Impact: clean up
Andrew Morton pointed out that the kernel convention of a variable
named page should be of type page struct. The ring buffer uses
a variable named "page" for a pointer to something else.
This patch converts those to be called "bpage" (as in "buffer page").
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: new ftrace_graph_stop function
While developing more features of function graph, I hit a bug that
caused the WARN_ON to trigger in the prepare_ftrace_return function.
Well, it was hard for me to find out that was happening because the
bug would not print, it would just cause a hard lockup or reboot.
The reason is that it is not safe to call printk from this function.
Looking further, I also found that it calls unregister_ftrace_graph,
which grabs a mutex and calls kstop machine. This would definitely
lock the box up if it were to trigger.
This patch adds a fast and safe ftrace_graph_stop() which will
stop the function tracer. Then it is safe to call the WARN ON.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: new API to ring buffer
This patch adds a new interface into the ring buffer that allows a
page to be read from the ring buffer on a given CPU. For every page
read, one must also be given to allow for a "swap" of the pages.
rpage = ring_buffer_alloc_read_page(buffer);
if (!rpage)
goto err;
ret = ring_buffer_read_page(buffer, &rpage, cpu, full);
if (!ret)
goto empty;
process_page(rpage);
ring_buffer_free_read_page(rpage);
The caller of these functions must handle any waits that are
needed to wait for new data. The ring_buffer_read_page will simply
return 0 if there is no data, or if "full" is set and the writer
is still on the current page.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: get ready for splice changes
This patch moves the commit and timestamp into the beginning of each
data page of the buffer. This change will allow the page to be moved
to another location (disk, network, etc) and still have information
in the page to be able to read it.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: fix for lockdep and ftrace
The raw_local_irq_save/restore confuses lockdep. This patch
converts them to the local_irq_save/restore variants.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: extend and enable the function graph tracer to 64-bit x86
This patch implements the support for function graph tracer under x86-64.
Both static and dynamic tracing are supported.
This causes some small CPP conditional asm on arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c I
wanted to use probe_kernel_read/write to make the return address
saving/patching code more generic but it causes tracing recursion.
That would be perhaps useful to implement a notrace version of these
function for other archs ports.
Note that arch/x86/process_64.c is not traced, as in X86-32. I first
thought __switch_to() was responsible of crashes during tracing because I
believed current task were changed inside but that's actually not the
case (actually yes, but not the "current" pointer).
So I will have to investigate to find the functions that harm here, to
enable tracing of the other functions inside (but there is no issue at
this time, while process_64.c stays out of -pg flags).
A little possible race condition is fixed inside this patch too. When the
tracer allocate a return stack dynamically, the current depth is not
initialized before but after. An interrupt could occur at this time and,
after seeing that the return stack is allocated, the tracer could try to
trace it with a random uninitialized depth. It's a prevention, even if I
hadn't problems with it.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Tim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: fix "no output from tracer" bug caused by ftrace_update_pid_func()
When disabling single thread function trace using
"echo -1 > set_ftrace_pid", the normal function trace
has to restore to original function, otherwise the normal
function trace will not work well.
Without this commit, something like below:
$ ps |grep 850
850 root 2556 S -/bin/sh
$ echo 850 > /debug/tracing/set_ftrace_pid
$ echo function > /debug/tracing/current_tracer
$ echo 1 > /debug/tracing/tracing_enabled
$ sleep 1
$ echo 0 > /debug/tracing/tracing_enabled
$ cat /debug/tracing/trace_pipe |wc -l
59704
$ echo -1 > /debug/tracing/set_ftrace_pid
$ echo 1 > /debug/tracing/tracing_enabled
$ sleep 1
$ echo 0 > /debug/tracing/tracing_enabled
$ more /debug/tracing/trace_pipe
<====== nothing output now!
it should output trace record.
