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Steven Rostedt
9086c7b90a ring-buffer: have benchmark test handle discarded events
With the addition of commit:

  c7b0930857
  ring-buffer: prevent adding write in discarded area

The ring buffer may now add discarded events when a write passes
the end of a buffer page. Before, a discarded event was only added
when the tracer deliberately created one. The ring buffer benchmark
test does not handle discarded events when it reads the buffer and
fails when it encounters one.

Also fix the increment for large data entries (luckily, the test did
not add any yet).

[ Impact: fix false failure of ring buffer self test ]

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-06-16 13:48:52 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
c7b0930857 ring-buffer: prevent adding write in discarded area
This a very tight race where an interrupt could come in and not
have enough data to put into the end of a buffer page, and that
it would fail to write and need to go to the next page.

But if this happened when another writer was about to reserver
their data, and that writer has smaller data to reserve, then
it could succeed even though the interrupt moved the tail page.

To pervent that, if we fail to store data, and by subtracting the
amount we reserved we still have room for smaller data, we need
to fill that space with "discarded" data.

[ Impact: prevent race were buffer data may be lost ]

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-06-15 11:37:19 -04:00
Li Zefan
0ac2058f68 tracing/filters: strloc should be unsigned short
I forgot to update filter code accordingly in
"tracing/events: change the type of __str_loc_item to unsigned short"
(commt b0aae68cc5)

It can cause system crash:

 # echo 1 > tracing/events/irq/irq_handler_entry/enable
 # echo 'name == eth0' > tracing/events/irq/irq_handler_entry/filter

[ Impact: fix crash while filtering on __string() field ]

Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A35B905.3090500@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-06-15 11:37:18 -04:00
Li Zefan
5e4904cb63 tracing/filters: operand can be negative
This should be a bug:

 # cat format
 name: foo_bar
 ID: 71
 format:
	 ...
         field:int bar;  offset:24;      size:4;
 # echo 'bar < 0' > filter
 # echo 'bar < -1' > filter
 bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument

[ Impact: fix to allow negative operand in filer expr ]

Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A35B8DF.60400@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-06-15 11:37:16 -04:00
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
Rusty Russell
3f237a79dd cpumask: use new operators in kernel/trace
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
LKML-Reference: <200906122115.30787.rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-06-15 11:36:42 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
c9059598ea Merge branch 'for-2.6.31' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block
* 'for-2.6.31' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (153 commits)
  block: add request clone interface (v2)
  floppy: fix hibernation
  ramdisk: remove long-deprecated "ramdisk=" boot-time parameter
  fs/bio.c: add missing __user annotation
  block: prevent possible io_context->refcount overflow
  Add serial number support for virtio_blk, V4a
  block: Add missing bounce_pfn stacking and fix comments
  Revert "block: Fix bounce limit setting in DM"
  cciss: decode unit attention in SCSI error handling code
  cciss: Remove no longer needed sendcmd reject processing code
  cciss: change SCSI error handling routines to work with interrupts enabled.
  cciss: separate error processing and command retrying code in sendcmd_withirq_core()
  cciss: factor out fix target status processing code from sendcmd functions
  cciss: simplify interface of sendcmd() and sendcmd_withirq()
  cciss: factor out core of sendcmd_withirq() for use by SCSI error handling code
  cciss: Use schedule_timeout_uninterruptible in SCSI error handling code
  block: needs to set the residual length of a bidi request
  Revert "block: implement blkdev_readpages"
  block: Fix bounce limit setting in DM
  Removed reference to non-existing file Documentation/PCI/PCI-DMA-mapping.txt
  ...

