
 #
 #                  _------=> CPU#
 #                 / _-----=> irqs-off
 #                | / _----=> need-resched
 #                || / _---=> hardirq/softirq
 #                ||| / _--=> preempt-depth
 #                |||| /     delay
 #  cmd     pid   ||||| time  |   caller
 #     \   /      |||||  \    |   /
 migratio-6       0...2 41778231us+: rcu_note_context_switch <-__schedule
 migratio-6       0...2 41778233us : trace_rcu_utilization <-rcu_note_context_switch
 migratio-6       0...2 41778235us+: rcu_sched_qs <-rcu_note_context_switch
 migratio-6       0d..2 41778236us+: rcu_preempt_qs <-rcu_note_context_switch
 migratio-6       0...2 41778238us : trace_rcu_utilization <-rcu_note_context_switch
 migratio-6       0...2 41778239us+: debug_lockdep_rcu_enabled <-__schedule

default format:

 # tracer: nop
 #
 #           TASK-PID    CPU#    TIMESTAMP  FUNCTION
 #              | |       |          |         |
      migration/0-6     [000]    50.025810: rcu_note_context_switch <-__schedule
      migration/0-6     [000]    50.025812: trace_rcu_utilization <-rcu_note_context_switch
      migration/0-6     [000]    50.025813: rcu_sched_qs <-rcu_note_context_switch
      migration/0-6     [000]    50.025815: rcu_preempt_qs <-rcu_note_context_switch
      migration/0-6     [000]    50.025817: trace_rcu_utilization <-rcu_note_context_switch
      migration/0-6     [000]    50.025818: debug_lockdep_rcu_enabled <-__schedule
      migration/0-6     [000]    50.025820: debug_lockdep_rcu_enabled <-__schedule

The latency format header has latency information that is pretty meaningless
for most tracers. Although some of the header is useful, and we can add that
later to the default format as well.

What is really useful with the latency format is the irqs-off, need-resched
hard/softirq context and the preempt count.

This commit adds the option irq-info which is on by default that adds this
information:

 # tracer: nop
 #
 #                              _-----=> irqs-off
 #                             / _----=> need-resched
 #                            | / _---=> hardirq/softirq
 #                            || / _--=> preempt-depth
 #                            ||| /     delay
 #           TASK-PID   CPU#  ||||    TIMESTAMP  FUNCTION
 #              | |       |   ||||       |         |
           <idle>-0     [000] d..2    49.309305: cpuidle_get_driver <-cpuidle_idle_call
           <idle>-0     [000] d..2    49.309307: mwait_idle <-cpu_idle
           <idle>-0     [000] d..2    49.309309: need_resched <-mwait_idle
           <idle>-0     [000] d..2    49.309310: test_ti_thread_flag <-need_resched
           <idle>-0     [000] d..2    49.309312: trace_power_start.constprop.13 <-mwait_idle
           <idle>-0     [000] d..2    49.309313: trace_cpu_idle <-mwait_idle
           <idle>-0     [000] d..2    49.309315: need_resched <-mwait_idle

If a user wants the old format, they can disable the 'irq-info' option:

 # tracer: nop
 #
 #           TASK-PID   CPU#      TIMESTAMP  FUNCTION
 #              | |       |          |         |
           <idle>-0     [000]     49.309305: cpuidle_get_driver <-cpuidle_idle_call
           <idle>-0     [000]     49.309307: mwait_idle <-cpu_idle
           <idle>-0     [000]     49.309309: need_resched <-mwait_idle
           <idle>-0     [000]     49.309310: test_ti_thread_flag <-need_resched
           <idle>-0     [000]     49.309312: trace_power_start.constprop.13 <-mwait_idle
           <idle>-0     [000]     49.309313: trace_cpu_idle <-mwait_idle
           <idle>-0     [000]     49.309315: need_resched <-mwait_idle

Requested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-11-17 09:58:48 -05:00
Jiri Olsa
7e9a49ef54 tracing/latency: Fix header output for latency tracers
In case the the graph tracer (CONFIG_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER) or even the
function tracer (CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER) are not set, the latency tracers
do not display proper latency header.

The involved/fixed latency tracers are:
        wakeup_rt
        wakeup
        preemptirqsoff
        preemptoff
        irqsoff

The patch adds proper handling of tracer configuration options for latency
tracers, and displaying correct header info accordingly.

* The current output (for wakeup tracer) with both graph and function
  tracers disabled is:

  # tracer: wakeup
  #
    <idle>-0       0d.h5    1us+:      0:120:R   + [000]     7:  0:R watchdog/0
    <idle>-0       0d.h5    3us+: ttwu_do_activate.clone.1 <-try_to_wake_up
    ...

* The fixed output is:

  # tracer: wakeup
  #
  # wakeup latency trace v1.1.5 on 3.1.0-tip+
  # --------------------------------------------------------------------
  # latency: 55 us, #4/4, CPU#0 | (M:preempt VP:0, KP:0, SP:0 HP:0 #P:2)
  #    -----------------
  #    | task: migration/0-6 (uid:0 nice:0 policy:1 rt_prio:99)
  #    -----------------
  #
  #                  _------=> CPU#
  #                 / _-----=> irqs-off
  #                | / _----=> need-resched
  #                || / _---=> hardirq/softirq
  #                ||| / _--=> preempt-depth
  #                |||| /     delay
  #  cmd     pid   ||||| time  |   caller
  #     \   /      |||||  \    |   /
       cat-1129    0d..4    1us :   1129:120:R   + [000]     6:  0:R migration/0
       cat-1129    0d..4    2us+: ttwu_do_activate.clone.1 <-try_to_wake_up

* The current output (for wakeup tracer) with only function
  tracer enabled is:

  # tracer: wakeup
  #
       cat-1140    0d..4    1us+:   1140:120:R   + [000]     6:  0:R migration/0
       cat-1140    0d..4    2us : ttwu_do_activate.clone.1 <-try_to_wake_up

* The fixed output is:
  # tracer: wakeup
  #
  # wakeup latency trace v1.1.5 on 3.1.0-tip+
  # --------------------------------------------------------------------
  # latency: 207 us, #109/109, CPU#1 | (M:preempt VP:0, KP:0, SP:0 HP:0 #P:2)
  #    -----------------
  #    | task: watchdog/1-12 (uid:0 nice:0 policy:1 rt_prio:99)
  #    -----------------
  #
  #                  _------=> CPU#
  #                 / _-----=> irqs-off
  #                | / _----=> need-resched
  #                || / _---=> hardirq/softirq
  #                ||| / _--=> preempt-depth
  #                |||| /     delay
  #  cmd     pid   ||||| time  |   caller
  #     \   /      |||||  \    |   /
    <idle>-0       1d.h5    1us+:      0:120:R   + [001]    12:  0:R watchdog/1
    <idle>-0       1d.h5    3us : ttwu_do_activate.clone.1 <-try_to_wake_up

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111107150849.GE1807@m.brq.redhat.com

Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-11-07 13:48:35 -05:00
Steven Rostedt
e0a413f619 tracing: Warn on output if the function tracer was found corrupted
As the function tracer is very intrusive, lots of self checks are
performed on the tracer and if something is found to be strange
it will shut itself down keeping it from corrupting the rest of the
kernel. This shutdown may still allow functions to be traced, as the
tracing only stops new modifications from happening. Trying to stop
the function tracer itself can cause more harm as it requires code
modification.

Although a WARN_ON() is executed, a user may not notice it. To help
the user see that something isn't right with the tracing of the system
a big warning is added to the output of the tracer that lets the user
know that their data may be incomplete.

Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-10-11 09:13:25 -04:00
Jiri Olsa
1d0e78e380 tracing/filter: Add startup tests for events filter
Adding automated tests running as late_initcall. Tests are
compiled in with CONFIG_FTRACE_STARTUP_TEST option.

Adding test event "ftrace_test_filter" used to simulate
filter processing during event occurance.

String filters are compiled and tested against several
test events with different values.

Also testing that evaluation of explicit predicates is ommited
due to the lazy filter evaluation.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1313072754-4620-11-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-08-19 14:35:59 -04:00
Jiri Olsa
61aaef5530 tracing/filter: Remove field_name from filter_pred struct
The field_name was used just for finding event's fields. This way we
don't need to care about field_name allocation/free.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1313072754-4620-4-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-08-19 14:35:52 -04:00
Arun Sharma
60063497a9 atomic: use <linux/atomic.h>
This allows us to move duplicated code in <asm/atomic.h>
(atomic_inc_not_zero() for now) to <linux/atomic.h>

Signed-off-by: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-26 16:49:47 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
40bcea7bbe Merge branch 'tip/perf/core' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into perf/core 2011-07-21 09:32:40 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
492f73a303 Merge branch 'perf/urgent' into perf/core
Merge reason: pick up the latest fixes - they won't make v3.0.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-07-21 09:29:21 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
e4a3f541f0 tracing: Still trace filtered irq functions when irq trace is disabled
If a function is set to be traced by the set_graph_function, but the
option funcgraph-irqs is zero, and the traced function happens to be
called from a interrupt, it will not be traced.

The point of funcgraph-irqs is to not trace interrupts when we are
preempted by an irq, not to not trace functions we want to trace that
happen to be *in* a irq.

Luckily the current->trace_recursion element is perfect to add a flag
to help us be able to trace functions within an interrupt even when
we are not tracing interrupts that preempt the trace.

Reported-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-07-07 22:26:27 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
e9dbfae53e tracing: Fix bug when reading system filters on module removal
The event system is freed when its nr_events is set to zero. This happens
when a module created an event system and then later the module is
removed. Modules may share systems, so the system is allocated when
it is created and freed when the modules are unloaded and all the
events under the system are removed (nr_events set to zero).

The problem arises when a task opened the "filter" file for the
system. If the module is unloaded and it removed the last event for
that system, the system structure is freed. If the task that opened
the filter file accesses the "filter" file after the system has
been freed, the system will access an invalid pointer.

By adding a ref_count, and using it to keep track of what
is using the event system, we can free it after all users
are finished with the event system.

Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-07-07 11:19:18 -04:00
Masami Hiramatsu
1fd8df2c39 tracing/kprobes: Fix kprobe-tracer to support stack trace
Fix to support kernel stack trace correctly on kprobe-tracer.
Since the execution path of kprobe-based dynamic events is different
from other tracepoint-based events, normal ftrace_trace_stack() doesn't
work correctly. To fix that, this introduces ftrace_trace_stack_regs()
which traces stack via pt_regs instead of current stack register.

e.g.

 # echo p schedule+4 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/kprobe_events
 # echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/options/stacktrace
 # echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/kprobes/enable
 # head -n 20 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace
            bash-2968  [000] 10297.050245: p_schedule_4: (schedule+0x4/0x4ca)
            bash-2968  [000] 10297.050247: <stack trace>
 => schedule_timeout
 => n_tty_read
 => tty_read
 => vfs_read
 => sys_read
 => system_call_fastpath
     kworker/0:1-2940  [000] 10297.050265: p_schedule_4: (schedule+0x4/0x4ca)
     kworker/0:1-2940  [000] 10297.050266: <stack trace>
 => worker_thread
 => kthread
 => kernel_thread_helper
            sshd-1132  [000] 10297.050365: p_schedule_4: (schedule+0x4/0x4ca)
            sshd-1132  [000] 10297.050365: <stack trace>
 => sysret_careful

Note: Even with this fix, the first entry will be skipped
if the probe is put on the function entry area before
the frame pointer is set up (usually, that is 4 bytes
 (push %bp; mov %sp %bp) on x86), because stack unwinder
depends on the frame pointer.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: yrl.pp-manager.tt@hitachi.com
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110608070934.17777.17116.stgit@fedora15
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-06-14 22:48:53 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
cf30cf67d6 tracing: Add disable_on_free option
Add a trace option to disable tracing on free. When this option is
set, a write into the free_buffer file will not only shrink the
ring buffer down to zero, but it will also disable tracing.

Cc: Vaibhav Nagarnaik <vnagarnaik@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-06-14 22:48:45 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
b1cff0ad10 ftrace: Add internal recursive checks
Witold reported a reboot caused by the selftests of the dynamic function
tracer. He sent me a config and I used ktest to do a config_bisect on it
(as my config did not cause the crash). It pointed out that the problem
config was CONFIG_PROVE_RCU.

What happened was that if multiple callbacks are attached to the
function tracer, we iterate a list of callbacks. Because the list is
managed by synchronize_sched() and preempt_disable, the access to the
pointers uses rcu_dereference_raw().

When PROVE_RCU is enabled, the rcu_dereference_raw() calls some
debugging functions, which happen to be traced. The tracing of the debug
function would then call rcu_dereference_raw() which would then call the
debug function and then... well you get the idea.

I first wrote two different patches to solve this bug.

1) add a __rcu_dereference_raw() that would not do any checks.
2) add notrace to the offending debug functions.

Both of these patches worked.

Talking with Paul McKenney on IRC, he suggested to add recursion
detection instead. This seemed to be a better solution, so I decided to
implement it. As the task_struct already has a trace_recursion to detect
recursion in the ring buffer, and that has a very small number it
allows, I decided to use that same variable to add flags that can detect
the recursion inside the infrastructure of the function tracer.

I plan to change it so that the task struct bit can be checked in
mcount, but as that requires changes to all archs, I will hold that off
to the next merge window.

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1306348063.1465.116.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com
Reported-by: Witold Baryluk <baryluk@smp.if.uj.edu.pl>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-05-25 22:13:49 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
95950c2ecb ftrace: Add self-tests for multiple function trace users
Add some basic sanity tests for multiple users of the function
tracer at startup.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-05-18 19:24:51 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
9a24470b28 tracing: Align 4 byte ints together in struct tracer
Move elements in struct tracer for better alignment.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-03-10 10:34:54 -05:00
David Sharp
750912fa36 tracing: Add an 'overwrite' trace_option.
Add an "overwrite" trace_option for ftrace to control whether the buffer should
be overwritten on overflow or not. The default remains to overwrite old events
when the buffer is full. This patch adds the option to instead discard newest
events when the buffer is full. This is useful to get a snapshot of traces just
after enabling traces. Dropping the current event is also a simpler code path.

Signed-off-by: David Sharp <dhsharp@google.com>
LKML-Reference: <1291844807-15481-1-git-send-email-dhsharp@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-03-09 13:52:27 -05:00
Steven Rostedt
bf93f9ed3a tracing/filter: Increase the max preds to 2^14
Now that the filter logic does not require to save the pred results
on the stack, we can increase the max number of preds we allow.
As the preds are index by a short value, and we use the MSBs as flags
we can increase the max preds to 2^14 (16384) which should be way
more than enough.

Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-02-07 20:56:20 -05:00
Steven Rostedt
4a3d27e98a tracing/filter: Move MAX_FILTER_PRED to local tracing directory
The MAX_FILTER_PRED is only needed by the kernel/trace/*.c files.
Move it to kernel/trace/trace.h.

Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-02-07 20:56:20 -05:00
Steven Rostedt
43cd414552 tracing/filter: Optimize filter by folding the tree
There are many cases that a filter will contain multiple ORs or
ANDs together near the leafs. Walking up and down the tree to get
to the next compare can be a waste.

If there are several ORs or ANDs together, fold them into a single
pred and allocate an array of the conditions that they check.
This will speed up the filter by linearly walking an array
and can still break out if a short circuit condition is met.

Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-02-07 20:56:19 -05:00
Steven Rostedt
61e9dea20e tracing/filter: Use a tree instead of stack for filter_match_preds()
Currently the filter_match_preds() requires a stack to push
and pop the preds to determine if the filter matches the record or not.
This has two drawbacks:

1) It requires a stack to store state information. As this is done
   in fast paths we can't allocate the storage for this stack, and
   we can't use a global as it must be re-entrant. The stack is stored
   on the kernel stack and this greatly limits how many preds we
   may allow.

2) All conditions are calculated even when a short circuit exists.
   a || b  will always calculate a and b even though a was determined
   to be true.

Using a tree we can walk a constant structure that will save
the state as we go. The algorithm is simply:

  pred = root;
  do {
	switch (move) {
	case MOVE_DOWN:
		if (OR or AND) {
			pred = left;
			continue;
		}
		if (pred == root)
			break;
		match = pred->fn();
		pred = pred->parent;
		move = left child ? MOVE_UP_FROM_LEFT : MOVE_UP_FROM_RIGHT;
		continue;

	case MOVE_UP_FROM_LEFT:
		/* Only OR or AND can be a parent */
		if (match && OR || !match && AND) {
			/* short circuit */
			if (pred == root)
				break;
			pred = pred->parent;
			move = left child ?
				MOVE_UP_FROM_LEFT :
				MOVE_UP_FROM_RIGHT;
			continue;
		}
		pred = pred->right;
		move = MOVE_DOWN;
		continue;

	case MOVE_UP_FROM_RIGHT:
		if (pred == root)
			break;
		pred = pred->parent;
		move = left child ? MOVE_UP_FROM_LEFT : MOVE_UP_FROM_RIGHT;
		continue;
	}
	done = 1;
  } while (!done);

This way there's no strict limit to how many preds we allow
and it also will short circuit the logical operations when possible.

Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-02-07 20:56:19 -05:00
Steven Rostedt
74e9e58c35 tracing/filter: Allocate the preds in an array
Currently we allocate an array of pointers to filter_preds, and then
allocate a separate filter_pred for each item in the array.
This adds slight overhead in the filters as it needs to derefernce
twice to get to the op condition.

Allocating the preds themselves in a single array removes a dereference
as well as helps on the cache footprint.

Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-02-07 20:56:18 -05:00
Steven Rostedt
c9c53ca03d tracing/filter: Dynamically allocate preds
For every filter that is made, we create predicates to hold every
operation within the filter. We have a max of 32 predicates that we
can hold. Currently, we allocate all 32 even if we only need to
use one.

Part of the reason we do this is that the filter can be used at
any moment by any event. Fortunately, the filter is only used
with preemption disabled. By reseting the count of preds used "n_preds"
to zero, then performing a synchronize_sched(), we can safely
free and reallocate a new array of preds.

Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-02-07 20:56:18 -05:00
Steven Rostedt
58d9a597c4 tracing/filter: Move OR and AND logic out of fn() method
The ops OR and AND act different from the other ops, as they
are the only ones to take other ops as their arguements.
These ops als change the logic of the filter_match_preds.

By removing the OR and AND fn's we can also remove the val1 and val2
that is passed to all other fn's and are unused.

Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-02-07 20:56:18 -05:00
Jiri Olsa
0a772620a2 tracing: Make graph related irqs/preemptsoff functions global
Move trace_graph_function() and print_graph_headers_flags() functions
to the trace_function_graph.c to be globaly available.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1285243253-7372-3-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-10-18 10:53:28 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
4aed2fd8e3 Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of 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: (162 commits)
  tracing/kprobes: unregister_trace_probe needs to be called under mutex
  perf: expose event__process function
  perf events: Fix mmap offset determination
  perf, powerpc: fsl_emb: Restore setting perf_sample_data.period
  perf, powerpc: Convert the FSL driver to use local64_t
  perf tools: Don't keep unreferenced maps when unmaps are detected
  perf session: Invalidate last_match when removing threads from rb_tree
  perf session: Free the ref_reloc_sym memory at the right place
  x86,mmiotrace: Add support for tracing STOS instruction
  perf, sched migration: Librarize task states and event headers helpers
  perf, sched migration: Librarize the GUI class
  perf, sched migration: Make the GUI class client agnostic
  perf, sched migration: Make it vertically scrollable
  perf, sched migration: Parameterize cpu height and spacing
  perf, sched migration: Fix key bindings
  perf, sched migration: Ignore unhandled task states
  perf, sched migration: Handle ignored migrate out events
  perf: New migration tool overview
  tracing: Drop cpparg() macro
  perf: Use tracepoint_synchronize_unregister() to flush any pending tracepoint call
  ...

Fix up trivial conflicts in Makefile and drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
2010-08-06 09:30:52 -07:00
Jason Wessel
955b61e597 ftrace,kdb: Extend kdb to be able to dump the ftrace buffer
Add in a helper function to allow the kdb shell to dump the ftrace
buffer.

Modify trace.c to expose the capability to iterate over the ftrace
buffer in a read only capacity.

Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
CC: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2010-08-05 09:22:23 -05:00
Ingo Molnar
3a01736e70 Merge branch 'tip/perf/core' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into perf/core 2010-07-23 09:10:29 +02:00
KOSAKI Motohiro
ef710e100c tracing: Shrink max latency ringbuffer if unnecessary
Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt says

  buffer_size_kb:

        This sets or displays the number of kilobytes each CPU
        buffer can hold. The tracer buffers are the same size
        for each CPU. The displayed number is the size of the
        CPU buffer and not total size of all buffers. The
        trace buffers are allocated in pages (blocks of memory
        that the kernel uses for allocation, usually 4 KB in size).
        If the last page allocated has room for more bytes
        than requested, the rest of the page will be used,
        making the actual allocation bigger than requested.
        ( Note, the size may not be a multiple of the page size
          due to buffer management overhead. )

        This can only be updated when the current_tracer
        is set to "nop".

But it's incorrect. currently total memory consumption is
'buffer_size_kb x CPUs x 2'.

Why two times difference is there? because ftrace implicitly allocate
the buffer for max latency too.

That makes sad result when admin want to use large buffer. (If admin
want full logging and makes detail analysis). example, If admin
have 24 CPUs machine and write 200MB to buffer_size_kb, the system
consume ~10GB memory (200MB x 24 x 2). umm.. 5GB memory waste is
usually unacceptable.

Fortunatelly, almost all users don't use max latency feature.
The max latency buffer can be disabled easily.

This patch shrink buffer size of the max latency buffer if
unnecessary.

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100701104554.DA2D.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-07-21 10:20:17 -04:00
Li Zefan
e870e9a124 tracing: Allow to disable cmdline recording
We found that even enabling a single trace event that will rarely be
triggered can add big overhead to context switch.

(lmbench context switch test)
 -------------------------------------------------
 2p/0K 2p/16K 2p/64K 8p/16K 8p/64K 16p/16K 16p/64K
 ctxsw  ctxsw  ctxsw ctxsw  ctxsw   ctxsw   ctxsw
------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------- -------
  2.19   2.3   2.21   2.56   2.13     2.54    2.07
  2.39   2.51  2.35   2.75   2.27     2.81    2.24

The overhead is 6% ~ 11%.

It's because when a trace event is enabled 3 tracepoints (sched_switch,
sched_wakeup, sched_wakeup_new) will be activated to map pid to cmdname.

We'd like to avoid this overhead, so add a trace option '(no)record-cmd'
to allow to disable cmdline recording.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4C2D57F4.2050204@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-07-20 21:52:33 -04:00
Frederic Weisbecker
eb7beb5c09 tracing: Remove special traces
Special traces type was only used by sysprof. Lets remove it now
that sysprof ftrace plugin has been dropped.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Soeren Sandmann <sandmann@daimi.au.dk>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
2010-07-20 14:31:07 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
f376bf5ffb tracing: Remove sysprof ftrace plugin
The sysprof ftrace plugin doesn't seem to be seriously used
somewhere. There is a branch in the sysprof tree that makes
an interface to it, but the real sysprof tool uses either its
own module or perf events.

Drop the sysprof ftrace plugin then, as it's mostly useless.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Soeren Sandmann <sandmann@daimi.au.dk>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
2010-07-20 14:29:46 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
5d550467b9 tracing: Remove ksym tracer
The ksym (breakpoint) ftrace plugin has been superseded by perf
tools that are much more poweful to use the cpu breakpoints.
This tracer doesn't bring more feature. It has been deprecated
for a while now, lets remove it.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-07-15 23:59:33 +02:00
Li Zefan
8728fe501e tracing: Don't allocate common fields for every trace events
Every event has the same common fields, so it's a big waste of
memory to have a copy of those fields for every event.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4BFA3759.30105@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-06-28 17:12:46 -04:00
Ingo Molnar
c726b61c6a Merge branch 'perf/core' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/random-tracing into perf/core 2010-06-09 18:55:57 +02:00
Li Zefan
039ca4e74a tracing: Remove kmemtrace ftrace plugin
We have been resisting new ftrace plugins and removing existing
ones, and kmemtrace has been superseded by kmem trace events
and perf-kmem, so we remove it.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Acked-by: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
[ remove kmemtrace from the makefile, handle slob too ]
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2010-06-09 17:31:22 +02:00
Américo Wang
30dbb20e68 tracing: Remove boot tracer
The boot tracer is useless. It simply logs the initcalls
but in fact these initcalls are also logged through printk
while using the initcall_debug kernel parameter.

Nobody seem to be using it so far. Then just remove it.

Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Cc: Chase Douglas <chase.douglas@canonical.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100526105753.GA5677@cr0.nay.redhat.com>
[ remove the hooks in main.c, and the headers ]
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2010-06-08 23:31:28 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
5168ae50a6 tracing: Remove ftrace_preempt_disable/enable
The ftrace_preempt_disable/enable functions were to address a
recursive race caused by the function tracer. The function tracer
traces all functions which makes it easily susceptible to recursion.
One area was preempt_enable(). This would call the scheduler and
the schedulre would call the function tracer and loop.
(So was it thought).

The ftrace_preempt_disable/enable was made to protect against recursion
inside the scheduler by storing the NEED_RESCHED flag. If it was
set before the ftrace_preempt_disable() it would not call schedule
on ftrace_preempt_enable(), thinking that if it was set before then
it would have already scheduled unless it was already in the scheduler.

This worked fine except in the case of SMP, where another task would set
the NEED_RESCHED flag for a task on another CPU, and then kick off an
IPI to trigger it. This could cause the NEED_RESCHED to be saved at
ftrace_preempt_disable() but the IPI to arrive in the the preempt
disabled section. The ftrace_preempt_enable() would not call the scheduler
because the flag was already set before entring the section.

This bug would cause a missed preemption check and cause lower latencies.

Investigating further, I found that the recusion caused by the function
tracer was not due to schedule(), but due to preempt_schedule(). Now
that preempt_schedule is completely annotated with notrace, the recusion
no longer is an issue.

Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-06-03 19:32:38 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
f0218b3e99 Merge branch 'perf/core' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip into trace/tip/tracing/core-6
Conflicts:
	include/trace/ftrace.h
	kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c

Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-05-18 00:35:23 -04:00
Li Zefan
e1f7992e01 tracing: Fix function declarations if !CONFIG_STACKTRACE
ftrace_trace_stack() and frace_trace_userstacke() take a
struct ring_buffer argument, not struct trace_array. Commit
e77405ad("tracing: pass around ring buffer instead of tracer")
made this change.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4BE77C14.5010806@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-05-14 14:33:24 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
553552ce17 tracing: Combine event filter_active and enable into single flags field
The filter_active and enable both use an int (4 bytes each) to
set a single flag. We can save 4 bytes per event by combining the
two into a single integer.

   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
4913961	1088356	 861512	6863829	 68bbd5	vmlinux.orig
4894944	1018052	 861512	6774508	 675eec	vmlinux.id
4894871	1012292	 861512	6768675	 674823	vmlinux.flags

This gives us another 5K in savings.

The modification of both the enable and filter fields are done
under the event_mutex, so it is still safe to combine the two.

Note: Although Mathieu gave his Acked-by, he would like it documented
 that the reads of flags are not protected by the mutex. The way the
 code works, these reads will not break anything, but will have a
 residual effect. Since this behavior is the same even before this
 patch, describing this situation is left to another patch, as this
 patch does not change the behavior, but just brought it to Mathieu's
 attention.

v2: Updated the event trace self test to for this change.

Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-05-14 14:33:22 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
2e33af0295 tracing: Move fields from event to class structure
Move the defined fields from the event to the class structure.
Since the fields of the event are defined by the class they belong
to, it makes sense to have the class hold the information instead
of the individual events. The events of the same class would just
hold duplicate information.

After this change the size of the kernel dropped another 3K:

   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
4913961	1088356	 861512	6863829	 68bbd5	vmlinux.orig
4900252	1057412	 861512	6819176	 680d68	vmlinux.regs
4900375	1053380	 861512	6815267	 67fe23	vmlinux.fields

Although the text increased, this was mainly due to the C files
having to adapt to the change. This is a constant increase, where
new tracepoints will not increase the Text. But the big drop is
in the data size (as well as needed allocations to hold the fields).
This will give even more savings as more tracepoints are created.

Note, if just TRACE_EVENT()s are used and not DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS()
with several DEFINE_EVENT()s, then the savings will be lost. But
we are pushing developers to consolidate events with DEFINE_EVENT()
so this should not be an issue.

The kprobes define a unique class to every new event, but are dynamic
so it should not be a issue.

The syscalls however have a single class but the fields for the individual
events are different. The syscalls use a metadata to define the
fields. I moved the fields list from the event to the metadata and
added a "get_fields()" function to the class. This function is used
to find the fields. For normal events and kprobes, get_fields() just
returns a pointer to the fields list_head in the class. For syscall
events, it returns the fields list_head in the metadata for the event.

v2:  Fixed the syscall fields. The syscall metadata needs a list
     of fields for both enter and exit.

Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-05-14 14:20:23 -04:00
Jiri Olsa
62b915f106 tracing: Add graph output support for irqsoff tracer
Add function graph output to irqsoff tracer.

The graph output is enabled by setting new 'display-graph' trace option.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1270227683-14631-4-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-04-27 12:36:53 -04:00
Jiri Olsa
d7a8d9e907 tracing: Have graph flags passed in to ouput functions
Let the function graph tracer have custom flags passed to its
output functions.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1270227683-14631-3-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-04-26 17:30:18 -04:00
Masami Hiramatsu
93ccae7a22 tracing/kprobes: Support basic types on dynamic events
Support basic types of integer (u8, u16, u32, u64, s8, s16, s32, s64) in
kprobe tracer. With this patch, users can specify above basic types on
each arguments after ':'. If omitted, the argument type is set as
unsigned long (u32 or u64, arch-dependent).

 e.g.
  echo 'p account_system_time+0 hardirq_offset=%si:s32' > kprobe_events

  adds a probe recording hardirq_offset in signed-32bits value on the
  entry of account_system_time.

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100412171708.3790.18599.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-04-14 17:26:28 -03:00
Peter Zijlstra
faa4602e47 x86, perf, bts, mm: Delete the never used BTS-ptrace code
Support for the PMU's BTS features has been upstreamed in
v2.6.32, but we still have the old and disabled ptrace-BTS,
as Linus noticed it not so long ago.

It's buggy: TIF_DEBUGCTLMSR is trampling all over that MSR without
regard for other uses (perf) and doesn't provide the flexibility
needed for perf either.

Its users are ptrace-block-step and ptrace-bts, since ptrace-bts
was never used and ptrace-block-step can be implemented using a
much simpler approach.

So axe all 3000 lines of it. That includes the *locked_memory*()
APIs in mm/mlock.c as well.

Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <20100325135413.938004390@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-03-26 11:33:55 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
8655e7e3dd Merge branch 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  tracing: Do not record user stack trace from NMI context
  tracing: Disable buffer switching when starting or stopping trace
  tracing: Use same local variable when resetting the ring buffer
  function-graph: Init curr_ret_stack with ret_stack
  ring-buffer: Move disabled check into preempt disable section
  function-graph: Add tracing_thresh support to function_graph tracer
  tracing: Update the comm field in the right variable in update_max_tr
  function-graph: Use comment notation for func names of dangling '}'
  function-graph: Fix unused reference to ftrace_set_func()
  tracing: Fix warning in s_next of trace file ops
  tracing: Include irqflags headers from trace clock
2010-03-13 14:40:50 -08:00
Jiri Kosina
318ae2edc3 Merge branch 'for-next' into for-linus
Conflicts:
	Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
	arch/arm/mach-u300/include/mach/debug-macro.S
	drivers/net/qlge/qlge_ethtool.c
	drivers/net/qlge/qlge_main.c
	drivers/net/typhoon.c
2010-03-08 16:55:37 +01:00
Tim Bird
0e95017355 function-graph: Add tracing_thresh support to function_graph tracer
Add support for tracing_thresh to the function_graph tracer.  This
version of this feature isolates the checks into new entry and
return functions, to avoid adding more conditional code into the
main function_graph paths.

When the tracing_thresh is set and the function graph tracer is
enabled, only the functions that took longer than the time in
microseconds that was set in tracing_thresh are recorded. To do this
efficiently, only the function exits are recorded:

 [tracing]# echo 100 > tracing_thresh
 [tracing]# echo function_graph > current_tracer
 [tracing]# cat trace
 # tracer: function_graph
 #
 # CPU  DURATION                  FUNCTION CALLS
 # |     |   |                     |   |   |   |
  1) ! 119.214 us  |  } /* smp_apic_timer_interrupt */
  1)   <========== |
  0) ! 101.527 us  |              } /* __rcu_process_callbacks */
  0) ! 126.461 us  |            } /* rcu_process_callbacks */
  0) ! 145.111 us  |          } /* __do_softirq */
  0) ! 149.667 us  |        } /* do_softirq */
  0) ! 168.817 us  |      } /* irq_exit */
  0) ! 248.254 us  |    } /* smp_apic_timer_interrupt */

Also, add support for specifying tracing_thresh on the kernel
command line.  When used like so: "tracing_thresh=200 ftrace=function_graph"
this can be used to analyse system startup.  It is important to disable
tracing soon after boot, in order to avoid losing the trace data.

Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B87098B.4040308@am.sony.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-03-05 21:20:57 -05:00
Jeff Mahoney
86c38a31aa tracing: Fix ftrace_event_call alignment for use with gcc 4.5
GCC 4.5 introduces behavior that forces the alignment of structures to
 use the largest possible value. The default value is 32 bytes, so if
 some structures are defined with a 4-byte alignment and others aren't
 declared with an alignment constraint at all - it will align at 32-bytes.

 For things like the ftrace events, this results in a non-standard array.
 When initializing the ftrace subsystem, we traverse the _ftrace_events
 section and call the initialization callback for each event. When the
 structures are misaligned, we could be treating another part of the
 structure (or the zeroed out space between them) as a function pointer.

 This patch forces the alignment for all the ftrace_event_call structures
 to 4 bytes.

 Without this patch, the kernel fails to boot very early when built with
 gcc 4.5.

 It's trivial to check the alignment of the members of the array, so it
 might be worthwhile to add something to the build system to do that
 automatically. Unfortunately, that only covers this case. I've asked one
 of the gcc developers about adding a warning when this condition is seen.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B85770B.6010901@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-02-25 09:38:11 -05:00
Li Zefan
c7c6b1fe9f ftrace: Allow to remove a single function from function graph filter
I don't see why we can only clear all functions from the filter.

After patching:

  # echo sys_open > set_graph_function
  # echo sys_close >> set_graph_function
  # cat set_graph_function
  sys_open
  sys_close
  # echo '!sys_close' >> set_graph_function
  # cat set_graph_function
  sys_open

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B726388.2000408@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-02-11 14:32:38 -05:00
Daniel Mack
1537a3638c tree-wide: fix 'lenght' typo in comments and code
Some misspelled occurences of 'octet' and some comments were also fixed
as I was on it.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Mack <daniel@caiaq.de>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <trivial@kernel.org>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2010-02-05 12:22:45 +01:00
Lai Jiangshan
ea2c68a08f tracing: Simplify test for function_graph tracing start point
In the function graph tracer, a calling function is to be traced
only when it is enabled through the set_graph_function file,
or when it is nested in an enabled function.

Current code uses TSK_TRACE_FL_GRAPH to test whether it is nested
or not. Looking at the code, we can get this:
(trace->depth > 0) <==> (TSK_TRACE_FL_GRAPH is set)

trace->depth is more explicit to tell that it is nested.
So we use trace->depth directly and simplify the code.

No functionality is changed.
TSK_TRACE_FL_GRAPH is not removed yet, it is left for future usage.

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <4B4DB0B6.7040607@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2010-01-29 01:05:12 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
da184a8064 Merge branch 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  tracing: Fix return of trace_dump_stack()
  ksym_tracer: Fix bad cast
  tracing/power: Remove two exports
  tracing: Change event->profile_count to be int type
  tracing: Simplify trace_option_write()
  tracing: Remove useless trace option
  tracing: Use seq file for trace_clock
  tracing: Use seq file for trace_options
  function-graph: Allow writing the same val to set_graph_function
  ftrace: Call trace_parser_clear() properly
  ftrace: Return EINVAL when writing invalid val to set_ftrace_filter
  tracing: Move a printk out of ftrace_raw_reg_event_foo()
  tracing: Pull up calls to trace_define_common_fields()
  tracing: Extract duplicate ftrace_raw_init_event_foo()
  ftrace.h: Use common pr_info fmt string
  tracing: Add stack trace to irqsoff tracer
  tracing: Add trace_dump_stack()
  ring-buffer: Move resize integrity check under reader lock
  ring-buffer: Use sync sched protection on ring buffer resizing
  tracing: Fix wrong usage of strstrip in trace_ksyms
2009-12-16 12:02:25 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
d0316554d3 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu: (34 commits)
  m68k: rename global variable vmalloc_end to m68k_vmalloc_end
  percpu: add missing per_cpu_ptr_to_phys() definition for UP
  percpu: Fix kdump failure if booted with percpu_alloc=page
  percpu: make misc percpu symbols unique
  percpu: make percpu symbols in ia64 unique
  percpu: make percpu symbols in powerpc unique
  percpu: make percpu symbols in x86 unique
  percpu: make percpu symbols in xen unique
  percpu: make percpu symbols in cpufreq unique
  percpu: make percpu symbols in oprofile unique
  percpu: make percpu symbols in tracer unique
  percpu: make percpu symbols under kernel/ and mm/ unique
  percpu: remove some sparse warnings
  percpu: make alloc_percpu() handle array types
  vmalloc: fix use of non-existent percpu variable in put_cpu_var()
  this_cpu: Use this_cpu_xx in trace_functions_graph.c
  this_cpu: Use this_cpu_xx for ftrace
  this_cpu: Use this_cpu_xx in nmi handling
  this_cpu: Use this_cpu operations in RCU
  this_cpu: Use this_cpu ops for VM statistics
  ...

Fix up trivial (famous last words) global per-cpu naming conflicts in
	arch/x86/kvm/svm.c
	mm/slab.c
2009-12-14 09:58:24 -08:00
Li Zefan
2cbafd68b8 tracing: Remove useless trace option
Since commit 4d9493c90f
("ftrace: remove add-hoc code"), option "sched-tree"
has become useless.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <4B1DC50A.7040402@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2009-12-13 18:37:27 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
c521efd170 tracing: Add pipe_close interface
An ftrace plugin can add a pipe_open interface when the user opens
trace_pipe. But if the plugin allocates something within the pipe_open
it can not free it because there exists no pipe_close. The hook to
the trace file open has a corresponding close. The closing of the
trace_pipe file should also have a corresponding close.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-12-07 12:01:35 -05:00
Tom Zanussi
99df5a6a21 trace/syscalls: Change ret param in struct syscall_trace_exit to long
Commit ee949a86b3 ("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>
2009-11-25 09:06:10 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
96200591a3 Merge branch 'tracing/hw-breakpoints' into perf/core
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>
2009-11-21 14:07:23 +01:00
Li Zefan
30ff21e31f ksym_tracer: Remove KSYM_SELFTEST_ENTRY
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>
2009-11-08 16:21:01 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker
24f1e32c60 hw-breakpoints: Rewrite the hw-breakpoints layer on top of perf events
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>
2009-11-08 15:34:42 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
4331595650 Merge branch 'perf/core' into perf/probes
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>
2009-10-23 08:23:20 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
0f8f86c7bd Merge commit 'perf/core' into perf/hw-breakpoint
Conflicts:
	kernel/Makefile
	kernel/trace/Makefile
	kernel/trace/trace.h
	samples/Makefile

Merge reason: We need to be uptodate with the perf events development
branch because we plan to rewrite the breakpoints API on top of
perf events.
2009-10-18 01:12:33 +02:00
Li Zefan
6fb2915df7 tracing/profile: Add filter support
- Add an ioctl to allocate a filter for a perf event.

- Free the filter when the associated perf event is to be freed.

- Do the filtering in perf_swevent_match().

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4AD69546.8050401@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-15 11:35:23 +02:00
Li Zefan
b0f1a59a98 tracing/filters: Use a different op for glob match
"==" will always do a full match, and "~" will do a glob match.

In the future, we may add "=~" for regex match.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4AD69528.3050309@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-15 11:35:22 +02:00
Li Zefan
fce29d15b5 tracing/filters: Refactor subsystem filter code
Change:
	for_each_pred
		for_each_subsystem
To:
	for_each_subsystem
		for_each_pred

This change also prepares for later patches.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4AD69502.8060903@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-15 11:35:22 +02:00
jolsa@redhat.com
756d17ee7e tracing: Support multiple pids in set_pid_ftrace file
Adding the possibility to set more than 1 pid in the set_pid_ftrace
file, thus allowing to trace more than 1 independent processes.

Usage:

 sh-4.0# echo 284 > ./set_ftrace_pid
 sh-4.0# cat ./set_ftrace_pid
 284
 sh-4.0# echo 1 >> ./set_ftrace_pid
 sh-4.0# echo 0 >> ./set_ftrace_pid
 sh-4.0# cat ./set_ftrace_pid
 swapper tasks
 1
 284
 sh-4.0# echo 4 > ./set_ftrace_pid
 sh-4.0# cat ./set_ftrace_pid
 4
 sh-4.0# echo > ./set_ftrace_pid
 sh-4.0# cat ./set_ftrace_pid
 no pid
 sh-4.0#

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20091013203425.565454612@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-14 08:13:53 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
bf7c5b43a1 tracing: Remove unused ftrace_trace_addr helper
Remove the ftrace_trace_addr() function as only its off-case is
implemented and there are no users of it currently.

But we keep ftrace_graph_addr() off-case, in case someone come to use
the function graph tracer to profit from top-level callers filtering.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
2009-10-13 09:33:40 +02:00
Christoph Lameter
9288f99aa5 this_cpu: Use this_cpu_xx for ftrace
this_cpu_xx can reduce the instruction count here and also
avoid address arithmetic.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2009-10-12 19:51:49 +09:00
Ingo Molnar
0aa73ba1c4 Merge branch 'tracing/urgent' into tracing/core
Merge reason: Pick up latest fixes and update to latest upstream.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-01 11:20:48 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
3f6fe06dbf tracing/filters: Unify the regex parsing helpers
The filter code has stolen the regex parsing function from ftrace to
get the regex support.
We have duplicated this code, so factorize it in the filter area and
make it generally available, as the filter code is the most suited to
host this feature.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
2009-09-24 21:40:13 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
1889d20922 tracing/filters: Provide basic regex support
This patch provides basic support for regular expressions in filters.

It supports the following types of regexp:

- *match_beginning
- *match_middle*
- match_end*
- !don't match

Example:
	cd /debug/tracing/events/bkl/lock_kernel
	echo 'file == "*reiserfs*"' > filter
	echo 1 > enable

           gedit-4941  [000]   457.735437: lock_kernel: depth: 0, fs/reiserfs/namei.c:334 reiserfs_lookup()
     sync_supers-227   [001]   461.379985: lock_kernel: depth: 0, fs/reiserfs/super.c:69 reiserfs_sync_fs()
     sync_supers-227   [000]   461.383096: lock_kernel: depth: 0, fs/reiserfs/journal.c:1069 flush_commit_list()
      reiserfs/1-1369  [001]   461.479885: lock_kernel: depth: 0, fs/reiserfs/journal.c:3509 flush_async_commits()

Every string is now handled as a regexp in the filter framework, which
helps to factorize the code for handling both simple strings and
regexp comparisons.

(The regexp parsing code has been wildly cherry picked from ftrace.c
written by Steve.)

v2: Simplify the whole and drop the filter_regex file

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
2009-09-24 21:39:27 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
d7a4b414ee Merge commit 'linus/master' into tracing/kprobes
Conflicts:
	kernel/trace/Makefile
	kernel/trace/trace.h
	kernel/trace/trace_event_types.h
	kernel/trace/trace_export.c

Merge reason:
	Sync with latest significant tracing core changes.
2009-09-23 23:08:43 +02:00
Arjan van de Ven
6161352142 tracing, perf: Convert the power tracer into an event tracer
This patch converts the existing power tracer into an event tracer,
so that power events (C states and frequency changes) can be
tracked via "perf".

This also removes the perl script that was used to demo the tracer;
its functionality is being replaced entirely with timechart.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090912130542.6d314860@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-19 11:42:12 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
4e5292ea1a tracing: use the new trace_entries.h to create format files
This patch changes the way the format files in

  debugfs/tracing/events/ftrace/*/format

are created. It uses the new trace_entries.h file to automate the
creation of the format files to ensure that they are always in sync
with the actual structures. This is the same methodology used to
create the format files for the TRACE_EVENT macro.

This also updates the filter creation that was built on the creation
of the format files.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-09-12 23:08:10 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
d73150943c tracing: show details of structures within the ftrace structures
Some of the internal ftrace structures use structures within. The
output of a field saying it is just a structure is useless for a format
file. A binary reader of the ring buffer needs to know more about
how the fields are broken up.

This patch adds to the ftrace structure macros new fields to
describe the structures inside a structure.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-09-12 23:08:07 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
0a1c49db8d tracing: use macros to create internal ftrace entry ring buffer structures
The entries used by ftrace internal code (plugins) currently have their
formats manually exported to userspace. That is, the format files in
debugfs/tracing/events/ftrace/*/format are currently created by hand.
This is a maintenance nightmare, and can easily become out of sync
with what is actually shown.

This patch uses the methodology of the TRACE_EVENT macros to build
the structures so that their formats can be automated and this
will keep the structures in sync with what users can see.

This patch only changes the way the structures are created. Further
patches will build off of this to automate the format files.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-09-12 23:08:06 -04:00
Carsten Emde
b5130b1e7d tracing: do not update tracing_max_latency when tracer is stopped
The state of the function pair tracing_stop()/tracing_start() is
correctly considered when tracer data are updated. However, the global
and externally accessible variable tracing_max_latency is always updated
- even when tracing is stopped.

The update should only occur, if tracing was not stopped.

