This patch provides the support for dynamic size strings on
event tracing.
The key concept is to use a structure with an ending char array field of
undefined size and use such ability to allocate the minimal size on the
ring buffer to make one or more string entries fit inside, as opposite
to a fixed length strings with upper bound.
The strings themselves are represented using fields which have an offset
value from the beginning of the entry.
This patch provides three new macros:
__string(item, src)
This one declares a string to the structure inside TP_STRUCT__entry.
You need to provide the name of the string field and the source that will
be copied inside.
This will also add the dynamic size of the string needed for the ring
buffer entry allocation.
A stack allocated structure is used to temporarily store the offset
of each strings, avoiding double calls to strlen() on each event
insertion.
__get_str(field)
This one will give you a pointer to the string you have created. This
is an abstract helper to resolve the absolute address given the field
name which is a relative address from the beginning of the trace_structure.
__assign_str(dst, src)
Use this macro to automatically perform the string copy from src to
dst. src must be a variable to assign and dst is the name of a __string
field.
Example on how to use it:
TRACE_EVENT(my_event,
TP_PROTO(char *src1, char *src2),
TP_ARGS(src1, src2),
TP_STRUCT__entry(
__string(str1, src1)
__string(str2, src2)
),
TP_fast_assign(
__assign_str(str1, src1);
__assign_str(str2, src2);
),
TP_printk("%s %s", __get_str(src1), __get_str(src2))
)
Of course you can mix-up any __field or __array inside this
TRACE_EVENT. The position of the __string or __assign_str
doesn't matter.
Changes in v2:
Address the suggestion of Steven Rostedt: drop the opening_string() macro
and redefine __ending_string() to get the size of the string to be copied
instead of overwritting the whole ring buffer allocation.
Changes in v3:
Address other suggestions of Steven Rostedt and Peter Zijlstra with
some changes: drop the __ending_string and the need to have only one
string field.
Use offsets instead of absolute addresses.
[ Impact: allow more compact memory usage for string tracing ]
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
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>
On boot up, to save memory, ftrace allocates the minimum buffer
which is two pages. Ftrace also goes through a series of tests
(when configured) on boot up. These tests can fill up a page within
a single interrupt.
The ring buffer also has a WARN_ON when it detects that the buffer was
completely filled within a single commit (other commits are allowed to
be nested).
Combine the small buffer on start up, with the tests that can fill more
than a single page within an interrupt, this can trigger the WARN_ON.
This patch makes the WARN_ON only happen when the ring buffer consists
of more than two pages.
[ Impact: prevent false WARN_ON in ftrace startup tests ]
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
LKML-Reference: <20090421094616.GA14561@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Suppose we would like to trace all tasks named '123', but this
will fail:
# echo 'parent_comm == 123' > events/sched/sched_process_fork/filter
bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument
Don't guess the type of the filter pred in filter_parse(), but instead
we check it in __filter_add_pred().
[ Impact: extend allowed filter field string values ]
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <49ED8DEB.6000700@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
If writing subsys->filter returns EINVAL or ENOSPC, the original
filters in subsys/ and subsys/events/ will be removed. This is
definitely wrong.
[ Impact: fix filter setting semantics on error condition ]
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <49ED8DD2.2070700@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The startup tests for the event tracer also runs with the function
tracer enabled. The "wakeup" version of the trace commit was used
which can grab spinlocks. If a task was preempted by an NMI
that called a function being traced, it could deadlock due to the
function tracer trying to grab the same lock.
Thanks to Frederic Weisbecker for pointing out where the bug was.
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Reported-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Althought using the irq level (hardirq_count, softirq_count and in_nmi)
was nice to detect bad recursion right away, but since the counters are
not atomically updated with respect to the interrupts, the function tracer
might trigger the test from an interrupt handler before the hardirq_count
is updated. This will trigger a false warning.
This patch converts the recursive detection to a simple counter.
If the depth is greater than 16 then the recursive detection will trigger.