Manually fix conflicts with tracing updates in:
	block/blk-sysfs.c
	drivers/ide/ide-atapi.c
	drivers/ide/ide-cd.c
	drivers/ide/ide-floppy.c
	drivers/ide/ide-tape.c
	include/trace/events/block.h
	kernel/trace/blktrace.c
2009-06-11 11:10:35 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
991ec02cdc Merge branch 'tracing-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'tracing-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  function-graph: always initialize task ret_stack
  function-graph: move initialization of new tasks up in fork
  function-graph: add memory barriers for accessing task's ret_stack
  function-graph: enable the stack after initialization of other variables
  function-graph: only allocate init tasks if it was not already done

Manually fix trivial conflict in kernel/trace/ftrace.c
2009-06-10 19:58:10 -07:00
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
110bf2b764 tracing: add protection around module events unload
When reading the trace buffer, there is a race that when a module
is unloaded it removes events that is stilled referenced in the buffers.
This patch adds the protection around the unloading of the events
from modules and the reading of the trace buffers.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-06-09 17:29:07 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
725c624a58 tracing: add trace_seq_vprint interface
The code to update the print formats for events requires a vprintf
format in the trace_seq. This patch adds that interface.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-06-09 15:17:32 -04:00
Li Zefan
55782138e4 tracing/events: convert block trace points to TRACE_EVENT()
TRACE_EVENT is a more generic way to define tracepoints. Doing so adds
these new capabilities to this tracepoint:

  - zero-copy and per-cpu splice() tracing
  - binary tracing without printf overhead
  - structured logging records exposed under /debug/tracing/events
  - trace events embedded in function tracer output and other plugins
  - user-defined, per tracepoint filter expressions
  ...

Cons:

  - no dev_t info for the output of plug, unplug_timer and unplug_io events.
    no dev_t info for getrq and sleeprq events if bio == NULL.
    no dev_t info for rq_abort,...,rq_requeue events if rq->rq_disk == NULL.

    This is mainly because we can't get the deivce from a request queue.
    But this may change in the future.

  - A packet command is converted to a string in TP_assign, not TP_print.
    While blktrace do the convertion just before output.

    Since pc requests should be rather rare, this is not a big issue.

  - In blktrace, an event can have 2 different print formats, but a TRACE_EVENT
    has a unique format, which means we have some unused data in a trace entry.

    The overhead is minimized by using __dynamic_array() instead of __array().

I've benchmarked the ioctl blktrace vs the splice based TRACE_EVENT tracing:

      dd                   dd + ioctl blktrace       dd + TRACE_EVENT (splice)
1     7.36s, 42.7 MB/s     7.50s, 42.0 MB/s          7.41s, 42.5 MB/s
2     7.43s, 42.3 MB/s     7.48s, 42.1 MB/s          7.43s, 42.4 MB/s
3     7.38s, 42.6 MB/s     7.45s, 42.2 MB/s          7.41s, 42.5 MB/s

So the overhead of tracing is very small, and no regression when using
those trace events vs blktrace.

And the binary output of TRACE_EVENT is much smaller than blktrace:

 # ls -l -h
 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8.8M 06-09 13:24 sda.blktrace.0
 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 195K 06-09 13:24 sda.blktrace.1
 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2.7M 06-09 13:25 trace_splice.out

Following are some comparisons between TRACE_EVENT and blktrace:

plug:
  kjournald-480   [000]   303.084981: block_plug: [kjournald]
  kjournald-480   [000]   303.084981:   8,0    P   N [kjournald]

unplug_io:
  kblockd/0-118   [000]   300.052973: block_unplug_io: [kblockd/0] 1
  kblockd/0-118   [000]   300.052974:   8,0    U   N [kblockd/0] 1

remap:
  kjournald-480   [000]   303.085042: block_remap: 8,0 W 102736992 + 8 <- (8,8) 33384
  kjournald-480   [000]   303.085043:   8,0    A   W 102736992 + 8 <- (8,8) 33384

bio_backmerge:
  kjournald-480   [000]   303.085086: block_bio_backmerge: 8,0 W 102737032 + 8 [kjournald]
  kjournald-480   [000]   303.085086:   8,0    M   W 102737032 + 8 [kjournald]

