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Steven Rostedt (VMware)
5d948c86bb tracing: Do not show filter file for ftrace internal events
The filter file in the ftrace internal events, like in
/sys/kernel/tracing/events/ftrace/function/filter is not attached to any
functionality. Do not create them as they are meaningless.

In the future, if an ftrace internal event gets filter functionality, then
it will need to create it directly.

Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2018-05-29 08:28:46 -04:00
Steven Rostedt (VMware)
58b9254757 tracing: Have event_trace_init() called by trace_init_tracefs()
Instead of having both trace_init_tracefs() and event_trace_init() be called
by fs_initcall() routines, have event_trace_init() called directly by
trace_init_tracefs(). This will guarantee order of how the events are
created with respect to the rest of the ftrace infrastructure. This is
needed to be able to assoctiate event files with ftrace internal events,
such as the trace_marker.

Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2018-05-29 08:28:29 -04:00
Steven Rostedt (VMware)
3c96529c07 tracing: Add __find_event_file() to find event files without restrictions
By adding the function __find_event_file() that can search for files without
restrictions, such as if the event associated with the file has a reg
function, or if it has the "ignore" flag set, the files that are associated
to ftrace internal events (like trace_marker and function events) can be
found and used.

find_event_file() still returns a "filtered" file, as most callers need a
valid trace event file. One created by the trace_events.h macros and not one
created for parsing ftrace specific events.

Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2018-05-29 08:28:18 -04:00
Changbin Du
f4d0706cde tracing: Make sure the parsed string always terminates with '\0'
Always mark the parsed string with a terminated nul '\0' character. This removes
the need for the users to have to append the '\0' before using the parsed string.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1516093350-12045-4-git-send-email-changbin.du@intel.com

Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2018-01-23 15:57:28 -05:00
Steven Rostedt (VMware)
1ebe1eaf2f tracing: Fix converting enum's from the map in trace_event_eval_update()
Since enums do not get converted by the TRACE_EVENT macro into their values,
the event format displaces the enum name and not the value. This breaks
tools like perf and trace-cmd that need to interpret the raw binary data. To
solve this, an enum map was created to convert these enums into their actual
numbers on boot up. This is done by TRACE_EVENTS() adding a
TRACE_DEFINE_ENUM() macro.

Some enums were not being converted. This was caused by an optization that
had a bug in it.

All calls get checked against this enum map to see if it should be converted
or not, and it compares the call's system to the system that the enum map
was created under. If they match, then they call is processed.

To cut down on the number of iterations needed to find the maps with a
matching system, since calls and maps are grouped by system, when a match is
made, the index into the map array is saved, so that the next call, if it
belongs to the same system as the previous call, could start right at that
array index and not have to scan all the previous arrays.

The problem was, the saved index was used as the variable to know if this is
a call in a new system or not. If the index was zero, it was assumed that
the call is in a new system and would keep incrementing the saved index
until it found a matching system. The issue arises when the first matching
system was at index zero. The next map, if it belonged to the same system,
would then think it was the first match and increment the index to one. If
the next call belong to the same system, it would begin its search of the
maps off by one, and miss the first enum that should be converted. This left
a single enum not converted properly.

Also add a comment to describe exactly what that index was for. It took me a
bit too long to figure out what I was thinking when debugging this issue.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/717BE572-2070-4C1E-9902-9F2E0FEDA4F8@oracle.com

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 0c564a538a ("tracing: Add TRACE_DEFINE_ENUM() macro to map enums to their values")
Reported-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Teste-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2018-01-18 15:53:10 -05:00
Steven Rostedt (VMware)
12ecef0cb1 tracing: Reverse the order of trace_types_lock and event_mutex
In order to make future changes where we need to call
tracing_set_clock() from within an event command, the order of
trace_types_lock and event_mutex must be reversed, as the event command
will hold event_mutex and the trace_types_lock is taken from within
tracing_set_clock().

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170921162249.0dde3dca@gandalf.local.home

Requested-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2017-10-04 11:36:56 -04:00
Chunyu Hu
7685ab6c58 tracing: Fix clear of RECORDED_TGID flag when disabling trace event
When disabling one trace event, the RECORDED_TGID flag in the event
file is not correctly cleared. It's clearing RECORDED_CMD flag when
it should clear RECORDED_TGID flag.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1504589806-8425-1-git-send-email-chuhu@redhat.com

Cc: Joel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: d914ba37d7 ("tracing: Add support for recording tgid of tasks")
Signed-off-by: Chunyu Hu <chuhu@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2017-09-05 12:00:09 -04:00
Steven Rostedt (VMware)
065e63f951 tracing: Only have rmmod clear buffers that its events were active in
Currently, when a module event is enabled, when that module is removed, it
clears all ring buffers. This is to prevent another module from being loaded
and having one of its trace event IDs from reusing a trace event ID of the
removed module. This could cause undesirable effects as the trace event of
the new module would be using its own processing algorithms to process raw
data of another event. To prevent this, when a module is loaded, if any of
its events have been used (signified by the WAS_ENABLED event call flag,
which is never cleared), all ring buffers are cleared, just in case any one
of them contains event data of the removed event.

