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>
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>
The sched events helpers which insert the sched switch and wakeup
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 sched switch tracer file.
Then move them to trace_functions.c
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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>
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>
About a half events are missing when we splice_read
from trace_pipe. They are unexpectedly consumed because we ignore
the TRACE_TYPE_NO_CONSUME return value used by the function graph
tracer when it needs to consume the events by itself to walk on
the ring buffer.
The same problem appears with ftrace_dump()
Example of an output before this patch:
1) | ktime_get_real() {
1) 2.846 us | read_hpet();
1) 4.558 us | }
1) 6.195 us | }
After this patch:
0) | ktime_get_real() {
0) | getnstimeofday() {
0) 1.960 us | read_hpet();
0) 3.597 us | }
0) 5.196 us | }
The fix also applies on 2.6.30
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
LKML-Reference: <4A6EEC52.90704@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
The current code will truncate the ftrace files contents if O_APPEND
is not set and the file is opened in write mode. This is incorrect.
It should only truncate the file if O_TRUNC is set. Otherwise
if one of these files is opened by a C program with fopen "r+",
it will incorrectly truncate the file.
Reported-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
'\n' is already appended, and what we need is just an extra
space for the '\0'.
Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A3EED63.3090908@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
* Remove smp_lock.h from files which don't need it (including some headers!)
* Add smp_lock.h to files which do need it
* Make smp_lock.h include conditional in hardirq.h
It's needed only for one kernel_locked() usage which is under CONFIG_PREEMPT
This will make hardirq.h inclusion cheaper for every PREEMPT=n config
(which includes allmodconfig/allyesconfig, BTW)
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch converts the ring buffers into a completely lockless
buffer recording system. The read side still takes locks since
we still serialize readers. But the writers are the ones that
must be lockless (those can happen in NMIs).
The main change is to the "head_page" pointer. We write to the
tail, and read from the head. The "head_page" pointer in the cpu
buffer is now just a reference to where to look. The real head
page is now kept in the head_page->list->prev->next pointer.
That is, in the list head of the previous page we set flags.
The list pages are allocated to be aligned such that the lowest
significant bits are always zero pointing to the list. This gives
us play to put in flags to their pointers.
bit 0: set when the page is a head page
bit 1: set when the writer is moving the page (for overwrite mode)
cmpxchg is used to update the pointer.
When the writer wraps the buffer and the tail meets the head,
in overwrite mode, the writer must move the head page forward.
It first uses cmpxchg to change the pointer flag from 1 to 2.
Once this is done, the reader on another CPU will not take the
page from the buffer.
The writers need to protect against interrupts (we don't bother with
disabling interrupts because NMIs are allowed to write too).
After the writer sets the pointer flag to 2, it takes care to
manage interrupts coming in. This is discribed in detail within the
comments of the code.
Changes in version 2:
- Let reader reset entries value of header page.
- Fix tail page passing commit page on reader page test.
- Always increment entries and write counter in rb_tail_page_update
- Add safety check in rb_set_commit_to_write to break out of infinite loop
- add mask in rb_is_reader_page
[ Impact: lock free writing to the ring buffer ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
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>
We should be able to specify [KMG] when setting trace_buf_size
boot option, as documented in kernel-parameters.txt
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A41F2DB.4020102@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The iterator is m->private, but it's not reset to trace_types in
t_start(). If the output is larger than PAGE_SIZE and t_start()
is called the 2nd time, things will go wrong.
Reviewed-by: Liming Wang <liming.wang@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A418728.5020506@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (24 commits)
tracing/urgent: warn in case of ftrace_start_up inbalance
tracing/urgent: fix unbalanced ftrace_start_up
function-graph: add stack frame test
function-graph: disable when both x86_32 and optimize for size are configured
ring-buffer: have benchmark test print to trace buffer
ring-buffer: do not grab locks in nmi
ring-buffer: add locks around rb_per_cpu_empty
ring-buffer: check for less than two in size allocation
ring-buffer: remove useless compile check for buffer_page size
ring-buffer: remove useless warn on check
ring-buffer: use BUF_PAGE_HDR_SIZE in calculating index
tracing: update sample event documentation
tracing/filters: fix race between filter setting and module unload
tracing/filters: free filter_string in destroy_preds()
ring-buffer: use commit counters for commit pointer accounting
ring-buffer: remove unused variable
ring-buffer: have benchmark test handle discarded events
ring-buffer: prevent adding write in discarded area
tracing/filters: strloc should be unsigned short
tracing/filters: operand can be negative
...