Signed-off-by: Carsten Emde <C.Emde@osadl.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-09-12 21:45:17 -04:00
jolsa@redhat.com
b63f39ea50 tracing: create generic trace parser
Create a "trace_parser" that can parse the user space input for
separate words.

struct trace_parser is the descriptor.

Generic "trace_get_user" function that can be a helper to read multiple
words passed in by user space.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1252682969-3366-2-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-09-11 14:46:55 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
48659d3119 tracing: move tgid out of generic entry and into userstack
The userstack trace required the recording of the tgid entry.
Unfortunately, it was added to the generic entry where it wasted
4 bytes of every entry and was only used by one entry.

This patch moves it out of the generic field and moves it into the
only user (userstack_entry).

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-09-11 11:36:23 -04:00
Frederic Weisbecker
8f8ffe2485 Merge commit 'tracing/core' into tracing/kprobes
Conflicts:
	kernel/trace/trace_export.c
	kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c

Merge reason: This topic branch lacks an important
build fix in tracing/core:

	0dd7b74787:
	tracing: Fix double CPP substitution in TRACE_EVENT_FN

that prevents from multiple tracepoint headers inclusion crashes.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2009-09-11 01:09:23 +02:00
Li Zefan
197e2eabc9 tracing: move PRED macros to trace_events_filter.c
Move DEFINE_COMPARISON_PRED() and DEFINE_EQUALITY_PRED()
  to kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4AA8579B.4020706@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-09-09 23:54:11 -04:00
Li Zefan
a5921c6c37 tracing: remove stats from struct tracer
Remove unused field @stats from struct tracer.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4AA8579B.4020706@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-09-09 23:54:09 -04:00
Li Zefan
bd9cfca9cb tracing: format clean ups
Fix white-space formatting.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4AA8579B.4020706@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-09-09 23:54:07 -04:00
Li Zefan
e0ab5f2dae tracing: remove dead code
Removes unreachable code.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4AA8579B.4020706@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-09-09 23:54:06 -04:00
Ingo Molnar
a1922ed661 Merge branch 'tracing/core' into tracing/hw-breakpoints
Conflicts:
	arch/Kconfig
	kernel/trace/trace.h

Merge reason: resolve the conflicts, plus adopt to the new
              ring-buffer APIs.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-07 08:19:51 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
659372d3e4 tracing: add trace_array_printk for internal tracers to use
This patch adds a trace_array_printk to allow a tracer to use the
trace_printk on its own trace array.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-09-04 19:13:53 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
e77405ad80 tracing: pass around ring buffer instead of tracer
The latency tracers (irqsoff and wakeup) can swap trace buffers
on the fly. If an event is happening and has reserved data on one of
the buffers, and the latency tracer swaps the global buffer with the
max buffer, the result is that the event may commit the data to the
wrong buffer.

This patch changes the API to the trace recording to be recieve the
buffer that was used to reserve a commit. Then this buffer can be passed
in to the commit.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-09-04 18:59:39 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
2f26ebd549 tracing: use timestamp to determine start of latency traces
Currently the latency tracers reset the ring buffer. Unfortunately
if a commit is in process (due to a trace event), this can corrupt
the ring buffer. When this happens, the ring buffer will detect
the corruption and then permanently disable the ring buffer.

The bug does not crash the system, but it does prevent further tracing
after the bug is hit.

Instead of reseting the trace buffers, the timestamp of the start of
the trace is used instead. The buffers will still contain the previous
data, but the output will not count any data that is before the
timestamp of the trace.

Note, this only affects the static trace output (trace) and not the
runtime trace output (trace_pipe). The runtime trace output does not
make sense for the latency tracers anyway.

Reported-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-09-04 18:44:22 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
8248ac052d tracing: print out start and stop in latency traces
During development of the tracer, we would copy information from
the live tracer to the max tracer with one memcpy. Since then we
added a generic ring buffer and we handle the copies differently now.
Unfortunately, we never copied the critical section information, and
we lost the output:

 #  => started at: kmem_cache_alloc
 #  => ended at:   kmem_cache_alloc

This patch adds back the critical start and end copying as well as
removes the unused "trace_idx" and "overrun" fields of the
trace_array_cpu structure.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-09-04 11:48:12 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
5d4a9dba2d tracing: only show tracing_max_latency when latency tracer configured
The tracing_max_latency file should only be present when one of the
latency tracers ({preempt|irqs}off, wakeup*) are enabled.

This patch also removes tracing_thresh when latency tracers are not
enabled, as well as compiles out code that is only used for latency
tracers.

Reported-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-08-27 16:58:05 -04:00
Masami Hiramatsu
ff50d99136 tracing: Kprobe tracer assigns new event ids for each event
Assign new event ids for each kprobes event. This doesn't clear
ring_buffer when unregistering each kprobe event. Thus, if you mind
'Unknown event' messages, clear the buffer manually after changing
kprobe events.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Cc: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Przemysław Pawełczyk <przemyslaw@pawelczyk.it>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090813203534.31965.49105.stgit@localhost.localdomain>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2009-08-27 02:32:33 +02:00
Masami Hiramatsu
413d37d1eb tracing: Add kprobe-based event tracer
Add kprobes-based event tracer on ftrace.

This tracer is similar to the events tracer which is based on Tracepoint
infrastructure. Instead of Tracepoint, this tracer is based on kprobes
(kprobe and kretprobe). It probes anywhere where kprobes can probe(this
 means, all functions body except for __kprobes functions).

Similar to the events tracer, this tracer doesn't need to be activated
via current_tracer, instead of that, just set probe points via
/sys/kernel/debug/tracing/kprobe_events. And you can set filters on each
probe events via /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/kprobes/<EVENT>/filter.

This tracer supports following probe arguments for each probe.

  %REG  : Fetch register REG
  sN    : Fetch Nth entry of stack (N >= 0)
  sa    : Fetch stack address.
  @ADDR : Fetch memory at ADDR (ADDR should be in kernel)
  @SYM[+|-offs] : Fetch memory at SYM +|- offs (SYM should be a data symbol)
  aN    : Fetch function argument. (N >= 0)
  rv    : Fetch return value.
  ra    : Fetch return address.
  +|-offs(FETCHARG) : fetch memory at FETCHARG +|- offs address.

See Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt in the next patch for details.

Changes from v13:
 - Support 'sa' for stack address.
 - Use call->data instead of container_of() macro.

[fweisbec@gmail.com: Fixed conflict against latest tracing/core]

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Cc: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Przemysław Pawełczyk <przemyslaw@pawelczyk.it>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090813203510.31965.29123.stgit@localhost.localdomain>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2009-08-27 02:31:54 +02:00
Zhaolei
5079f3261f ftrace: Move setting of clock-source out of options
There are many clock sources for the tracing system but we can only
enable/disable one at a time with the trace/options file.
We can move the setting of clock-source out of options and add a separate
file for it:
 # cat trace_clock
 [local] global
 # echo global > trace_clock
 # cat trace_clock
 local [global]

Signed-off-by: Zhao Lei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A939D08.6050604@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-08-26 00:32:08 -04:00
Li Zefan
aa38e9fc3e tracing/filters: Add filter_type to struct ftrace_event_field
The type of a field is stored as a string in @type, and here
we add @filter_type which is an enum value.

This prepares for later patches, so we can specifically assign
different @filter_type for the same @type.

For example normally a "char *" field is treated as a ptr,
but we may want it to be treated as a string when doing filting.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A7B925E.9030605@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-08-26 00:32:06 -04:00
Jason Baron
64c12e0444 tracing: Add individual syscalls tracepoint id support
The current state of syscalls tracepoints generates only one event id
for every syscall events.

This patch associates an id with each syscall trace event, so that we
can identify each syscall trace event using the 'perf' tool.

Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: Jiaying Zhang <jiayingz@google.com>
Cc: Martin Bligh <mbligh@google.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2009-08-11 20:35:28 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
89034bc2c7 Merge branch 'linus' into tracing/core
Conflicts:
	kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c

We use the tracing/core version.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-11 14:19:09 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
f413cdb80c perf_counter: Fix/complete ftrace event records sampling
This patch implements the kernel side support for ftrace event
record sampling.

A new counter sampling attribute is added:

   PERF_SAMPLE_TP_RECORD

which requests ftrace events record sampling. In this case
if a PERF_TYPE_TRACEPOINT counter is active and a tracepoint
fires, we emit the tracepoint binary record to the
perfcounter event buffer, as a sample.

Result, after setting PERF_SAMPLE_TP_RECORD attribute from perf
record:

 perf record -f -F 1 -a -e workqueue:workqueue_execution
 perf report -D

 0x21e18 [0x48]: event: 9
 .
 . ... raw event: size 72 bytes
 .  0000:  09 00 00 00 01 00 48 00 d0 c7 00 81 ff ff ff ff  ......H........
 .  0010:  0a 00 00 00 0a 00 00 00 21 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ........!......
 .  0020:  2b 00 01 02 0a 00 00 00 0a 00 00 00 65 76 65 6e  +...........eve
 .  0030:  74 73 2f 31 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0a 00 00 00  ts/1...........
 .  0040:  e0 b1 31 81 ff ff ff ff                          .......
.
0x21e18 [0x48]: PERF_EVENT_SAMPLE (IP, 1): 10: 0xffffffff8100c7d0 period: 33

The raw ftrace binary record starts at offset 0020.

Translation:

 struct trace_entry {
	type		= 0x2b = 43;
	flags		= 1;
	preempt_count	= 2;
	pid		= 0xa = 10;
	tgid		= 0xa = 10;
 }

 thread_comm = "events/1"
 thread_pid  = 0xa = 10;
 func	    = 0xffffffff8131b1e0 = flush_to_ldisc()

What will come next?

 - Userspace support ('perf trace'), 'flight data recorder' mode
   for perf trace, etc.

 - The unconditional copy from the profiling callback brings
   some costs however if someone wants no such sampling to
   occur, and needs to be fixed in the future. For that we need
   to have an instant access to the perf counter attribute.
   This is a matter of a flag to add in the struct ftrace_event.

 - Take care of the events recursivity! Don't ever try to record
   a lock event for example, it seems some locking is used in
   the profiling fast path and lead to a tracing recursivity.
   That will be fixed using raw spinlock or recursivity
   protection.

 - [...]

 - Profit! :-)

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-09 12:53:48 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
1a0799a8fe tracing/function-graph-tracer: Move graph event insertion helpers in the graph tracer file
The function graph events helpers which insert the function entry and
return events into the ring buffer currently reside in trace.c
But this file is quite overloaded and the right place for these helpers
is in the function graph tracer file.

Then move them to trace_functions_graph.c

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-08-06 07:28:06 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
c0a0d0d3f6 tracing/core: Make the stack entry helpers global
Make the stacktrace event insertion helpers globals.
This has two effects:

- Prepare for moving the sched events insertion helpers to
  the sched switch tracer file.
- Move some ifdef outside function definitions

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-08-06 07:28:05 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
5e5bf48398 tracing/core: Turn ftrace_cpu_disabled into a global var
In order to prepare the moving of the function graph tracer insertion
helpers from trace.c to trace_functions_graph.c, we need to export the
ftrace_cpu_disabled variable.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-08-06 07:28:05 +02:00
Li Zefan
1f9963cbb0 tracing/filters: improve subsystem filter
Currently a subsystem filter should be applicable to all events
under the subsystem, and if it failed, all the event filters
will be cleared. Those behaviors make subsys filter much less
useful:

  # echo 'vec == 1' > irq/softirq_entry/filter
  # echo 'irq == 5' > irq/filter
  bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument
  # cat irq/softirq_entry/filter
  none

I'd expect it set the filter for irq_handler_entry/exit, and
not touch softirq_entry/exit.

The basic idea is, try to see if the filter can be applied
to which events, and then just apply to the those events:

  # echo 'vec == 1' > softirq_entry/filter
  # echo 'irq == 5' > filter
  # cat irq_handler_entry/filter
  irq == 5
  # cat softirq_entry/filter
  vec == 1

Changelog for v2:
- do some cleanups to address Frederic's comments.

Inspired-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A63D485.7030703@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-07-20 13:29:19 -04:00
Li Zefan
db59504d89 ksym_tracer: Extract trace entry from struct trace_ksym
struct trace_ksym is used as an entry in hbp list, and is also
used as trace_entry stored in ring buffer.

This is not necessary and is a waste of memory in ring buffer.

There is also a bug that dereferencing field->ksym_hbp in
ksym_trace_output() can be invalid.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: "K.Prasad" <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <4A52E2A4.4050007@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-07-10 11:59:40 +02:00
Xiao Guangrong
dc82ec98a4 tracing/filter: Remove empty subsystem and its directory
Remove empty subsystem and its directory when module unload.

Before patch:
 # rmmod trace-events-sample.ko
 # ls sample
 enable  filter

After patch:
 # rmmod trace-events-sample.ko
 # ls sample
 ls: cannot access sample: No such file or directory

Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <4A55A8BE.9010707@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-07-10 11:55:28 +02:00
Li Zefan
020e5f85cb tracing/events: Add trace_event boot option
We already have ftrace= boot option, and this adds a similar
boot option for trace events, so allow trace events to be
enabled at boot, for boot debugging purpose.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A4ACE29.3010407@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-07-01 15:44:24 +02:00
Paul Mundt
1155de47cd ring-buffer: Make it generally available
In hunting down the cause for the hwlat_detector ring buffer spew in
my failed -next builds it became obvious that folks are now treating
ring_buffer as something that is generic independent of tracing and thus,
suitable for public driver consumption.

Given that there are only a few minor areas in ring_buffer that have any
reliance on CONFIG_TRACING or CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER, provide stubs for
those and make it generally available.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Jon Masters <jcm@jonmasters.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <20090625053012.GB19944@linux-sh.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-25 10:31:30 +02:00
K.Prasad
0722db015c hw-breakpoints: ftrace plugin for kernel symbol tracing using HW Breakpoint interfaces
This patch adds an ftrace plugin to detect and profile memory access over kernel
variables. It uses HW Breakpoint interfaces to 'watch memory addresses.

Signed-off-by: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2009-06-02 22:47:00 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
0ad5d703c6 Merge branch 'tracing/hw-branch-tracing' into tracing/core
Merge reason: this topic is ready for upstream now. It passed
              Oleg's review and Andrew had no further mm/*
              objections/observations either.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-07 13:36:22 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
9456f0fa6d tracing: reset ring buffer when removing modules with events
Li Zefan found that there's a race using the event ids of events and
modules. When a module is loaded, an event id is incremented. We only
have 16 bits for event ids (65536) and there is a possible (but highly
unlikely) race that we could load and unload a module that registers
events so many times that the event id counter overflows.

When it overflows, it then restarts and goes looking for available
ids. An id is available if it was added by a module and released.

The race is if you have one module add an id, and then is removed.
Another module loaded can use that same event id. But if the old module
still had events in the ring buffer, the new module's call back would
get bogus data.  At best (and most likely) the output would just be
garbage. But if the module for some reason used pointers (not recommended)
then this could potentially crash.

The safest thing to do is just reset the ring buffer if a module that
registered events is removed.

[ Impact: prevent unpredictable results of event id overflows ]

Reported-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <49FEAFD0.30106@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-05-06 23:11:41 -04:00
Li Zefan
20c8928abe tracing/events: fix concurrent access to ftrace_events list
A module will add/remove its trace events when it gets loaded/unloaded, so
the ftrace_events list is not "const", and concurrent access needs to be
protected.

This patch thus fixes races between loading/unloding modules and read
'available_events' or read/write 'set_event', etc.