The problem is, there's no reason to clear all ring buffers if only one (or
less than all of them) uses one of the events. Instead, only clear the ring
buffers that recorded the events of a module that is being removed.

To do this, instead of keeping the WAS_ENABLED flag with the trace event
call, move it to the per instance (per ring buffer) event file descriptor.
The event file descriptor maps each event to a separate ring buffer
instance. Then when the module is removed, only the ring buffers that
activated one of the module's events get cleared. The rest are not touched.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2017-08-31 17:47:38 -04:00
Joel Fernandes
d914ba37d7 tracing: Add support for recording tgid of tasks
Inorder to support recording of tgid, the following changes are made:

* Introduce a new API (tracing_record_taskinfo) to additionally record the tgid
  along with the task's comm at the same time. This has has the benefit of not
  setting trace_cmdline_save before all the information for a task is saved.
* Add a new API tracing_record_taskinfo_sched_switch to record task information
  for 2 tasks at a time (previous and next) and use it from sched_switch probe.
* Preserve the old API (tracing_record_cmdline) and create it as a wrapper
  around the new one so that existing callers aren't affected.
* Reuse the existing sched_switch and sched_wakeup probes to record tgid
  information and add a new option 'record-tgid' to enable recording of tgid

When record-tgid option isn't enabled to being with, we take care to make sure
that there's isn't memory or runtime overhead.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170627020155.5139-1-joelaf@google.com

Cc: kernel-team@android.com
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Michael Sartain <mikesart@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2017-06-27 13:30:28 -04:00
Jeremy Linton
67ec0d8595 tracing: Rename enum_replace to eval_replace
The enum_replace stanza works as is for sizeof()
calls as well as enums. Rename it as well.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170531215653.3240-9-jeremy.linton@arm.com

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Linton <jeremy.linton@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2017-06-13 17:10:34 -04:00
Jeremy Linton
f57a41434f trace: rename enum_map functions
Rename the core trace enum routines to use eval, to
reflect their use by more than just enum to value mapping.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170531215653.3240-8-jeremy.linton@arm.com

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Linton <jeremy.linton@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2017-06-13 17:10:23 -04:00
Jeremy Linton
00f4b652b6 trace: rename trace_enum_map to trace_eval_map
Each enum is loaded into the trace_enum_map, as we
are now using this for more than enums rename it.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170531215653.3240-3-jeremy.linton@arm.com

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Linton <jeremy.linton@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2017-06-13 17:08:57 -04:00
Steven Rostedt (VMware)
6e4443199e tracing/ftrace: Add a better way to pass data via the probe functions
With the redesign of the registration and execution of the function probes
(triggers), data can now be passed from the setup of the probe to the probe
callers that are specific to the trace_array it is on. Although, all probes
still only affect the toplevel trace array, this change will allow for
instances to have their own probes separated from other instances and the
top array.

That is, something like the stacktrace probe can be set to trace only in an
instance and not the toplevel trace array. This isn't implement yet, but
this change sets the ground work for the change.

When a probe callback is triggered (someone writes the probe format into
set_ftrace_filter), it calls register_ftrace_function_probe() passing in
init_data that will be used to initialize the probe. Then for every matching
function, register_ftrace_function_probe() will call the probe_ops->init()
function with the init data that was passed to it, as well as an address to
a place holder that is associated with the probe and the instance. The first
occurrence will have a NULL in the pointer. The init() function will then
initialize it. If other probes are added, or more functions are part of the
probe, the place holder will be passed to the init() function with the place
holder data that it was initialized to the last time.

Then this place_holder is passed to each of the other probe_ops functions,
where it can be used in the function callback. When the probe_ops free()
function is called, it can be called either with the rip of the function
that is being removed from the probe, or zero, indicating that there are no
more functions attached to the probe, and the place holder is about to be
freed. This gives the probe_ops a way to free the data it assigned to the
place holder if it was allocade during the first init call.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2017-04-20 22:06:46 -04:00
Steven Rostedt (VMware)
7b60f3d876 ftrace: Dynamically create the probe ftrace_ops for the trace_array
In order to eventually have each trace_array instance have its own unique
set of function probes (triggers), the trace array needs to hold the ops and
the filters for the probes.

