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Li Zefan
3c235a337e tracing: Fix off-by-one in trace_get_user()
Leave the last slot for the tailing '\0'.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <4AB865FA.5080801@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-22 10:28:53 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
8e4bc3dd2c Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  sched: Simplify sys_sched_rr_get_interval() system call
  sched: Fix potential NULL derference of doms_cur
  sched: Fix raciness in runqueue_is_locked()
  sched: Re-add lost cpu_allowed check to sched_fair.c::select_task_rq_fair()
  sched: Remove unneeded indentation in sched_fair.c::place_entity()
2009-09-21 09:06:17 -07:00
Andrew Morton
89f19f04dc sched: Fix raciness in runqueue_is_locked()
runqueue_is_locked() is unavoidably racy due to a poor interface design.
It does

	cpu = get_cpu()
	ret = some_perpcu_thing(cpu);
	put_cpu(cpu);
	return ret;

Its return value is unreliable.

Fix.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <200909191855.n8JItiko022148@imap1.linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-20 20:00:32 +02:00
Li Zefan
ee6c2c1bd1 tracing: remove max_tracer_type_len
Limit the length of a tracer's name within 100 chars, and then we
don't have to play with max_tracer_type_len.

Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4AB32377.9020601@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-09-19 11:28:19 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
60ba770227 tracing: add filter event logic to special, mmiotrace and boot tracers
Now that the pluging tracers use macros to create the structures and
automate the exporting of their formats to the format files, they also
automatically get a filter file.

This patch adds the code to implement the filter logic in the trace
recordings.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-09-12 23:34:04 -04:00
Carsten Emde
b5130b1e7d tracing: do not update tracing_max_latency when tracer is stopped
The state of the function pair tracing_stop()/tracing_start() is
correctly considered when tracer data are updated. However, the global
and externally accessible variable tracing_max_latency is always updated
- even when tracing is stopped.

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

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

struct trace_parser is the descriptor.

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

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1252682969-3366-2-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-09-11 14:46:55 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
637e7e8641 tracing: add lock depth to entries
This patch adds the lock depth of the big kernel lock to the generic
entry header. This way we can see the depth of the lock and help
in removing the BKL.

Example:

 #                  _------=> CPU#
 #                 / _-----=> irqs-off
 #                | / _----=> need-resched
 #                || / _---=> hardirq/softirq
 #                ||| / _--=> preempt-depth
 #                |||| /_--=> lock-depth
 #                |||||/     delay
 #  cmd     pid   |||||| time  |   caller
 #     \   /      ||||||   \   |   /
   <idle>-0       2.N..3 5902255250us+: lock_acquire: read rcu_read_lock
   <idle>-0       2.N..3 5902255253us+: lock_release: rcu_read_lock
   <idle>-0       2dN..3 5902255257us+: lock_acquire: xtime_lock
   <idle>-0       2dN..4 5902255259us : lock_acquire: clocksource_lock
   <idle>-0       2dN..4 5902255261us+: lock_release: clocksource_lock

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-09-11 13:55:35 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
48659d3119 tracing: move tgid out of generic entry and into userstack
The userstack trace required the recording of the tgid entry.
Unfortunately, it was added to the generic entry where it wasted
4 bytes of every entry and was only used by one entry.

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

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-09-11 11:36:23 -04:00
Ingo Molnar
ed011b22ce Merge commit 'v2.6.31-rc9' into tracing/core
Merge reason: move from -rc5 to -rc9.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-06 06:11:42 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
e8165dbb03 tracing: report error in trace if we fail to swap latency buffer
The irqsoff tracer will fail to swap the cpu buffer with the max
buffer if it preempts a commit. Instead of ignoring this, this patch
makes the tracer report it if the last max latency failed due to preempting
a current commit.

