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Li Zefan
00e95830a4 tracing/filters: fix race between filter setting and module unload
Module unload is protected by event_mutex, while setting filter is
protected by filter_mutex. This leads to the race:

echo 'bar == 0 || bar == 10' \    |
		> sample/filter   |
                                  |  insmod sample.ko
  add_pred("bar == 0")            |
    -> n_preds == 1               |
  add_pred("bar == 100")          |
    -> n_preds == 2               |
                                  |  rmmod sample.ko
                                  |  insmod sample.ko
  add_pred("&&")                  |
    -> n_preds == 1 (should be 3) |

Now event->filter->preds is corrupted. An then when filter_match_preds()
is called, the WARN_ON() in it will be triggered.

To avoid the race, we remove filter_mutex, and replace it with event_mutex.

[ Impact: prevent corruption of filters by module removing and loading ]

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A375A4D.6000205@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-06-16 16:25:37 -04:00
Li Zefan
57be88878e tracing/filters: free filter_string in destroy_preds()
filter->filter_string is not freed when unloading a module:

 # insmod trace-events-sample.ko
 # echo "bar < 100" > /mnt/tracing/events/sample/foo_bar/filter
 # rmmod trace-events-sample.ko

[ Impact: fix memory leak when unloading module ]

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A375A30.9060802@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-06-16 16:25:35 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
fa7439531d ring-buffer: use commit counters for commit pointer accounting
The ring buffer is made up of three sets of pointers.

The head page pointer, which points to the next page for the reader to
get.

The commit pointer and commit index, which points to the page and index
of the last committed write respectively.

The tail pointer and tail index, which points to the page and the index
of the last reserved data respectively (non committed).

The commit pointer is only moved forward by the outer most writer.
If a nested writer comes in, it will not move the pointer forward.

The current implementation has a flaw. It assumes that the outer most
writer successfully reserved data. There's a small race window where
the outer most writer could find the tail pointer, but a nested
writer could come in (via interrupt) and move the tail forward, and
even the commit forward.

The outer writer would not realized the commit moved forward and the
accounting will break.

This patch changes the design to use counters in the per cpu buffers
to keep track of commits. The counters are incremented at the start
of the commit, and decremented at the end. If the end commit counter
is 1, then it moves the commit pointers. A loop is made to check for
races between checking and moving the commit pointers. Only the outer
commit should move the pointers anyway.

The test of knowing if a reserve is equal to the last commit update
is still needed to know for time keeping. The time code is much less
racey than the commit updates.

This change not only solves the mentioned race, but also makes the
code simpler.

[ Impact: fix commit race and simplify code ]

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-06-16 16:25:33 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
263294f3e1 ring-buffer: remove unused variable
Fix the compiler error:

kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c: In function 'rb_move_tail':
kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c:1236: warning: unused variable 'event'

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-06-16 16:24:39 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
b3fec0fe35 Merge branch 'for-linus2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vegard/kmemcheck
* 'for-linus2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vegard/kmemcheck: (39 commits)
  signal: fix __send_signal() false positive kmemcheck warning
  fs: fix do_mount_root() false positive kmemcheck warning
  fs: introduce __getname_gfp()
  trace: annotate bitfields in struct ring_buffer_event
  net: annotate struct sock bitfield
  c2port: annotate bitfield for kmemcheck
  net: annotate inet_timewait_sock bitfields
  ieee1394/csr1212: fix false positive kmemcheck report
  ieee1394: annotate bitfield
  net: annotate bitfields in struct inet_sock
  net: use kmemcheck bitfields API for skbuff
  kmemcheck: introduce bitfield API
  kmemcheck: add opcode self-testing at boot
  x86: unify pte_hidden
  x86: make _PAGE_HIDDEN conditional
  kmemcheck: make kconfig accessible for other architectures
  kmemcheck: enable in the x86 Kconfig
  kmemcheck: add hooks for the page allocator
  kmemcheck: add hooks for page- and sg-dma-mappings
  kmemcheck: don't track page tables
  ...
2009-06-16 13:09:51 -07:00
Steven Rostedt
9086c7b90a ring-buffer: have benchmark test handle discarded events
With the addition of commit:

  c7b0930857
  ring-buffer: prevent adding write in discarded area

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

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

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

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-06-16 13:48:52 -04:00
GeunSik Lim
156f5a7801 debugfs: Fix terminology inconsistency of dir name to mount debugfs filesystem.
Many developers use "/debug/" or "/debugfs/" or "/sys/kernel/debug/"
directory name to mount debugfs filesystem for ftrace according to
./Documentation/tracers/ftrace.txt file.