16 is more than enough for any nested interrupts.
[ Impact: fix false positive trace recursion detection ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The ring_buffer_event_discard is not tied to ring_buffer_lock_reserve.
It can be called inside or outside the reserve/commit. Even if it
is called inside the reserve/commit the commit part must also be called.
Only ring_buffer_discard_commit can be used as a replacement for
ring_buffer_unlock_commit.
This patch removes the trace_recursive_unlock from ring_buffer_event_discard
since it would be the wrong place to do so.
[Impact: prevent breakage in trace recursive testing ]
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The recursive tests to detect same level recursion in the ring buffers
did not account for the hard/softirq_counts to be shifted. Thus the
numbers could be larger than then mask to be tested.
This patch includes the shift for the calculation of the irq depth.
[ Impact: stop false positives in trace recursion detection ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Due to a cut and paste error, the trace_seq_putc had a semicolon
after the prototype but before the stub function when tracing is
disabled.
[Impact: fix compile error ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The late_initcall calls a helper function instead of the proper
init event selftest function.
This update may have been lost due to conflicting merges.
[ Impact: fix compiler warning and call extended event trace self tests ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Currently we have two configs: EVENT_TRACING and EVENT_TRACER.
All tracers enable EVENT_TRACING. The EVENT_TRACER is only a
convenience to enable the EVENT_TRACING when no other tracers
are enabled.
The names EVENT_TRACER and EVENT_TRACING are too similar and confusing.
This patch renames EVENT_TRACER to ENABLE_EVENT_TRACING to be more
appropriate to what it actually does, as well as add a comment in
the help menu to explain the option's purpose.
[ Impact: rename config option to reduce confusion ]
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
During testing we often use randconfig to test various kernels.
The current configuration set up does not give an easy way to disable
all tracing with a single config. The case where randconfig would
test all tracing disabled is very unlikely.
This patch adds a config option to enable or disable all tracing.
It is hooked into the tracing menu just like other submenus are done.
[ Impact: allow randconfig to easily produce all traces disabled ]
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
This patch makes the branch profiling into a choice selection:
None - no branch profiling
likely/unlikely - only profile likely/unlikely branches
all - profile all branches
The all profiler will also enable the likely/unlikely branches.
This does not change the way the profiler works or the dependencies
between the profilers.
What this patch does, is keep the branch profiling from being selected
by an allyesconfig make. The branch profiler is very intrusive and
it is known to break various architecture builds when selected as an
allyesconfig.
[ Impact: prevent branch profiler from being selected in allyesconfig ]
Reported-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Reported-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Reported-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
In case of tracing recursion detection, we only get the stacktrace.
But the current context may be very useful to debug the issue.
This patch adds the softirq/hardirq/nmi context with the warning
using lockdep context display to have a familiar output.
v2: Use printk_once()
v3: drop {hardirq,softirq}_context which depend on lockdep,
only keep what is part of current->trace_recursion,
sufficient to debug the warning source.
[ Impact: print context necessary to debug recursion ]
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Due to a cut and paste error, I added the gcc attribute for printf
format to the static inline stub of trace_seq_printf.
This will cause a compile failure.
[ Impact: fix compiler error when CONFIG_TRACING is off ]
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Fr=E9d=E9ric_Weisbecker?= <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <alpine.DEB.2.00.0904171717080.1016@gandalf.stny.rr.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
trace_printk can be called from any context, including NMIs.
If this happens, then we must test for for recursion before
grabbing any spinlocks.
This patch prevents trace_printk from being called recursively.
[ Impact: prevent hard lockup in lockdep event tracer ]
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The tracing infrastructure allows for recursion. That is, an interrupt
may interrupt the act of tracing an event, and that interrupt may very well
perform its own trace. This is a recursive trace, and is fine to do.
The problem arises when there is a bug, and the utility doing the trace
calls something that recurses back into the tracer. This recursion is not
caused by an external event like an interrupt, but by code that is not
expected to recurse. The result could be a lockup.