The output of the latency tracer will look like this:

 # tracer: irqsoff
 #
 # irqsoff latency trace v1.1.5 on 2.6.31-rc5
 # --------------------------------------------------------------------
 # latency: 112 us, #1/1, CPU#1 | (M:preempt VP:0, KP:0, SP:0 HP:0 #P:4)
 #    -----------------
 #    | task: -4281 (uid:0 nice:0 policy:0 rt_prio:0)
 #    -----------------
 #  => started at: save_args
 #  => ended at:   __do_softirq
 #
 #
 #                  _------=> CPU#
 #                 / _-----=> irqs-off
 #                | / _----=> need-resched
 #                || / _---=> hardirq/softirq
 #                ||| / _--=> preempt-depth
 #                |||| /
 #                |||||     delay
 #  cmd     pid   ||||| time  |   caller
 #     \   /      |||||   \   |   /
    bash-4281    1d.s6  265us : update_max_tr_single: Failed to swap buffers due to commit in progress

Note the latency time and the functions that disabled the irqs or preemption
will still be listed.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-09-04 19:22:41 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
659372d3e4 tracing: add trace_array_printk for internal tracers to use
This patch adds a trace_array_printk to allow a tracer to use the
trace_printk on its own trace array.

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

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

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-09-04 18:59:39 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
f633903af2 tracing: make tracing_reset safe for external use
Reseting the trace buffer without first disabling the buffer and
waiting for any writers to complete, can corrupt the ring buffer.

This patch makes the external version of tracing_reset safe from
corruption by disabling the ring buffer and calling synchronize_sched.

This version can no longer be called from interrupt context. But all those
callers have been removed.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-09-04 18:46:51 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
2f26ebd549 tracing: use timestamp to determine start of latency traces
Currently the latency tracers reset the ring buffer. Unfortunately
if a commit is in process (due to a trace event), this can corrupt
the ring buffer. When this happens, the ring buffer will detect
the corruption and then permanently disable the ring buffer.

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

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

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

Reported-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-09-04 18:44:22 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
76f0d07376 tracing: remove users of tracing_reset
The function tracing_reset is deprecated for outside use of trace.c.

The new function to reset the the buffers is tracing_reset_online_cpus.

The reason for this is that resetting the buffers while the event
trace points are active can corrupt the buffers, because they may
be writing at the time of reset. The tracing_reset_online_cpus disables
writes and waits for current writers to finish.

This patch replaces all users of tracing_reset except for the latency
tracers. Those changes require more work and will be removed in the
following patches.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-09-04 12:12:39 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
621968cdb2 tracing: disable buffers and synchronize_sched before resetting
Resetting the ring buffers while traces are happening can corrupt
the ring buffer and disable it (no kernel crash to worry about).

The safest thing to do is disable the ring buffers, call synchronize_sched()
to wait for all current writers to finish and then reset the buffer.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-09-04 12:02:35 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
b8de7bd168 tracing: disable update max tracer while reading trace
When reading the tracer from the trace file, updating the max latency
may corrupt the output. This patch disables the tracing of the max
latency while reading the trace file.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-09-04 11:52:24 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
8248ac052d tracing: print out start and stop in latency traces
During development of the tracer, we would copy information from
the live tracer to the max tracer with one memcpy. Since then we
added a generic ring buffer and we handle the copies differently now.
Unfortunately, we never copied the critical section information, and
we lost the output:

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

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

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

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

Reported-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-08-27 16:58:05 -04:00
Zhaolei
5079f3261f ftrace: Move setting of clock-source out of options
There are many clock sources for the tracing system but we can only
enable/disable one at a time with the trace/options file.
We can move the setting of clock-source out of options and add a separate
file for it:
 # cat trace_clock
 [local] global
 # echo global > trace_clock
 # cat trace_clock
 local [global]

Signed-off-by: Zhao Lei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A939D08.6050604@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-08-26 00:32:08 -04:00
Zhaolei
f2d84b65b9 ftrace: Unify effect of writing to trace_options and option/*
"echo noglobal-clock > trace_options" can be used to change trace
clock but "echo 0 > options/global-clock" can't. The flag toggling
will be silently accepted without actually changing the clock callback.

We can fix it by using set_tracer_flags() in
trace_options_core_write().

Changelog:
v1->v2: Simplified switch() after Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>'s
        suggestion

Signed-off-by: Zhao Lei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2009-08-18 02:07:04 +02:00
Zhaolei
7770841e63 tracing: Rename set_tracer_flags()'s local variable trace_flags
set_tracer_flags() have a local variable named trace_flags which has
the same name than a global one in the same scope.
This leads to confusion, using tracer_flags should be better by its
meaning.

Changelog:
v1->v2: Simplified another patch in this patchset, no change in this
        patch.

Signed-off-by: Zhao Lei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2009-08-11 20:35:25 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
89034bc2c7 Merge branch 'linus' into tracing/core
Conflicts:
	kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c

We use the tracing/core version.

