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Author SHA1 Message Date
walimis
048dc50c5e tracing/events: fix output format of user stack
According to "events/ftrace/user_stack/format", fix the output of
user stack.

before fix:

  sh-1073  [000]    31.137561:  <b7f274fe> <-  <0804e33c> <-  <080835c1>

after fix:

  sh-1072  [000]    37.039329:
 =>  <b7f8a4fe>
 =>  <0804e33c>
 =>  <080835c1>

Signed-off-by: walimis <walimisdev@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1244016090-7814-3-git-send-email-walimisdev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-06-03 10:25:30 -04:00
walimis
f11b3f4e29 tracing/events: fix output format of kernel stack
According to "events/ftrace/kernel_stack/format", output format of
kernel stack should use "=>" instead of "<=".

The second problem is that we shouldn't skip the first entry in the stack,
although it seems to be duplicated when used in the "function" tracer,
but events also use it. If we skip the first one, we will drop the topmost
entry of the stack.

The last problem is that if the last entry is ULONG_MAX(0xffffffff), we should
drop it, otherwise it will print a NULL name line.

before fix:

      sh-1072  [000]   26.957239: sched_process_fork: parent sh:1072 child sh:1073
      sh-1072  [000]   26.957262:
 <= syscall_call
 <=
      sh-1072  [000]   26.957744: sched_switch: task sh:1072 [120] (R) ==> sh:1073 [120]
      sh-1072  [000]   26.957752:
 <= preempt_schedule
 <= wake_up_new_task
 <= do_fork
 <= sys_clone
 <= syscall_call
 <=

After fix:

      sh-1075  [000]    39.791848: sched_process_fork: parent sh:1075  child sh:1076
      sh-1075  [000]    39.791871:
 => sys_clone
 => syscall_call
      sh-1075  [000]    39.792713: sched_switch: task sh:1075 [120] (R) ==> sh:1076 [120]
      sh-1075  [000]    39.792722:
 => schedule
 => preempt_schedule
 => wake_up_new_task
 => do_fork
 => sys_clone
 => syscall_call

Signed-off-by: walimis <walimisdev@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1244016090-7814-2-git-send-email-walimisdev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-06-03 10:25:15 -04:00
walimis
083a63b48e tracing/trace_stack: fix the number of entries in the header
The last entry in the stack_dump_trace is ULONG_MAX, which is not
a valid entry, but max_stack_trace.nr_entries has accounted for it.
So when printing the header, we should decrease it by one.
Before fix, print as following, for example:

	Depth    Size   Location    (53 entries)	<--- should be 52
	-----    ----   --------
  0)     3264     108   update_wall_time+0x4d5/0x9a0
  ...
 51)       80      80   syscall_call+0x7/0xb
 ^^^
   it's correct.

Signed-off-by: walimis <walimisdev@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1244016090-7814-1-git-send-email-walimisdev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-06-03 10:24:44 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
ea05b57cc1 ring-buffer: discard timestamps that are at the start of the buffer
Every buffer page in the ring buffer includes its own time stamp.
When an event is recorded to the ring buffer with a delta time greater
than what can be held in the event header, a time stamp event is created.

If the the create timestamp falls over to the next buffer page, it is
redundant because the buffer page holds a full time stamp. This patch
will try to discard the time stamp when it falls to the start of the
next page.

This change also fixes a issues with disarding events. If most events are
discarded, timestamps will start to creep into the ring buffer. If we
do not discard the timestamps then they can fill up the ring buffer over
time and waste space.

This change will keep time stamps from filling up over another page. If
something is recorded in the buffer page, and the rest is filtered, then
the time stamps can only fill up to the end of the page.

[ Impact: prevent time stamps from filling ring buffer ]

Reported-by: Tim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-06-03 10:15:25 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
edd813bffc ring-buffer: try to discard unneeded timestamps
There are times that a race may happen that we add a timestamp in a
nested write. This timestamp would just contain a zero delta and serves
no purpose.

Now that we have a way to discard events, this patch will try to discard
the timestamp instead of just wasting the space in the ring buffer.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-06-03 10:15:22 -04:00
Tim Bird
a202355640 ring-buffer: fix bug in ring_buffer_discard_commit
There's a bug in ring_buffer_discard_commit.  The wrong
pointer is being compared in order to check if the event
can be freed from the buffer rather than discarded
(i.e. marked as PAD).