getrq:
  kjournald-480   [000]   303.084974: block_getrq: 8,0 W 102736984 + 8 [kjournald]
  kjournald-480   [000]   303.084975:   8,0    G   W 102736984 + 8 [kjournald]

  bash-2066  [001]  1072.953770:   8,0    G   N [bash]
  bash-2066  [001]  1072.953773: block_getrq: 0,0 N 0 + 0 [bash]

rq_complete:
  konsole-2065  [001]   300.053184: block_rq_complete: 8,0 W () 103669040 + 16 [0]
  konsole-2065  [001]   300.053191:   8,0    C   W 103669040 + 16 [0]

  ksoftirqd/1-7   [001]  1072.953811:   8,0    C   N (5a 00 08 00 00 00 00 00 24 00) [0]
  ksoftirqd/1-7   [001]  1072.953813: block_rq_complete: 0,0 N (5a 00 08 00 00 00 00 00 24 00) 0 + 0 [0]

rq_insert:
  kjournald-480   [000]   303.084985: block_rq_insert: 8,0 W 0 () 102736984 + 8 [kjournald]
  kjournald-480   [000]   303.084986:   8,0    I   W 102736984 + 8 [kjournald]

Changelog from v2 -> v3:

- use the newly introduced __dynamic_array().

Changelog from v1 -> v2:

- use __string() instead of __array() to minimize the memory required
  to store hex dump of rq->cmd().

- support large pc requests.

- add missing blk_fill_rwbs_rq() in block_rq_requeue TRACE_EVENT.

- some cleanups.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A2DF669.5070905@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-06-09 12:34:23 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
f57a8a1911 ring-buffer: fix ret in rb_add_time_stamp
The update of ret got mistakenly added to the if statement of
rb_try_to_discard. The variable ret should be 1 on commit and zero
otherwise.

[ Impact: fix compiler warning and real bug ]

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-06-09 12:33:30 -04:00
Peter Zijlstra
1f8a6a10fb ring-buffer: pass in lockdep class key for reader_lock
On Sun, 7 Jun 2009, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> Testing tracer sched_switch: <6>Starting ring buffer hammer
> PASSED
> Testing tracer sysprof: PASSED
> Testing tracer function: PASSED
> Testing tracer irqsoff:
> =============================================
> PASSED
> Testing tracer preemptoff: PASSED
> Testing tracer preemptirqsoff: [ INFO: possible recursive locking detected ]
> PASSED
> Testing tracer branch: 2.6.30-rc8-tip-01972-ge5b9078-dirty #5760
> ---------------------------------------------
> rb_consumer/431 is trying to acquire lock:
>  (&cpu_buffer->reader_lock){......}, at: [<c109eef7>] ring_buffer_reset_cpu+0x37/0x70
>
> but task is already holding lock:
>  (&cpu_buffer->reader_lock){......}, at: [<c10a019e>] ring_buffer_consume+0x7e/0xc0
>
> other info that might help us debug this:
> 1 lock held by rb_consumer/431:
>  #0:  (&cpu_buffer->reader_lock){......}, at: [<c10a019e>] ring_buffer_consume+0x7e/0xc0

The ring buffer is a generic structure, and can be used outside of
ftrace. If ftrace traces within the use of the ring buffer, it can produce
false positives with lockdep.

This patch passes in a static lock key into the allocation of the ring
buffer, so that different ring buffers will have their own lock class.

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1244477919.13761.9042.camel@twins>

[ store key in ring buffer descriptor ]

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-06-08 18:50:20 -04:00
Ingo Molnar
918143e8b7 Merge branch 'tip/tracing/ftrace-4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into tracing/ftrace 2009-06-05 16:50:29 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
64edbc5620 Merge branch 'tracing/ftrace' into tracing/core
Merge reason: this mini-topic had outstanding problems that delayed
              its merge, so it does not fast-forward.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-04 13:59:40 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
563af16c30 tracing: add annotation to what type of stack trace is recorded
The current method of printing out a stack trace is to add a new line
and print out the trace:

    yum-updatesd-3120  [002]   573.691303:
 => do_softirq
 => irq_exit
 => smp_apic_timer_interrupt
 => apic_timer_interrupt

This looks a bit awkward, and if we have both stack and user stack traces
running, it would be nice to have a title to tell them apart, although
it is easy to tell by the output.