This is the first step to accomplish this. Instead of having the private
data of the probe ops point to the trace_array, create a separate list that
the trace_array holds. There's only one private_data for a probe, we need
one per trace_array. The probe ftrace_ops will be dynamically created for
each instance, instead of being static.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2017-04-20 22:06:46 -04:00
Steven Rostedt (VMware)
b5f081b563 tracing: Pass the trace_array into ftrace_probe_ops functions
Pass the trace_array associated to a ftrace_probe_ops into the probe_ops
func(), init() and free() functions. The trace_array is the descriptor that
describes a tracing instance. This will help create the infrastructure that
will allow having function probes unique to tracing instances.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2017-04-20 22:06:45 -04:00
Steven Rostedt (VMware)
04ec7bb642 tracing: Have the trace_array hold the list of registered func probes
Add a link list to the trace_array to hold func probes that are registered.
Currently, all function probes are the same for all instances as it was
before, that is, only the top level trace_array holds the function probes.
But this lays the ground work to have function probes be attached to
individual instances, and having the event trigger only affect events in the
given instance. But that work is still to be done.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2017-04-20 22:06:45 -04:00
Steven Rostedt (VMware)
d3d532d798 ftrace: Have unregister_ftrace_function_probe_func() return a value
Currently unregister_ftrace_function_probe_func() is a void function. It
does not give any feedback if an error occurred or no item was found to
remove and nothing was done.

Change it to return status and success if it removed something. Also update
the callers to return that feedback to the user.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2017-04-20 22:06:42 -04:00
Steven Rostedt (VMware)
1a48df0041 ftrace: Remove data field from ftrace_func_probe structure
No users of the function probes uses the data field anymore. Remove it, and
change the init function to take a void *data parameter instead of a
void **data, because the init will just get the data that the registering
function was received, and there's no state after it is called.

The other functions for ftrace_probe_ops still take the data parameter, but
it will currently only be passed NULL. It will stay as a parameter for
future data to be passed to these functions.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2017-04-20 22:06:41 -04:00
Steven Rostedt (VMware)
41794f1907 ftrace: Added ftrace_func_mapper for function probe triggers
In order to move the ops to the function probes directly, they need a way to
map function ips to their own data without depending on the infrastructure
of the function probes, as the data field will be going away.

New helper functions are added that are based on the ftrace_hash code.
ftrace_func_mapper functions are there to let the probes map ips to their
data. These can be allocated by the probe ops, and referenced in the
function callbacks.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2017-04-20 22:06:37 -04:00
Steven Rostedt (VMware)
bca6c8d048 ftrace: Pass probe ops to probe function
In preparation to cleaning up the probe function registration code, the
"data" parameter will eventually be removed from the probe->func() call.
Instead it will receive its own "ops" function, in which it can set up its
own data that it needs to map.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2017-04-20 22:06:37 -04:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)
989a0a3d24 tracing: Have system enable return error if one of the events fail
If one of the events within a system fails to enable when "1" is written
to the system "enable" file, it should return an error. Note, some events
may still be enabled, but the user should know that something did go wrong.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-12-09 09:15:41 -05:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)
4239174570 tracing: Make tracepoint_printk a static_key
Currently, when tracepoint_printk is set (enabled by the "tp_printk" kernel
command line), it causes trace events to print via printk(). This is a very
dangerous operation, but is useful for debugging.

The issue is, it's seldom used, but it is always checked even if it's not
enabled by the kernel command line. Instead of having this feature called by
a branch against a variable, turn that variable into a static key, and this
will remove the test and jump.

To simplify things, the functions output_printk() and
trace_event_buffer_commit() were moved from trace_events.c to trace.c.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-11-23 15:52:45 -05:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)
7d43640022 tracing: Add error checks to creation of event files
The creation of the set_event_pid file was assigned to a variable "entry"
but that variable was never used. Ideally, it should be used to check if the
file was created and warn if it was not.

The files header_page, header_event should also be checked and a warning if
they fail to be created.

The "enable" file was moved up, as it is a more crucial file to have and a
hard failure (return -ENOMEM) should be returned if it is not created.

Reported-by: David Binderman <dcb314@hotmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-11-22 18:32:03 -05:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)
e947841c0d tracing: Show the preempt count of when the event was called
Because tracepoint callbacks are done with preemption enabled, the trace
events are always called with preempt disable due to the
rcu_read_lock_sched_notrace() in __DO_TRACE(). This causes the preempt count
shown in the recorded trace event to be inaccurate. It is always one more
that what the preempt_count was when the tracepoint was called.