I noticed this when I was working on duration filtering.
The bug is not deadly - it just results in lots of wasted
space in the buffer.  All filtered events are left in
the buffer and marked as discarded, rather than being
removed from the buffer to make space for other events.

Unfortunately, when I fixed this bug, I got errors doing a
filtered function trace.  Multiple TIME_EXTEND
events pile up in the buffer, and trigger the
following loop overage warning in rb_iter_peek():

again:
	...
	if (RB_WARN_ON(cpu_buffer, ++nr_loops > 10))
		return NULL;

I'm not sure what the best way is to fix this. I don't
know if I should extend the loop threshhold, or if I should
make the test more complex (ignore TIME_EXTEND
events), or just get rid of this loop check completely.

Note that if I implement a workaround for this, then I
see another problem from rb_advance_iter().  I haven't
tracked that one down yet.

In general, it seems like the case of removing filtered
events has not been working properly, and so some assumptions
about buffer invariant conditions need to be revisited.

Here's the patch for the simple fix:

Compare correct pointer for checking if an event can be
freed rather than left as discarded in the buffer.

Signed-off-by: Tim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A25BE9E.5090909@am.sony.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-06-03 10:15:06 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
0f6ce3de4e ftrace: do not profile functions when disabled
A race was found that if one were to enable and disable the function
profiler repeatedly, then the system can panic. This was because a profiled
function may be preempted just before disabling interrupts. While
the profiler is disabled and then reenabled, the preempted function
could start again, and access the hash as it is being initialized.

This just adds a check in the irq disabled part to check if the profiler
is enabled, and if it is not then it will just exit.

When the system is disabled, the profile_enabled variable is cleared
before calling the unregistering of the function profiler. This
unregistering calls stop machine which also acts as a synchronize schedule.

[ Impact: fix panic in enabling/disabling function profiler ]

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-06-01 23:26:23 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
112f38a7e3 tracing: make trace pipe recognize latency format flag
The trace_pipe did not recognize the latency format flag and would produce
different output than the trace file. The problem was partly due that
the trace flags in the iterator was not set as well as the trace_pipe
zeros out part of the iterator (including the flags) to be able to use
the same routines as the trace file. trace_flags of the iterator should
not cause any problems when not zeroed out by for trace_pipe.

Reported-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-06-01 23:26:02 -04:00
Steven Whitehouse
ec081ddc3d tracing: add exports to use __print_symbolic and __print_flags from a module
A patch to allow the use of __print_symbolic and __print_flags
from a module. This allows the current GFS2 tracing patch to
build.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1243868015.29604.542.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-06-01 23:25:29 -04:00
Li Zefan
7fcb7c472f tracing/events: introduce __dynamic_array()
__string() is limited:

  - it's a char array, but we may want to define array with other types
  - a source string should be available, but we may just know the string size

We introduce __dynamic_array() to break those limitations, and __string()
becomes a wrapper of it. As a side effect, now __get_str() can be used
in TP_fast_assign but not only TP_print.

Take XFS for example, we have the string length in the dirent, but the
string itself is not NULL-terminated, so __dynamic_array() can be used:

TRACE_EVENT(xfs_dir2,
	TP_PROTO(struct xfs_da_args *args),
	TP_ARGS(args),

	TP_STRUCT__entry(
		__field(int, namelen)
		__dynamic_array(char, name, args->namelen + 1)
		...
	),

	TP_fast_assign(
		char *name = __get_str(name);

		if (args->namelen)
			memcpy(name, args->name, args->namelen);
		name[args->namelen] = '\0';

		__entry->namelen = args->namelen;
	),

	TP_printk("name %.*s namelen %d",
		  __entry->namelen ? __get_str(name) : NULL
		  __entry->namelen)
);

[ Impact: allow defining dynamic size arrays ]

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A2384D2.3080403@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-06-01 23:25:15 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
897f17a653 tracing: combine the default tracers into one config
Both event tracer and sched switch plugin are selected by default
by all generic tracers. But if no generic tracer is enabled, their options
appear. But ether one of them will select the other, thus it only
makes sense to have the default tracers be selected by one option.