This patch adds an annotation to the start of the stack traces:

            init-1     [003]   929.304979: <stack trace>
 => user_path_at
 => vfs_fstatat
 => vfs_stat
 => sys_newstat
 => system_call_fastpath

             cat-3459  [002]  1016.824040: <user stack trace>
 =>  <0000003aae6c0250>
 =>  <00007ffff4b06ae4>
 =>  <69636172742f6775>

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-06-03 11:10:44 -04:00
Steven Whitehouse
56d8bd3f0b tracing: fix multiple use of __print_flags and __print_symbolic
Here is an updated patch to include the extra call to
trace_seq_init() as requested. This is vs. the latest
-tip tree and fixes the use of multiple __print_flags
and __print_symbolic in a single tracer. Also tested
to ensure its working now:

mount.gfs2-2534  [000]   235.850587: gfs2_glock_queue: 8.7 glock 1:2 dequeue PR
mount.gfs2-2534  [000]   235.850591: gfs2_demote_rq: 8.7 glock 1:0 demote EX to NL flags:DI
mount.gfs2-2534  [000]   235.850591: gfs2_glock_queue: 8.7 glock 1:0 dequeue EX
glock_workqueue-2529  [000]   235.850666: gfs2_glock_state_change: 8.7 glock 1:0 state EX => NL tgt:NL dmt:NL flags:lDpI
glock_workqueue-2529  [000]   235.850672: gfs2_glock_put: 8.7 glock 1:0 state NL => IV flags:I

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1244037123.29604.603.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-06-03 10:29:48 -04:00
walimis
048dc50c5e tracing/events: fix output format of user stack
According to "events/ftrace/user_stack/format", fix the output of
user stack.

before fix:

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

after fix:

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

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

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

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

before fix:

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

After fix:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[ Impact: prevent time stamps from filling ring buffer ]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Here's the patch for the simple fix:

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

Signed-off-by: Tim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A25BE9E.5090909@am.sony.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-06-03 10:15:06 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
84047e360a function-graph: always initialize task ret_stack
On creating a new task while running the function graph tracer, if
we fail to allocate the ret_stack, and then fail the fork, the
code will free the parent ret_stack. This is because the child
duplicated the parent and currently points to the parent's ret_stack.

This patch always initializes the task's ret_stack to NULL.

[ Impact: prevent crash of parent on low memory during fork ]

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-06-02 16:51:55 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
26c01624a2 function-graph: add memory barriers for accessing task's ret_stack
The code that handles the tasks ret_stack allocation for every task
assumes that only an interrupt can cause issues (even though interrupts
are disabled).

In reality, the code is allocating the ret_stack for tasks that may be
running on other CPUs and there are not efficient memory barriers to
handle this case.

[ Impact: prevent crash due to using of uninitialized ret_stack variables ]

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-06-02 14:42:17 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
82310a3272 function-graph: enable the stack after initialization of other variables
The function graph tracer checks if the task_struct has ret_stack defined
to know if it is OK or not to use it. The initialization is done for
all tasks by one process, but the idle tasks use the same initialization
used by new tasks.

If an interrupt happens on an idle task that just had the ret_stack
created, but before the rest of the initialization took place, then
we can corrupt the return address of the functions.

This patch moves the setting of the task_struct's ret_stack to after
the other variables have been initialized.

[ Impact: prevent kernel panic on idle task when starting function graph ]

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-06-02 14:41:50 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
179c498ae2 function-graph: only allocate init tasks if it was not already done
When the function graph tracer is enabled, it calls the initialization
needed for the init tasks that would be called on all created tasks.