This patch adds a bitmask to the task structure that keeps track
of the trace recursion. To find the interrupt depth, the following
algorithm is used:
level = hardirq_count() + softirq_count() + in_nmi;
Here, level will be the depth of interrutps and softirqs, and even handles
the nmi. Then the corresponding bit is set in the recursion bitmask.
If the bit was already set, we know we had a recursion at the same level
and we warn about it and fail the writing to the buffer.
After the data has been committed to the buffer, we clear the bit.
No atomics are needed. The only races are with interrupts and they reset
the bitmask before returning anywy.
[ Impact: detect same irq level trace recursion ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Not all the necessary symbols were exported to allow for tracing
by modules. This patch adds them in.
[ Impact: allow modules to commit data to the ring buffer ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The CONFIG_EVENT_TRACER is the way to turn on event tracing when no
other tracing has been configured. All code to get enabled should
depend on CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING. That is what is enabled when TRACING
(or CONFIG_EVENT_TRACER) is selected.
This patch enables the include/trace/ftrace.h file when
CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING is enabled.
[ Impact: fix warning in event tracer selftest ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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>
kmem_event_types.h is no longer necessary since tracepoint definitions
are put into include/trace/events/kmem.h
[ Impact: remove now-unused file. ]
Signed-off-by: Zhao Lei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <49E7EF37.2080205@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Tracepoints with no arguments can issue two warnings:
"field" defined by not used
"ret" is uninitialized in this function
Mark field as being OK to leave unused, and initialize ret.
[ Impact: fix false positive compiler warnings. ]
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca
LKML-Reference: <1239950139-1119-5-git-send-email-jeremy@goop.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
We can find some bugs in the trace events if we stress the writes as well.
The function tracer is a good way to stress the events.
[ Impact: extend scope of event tracer self-tests ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090416161746.604786131@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Export the cached task comms to userspace. This allows user apps to translate
the pids from a trace into their respective task command lines.
[ Impact: let userspace apps reading binary buffer know comm's of pids ]
Signed-off-by: Avadh Patel <avadh4all@gmail.com>
[ added error checking and use of buf pointer to index file_buf ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Currently, every thing needed to read the binary output from the
ring buffers is available, with the exception of the way the ring
buffers handles itself internally.
This patch creates two special files in the debugfs/tracing/events
directory:
# cat /debug/tracing/events/header_page
field: u64 timestamp; offset:0; size:8;
field: local_t commit; offset:8; size:8;
field: char data; offset:16; size:4080;
# cat /debug/tracing/events/header_event
type : 2 bits
len : 3 bits
time_delta : 27 bits
array : 32 bits
padding : type == 0
time_extend : type == 1
data : type == 3
This is to allow a userspace app to see if the ring buffer format changes
or not.
[ Impact: allow userspace apps to know of ringbuffer format changes ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
As events start to become popular, and the new way to add tracing
infrastructure into ftrace, it is important to catch any problems
that might happen with a mistake in the TRACE_EVENT macro.
This patch introduces a startup self test on the registered trace
events. Note, it can only do a generic test, any type of testing that
needs more involement is needed to be implemented by the tracepoint
creators.
The test goes down one by one enabling a trace point and running
some random tasks (random in the sense that I just made them up).
Those tasks are creating threads, grabbing mutexes and spinlocks
and using workqueues.
After testing each event individually, it does the same test after
enabling each system of trace points. Like sched, irq, lockdep.
Then finally it enables all tracepoints and performs the tasks again.
