Impact: feature
This patch sets a C-like output for the function graph tracing.
For this aim, we now call two handler for each function: one on the entry
and one other on return. This way we can draw a well-ordered call stack.
The pid of the previous trace is loosely stored to be compared against
the one of the current trace to see if there were a context switch.
Without this little feature, the call tree would seem broken at
some locations.
We could use the sched_tracer to capture these sched_events but this
way of processing is much more simpler.
2 spaces have been chosen for indentation to fit the screen while deep
calls. The time of execution in nanosecs is printed just after closed
braces, it seems more easy this way to find the corresponding function.
If the time was printed as a first column, it would be not so easy to
find the corresponding function if it is called on a deep depth.
I plan to output the return value but on 32 bits CPU, the return value
can be 32 or 64, and its difficult to guess on which case we are.
I don't know what would be the better solution on X86-32: only print
eax (low-part) or even edx (high-part).
Actually it's thee same problem when a function return a 8 bits value, the
high part of eax could contain junk values...
Here is an example of trace:
sys_read() {
fget_light() {
} 526
vfs_read() {
rw_verify_area() {
security_file_permission() {
cap_file_permission() {
} 519
} 1564
} 2640
do_sync_read() {
pipe_read() {
__might_sleep() {
} 511
pipe_wait() {
prepare_to_wait() {
} 760
deactivate_task() {
dequeue_task() {
dequeue_task_fair() {
dequeue_entity() {
update_curr() {
update_min_vruntime() {
} 504
} 1587
clear_buddies() {
} 512
add_cfs_task_weight() {
} 519
update_min_vruntime() {
} 511
} 5602
dequeue_entity() {
update_curr() {
update_min_vruntime() {
} 496
} 1631
clear_buddies() {
} 496
update_min_vruntime() {
} 527
} 4580
hrtick_update() {
hrtick_start_fair() {
} 488
} 1489
} 13700
} 14949
} 16016
msecs_to_jiffies() {
} 496
put_prev_task_fair() {
} 504
pick_next_task_fair() {
} 489
pick_next_task_rt() {
} 496
pick_next_task_fair() {
} 489
pick_next_task_idle() {
} 489
------------8<---------- thread 4 ------------8<----------
finish_task_switch() {
} 1203
do_softirq() {
__do_softirq() {
__local_bh_disable() {
} 669
rcu_process_callbacks() {
__rcu_process_callbacks() {
cpu_quiet() {
rcu_start_batch() {
} 503
} 1647
} 3128
__rcu_process_callbacks() {
} 542
} 5362
_local_bh_enable() {
} 587
} 8880
} 9986
kthread_should_stop() {
} 669
deactivate_task() {
dequeue_task() {
dequeue_task_fair() {
dequeue_entity() {
update_curr() {
calc_delta_mine() {
} 511
update_min_vruntime() {
} 511
} 2813
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup
This patch changes the name of the "return function tracer" into
function-graph-tracer which is a more suitable name for a tracing
which makes one able to retrieve the ordered call stack during
the code flow.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: add new ftrace plugin
A prototype for a BTS ftrace plug-in.
The tracer collects branch trace in a cyclic buffer for each cpu.
The tracer is not configurable and the trace for each snapshot is
appended when doing cat /debug/tracing/trace.
This is a proof of concept that will be extended with future patches
to become a (hopefully) useful tool.
Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Add a callback to allow an ftrace plug-in to write its own header.
Move the call to trace->open() up a few lines.
The changes are required by the BTS ftrace plug-in.
Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: restructure DS memory allocation to be done by the usage site of DS
Require pre-allocated buffers in ds.h.
Move the BTS buffer allocation for ptrace into ptrace.c.
The pointer to the allocated buffer is stored in the traced task's
task_struct together with the handle returned by ds_request_bts().
Removes memory accounting code.
Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: generalize the DS code to shared buffers
Change the in-kernel ds.h interface to identify the tracer via a
handle returned on ds_request_~().
Tracers used to be identified via their task_struct.
The changes are required to allow DS to be shared between different
tasks, which is needed for perfmon2 and for ftrace.
For ptrace, the handle is stored in the traced task's task_struct.
This should probably go into a (arch-specific) ptrace context some
time.
Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: fix sleeping-with-spinlock-held bugs/crashes
- Turn a wrmsr to write the DS_AREA MSR into a wrmsrl.
- Use irqsave variants of spinlocks.
- Do not allocate memory while holding spinlocks.
Reported-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@googlemail.com>
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: fix DS hw enablement on 64-bit x86
Fix the PEBS record size in the DS configuration.
Reported-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup
Replace a macro with a static inline function.
Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup
Move the CONFIG guard from the .c file into the makefile.
Reported-by: Andi Kleen <andi-suse@firstfloor.org>
Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: fix theoretical option string parsing overflow
Since bridge is unsigned, it would seem better to use simple_strtoul that
simple_strtol.
A simplified version of the semantic patch that makes this change is as
follows: (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/)
// <smpl>
@r2@
long e;
position p;
@@
e = simple_strtol@p(...)