If CONFIG_PREEMPT is enabled, subtract 1 from the preempt_count before
recording it in the trace buffer.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160525132537.GA10808@linutronix.de

Reported-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-06-20 09:54:21 -04:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)
76c813e266 tracing: Move pid_list write processing into its own function
The addition of PIDs into a pid_list via the write operation of
set_event_pid is a bit complex. The same operation will be needed for
function tracing pids. Move the code into its own generic function in
trace.c, so that we can avoid duplication of this code.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-06-20 09:54:18 -04:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)
5cc8976bd5 tracing: Move the pid_list seq_file functions to be global
To allow other aspects of ftrace to use the pid_list logic, we need to reuse
the seq_file functions. Making the generic part into functions that can be
called by other files will help in this regard.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-06-20 09:54:17 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
d8275c454d tracing: Move filtered_pid helper functions into trace.c
As the filtered_pid functions are going to be used by function tracer as
well as trace_events, move the code into the generic trace.c file.

The functions moved are:

 trace_find_filtered_pid()
 trace_ignore_this_task()
 trace_filter_add_remove_task()

Kernel Doc text was also added.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-06-20 09:54:17 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
4e267db135 tracing: Make the pid filtering helper functions global
Make the functions used for pid filtering global for tracing, such that the
function tracer can use the pid code as well.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-06-20 09:54:16 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
2600a46ee0 This includes two new updates for the ftrace infrastructure.
1) With the changing of the code for filtering events by pid, from
   a list of pids to a bitmask, we can now easily implement following
   forks. With a new tracing option "event-fork" which, when set, will
   have tasks with pids in set_event_pid, when they fork, to have their
   child pids added to set_event_pid and the child will be traced as well.
 
   Note, if "event-fork" is set and a task with its pid in set_event_pid
   exits, its pid will be removed from set_event_pid
 
 2) The addition of Tom Zanussi's hist triggers. This includes a very
    thorough documentatino on how to use the hist triggers with events.
    This introduces a quick and easy way to get histogram data from
    events and their fields.
 
 Some other cleanups and updates were added as well. Like Masami Hiramatsu
 added test cases for the event trigger and hist triggers. Also I added
 a speed up of filtering by using a temp buffer when filters are set.
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Merge tag 'trace-v4.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace

Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
 "This includes two new updates for the ftrace infrastructure.

   - With the changing of the code for filtering events by pid, from a
     list of pids to a bitmask, we can now easily implement following
     forks.  With a new tracing option "event-fork" which, when set,
     will have tasks with pids in set_event_pid, when they fork, to have
     their child pids added to set_event_pid and the child will be
     traced as well.

     Note, if "event-fork" is set and a task with its pid in
     set_event_pid exits, its pid will be removed from set_event_pid

   - The addition of Tom Zanussi's hist triggers.  This includes a very
     thorough documentatino on how to use the hist triggers with events.
     This introduces a quick and easy way to get histogram data from
     events and their fields.

  Some other cleanups and updates were added as well.  Like Masami
  Hiramatsu added test cases for the event trigger and hist triggers.
  Also I added a speed up of filtering by using a temp buffer when
  filters are set"

* tag 'trace-v4.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (45 commits)
  tracing: Use temp buffer when filtering events
  tracing: Remove TRACE_EVENT_FL_USE_CALL_FILTER logic
  tracing: Remove unused function trace_current_buffer_lock_reserve()
  tracing: Remove one use of trace_current_buffer_lock_reserve()
  tracing: Have trace_buffer_unlock_commit() call the _regs version with NULL
  tracing: Remove unused function trace_current_buffer_discard_commit()
  tracing: Move trace_buffer_unlock_commit{_regs}() to local header
  tracing: Fold filter_check_discard() into its only user
  tracing: Make filter_check_discard() local
  tracing: Move event_trigger_unlock_commit{_regs}() to local header
  tracing: Don't use the address of the buffer array name in copy_from_user
  tracing: Handle tracing_map_alloc_elts() error path correctly
  tracing: Add check for NULL event field when creating hist field
  tracing: checking for NULL instead of IS_ERR()
  tracing: Do not inherit event-fork option for instances
  tracing: Fix unsigned comparison to zero in hist trigger code
  kselftests/ftrace: Add a test for log2 modifier of hist trigger
  tracing: Add hist trigger 'log2' modifier
  kselftests/ftrace: Add hist trigger testcases
  kselftests/ftrace : Add event trigger testcases
  ...
2016-05-18 18:55:19 -07:00
David S. Miller
e800072c18 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net
In netdevice.h we removed the structure in net-next that is being
changes in 'net'.  In macsec.c and rtnetlink.c we have overlaps
between fixes in 'net' and the u64 attribute changes in 'net-next'.