The output to the console on bootup will look like this when everything
works:
Running tests on trace events:
Testing event kfree_skb: OK
Testing event kmalloc: OK
Testing event kmem_cache_alloc: OK
Testing event kmalloc_node: OK
Testing event kmem_cache_alloc_node: OK
Testing event kfree: OK
Testing event kmem_cache_free: OK
Testing event irq_handler_exit: OK
Testing event irq_handler_entry: OK
Testing event softirq_entry: OK
Testing event softirq_exit: OK
Testing event lock_acquire: OK
Testing event lock_release: OK
Testing event sched_kthread_stop: OK
Testing event sched_kthread_stop_ret: OK
Testing event sched_wait_task: OK
Testing event sched_wakeup: OK
Testing event sched_wakeup_new: OK
Testing event sched_switch: OK
Testing event sched_migrate_task: OK
Testing event sched_process_free: OK
Testing event sched_process_exit: OK
Testing event sched_process_wait: OK
Testing event sched_process_fork: OK
Testing event sched_signal_send: OK
Running tests on trace event systems:
Testing event system skb: OK
Testing event system kmem: OK
Testing event system irq: OK
Testing event system lockdep: OK
Testing event system sched: OK
Running tests on all trace events:
Testing all events: OK
[ folded in:
tracing: add #include <linux/delay.h> to fix build failure in test_work()
This build failure occured on a few rare configs:
kernel/trace/trace_events.c: In function ‘test_work’:
kernel/trace/trace_events.c:975: error: implicit declaration of function ‘udelay’
kernel/trace/trace_events.c:980: error: implicit declaration of function ‘msleep’
delay.h is included in way too many other headers, hiding cases
where new usage is added without header inclusion.
[ Impact: build fix ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
]
[ Impact: add event tracer self-tests ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The hooks in the module code for the function tracer must be called
before any of that module code runs. The function tracer hooks
modify the module (replacing calls to mcount to nops). If the code
is executed while the change occurs, then the CPU can take a GPF.
To handle the above with a bit of paranoia, I originally implemented
the hooks as calls directly from the module code.
After examining the notifier calls, it looks as though the start up
notify is called before any of the module's code is executed. This makes
the use of the notify safe with ftrace.
Only the startup notify is required to be "safe". The shutdown simply
removes the entries from the ftrace function list, and does not modify
any code.
This change has another benefit. It removes a issue with a reverse dependency
in the mutexes of ftrace_lock and module_mutex.
[ Impact: fix lock dependency bug, cleanup ]
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
When current tracer is set to blk tracer, TRACE_ITER_CONTEXT_INFO is
unset, but actually context-info is printed:
pdflush-431 [000] 821.181576: 8,0 P N [pdflush]
And then if we enable TRACE_ITER_CONTEXT_INFO:
# echo context-info > trace_options
We'll see context-info printed twice. What's worse, when we use blk
tracer and trace events at the same time, we'll see no context-info
for trace events at all:
jbd2_commit_logging: dev dm-0:8 transaction 333227
jbd2_end_commit: dev dm-0:8 transaction 333227 head 332814
rm-25433 [001] 9578.307485: 8,18 m N cfq25433 slice expired t=0
rm-25433 [001] 9578.307486: 8,18 m N cfq25433 put_queue
This patch adds blk_tracer->set_flags(), and context-info flag is unset
only when we set the output to classic mode.
Note after this patch, one should unset context-info explicitly if he
wants to get binary output that can be parsed by blkparse:
# echo nocontext-info > trace_options
# echo bin > trace_options
# echo blk > current_tracer
# cat trace_pipe | blkparse -i -
Reported-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <49E54E60.50408@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The previous patch adds support to trace a single partition for
relay+ioctl blktrace, and this patch is for ftrace plugin blktrace:
# echo 1 > /sys/block/sda/sda7/enable
# cat start_lba
102398373
# cat end_lba
102703545
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Shawn Du <duyuyang@gmail.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
LKML-Reference: <49E42646.4060608@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Though one can specify '-d /dev/sda1' when using blktrace, it still
traces the whole sda.
To support per-partition tracing, when we start tracing, we initialize
bt->start_lba and bt->end_lba to the start and end sector of that
partition.
Note some actions are per device, thus we don't filter 0-sector events.