Fix up kmemcheck-induced conflict in kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c manually
Many developers use "/debug/" or "/debugfs/" or "/sys/kernel/debug/"
directory name to mount debugfs filesystem for ftrace according to
./Documentation/tracers/ftrace.txt file.
And, three directory names(ex:/debug/, /debugfs/, /sys/kernel/debug/) is
existed in kernel source like ftrace, DRM, Wireless, Documentation,
Network[sky2]files to mount debugfs filesystem.
debugfs means debug filesystem for debugging easy to use by greg kroah
hartman. "/sys/kernel/debug/" name is suitable as directory name
of debugfs filesystem.
- debugfs related reference: http://lwn.net/Articles/334546/
Fix inconsistency of directory name to mount debugfs filesystem.
* From Steven Rostedt
- find_debugfs() and tracing_files() in this patch.
Signed-off-by: GeunSik Lim <geunsik.lim@samsung.com>
Acked-by : Inaky Perez-Gonzalez <inaky@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by : Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Reviewed-by : James Smart <james.smart@emulex.com>
CC: Jiri Kosina <trivial@kernel.org>
CC: David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
CC: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>
CC: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
CC: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
CC: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Atomic allocation is not needed here.
[ Impact: clean up of memory alloction type ]
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A35B898.2050607@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
It's tracing_cpumask_new that should be kfree()ed.
This causes tracing_cpumask to be freed due to the typo:
# echo z > tracing_cpumask
bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument
And subsequent reads/writes to tracing_cpuamsk will access this
already-freed tracing_cpumask, thus may lead to crash.
[ Impact: fix leak and crash when writing invalid val to tracing_cpumask ]
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A35B86A.7070608@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
* 'tracing-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (244 commits)
Revert "x86, bts: reenable ptrace branch trace support"
tracing: do not translate event helper macros in print format
ftrace/documentation: fix typo in function grapher name
tracing/events: convert block trace points to TRACE_EVENT(), fix !CONFIG_BLOCK
tracing: add protection around module events unload
tracing: add trace_seq_vprint interface
tracing: fix the block trace points print size
tracing/events: convert block trace points to TRACE_EVENT()
ring-buffer: fix ret in rb_add_time_stamp
ring-buffer: pass in lockdep class key for reader_lock
tracing: add annotation to what type of stack trace is recorded
tracing: fix multiple use of __print_flags and __print_symbolic
tracing/events: fix output format of user stack
tracing/events: fix output format of kernel stack
tracing/trace_stack: fix the number of entries in the header
ring-buffer: discard timestamps that are at the start of the buffer
ring-buffer: try to discard unneeded timestamps
ring-buffer: fix bug in ring_buffer_discard_commit
ftrace: do not profile functions when disabled
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>
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>
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>
When adding the EXPORT_SYMBOL to some of the tracing API, I accidently
used EXPORT_SYMBOL instead of EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL. This patch fixes
that mistake.
[ Impact: export the tracing code only for GPL modules ]
Reported-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
This patch adds stats to the ftrace ring buffers:
# cat /debugfs/tracing/per_cpu/cpu0/stats
entries: 42360
overrun: 30509326
commit overrun: 0
nmi dropped: 0
Where entries are the total number of data entries in the buffer.
overrun is the number of entries not consumed and were overwritten by
the writer.
commit overrun is the number of entries dropped due to nested writers
wrapping the buffer before the initial writer finished the commit.
nmi dropped is the number of entries dropped due to the ring buffer
lock being held when an nmi was going to write to the ring buffer.