And, three directory names(ex:/debug/, /debugfs/, /sys/kernel/debug/) is
existed in kernel source like ftrace, DRM, Wireless, Documentation,
Network[sky2]files to mount debugfs filesystem.

debugfs means debug filesystem for debugging easy to use by greg kroah
hartman. "/sys/kernel/debug/" name is suitable as directory name
of debugfs filesystem.
- debugfs related reference: http://lwn.net/Articles/334546/

Fix inconsistency of directory name to mount debugfs filesystem.

* From Steven Rostedt
  - find_debugfs() and tracing_files() in this patch.

Signed-off-by: GeunSik Lim <geunsik.lim@samsung.com>
Acked-by     : Inaky Perez-Gonzalez <inaky@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by  : Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Reviewed-by  : James Smart <james.smart@emulex.com>
CC: Jiri Kosina <trivial@kernel.org>
CC: David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
CC: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>
CC: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
CC: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
CC: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-06-15 21:30:28 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
19035e5b5d Merge branch 'timers-for-linus-migration' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'timers-for-linus-migration' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  timers: Logic to move non pinned timers
  timers: /proc/sys sysctl hook to enable timer migration
  timers: Identifying the existing pinned timers
  timers: Framework for identifying pinned timers
  timers: allow deferrable timers for intervals tv2-tv5 to be deferred

Fix up conflicts in kernel/sched.c and kernel/timer.c manually
2009-06-15 10:06:19 -07:00
Steven Rostedt
c7b0930857 ring-buffer: prevent adding write in discarded area
This a very tight race where an interrupt could come in and not
have enough data to put into the end of a buffer page, and that
it would fail to write and need to go to the next page.

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

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

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

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

It can cause system crash:

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

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

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

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

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

Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A35B8DF.60400@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-06-15 11:37:16 -04:00
Li Zefan
e4f2d10f47 tracing: replace a GFP_ATOMIC with GFP_KERNEL allocation
Atomic allocation is not needed here.

[ Impact: clean up of memory alloction type ]

Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A35B898.2050607@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-06-15 11:37:14 -04:00
Li Zefan
215368e8e5 tracing: fix a typo in tracing_cpumask_write()
It's tracing_cpumask_new that should be kfree()ed.

This causes tracing_cpumask to be freed due to the typo:

 # echo z > tracing_cpumask
 bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument

And subsequent reads/writes to tracing_cpuamsk will access this
already-freed tracing_cpumask, thus may lead to crash.

[ Impact: fix leak and crash when writing invalid val to tracing_cpumask ]

Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A35B86A.7070608@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-06-15 11:37:12 -04:00
Rusty Russell
3f237a79dd cpumask: use new operators in kernel/trace
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
LKML-Reference: <200906122115.30787.rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-06-15 11:36:42 -04:00
Vegard Nossum
1744a21d57 trace: annotate bitfields in struct ring_buffer_event
This gets rid of a heap of false-positive warnings from the tracer
code due to the use of bitfields.

[rebased for mainline inclusion]
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
2009-06-15 15:49:37 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
c9059598ea Merge branch 'for-2.6.31' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block
* 'for-2.6.31' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (153 commits)
  block: add request clone interface (v2)
  floppy: fix hibernation
  ramdisk: remove long-deprecated "ramdisk=" boot-time parameter
  fs/bio.c: add missing __user annotation
  block: prevent possible io_context->refcount overflow
  Add serial number support for virtio_blk, V4a
  block: Add missing bounce_pfn stacking and fix comments
  Revert "block: Fix bounce limit setting in DM"
  cciss: decode unit attention in SCSI error handling code
  cciss: Remove no longer needed sendcmd reject processing code
  cciss: change SCSI error handling routines to work with interrupts enabled.
  cciss: separate error processing and command retrying code in sendcmd_withirq_core()
  cciss: factor out fix target status processing code from sendcmd functions
  cciss: simplify interface of sendcmd() and sendcmd_withirq()
  cciss: factor out core of sendcmd_withirq() for use by SCSI error handling code
  cciss: Use schedule_timeout_uninterruptible in SCSI error handling code
  block: needs to set the residual length of a bidi request
  Revert "block: implement blkdev_readpages"
  block: Fix bounce limit setting in DM
  Removed reference to non-existing file Documentation/PCI/PCI-DMA-mapping.txt
  ...