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

A new counter sampling attribute is added:

   PERF_SAMPLE_TP_RECORD

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

Result, after setting PERF_SAMPLE_TP_RECORD attribute from perf
record:

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

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

The raw ftrace binary record starts at offset 0020.

Translation:

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

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

What will come next?

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

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

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

 - [...]

 - Profit! :-)

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

Then move them to trace_functions_graph.c

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-08-06 07:28:06 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
82e04af498 tracing: Move sched event insertion helpers in the sched switch tracer file
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>
2009-08-06 07:28:06 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
c0a0d0d3f6 tracing/core: Make the stack entry helpers global
Make the stacktrace event insertion helpers globals.
This has two effects:

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

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

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-08-06 07:28:05 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
e16852cfc5 Merge branch 'tracing/fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/random-tracing into tracing/urgent 2009-08-04 13:58:28 +02:00
Lai Jiangshan
74e7ff8c50 tracing: Fix missing function_graph events when we splice_read from trace_pipe
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>
2009-07-28 23:17:23 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
8650ae32ef tracing: only truncate ftrace files when O_TRUNC is set
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>
2009-07-23 10:07:18 -04:00
Xiao Guangrong
ff4e9da233 tracing: cleanup for tracing_trace_options_read()
'\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>
2009-07-20 12:02:09 -04:00
jolsa@redhat.com
566b0aaf79 tracing: Remove unused fields/variables
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
LKML-Reference: <1247773468-11594-2-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-07-18 12:21:16 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
45bceffc30 Merge branch 'linus' into tracing/core
Merge reason: tracing/core was on an older, pre-rc1 base.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-07-18 12:20:01 +02:00
Alexey Dobriyan
405f55712d headers: smp_lock.h redux
* 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>
2009-07-12 12:22:34 -07:00
Steven Rostedt
77ae365eca ring-buffer: make lockless
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>
2009-07-07 18:36:12 -04:00
Li Zefan
020e5f85cb tracing/events: Add trace_event boot option
We already have ftrace= boot option, and this adds a similar
boot option for trace events, so allow trace events to be
enabled at boot, for boot debugging purpose.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A4ACE29.3010407@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-07-01 15:44:24 +02:00
Li Zefan
9d612beff5 tracing: Fix trace_buf_size boot option
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>
2009-06-24 11:41:12 +02:00
Li Zefan
f129e965be tracing: Reset iterator in t_start()
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>
2009-06-24 11:02:51 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
b0b7065b64 Merge branch 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (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
2009-06-20 10:56:46 -07:00
GeunSik Lim
156f5a7801 debugfs: Fix terminology inconsistency of dir name to mount debugfs filesystem.
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>
2009-06-15 21:30:28 -07:00
Li Zefan
e4f2d10f47 tracing: replace a GFP_ATOMIC with GFP_KERNEL allocation
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>
2009-06-15 11:37:14 -04:00
Li Zefan
215368e8e5 tracing: fix a typo in tracing_cpumask_write()
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>
2009-06-15 11:37:12 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
8623661180 Merge branch 'tracing-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* '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
  ...
2009-06-10 19:53:40 -07:00
Steven Rostedt
112f38a7e3 tracing: make trace pipe recognize latency format flag
The trace_pipe did not recognize the latency format flag and would produce
different output than the trace file. The problem was partly due that
the trace flags in the iterator was not set as well as the trace_pipe
zeros out part of the iterator (including the flags) to be able to use
the same routines as the trace file. trace_flags of the iterator should
not cause any problems when not zeroed out by for trace_pipe.

Reported-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-06-01 23:26:02 -04:00
Heiko Carstens
5b6045a906 trace: disable preemption before taking raw spinlocks
s390 code uses smp_processor_id() in __raw_spin_lock() code which
reveals that a (raw) spinlock is taken without preemption disabled.
This can potentially deadlock.

To fix this explicitly disable and enable preemption.

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

[ Impact: fix preempt-unsafe raw spinlock ]

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2009-05-28 01:21:03 +02:00
Lai Jiangshan
4f5359685a tracing: add trace_event_read_lock()
I found that there is nothing to protect event_hash in
ftrace_find_event(). Rcu protects the event hashlist
but not the event itself while we use it after its extraction
through ftrace_find_event().

