The ring_buffer_benchmark does a gettimeofday after every write to the
ring buffer in its measurements. This adds the overhead of the call
to gettimeofday to the measurements and does not give an accurate picture
of the length of time it takes to record a trace.
This was first noticed with perf top:
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
PerfTop: 679 irqs/sec kernel:99.9% [1000Hz cpu-clock-msecs], (all, 4 CPUs)
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
samples pcnt kernel function
_______ _____ _______________
1673.00 - 27.8% : trace_clock_local
806.00 - 13.4% : do_gettimeofday
590.00 - 9.8% : rb_reserve_next_event
554.00 - 9.2% : native_read_tsc
431.00 - 7.2% : ring_buffer_lock_reserve
365.00 - 6.1% : __rb_reserve_next
355.00 - 5.9% : rb_end_commit
322.00 - 5.4% : getnstimeofday
268.00 - 4.5% : ring_buffer_unlock_commit
262.00 - 4.4% : ring_buffer_producer_thread [ring_buffer_benchmark]
113.00 - 1.9% : read_tsc
91.00 - 1.5% : debug_smp_processor_id
69.00 - 1.1% : trace_recursive_unlock
66.00 - 1.1% : ring_buffer_event_data
25.00 - 0.4% : _spin_unlock_irq
And the length of each write to the ring buffer measured at 310ns.
This patch adds a new module parameter called "write_interval" which is
defaulted to 50. This is the number of writes performed between
timestamps. After this patch perf top shows:
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
PerfTop: 244 irqs/sec kernel:100.0% [1000Hz cpu-clock-msecs], (all, 4 CPUs)
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
samples pcnt kernel function
_______ _____ _______________
2842.00 - 40.4% : trace_clock_local
1043.00 - 14.8% : rb_reserve_next_event
784.00 - 11.1% : ring_buffer_lock_reserve
600.00 - 8.5% : __rb_reserve_next
579.00 - 8.2% : rb_end_commit
440.00 - 6.3% : ring_buffer_unlock_commit
290.00 - 4.1% : ring_buffer_producer_thread [ring_buffer_benchmark]
155.00 - 2.2% : debug_smp_processor_id
117.00 - 1.7% : trace_recursive_unlock
103.00 - 1.5% : ring_buffer_event_data
28.00 - 0.4% : do_gettimeofday
22.00 - 0.3% : _spin_unlock_irq
14.00 - 0.2% : native_read_tsc
11.00 - 0.2% : getnstimeofday
do_gettimeofday dropped from 13% usage to a mere 0.4%! (using the default
50 interval) The measurement for each timestamp went from 310ns to 210ns.
That's 100ns (1/3rd) overhead that the gettimeofday call was introducing.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
____ftrace_check_##name() is used for compile-time check on
F_printk() only, so it should be marked as __unused instead
of __used.
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <4AEE2D01.4010305@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The cpu argument is not used inside the rb_time_stamp() function.
Plus fix a typo.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20091023233647.118547500@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Trivial patch to fix a documentation example and to fix a
comment.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20091023233646.871719877@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
trace_seq_printf() return value is a little ambiguous. It
currently returns the length of the space available in the
buffer. printf usually returns the amount written. This is not
adequate here, because:
trace_seq_printf(s, "");
is perfectly legal, and returning 0 would indicate that it
failed.
We can always see the amount written by looking at the before
and after values of s->len. This is not quite the same use as
printf. We only care if the string was successfully written to
the buffer or not.
Make trace_seq_printf() return 0 if the trace oversizes the
buffer's free space, 1 otherwise.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20091023233646.631787612@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Instead of directly updating filp->f_pos we should update the *ppos
argument. The filp->f_pos gets updated within the file_pos_write()
function called from sys_write().
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20091023233646.399670810@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
set_cmdline_ftrace is a better match against what does this function:
apply a tracer name from the kernel command line.
Reported-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
We are using strncpy in the wrong way to copy the ftrace_graph_filter
boot param because we pass the buffer size instead of the max string
size it can contain (buffer size - 1). The end result might not be
NULL terminated as we are abusing the max string size.