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

Manually fix trivial conflict in kernel/trace/ftrace.c
2009-06-10 19:58:10 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
8623661180 Merge branch 'tracing-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'tracing-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (244 commits)
  Revert "x86, bts: reenable ptrace branch trace support"
  tracing: do not translate event helper macros in print format
  ftrace/documentation: fix typo in function grapher name
  tracing/events: convert block trace points to TRACE_EVENT(), fix !CONFIG_BLOCK
  tracing: add protection around module events unload
  tracing: add trace_seq_vprint interface
  tracing: fix the block trace points print size
  tracing/events: convert block trace points to TRACE_EVENT()
  ring-buffer: fix ret in rb_add_time_stamp
  ring-buffer: pass in lockdep class key for reader_lock
  tracing: add annotation to what type of stack trace is recorded
  tracing: fix multiple use of __print_flags and __print_symbolic
  tracing/events: fix output format of user stack
  tracing/events: fix output format of kernel stack
  tracing/trace_stack: fix the number of entries in the header
  ring-buffer: discard timestamps that are at the start of the buffer
  ring-buffer: try to discard unneeded timestamps
  ring-buffer: fix bug in ring_buffer_discard_commit
  ftrace: do not profile functions when disabled
  tracing: make trace pipe recognize latency format flag
  ...
2009-06-10 19:53:40 -07:00
Steven Rostedt
110bf2b764 tracing: add protection around module events unload
When reading the trace buffer, there is a race that when a module
is unloaded it removes events that is stilled referenced in the buffers.
This patch adds the protection around the unloading of the events
from modules and the reading of the trace buffers.

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

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

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

Cons:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Following are some comparisons between TRACE_EVENT and blktrace:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Changelog from v2 -> v3:

- use the newly introduced __dynamic_array().

Changelog from v1 -> v2:

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

- support large pc requests.

- add missing blk_fill_rwbs_rq() in block_rq_requeue TRACE_EVENT.

- some cleanups.

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

[ Impact: fix compiler warning and real bug ]

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

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

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

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

[ store key in ring buffer descriptor ]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

before fix:

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

after fix:

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

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

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

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

before fix:

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

After fix:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[ Impact: prevent time stamps from filling ring buffer ]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Here's the patch for the simple fix:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

	TP_fast_assign(
		char *name = __get_str(name);

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

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

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

[ Impact: allow defining dynamic size arrays ]

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

[ Impact: clean up kconfig menu ]

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

 The event tracer and sched switch tracer.

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

  config EVENT_TRACER
	bool "prompt"
	depends on TRACING
	select TRACING

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

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

[ Impact: hide options that are selected by default ]

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

This patch adds two new ftrace command line commands.

  ftrace_notrace=function-list
  ftrace_filter=function-list

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

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

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

	ftrace_notrace=rcu*,*lock,*spin*

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

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

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

[ Impact: cleanup list use is stat tracing ]

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

[ Impact: clean up ]

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

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

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

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

The correct output should be:

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

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

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

[ Impact: fix the output of trace_stat/workqueues ]

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

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

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

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

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

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

Just keep "struct stat_session" for this type.

[ Impact: make the code a bit more readable ]

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

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

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

   1  35365      35365       events/1
   ...

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

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

[ Impact: provide more readable code ]

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

[ Impact: cleanup ]

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

[ Impact: cleanup ]

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

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

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

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

[ Impact: expand workqueue tracer to events tracing ]

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

To fix this explicitly disable and enable preemption.

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

[ Impact: fix preempt-unsafe raw spinlock ]

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

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

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

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

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

[
  v2 changes include:

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

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

[
  v3 changes:

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

[ Impact: better displaying of flags in trace output ]

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

[ Impact: factorize and cleanup event tracing code ]

Signed-off-by: Zhao Lei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A14FDFE.2080402@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2009-05-26 03:30:31 +02:00
Zhaolei
b11c53e12f ftrace: Add task_comm support for trace_event
If we enable a trace event alone without any tracer running (such as
function tracer, sched switch tracer, etc...) it can't output enough
task command information.

We need to use the tracing_{start/stop}_cmdline_record() helpers
which are designed to keep track of cmdlines for any tasks that
were scheduled during the tracing.

Before this patch:
 # echo 1 > debugfs/tracing/events/sched/sched_switch/enable
 # cat debugfs/tracing/trace
 # tracer: nop
 #
 #           TASK-PID    CPU#    TIMESTAMP  FUNCTION
 #              | |       |          |         |
            <...>-2289  [000] 526276.724790: sched_switch: task bash:2289 [120] ==> sshd:2287 [120]
            <...>-2287  [000] 526276.725231: sched_switch: task sshd:2287 [120] ==> bash:2289 [120]
            <...>-2289  [000] 526276.725452: sched_switch: task bash:2289 [120] ==> sshd:2287 [120]
            <...>-2287  [000] 526276.727181: sched_switch: task sshd:2287 [120] ==> swapper:0 [140]
           <idle>-0     [000] 526277.032734: sched_switch: task swapper:0 [140] ==> events/0:5 [115]
            <...>-5     [000] 526277.032782: sched_switch: task events/0:5 [115] ==> swapper:0 [140]
 ...