Note, this field will be meaningless and will go away when the ring
buffer becomes lockless.
[ Impact: let userspace know what is happening in the ring buffers ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The pages allocated for the splice binary buffer did not initialize
the ref count correctly. This caused pages not to be freed and causes
a drastic memory leak.
Thanks to logdev I was able to trace the tracer to find where the leak
was.
[ Impact: stop memory leak when using splice ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Splice works with pages, it is much more effecient to use an entire
page than to copy bits over several pages.
Using logdev to trace the internals of the splice mechanism, I was
able to see that splice can be very aggressive. When tracing is
occurring, and the reader caught up to the writer, and the writer
is on the reader page, the reader will copy what is there into the
splice page. Splice may iterate over several pages and if the
writer is still writing to the page, the reader will keep copying
bits to new pages to pass to userspace.
This patch changes it to only pass data to userspace if the page
is full (the writer has left the page). This has a small side effect
that splice can not read a partial page, and must wait for the
page to fill. This should not be an issue. If tracing has stopped,
then a use of "read" will still read all of the page.
[ Impact: better performance for ring buffer splice code ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The splice code allocates a page even when the ring buffer is empty.
It detects the ring buffer being empty when it it fails to copy
anything from the ring buffer into the page.
This patch adds a check to see if there is anything in the ring buffer
before allocating a page.
Thanks to logdev for letting me trace the tracer to find this.
[ Impact: speed up due to removing unnecessary allocation ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The pages allocated for the splice binary buffer did not initialize
the ref count correctly. This caused pages not to be freed and causes
a drastic memory leak.
Thanks to logdev I was able to trace the tracer to find where the leak
was.
[ Impact: stop memory leak when using splice ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
ftrace_dump is used for printing out the contents of the ftrace ring buffer
to the console on failure. Currently it uses a spinlock to synchronize
the output from multiple failures on different CPUs. This spin lock
currently is a normal spinlock and can cause issues with lockdep and
lock tracing.
This patch converts it to raw since it is for error handling only.
The lock is local to the ftrace_dump and is not used by any other
infrastructure.
[ Impact: prevent ftrace_dump from locking up by internal tracing ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
Merge reason: pick up both v2.6.30-rc1 [which includes tracing/urgent fixes]
and pick up the current lineup of tracing/urgent fixes as well
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
I got these from strace:
splice(0x3, 0, 0x5, 0, 0x1000, 0x1) = 12288
splice(0x3, 0, 0x5, 0, 0x1000, 0x1) = 12288
splice(0x3, 0, 0x5, 0, 0x1000, 0x1) = 12288
splice(0x3, 0, 0x5, 0, 0x1000, 0x1) = 16384
splice(0x3, 0, 0x5, 0, 0x1000, 0x1) = 8192
splice(0x3, 0, 0x5, 0, 0x1000, 0x1) = 8192
splice(0x3, 0, 0x5, 0, 0x1000, 0x1) = 8192
I wanted to splice_read 4096 bytes, but it returns 8192 or larger.
It is because the return value of tracing_buffers_splice_read()
does not include "zero out any left over data" bytes.
But tracing_buffers_read() includes these bytes, we make them
consistent.
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <49D46674.9030804@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: Cleanup
These two lines:
if (unlikely(*ppos))
return -ESPIPE;
in tracing_buffers_splice_read() are not needed, VFS layer
has disabled seek(2).
We remove these two lines, and then we can update file->f_pos.
And tracing_buffers_read() updates file->f_pos, this fix
make tracing_buffers_splice_read() updates file->f_pos too.
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <49D46670.4010503@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: Cleanup
Sometimes, we open trace_pipe_raw, but we don't read(2) it,
we just splice(2) it, thus, the page is not used.
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <49D4666B.4010608@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: disable pread()
We set tracing_buffers_fops.llseek to no_llseek,
but we can still perform pread() to read this file.
That is not expected.