Signed-off-by: Liming Wang <liming.wang@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: fix build error on branch tracer
This should fix a build error reported on alpha in linux-next:
CC kernel/trace/trace_branch.o
kernel/trace/trace_branch.c: In function 'probe_likely_condition':
kernel/trace/trace_branch.c:44: error: implicit declaration of function 'raw_local_irq_save'
kernel/trace/trace_branch.c:76: error: implicit declaration of function 'raw_local_irq_restore'
Unfortunately, I can't test it since I don't have any Alpha build environment.
Reported-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: make ftrace position computing more sane
First remove useless ->pos field. Then we needn't check seq_printf
in .show like other place.
Signed-off-by: Liming Wang <liming.wang@windriver.com>
Reviewed-by: Bruce Ashfield <bruce.ashfield@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
There are architectures that still have no stacktrace support.
Signed-off-by: Török Edwin <edwintorok@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: increase the visual qualities of the call-graph-tracer output
This patch applies various trace output formatting changes:
- CPU is now a decimal number, followed by a parenthesis.
- Overhead is now on the second column (gives a good visibility)
- Cost is now on the third column, can't exceed 9999.99 us. It is
followed by a virtual line based on a "|" character.
- Functions calls are now the last column on the right. This way, we
haven't dynamic column (which flow is harder to follow) on its right.
- CPU and Overhead have their own option flag. They are default-on but you
can disable them easily:
echo nofuncgraph-cpu > trace_options
echo nofuncgraph-overhead > trace_options
TODO:
_ Refactoring of the thread switch output.
_ Give a default-off option to output the thread and its pid on each row.
_ Provide headers
_ ....
Here is an example of the new trace style:
0) | mutex_unlock() {
0) 0.639 us | __mutex_unlock_slowpath();
0) 1.607 us | }
0) | remove_wait_queue() {
0) 0.616 us | _spin_lock_irqsave();
0) 0.616 us | _spin_unlock_irqrestore();
0) 2.779 us | }
0) 0.495 us | n_tty_set_room();
0) ! 9999.999 us | }
0) | tty_ldisc_deref() {
0) 0.615 us | _spin_lock_irqsave();
0) 0.616 us | _spin_unlock_irqrestore();
0) 2.793 us | }
0) | current_fs_time() {
0) 0.488 us | current_kernel_time();
0) 0.495 us | timespec_trunc();
0) 2.486 us | }
0) ! 9999.999 us | }
0) ! 9999.999 us | }
0) ! 9999.999 us | }
0) | sys_read() {
0) 0.796 us | fget_light();
0) | vfs_read() {
0) | rw_verify_area() {
0) | security_file_permission() {
0) 0.488 us | cap_file_permission();
0) 1.720 us | }
0) 3. 4 us | }
0) | tty_read() {
0) 0.488 us | tty_paranoia_check();
0) | tty_ldisc_ref_wait() {
0) | tty_ldisc_try() {
0) 0.615 us | _spin_lock_irqsave();
0) 0.615 us | _spin_unlock_irqrestore();
0) 5.436 us | }
0) 6.427 us | }
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: enhance the output of the graph-tracer
This patch applies some ideas of Ingo Molnar and Steven Rostedt.
* Output leaf functions in one line with parenthesis, semicolon and duration
output.
* Add a second column (after cpu) for an overhead sign.
if duration > 100 us, "!"
if duration > 10 us, "+"
else " "
* Print output in us with remaining nanosec: u.n
* Print duration on the right end, following the indentation of the functions.
Use also visual clues: "-" on entry call (no duration to output) and "+" on
return (duration output).
The name of the tracer has been fixed as well: function-branch becomes
function_branch.