After this patch:
 # tracer: nop
 #
 #           TASK-PID    CPU#    TIMESTAMP  FUNCTION
 #              | |       |          |         |
             bash-2269  [000] 527347.989229: sched_switch: task bash:2269 [120] ==> sshd:2267 [120]
             sshd-2267  [000] 527347.990960: sched_switch: task sshd:2267 [120] ==> bash:2269 [120]
             bash-2269  [000] 527347.991143: sched_switch: task bash:2269 [120] ==> sshd:2267 [120]
             sshd-2267  [000] 527347.992959: sched_switch: task sshd:2267 [120] ==> swapper:0 [140]
           <idle>-0     [000] 527348.531989: sched_switch: task swapper:0 [140] ==> events/0:5 [115]
         events/0-5     [000] 527348.532115: sched_switch: task events/0:5 [115] ==> swapper:0 [140]
 ...

Changelog:
v1->v2: Update Kconfig to select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER in
        ENABLE_EVENT_TRACING
v2->v3: v2 can solve problem that was caused by config EVENT_TRACING
        alone, but when CONFIG_FTRACE is off and CONFIG_TRACING is
        selected by other config, compile fail happened again.
        This version solves it.

[ Impact: fix incomplete output of event tracing ]

Signed-off-by: Zhao Lei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <4A14FDFE.2080402@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2009-05-26 03:03:21 +02:00
Lai Jiangshan
4f5359685a tracing: add trace_event_read_lock()
I found that there is nothing to protect event_hash in
ftrace_find_event(). Rcu protects the event hashlist
but not the event itself while we use it after its extraction
through ftrace_find_event().

This lack of a proper locking in this spot opens a race
window between any event dereferencing and module removal.

Eg:

--Task A--

print_trace_line(trace) {
  event = find_ftrace_event(trace)

--Task B--

trace_module_remove_events(mod) {
  list_trace_events_module(ev, mod) {
    unregister_ftrace_event(ev->event) {
      hlist_del(ev->event->node)
        list_del(....)
    }
  }
}
|--> module removed, the event has been dropped

--Task A--

  event->print(trace); // Dereferencing freed memory

If the event retrieved belongs to a module and this module
is concurrently removed, we may end up dereferencing a data
from a freed module.

RCU could solve this, but it would add latency to the kernel and
forbid tracers output callbacks to call any sleepable code.
So this fix converts 'trace_event_mutex' to a read/write semaphore,
and adds trace_event_read_lock() to protect ftrace_find_event().

[ Impact: fix possible freed memory dereference in ftrace ]

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <4A114806.7090302@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2009-05-25 23:53:41 +02:00
Jens Axboe
e4b636366c Merge branch 'master' into for-2.6.31
Conflicts:
	drivers/block/hd.c
	drivers/block/mg_disk.c

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-05-22 20:25:34 +02:00
Ming Lei
5537937696 ftrace: fix check for return value of register_module_notifier in event_trace_init
register_module_notifier() returns zero in the success case.
So fix the inverted fail case check in trace events modules
handler.

[ Impact: fix spurious warning on ftrace initialization]

Reported-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2009-05-20 19:23:11 +02:00
Stefan Raspl
fd51d251e4 blktrace: remove debugfs entries on bad path
debugfs directory entries for devices are not removed on some
of the failure pathes in do_blk_trace_setup().
One way to reproduce is to start blktrace on multiple devices
with insufficient Vmalloc space: Devices will fail with
a message like this:

	BLKTRACESETUP(2) /dev/sdu failed: 5/Input/output error

If so, the respective entries in debugfs
(e.g. /sys/kernel/debug/block/sdu) will remain and subsequent
attempts to start blktrace on the respective devices will not
succeed due to existing directories.

[ Impact: fix /debug/tracing file cleanup corner case ]

Signed-off-by: Stefan Raspl <stefan.raspl@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: schwidefsky@de.ibm.com
Cc: heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com
LKML-Reference: <4A1266CC.5040801@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-19 10:29:21 +02:00
Ming Lei
24ed0c4bfc tracing: fix check for return value of register_module_notifier
return zero should be correct, so fix it.

[ Impact: eliminate incorrect syslog message ]

Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
LKML-Reference: <1242545498-7285-1-git-send-email-tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-18 10:24:13 +02:00
GeunSik Lim
88fc86c283 tracing: Append prompt in /debug/tracing/README file
append prompt in /debug/tracing/README file.