This fix uses nonseekable_open() to disable it.
tracing_buffers_fops.llseek is still set to no_llseek,
it mark this file is a "non-seekable device" and is used by
sys_splice(). See also do_splice() or manual of splice(2):
ERRORS
EINVAL Target file system doesn't support splicing;
neither of the descriptors refers to a pipe;
or offset given for non-seekable device.
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <49D46668.8030806@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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>
Some of the tracers have been renamed, which was not updated in the in-kernel
run-time README file. Update it.
Signed-off-by: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>
LKML-Reference: <200903231158.32151.knikanth@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: fix a crash while cat trace file
Currently we are using a cpumask to remind each cpu where a
trace occured. It lets us notice the user that a cpu just had
its first trace.
But on latest -tip we have the following crash once we cat the trace
file:
IP: [<c0270c4a>] print_trace_fmt+0x45/0xe7
*pde = 00000000
Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
last sysfs file: /sys/class/net/eth0/carrier
Pid: 3897, comm: cat Not tainted (2.6.29-tip-02825-g0f22972-dirty #81)
EIP: 0060:[<c0270c4a>] EFLAGS: 00010297 CPU: 0
EIP is at print_trace_fmt+0x45/0xe7
EAX: 00000000 EBX: 00000000 ECX: c12d9e98 EDX: ccdb7010
ESI: d31f4000 EDI: 00322401 EBP: d31f3f10 ESP: d31f3efc
DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 00e0 SS: 0068
Process cat (pid: 3897, ti=d31f2000 task=d3b3cf20 task.ti=d31f2000)
Stack:
d31f4080 ccdb7010 d31f4000 d691fe70 ccdb7010 d31f3f24 c0270e5c d31f4000
d691fe70 d31f4000 d31f3f34 c02718e8 c12d9e98 d691fe70 d31f3f70 c02bfc33
00001000 09130000 d3b46e00 d691fe98 00000000 00000079 00000001 00000000
Call Trace:
[<c0270e5c>] ? print_trace_line+0x170/0x17c
[<c02718e8>] ? s_show+0xa7/0xbd
[<c02bfc33>] ? seq_read+0x24a/0x327
[<c02bf9e9>] ? seq_read+0x0/0x327
[<c02ab18b>] ? vfs_read+0x86/0xe1
[<c02ab289>] ? sys_read+0x40/0x65
[<c0202d8f>] ? sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x3c
Code: 00 00 00 89 45 ec f7 c7 00 20 00 00 89 55 f0 74 4e f6 86 98 10 00 00 02 74 45 8b 86 8c 10 00 00 8b 9e a8 10 00 00 e8 52 f3 ff ff <0f> a3 03 19 c0 85 c0 75 2b 8b 86 8c 10 00 00 8b 9e a8 10 00 00
EIP: [<c0270c4a>] print_trace_fmt+0x45/0xe7 SS:ESP 0068:d31f3efc
CR2: 0000000000000000
---[ end trace aa9cf38e5ebed9dd ]---
This is because we alloc the iter->started cpumask on tracing_pipe_open but
not on tracing_open.
It hadn't been noticed until now because we need to have ring buffer overruns
to activate the starting of cpu buffer detection.
Also, we need a check to not print the messagge for the first trace on the file.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1238619188-6109-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Building a kernel with tracing can raise the following warning on
tip/master:
kernel/trace/trace.c:1249: error: implicit declaration of function 'vbin_printf'
We are missing an include to string.h
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1238160130-7437-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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>
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>
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>
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>
Impact: fix traces output
Sometimes one can observe an imbalance in the traces between function
calls and function return traces:
func1() {
}
}
The curly brace inside func1() is the return of another function nested
inside func1. The return trace have been inserted in the buffer but not
the entry.
We are storing a return address on the function traces stack while we
haven't inserted its entry on the buffer, hence the imbalance on the
traces.
This is because the tracers doesn't check all failures that can happen
on buffer insertion.
This patch reports the tracing recursion failures and the ring buffer
failures. In such cases, we now restore the original return address for
the function, giving up its return trace.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <1237843021-11695-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: fix a crash with ftrace={nop,boot} parameter
If the nop or initcall tracers are launched as boot tracers,
they will attempt to create their option directory and files.