Below shows how to reproduce the race:

 # for ((; ;)) { cat /mnt/tracing/available_events; } > /dev/null &
 # for ((; ;)) { insmod trace-events-sample.ko; rmmod sample; } &

After a while:

BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 0010011c
IP: [<c1080f27>] t_next+0x1b/0x2d
...
Call Trace:
 [<c10c90e6>] ? seq_read+0x217/0x30d
 [<c10c8ecf>] ? seq_read+0x0/0x30d
 [<c10b4c19>] ? vfs_read+0x8f/0x136
 [<c10b4fc3>] ? sys_read+0x40/0x65
 [<c1002a68>] ? sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x36

[ Impact: fix races when concurrent accessing ftrace_events list ]

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <4A00F709.3080800@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-06 10:38:19 +02:00
Tom Zanussi
8b37256210 tracing/filters: a better event parser
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>
2009-04-29 14:06:11 +02:00
Tom Zanussi
a118e4d140 tracing/filters: distinguish between signed and unsigned fields
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>
2009-04-29 14:06:03 +02:00
Tom Zanussi
30e673b230 tracing/filters: move preds into event_filter object
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>
2009-04-29 14:05:54 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
416dfdcdb8 Merge commit 'v2.6.30-rc3' into tracing/hw-branch-tracing
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c

Merge reason: fix the conflict above, and also pick up the CONFIG_BROKEN
              dependency change from upstream so that we can remove it
	      here.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-24 10:11:23 +02:00
Li Zefan
7a4f453b6d tracing/events: make struct trace_entry->type to be int type
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>
2009-04-22 11:36:38 +02:00
Tom Zanussi
ac1adc55fc tracing/filters: add filter_mutex to protect filter predicates
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>
2009-04-17 18:28:27 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
a59fd60272 tracing/events: convert event call sites to use a link list
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>
2009-04-14 12:58:00 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
97f2025153 tracing/events: move declarations from trace directory to core include
In preparation to allowing trace events to happen in modules, we need
to move some of the local declarations in the kernel/trace directory
into include/linux.

This patch simply moves the declarations and performs no context changes.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-04-14 12:57:58 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
9504504cba tracing: make trace_seq operations available for core kernel
In the process to make TRACE_EVENT macro work for modules, the trace_seq
operations must be available for core kernel code.

These operations are quite useful and can be used for other implementations.

The main idea is that we create a trace_seq handle that acts very much
like the seq_file handle.

	struct trace_seq *s = kmalloc(sizeof(*s, GFP_KERNEL);

	trace_seq_init(s);
	trace_seq_printf(s, "some data %d\n", variable);

	printk("%s", s->buffer);

The main use is to allow a top level function call several other functions
that may store printf like data into the buffer. Then at the end, the top
level function can process all the data with any method it would like to.
It could be passed to userspace, output via printk or even use seq_file:

	trace_seq_to_user(s, ubuf, cnt);
	seq_puts(m, s->buffer);

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-04-14 12:57:57 -04:00
Tom Zanussi
0a19e53c15 tracing/filters: allow on-the-fly filter switching
This patch allows event filters to be safely removed or switched
on-the-fly while avoiding the use of rcu or the suspension of tracing of
previous versions.

It does it by adding a new filter_pred_none() predicate function which
does nothing and by never deallocating either the predicates or any of
the filter_pred members used in matching; the predicate lists are
allocated and initialized during ftrace_event_calls initialization.

Whenever a filter is removed or replaced, the filter_pred_* functions
currently in use by the affected ftrace_event_call are immediately
switched over to to the filter_pred_none() function, while the rest of
the filter_pred members are left intact, allowing any currently
executing filter_pred_* functions to finish up, using the values they're
currently using.

In the case of filter replacement, the new predicate values are copied
into the old predicates after the above step, and the filter_pred_none()
functions are replaced by the filter_pred_* functions for the new
filter.  In this case, it is possible though very unlikely that a
previous filter_pred_* is still running even after the
filter_pred_none() switch and the switch to the new filter_pred_*.  In
that case, however, because nothing has been deallocated in the
filter_pred, the worst that can happen is that the old filter_pred_*
function sees the new values and as a result produces either a false
positive or a false negative, depending on the values it finds.

So one downside to this method is that rarely, it can produce a bad
match during the filter switch, but it should be possible to live with
that, IMHO.

The other downside is that at least in this patch the predicate lists
are always pre-allocated, taking up memory from the start.  They could
probably be allocated on first-use, and de-allocated when tracing is
completely stopped - if this patch makes sense, I could create another
one to do that later on.

Oh, and it also places a restriction on the size of __arrays in events,
currently set to 128, since they can't be larger than the now embedded
str_val arrays in the filter_pred struct.

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com
LKML-Reference: <1239610670.6660.49.camel@tropicana>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-14 00:03:55 +02:00
Tom Zanussi
eb02ce017d tracing/filters: use ring_buffer_discard_commit() in filter_check_discard()
This patch changes filter_check_discard() to make use of the new
ring_buffer_discard_commit() function and modifies the current users to
call the old commit function in the non-discard case.

It also introduces a version of filter_check_discard() that uses the
global trace buffer (filter_current_check_discard()) for those cases.

v2 changes:

- fix compile error noticed by Ingo Molnar

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
LKML-Reference: <1239178554.10295.36.camel@tropicana>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-14 00:00:56 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
77d9f465d4 tracing/filters: use ring_buffer_discard_commit for discarded events
The ring_buffer_discard_commit makes better usage of the ring_buffer
when an event has been discarded. It tries to remove it completely if
possible.

This patch converts the trace event filtering to use
ring_buffer_discard_commit instead of the ring_buffer_event_discard.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-14 00:00:54 +02:00
Tom Zanussi
e45f2e2bd2 tracing/filters: add TRACE_EVENT_FORMAT_NOFILTER event macro
Frederic Weisbecker suggested that the trace_special event shouldn't be
filterable; this patch adds a TRACE_EVENT_FORMAT_NOFILTER event macro
that allows an event format to be exported without having a filter
attached, and removes filtering from the trace_special event.

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-14 00:00:51 +02:00
Tom Zanussi
e1112b4d96 tracing/filters: add run-time field descriptions to TRACE_EVENT_FORMAT events
This patch adds run-time field descriptions to all the event formats
exported using TRACE_EVENT_FORMAT.  It also hooks up all the tracers
that use them (i.e. the tracers in the 'ftrace subsystem') so they can
also have their output filtered by the event-filtering mechanism.

When I was testing this, there were a couple of things that fooled me
into thinking the filters weren't working, when actually they were -
I'll mention them here so others don't make the same mistakes (and file
bug reports. ;-)

One is that some of the tracers trace multiple events e.g. the
sched_switch tracer uses the context_switch and wakeup events, and if
you don't set filters on all of the traced events, the unfiltered output
from the events without filters on them can make it look like the
filtering as a whole isn't working properly, when actually it is doing
what it was asked to do - it just wasn't asked to do the right thing.

The other is that for the really high-volume tracers e.g. the function
tracer, the volume of filtered events can be so high that it pushes the
unfiltered events out of the ring buffer before they can be read so e.g.
cat'ing the trace file repeatedly shows either no output, or once in
awhile some output but that isn't there the next time you read the
trace, which isn't what you normally expect when reading the trace file.
If you read from the trace_pipe file though, you can catch them before
they disappear.

Changes from v1:

As suggested by Frederic Weisbecker:

- get rid of externs in functions
- added unlikely() to filter_check_discard()

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-14 00:00:50 +02:00
Zhaolei
02af61bb50 tracing, kmemtrace: Separate include/trace/kmemtrace.h to kmemtrace part and tracepoint part
Impact: refactor code for future changes

Current kmemtrace.h is used both as header file of kmemtrace and kmem's
tracepoints definition.

Tracepoints' definition file may be used by other code, and should only have
definition of tracepoint.

We can separate include/trace/kmemtrace.h into 2 files:

  include/linux/kmemtrace.h: header file for kmemtrace
  include/trace/kmem.h:      definition of kmem tracepoints

Signed-off-by: Zhao Lei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <49DEE68A.5040902@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-12 15:22:55 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
c93f216b5b Merge branch 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  branch tracer, intel-iommu: fix build with CONFIG_BRANCH_TRACER=y
  branch tracer: Fix for enabling branch profiling makes sparse unusable
  ftrace: Correct a text align for event format output
  Update /debug/tracing/README
  tracing/ftrace: alloc the started cpumask for the trace file
  tracing, x86: remove duplicated #include
  ftrace: Add check of sched_stopped for probe_sched_wakeup
  function-graph: add proper initialization for init task
  tracing/ftrace: fix missing include string.h
  tracing: fix incorrect return type of ns2usecs()
  tracing: remove CALLER_ADDR2 from wakeup tracer
  blktrace: fix pdu_len when tracing packet command requests
  blktrace: small cleanup in blk_msg_write()
  blktrace: NUL-terminate user space messages
  tracing: move scripts/trace/power.pl to scripts/tracing/power.pl
2009-04-07 14:10:10 -07:00
Frederic Weisbecker
5452af664f tracing/ftrace: factorize the tracing files creation
Impact: cleanup

Most of the tracing files creation follow the same pattern:

ret = debugfs_create_file(...)
if (!ret)
	pr_warning("Couldn't create ... entry\n")

Unify it!

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1238109938-11840-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-04-07 14:43:07 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
86665c75da Merge branch 'tracing/urgent' into tracing/ftrace 2009-04-07 14:41:17 +02:00
Lai Jiangshan
cf8e347465 tracing: fix incorrect return type of ns2usecs()
Impact: fix time output bug in 32bits system

ns2usecs() returns 'long', it's incorrect.

(In i386)
...
          <idle>-0     [000]   521.442100: _spin_lock <-tick_do_update_jiffies64
          <idle>-0     [000]   521.442101: do_timer <-tick_do_update_jiffies64
          <idle>-0     [000]   521.442102: update_wall_time <-do_timer
          <idle>-0     [000]   521.442102: update_xtime_cache <-update_wall_time
....
(It always print the time less than 2200 seconds besides ...)
Because 'long' is 32bits in i386. ( (1<<31) useconds is about 2200 seconds)

...
          <idle>-0     [001] 4154502640.134759: rcu_bh_qsctr_inc <-__do_softirq
          <idle>-0     [001] 4154502640.134760: _local_bh_enable <-__do_softirq
          <idle>-0     [001] 4154502640.134761: idle_cpu <-irq_exit
...
(very large value)
Because 'long' is a signed type and it is 32bits in i386.

Changes in v2:
return 'unsigned long long' instead of 'cycle_t'

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <49D05D10.4030009@cn.fujitsu.com>
Reported-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-07 13:59:23 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
93776a8ec7 Merge branch 'linus' into tracing/core
Merge reason: update to upstream tracing facilities

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-07 13:47:45 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
2e8844e13a Merge branch 'linus' into tracing/hw-branch-tracing
Merge reason: update to latest tracing and ptrace APIs

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-07 13:34:42 +02:00
Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu
ca2b84cb3c kmemtrace: use tracepoints
kmemtrace now uses tracepoints instead of markers. We no longer need to
use format specifiers to pass arguments.

Signed-off-by: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>
[ folded: Use the new TP_PROTO and TP_ARGS to fix the build.     ]
[ folded: fix build when CONFIG_KMEMTRACE is disabled.           ]
[ folded: define tracepoints when CONFIG_TRACEPOINTS is enabled. ]
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
LKML-Reference: <ae61c0f37156db8ec8dc0d5778018edde60a92e3.1237813499.git.eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-03 12:23:06 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
8b54e45b00 Merge branches 'tracing/docs', 'tracing/filters', 'tracing/ftrace', 'tracing/kprobes', 'tracing/blktrace-v2' and 'tracing/textedit' into tracing/core-v2 2009-03-31 17:46:40 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
a2a16d6a31 function-graph: add option to calculate graph time or not
graph time is the time that a function is executing another function.
Thus if function A calls B, if graph-time is set, then the time for
A includes B. This is the default behavior. But if graph-time is off,
then the time spent executing B is subtracted from A.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-03-24 23:41:11 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
0706f1c48c tracing: adding function timings to function profiler
If the function graph trace is enabled, the function profiler will
use it to take the timing of the functions.

 cat /debug/tracing/trace_stat/functions

  Function                               Hit    Time
  --------                               ---    ----
  mwait_idle                             127    183028.4 us
  schedule                                26    151997.7 us
  __schedule                              31    151975.1 us
  sys_wait4                                2    74080.53 us
  do_wait                                  2    74077.80 us
  sys_newlstat                           138    39929.16 us
  do_path_lookup                         179    39845.79 us
  vfs_lstat_fd                           138    39761.97 us
  user_path_at                           153    39469.58 us
  path_walk                              179    39435.76 us
  __link_path_walk                       189    39143.73 us
[...]

Note the times are skewed due to the function graph tracer not taking
into account schedules.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-03-24 23:41:09 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
be6f164a02 function-graph: add option for include sleep times
Impact: give user a choice to show times spent while sleeping

The user may want to see the time a function spent sleeping.
This patch adds the trace option "sleep-time" to allow that.
The "sleep-time" option is default on.

 echo sleep-time > /debug/tracing/trace_options

produces:

 ------------------------------------------
 2)  avahi-d-3428  =>    <idle>-0
 ------------------------------------------

 2)               |      finish_task_switch() {
 2)   0.621 us    |        _spin_unlock_irq();
 2)   2.202 us    |      }
 2) ! 1002.197 us |    }
 2) ! 1003.521 us |  }

where as,

 echo nosleep-time > /debug/tracing/trace_options

produces:

 0)    <idle>-0    =>  yum-upd-3416
 ------------------------------------------

 0)               |              finish_task_switch() {
 0)   0.643 us    |                _spin_unlock_irq();
 0)   2.342 us    |              }
 0) + 41.302 us   |            }
 0) + 42.453 us   |          }

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-03-24 11:06:24 -04:00
Tom Zanussi
4bda2d517b tracing/filters: use trace_seq_printf() to print filters
Impact: cleanup

Instead of just using the trace_seq buffer to print the filters, use
trace_seq_printf() as it was intended to be used.

Reported-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fr=E9d=E9ric?= Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1237878871.8339.59.camel@charm-linux>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-24 08:26:52 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker
07edf71213 tracing/events: don't use wake up for events
Impact: fix hard-lockup with sched switch events

Some ftrace events, such as sched wakeup, can be traced
while the runqueue lock is hold. Since they are using
trace_current_buffer_unlock_commit(), they call wake_up()
which can try to grab the runqueue lock too, resulting in
a deadlock.

Now for all event, we call a new helper:
trace_nowake_buffer_unlock_commit() which do pretty the same than
trace_current_buffer_unlock_commit() except than it doesn't call
trace_wake_up().

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <1237759847-21025-4-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-23 09:22:14 +01:00
Tom Zanussi
cfb180f3e7 tracing: add per-subsystem filtering
This patch adds per-subsystem filtering to the event tracing subsystem.

It adds a 'filter' debugfs file to each subsystem directory.  This file
can be written to to set filters; reading from it will display the
current set of filters set for that subsystem.

Basically what it does is propagate the filter down to each event
contained in the subsystem.  If a particular event doesn't have a field
with the name specified in the filter, it simply doesn't get set for
that event.  You can verify whether or not the filter was set for a
particular event by looking at the filter file for that event.

As with per-event filters, compound expressions are supported, echoing
'0' to the subsystem's filter file clears all filters in the subsystem,
etc.