The original patch and discussion can be found here:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-btrace&m=122949374214540&w=2
Signed-off-by: Shawn Du <duyuyang@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
LKML-Reference: <49E42620.4050701@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This patch adds a sample to the samples directory on how to create
and use TRACE_EVENT trace points.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Impact: clean up
Create a sub directory in include/trace called events to keep the
trace point headers in their own separate directory. Only headers that
declare trace points should be defined in this directory.
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: Zhao Lei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Impact: fix compile error of lockdep event tracer
Ingo Molnar pointed out that the system name for the lockdep tracer was "lock"
which is used to include the event trace file name. It should be "lockdep"
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Impact: compile fix
The addition of TRACE_EVENT for modules breaks the build for when
modules are disabled. This code fixes that.
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Impact: allow modules to add TRACE_EVENTS on load
This patch adds the final hooks to allow modules to use the TRACE_EVENT
macro. A notifier and a data structure are used to link the TRACE_EVENTs
defined in the module to connect them with the ftrace event tracing system.
It also adds the necessary automated clean ups to the trace events when a
module is removed.
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Impact: let modules add trace events
The trace event code requires some functions to be exported to allow
modules to use TRACE_EVENT. This patch adds EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL to the
necessary functions.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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>
This patch moves the ftrace creation into include/trace/ftrace.h and
simplifies the work of developers in adding new tracepoints.
Just the act of creating the trace points in include/trace and including
define_trace.h will create the events in the debugfs/tracing/events
directory.
This patch removes the need of include/trace/trace_events.h
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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>
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>
This patch lowers the number of places a developer must modify to add
new tracepoints. The current method to add a new tracepoint
into an existing system is to write the trace point macro in the
trace header with one of the macros TRACE_EVENT, TRACE_FORMAT or
DECLARE_TRACE, then they must add the same named item into the C file
with the macro DEFINE_TRACE(name) and then add the trace point.
This change cuts out the needing to add the DEFINE_TRACE(name).
Every file that uses the tracepoint must still include the trace/<type>.h
file, but the one C file must also add a define before the including
of that file.
#define CREATE_TRACE_POINTS
#include <trace/mytrace.h>
This will cause the trace/mytrace.h file to also produce the C code
necessary to implement the trace point.
Note, if more than one trace/<type>.h is used to create the C code
it is best to list them all together.
#define CREATE_TRACE_POINTS
#include <trace/foo.h>
#include <trace/bar.h>
#include <trace/fido.h>
Thanks to Mathieu Desnoyers and Christoph Hellwig for coming up with
the cleaner solution of the define above the includes over my first
design to have the C code include a "special" header.
This patch converts sched, irq and lockdep and skb to use this new
method.
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: Zhao Lei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Impact: clean up
Neil Horman (et. al.) criticized the way the trace events were broken up
into two files. The reason for that was that ftrace needed to separate out
the declarations from where the #include <linux/tracepoint.h> was used.
It then dawned on me that the tracepoint.h header only needs to define the
TRACE_EVENT macro if it is not already defined.
The solution is simply to test if TRACE_EVENT is defined, and if it is not
then the linux/tracepoint.h header can define it. This change consolidates
all the <traces>.h and <traces>_event_types.h into the <traces>.h file.
Reported-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Reported-by: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Reported-by: Jiaying Zhang <jiayingz@google.com>
Cc: Zhaolei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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>
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>
Add a new config option, CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING that gets selected
when CONFIG_TRACING is selected and adds everything needed by the stuff
in trace_export - basically all the event tracing support needed by e.g.
bprint, minus the actual events, which are only included if
CONFIG_EVENT_TRACER is selected.
So CONFIG_EVENT_TRACER can be used to turn on or off the generated events
(what I think of as the 'event tracer'), while CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING turns
on or off the base event tracing support used by both the event tracer and
the other things such as bprint that can't be configured out.
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
LKML-Reference: <1239178441.10295.34.camel@tropicana>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Frederic Weisbecker