But these tracers are registered very early and then assigned
as "boot tracers" very early if asked to.
Since they do this before debugfs has been registered (core initcall),
a crash is triggered.
Another early tracers could also come later. So we fix it by
checking if debugfs is initialized before creating the root
tracing directory.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <1237759847-21025-3-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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>
Impact: cleanup.
This patch fixes the following sparse warnings:
kernel/trace/trace.c:385:9: warning: symbol 'trace_seq_to_buffer' was
not declared. Should it be static?
kernel/trace/trace_clock.c:29:13: warning: symbol 'trace_clock_local'
was not declared. Should it be static?
kernel/trace/trace_clock.c:54:13: warning: symbol 'trace_clock' was not
declared. Should it be static?
kernel/trace/trace_clock.c:74:13: warning: symbol 'trace_clock_global'
was not declared. Should it be static?
Signed-off-by: Dmitri Vorobiev <dmitri.vorobiev@movial.com>
LKML-Reference: <1237741871-5827-4-git-send-email-dmitri.vorobiev@movial.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: detect tracing related hangs
Sometimes, with some configs, the function graph tracer can make
the timer interrupt too much slow, hanging the kernel in an endless
loop of timer interrupts servicing.
As suggested by Ingo, this patch brings a watchdog which stops the
selftest after a defined number of functions traced, definitely
disabling this tracer.
For those who want to debug the cause of the function graph trace
hang, you can pass the ftrace_dump_on_oops kernel parameter to dump
the traces after this hang detection.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <1237694675-23509-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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>
This patch makes print_printk_msg_only and print_bprintk_msg_only
global for other functions to use. It also renames them by adding
a "trace_" to the beginning to avoid namespace collisions.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
There is currently no easy way to clear the trace buffer. Currently
the only way is to change the current tracer.
This patch lets the user clear the trace buffer by simply writing
into the trace files.
echo > /debug/tracing/trace
or to clear a single cpu (i.e. for CPU 1):
echo > /debug/tracing/per_cpu/cpu1/trace
Requested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Impact: fix command line to pid mapping
map_cmdline_to_pid[] is checked in trace_save_cmdline(), but never
updated. This results in stale pid to command line mappings and the
tracer output will associate the wrong comm string.
Signed-off-by: Carsten Emde <Carsten.Emde@osadl.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: prevent stale command line output
In case there is no valid command line mapping for a pid
trace_find_cmdline() returns without updating the comm buffer. The
trace dump keeps the previous entry which results in confusing trace
output:
<idle>-0 [000] 280.702056 ....
<idle>-23456 [000] 280.702080 ....
Update the comm buffer with "<...>" when no mapping is found.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup
The command line recorder uses (unsigned) -1 to mark non mapped
entries in the pid to command line maps. The validity check is
completely unintuitive: idx >= SAVED_CMDLINES
There is no need for such casting games. Use a constant to mark
unmapped entries and check for that constant to make the code readable
and understandable.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: prevent overwrite of command line entries
When the tracer is stopped the command line recording continues to
record. The check for tracing_is_on() is not sufficient here as the
ringbuffer status is not affected by setting
debug/tracing/tracing_enabled to 0. On a non idle system this can
result in the loss of the command line information for the stopped
trace, which makes the trace harder to read and analyse.
Check tracer_enabled to allow further recording.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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>
This patch adds a new function called ring_buffer_set_clock that
allows a tracer to assign its own clock source to the buffer.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Impact: fix for losing comms in trace
The command lines of tasks are cached at sched switch to not need
to record them at every trace point. Disabling the tracing on stops
the recording of traces, but does not stop the caching of command lines.
When the tracing is off the cache may overflow and cause the tracing
to show incorrect tasks matching the PIDs.
This patch disables prevents updates to the comm cache when the ring buffer
is off.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
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>
Impact: fix crashes when tracing cpumasks
While ring-buffer allocation, the cpumasks are allocated too,
including the tracing cpumask and the per-cpu file mask handler.
But these cpumasks are freed accidentally just after.