This is trivial issue. Fix typo Mini Howto file(README) for ftrace.

[ Impact: cleanup ]

Signed-off-by: GeunSik Lim <geunsik.lim@samsung.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: williams <williams@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1242289418.31161.45.camel@centos51>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-15 19:43:22 +02:00
Li Zefan
5872144f64 tracing/filters: fix off-by-one bug
We should leave the last slot for the ending '\0'.

[ Impact: fix possible crash when the length of an operand is 128 ]

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A0CDC8C.30602@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-05-14 23:55:12 -04:00
Li Zefan
8cd995b6de tracing/filters: add missing unlock in a failure path
[ Impact: fix deadlock in a rare case we fail to allocate memory ]

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A0CDC6F.7070200@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-05-14 23:55:10 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
1ec7c4849c tracing: stop stack trace on first empty entry
The stack tracer stores eight entries in the ring buffer when an event
traces the stack. The output outputs all eight entries regardless of
how many entries were recorded.

This patch breaks out of the loop when a null entry is discovered.

[ Impact: only print the stack that is recorded ]

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-05-14 23:40:06 -04:00
Arun R Bharadwaj
5c333864a6 timers: Identifying the existing pinned timers
* Arun R Bharadwaj <arun@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [2009-04-16 12:11:36]:

The following pinned hrtimers have been identified and marked:
1)sched_rt_period_timer
2)tick_sched_timer
3)stack_trace_timer_fn

[ tglx: fixup the hrtimer pinned mode ]

Signed-off-by: Arun R Bharadwaj <arun@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2009-05-13 16:52:42 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
168b6b1d05 ring-buffer: move code around to remove some branches
This is a bit of micro-optimizations. But since the ring buffer is used
in tracing every function call, it is an extreme hot path. Every nanosecond
counts.

This change shows over 5% improvement in the ring-buffer-benchmark.

[ Impact: more efficient code ]

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-05-11 23:33:06 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
88eb012536 ring-buffer: use internal time stamp function
The ring_buffer_time_stamp that is exported adds a little more overhead
than is needed for using it internally. This patch adds an internal
timestamp function that can be inlined (a single line function)
and used internally for the ring buffer.

[ Impact: a little less overhead to the ring buffer ]

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-05-11 23:14:03 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
0f0c85fc80 ring-buffer: small optimizations
Doing some small changes in the fast path of the ring buffer recording
saves over 3% in the ring-buffer-benchmark test.

[ Impact: a little faster ring buffer recording ]

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-05-11 23:12:34 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
be957c447f ring-buffer: move calculation of event length
The event length is calculated and passed in to rb_reserve_next_event
in two different locations. Having rb_reserve_next_event do the
calculations directly makes only one location to do the change and
causes the calculation to be inlined by gcc.

Before:
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
  16538      24      12   16574    40be kernel/trace/ring_buffer.o

After:
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
  16490      24      12   16526    408e kernel/trace/ring_buffer.o

[ Impact: smaller more efficient code ]

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-05-11 14:42:53 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
1cd8d73589 ring-buffer: remove type parameter from rb_reserve_next_event
The rb_reserve_next_event is only called for the data type (type = 0).
There is no reason to pass in the type to the function.

Before:
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
  16554      24      12   16590    40ce kernel/trace/ring_buffer.o

After:
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
  16538      24      12   16574    40be kernel/trace/ring_buffer.o

[ Impact: cleaner, smaller and slightly more efficient code ]

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-05-11 14:19:00 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
d988ff94c1 ring-buffer: check for divide by zero in ring-buffer-benchmark
Although we check if "missed" is not zero, we divide by hit + missed,
and the addition can possible overflow and become a divide by zero.

This patch checks for this case, and will report it when it happens
then modify "hit" to make the calculation be non zero.

[ Impact: prevent possible divide by zero in ring-buffer-benchmark ]

Reported-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-05-11 13:22:26 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
5a772b2b3c ring-buffer: replace constants with time macros in ring-buffer-benchmark
The use of numeric constants is discouraged. It is cleaner and more
descriptive to use macros for constant time conversions.

This patch also removes an extra new line.

[ Impact: more descriptive time conversions ]

Reported-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-05-11 13:22:26 -04:00
Li Zefan
0498625793 blktrace: pdu_buf of pc events should be unsigned
I got this:
  8,0    1   305.417782332  2037  I   R 32 (ffffff9e 10 00 ...) [bash]

It should be:
  8,0    1   305.417782332  2037  I   R 32 (9e 10 00 ...) [bash]

[ Impact: fix output of pc events ]

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A07C6B3.9080802@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-11 12:25:50 +02:00
Tejun Heo
2e46e8b27a block: drop request->hard_* and *nr_sectors
struct request has had a few different ways to represent some
properties of a request.  ->hard_* represent block layer's view of the
request progress (completion cursor) and the ones without the prefix
are supposed to represent the issue cursor and allowed to be updated
as necessary by the low level drivers.  The thing is that as block
layer supports partial completion, the two cursors really aren't
necessary and only cause confusion.  In addition, manual management of
request detail from low level drivers is cumbersome and error-prone at
the very least.