Here is an example of the new output:
CPU[000] dequeue_entity() { -
CPU[000] update_curr() { -
CPU[000] update_min_vruntime(); + 0.512 us
CPU[000] } + 1.504 us
CPU[000] clear_buddies(); + 0.481 us
CPU[000] update_min_vruntime(); + 0.504 us
CPU[000] } + 4.557 us
CPU[000] hrtick_update() { -
CPU[000] hrtick_start_fair(); + 0.489 us
CPU[000] } + 1.443 us
CPU[000] + } + 14.655 us
CPU[000] + } + 15.678 us
CPU[000] + } + 16.686 us
CPU[000] msecs_to_jiffies(); + 0.481 us
CPU[000] put_prev_task_fair(); + 0.504 us
CPU[000] pick_next_task_fair(); + 0.482 us
CPU[000] pick_next_task_rt(); + 0.504 us
CPU[000] pick_next_task_fair(); + 0.481 us
CPU[000] pick_next_task_idle(); + 0.489 us
CPU[000] _spin_trylock(); + 0.655 us
CPU[000] _spin_unlock(); + 0.609 us
CPU[000] ------------8<---------- thread bash-2794 ------------8<----------
CPU[000] finish_task_switch() { -
CPU[000] _spin_unlock_irq(); + 0.722 us
CPU[000] } + 2.369 us
CPU[000] ! } + 501972.605 us
CPU[000] ! } + 501973.763 us
CPU[000] copy_from_read_buf() { -
CPU[000] _spin_lock_irqsave(); + 0.670 us
CPU[000] _spin_unlock_irqrestore(); + 0.699 us
CPU[000] copy_to_user() { -
CPU[000] might_fault() { -
CPU[000] __might_sleep(); + 0.503 us
CPU[000] } + 1.632 us
CPU[000] __copy_to_user_ll(); + 0.542 us
CPU[000] } + 3.858 us
CPU[000] tty_audit_add_data() { -
CPU[000] _spin_lock_irq(); + 0.609 us
CPU[000] _spin_unlock_irq(); + 0.624 us
CPU[000] } + 3.196 us
CPU[000] _spin_lock_irqsave(); + 0.624 us
CPU[000] _spin_unlock_irqrestore(); + 0.625 us
CPU[000] + } + 13.611 us
CPU[000] copy_from_read_buf() { -
CPU[000] _spin_lock_irqsave(); + 0.624 us
CPU[000] _spin_unlock_irqrestore(); + 0.616 us
CPU[000] } + 2.820 us
CPU[000]
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: new "power-tracer" ftrace plugin
This patch adds a C/P-state ftrace plugin that will generate
detailed statistics about the C/P-states that are being used,
so that we can look at detailed decisions that the C/P-state
code is making, rather than the too high level "average"
that we have today.
An example way of using this is:
mount -t debugfs none /sys/kernel/debug
echo cstate > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/current_tracer
echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/tracing_enabled
sleep 1
echo 0 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/tracing_enabled
cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace | perl scripts/trace/cstate.pl > out.svg
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: enhancement for function graph tracer
When run on a SMP box, the function graph tracer is confusing because
it shows the different CPUS as changes in the trace.
This patch adds the annotation of 'CPU[###]' where ### is a three digit
number. The output will look similar to this:
CPU[001] dput() {
CPU[000] } 726
CPU[001] } 487
CPU[000] do_softirq() {
CPU[001] } 2221
CPU[000] __do_softirq() {
CPU[000] __local_bh_disable() {
CPU[001] unroll_tree_refs() {
CPU[000] } 569
CPU[001] } 501
CPU[000] rcu_process_callbacks() {
CPU[001] kfree() {
What makes this nice is that now you can grep the file and produce
readable format for a particular CPU.