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1237710677.7703.49.camel@charm-linux>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-22 18:38:47 +01:00
Tom Zanussi
7ce7e42499 tracing: add per-event filtering
This patch adds per-event filtering to the event tracing subsystem.

It adds a 'filter' debugfs file to each event directory.  This file can
be written to to set filters; reading from it will display the current
set of filters set for that event.

Basically, any field listed in the 'format' file for an event can be
filtered on (including strings, but not yet other array types) using
either matching ('==') or non-matching ('!=') 'predicates'.  A
'predicate' can be either a single expression:

 # echo pid != 0 > filter

 # cat filter
 pid != 0

or a compound expression of up to 8 sub-expressions combined using '&&'
or '||':

 # echo comm == Xorg > filter
 # echo "&& sig != 29" > filter

 # cat filter
 comm == Xorg
 && sig != 29

Only events having field values matching an expression will be available
in the trace output; non-matching events are discarded.

Note that a compound expression is built up by echoing each
sub-expression separately - it's not the most efficient way to do
things, but it keeps the parser simple and assumes that compound
expressions will be relatively uncommon.  In any case, a subsequent
patch introducing a way to set filters for entire subsystems should
mitigate any need to do this for lots of events.

Setting a filter without an '&&' or '||' clears the previous filter
completely and sets the filter to the new expression:

 # cat filter
 comm == Xorg
 && sig != 29

 # echo comm != Xorg

 # cat filter
 comm != Xorg

To clear a filter, echo 0 to the filter file:

 # echo 0 > filter
 # cat filter
 none

The limit of 8 predicates for a compound expression is arbitrary - for
efficiency, it's implemented as an array of pointers to predicates, and
8 seemed more than enough for any filter...

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1237710665.7703.48.camel@charm-linux>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-22 18:38:46 +01:00
Tom Zanussi
cf027f645e tracing: add run-time field descriptions for event filtering
This patch makes the field descriptions defined for event tracing
available at run-time, for the event-filtering mechanism introduced
in a subsequent patch.

The common event fields are prepended with 'common_' in the format
display, allowing them to be distinguished from the other fields
that might internally have same name and can therefore be
unambiguously used in filters.

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1237710639.7703.46.camel@charm-linux>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-22 18:11:22 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra
ac199db018 ftrace: event profile hooks
Impact: new tracing infrastructure feature

Provide infrastructure to generate software perf counter events
from tracepoints.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <20090319194233.557364871@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-20 10:17:07 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
40ce74f19c tracing: remove recording function depth from trace_printk
The function depth in trace_printk was to facilitate the function
graph output. Now that the function graph calculates the depth within
the trace output, we no longer need to record the depth when the
trace_printk is called.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-03-19 15:58:47 -04:00
Ingo Molnar
327019b01e Merge branch 'tip/tracing/ftrace' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into tracing/ftrace 2009-03-18 06:59:56 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
af4617bdba tracing: add global-clock option to provide cross CPU clock to traces
Impact: feature to allow better serialized clock

This patch adds an option called "global-clock" that will allow
the tracer to switch to a slower but more accurate (across CPUs)
clock.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-03-17 23:10:35 -04:00
Ingo Molnar
4176935b58 Merge branch 'tip/tracing/ftrace' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into tracing/ftrace 2009-03-17 10:37:37 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
4ca5308523 tracing: protect reader of cmdline output
Impact: fix to one cause of incorrect comm outputs in trace

The spinlock only protected the creation of a comm <=> pid pair.
But it was possible that a reader could look up a pid, and get the
wrong comm because it had no locking.

This also required changing trace_find_cmdline to copy the comm cache
and not just send back a pointer to it.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-03-16 23:27:06 -04:00
Ingo Molnar
7243f2145a Merge branches 'tracing/ftrace', 'tracing/syscalls' and 'linus' into tracing/core
Conflicts:
	arch/parisc/kernel/irq.c
2009-03-16 09:12:42 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker
bed1ffca02 tracing/syscalls: core infrastructure for syscalls tracing, enhancements
Impact: new feature

This adds the generic support for syscalls tracing. This is
currently exploited through a devoted tracer but other tracing
engines can use it. (They just have to play with
{start,stop}_ftrace_syscalls() and use the display callbacks
unless they want to override them.)

The syscalls prototypes definitions are abused here to steal
some metadata informations:

- syscall name, param types, param names, number of params

The syscall addr is not directly saved during this definition
because we don't know if its prototype is available in the
namespace. But we don't really need it. The arch has just to
build a function able to resolve the syscall number to its
metadata struct.

The current tracer prints the syscall names, parameters names
and values (and their types optionally). Currently the value is
a raw hex but higher level values diplaying is on my TODO list.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1236955332-10133-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-13 16:57:42 +01:00
Markus Metzger
321bb5e1ac x86, hw-branch-tracer: add selftest
Add a selftest for the hw-branch-tracer.

Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090313105027.A30183@sedona.ch.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-13 11:57:21 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
62a394eb77 Merge branches 'tracing/ftrace' and 'tracing/syscalls'; commit 'v2.6.29-rc8' into tracing/core 2009-03-13 10:23:39 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker
ee08c6eccb tracing/ftrace: syscall tracing infrastructure, basics
Provide basic callbacks to do syscall tracing.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <1236401580-5758-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
[ simplified it to a trace_printk() for now. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-13 06:25:43 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
bdc067582b tracing: add comment for use of double __builtin_consant_p
Impact: documentation

The use of the double __builtin_contant_p checks in the event_trace_printk
can be confusing to developers and reviewers. This patch adds a comment
to explain why it is there.

Requested-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090313122235.43EB.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-03-13 00:15:46 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
e9fb2b6d58 tracing: have event_trace_printk use static tracer
Impact: speed up on event tracing

The event_trace_printk is currently a wrapper function that calls
trace_vprintk. Because it uses a variable for the fmt it misses out
on the optimization of using the binary printk.

This patch makes event_trace_printk into a macro wrapper to use the
fmt as the same as the trace_printks.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-03-12 21:15:00 -04:00
Frederic Weisbecker
48ead02030 tracing/core: bring back raw trace_printk for dynamic formats strings
Impact: fix callsites with dynamic format strings

Since its new binary implementation, trace_printk() internally uses static
containers for the format strings on each callsites. But the value is
assigned once at build time, which means that it can't take dynamic
formats.

So this patch unearthes the raw trace_printk implementation for the callers
that will need trace_printk to be able to carry these dynamic format
strings. The trace_printk() macro will use the appropriate implementation
for each callsite. Most of the time however, the binary implementation will
still be used.

The other impact of this patch is that mmiotrace_printk() will use the old
implementation because it calls the low level trace_vprintk and we can't
guess here whether the format passed in it is dynamic or not.

Some parts of this patch have been written by Steven Rostedt (most notably
the part that chooses the appropriate implementation for each callsites).

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-03-12 21:15:00 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
1852fcce18 tracing: expand the ring buffers when an event is activated
To save memory, the tracer ring buffers are set to a minimum.
The activating of a trace expands the ring buffer size. This patch
adds this expanding, when an event is activated.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-03-11 22:15:24 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
da4d03020c tracing: new format for specialized trace points
Impact: clean up and enhancement

The TRACE_EVENT_FORMAT macro looks quite ugly and is limited in its
ability to save data as well as to print the record out. Working with
Ingo Molnar, we came up with a new format that is much more pleasing to
the eye of C developers. This new macro is more C style than the old
macro, and is more obvious to what it does.

Here's the example. The only updated macro in this patch is the
sched_switch trace point.

The old method looked like this:

 TRACE_EVENT_FORMAT(sched_switch,
        TP_PROTO(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *prev,
                struct task_struct *next),
        TP_ARGS(rq, prev, next),
        TP_FMT("task %s:%d ==> %s:%d",
              prev->comm, prev->pid, next->comm, next->pid),
        TRACE_STRUCT(
                TRACE_FIELD(pid_t, prev_pid, prev->pid)
                TRACE_FIELD(int, prev_prio, prev->prio)
                TRACE_FIELD_SPECIAL(char next_comm[TASK_COMM_LEN],
                                    next_comm,
                                    TP_CMD(memcpy(TRACE_ENTRY->next_comm,
                                                 next->comm,
                                                 TASK_COMM_LEN)))
                TRACE_FIELD(pid_t, next_pid, next->pid)
                TRACE_FIELD(int, next_prio, next->prio)
        ),
        TP_RAW_FMT("prev %d:%d ==> next %s:%d:%d")
        );

The above method is hard to read and requires two format fields.

The new method:

 /*
  * Tracepoint for task switches, performed by the scheduler:
  *
  * (NOTE: the 'rq' argument is not used by generic trace events,
  *        but used by the latency tracer plugin. )
  */
 TRACE_EVENT(sched_switch,

	TP_PROTO(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *prev,
		 struct task_struct *next),

	TP_ARGS(rq, prev, next),

	TP_STRUCT__entry(
		__array(	char,	prev_comm,	TASK_COMM_LEN	)
		__field(	pid_t,	prev_pid			)
		__field(	int,	prev_prio			)
		__array(	char,	next_comm,	TASK_COMM_LEN	)
		__field(	pid_t,	next_pid			)
		__field(	int,	next_prio			)
	),

	TP_printk("task %s:%d [%d] ==> %s:%d [%d]",
		__entry->prev_comm, __entry->prev_pid, __entry->prev_prio,
		__entry->next_comm, __entry->next_pid, __entry->next_prio),

	TP_fast_assign(
		memcpy(__entry->next_comm, next->comm, TASK_COMM_LEN);
		__entry->prev_pid	= prev->pid;
		__entry->prev_prio	= prev->prio;
		memcpy(__entry->prev_comm, prev->comm, TASK_COMM_LEN);
		__entry->next_pid	= next->pid;
		__entry->next_prio	= next->prio;
	)
 );

This macro is called TRACE_EVENT, it is broken up into 5 parts:

 TP_PROTO:        the proto type of the trace point
 TP_ARGS:         the arguments of the trace point
 TP_STRUCT_entry: the structure layout of the entry in the ring buffer
 TP_printk:       the printk format
 TP_fast_assign:  the method used to write the entry into the ring buffer

The structure is the definition of how the event will be saved in the
ring buffer. The printk is used by the internal tracing in case of
an oops, and the kernel needs to print out the format of the record
to the console. This the TP_printk gives a means to show the records
in a human readable format. It is also used to print out the data
from the trace file.

The TP_fast_assign is executed directly. It is basically like a C function,
where the __entry is the handle to the record.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-03-10 00:35:07 -04:00
Ingo Molnar
9de36825b3 tracing: trace_bprintk() cleanups
Impact: cleanup

Remove a few leftovers and clean up the code a bit.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <1236356510-8381-5-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-06 17:59:12 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker
769b0441f4 tracing/core: drop the old trace_printk() implementation in favour of trace_bprintk()
Impact: faster and lighter tracing

Now that we have trace_bprintk() which is faster and consume lesser
memory than trace_printk() and has the same purpose, we can now drop
the old implementation in favour of the binary one from trace_bprintk(),
which means we move all the implementation of trace_bprintk() to
trace_printk(), so the Api doesn't change except that we must now use
trace_seq_bprintk() to print the TRACE_PRINT entries.

Some changes result of this:

- Previously, trace_bprintk depended of a single tracer and couldn't
  work without. This tracer has been dropped and the whole implementation
  of trace_printk() (like the module formats management) is now integrated
  in the tracing core (comes with CONFIG_TRACING), though we keep the file
  trace_printk (previously trace_bprintk.c) where we can find the module
  management. Thus we don't overflow trace.c

- changes some parts to use trace_seq_bprintk() to print TRACE_PRINT entries.

- change a bit trace_printk/trace_vprintk macros to support non-builtin formats
  constants, and fix 'const' qualifiers warnings. But this is all transparent for
  developers.

- etc...

V2:

- Rebase against last changes
- Fix mispell on the changelog

V3:

- Rebase against last changes (moving trace_printk() to kernel.h)

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <1236356510-8381-5-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-06 17:59:12 +01:00
Lai Jiangshan
1427cdf059 tracing: infrastructure for supporting binary record
Impact: save on memory for tracing

Current tracers are typically using a struct(like struct ftrace_entry,
struct ctx_switch_entry, struct special_entr etc...)to record a binary
event. These structs can only record a their own kind of events.
A new kind of tracer need a new struct and a lot of code too handle it.

So we need a generic binary record for events. This infrastructure
is for this purpose.

[fweisbec@gmail.com: rebase against latest -tip, make it safe while sched
tracing as reported by Steven Rostedt]

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <1236356510-8381-3-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-06 17:59:11 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
5e1607a00b tracing: rename ftrace_printk() => trace_printk()
Impact: cleanup

Use a more generic name - this also allows the prototype to move
to kernel.h and be generally available to kernel developers who
want to do some quick tracing.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-05 10:24:48 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
c032ef64d6 tracing: add latency output format option
With the removal of the latency_trace file, we lost the ability
to see some of the finer details in a trace. Like the state of
interrupts enabled, the preempt count, need resched, and if we
are in an interrupt handler, softirq handler or not.

This patch simply creates an option to bring back the old format.
This also removes the warning about an unused variable that held
the latency_trace file operations.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-03-04 20:34:24 -05:00
Steven Rostedt
2cadf9135e tracing: add binary buffer files for use with splice
Impact: new feature

This patch creates a directory of files that correspond to the
per CPU ring buffers. These are binary files and are made to
be used with splice. This is the fastest way to extract data from
the ftrace ring buffers.

Thanks to Jiaying Zhang for pushing me to get this code fixed,
 and to Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu for his splice code that helped
 me debug my code.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-03-03 21:01:55 -05:00
Steven Rostedt
981d081ec8 tracing: add format file to describe event struct fields
This patch adds the "format" file to the trace point event directory.
This is based off of work by Tom Zanussi, in which a file is exported
to be tread from user land such that a user space app may read the
binary record stored in the ring buffer.

 # cat /debug/tracing/events/sched/sched_switch/format
        field:pid_t prev_pid;   offset:12;      size:4;
        field:int prev_prio;    offset:16;      size:4;
        field special:char next_comm[TASK_COMM_LEN];    offset:20;      size:16;
        field:pid_t next_pid;   offset:36;      size:4;
        field:int next_prio;    offset:40;      size:4;

Idea-from: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-03-02 14:27:27 -05:00
Steven Rostedt
f9520750c4 tracing: make trace_seq_reset global and rename to trace_seq_init
Impact: clean up

The trace_seq functions may be used separately outside of the ftrace
iterator. The trace_seq_reset is needed for these operations.

This patch also renames trace_seq_reset to the more appropriate
trace_seq_init.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-03-02 14:08:51 -05:00
Steven Rostedt
fd99498989 tracing: add raw fast tracing interface for trace events
This patch adds the interface to enable the C style trace points.
In the directory /debugfs/tracing/events/subsystem/event
We now have three files:

 enable : values 0 or 1 to enable or disable the trace event.

 available_types: values 'raw' and 'printf' which indicate the tracing
       types available for the trace point. If a developer does not
       use the TRACE_EVENT_FORMAT macro and just uses the TRACE_FORMAT
       macro, then only 'printf' will be available. This file is
       read only.

 type: values 'raw' or 'printf'. This indicates which type of tracing
       is active for that trace point. 'printf' is the default and
       if 'raw' is not available, this file is read only.