@@
position p != r2.p;
type T;
T e;
@@
e =
- simple_strtol@p
+ simple_strtoul
(...)
// </smpl>
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Cc: muli@il.ibm.com
Cc: jdmason@kudzu.us
Cc: discuss@x86-64.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: build fix with certain compilers
GCC can decide to use %dil when "r" is used, which is not valid for
setnz.
This bug was brought out by Stephen Rothwell's merging of the
branch tracer into linux-next.
[ Thanks to Uros Bizjak for recommending 'q' over 'Q' ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Stephen Rothwell reported tht this warning started triggering in
linux-next:
In file included from init/main.c:27:
include/linux/tty.h: In function ‘tty_kref_get’:
include/linux/tty.h:330: warning: ‘______f’ is static but declared in inline function ‘tty_kref_get’ which is not static
Which gcc emits for 'extern inline' functions that nevertheless define
static variables. Change it to 'static inline', which is the norm
in the kernel anyway.
Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: use standard docbook tags
Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Török Edwin <edwintorok@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: avoid losing some traces when a task is freed
do_exit() is not the last function called when a task finishes.
There are still some functions which are to be called such as
ree_task(). So we delay the freeing of the return stack to the
last moment.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: update documentation
Update to reflect the current state of the tracing framework:
- "none" tracer has been replaced by "nop" tracer
- tracing_enabled must be toggled when changing buffer size
Signed-off-by: Pekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: fix mmiotrace overrun tracing
When ftrace framework moved to use the ring buffer facility, the buffer
overrun detection was broken after 2.6.27 by commit
| commit 3928a8a2d9
| Author: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| Date: Mon Sep 29 23:02:41 2008 -0400
|
| ftrace: make work with new ring buffer
|
| This patch ports ftrace over to the new ring buffer.
The detection is now fixed by using the ring buffer API.
When mmiotrace detects a buffer overrun, it will report the number of
lost events. People reading an mmiotrace log must know if something was
missed, otherwise the data may not make sense.
Signed-off-by: Pekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: fix race
vma->vm_file reference is only stable while holding the mmap_sem,
so move usage of it to within the critical section.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: fix MSIx not enough irq numbers available regression
The manual revert of the sparse_irq patches missed to bring the number
of possible irqs back to the .27 status. This resulted in a regression
when two multichannel network cards were placed in a system with only
one IO_APIC - causing the networking driver to not have the right
IRQ and the device not coming up.
Remove the dynamic allocation logic leftovers and simply return
NR_IRQS in probe_nr_irqs() for now.
Fixes: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/11/19/354
Reported-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@diku.dk>
Acked-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup
User stack tracing is just implemented for x86, but it is not x86 specific.
Introduce a generic config flag, that is currently enabled only for x86.
When other arches implement it, they will have to
SELECT USER_STACKTRACE_SUPPORT.
Signed-off-by: Török Edwin <edwintorok@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: fix refcounting/object-access bug
Hold mmap_sem while looking up/accessing vma.
Hold the RCU lock while using the task we looked up.
Signed-off-by: Török Edwin <edwintorok@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: fix compiler warning
The ftrace_pointers used in the branch profiler are constant values.
They should never change. But the compiler complains when they are
passed into the debugfs_create_file as a data pointer, because the
function discards the qualifier.
This patch typecasts the parameter to debugfs_create_file back to
a void pointer. To remind the callbacks that they are pointing to
a constant value, I also modified the callback local pointers to
be const struct ftrace_pointer * as well.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: add new API to disable all of ftrace on anomalies
It case of a serious anomaly being detected (like something caught by
lockdep) it is a good idea to disable all tracing immediately, without
grabing any locks.
This patch adds ftrace_off_permanent that disables the tracers, function
tracing and ring buffers without a way to enable them again. This should
only be used when something serious has been detected.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: feature to permanently disable ring buffer
This patch adds a API to the ring buffer code that will permanently
disable the ring buffer from ever recording. This should only be
called when some serious anomaly is detected, and the system
may be in an unstable state. When that happens, shutting down the
recording to the ring buffers may be appropriate.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: extend scripts/recordmcount.pl to ARM
Arm uses %progbits instead of @progbits and requires only 4 byte alignment.
[ Thanks to Sam Ravnborg for mentioning that ARM uses %progbits ]
Signed-off-by: Jim Radford <radford@galvanix.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: extend scripts/recordmcount.pl with default alignment for SH
Set $alignment=2 for the sh architecture so that a ".align 2" directive
will be emitted for all __mcount_loc sections. Fix a whitspace error
while I'm here (converted spaces to tabs).
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <mjf@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: feature to profile if statements
This patch adds a branch profiler for all if () statements.