[ Impact: clean up kconfig menu ]

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-06-01 23:23:55 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
5e0a093910 tracing: fix config options to not show when automatically selected
There are two options that are selected by all tracers, but we want
to have those options available when no tracer is selected. These are

 The event tracer and sched switch tracer.

The are enabled by all tracers, but if a tracer is not selected we want
the options to appear. All tracers including them select TRACING.
Thus what we would like to do is:

  config EVENT_TRACER
	bool "prompt"
	depends on TRACING
	select TRACING

But that gives us a bug in the kbuild system since we just created a
circular dependency. We only want the prompt to show when TRACING is off.

This patch adds GENERIC_TRACER that all tracers will select instead of
TRACING. The two options (sched switch and event tracer) will select
TRACING directly and depend on !GENERIC_TRACER. This solves the cicular
dependency.

[ Impact: hide options that are selected by default ]

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-06-01 23:23:30 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
2af15d6a44 ftrace: add kernel command line function filtering
When using ftrace=function on the command line to trace functions
on boot up, one can not filter out functions that are commonly called.

This patch adds two new ftrace command line commands.

  ftrace_notrace=function-list
  ftrace_filter=function-list

Where function-list is a comma separated list of functions to filter.
The ftrace_notrace will make the functions listed not be included
in the function tracing, and ftrace_filter will only trace the functions
listed.

These two act the same as the debugfs/tracing/set_ftrace_notrace and
debugfs/tracing/set_ftrace_filter respectively.

The simple glob expressions that are allowed by the filter files can also
be used by the command line interface.

	ftrace_notrace=rcu*,*lock,*spin*

Will not trace any function that starts with rcu, ends with lock, or has
the word spin in it.

Note, if the self tests are enabled, they may interfere with the filtering
set by the command lines.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-06-01 23:23:10 -04:00
Heiko Carstens
5b6045a906 trace: disable preemption before taking raw spinlocks
s390 code uses smp_processor_id() in __raw_spin_lock() code which
reveals that a (raw) spinlock is taken without preemption disabled.
This can potentially deadlock.

To fix this explicitly disable and enable preemption.

BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [00000000] code: cat/2278
caller is trace_find_cmdline+0x40/0xfc
CPU: 0 Not tainted 2.6.30-rc7-dirty #39
Process cat (pid: 2278, task: 000000003faedb68, ksp: 000000003b33b988)
000000003b33b988 000000003b33bae0 0000000000000002 0000000000000000
       000000003b33bb80 000000003b33baf8 000000003b33baf8 00000000000175d6
       0000000000000001 000000003b33b988 000000003f9b0000 000000000000000b
       000000000000000c 000000003b33bb40 000000003b33bae0 0000000000000000
       0000000000000000 00000000000175d6 000000003b33bae0 000000003b33bb28
Call Trace:
([<00000000000174b2>] show_trace+0x112/0x170)
 [<0000000000017582>] show_stack+0x72/0x100
 [<0000000000441538>] dump_stack+0xc8/0xd8
 [<000000000025c350>] debug_smp_processor_id+0x114/0x130
 [<00000000000bf0e4>] trace_find_cmdline+0x40/0xfc
 [<00000000000c35d4>] trace_print_context+0x58/0xac
 [<00000000000bb676>] print_trace_line+0x416/0x470
 [<00000000000bc8fe>] s_show+0x4e/0x428
 [<000000000013834e>] seq_read+0x36a/0x5d4
 [<0000000000112a78>] vfs_read+0xc8/0x174
 [<0000000000112c58>] SyS_read+0x74/0xc4
 [<000000000002c7ae>] sysc_noemu+0x10/0x16
 [<000002000012436c>] 0x2000012436c
1 lock held by cat/2278:
 #0:  (&p->lock){+.+.+.}, at: [<0000000000138056>] seq_read+0x72/0x5d4

[ Impact: fix preempt-unsafe raw spinlock ]

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2009-05-28 01:21:03 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
0f4fc29dd6 tracing: add __print_symbolic to trace events
This patch adds __print_symbolic which is similar to __print_flags but
works for an enumeration type instead. That is, there is only a one to one
mapping between the values and the symbols. When a match is made, then
it is printed, otherwise the hex value is outputed.