 # echo raw > /debug/tracing/events/sched/sched_wakeup/type
 # echo 1 > /debug/tracing/events/sched/sched_wakeup/enable

 Will enable the C style tracing for the sched_wakeup trace point.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-02-28 04:04:03 -05:00
Steven Rostedt
c32e827b25 tracing: add raw trace point recording infrastructure
Impact: lower overhead tracing

The current event tracer can automatically pick up trace points
that are registered with the TRACE_FORMAT macro. But it required
a printf format string and parsing. Although, this adds the ability
to get guaranteed information like task names and such, it took
a hit in overhead processing. This processing can add about 500-1000
nanoseconds overhead, but in some cases that too is considered
too much and we want to shave off as much from this overhead as
possible.

Tom Zanussi recently posted tracing patches to lkml that are based
on a nice idea about capturing the data via C structs using
STRUCT_ENTER, STRUCT_EXIT type of macros.

I liked that method very much, but did not like the implementation
that required a developer to add data/code in several disjoint
locations.

This patch extends the event_tracer macros to do a similar "raw C"
approach that Tom Zanussi did. But instead of having the developers
needing to tweak a bunch of code all over the place, they can do it
all in one macro - preferably placed near the code that it is
tracing. That makes it much more likely that tracepoints will be
maintained on an ongoing basis by the code they modify.

The new macro TRACE_EVENT_FORMAT is created for this approach. (Note,
a developer may still utilize the more low level DECLARE_TRACE macros
if they don't care about getting their traces automatically in the event
tracer.)

They can also use the existing TRACE_FORMAT if they don't need to code
the tracepoint in C, but just want to use the convenience of printf.

So if the developer wants to "hardwire" a tracepoint in the fastest
possible way, and wants to acquire their data via a user space utility
in a raw binary format, or wants to see it in the trace output but not
sacrifice any performance, then they can implement the faster but
more complex TRACE_EVENT_FORMAT macro.

Here's what usage looks like:

  TRACE_EVENT_FORMAT(name,
	TPPROTO(proto),
	TPARGS(args),
	TPFMT(fmt, fmt_args),
	TRACE_STUCT(
		TRACE_FIELD(type1, item1, assign1)
		TRACE_FIELD(type2, item2, assign2)
			[...]
	),
	TPRAWFMT(raw_fmt)
	);

Note name, proto, args, and fmt, are all identical to what TRACE_FORMAT
uses.

 name: is the unique identifier of the trace point
 proto: The proto type that the trace point uses
 args: the args in the proto type
 fmt: printf format to use with the event printf tracer
 fmt_args: the printf argments to match fmt

 TRACE_STRUCT starts the ability to create a structure.
 Each item in the structure is defined with a TRACE_FIELD

  TRACE_FIELD(type, item, assign)

 type: the C type of item.
 item: the name of the item in the stucture
 assign: what to assign the item in the trace point callback

 raw_fmt is a way to pretty print the struct. It must match
  the order of the items are added in TRACE_STUCT

 An example of this would be:

 TRACE_EVENT_FORMAT(sched_wakeup,
	TPPROTO(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p, int success),
	TPARGS(rq, p, success),
	TPFMT("task %s:%d %s",
	      p->comm, p->pid, success?"succeeded":"failed"),
	TRACE_STRUCT(
		TRACE_FIELD(pid_t, pid, p->pid)
		TRACE_FIELD(int, success, success)
	),
	TPRAWFMT("task %d success=%d")
	);

 This creates us a unique struct of:

 struct {
	pid_t		pid;
	int		success;
 };

 And the way the call back would assign these values would be:

	entry->pid = p->pid;
	entry->success = success;

The nice part about this is that the creation of the assignent is done
via macro magic in the event tracer.  Once the TRACE_EVENT_FORMAT is
created, the developer will then have a faster method to record
into the ring buffer. They do not need to worry about the tracer itself.

The developer would only need to touch the files in include/trace/*.h

Again, I would like to give special thanks to Tom Zanussi for this
nice idea.

Idea-from: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-02-28 03:09:32 -05:00
Steven Rostedt
ef5580d0ff tracing: add interface to write into current tracer buffer
Right now all tracers must manage their own trace buffers. This was
to enforce tracers to be independent in case we finally decide to
allow each tracer to have their own trace buffer.

But now we are adding event tracing that writes to the current tracer's
buffer. This adds an interface to allow events to write to the current
tracer buffer without having to manage its own. Since event tracing
has no "tracer", and is just a way to hook into any other tracer.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-02-28 03:06:44 -05:00
Frederic Weisbecker
d7350c3f45 tracing/core: make the read callbacks reentrants
Now that several per-cpu files can be read or spliced at the
same, we want the read/splice callbacks for tracing files to be
reentrants.

Until now, a single global mutex (trace_types_lock) serialized
the access to tracing_read_pipe(), tracing_splice_read_pipe(),
and the seq helpers.

Ie: it means that if a user tries to read trace_pipe0 and
trace_pipe1 at the same time, the access to the function
tracing_read_pipe() is contended and one reader must wait for
the other to finish its read call.

The trace_type_lock mutex is mostly here to serialize the access
to the global current tracer (current_trace), which can be
changed concurrently. Although the iter struct keeps a private
pointer to this tracer, its callbacks can be changed by another
function.

The method used here is to not keep anymore private reference to
the tracer inside the iterator but to make a copy of it inside
the iterator. Then it checks on subsequents read calls if the
tracer has changed. This is not costly because the current
tracer is not expected to be changed often, so we use a branch
prediction for that.

Moreover, we add a private mutex to the iterator (there is one
iterator per file descriptor) to serialize the accesses in case
of multiple consumers per file descriptor (which would be a
silly idea from the user). Note that this is not to protect the
ring buffer, since the ring buffer already serializes the
readers accesses. This is to prevent from traces weirdness in
case of concurrent consumers. But these mutexes can be dropped
anyway, that would not result in any crash. Just tell me what
you think about it.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-25 13:40:58 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker
b04cc6b1f6 tracing/core: introduce per cpu tracing files
Impact: split up tracing output per cpu

Currently, on the tracing debugfs directory, three files are
available to the user to let him extracting the trace output:

- trace is an iterator through the ring-buffer. It's a reader
  but not a consumer It doesn't block when no more traces are
  available.

- trace pretty similar to the former, except that it adds more
  informations such as prempt count, irq flag, ...

- trace_pipe is a reader and a consumer, it will also block
  waiting for traces if necessary (heh, yes it's a pipe).

The traces coming from different cpus are curretly mixed up
inside these files. Sometimes it messes up the informations,
sometimes it's useful, depending on what does the tracer
capture.

The tracing_cpumask file is useful to filter the output and
select only the traces captured a custom defined set of cpus.
But still it is not enough powerful to extract at the same time
one trace buffer per cpu.

So this patch creates a new directory: /debug/tracing/per_cpu/.

Inside this directory, you will now find one trace_pipe file and
one trace file per cpu.

Which means if you have two cpus, you will have:

 trace0
 trace1
 trace_pipe0
 trace_pipe1

And of course, reading these files will have the same effect
than with the usual tracing files, except that you will only see
the traces from the given cpu.

The original all-in-one cpu trace file are still available on
their original place.

Until now, only one consumer was allowed on trace_pipe to avoid
racy consuming on the ring-buffer. Now the approach changed a
bit, you can have only one consumer per cpu.

Which means you are allowed to read concurrently trace_pipe0 and
trace_pipe1 But you can't have two readers on trace_pipe0 or
trace_pipe1.

Following the same logic, if there is one reader on the common
trace_pipe, you can not have at the same time another reader on
trace_pipe0 or in trace_pipe1. Because in trace_pipe is already
a consumer in all cpu buffers in essence.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-25 13:40:58 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker
6eaaa5d57e tracing/core: use appropriate waiting on trace_pipe
Impact: api and pipe waiting change

Currently, the waiting used in tracing_read_pipe() is done through a
100 msecs schedule_timeout() loop which periodically check if there
are traces on the buffer.

This can cause small latencies for programs which are reading the incoming
events.

This patch makes the reader waiting for the trace_wait waitqueue except
for few tracers such as the sched and functions tracers which might be
already hold the runqueue lock while waking up the reader.

This is performed through a new callback wait_pipe() on struct tracer.
If none is implemented on a specific tracer, the default waiting for
trace_wait queue is attached.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-18 01:40:20 +01:00
Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu
3c56819b14 tracing: splice support for tracing_pipe
Added and implemented tracing_pipe_fops->splice_read(). This allows
userspace programs to get tracing data more efficiently.

Signed-off-by: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-02-09 12:24:34 -05:00
Frederic Weisbecker
b91facc367 tracing/function-graph-tracer: handle the leaf functions from trace_pipe
When one cats the trace file, the leaf functions are printed without brackets:

 function();

whereas in the trace_pipe file we'll see the following:

 function() {
 }

This is because the ring_buffer handling is not the same between those two files.
On the trace file, when an entry is printed, the iterator advanced and then we can
check the next entry.

There is no iterator with trace_pipe, the current entry to print has been peeked
and not consumed. So checking the next entry will still return the current one while
we don't consume it.

This patch introduces a new value for the output callbacks to ask the tracing
core to not consume the current entry after printing it.

We need it because we will have to consume the current entry ourself to check
the next one.

Now the trace_pipe is able to handle well the leaf functions.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-09 12:37:27 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker
1292211058 tracing/power: move the power trace headers to a dedicated file
Impact: cleanup

Move the power tracer headers to trace/power.h to keep ftrace.h and power bits
more easy to maintain as separated topics.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-09 10:51:38 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker
7447dce96f tracing/function-graph-tracer: provide a selftest for the function graph tracer
Making it more easy to do a basic regression test for this tracer.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-09 10:51:37 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
44b0635481 Merge branch 'tip/tracing/core/devel' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into tracing/ftrace
Conflicts:
	kernel/trace/trace_hw_branches.c
2009-02-09 10:35:12 +01:00
Wenji Huang
57794a9d48 trace: trivial fixes in comment typos.
Impact: clean up

Fixed several typos in the comments.

Signed-off-by: Wenji Huang <wenji.huang@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-02-07 20:03:36 -05:00
Steven Rostedt
1830b52d0d trace: remove deprecated entry->cpu
Impact: fix to prevent developers from using entry->cpu

With the new ring buffer infrastructure, the cpu for the entry is
implicit with which CPU buffer it is on.

The original code use to record the current cpu into the generic
entry header, which can be retrieved by entry->cpu. When the
ring buffer was introduced, the users were convert to use the
the cpu number of which cpu ring buffer was in use (this was passed
to the tracers by the iterator: iter->cpu).

Unfortunately, the cpu item in the entry structure was never removed.
This allowed for developers to use it instead of the proper iter->cpu,
unknowingly, using an uninitialized variable. This was not the fault
of the developers, since it would seem like the logical place to
retrieve the cpu identifier.

This patch removes the cpu item from the entry structure and fixes
all the users that should have been using iter->cpu.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-02-07 19:38:43 -05:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
b6f11df26f trace: Call tracing_reset_online_cpus before tracer->init()
Impact: cleanup

To make it easy for ftrace plugin writers, as this was open coded in
the existing plugins

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-06 01:01:41 +01:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
51a763dd84 tracing: Introduce trace_buffer_{lock_reserve,unlock_commit}
Impact: new API

These new functions do what previously was being open coded, reducing
the number of details ftrace plugin writers have to worry about.

It also standardizes the handling of stacktrace, userstacktrace and
other trace options we may introduce in the future.

With this patch, for instance, the blk tracer (and some others already
in the tree) can use the "userstacktrace" /d/tracing/trace_options
facility.

$ codiff /tmp/vmlinux.before /tmp/vmlinux.after
linux-2.6-tip/kernel/trace/trace.c:
  trace_vprintk              |   -5
  trace_graph_return         |  -22
  trace_graph_entry          |  -26
  trace_function             |  -45
  __ftrace_trace_stack       |  -27
  ftrace_trace_userstack     |  -29
  tracing_sched_switch_trace |  -66
  tracing_stop               |   +1
  trace_seq_to_user          |   -1
  ftrace_trace_special       |  -63
  ftrace_special             |   +1
  tracing_sched_wakeup_trace |  -70
  tracing_reset_online_cpus  |   -1
 13 functions changed, 2 bytes added, 355 bytes removed, diff: -353

linux-2.6-tip/block/blktrace.c:
  __blk_add_trace |  -58
 1 function changed, 58 bytes removed, diff: -58

linux-2.6-tip/kernel/trace/trace.c:
  trace_buffer_lock_reserve  |  +88
  trace_buffer_unlock_commit |  +86
 2 functions changed, 174 bytes added, diff: +174

/tmp/vmlinux.after:
 16 functions changed, 176 bytes added, 413 bytes removed, diff: -237

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-06 01:01:41 +01:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
7be421510b trace: Remove unused trace_array_cpu parameter
Impact: cleanup

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-05 14:35:47 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker
c4a8e8be2d trace: better manage the context info for events
Impact: make trace_event more convenient for tracers

All tracers (for the moment) that use the struct trace_event want to
have the context info printed before their own output: the pid/cmdline,
cpu, and timestamp.

But some other tracers that want to implement their trace_event
callbacks will not necessary need these information or they may want to
format them as they want.

This patch adds a new default-enabled trace option:
TRACE_ITER_CONTEXT_INFO When disabled through:

echo nocontext-info > /debugfs/tracing/trace_options

The pid, cpu and timestamps headers will not be printed.

IE with the sched_switch tracer with context-info (default):

     bash-2935 [001] 100.356561: 2935:120:S ==> [001]  0:140:R <idle>
   <idle>-0    [000] 100.412804:    0:140:R   + [000] 11:115:S events/0
   <idle>-0    [000] 100.412816:    0:140:R ==> [000] 11:115:R events/0
 events/0-11   [000] 100.412829:   11:115:S ==> [000]  0:140:R <idle>

Without context-info:

 2935:120:S ==> [001]  0:140:R <idle>
    0:140:R   + [000] 11:115:S events/0
    0:140:R ==> [000] 11:115:R events/0
   11:115:S ==> [000]  0:140:R <idle>

A tracer can disable it at runtime by clearing the bit
TRACE_ITER_CONTEXT_INFO in trace_flags.

The print routines were renamed to trace_print_context and
trace_print_lat_context, so that they can be used by tracers if they
want to use them for one of the trace_event callbacks.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-03 14:03:52 +01:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
c71a896154 blktrace: add ftrace plugin
Impact: New way of using the blktrace infrastructure

This drops the requirement of userspace utilities to use the blktrace
facility.

Configuration is done thru sysfs, adding a "trace" directory to the
partition directory where blktrace can be enabled for the associated
request_queue.

The same filters present in the IOCTL interface are present as sysfs
device attributes.

The /sys/block/sdX/sdXN/trace/enable file allows tracing without any
filters.

The other files in this directory: pid, act_mask, start_lba and end_lba
can be used with the same meaning as with the IOCTL interface.

Using the sysfs interface will only setup the request_queue->blk_trace
fields, tracing will only take place when the "blk" tracer is selected
via the ftrace interface, as in the following example:

To see the trace, one can use the /d/tracing/trace file or the
/d/tracign/trace_pipe file, with semantics defined in the ftrace
documentation in Documentation/ftrace.txt.