The mlx5 conflicts have to do with vxlan support dependencies.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-05-09 15:59:24 -04:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)
0fc1b09ff1 tracing: Use temp buffer when filtering events
Filtering of events requires the data to be written to the ring buffer
before it can be decided to filter or not. This is because the parameters of
the filter are based on the result that is written to the ring buffer and
not on the parameters that are passed into the trace functions.

The ftrace ring buffer is optimized for writing into the ring buffer and
committing. The discard procedure used when filtering decides the event
should be discarded is much more heavy weight. Thus, using a temporary
filter when filtering events can speed things up drastically.

Without a temp buffer we have:

 # trace-cmd start -p nop
 # perf stat -r 10 hackbench 50
       0.790706626 seconds time elapsed ( +-  0.71% )

 # trace-cmd start -e all
 # perf stat -r 10 hackbench 50
       1.566904059 seconds time elapsed ( +-  0.27% )

 # trace-cmd start -e all -f 'common_preempt_count==20'
 # perf stat -r 10 hackbench 50
       1.690598511 seconds time elapsed ( +-  0.19% )

 # trace-cmd start -e all -f 'common_preempt_count!=20'
 # perf stat -r 10 hackbench 50
       1.707486364 seconds time elapsed ( +-  0.30% )

The first run above is without any tracing, just to get a based figure.
hackbench takes ~0.79 seconds to run on the system.

The second run enables tracing all events where nothing is filtered. This
increases the time by 100% and hackbench takes 1.57 seconds to run.

The third run filters all events where the preempt count will equal "20"
(this should never happen) thus all events are discarded. This takes 1.69
seconds to run. This is 10% slower than just committing the events!

The last run enables all events and filters where the filter will commit all
events, and this takes 1.70 seconds to run. The filtering overhead is
approximately 10%. Thus, the discard and commit of an event from the ring
buffer may be about the same time.

With this patch, the numbers change:

 # trace-cmd start -p nop
 # perf stat -r 10 hackbench 50
       0.778233033 seconds time elapsed ( +-  0.38% )

 # trace-cmd start -e all
 # perf stat -r 10 hackbench 50
       1.582102692 seconds time elapsed ( +-  0.28% )

 # trace-cmd start -e all -f 'common_preempt_count==20'
 # perf stat -r 10 hackbench 50
       1.309230710 seconds time elapsed ( +-  0.22% )

 # trace-cmd start -e all -f 'common_preempt_count!=20'
 # perf stat -r 10 hackbench 50
       1.786001924 seconds time elapsed ( +-  0.20% )

The first run is again the base with no tracing.

The second run is all tracing with no filtering. It is a little slower, but
that may be well within the noise.

The third run shows that discarding all events only took 1.3 seconds. This
is a speed up of 23%! The discard is much faster than even the commit.

The one downside is shown in the last run. Events that are not discarded by
the filter will take longer to add, this is due to the extra copy of the
event.

Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-05-03 17:59:24 -04:00
Chunyu Hu
854145e0a8 tracing: Don't display trigger file for events that can't be enabled
Currently register functions for events will be called
through the 'reg' field of event class directly without
any check when seting up triggers.

Triggers for events that don't support register through
debug fs (events under events/ftrace are for trace-cmd to
read event format, and most of them don't have a register
function except events/ftrace/functionx) can't be enabled
at all, and an oops will be hit when setting up trigger
for those events, so just not creating them is an easy way
to avoid the oops.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1462275274-3911-1-git-send-email-chuhu@redhat.com

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.14+
Fixes: 85f2b08268 ("tracing: Add basic event trigger framework")
Signed-off-by: Chunyu Hu <chuhu@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-05-03 12:59:30 -04:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)
9b9db27505 tracing: Remove one use of trace_current_buffer_lock_reserve()
The only user of trace_current_buffer_lock_reserve() is in the boot up self
tests. Restructure the code a little to have that code use what everything
else uses: trace_event_buffer_lock_reserve().

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-04-29 18:10:21 -04:00
Tom Zanussi
7ef224d1d0 tracing: Add 'hist' event trigger command
'hist' triggers allow users to continually aggregate trace events,
which can then be viewed afterwards by simply reading a 'hist' file
containing the aggregation in a human-readable format.