The problem is that this is called every time the function graph tracer
is enabled, and the ret_stack is allocated for the idle tasks each time.
Thus, the old ret_stack is lost and a memory leak is created.

This is also dangerous because if an interrupt happened on another CPU
with the init task and the ret_stack is replaced, we then lose all the
return pointers for the interrupt, and a crash would take place.

[ Impact: fix memory leak and possible crash due to race ]

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-06-02 12:03:19 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
0f6ce3de4e ftrace: do not profile functions when disabled
A race was found that if one were to enable and disable the function
profiler repeatedly, then the system can panic. This was because a profiled
function may be preempted just before disabling interrupts. While
the profiler is disabled and then reenabled, the preempted function
could start again, and access the hash as it is being initialized.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

	TP_fast_assign(
		char *name = __get_str(name);

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

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

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

[ Impact: allow defining dynamic size arrays ]

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

[ Impact: clean up kconfig menu ]

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

 The event tracer and sched switch tracer.

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

  config EVENT_TRACER
	bool "prompt"
	depends on TRACING
	select TRACING

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

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

[ Impact: hide options that are selected by default ]

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

This patch adds two new ftrace command line commands.

  ftrace_notrace=function-list
  ftrace_filter=function-list

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

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

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

	ftrace_notrace=rcu*,*lock,*spin*

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

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

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-06-01 23:23:10 -04:00
Frederic Weisbecker
43bd123623 tracing/stat: remove unappropriate safe walk on list
register_stat_tracer() uses list_for_each_entry_safe
to check whether a tracer is already present in the list.
But we don't delete anything from the list here, so
we don't need the safe version

[ Impact: cleanup list use is stat tracing ]

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2009-06-02 01:18:33 +02:00
Li Zefan
dbd3fbdfee tracing/stat: do some cleanups
- remove duplicate code in stat_seq_init()
- update comments to reflect the change from stat list to stat rbtree

[ Impact: clean up ]

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2009-06-02 01:18:18 +02:00
Li Zefan
e162280690 tracing/stat: remember to free root node
When closing a trace_stat file, we destroy the rbtree constructed during
file open, but there is memory leak that the root node is not freed.

[ Impact: fix memory leak when closing a trace_stat file ]

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2009-06-02 01:18:03 +02:00
Li Zefan
b3dd7ba7d8 tracing/stat: change dummpy_cmp() to return -1
Currently the output of trace_stat/workqueues is totally reversed:

 # cat /debug/tracing/trace_stat/workqueues
    ...
    1       17       17      210       37   `-blk_unplug_work+0x0/0x57
    1     3779     3779      181       11   |-cfq_kick_queue+0x0/0x2f
    1     3796     3796                     kblockd/1:120
    ...

The correct output should be:

    1     3796     3796                     kblockd/1:120
    1     3779     3779      181       11   |-cfq_kick_queue+0x0/0x2f
    1       17       17      210       37   `-blk_unplug_work+0x0/0x57

It's caused by "tracing/stat: replace linked list by an rbtree for
sorting"
(53059c9b67a62a3dc8c80204d3da42b9267ea5a0).

dummpy_cmp() should return -1, so rb_node will always be inserted as
right-most node in the rbtree, thus we sort the output in ascending
order.

[ Impact: fix the output of trace_stat/workqueues ]

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2009-06-02 01:17:49 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
8f184f2730 tracing/stat: replace linked list by an rbtree for sorting
When the stat tracing framework prepares the entries from a tracer
to output them to the user, it starts by computing a linear sort
through a linked list to give the entries ordered by relevance
to the user.

This is quite ugly and causes a small latency when we begin to
read the file.

This patch changes that by turning the linked list into a red-black
tree. Athough the whole iteration using the start and next tracer
callbacks while opening the file remain the same, it is now much
more fast and scalable.

The rbtree guarantees O(log(n)) insertions whereas a linked
list with linear sorting brought us a O(n) despair. Now the
(visible) latency has disapeared.