Fix it.
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1237164303-11476-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: fix possible locking imbalance
In case of ring buffer resize failure, tracing_set_tracer forgot to
release trace_types_lock. Fix it.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1237151439-6755-5-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The binary_buffers directory in /debugfs/tracing held the files
to read the trace buffers in a binary format. This held one file
per CPU buffer. But we also have a per_cpu directory that holds
a way to read the pretty-print formats.
This patch moves the binary buffers into the per_cpu_directory:
# ls /debug/tracing/per_cpu/cpu1/
trace trace_pipe trace_pipe_raw
The new name is called "trace_pipe_raw". The binary buffers always
acted similar to trace_pipe, except that they produce raw data.
Requested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
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>
Impact: do not confuse user on small trace buffer sizes
When the system boots up, the trace buffer is small to conserve memory.
It is only two pages per online CPU. When the tracer is used, it expands
to the default value.
This can confuse the user if they look at the buffer size and see only
7, but then later they see 1408.
# cat /debug/tracing/buffer_size_kb
7
# echo sched_switch > /debug/tracing/current_tracer
# cat /debug/tracing/buffer_size_kb
1408
This patch tries to help remove this confustion by showing that the
buffer has not been expanded.
# cat /debug/tracing/buffer_size_kb
7 (expanded: 1408)
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Impact: prevent races with ring_buffer_expanded
This patch places the expanding of the tracing buffer under the
protection of the trace_types_lock mutex. It is highly unlikely
that there would be any contention, but better safe than sorry.
Reported-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Impact: cleanup
Some of the comments about the trace buffer resizing is gobbledygook.
And I wonder why people question if I'm a native English speaker.
This patch makes the comments make a bit more sense.
Reported-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Impact: save on memory
Currently, a ring buffer was allocated for each "possible_cpus". On
some systems, this is the same as NR_CPUS. Thus, if a system defined
NR_CPUS = 64 but it only had 1 CPU, we could have possibly 63 useless
ring buffers taking up space. With a default buffer of 3 megs, this
could be quite drastic.
This patch changes the ring buffer code to only allocate ring buffers
for online CPUs. If a CPU goes off line, we do not free the buffer.
This is because the user may still have trace data in that buffer
that they would like to look at.
Perhaps in the future we could add code to delete a ring buffer if
the CPU is offline and the ring buffer becomes empty.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Impact: fix to task live locking on reading trace_pipe on one CPU
The same code is used for both trace_pipe (all CPUS) and the per_cpu
trace_pipe file. When there is no data to read, it will check for
signals and wait on the trace wait queue.
The problem happens with the per_cpu wait. The trace_wait code checks
all CPUs. Thus, if there's data in another CPU buffer, then it will
exit the wait, without checking for signals or waiting on the wait queue.
It would then try to read the empty buffer, and since that will just
return nothing, then it will try to wait again. Unfortunately, that will
again fail due to there still being data in the other buffers. This
ends up with a live lock for the task.
This patch fixes the trace_wait to be aware that the iterator may only
be waiting on a single buffer.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
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>
Impact: less memory impact on systems not using tracer
When the kernel boots up that has tracing configured, it allocates
the default size of the ring buffer. This currently happens to be
1.4Megs per possible CPU. This is quite a bit of wasted memory if
the system is never using the tracer.
The current solution is to keep the ring buffers to a minimum size
until the user uses them. Once a tracer is piped into the current_tracer
the ring buffer will be expanded to the default size. If the user
changes the size of the ring buffer, it will take the size given
by the user immediately.
If the user adds a "ftrace=" to the kernel command line, then the ring
buffers will be set to the default size on initialization.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Impact: prevent locking up by lockdep tracer
The lockdep tracer uses trace_vprintk and thus trace_vprintk can not
call back into lockdep without locking up.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Impact: clean up
There existed a lot of <space><tab>'s in the tracing code. This
patch removes them.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
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>
Impact: add a generic printk() for tracing, like trace_printk()
trace_bprintk() uses the infrastructure to record events on ring_buffer.