The basic idea is very simple and boils down to a mechanism whereby
trace events, rather than being exhaustively dumped in raw form and
viewed directly, are automatically 'compressed' into meaningful tables
completely defined by the user.

This is done strictly via single-line command-line commands and
without the aid of any kind of programming language or interpreter.

A surprising number of typical use cases can be accomplished by users
via this simple mechanism.  In fact, a large number of the tasks that
users typically do using the more complicated script-based tracing
tools, at least during the initial stages of an investigation, can be
accomplished by simply specifying a set of keys and values to be used
in the creation of a hash table.

The Linux kernel trace event subsystem happens to provide an extensive
list of keys and values ready-made for such a purpose in the form of
the event format files associated with each trace event.  By simply
consulting the format file for field names of interest and by plugging
them into the hist trigger command, users can create an endless number
of useful aggregations to help with investigating various properties
of the system.  See Documentation/trace/events.txt for examples.

hist triggers are implemented on top of the existing event trigger
infrastructure, and as such are consistent with the existing triggers
from a user's perspective as well.

The basic syntax follows the existing trigger syntax.  Users start an
aggregation by writing a 'hist' trigger to the event of interest's
trigger file:

  # echo hist:keys=xxx [ if filter] > event/trigger

Once a hist trigger has been set up, by default it continually
aggregates every matching event into a hash table using the event key
and a value field named 'hitcount'.

To view the aggregation at any point in time, simply read the 'hist'
file in the same directory as the 'trigger' file:

  # cat event/hist

The detailed syntax provides additional options for user control, and
is described exhaustively in Documentation/trace/events.txt and in the
virtual tracing/README file in the tracing subsystem.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/72d263b5e1853fe9c314953b65833c3aa75479f2.1457029949.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-04-19 12:16:14 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
c37775d578 tracing: Add infrastructure to allow set_event_pid to follow children
Add the infrastructure needed to have the PIDs in set_event_pid to
automatically add PIDs of the children of the tasks that have their PIDs in
set_event_pid. This will also remove PIDs from set_event_pid when a task
exits

This is implemented by adding hooks into the fork and exit tracepoints. On
fork, the PIDs are added to the list, and on exit, they are removed.

Add a new option called event_fork that when set, PIDs in set_event_pid will
automatically get their children PIDs added when they fork, as well as any
task that exits will have its PID removed from set_event_pid.

This works for instances as well.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-04-19 10:28:28 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
f4d34a87e9 tracing: Use pid bitmap instead of a pid array for set_event_pid
In order to add the ability to let tasks that are filtered by the events
have their children also be traced on fork (and then not traced on exit),
convert the array into a pid bitmask. Most of the time the number of pids is
only 32768 pids or a 4k bitmask, which is the same size as the default list
currently is, and that list could grow if more pids are listed.

This also greatly simplifies the code.

Suggested-by: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-04-19 10:28:27 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
9ebc57cfaa tracing: Rename check_ignore_pid() to ignore_this_task()
The name "check_ignore_pid" is confusing in trying to figure out if the pid
should be ignored or not. Rename it to "ignore_this_task" which is pretty
straight forward, as a task (not a pid) is passed in, and should if true
should be ignored.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-04-19 10:28:26 -04:00
Alexei Starovoitov
32bbe0078a bpf: sanitize bpf tracepoint access
during bpf program loading remember the last byte of ctx access
and at the time of attaching the program to tracepoint check that
the program doesn't access bytes beyond defined in tracepoint fields

This also disallows access to __dynamic_array fields, but can be
relaxed in the future.

Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-04-07 21:04:26 -04:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)
e57cbaf0eb tracing: Do not have 'comm' filter override event 'comm' field
Commit 9f61668073 "tracing: Allow triggers to filter for CPU ids and
process names" added a 'comm' filter that will filter events based on the
current tasks struct 'comm'. But this now hides the ability to filter events
that have a 'comm' field too. For example, sched_migrate_task trace event.
That has a 'comm' field of the task to be migrated.

 echo 'comm == "bash"' > events/sched_migrate_task/filter

will now filter all sched_migrate_task events for tasks named "bash" that
migrates other tasks (in interrupt context), instead of seeing when "bash"
itself gets migrated.

This fix requires a couple of changes.

1) Change the look up order for filter predicates to look at the events
   fields before looking at the generic filters.

2) Instead of basing the filter function off of the "comm" name, have the
   generic "comm" filter have its own filter_type (FILTER_COMM). Test
   against the type instead of the name to assign the filter function.

3) Add a new "COMM" filter that works just like "comm" but will filter based
   on the current task, even if the trace event contains a "comm" field.

Do the same for "cpu" field, adding a FILTER_CPU and a filter "CPU".