Another interesting duplicate fields are rq->[hard_]nr_sectors and
rq->{hard_cur|current}_nr_sectors against rq->data_len and
rq->bio->bi_size.  This is more convoluted than the hard_ case.

rq->[hard_]nr_sectors are initialized for requests with bio but
blk_rq_bytes() uses it only for !pc requests.  rq->data_len is
initialized for all request but blk_rq_bytes() uses it only for pc
requests.  This causes good amount of confusion throughout block layer
and its drivers and determining the request length has been a bit of
black magic which may or may not work depending on circumstances and
what the specific LLD is actually doing.

rq->{hard_cur|current}_nr_sectors represent the number of sectors in
the contiguous data area at the front.  This is mainly used by drivers
which transfers data by walking request segment-by-segment.  This
value always equals rq->bio->bi_size >> 9.  However, data length for
pc requests may not be multiple of 512 bytes and using this field
becomes a bit confusing.

In general, having multiple fields to represent the same property
leads only to confusion and subtle bugs.  With recent block low level
driver cleanups, no driver is accessing or manipulating these
duplicate fields directly.  Drop all the duplicates.  Now rq->sector
means the current sector, rq->data_len the current total length and
rq->bio->bi_size the current segment length.  Everything else is
defined in terms of these three and available only through accessors.

* blk_recalc_rq_sectors() is collapsed into blk_update_request() and
  now handles pc and fs requests equally other than rq->sector update.
  This means that now pc requests can use partial completion too (no
  in-kernel user yet tho).

* bio_cur_sectors() is replaced with bio_cur_bytes() as block layer
  now uses byte count as the primary data length.

* blk_rq_pos() is now guranteed to be always correct.  In-block users
  converted.

* blk_rq_bytes() is now guaranteed to be always valid as is
  blk_rq_sectors().  In-block users converted.

* blk_rq_sectors() is now guaranteed to equal blk_rq_bytes() >> 9.
  More convenient one is used.

* blk_rq_bytes() and blk_rq_cur_bytes() are now inlined and take const
  pointer to request.

[ Impact: API cleanup, single way to represent one property of a request ]

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-05-11 09:50:54 +02:00
Tejun Heo
5b93629b45 block: implement blk_rq_pos/[cur_]sectors() and convert obvious ones
Implement accessors - blk_rq_pos(), blk_rq_sectors() and
blk_rq_cur_sectors() which return rq->hard_sector, rq->hard_nr_sectors
and rq->hard_cur_sectors respectively and convert direct references of
the said fields to the accessors.

This is in preparation of request data length handling cleanup.

Geert	: suggested adding const to struct request * parameter to accessors
Sergei	: spotted error in patch description

[ Impact: cleanup ]

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com>
Acked-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Tested-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Acked-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Ackec-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@googlemail.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-05-11 09:50:53 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
4671c79408 tracing: add trace_set_clr_event to export event enabling function
Other parts of the kernel may need to be able to enable or disable
specific events. Especially parts that create trace events.

[ Impact: allow enabling of trace events by those that create the event ]

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-05-08 16:30:26 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
29f93943d1 tracing: initialize return value for __ftrace_set_clr_event
Commit 8f31bfe538
tracing/events: clean up for ftrace_set_clr_event()

Moved out the code for ftrace_set_clr_event into a helper funciton but
did not initialize the return value. As a result, we do not warn about
a typo in the echoing of events in set_event.

This patch restores the old warning:

 # echo foobar > set_event
-bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument

[ Impact: restore warning of invalid entries to set_event ]

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-05-08 16:06:47 -04:00
Li Zefan
c142b15dc5 tracing/events: simplify system_enable_read()
A smarter way to figure out the output of an enable file.

[ Impact: clean up ]

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A0399A5.2080603@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-08 14:00:36 +02:00
Li Zefan
8f31bfe538 tracing/events: clean up for ftrace_set_clr_event()
Add a helper function __ftrace_set_clr_event(), and replace some
ftrace_set_clr_event() calls with this helper, thus we don't need any
kstrdup() or kmalloc().