Lets use strlcpy() instead.
Reported-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Most of the syscalls metadata processing is done from arch.
But these operations are mostly generic accross archs. Especially now
that we have a common variable name that expresses the number of
syscalls supported by an arch: NR_syscalls, the only remaining bits
that need to reside in arch is the syscall nr to addr translation.
v2: Compare syscalls symbols only after the "sys" prefix so that we
avoid spurious mismatches with archs that have syscalls wrappers,
in which case syscalls symbols have "SyS" prefixed aliases.
(Reported by: Heiko Carstens)
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
I was debuging some module using "function" and "function_graph"
tracers and noticed, that if you load module after you enabled
tracing, the module's hooks will convert only to NOP instructions.
The attached patch enables modules' hooks if there's function trace
allready on, thus allowing to trace module functions.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <20091013203425.896285120@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Remove the ftrace_trace_addr() function as only its off-case is
implemented and there are no users of it currently.
But we keep ftrace_graph_addr() off-case, in case someone come to use
the function graph tracer to profit from top-level callers filtering.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Do this rename because set_ftrace is too much generic and not enough
self-explainable as a name.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Every time we set a filter, we leak memory allocated by
postfix_append_operand() and postfix_append_op().
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> # for v2.6.31.x
LKML-Reference: <4AD3D7D9.4070400@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Add a command line parameter to allow limiting the function graphs
that are traced on boot up from the given top-level callers , when
ftrace=function_graph is specified.
This patch adds the following command line option:
ftrace_graph_filter=function-list
Where function-list is a comma separated list of functions to filter.
[fweisbec@gmail.com: picked the documentation changes from the v2 patch]
Signed-off-by: Stefan Assmann <sassmann@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <4AD2DEB9.2@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
The addition of trace_array_{v}printk used the wrong function for
trace_vprintk to call. This broke trace_marker and trace_vprintk
itself. Although trace_printk may not have been affected by those
that end up calling trace_vbprintk.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
* 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
tracing: user local buffer variable for trace branch tracer
tracing: fix warning on kernel/trace/trace_branch.c andtrace_hw_branches.c
ftrace: check for failure for all conversions
tracing: correct module boundaries for ftrace_release
tracing: fix transposed numbers of lock_depth and preempt_count
trace: Fix missing assignment in trace_ctxwake_*
tracing: Use free_percpu instead of kfree
tracing: Check total refcount before releasing bufs in profile_enable failure
* 'perf-fixes-for-linus-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
perf_events: Make ABI definitions available to userspace
perf tools: elf_sym__is_function() should accept "zero" sized functions
tracing/syscalls: Use long for syscall ret format and field definitions
perf trace: Update eval_flag() flags array to match interrupt.h
perf trace: Remove unused code in builtin-trace.c
perf: Propagate term signal to child
Just using the tr->buffer for the API to trace_buffer_lock_reserve
is not good enough. This is because the tr->buffer may change, and we
do not want to commit with a different buffer that we reserved from.
This patch uses a local variable to hold the buffer that was used to
reserve and commit with.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
fix warnings that caused the API change of trace_buffer_lock_reserve()
change files: kernel/trace/trace_hw_branch.c
kernel/trace/trace_branch.c
Signed-off-by: Zhenwen Xu <helight.xu@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20091008012146.GA4170@helight>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Due to legacy code from back when the dynamic tracer used a daemon,
only core kernel code was checking for failures. This is no longer
the case. We must check for failures any time we perform text modifications.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
When the module is about the unload we release its call records.
The ftrace_release function was given wrong values representing
the module core boundaries, thus not releasing its call records.
Plus making ftrace_release function module specific.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1254934835-363-3-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The state char variable S should be reassigned, if S == 0.
We are missing the state of the task that is going to sleep for the
context switch events (in the raw mode).
Fortunately the problem arises with the sched_switch/wake_up
tracers, not the sched trace events.
The formers are legacy now. But still, that was buggy.