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

Eg:

--Task A--

print_trace_line(trace) {
  event = find_ftrace_event(trace)

--Task B--

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

--Task A--

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

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

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

[ Impact: fix possible freed memory dereference in ftrace ]

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <4A114806.7090302@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2009-05-25 23:53:41 +02:00
GeunSik Lim
88fc86c283 tracing: Append prompt in /debug/tracing/README file
append prompt in /debug/tracing/README file.

This is trivial issue. Fix typo Mini Howto file(README) for ftrace.

[ Impact: cleanup ]

Signed-off-by: GeunSik Lim <geunsik.lim@samsung.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: williams <williams@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1242289418.31161.45.camel@centos51>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-15 19:43:22 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
9456f0fa6d tracing: reset ring buffer when removing modules with events
Li Zefan found that there's a race using the event ids of events and
modules. When a module is loaded, an event id is incremented. We only
have 16 bits for event ids (65536) and there is a possible (but highly
unlikely) race that we could load and unload a module that registers
events so many times that the event id counter overflows.

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

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

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

[ Impact: prevent unpredictable results of event id overflows ]

Reported-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <49FEAFD0.30106@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-05-06 23:11:41 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
94487d6d53 tracing: use proper export symbol for tracing api
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>
2009-05-05 19:22:53 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
c8d771835e tracing: export stats of ring buffers to userspace
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>
2009-05-05 13:52:02 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
7267fa6819 tracing: fix ref count in splice pages
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>
2009-04-29 08:02:44 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
f2957f1f19 tracing: have splice only copy full pages
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>
2009-04-29 00:26:30 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
93459c6cb9 tracing: only add splice page if entries exist
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>
2009-04-29 00:23:13 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
5beae6efd1 tracing: fix ref count in splice pages
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>
2009-04-29 00:16:21 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
cd891ae030 tracing: convert ftrace_dump spinlocks to raw
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>
2009-04-28 11:39:34 -04:00
Li Zefan
7a4f453b6d tracing/events: make struct trace_entry->type to be int type
struct trace_entry->type is unsigned char, while trace event's id is
int type, thus for a event with id >= 256, it's entry->type is cast
to (id % 256), and then we can't see the trace output of this event.

 # insmod trace-events-sample.ko
 # echo foo_bar > /mnt/tracing/set_event
 # cat /debug/tracing/events/trace-events-sample/foo_bar/id
 256
 # cat /mnt/tracing/trace_pipe
           <...>-3548  [001]   215.091142: Unknown type 0
           <...>-3548  [001]   216.089207: Unknown type 0
           <...>-3548  [001]   217.087271: Unknown type 0
           <...>-3548  [001]   218.085332: Unknown type 0

[ Impact: fix output for trace events with id >= 256 ]

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <49EEDB0E.5070207@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-22 11:36:38 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
3189cdb316 tracing: protect trace_printk from recursion
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>
2009-04-17 16:21:35 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
12acd473d4 tracing: add EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL for trace commits
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>
2009-04-17 16:21:28 -04:00
Li Zefan
339ae5d3c3 tracing: fix file mode of trace and README
trace is read-write and README is read-only.

[ Impact: fix /debug/tracing/ file permissions. ]

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <49E7EAB6.4070605@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-17 18:04:36 +02:00
Avadh Patel
69abe6a5d1 tracing: add saved_cmdlines file to show cached task comms
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>
2009-04-17 17:04:12 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
17c873ec28 tracing/events: add export symbols for trace events in modules
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>
2009-04-14 12:58:01 -04:00
Tom Zanussi
eb02ce017d tracing/filters: use ring_buffer_discard_commit() in filter_check_discard()
This patch changes filter_check_discard() to make use of the new
ring_buffer_discard_commit() function and modifies the current users to
call the old commit function in the non-discard case.

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

v2 changes:

- fix compile error noticed by Ingo Molnar

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Changes from v1:

As suggested by Frederic Weisbecker:

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

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-14 00:00:50 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
1cad1252ed Merge branch 'tracing/urgent' into tracing/core
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>
2009-04-10 12:46:51 +02:00
Lai Jiangshan
93cfb3c9fd tracing: fix splice return too large
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>
2009-04-10 12:44:46 +02:00
Lai Jiangshan
c7625a555f tracing: update file->f_pos when splice(2) it
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>
2009-04-10 12:44:44 +02:00
Lai Jiangshan
ddd538f3e6 tracing: allocate page when needed
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>
2009-04-10 12:44:43 +02:00
Lai Jiangshan
d1e7e02f30 tracing: disable seeking for trace_pipe_raw
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>
2009-04-10 12:44:42 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
5452af664f tracing/ftrace: factorize the tracing files creation
Impact: cleanup

Most of the tracing files creation follow the same pattern:

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

Unify it!