# cat /debug/tracing/trace > /tmp/trace
# grep '^CPU\[000\]' /tmp/trace > /tmp/trace0
# grep '^CPU\[001\]' /tmp/trace > /tmp/trace1
Will give you:
# head /tmp/trace0
CPU[000] ------------8<---------- thread sshd-3899 ------------8<----------
CPU[000] inotify_dentry_parent_queue_event() {
CPU[000] } 2531
CPU[000] inotify_inode_queue_event() {
CPU[000] } 505
CPU[000] } 69626
CPU[000] } 73089
CPU[000] audit_syscall_exit() {
CPU[000] path_put() {
CPU[000] dput() {
# head /tmp/trace1
CPU[001] ------------8<---------- thread pcscd-3446 ------------8<----------
CPU[001] } 4186
CPU[001] dput() {
CPU[001] } 543
CPU[001] vfs_permission() {
CPU[001] inode_permission() {
CPU[001] shmem_permission() {
CPU[001] generic_permission() {
CPU[001] } 501
CPU[001] } 2205
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: enhancement to function graph tracer
Export the trace_find_cmdline so the function graph tracer can
use it to print the comms of the threads.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: feature
This patch enables function tracing and function return to run together.
I've tested this by enabling the stack tracer and return tracer, where
both the function entry and function return are used together with
dynamic ftrace.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: more efficient code for ftrace graph tracer
This patch uses the dynamic patching, when available, to patch
the function graph code into the kernel.
This patch will ease the way for letting both function tracing
and function graph tracing run together.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: feature to function trace a single thread
This patch adds the ability to function trace a single thread.
The file:
/debugfs/tracing/set_ftrace_pid
contains the pid to trace. Valid pids are any positive integer.
Writing any negative number to this file will disable the pid
tracing and the function tracer will go back to tracing all of
threads.
This feature works with both static and dynamic function tracing.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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>
Impact: make output of stack_trace complete if buffer overruns
When read buffer overruns, the output of stack_trace isn't complete.
When printing records with seq_printf in t_show, if the read buffer
has overruned by the current record, then this record won't be
printed to user space through read buffer, it will just be dropped in
this printing.
When next printing, t_start should return the "*pos"th record, which
is the one dropped by previous printing, but it just returns
(m->private + *pos)th record.
Here we use a more sane method to implement seq_operations which can
be found in kernel code. Thus we needn't initialize m->private.
About testing, it's not easy to overrun read buffer, but we can use
seq_printf to print more padding bytes in t_show, then it's easy to
check whether or not records are lost.
This commit has been tested on both condition of overrun and non
overrun.
Signed-off-by: Liming Wang <liming.wang@windriver.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: clean up and fix for dyn ftrace filter selection
The previous logic of the dynamic ftrace selection of enabling
or disabling functions was complex and incorrect. This patch simplifies
the code and corrects the usage. This simplification also makes the
code more robust.
Here is the correct logic:
Given a function that can be traced by dynamic ftrace:
If the function is not to be traced, disable it if it was enabled.
(this is if the function is in the set_ftrace_notrace file)
(filter is on if there exists any functions in set_ftrace_filter file)
If the filter is on, and we are enabling functions:
If the function is in set_ftrace_filter, enable it if it is not
already enabled.
If the function is not in set_ftrace_filter, disable it if it is not
already disabled.
Otherwise, if the filter is off and we are enabling function tracing:
Enable the function if it is not already enabled.
Otherwise, if we are disabling function tracing:
Disable the function if it is not already disabled.
This code now sets or clears the ENABLED flag in the record, and at the
end it will enable the function if the flag is set, or disable the function
if the flag is cleared.
The parameters for the function that does the above logic is also
simplified. Instead of passing in confusing "new" and "old" where
they might be swapped if the "enabled" flag is not set. The old logic
even had one of the above always NULL and had to be filled in. The new
logic simply passes in one parameter called "nop". A "call" is calculated
in the code, and at the end of the logic, when we know we need to either
disable or enable the function, we can then use the "nop" and "call"
properly.
This code is more robust than the previous version.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: fix filter selection to apply when set
It can be confusing when the set_filter_functions is set (or cleared)
and the functions being recorded by the dynamic tracer does not
match.
This patch causes the code to be updated if the function tracer is
enabled and the filter is changed.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: fix of output of set_ftrace_filter
The commit "ftrace: do not show freed records in
available_filter_functions"
Removed a bit too much from the set_ftrace_filter code, where we now see
all functions in the set_ftrace_filter file even when we set a filter.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