As a side effect, this patch fixes an issue in self tests code, which is
similar to the one fixed in commit d6bf81ef0f
("tracing: append ":*" to internal setting of system events")

It's a small issue and won't cause any bug in fact, but we should do things
right anyway.

[ Impact: prevent spurious event-enabling in tracing self-tests ]

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A03998E.3020503@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-08 14:00:35 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
74f4fd2166 ring-buffer: change WARN_ON from checking preempt_count to preemptible
There's a WARN_ON in the ring buffer code that makes sure preemption
is disabled. It checks "!preempt_count()". But when CONFIG_PREEMPT is not
enabled, preempt_count() is always zero, and this will trigger the warning.

[ Impact: prevent false warning on non preemptible kernels ]

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-05-07 20:01:11 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
7da3046d6c ring-buffer: add total count in ring-buffer-benchmark
It is nice to see the overhead of the benchmark test when tracing is
disabled. That is, we turn off the ring buffer just to see what the
cost of running the loop that calls into the ring buffer is.

Currently, if no entries wer made, we get 0. This is not informative.
This patch changes it to check if we had any "missed" (non recorded)
events. If so, a total count is also reported.

[ Impact: evaluate the over head of the ring buffer benchmark test ]

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-05-07 19:52:20 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
0574ea421b ring-buffer: only periodically call cond_resched to ring-buffer-benchmark
Calling cond_resched at every iteration of the loop adds a bit of
overhead to the benchmark.

This patch does two things.

1) only calls cond-resched when CONFIG_PREEMPT is not enabled
2) only calls cond-resched after so many traces has been performed.

[ Impact: less overhead to the ring-buffer-benchmark ]

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-05-07 14:20:28 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
65b7724204 tracing: have menu default enabled when kernel debug is configured
Tracing can be very helpful to debug the kernel. When DEBUG_KERNEL is
enabled it is nice to enable the trace menu as well.

This patch only make the tracing menu enabled by default, it does not
make any of the tracers enabled. And the menu is only enabled by
default if DEBUG_KERNEL is enabled.

[ Impact: show tracing options to those debugging the kernel ]

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-05-07 12:49:27 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
d6bf81ef0f tracing: append ":*" to internal setting of system events
The system enabling of events uses the same code as the set_event file.
It passes in the name of the system to the parser and that will enable
all the events that has that system as a name.

The problem is that it will also enable events with the same name as the
system.

If you have system name foo, and system name bar, but within the system
bar, there exists an event called foo. By setting the system name foo,
you will also be enabling the event foo in the system bar. This is not
an expected result.

The solution is to pass in "foo:*", which will only enable the system
foo and not events called foo.

[ Impact: prevent accidental enabling of events with same name as a system ]

Reported-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-05-07 11:49:35 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
29c8000ee7 ring-buffer: remove complex calculations in ring-buffer-test
Ingo Molnar thought that the code to calculate the time in cond_resched
is a bit too ugly and is not needed. This patch removes it and replaces
it with a simple call to cond_resched. I kept the comment that explains
the reason for the cond_resched.

[ Impact: remove ugly code ]

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-05-07 11:16:18 -04:00
Ingo Molnar
0ad5d703c6 Merge branch 'tracing/hw-branch-tracing' into tracing/core
Merge reason: this topic is ready for upstream now. It passed
              Oleg's review and Andrew had no further mm/*
              objections/observations either.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-07 13:36:22 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
44347d947f Merge branch 'linus' into tracing/core
Merge reason: tracing/core was on a .30-rc1 base and was missing out on
              on a handful of tracing fixes present in .30-rc5-almost.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-07 11:17:34 +02:00
Li Zefan
d94fc523f3 tracing/events: fix concurrent access to ftrace_events list, fix
In filter_add_subsystem_pred() we should release event_mutex before
calling filter_free_subsystem_preds(), since both functions hold
event_mutex.

[ Impact: fix deadlock when writing invalid pred into subsystem filter ]

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: tzanussi@gmail.com
Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
LKML-Reference: <4A028993.7020509@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-07 10:07:28 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
5928c3cc0f tracing/filters: support for operator reserved characters in strings
When we set a filter for an event, such as:

echo "name == my_lock_name" > \
	/debug/tracing/events/lockdep/lock_acquired/filter

then the following order of token type is parsed:

- space
- operator
- parentheses
- operand

Because the operators and parentheses have a higher precedence
than the operand characters, which is normal, then we can't
use any string containing such special characters:

()=<>!&|

To get this support and also avoid ambiguous intepretation from
the parser or the human, we can do it using double quotes so that
we keep the usual languages habits.