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1238109938-11840-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-04-07 14:43:07 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
86665c75da Merge branch 'tracing/urgent' into tracing/ftrace 2009-04-07 14:41:17 +02:00
Nikanth Karthikesan
bc2b6871c1 Update /debug/tracing/README
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>
2009-04-07 14:02:36 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
b0dfa978c7 tracing/ftrace: alloc the started cpumask for the trace file
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>
2009-04-07 14:02:03 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
5f0c6c03c5 tracing/ftrace: fix missing include string.h
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>
2009-04-07 14:00:18 +02:00
Lai Jiangshan
cf8e347465 tracing: fix incorrect return type of ns2usecs()
Impact: fix time output bug in 32bits system

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

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

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

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

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

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-07 13:47:45 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
8b54e45b00 Merge branches 'tracing/docs', 'tracing/filters', 'tracing/ftrace', 'tracing/kprobes', 'tracing/blktrace-v2' and 'tracing/textedit' into tracing/core-v2 2009-03-31 17:46:40 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
a2a16d6a31 function-graph: add option to calculate graph time or not
graph time is the time that a function is executing another function.
Thus if function A calls B, if graph-time is set, then the time for
A includes B. This is the default behavior. But if graph-time is off,
then the time spent executing B is subtracted from A.

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

 cat /debug/tracing/trace_stat/functions

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

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

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

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

 echo sleep-time > /debug/tracing/trace_options

produces:

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

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

where as,

 echo nosleep-time > /debug/tracing/trace_options

produces:

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

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

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-03-24 11:06:24 -04:00
Frederic Weisbecker
1618536961 tracing/function-graph-tracer: fix functions call traces imbalance
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>
2009-03-23 23:25:32 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker
3e1f60b80c tracing/ftrace: check if debugfs is registered before creating files
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>
2009-03-23 16:25:47 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker
07edf71213 tracing/events: don't use wake up for events
Impact: fix hard-lockup with sched switch events

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

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

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <1237759847-21025-4-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-23 09:22:14 +01:00
Dmitri Vorobiev
b8b9426533 tracing: fix four sparse warnings
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>
2009-03-22 18:16:54 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker
cf586b61f8 tracing/function-graph-tracer: prevent hangs during self-tests
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>
2009-03-22 14:06:40 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
44fc6ee923 Merge branch 'tip/tracing/ftrace' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into tracing/ftrace 2009-03-20 10:15:13 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
22de89b371 Merge branches 'tracing/ftrace', 'tracing/kprobes', 'tracing/tasks' and 'linus' into tracing/core 2009-03-20 10:14:53 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
40ce74f19c tracing: remove recording function depth from trace_printk
The function depth in trace_printk was to facilitate the function
graph output. Now that the function graph calculates the depth within
the trace output, we no longer need to record the depth when the
trace_printk is called.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-03-19 15:58:47 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
5ef841f6f3 tracing: make print_(b)printk_msg_only global
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>
2009-03-19 15:57:55 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
4acd4d00f7 tracing: give easy way to clear trace buffer
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>
2009-03-18 10:52:47 -04:00
Carsten Emde
a635cf0497 tracing: fix command line to pid reverse map
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>
2009-03-18 10:10:18 +01:00
Thomas Gleixner
50d88758a3 tracing: fix trace_find_cmdline()
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>
2009-03-18 10:10:17 +01:00
Thomas Gleixner
2c7eea4c62 tracing: replace the crude (unsigned) -1 hackery
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>
2009-03-18 10:10:17 +01:00
Thomas Gleixner
18aecd362a tracing: stop command line recording when tracing is disabled
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>
2009-03-18 10:10:16 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
327019b01e Merge branch 'tip/tracing/ftrace' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into tracing/ftrace 2009-03-18 06:59:56 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
af4617bdba tracing: add global-clock option to provide cross CPU clock to traces
Impact: feature to allow better serialized clock