[ Impact: add interface for showing symbol names in events ]

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2009-05-26 20:31:50 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
be74b73a57 tracing: add __print_flags for events
Developers have been asking for the ability in the ftrace event tracer
to display names of bits in a flags variable.

Instead of printing out c2, it would be easier to read FOO|BAR|GOO,
assuming that FOO is bit 1, BAR is bit 6 and GOO is bit 7.

Some examples where this would be useful are the state flags in a context
switch, kmalloc flags, and even permision flags in accessing files.

[
  v2 changes include:

  Frederic Weisbecker's idea of using a mask instead of bits,
  thus we can output GFP_KERNEL instead of GPF_WAIT|GFP_IO|GFP_FS.

  Li Zefan's idea of allowing the caller of __print_flags to add their
  own delimiter (or no delimiter) where we can get for file permissions
  rwx instead of r|w|x.
]

[
  v3 changes:

   Christoph Hellwig's idea of using an array instead of va_args.
]

[ Impact: better displaying of flags in trace output ]

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2009-05-26 20:25:22 +02:00
Zhaolei
0e907c9939 ftrace: clean up of using ftrace_event_enable_disable()
Always use ftrace_event_enable_disable() to enable/disable an event
so that we can factorize out the event toggling code.

[ Impact: factorize and cleanup event tracing code ]

Signed-off-by: Zhao Lei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A14FDFE.2080402@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2009-05-26 03:30:31 +02:00
Zhaolei
b11c53e12f ftrace: Add task_comm support for trace_event
If we enable a trace event alone without any tracer running (such as
function tracer, sched switch tracer, etc...) it can't output enough
task command information.

We need to use the tracing_{start/stop}_cmdline_record() helpers
which are designed to keep track of cmdlines for any tasks that
were scheduled during the tracing.

Before this patch:
 # echo 1 > debugfs/tracing/events/sched/sched_switch/enable
 # cat debugfs/tracing/trace
 # tracer: nop
 #
 #           TASK-PID    CPU#    TIMESTAMP  FUNCTION
 #              | |       |          |         |
            <...>-2289  [000] 526276.724790: sched_switch: task bash:2289 [120] ==> sshd:2287 [120]
            <...>-2287  [000] 526276.725231: sched_switch: task sshd:2287 [120] ==> bash:2289 [120]
            <...>-2289  [000] 526276.725452: sched_switch: task bash:2289 [120] ==> sshd:2287 [120]
            <...>-2287  [000] 526276.727181: sched_switch: task sshd:2287 [120] ==> swapper:0 [140]
           <idle>-0     [000] 526277.032734: sched_switch: task swapper:0 [140] ==> events/0:5 [115]
            <...>-5     [000] 526277.032782: sched_switch: task events/0:5 [115] ==> swapper:0 [140]
 ...

After this patch:
 # tracer: nop
 #
 #           TASK-PID    CPU#    TIMESTAMP  FUNCTION
 #              | |       |          |         |
             bash-2269  [000] 527347.989229: sched_switch: task bash:2269 [120] ==> sshd:2267 [120]
             sshd-2267  [000] 527347.990960: sched_switch: task sshd:2267 [120] ==> bash:2269 [120]
             bash-2269  [000] 527347.991143: sched_switch: task bash:2269 [120] ==> sshd:2267 [120]
             sshd-2267  [000] 527347.992959: sched_switch: task sshd:2267 [120] ==> swapper:0 [140]
           <idle>-0     [000] 527348.531989: sched_switch: task swapper:0 [140] ==> events/0:5 [115]
         events/0-5     [000] 527348.532115: sched_switch: task events/0:5 [115] ==> swapper:0 [140]
 ...

Changelog:
v1->v2: Update Kconfig to select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER in
        ENABLE_EVENT_TRACING
v2->v3: v2 can solve problem that was caused by config EVENT_TRACING
        alone, but when CONFIG_FTRACE is off and CONFIG_TRACING is
        selected by other config, compile fail happened again.
        This version solves it.

[ Impact: fix incomplete output of event tracing ]

Signed-off-by: Zhao Lei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <4A14FDFE.2080402@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2009-05-26 03:03:21 +02:00
Lai Jiangshan
4f5359685a tracing: add trace_event_read_lock()
I found that there is nothing to protect event_hash in
ftrace_find_event(). Rcu protects the event hashlist
but not the event itself while we use it after its extraction
through ftrace_find_event().