[ fweisbec@gmail.com: ported to latest -tip, made it work if
!CONFIG_MODULES, never free the format strings from modules
because we can't keep track of them and conditionnaly create
the ftrace format strings section (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: <1236356510-8381-4-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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>
Impact: cleanup
All file_operations structures should be constant. No one is going to
change them.
Reported-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
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>
Impact: clean up
Both print_lat_fmt and print_trace_fmt do pretty much the same thing
except for one different function call. This patch consolidates the
two functions and adds an if statement to perform the difference.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Impact: clean up
The trace and latency_trace function pointers are identical for
every tracer but the function tracer. The differences in the function
tracer are trivial (latency output puts paranthesis around parent).
This patch removes the latency_trace pointer and all prints will
now just use the trace output function pointer.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
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>
The buffer used by trace_seq was updated incorrectly. Instead
of consuming what was actually read, it consumed the rest of the
buffer on reads.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Impact: fix trace read to conform to standards
Andrew Morton, Theodore Tso and H. Peter Anvin brought to my attention
that a userspace read should not return -EFAULT if it succeeded in
copying anything. It should only return -EFAULT if it failed to copy
at all.
This patch modifies the check of copy_from_user and updates the return
code appropriately.
I also used H. Peter Anvin's short cut rule to just test ret == count.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Impact: fix to ftrace_dump output corruption
The commit: b04cc6b1f6
tracing/core: introduce per cpu tracing files
added a new field to the iterator called cpu_file. This was a handle
to differentiate between the per cpu trace output files and the
all cpu "trace" file. The all cpu "trace" file required setting this
to TRACE_PIPE_ALL_CPU.
The problem is that the ftrace_dump sets up its own iterator but was
not updated to handle this change. The result was only CPU 0 printing
out on crash and a lot of "<0>"'s also being printed.
Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linuxtronix.de>
Tested-by: Darren Hart <dvhtc@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
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>
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>
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>
Impact: clean up
kcalloc is a better approach to allocate a NULL array.
Reported-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Impact: fix compile warning and clean up
When I first wrote __tracing_open, instead of passing the error
code via the ERR_PTR macros, I lazily used a separate parameter
to hold the return for errors.
When Frederic Weisbecker updated that function, he used the Linux
kernel ERR_PTR for the returns. This caused the parameter return
to possibly not be initialized on error. gcc correctly pointed this
out with a warning.
This patch converts the entire function to use the Linux kernel
ERR_PTR macro methods.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Impact: fix to possible race conditions
There's some uses of current_tracer that is not protected by the
trace_types_lock. There is a small chance that a sysadmin changes
the tracer while the current_tracer is being referenced.
If the race is hit, it is unlikely to cause any harm since the
tracers are constant and are not freed. But some strang side
effects may occur.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
This patch adds the tracer dependent options dynamically to the
options directory when the tracer is activated. These options are
removed when the tracer is deactivated.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
This patch creates an options directory in the debugfs, that contains
the available tracing options. These files contain 1 or 0, where 1
is the option is enabled and 0 it is disabled.
Simply echoing in 1 will enable the option and 0 will disable it.
This patch only contains the core options, not the tracer options.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Impact: restructure the VFS layout of per CPU trace buffers
The per cpu trace files are all in a single directory:
/debug/tracing/per_cpu. In case of a large number of cpu, the
content of this directory becomes messy so we create now one
directory per cpu inside /debug/tracing/per_cpu which contain
each their own trace_pipe and trace files.
Ie:
/debug/tracing$ ls -R per_cpu
per_cpu:
cpu0 cpu1
per_cpu/cpu0:
trace trace_pipe
per_cpu/cpu1:
trace trace_pipe
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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>
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>
Impact: remove old debug/tracing API
/debug/tracing/latency_trace is an old legacy format we kept from
the old latency tracer. Remove the file for now. If there's any
useful bit missing then we'll propagate any useful output bits into
the /debug/tracing/trace output.
Reported-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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>
Pass tsk to tracing_record_cmdline instead of current.