[ Impact: kill the latency while starting to read a stat tracer file ]

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2009-06-02 01:17:35 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
0d64f8342d tracing/stat: replace trace_stat_session by stat_session
The "trace" prefix in struct trace_stat_session type is annoying while
reading the trace_stat.c file. It makes the lines longer, and
is not that much useful to explain the sense of this type.

Just keep "struct stat_session" for this type.

[ Impact: make the code a bit more readable ]

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2009-06-02 01:17:17 +02:00
Zhaolei
f3c4ae26e9 trace_workqueue: remove blank line between each cpu
The blankline between each cpu's workqueue stat is not necessary, because
the cpu number is enough to part them by eye.
Old style also caused a blankline below headline, and made code complex
by using lock, disableirq and get cpu var.

Old style:
 # CPU  INSERTED  EXECUTED   NAME
 # |      |         |          |

   0   8644       8644       events/0
   0      0          0       cpuset
   ...
   0      1          1       kdmflush

   1  35365      35365       events/1
   ...

New style:
 # CPU  INSERTED  EXECUTED   NAME
 # |      |         |          |

   0   8644       8644       events/0
   0      0          0       cpuset
   ...
   0      1          1       kdmflush
   1  35365      35365       events/1
   ...

[ Impact: provide more readable code ]

Signed-off-by: Zhao Lei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2009-06-02 01:14:26 +02:00
Zhaolei
b8867164f0 trace_workqueue: remove cpu_workqueue_stats->first_entry
cpu_workqueue_stats->first_entry is useless because we can retrieve the
header of a cpu workqueue using:
if (&cpu_workqueue_stats->list == workqueue_cpu_stat(cpu)->list.next)

[ Impact: cleanup ]

Signed-off-by: Zhao Lei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2009-06-02 01:13:46 +02:00
Zhaolei
1fdfca9c57 trace_workqueue: use list_for_each_entry() instead of list_for_each_entry_safe()
No need to use list_for_each_entry_safe() in iteration without deleting
any node, we can use list_for_each_entry() instead.

[ Impact: cleanup ]

Signed-off-by: Zhao Lei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2009-06-02 01:13:05 +02:00
Zhaolei
fb39125fd7 ftrace, workqueuetrace: make workqueue tracepoints use TRACE_EVENT macro
v3: zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com: Change TRACE_EVENT definition to new format
    introduced by Steven Rostedt: consolidate trace and trace_event headers
v2: kosaki@jp.fujitsu.com: print the function names instead of addr, and zap
    the work addr
v1: zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com: Make workqueue tracepoints use TRACE_EVENT macro

TRACE_EVENT is a more generic way to define tracepoints.
Doing so adds these new capabilities to the tracepoints:

  - zero-copy and per-cpu splice() tracing
  - binary tracing without printf overhead
  - structured logging records exposed under /debug/tracing/events
  - trace events embedded in function tracer output and other plugins
  - user-defined, per tracepoint filter expressions

Then, this patch converts DEFINE_TRACE to TRACE_EVENT in workqueue related
tracepoints.

[ Impact: expand workqueue tracer to events tracing ]

Signed-off-by: Zhao Lei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2009-06-02 01:10:40 +02:00
Heiko Carstens
5b6045a906 trace: disable preemption before taking raw spinlocks
s390 code uses smp_processor_id() in __raw_spin_lock() code which
reveals that a (raw) spinlock is taken without preemption disabled.
This can potentially deadlock.

To fix this explicitly disable and enable preemption.

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

[ Impact: fix preempt-unsafe raw spinlock ]

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

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

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

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

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

[
  v2 changes include:

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

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

[
  v3 changes:

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

[ Impact: better displaying of flags in trace output ]

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

[ Impact: factorize and cleanup event tracing code ]

Signed-off-by: Zhao Lei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A14FDFE.2080402@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2009-05-26 03:30:31 +02:00