This lack of a proper locking in this spot opens a race
window between any event dereferencing and module removal.

Eg:

--Task A--

print_trace_line(trace) {
  event = find_ftrace_event(trace)

--Task B--

trace_module_remove_events(mod) {
  list_trace_events_module(ev, mod) {
    unregister_ftrace_event(ev->event) {
      hlist_del(ev->event->node)
        list_del(....)
    }
  }
}
|--> module removed, the event has been dropped

--Task A--

  event->print(trace); // Dereferencing freed memory

If the event retrieved belongs to a module and this module
is concurrently removed, we may end up dereferencing a data
from a freed module.

RCU could solve this, but it would add latency to the kernel and
forbid tracers output callbacks to call any sleepable code.
So this fix converts 'trace_event_mutex' to a read/write semaphore,
and adds trace_event_read_lock() to protect ftrace_find_event().

[ Impact: fix possible freed memory dereference in ftrace ]

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <4A114806.7090302@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2009-05-25 23:53:41 +02:00
Ming Lei
5537937696 ftrace: fix check for return value of register_module_notifier in event_trace_init
register_module_notifier() returns zero in the success case.
So fix the inverted fail case check in trace events modules
handler.

[ Impact: fix spurious warning on ftrace initialization]

Reported-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2009-05-20 19:23:11 +02:00
Stefan Raspl
fd51d251e4 blktrace: remove debugfs entries on bad path
debugfs directory entries for devices are not removed on some
of the failure pathes in do_blk_trace_setup().
One way to reproduce is to start blktrace on multiple devices
with insufficient Vmalloc space: Devices will fail with
a message like this:

	BLKTRACESETUP(2) /dev/sdu failed: 5/Input/output error

If so, the respective entries in debugfs
(e.g. /sys/kernel/debug/block/sdu) will remain and subsequent
attempts to start blktrace on the respective devices will not
succeed due to existing directories.

[ Impact: fix /debug/tracing file cleanup corner case ]

Signed-off-by: Stefan Raspl <stefan.raspl@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: schwidefsky@de.ibm.com
Cc: heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com
LKML-Reference: <4A1266CC.5040801@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-19 10:29:21 +02:00
Ming Lei
24ed0c4bfc tracing: fix check for return value of register_module_notifier
return zero should be correct, so fix it.

[ Impact: eliminate incorrect syslog message ]

Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
LKML-Reference: <1242545498-7285-1-git-send-email-tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-18 10:24:13 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
1079cac0f4 Merge commit 'v2.6.30-rc6' into tracing/core
Merge reason: we were on an -rc4 base, sync up to -rc6

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-18 10:15:35 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
ade385e4d1 Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwessel/linux-2.6-kgdb
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwessel/linux-2.6-kgdb:
  kgdb: gdb documentation fix
  kgdb,i386: use address that SP register points to in the exception frame
  sysrq, intel_fb: fix sysrq g collision
2009-05-15 08:06:45 -07:00
Jason Wessel
364b5b7b1d sysrq, intel_fb: fix sysrq g collision
Commit 79e539453b introduced a
regression where you cannot use sysrq 'g' to enter kgdb.  The solution
is to move the intel fb sysrq over to V for video instead of G for
graphics.  The SMP VOYAGER code to register for the sysrq-v is not
anywhere to be found in the mainline kernel, so the comments in the
code were cleaned up as well.

This patch also cleans up the sysrq definitions for kgdb to make it
generic for the kernel debugger, such that the sysrq 'g' can be used
in the future to enter a gdbstub or another kernel debugger.

Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Acked-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2009-05-15 07:56:24 -05:00
Jens Axboe
cd17cbfda0 Revert "mm: add /proc controls for pdflush threads"
This reverts commit fafd688e4c.

Work is progressing to switch away from pdflush as the process backing
for flushing out dirty data. So it seems pointless to add more knobs
to control pdflush threads. The original author of the patch did not
have any specific use cases for adding the knobs, so we can easily
revert this before 2.6.30 to avoid having to maintain this API
forever.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-05-15 11:32:24 +02:00
Li Zefan
5872144f64 tracing/filters: fix off-by-one bug
We should leave the last slot for the ending '\0'.