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.3+
Fixes: 9f61668073 "tracing: Allow triggers to filter for CPU ids and process names"
Reported-by: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-03-04 09:57:10 -05:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)
d045437a16 tracing: Fix showing function event in available_events
The ftrace:function event is only displayed for parsing the function tracer
data. It is not used to enable function tracing, and does not include an
"enable" file in its event directory.

Originally, this event was kept separate from other events because it did
not have a ->reg parameter. But perf added a "reg" parameter for its use
which caused issues, because it made the event available to functions where
it was not compatible for.

Commit 9b63776fa3 "tracing: Do not enable function event with enable"
added a TRACE_EVENT_FL_IGNORE_ENABLE flag that prevented the function event
from being enabled by normal trace events. But this commit missed keeping
the function event from being displayed by the "available_events" directory,
which is used to show what events can be enabled by set_event.

One documented way to enable all events is to:

 cat available_events > set_event

But because the function event is displayed in the available_events, this
now causes an INVALID error:

 cat: write error: Invalid argument

Reported-by: Chunyu Hu <chuhu@redhat.com>
Fixes: 9b63776fa3 "tracing: Do not enable function event with enable"
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.4+
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-02-24 09:17:11 -05:00
Al Viro
70f6cbb6f9 kernel/*: switch to memdup_user_nul()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2016-01-04 10:27:55 -05:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)
0f72e37e42 tracing: Add sched_wakeup_new and sched_waking tracepoints for pid filter
The set_event_pid filter relies on attaching to the sched_switch and
sched_wakeup tracepoints to see if it should filter the tracing on schedule
tracepoints. By adding the callbacks to sched_wakeup, pids in the
set_event_pid file will trace the wakeups of those tasks with those pids.

But sched_wakeup_new and sched_waking were missed. These two should also be
traced. Luckily, these tracepoints share the same class as sched_wakeup
which means they can use the same pre and post callbacks as sched_wakeup
does.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2015-12-01 16:08:05 -05:00
Linus Torvalds
22402cd0af Most of the changes are clean ups and small fixes. Some of them have
stable tags to them. I searched through my INBOX just as the merge window
 opened and found lots of patches to pull. I ran them through all my tests
 and they were in linux-next for a few days.
 
 Features added this release:
 ----------------------------
 
  o Module globbing. You can now filter function tracing to several
    modules. # echo '*:mod:*snd*' > set_ftrace_filter (Dmitry Safonov)
 
  o Tracer specific options are now visible even when the tracer is not
    active. It was rather annoying that you can only see and modify tracer
    options after enabling the tracer. Now they are in the options/ directory
    even when the tracer is not active. Although they are still only visible
    when the tracer is active in the trace_options file.
 
  o Trace options are now per instance (although some of the tracer specific
    options are global)
 
  o New tracefs file: set_event_pid. If any pid is added to this file, then
    all events in the instance will filter out events that are not part of
    this pid. sched_switch and sched_wakeup events handle next and the wakee
    pids.
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Merge tag 'trace-v4.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace

Pull tracking updates from Steven Rostedt:
 "Most of the changes are clean ups and small fixes.  Some of them have
  stable tags to them.  I searched through my INBOX just as the merge
  window opened and found lots of patches to pull.  I ran them through
  all my tests and they were in linux-next for a few days.

  Features added this release:
  ----------------------------

   - Module globbing.  You can now filter function tracing to several
     modules.  # echo '*:mod:*snd*' > set_ftrace_filter (Dmitry Safonov)

   - Tracer specific options are now visible even when the tracer is not
     active.  It was rather annoying that you can only see and modify
     tracer options after enabling the tracer.  Now they are in the
     options/ directory even when the tracer is not active.  Although
     they are still only visible when the tracer is active in the
     trace_options file.

   - Trace options are now per instance (although some of the tracer
     specific options are global)

   - New tracefs file: set_event_pid.  If any pid is added to this file,
     then all events in the instance will filter out events that are not
     part of this pid.  sched_switch and sched_wakeup events handle next
     and the wakee pids"

