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Steven Rostedt (VMware)
3f1756dc21 tracing: More reverting of "tracing: Centralize preemptirq tracepoints and unify their usage"
Joel Fernandes created a nice patch that cleaned up the duplicate hooks used
by lockdep and irqsoff latency tracer. It made both use tracepoints. But the
latency tracer is triggering warnings when using tracepoints to call into
the latency tracer's routines. Mainly, they can be called from NMI context.
If that happens, then the SRCU may not work properly because on some
architectures, SRCU is not safe to be called in both NMI and non-NMI
context.

This is a partial revert of the clean up patch c3bc8fd637 ("tracing:
Centralize preemptirq tracepoints and unify their usage") that adds back the
direct calls into the latency tracer. It also only calls the trace events
when not in NMI.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180809210654.622445925@goodmis.org
Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Fixes: c3bc8fd637 ("tracing: Centralize preemptirq tracepoints and unify their usage")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2018-08-10 15:12:00 -04:00
Steven Rostedt (VMware)
bff1b208a5 tracing: Partial revert of "tracing: Centralize preemptirq tracepoints and unify their usage"
Joel Fernandes created a nice patch that cleaned up the duplicate hooks used
by lockdep and irqsoff latency tracer. It made both use tracepoints. But it
caused lockdep to trigger several false positives. We have not figured out
why yet, but removing lockdep from using the trace event hooks and just call
its helper functions directly (like it use to), makes the problem go away.

This is a partial revert of the clean up patch c3bc8fd637 ("tracing:
Centralize preemptirq tracepoints and unify their usage") that adds direct
calls for lockdep, but also keeps most of the clean up done to get rid of
the horrible preprocessor if statements.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180806155058.5ee875f4@gandalf.local.home

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Fixes: c3bc8fd637 ("tracing: Centralize preemptirq tracepoints and unify their usage")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2018-08-10 15:11:25 -04:00
Joel Fernandes (Google)
c3bc8fd637 tracing: Centralize preemptirq tracepoints and unify their usage
This patch detaches the preemptirq tracepoints from the tracers and
keeps it separate.

Advantages:
* Lockdep and irqsoff event can now run in parallel since they no longer
have their own calls.

* This unifies the usecase of adding hooks to an irqsoff and irqson
event, and a preemptoff and preempton event.
  3 users of the events exist:
  - Lockdep
  - irqsoff and preemptoff tracers
  - irqs and preempt trace events

The unification cleans up several ifdefs and makes the code in preempt
tracer and irqsoff tracers simpler. It gets rid of all the horrific
ifdeferry around PROVE_LOCKING and makes configuration of the different
users of the tracepoints more easy and understandable. It also gets rid
of the time_* function calls from the lockdep hooks used to call into
the preemptirq tracer which is not needed anymore. The negative delta in
lines of code in this patch is quite large too.

In the patch we introduce a new CONFIG option PREEMPTIRQ_TRACEPOINTS
as a single point for registering probes onto the tracepoints. With
this,
the web of config options for preempt/irq toggle tracepoints and its
users becomes:

 PREEMPT_TRACER   PREEMPTIRQ_EVENTS  IRQSOFF_TRACER PROVE_LOCKING
       |                 |     \         |           |
       \    (selects)    /      \        \ (selects) /
      TRACE_PREEMPT_TOGGLE       ----> TRACE_IRQFLAGS
                      \                  /
                       \ (depends on)   /
                     PREEMPTIRQ_TRACEPOINTS

Other than the performance tests mentioned in the previous patch, I also
ran the locking API test suite. I verified that all tests cases are
passing.

I also injected issues by not registering lockdep probes onto the
tracepoints and I see failures to confirm that the probes are indeed
working.

This series + lockdep probes not registered (just to inject errors):
[    0.000000]      hard-irqs-on + irq-safe-A/21:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
[    0.000000]      soft-irqs-on + irq-safe-A/21:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
[    0.000000]        sirq-safe-A => hirqs-on/12:FAILED|FAILED|  ok  |
[    0.000000]        sirq-safe-A => hirqs-on/21:FAILED|FAILED|  ok  |
[    0.000000]          hard-safe-A + irqs-on/12:FAILED|FAILED|  ok  |
[    0.000000]          soft-safe-A + irqs-on/12:FAILED|FAILED|  ok  |
[    0.000000]          hard-safe-A + irqs-on/21:FAILED|FAILED|  ok  |
[    0.000000]          soft-safe-A + irqs-on/21:FAILED|FAILED|  ok  |
[    0.000000]     hard-safe-A + unsafe-B #1/123:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
[    0.000000]     soft-safe-A + unsafe-B #1/123:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |

With this series + lockdep probes registered, all locking tests pass:

[    0.000000]      hard-irqs-on + irq-safe-A/21:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
[    0.000000]      soft-irqs-on + irq-safe-A/21:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
[    0.000000]        sirq-safe-A => hirqs-on/12:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
[    0.000000]        sirq-safe-A => hirqs-on/21:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
[    0.000000]          hard-safe-A + irqs-on/12:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
[    0.000000]          soft-safe-A + irqs-on/12:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
[    0.000000]          hard-safe-A + irqs-on/21:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
[    0.000000]          soft-safe-A + irqs-on/21:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
[    0.000000]     hard-safe-A + unsafe-B #1/123:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
[    0.000000]     soft-safe-A + unsafe-B #1/123:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180730222423.196630-4-joel@joelfernandes.org

Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2018-07-31 11:32:27 -04:00