[ Impact: fix possible crash when the length of an operand is 128 ]

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A0CDC8C.30602@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-05-14 23:55:12 -04:00
Li Zefan
8cd995b6de tracing/filters: add missing unlock in a failure path
[ Impact: fix deadlock in a rare case we fail to allocate memory ]

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A0CDC6F.7070200@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-05-14 23:55:10 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
1ec7c4849c tracing: stop stack trace on first empty entry
The stack tracer stores eight entries in the ring buffer when an event
traces the stack. The output outputs all eight entries regardless of
how many entries were recorded.

This patch breaks out of the loop when a null entry is discovered.

[ Impact: only print the stack that is recorded ]

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-05-14 23:40:06 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
168b6b1d05 ring-buffer: move code around to remove some branches
This is a bit of micro-optimizations. But since the ring buffer is used
in tracing every function call, it is an extreme hot path. Every nanosecond
counts.

This change shows over 5% improvement in the ring-buffer-benchmark.

[ Impact: more efficient code ]

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-05-11 23:33:06 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
88eb012536 ring-buffer: use internal time stamp function
The ring_buffer_time_stamp that is exported adds a little more overhead
than is needed for using it internally. This patch adds an internal
timestamp function that can be inlined (a single line function)
and used internally for the ring buffer.

[ Impact: a little less overhead to the ring buffer ]

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-05-11 23:14:03 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
0f0c85fc80 ring-buffer: small optimizations
Doing some small changes in the fast path of the ring buffer recording
saves over 3% in the ring-buffer-benchmark test.

[ Impact: a little faster ring buffer recording ]

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-05-11 23:12:34 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
be957c447f ring-buffer: move calculation of event length
The event length is calculated and passed in to rb_reserve_next_event
in two different locations. Having rb_reserve_next_event do the
calculations directly makes only one location to do the change and
causes the calculation to be inlined by gcc.

Before:
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
  16538      24      12   16574    40be kernel/trace/ring_buffer.o

After:
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
  16490      24      12   16526    408e kernel/trace/ring_buffer.o

[ Impact: smaller more efficient code ]

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-05-11 14:42:53 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
1cd8d73589 ring-buffer: remove type parameter from rb_reserve_next_event
The rb_reserve_next_event is only called for the data type (type = 0).
There is no reason to pass in the type to the function.

Before:
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
  16554      24      12   16590    40ce kernel/trace/ring_buffer.o

After:
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
  16538      24      12   16574    40be kernel/trace/ring_buffer.o

[ Impact: cleaner, smaller and slightly more efficient code ]

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-05-11 14:19:00 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
d988ff94c1 ring-buffer: check for divide by zero in ring-buffer-benchmark
Although we check if "missed" is not zero, we divide by hit + missed,
and the addition can possible overflow and become a divide by zero.

This patch checks for this case, and will report it when it happens
then modify "hit" to make the calculation be non zero.

[ Impact: prevent possible divide by zero in ring-buffer-benchmark ]

Reported-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-05-11 13:22:26 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
5a772b2b3c ring-buffer: replace constants with time macros in ring-buffer-benchmark
The use of numeric constants is discouraged. It is cleaner and more
descriptive to use macros for constant time conversions.

This patch also removes an extra new line.

[ Impact: more descriptive time conversions ]

Reported-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-05-11 13:22:26 -04:00
Li Zefan
0498625793 blktrace: pdu_buf of pc events should be unsigned
I got this:
  8,0    1   305.417782332  2037  I   R 32 (ffffff9e 10 00 ...) [bash]

It should be:
  8,0    1   305.417782332  2037  I   R 32 (9e 10 00 ...) [bash]

[ Impact: fix output of pc events ]

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A07C6B3.9080802@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-11 12:25:50 +02:00
Al Viro
6f5bbff9a1 Convert obvious places to deactivate_locked_super()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-05-09 10:49:40 -04:00
Masami Hiramatsu
201517a7f3 kprobes: fix to use text_mutex around arm/disarm kprobe
Fix kprobes to lock text_mutex around some arch_arm/disarm_kprobe() which
are newly added by commit de5bd88d5a.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-05-08 16:23:48 -07:00
Steven Rostedt
4671c79408 tracing: add trace_set_clr_event to export event enabling function
Other parts of the kernel may need to be able to enable or disable
specific events. Especially parts that create trace events.