[root@f10-1 ~]# cat /t/trace
       kjournald-305   [000]  3046.491224:   8,1    A WBS 6367 + 8 <- (8,1) 6304
       kjournald-305   [000]  3046.491227:   8,1    Q   R 6367 + 8 [kjournald]
       kjournald-305   [000]  3046.491236:   8,1    G  RB 6367 + 8 [kjournald]
       kjournald-305   [000]  3046.491239:   8,1    P  NS [kjournald]
       kjournald-305   [000]  3046.491242:   8,1    I RBS 6367 + 8 [kjournald]
       kjournald-305   [000]  3046.491251:   8,1    D  WB 6367 + 8 [kjournald]
       kjournald-305   [000]  3046.491610:   8,1    U  WS [kjournald] 1
          <idle>-0     [000]  3046.511914:   8,1    C  RS 6367 + 8 [6367]
[root@f10-1 ~]#

The default line context (prefix) format is the one described in the ftrace
documentation, with the blktrace specific bits using its existing format,
described in blkparse(8).

If one wants to have the classic blktrace formatting, this is possible by
using:

[root@f10-1 ~]# echo blk_classic > /t/trace_options
[root@f10-1 ~]# cat /t/trace
  8,1    0  3046.491224   305  A WBS 6367 + 8 <- (8,1) 6304
  8,1    0  3046.491227   305  Q   R 6367 + 8 [kjournald]
  8,1    0  3046.491236   305  G  RB 6367 + 8 [kjournald]
  8,1    0  3046.491239   305  P  NS [kjournald]
  8,1    0  3046.491242   305  I RBS 6367 + 8 [kjournald]
  8,1    0  3046.491251   305  D  WB 6367 + 8 [kjournald]
  8,1    0  3046.491610   305  U  WS [kjournald] 1
  8,1    0  3046.511914     0  C  RS 6367 + 8 [6367]
[root@f10-1 ~]#

Using the ftrace standard format allows more flexibility, such
as the ability of asking for backtraces via trace_options:

[root@f10-1 ~]# echo noblk_classic > /t/trace_options
[root@f10-1 ~]# echo stacktrace > /t/trace_options

[root@f10-1 ~]# cat /t/trace
       kjournald-305   [000]  3318.826779:   8,1    A WBS 6375 + 8 <- (8,1) 6312
       kjournald-305   [000]  3318.826782:
 <= submit_bio
 <= submit_bh
 <= sync_dirty_buffer
 <= journal_commit_transaction
 <= kjournald
 <= kthread
 <= child_rip
       kjournald-305   [000]  3318.826836:   8,1    Q   R 6375 + 8 [kjournald]
       kjournald-305   [000]  3318.826837:
 <= generic_make_request
 <= submit_bio
 <= submit_bh
 <= sync_dirty_buffer
 <= journal_commit_transaction
 <= kjournald
 <= kthread

Please read the ftrace documentation to use aditional, standardized
tracing filters such as /d/tracing/trace_cpumask, etc.

See also /d/tracing/trace_mark to add comments in the trace stream,
that is equivalent to the /d/block/sdaN/msg interface.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-26 14:40:53 +01:00
Markus Metzger
b1818748b0 x86, ftrace, hw-branch-tracer: dump trace on oops
Dump the branch trace on an oops (based on ftrace_dump_on_oops).

Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-20 13:03:48 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
a225cdd263 ftrace: remove static from function tracer functions
Impact: clean up

After reorganizing the functions in trace.c and trace_function.c,
they no longer need to be in global context. This patch makes the
functions and one variable into static.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-16 12:17:58 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
5361499101 ftrace: add stack trace to function tracer
Impact: new feature to stack trace any function

Chris Mason asked about being able to pick and choose a function
and get a stack trace from it. This feature enables his request.

 # echo io_schedule > /debug/tracing/set_ftrace_filter
 # echo function > /debug/tracing/current_tracer
 # echo func_stack_trace > /debug/tracing/trace_options

Produces the following in /debug/tracing/trace:

       kjournald-702   [001]   135.673060: io_schedule <-sync_buffer
       kjournald-702   [002]   135.673671:
 <= sync_buffer
 <= __wait_on_bit
 <= out_of_line_wait_on_bit
 <= __wait_on_buffer
 <= sync_dirty_buffer
 <= journal_commit_transaction
 <= kjournald

Note, be careful about turning this on without filtering the functions.
You may find that you have a 10 second lag between typing and seeing
what you typed. This is why the stack trace for the function tracer
does not use the same stack_trace flag as the other tracers use.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-16 12:15:32 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker
002bb86d8d tracing/ftrace: separate events tracing and stats tracing engine
Impact: tracing's Api change

Currently, the stat tracing depends on the events tracing.
When you switch to a new tracer, the stats files of the previous tracer
will disappear. But it's more scalable to separate those two engines.
This way, we can keep the stat files of one or several tracers when we
want, without bothering of multiple tracer stat files or tracer switching.

To build/destroys its stats files, a tracer just have to call
register_stat_tracer/unregister_stat_tracer everytimes it wants to.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-14 12:11:37 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker
034939b65a tracing/ftrace: handle more than one stat file per tracer
Impact: new API for tracers

Make the stat tracing API reentrant. And also provide the new directory
/debugfs/tracing/trace_stat which will contain all the stat files for the
current active tracer.

Now a tracer will, if desired, want to provide a zero terminated array of
tracer_stat structures.
Each one contains the callbacks necessary for one stat file.
It have to provide at least a name for its stat file, an iterator with
stat_start/start_next callback and an output callback for one stat entry.

Also adapt the branch tracer to this new API.
We create two files "all" and "annotated" inside the /debugfs/tracing/trace_stat
directory, making the both stats simultaneously available instead of needing
to change an option to switch from one stat file to another.

The output of these stats haven't changed.

Changes in v2:

_ Apply the previous memory leak fix (rebase against tip/master)

Changes in v3:

_ Merge the patch that adapted the branch tracer to this Api in this patch to
  not break the kernel build.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-11 04:00:44 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
99793e3dbe Merge branches 'tracing/kmemtrace2' and 'tracing/ftrace' into tracing/urgent 2009-01-06 10:18:43 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
3d7a96f5a4 Merge branch 'linus' into tracing/kmemtrace2 2009-01-06 09:53:05 +01:00
Rusty Russell
4462344ee9 cpumask: convert kernel trace functions further
Impact: Reduce future memory usage, use new cpumask API.

Since the last patch was created and acked, more old cpumask users
slipped into kernel/trace.

Mostly trivial conversions, except struct trace_iterator's "started"
member becomes a cpumask_var_t.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-01-01 10:12:23 +10:30
Frederic Weisbecker
36994e58a4 tracing/kmemtrace: normalize the raw tracer event to the unified tracing API
Impact: new tracer plugin

This patch adapts kmemtrace raw events tracing to the unified tracing API.

To enable and use this tracer, just do the following:

 echo kmemtrace > /debugfs/tracing/current_tracer
 cat /debugfs/tracing/trace

You will have the following output:

 # tracer: kmemtrace
 #
 #
 # ALLOC  TYPE  REQ   GIVEN  FLAGS           POINTER         NODE    CALLER
 # FREE   |      |     |       |              |   |            |        |
 # |

type_id 1 call_site 18446744071565527833 ptr 18446612134395152256
type_id 0 call_site 18446744071565585597 ptr 18446612134405955584 bytes_req 4096 bytes_alloc 4096 gfp_flags 208 node -1
type_id 1 call_site 18446744071565585534 ptr 18446612134405955584
type_id 0 call_site 18446744071565585597 ptr 18446612134405955584 bytes_req 4096 bytes_alloc 4096 gfp_flags 208 node -1
type_id 0 call_site 18446744071565636711 ptr 18446612134345164672 bytes_req 240 bytes_alloc 240 gfp_flags 208 node -1
type_id 1 call_site 18446744071565585534 ptr 18446612134405955584
type_id 0 call_site 18446744071565585597 ptr 18446612134405955584 bytes_req 4096 bytes_alloc 4096 gfp_flags 208 node -1
type_id 0 call_site 18446744071565636711 ptr 18446612134345164912 bytes_req 240 bytes_alloc 240 gfp_flags 208 node -1
type_id 1 call_site 18446744071565585534 ptr 18446612134405955584
type_id 0 call_site 18446744071565585597 ptr 18446612134405955584 bytes_req 4096 bytes_alloc 4096 gfp_flags 208 node -1
type_id 0 call_site 18446744071565636711 ptr 18446612134345165152 bytes_req 240 bytes_alloc 240 gfp_flags 208 node -1
type_id 0 call_site 18446744071566144042 ptr 18446612134346191680 bytes_req 1304 bytes_alloc 1312 gfp_flags 208 node -1
type_id 1 call_site 18446744071565585534 ptr 18446612134405955584
type_id 0 call_site 18446744071565585597 ptr 18446612134405955584 bytes_req 4096 bytes_alloc 4096 gfp_flags 208 node -1
type_id 1 call_site 18446744071565585534 ptr 18446612134405955584

That was to stay backward compatible with the format output produced in
inux/tracepoint.h.

This is the default ouput, but note that I tried something else.

If you change an option:

echo kmem_minimalistic > /debugfs/trace_options

and then cat /debugfs/trace, you will have the following output:

 # tracer: kmemtrace
 #
 #
 # ALLOC  TYPE  REQ   GIVEN  FLAGS           POINTER         NODE    CALLER
 # FREE   |      |     |       |              |   |            |        |
 # |

   -      C                            0xffff88007c088780          file_free_rcu
   +      K   4096   4096   000000d0   0xffff88007cad6000     -1   getname
   -      C                            0xffff88007cad6000          putname
   +      K   4096   4096   000000d0   0xffff88007cad6000     -1   getname
   +      K    240    240   000000d0   0xffff8800790dc780     -1   d_alloc
   -      C                            0xffff88007cad6000          putname
   +      K   4096   4096   000000d0   0xffff88007cad6000     -1   getname
   +      K    240    240   000000d0   0xffff8800790dc870     -1   d_alloc
   -      C                            0xffff88007cad6000          putname
   +      K   4096   4096   000000d0   0xffff88007cad6000     -1   getname
   +      K    240    240   000000d0   0xffff8800790dc960     -1   d_alloc
   +      K   1304   1312   000000d0   0xffff8800791d7340     -1   reiserfs_alloc_inode
   -      C                            0xffff88007cad6000          putname
   +      K   4096   4096   000000d0   0xffff88007cad6000     -1   getname
   -      C                            0xffff88007cad6000          putname
   +      K    992   1000   000000d0   0xffff880079045b58     -1   alloc_inode
   +      K    768   1024   000080d0   0xffff88007c096400     -1   alloc_pipe_info
   +      K    240    240   000000d0   0xffff8800790dca50     -1   d_alloc
   +      K    272    320   000080d0   0xffff88007c088780     -1   get_empty_filp
   +      K    272    320   000080d0   0xffff88007c088000     -1   get_empty_filp

Yeah I shall confess kmem_minimalistic should be: kmem_alternative.

Whatever, I find it more readable but this a personal opinion of course.
We can drop it if you want.

On the ALLOC/FREE column, + means an allocation and - a free.

On the type column, you have K = kmalloc, C = cache, P = page

I would like the flags to be GFP_* strings but that would not be easy to not
break the column with strings....

About the node...it seems to always be -1. I don't know why but that shouldn't
be difficult to find.

I moved linux/tracepoint.h to trace/tracepoint.h as well. I think that would
be more easy to find the tracer headers if they are all in their common
directory.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-30 09:36:13 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
f7d48cbde5 tracing/ftrace: make trace_find_cmdline() generally available
Impact: build fix

On !CONFIG_CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER trace_find_cmdline() is not defined:

 kernel/trace/trace_output.c: In function 'trace_ctxwake_print':
 kernel/trace/trace_output.c:499: error: implicit declaration of function 'trace_find_cmdline'
 kernel/trace/trace_output.c:499: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast

Move it to the generic section in trace.h.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-29 13:06:24 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker
dbd0b4b330 tracing/ftrace: provide the base infrastructure for histogram tracing
Impact: extend the tracing API

The goal of this patch is to normalize and make more easy the
implementation of statistical (histogram) tracing.

It implements a trace_stat file into the /debugfs/tracing directory where
one can print a one-shot output of statistics/histogram entries.

A tracer has to provide two basic iterator callbacks:

  stat_start() => the first entry
  stat_next(prev, idx) => the next one.

Note that it is adapted for arrays or hash tables or lists.... since it
provides a pointer to the previous entry and the current index of the
iterator.

These two callbacks are called to get a snapshot of the statistics at each
opening of the trace_stat file because. The values are so updated between
two "cat trace_stat". And the tracer is free to lock its datas during the
iteration to keep consistent values.

Since it is almost always interesting to sort statisticals values to
address the problems by priority, this infrastructure provides a "sorting"
of the stat entries too if desired. A tracer has just to provide a
stat_cmp callback to compare two entries and the stat tracing
infrastructure will build a sorted list of the given entries.

A last callback, called stat_headers, can be implemented by a tracer to
output headers on its trace.

If one of these callbacks is changed on runtime, it just have to signal it
to the stat tracing API by calling the init_tracer_stat() helper.

Changes in V2:

- Fix a memory leak if the user opens multiple times the trace_stat file
  without closing it. Now we always free our list before rebuilding it.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-29 12:55:45 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
f0868d1e23 ftrace: set up trace event hash infrastructure
Impact: simplify/generalize/refactor trace.c

The trace.c file is becoming more difficult to maintain due to the
growing number of events. There is several formats that an event may
be printed. This patch sets up the infrastructure of an event hash to
allow for events to register how they should be printed.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-29 12:46:11 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
c47956d9ae ftrace: remove obsolete print continue functionality
Impact: cleanup, remove obsolete code

Now that the ring buffer used by ftrace allows for variable length
entries, we do not need the 'cont' feature of the buffer.  This code
makes other parts of ftrace more complex and by removing this it
simplifies the ftrace code.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-29 12:46:10 +01:00
Pekka J Enberg
213cc06079 ftrace: introduce tracing_reset_online_cpus() helper
Impact: cleanup

This patch factors out common code from multiple tracers into a
tracing_reset_online_cpus() function and converts the tracers to use it.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-19 16:29:34 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker
66896a85cf tracing/ftrace: add the printk-msg-only option
Impact: display ftrace_printk messages "as is"

By default, ftrace_printk() messages find their output with some other
informations like pid, caller, ...
Sometimes a developer just want to have the ftrace_printk left "as is", without
other information.

This is done by providing a default-off option called printk-msg-only.
To enable it, just do `echo printk-msg-only > /debugfs/tracing/trace_options`

Before the patch:

           <...>-2739  [000]   145.692153: __might_sleep: I'm an ftrace_printk msg in __might_sleep
           <...>-2739  [000]   145.692155: __might_sleep: I'm another ftrace_printk msg in __might_sleep

After the patch and the printk-msg-only option enabled:

I'm an ftrace_printk msg in __might_sleep
I'm another ftrace_printk msg in __might_sleep

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-17 00:26:36 +01:00
Markus Metzger
a93751cab7 x86, bts, ftrace: adapt the hw-branch-tracer to the ds.c interface
Impact: restructure code, cleanup

Remove BTS bits from the hw-branch-tracer (renamed from bts-tracer) and
use the ds interface.

Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markut.t.metzger@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-12 08:08:14 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker
77d683f3e0 tracing/ftrace: fix the check of ftrace_trace_task
Impact: fix default empty traces on function-graph-tracer

The actual ftrace_trace_task() checks if ftrace_pid_trace is allocated
and return 1 if it is true.
If it is NULL, it will check the bit of pid tracing flag for the current
task (which are not set by default).
So by default, a task is not traced.
Actually all tasks should be traced by default and filter_by_pid when
ftrace_pid_trace is allocated.

The appropriate condition should be to return 1 if filter_by_pid is
set.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acke-dby: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-05 14:47:43 +01:00