The results will be found in:
/debugfs/tracing/profile_branch
For example:
miss hit % Function File Line
------- --------- - -------- ---- ----
0 1 100 x86_64_start_reservations head64.c 127
0 1 100 copy_bootdata head64.c 69
1 0 0 x86_64_start_kernel head64.c 111
32 0 0 set_intr_gate desc.h 319
1 0 0 reserve_ebda_region head.c 51
1 0 0 reserve_ebda_region head.c 47
0 1 100 reserve_ebda_region head.c 42
0 0 X maxcpus main.c 165
Miss means the branch was not taken. Hit means the branch was taken.
The percent is the percentage the branch was taken.
This adds a significant amount of overhead and should only be used
by those analyzing their system.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup on output of branch profiler
When a branch has not been taken, it does not make sense to show
a percentage incorrect or hit. This patch changes the behaviour
to print out a 'X' when the branch has not been executed yet.
For example:
correct incorrect % Function File Line
------- --------- - -------- ---- ----
2096 0 0 do_arch_prctl process_64.c 832
0 0 X do_arch_prctl process_64.c 804
2604 0 0 IS_ERR err.h 34
130228 5765 4 __switch_to process_64.c 673
0 0 X enable_TSC process_64.c 448
0 0 X disable_TSC process_64.c 431
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: clean up to make one profiler of like and unlikely tracer
The likely and unlikely profiler prints out the file and line numbers
of the annotated branches that it is profiling. It shows the number
of times it was correct or incorrect in its guess. Having two
different files or sections for that matter to tell us if it was a
likely or unlikely is pretty pointless. We really only care if
it was correct or not.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: clean up of branch check
The unlikely/likely profiler does an extra assign of the f.line.
This is not needed since it is already calculated at compile time.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup of recordmcount.pl
Now that more architectures are being ported to the MCOUNT_RECORD
method, there is no reason to have each declare their own arch
specific variable if most of them share the same value. This patch
creates a set of default values for the arch specific variables
based off of i386.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: Add PowerPC port to recordmcount.pl script
This patch updates the recordmcount.pl script to process
PowerPC.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
First cut at dynamic ftrace support.
[
Steven Rostedt - only updated the recordmcount.pl file.
There are updates for PowerPC that will conflict with this,
and we need to base off of these changes.
]
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <mjf@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: fix initcall debug output on non-scalar ktime platforms (32-bit embedded)
The initcall_debug code access the tv64 member of ktime. This won't work
correctly for large deltas on platforms that don't use the scalar ktime
implementation.
Signed-off-by: Will Newton <will.newton@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Tim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: widen function-tracing to suspend+resume (and hibernation) sequences
Now that the ftrace kernel thread is gone, we can allow tracing
during suspend/resume again.
So revert these two commits:
f42ac38c5 "ftrace: disable tracing for suspend to ram"
41108eb10 "ftrace: disable tracing for hibernation"
This should be tested very carefully, as it could interact with
altneratives instruction patching, etc.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: modify+improve the userstacktrace tracing visualization feature
Store thread group leader id, and use it to lookup the address in the
process's map. We could have looked up the address on thread's map,
but the thread might not exist by the time we are called. The process
might not exist either, but if you are reading trace_pipe, that is
unlikely.
Example usage:
mount -t debugfs nodev /sys/kernel/debug
cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing
echo userstacktrace >iter_ctrl
echo sym-userobj >iter_ctrl
echo sched_switch >current_tracer
echo 1 >tracing_enabled
cat trace_pipe >/tmp/trace&
.... run application ...
echo 0 >tracing_enabled
cat /tmp/trace
You'll see stack entries like:
/lib/libpthread-2.7.so[+0xd370]
You can convert them to function/line using:
addr2line -fie /lib/libpthread-2.7.so 0xd370
Or:
addr2line -fie /usr/lib/debug/libpthread-2.7.so 0xd370
For non-PIC/PIE executables this won't work:
a.out[+0x73b]
You need to run the following: addr2line -fie a.out 0x40073b
(where 0x400000 is the default load address of a.out)
Signed-off-by: Török Edwin <edwintorok@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: expose new VFS API
make mangle_path() available, as per the suggestions of Christoph Hellwig
and Al Viro:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/11/4/338
Signed-off-by: Török Edwin <edwintorok@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: add new (default-off) tracing visualization feature
Usage example:
mount -t debugfs nodev /sys/kernel/debug
cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing
echo userstacktrace >iter_ctrl
echo sched_switch >current_tracer
echo 1 >tracing_enabled
.... run application ...
echo 0 >tracing_enabled
Then read one of 'trace','latency_trace','trace_pipe'.
To get the best output you can compile your userspace programs with
frame pointers (at least glibc + the app you are tracing).
Signed-off-by: Török Edwin <edwintorok@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: use deeper function tracing depth safely
Some tests showed that function return tracing needed a more deeper depth
of function calls. But it could be unsafe to store these return addresses
to the stack.
So these arrays will now be allocated dynamically into task_struct of current
only when the tracer is activated.
Typical scheme when tracer is activated:
- allocate a return stack for each task in global list.
- fork: allocate the return stack for the newly created task
- exit: free return stack of current
- idle init: same as fork
I chose a default depth of 50. I don't have overruns anymore.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