[ Impact: allow enabling of trace events by those that create the event ]

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-05-08 16:30:26 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
29f93943d1 tracing: initialize return value for __ftrace_set_clr_event
Commit 8f31bfe538
tracing/events: clean up for ftrace_set_clr_event()

Moved out the code for ftrace_set_clr_event into a helper funciton but
did not initialize the return value. As a result, we do not warn about
a typo in the echoing of events in set_event.

This patch restores the old warning:

 # echo foobar > set_event
-bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument

[ Impact: restore warning of invalid entries to set_event ]

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-05-08 16:06:47 -04:00
Li Zefan
c142b15dc5 tracing/events: simplify system_enable_read()
A smarter way to figure out the output of an enable file.

[ Impact: clean up ]

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A0399A5.2080603@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-08 14:00:36 +02:00
Li Zefan
8f31bfe538 tracing/events: clean up for ftrace_set_clr_event()
Add a helper function __ftrace_set_clr_event(), and replace some
ftrace_set_clr_event() calls with this helper, thus we don't need any
kstrdup() or kmalloc().

As a side effect, this patch fixes an issue in self tests code, which is
similar to the one fixed in commit d6bf81ef0f
("tracing: append ":*" to internal setting of system events")

It's a small issue and won't cause any bug in fact, but we should do things
right anyway.

[ Impact: prevent spurious event-enabling in tracing self-tests ]

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A03998E.3020503@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-08 14:00:35 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
74f4fd2166 ring-buffer: change WARN_ON from checking preempt_count to preemptible
There's a WARN_ON in the ring buffer code that makes sure preemption
is disabled. It checks "!preempt_count()". But when CONFIG_PREEMPT is not
enabled, preempt_count() is always zero, and this will trigger the warning.

[ Impact: prevent false warning on non preemptible kernels ]

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-05-07 20:01:11 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
7da3046d6c ring-buffer: add total count in ring-buffer-benchmark
It is nice to see the overhead of the benchmark test when tracing is
disabled. That is, we turn off the ring buffer just to see what the
cost of running the loop that calls into the ring buffer is.

Currently, if no entries wer made, we get 0. This is not informative.
This patch changes it to check if we had any "missed" (non recorded)
events. If so, a total count is also reported.

[ Impact: evaluate the over head of the ring buffer benchmark test ]

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-05-07 19:52:20 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
0574ea421b ring-buffer: only periodically call cond_resched to ring-buffer-benchmark
Calling cond_resched at every iteration of the loop adds a bit of
overhead to the benchmark.

This patch does two things.

1) only calls cond-resched when CONFIG_PREEMPT is not enabled
2) only calls cond-resched after so many traces has been performed.

[ Impact: less overhead to the ring-buffer-benchmark ]

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-05-07 14:20:28 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
65b7724204 tracing: have menu default enabled when kernel debug is configured
Tracing can be very helpful to debug the kernel. When DEBUG_KERNEL is
enabled it is nice to enable the trace menu as well.

This patch only make the tracing menu enabled by default, it does not
make any of the tracers enabled. And the menu is only enabled by
default if DEBUG_KERNEL is enabled.

[ Impact: show tracing options to those debugging the kernel ]

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-05-07 12:49:27 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
d6bf81ef0f tracing: append ":*" to internal setting of system events
The system enabling of events uses the same code as the set_event file.
It passes in the name of the system to the parser and that will enable
all the events that has that system as a name.

The problem is that it will also enable events with the same name as the
system.

If you have system name foo, and system name bar, but within the system
bar, there exists an event called foo. By setting the system name foo,
you will also be enabling the event foo in the system bar. This is not
an expected result.

The solution is to pass in "foo:*", which will only enable the system
foo and not events called foo.

[ Impact: prevent accidental enabling of events with same name as a system ]

Reported-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-05-07 11:49:35 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
29c8000ee7 ring-buffer: remove complex calculations in ring-buffer-test
Ingo Molnar thought that the code to calculate the time in cond_resched
is a bit too ugly and is not needed. This patch removes it and replaces
it with a simple call to cond_resched. I kept the comment that explains
the reason for the cond_resched.

[ Impact: remove ugly code ]

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-05-07 11:16:18 -04:00
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