* tag 'trace-v4.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (68 commits)
  tracefs: Fix refcount imbalance in start_creating()
  tracing: Put back comma for empty fields in boot string parsing
  tracing: Apply tracer specific options from kernel command line.
  tracing: Add some documentation about set_event_pid
  ring_buffer: Remove unneeded smp_wmb() before wakeup of reader benchmark
  tracing: Allow dumping traces without tracking trace started cpus
  ring_buffer: Fix more races when terminating the producer in the benchmark
  ring_buffer: Do no not complete benchmark reader too early
  tracing: Remove redundant TP_ARGS redefining
  tracing: Rename max_stack_lock to stack_trace_max_lock
  tracing: Allow arch-specific stack tracer
  recordmcount: arm64: Replace the ignored mcount call into nop
  recordmcount: Fix endianness handling bug for nop_mcount
  tracepoints: Fix documentation of RCU lockdep checks
  tracing: ftrace_event_is_function() can return boolean
  tracing: is_legal_op() can return boolean
  ring-buffer: rb_event_is_commit() can return boolean
  ring-buffer: rb_per_cpu_empty() can return boolean
  ring_buffer: ring_buffer_empty{cpu}() can return boolean
  ring-buffer: rb_is_reader_page() can return boolean
  ...
2015-11-06 13:30:20 -08:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)
43ed384339 tracing: Put back comma for empty fields in boot string parsing
Both early_enable_events() and apply_trace_boot_options() parse a boot
string that may get parsed later on. They both use strsep() which converts a
comma into a nul character. To still allow the boot string to be parsed
again the same way, the nul character gets converted back to a comma after
the token is processed.

The problem is that these two functions check for an empty parameter (two
commas in a row ",,"), and continue the loop if the parameter is empty, but
fails to place the comma back. In this case, the second parsing will end at
this blank field, and not process fields afterward.

In most cases, users should not have an empty field, but if its going to be
checked, the code might as well be correct.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2015-11-03 22:15:14 -05:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)
799fd44cf5 tracing: Call on_each_cpu() when adding or removing single pids from set_event_pid
For the case where pids are already in set_event_pid, and one is added or
removed then each CPU should be checked to make sure that the new or old pid
is on or not on a CPU.

 For example:

 # echo 123 >> set_event_pid

or

 # echo '!123' >> set_event_pid

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20151030061643.GA19480@cac

Suggested-by: Jiaxing Wang <hello.wjx@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2015-11-02 13:08:26 -05:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)
fb66228828 tracing: Fix sparse RCU warning
p_start() and p_stop() are seq_file functions that match. Teach sparse to
know that rcu_read_lock_sched() that is taken by p_start() is released by
p_stop.

Reported-by: kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2015-10-26 03:51:32 -04:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)
8ca532ad2b tracing: Check all tasks on each CPU when filtering pids
My tests found that if a task is running but not filtered when set_event_pid
is modified, then it can still be traced.

Call on_each_cpu() to check if the current running task should be filtered
and update the per cpu flags of tr->data appropriately.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2015-10-25 21:33:56 -04:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)
3fdaf80f4a tracing: Implement event pid filtering
Add the necessary hooks to use the pids loaded in set_event_pid to filter
all the events enabled in the tracing instance that match the pids listed.

Two probes are added to both sched_switch and sched_wakeup tracepoints to be
called before other probes are called and after the other probes are called.
The first is used to set the necessary flags to let the probes know to test
if they should be traced or not.

The sched_switch pre probe will set the "ignore_pid" flag if neither the
previous or next task has a matching pid.

The sched_switch probe will set the "ignore_pid" flag if the next task
does not match the matching pid.

The pre probe allows for probes tracing sched_switch to be traced if
necessary.

The sched_wakeup pre probe will set the "ignore_pid" flag if neither the
current task nor the wakee task has a matching pid.

The sched_wakeup post probe will set the "ignore_pid" flag if the current
task does not have a matching pid.

Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2015-10-25 21:33:56 -04:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)
4909010788 tracing: Add set_event_pid directory for future use
Create a tracing directory called set_event_pid, which currently has no
function, but will be used to filter all events for the tracing instance or
the pids that are added to the file.

The reason no functionality is added with this commit is that this commit
focuses on the creation and removal of the pids in a safe manner. And tests
can be made against this change to make sure things are correct before
hooking features to the list of pids.

Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2015-10-25 21:33:55 -04:00
Rasmus Villemoes
79ac6ef521 tracing: Use kstrdup_const instead of private implementation
The kernel now has kstrdup_const/kfree_const for reusing .rodata
(typically string literals) when possible; there's no reason to
duplicate that logic in the tracing system. Moreover, as the comment
above core_kernel_data states, it may not always return true for
.rodata - that is for example the case on x86_64, where we thus end up
kstrdup'ing all the passed-in strings.

Arguably, testing for .rodata explicitly (as kstrdup_const does) is
also more correct: I don't think one is supposed to be able to change
the name after creating the event_subsystem by passing the address of
a static char (but non-const) array.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1441833841-12955-1-git-send-email-linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk

Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2015-10-01 09:05:17 -04:00