Signed-off-by: Wenji Huang <wenji.huang@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Fix these sparse warnings:
kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c:70:37: warning: incorrect type in argument 2 (different signedness)
kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c:84:39: warning: incorrect type in argument 2 (different signedness)
kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c:96:43: warning: incorrect type in argument 2 (different signedness)
kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c:2475:13: warning: incorrect type in argument 2 (different signedness)
kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c:2475:13: warning: incorrect type in argument 2 (different signedness)
kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c:2478:42: warning: incorrect type in argument 2 (different signedness)
kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c:2478:42: warning: incorrect type in argument 2 (different signedness)
kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c:2500:40: warning: incorrect type in argument 3 (different signedness)
kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c:2505:44: warning: incorrect type in argument 2 (different signedness)
kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c:2507:46: warning: incorrect type in argument 2 (different signedness)
kernel/trace/trace.c:2130:40: warning: incorrect type in argument 3 (different signedness)
kernel/trace/trace.c:2280:40: warning: incorrect type in argument 3 (different signedness)
Signed-off-by: Hannes Eder <hannes@hanneseder.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: make global variables and a global function static
The function '__trace_userstack' does not seem to have a caller, so it
is commented out.
Fix this sparse warnings:
kernel/trace/trace.c:82:5: warning: symbol 'tracing_disabled' was not declared. Should it be static?
kernel/trace/trace.c:600:10: warning: symbol 'trace_record_cmdline_disabled' was not declared. Should it be static?
kernel/trace/trace.c:957:6: warning: symbol '__trace_userstack' was not declared. Should it be static?
kernel/trace/trace.c:1694:5: warning: symbol 'tracing_release' was not declared. Should it be static?
Signed-off-by: Hannes Eder <hannes@hanneseder.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Ingo Molnar suggested a series of clean ups for the splice code.
This patch implements those suggestions.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
This moves the pipe waiting code from tracing_read_pipe() into
tracing_wait_pipe(), which is useful to implement other fops, like
splice_read.
Signed-off-by: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
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>
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>
Impact: simplification
Instead of requiring that plugins have the sequence:
my_tracer_stop(my_trace_array);
unregister_tracer(my_tracer);
it should be possible just do a:
unregister_tracer(my_tracer);
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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>
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>
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>
Ingo Molnar suggested using goto logic to keep the indentation
down and to be able to remove the nasty line breaks. This actually
makes the code a bit more readable.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: simplification of tracers
As all tracers are doing this we might as well do it in
register_ftrace_event and save one branch each time we call these
callbacks.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
As they actually all return these enumerators.
Reported-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: bugfix and cleanup
Some callsites were returning either TRACE_ITER_PARTIAL_LINE if the
trace_seq routines (trace_seq_printf, etc) returned 0 meaning its buffer
was full, or zero otherwise.
But...
/* Return values for print_line callback */
enum print_line_t {
TRACE_TYPE_PARTIAL_LINE = 0, /* Retry after flushing the seq */
TRACE_TYPE_HANDLED = 1,
TRACE_TYPE_UNHANDLED = 2 /* Relay to other output functions */
};
In other cases the return value was not being relayed at all.
Most of the time it didn't hurt because the page wasn't get filled, but
for correctness sake, handle the return values everywhere.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: API change
The trace_seq and trace_entry are in trace_iterator, where there are
more fields that may be needed by tracers, so just pass the
tracer_iterator as is already the case for struct tracer->print_line.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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>
Now that we have a working ftrace=<tracer> function, make the boot
tracer get activated by it. This way we can turn it on or off without
recompiling the kernel, as well as keeping the selftests on. The
selftests are disabled whenever a default tracer starts running.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Peter Zijlstra started the functionality to start up a default
tracing at bootup. This patch finishes the work.
Now if you add 'ftrace=<tracer>' to the command line, when that tracer
is registered on bootup, that tracer is selected and starts tracing.
Note, all selftests for tracers that are registered after this tracer
is disabled. This prevents the selftests from disturbing the running
tracer, or the running tracer from disturbing the selftest.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Ingo Molnar