Then after this patch you can still declare string condition like
before:

echo name == myname

But if you want to compare against a string containing an operator
character, you can use double quotes:

echo 'name == "&myname"'

Don't forget to include the whole expression into single quotes or
the double ones will be eaten by echo.

[ Impact: support strings with special characters for tracing filters ]

Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Zhaolei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2009-05-07 10:05:57 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
e8808c1019 tracing/filters: support for filters of dynamic sized arrays
Currently the filtering infrastructure supports well the
numeric types and fixed sized array types.

But the recently added __string() field uses a specific
indirect offset mechanism which requires a specific
predicate. Until now it wasn't supported.

This patch adds this support and implies very few changes,
only a new predicate is needed, the management of this specific
field can be done through the usual string helpers in the
filtering infrastructure.

[ Impact: support all kinds of strings in the tracing filters ]

Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Zhaolei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2009-05-07 10:05:57 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
8ae79a138e tracing: add hierarchical enabling of events
With the current event directory, you can only enable individual events.
The file debugfs/tracing/set_event is used to be able to enable or
disable several events at once. But that can still be awkward.

This patch adds hierarchical enabling of events. That is, each directory
in debugfs/tracing/events has an "enable" file. This file can enable
or disable all events within the directory and below.

 # echo 1 > /debugfs/tracing/events/enable

will enable all events.

 # echo 1 > /debugfs/tracing/events/sched/enable

will enable all events in the sched subsystem.

 # echo 1 > /debugfs/tracing/events/enable
 # echo 0 > /debugfs/tracing/events/irq/enable

will enable all events, but then disable just the irq subsystem events.

When reading one of these enable files, there are four results:

 0 - all events this file affects are disabled
 1 - all events this file affects are enabled
 X - there is a mixture of events enabled and disabled
 ? - this file does not affect any event

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-05-06 23:11:42 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
9456f0fa6d tracing: reset ring buffer when removing modules with events
Li Zefan found that there's a race using the event ids of events and
modules. When a module is loaded, an event id is incremented. We only
have 16 bits for event ids (65536) and there is a possible (but highly
unlikely) race that we could load and unload a module that registers
events so many times that the event id counter overflows.

When it overflows, it then restarts and goes looking for available
ids. An id is available if it was added by a module and released.

The race is if you have one module add an id, and then is removed.
Another module loaded can use that same event id. But if the old module
still had events in the ring buffer, the new module's call back would
get bogus data.  At best (and most likely) the output would just be
garbage. But if the module for some reason used pointers (not recommended)
then this could potentially crash.

The safest thing to do is just reset the ring buffer if a module that
registered events is removed.

[ Impact: prevent unpredictable results of event id overflows ]

Reported-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <49FEAFD0.30106@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-05-06 23:11:41 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
3e07a4f680 ring-buffer: change test to be more latency friendly
The ring buffer benchmark/test runs a producer for 10 seconds.
This is done with preemption and interrupts enabled. But if the kernel
is not compiled with CONFIG_PREEMPT, it basically stops everything
but interrupts for 10 seconds.

Although this is just a test and is not for production, this attribute
can be quite annoying. It can also spawn badness elsewhere.

This patch solves the issues by calling "cond_resched" when the system
is not compiled with CONFIG_PREEMPT. It also keeps track of the time
spent to call cond_resched such that it does not go against the
time calculations. That is, if the task schedules away, the time scheduled
out is removed from the test data. Note, this only works for non PREEMPT
because we do not know when the task is scheduled out if we have PREEMPT
enabled.

[ Impact: prevent test from stopping the world for 10 seconds ]

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-05-06 18:36:59 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
6634ff26cc ring-buffer: make moving the tail page a separate function
Ingo Molnar thought the code would be cleaner if we used a function call
instead of a goto for moving the tail page. After implementing this,
it seems that gcc still inlines the result and the output is pretty much
the same. Since this is considered a cleaner approach, might as well
implement it.

[ Impact: code clean up ]

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-05-06 15:30:07 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
00c81a58c5 ring-buffer: check for failed allocation in ring buffer benchmark
The result of the allocation of the ring buffer read page in the
ring buffer bench mark does not check the return to see if a page
was actually allocated. This patch fixes that.

[ Impact: avoid NULL dereference ]

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-05-06 12:49:20 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
8e7abf1c62 ring-buffer: remove unneeded conditional in rb_reserve_next
The code in __rb_reserve_next checks on page overflow if it is the
original commiter and then resets the page back to the original
setting.  Although this is fine, and the code is correct, it is
a bit fragil. Some experimental work I did breaks it easily.

The better and more robust solution is to have all commiters that
overflow the page, simply subtract what they added.

[ Impact: more robust ring buffer account management ]

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-05-06 12:49:19 -04:00