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

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-03-17 23:10:35 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
37886f6a9f ring-buffer: add api to allow a tracer to change clock source
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>
2009-03-17 23:06:31 -04:00
Ingo Molnar
4176935b58 Merge branch 'tip/tracing/ftrace' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into tracing/ftrace 2009-03-17 10:37:37 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
6adaad14d7 tracing: stop comm recording on tracing off
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>
2009-03-16 23:31:15 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
4ca5308523 tracing: protect reader of cmdline output
Impact: fix to one cause of incorrect comm outputs in trace

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

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

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-03-16 23:27:06 -04:00
Frederic Weisbecker
2fc1dfbe17 tracing/core: fix early free of cpumasks
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>
2009-03-16 09:13:18 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker
59f586db98 tracing/core: fix missing mutex unlock on tracing_set_tracer()
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>
2009-03-16 09:13:17 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
7f96f93f02 tracing: move binary buffers into per cpu directory
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>
2009-03-13 00:37:42 -04:00
Frederic Weisbecker
48ead02030 tracing/core: bring back raw trace_printk for dynamic formats strings
Impact: fix callsites with dynamic format strings

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

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

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

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

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-03-12 21:15:00 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
db526ca329 tracing: show that buffer size is not expanded
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>
2009-03-12 21:14:59 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
1027fcb206 tracing: protect ring_buffer_expanded with trace_types_lock
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>
2009-03-12 21:14:58 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
a123c52b46 tracing: fix comments about trace buffer resizing
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>
2009-03-12 21:14:58 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
51b643b404 Merge branch 'tracing/ftrace' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip into trace/tip/tracing/ftrace-merge 2009-03-12 21:12:46 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
554f786e28 ring-buffer: only allocate buffers for online cpus
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>
2009-03-11 22:15:27 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
9aba60fe6e tracing: fix trace_wait to know to wait on all cpus or just one
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>
2009-03-11 22:15:25 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
1852fcce18 tracing: expand the ring buffers when an event is activated
To save memory, the tracer ring buffers are set to a minimum.
The activating of a trace expands the ring buffer size. This patch
adds this expanding, when an event is activated.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-03-11 22:15:24 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
73c5162aa3 tracing: keep ring buffer to minimum size till used
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>
2009-03-11 22:15:22 -04:00
Ingo Molnar
aecfcde920 Merge branch 'tip/tracing/ftrace' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into tracing/ftrace 2009-03-11 20:47:23 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
e2b8b28085 Merge branch 'tip/tracing/ftrace' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into tracing/ftrace 2009-03-10 22:55:31 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
80370cb758 tracing: use raw spinlocks for trace_vprintk
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>
2009-03-10 17:16:35 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
ef18012b24 tracing: remove funky whitespace in the trace code
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>
2009-03-10 14:13:14 -04:00
KOSAKI Motohiro
888b55dc31 ftrace: tracing header should put '#' at the beginning of a line
In a recent discussion, Andrew Morton pointed out that tracing header
should put '#' at the beginning of a line.

Then, we can easily filtered the header by following grep usage:

  cat trace | grep -v '^#'

Wakeup trace also has the same header problem.

Comparison of headers displayed:

before this patch:

 # tracer: wakeup
 #
 wakeup latency trace v1.1.5 on 2.6.29-rc7-tip-tip
 --------------------------------------------------------------------
  latency: 19059 us, #21277/21277, CPU#1 | (M:desktop VP:0, KP:0, SP:0 HP:0 #P:4)
     -----------------
     | task: kondemand/1-1644 (uid:0 nice:-5 policy:0 rt_prio:0)
     -----------------

 #                  _------=> CPU#
 #                 / _-----=> irqs-off
 #                | / _----=> need-resched
 #                || / _---=> hardirq/softirq
 #                ||| / _--=> preempt-depth
 #                |||| /
 #                |||||     delay
 #  cmd     pid   ||||| time  |   caller
 #     \   /      |||||   \   |   /
 irqbalan-1887    1d.s.    0us :   1887:120:R   + [001]  1644:115:S kondemand/1
 irqbalan-1887    1d.s.    1us : default_wake_function <-autoremove_wake_function
 irqbalan-1887    1d.s.    2us : check_preempt_wakeup <-try_to_wake_up

after this patch:

 # tracer: wakeup
 #
 # wakeup latency trace v1.1.5 on 2.6.29-rc7-tip-tip
 # --------------------------------------------------------------------
 # latency: 529 us, #530/530, CPU#0 | (M:desktop VP:0, KP:0, SP:0 HP:0 #P:4)
 #    -----------------
 #    | task: kondemand/0-1641 (uid:0 nice:-5 policy:0 rt_prio:0)
 #    -----------------
 #
 #                  _------=> CPU#
 #                 / _-----=> irqs-off
 #                | / _----=> need-resched
 #                || / _---=> hardirq/softirq
 #                ||| / _--=> preempt-depth
 #                |||| /
 #                |||||     delay
 #  cmd     pid   ||||| time  |   caller
 #     \   /      |||||   \   |   /
     sshd-2496    0d.s.    0us :   2496:120:R   + [000]  1641:115:S kondemand/0
     sshd-2496    0d.s.    1us : default_wake_function <-autoremove_wake_function
     sshd-2496    0d.s.    1us : check_preempt_wakeup <-try_to_wake_up

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <20090308124421.23C3.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-08 16:57:22 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker
769b0441f4 tracing/core: drop the old trace_printk() implementation in favour of trace_bprintk()
Impact: faster and lighter tracing

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

Some changes result of this:

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

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

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

- etc...

V2:

- Rebase against last changes
- Fix mispell on the changelog

V3:

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

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <1236356510-8381-5-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-06 17:59:12 +01:00
Lai Jiangshan
1ba28e02a1 tracing: add trace_bprintk()
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>
2009-03-06 17:59:11 +01:00
Lai Jiangshan
1427cdf059 tracing: infrastructure for supporting binary record
Impact: save on memory for tracing

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

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

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

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <1236356510-8381-3-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-06 17:59:11 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
5e2336a0d4 tracing: make all file_operations const
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>
2009-03-05 21:46:40 -05:00
Ingo Molnar
5e1607a00b tracing: rename ftrace_printk() => trace_printk()
Impact: cleanup

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

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-05 10:24:48 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
27d48be844 tracing: consolidate print_lat_fmt and print_trace_fmt
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>
2009-03-04 21:57:29 -05:00
Steven Rostedt
5fd73f8624 tracing: remove extra latency_trace method from trace structure
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>
2009-03-04 21:42:04 -05:00
Steven Rostedt
c032ef64d6 tracing: add latency output format option
With the removal of the latency_trace file, we lost the ability
to see some of the finer details in a trace. Like the state of
interrupts enabled, the preempt count, need resched, and if we
are in an interrupt handler, softirq handler or not.

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

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-03-04 20:34:24 -05:00
Steven Rostedt
e74da5235c tracing: fix seq read from trace files
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>
2009-03-04 20:31:11 -05:00
Steven Rostedt
2dc5d12b1f tracing: do not return EFAULT if read copied anything
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>
2009-03-04 19:10:05 -05:00
Steven Rostedt
e543ad7691 tracing: add cpu_file intialization for ftrace_dump
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>
2009-03-04 18:32:28 -05:00
Peter Zijlstra
efed792d67 tracing: add lockdep tracepoints for lock acquire/release
Augment the traces with lock names when lockdep is available:

 1)               |  down_read_trylock() {
 1)               |    _spin_lock_irqsave() {
 1)               |      /* lock_acquire: &sem->wait_lock */
 1)   4.201 us    |    }
 1)               |    _spin_unlock_irqrestore() {
 1)               |      /* lock_release: &sem->wait_lock */
 1)   3.523 us    |    }
 1)               |  /* lock_acquire: try read &mm->mmap_sem */
 1) + 13.386 us   |  }
 1)   1.635 us    |  find_vma();
 1)               |  handle_mm_fault() {
 1)               |    __do_fault() {
 1)               |      filemap_fault() {
 1)               |        find_lock_page() {
 1)               |          find_get_page() {
 1)               |            /* lock_acquire: read rcu_read_lock */
 1)               |            /* lock_release: rcu_read_lock */
 1)   5.697 us    |          }
 1)   8.158 us    |        }
 1) + 11.079 us   |      }
 1)               |      _spin_lock() {
 1)               |        /* lock_acquire: __pte_lockptr(page) */
 1)   3.949 us    |      }
 1)   1.460 us    |      page_add_file_rmap();
 1)               |      _spin_unlock() {
 1)               |        /* lock_release: __pte_lockptr(page) */
 1)   3.115 us    |      }
 1)               |      unlock_page() {
 1)   1.421 us    |        page_waitqueue();
 1)   1.220 us    |        __wake_up_bit();
 1)   6.519 us    |      }
 1) + 34.328 us   |    }
 1) + 37.452 us   |  }
 1)               |  up_read() {
 1)               |  /* lock_release: &mm->mmap_sem */
 1)               |    _spin_lock_irqsave() {
 1)               |      /* lock_acquire: &sem->wait_lock */
 1)   3.865 us    |    }
 1)               |    _spin_unlock_irqrestore() {
 1)               |      /* lock_release: &sem->wait_lock */
 1)   8.562 us    |    }
 1) + 17.370 us   |  }

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?T=F6r=F6k?= Edwin <edwintorok@gmail.com>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1236166375.5330.7209.camel@laptop>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-04 18:49:58 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
2cadf9135e tracing: add binary buffer files for use with splice
Impact: new feature

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

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

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-03-03 21:01:55 -05:00
Steven Rostedt
f9520750c4 tracing: make trace_seq_reset global and rename to trace_seq_init
Impact: clean up

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

This patch also renames trace_seq_reset to the more appropriate
trace_seq_init.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-03-02 14:08:51 -05:00
Steven Rostedt
ef5580d0ff tracing: add interface to write into current tracer buffer
Right now all tracers must manage their own trace buffers. This was
to enforce tracers to be independent in case we finally decide to
allow each tracer to have their own trace buffer.

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

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-02-28 03:06:44 -05:00
Steven Rostedt
0cfe82451d tracing: replace kzalloc with kcalloc
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>
2009-02-27 10:51:10 -05:00
Steven Rostedt
5c6a3ae1b4 tracing: use newline separator for trace options list
Impact: clean up

Instead of listing the trace options like:

 # cat /debug/tracing/trace_options
print-parent nosym-offset nosym-addr noverbose noraw nohex nobin noblock nostacktrace nosched-tree ftrace_printk noftrace_preempt nobranch annotate nouserstacktrace nosym-userobj

We now list them like:

 # cat /debug/tracing/trace_options
print-parent
nosym-offset
nosym-addr
noverbose
noraw
nohex
nobin
noblock
nostacktrace
nosched-tree
ftrace_printk
noftrace_preempt
nobranch
annotate
nouserstacktrace
nosym-userobj

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-02-27 00:22:21 -05:00
Steven Rostedt
85a2f9b46f tracing: use pointer error returns for __tracing_open
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>
2009-02-27 00:12:38 -05:00
Steven Rostedt
d8e83d26b5 tracing: add protection around open use of current_tracer
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>
2009-02-26 23:55:58 -05:00
Steven Rostedt
577b785f55 tracing: add tracer dependent options to options directory
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>
2009-02-26 23:43:05 -05:00
Steven Rostedt
a825907507 tracing: add options directory and core option files
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>
2009-02-26 22:22:46 -05:00
Frederic Weisbecker
8656e7a2fa tracing/core: make the per cpu trace files in per cpu directories
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>
2009-02-26 14:04:08 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker
d7350c3f45 tracing/core: make the read callbacks reentrants
Now that several per-cpu files can be read or spliced at the
same, we want the read/splice callbacks for tracing files to be
reentrants.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 trace0
 trace1
 trace_pipe0
 trace_pipe1

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

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

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

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

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

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-25 13:40:58 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
886b5b73d7 tracing: remove /debug/tracing/latency_trace
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>
2009-02-25 11:05:34 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker
fa7c7f6e11 tracing/core: remove unused parameter in tracing_fill_pipe_page()
Impact: cleanup

The struct page *pages parameter is unused.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-18 01:40:20 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker
6eaaa5d57e tracing/core: use appropriate waiting on trace_pipe
Impact: api and pipe waiting change

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

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

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

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

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-18 01:40:20 +01:00
Wenji Huang
af51309845 tracing: use the more proper parameter
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>
2009-02-17 12:38:23 -05:00
Hannes Eder
e7669b8e32 tracing: fix sparse warning: attribute function with __acquires/__releases
Fix this sparse warning:

  kernel/trace/trace.c:458:9: warning: context imbalance in 'register_tracer' - unexpected unlock

Signed-off-by: Hannes Eder <hannes@hanneseder.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-11 10:15:42 +01:00
Hannes Eder
5e39841c45 tracing: fix sparse warnings: fix (un-)signedness
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>
2009-02-11 10:15:42 +01:00