Signed-off-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4AC43118.6050409@ct.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The syscall event definitions use long for the syscall exit ret
value, but unsigned long for the same thing in the format and field
definitions. Change them all to long.
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: lizf@cn.fujitsu.com
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1254808849-7829-4-git-send-email-tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
kmemtrace: Fix up tracer registration
tracing: Fix infinite recursion in ftrace_update_pid_func()
In the event->profile_enable() failure path, we release the per cpu
buffers using kfree which is wrong because they are per cpu pointers.
Although free_percpu only wraps kfree for now, that may change in the
future so lets use the correct way.
Reported-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
When we call the profile_enable() callback of an event, we release the
shared perf event tracing buffers unconditionnaly in the failure path.
This is wrong because there may be other users of these. Then check the
total refcount before doing this.
Reported-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Since 2.6.31 now has request-based device-mapper, it's useful to have
a tracepoint for request-remapping as well as bio-remapping.
This patch adds a tracepoint for request-remapping, trace_block_rq_remap().
Signed-off-by: Kiyoshi Ueda <k-ueda@ct.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Commit ddc1637af2 ("kmemtrace: Print
binary output only if 'bin' option is set") ended up inverting the
error detection logic. register_tracer() returns 0 on success,
which this change caused to treat as an error, resulting in:
[ 0.132000] Warning: could not register the kmem tracer
as well as bailing out of the initcall with an error value. This
restores the old logic.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090928075540.GD6668@linux-sh.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
When CONFIG_HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACE_MCOUNT_TEST is enabled
__ftrace_trace_function contains the current trace function, not
ftrace_trace_function.
In ftrace_update_pid_func() we currently incorrectly assign the
value of ftrace_trace_function to __ftrace_trace_funcion before
returning.
Without this patch it is possible to execute an infinite recursion
whereby ftrace_test_stop_func() calls __ftrace_trace_function,
which was assigned ftrace_test_stop_func() in
ftrace_update_pid_func().
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matthew.fleming@imgtec.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1254152581-18347-1-git-send-email-matt@console-pimps.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
modules, tracing: Remove stale struct marker signature from module_layout()
tracing/workqueue: Use %pf in workqueue trace events
tracing: Fix a comment and a trivial format issue in tracepoint.h
tracing: Fix failure path in ftrace_regex_open()
tracing: Fix failure path in ftrace_graph_write()
tracing: Check the return value of trace_get_user()
tracing: Fix off-by-one in trace_get_user()
The filter code has stolen the regex parsing function from ftrace to
get the regex support.
We have duplicated this code, so factorize it in the filter area and
make it generally available, as the filter code is the most suited to
host this feature.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
This patch provides basic support for regular expressions in filters.
It supports the following types of regexp:
- *match_beginning
- *match_middle*
- match_end*
- !don't match
Example:
cd /debug/tracing/events/bkl/lock_kernel
echo 'file == "*reiserfs*"' > filter
echo 1 > enable
gedit-4941 [000] 457.735437: lock_kernel: depth: 0, fs/reiserfs/namei.c:334 reiserfs_lookup()
sync_supers-227 [001] 461.379985: lock_kernel: depth: 0, fs/reiserfs/super.c:69 reiserfs_sync_fs()
sync_supers-227 [000] 461.383096: lock_kernel: depth: 0, fs/reiserfs/journal.c:1069 flush_commit_list()
reiserfs/1-1369 [001] 461.479885: lock_kernel: depth: 0, fs/reiserfs/journal.c:3509 flush_async_commits()
Every string is now handled as a regexp in the filter framework, which
helps to factorize the code for handling both simple strings and
regexp comparisons.
(The regexp parsing code has been wildly cherry picked from ftrace.c
written by Steve.)
v2: Simplify the whole and drop the filter_regex file
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
It's unused.
It isn't needed -- read or write flag is already passed and sysctl
shouldn't care about the rest.
It _was_ used in two places at arch/frv for some reason.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cleanup the useless dentry variable while creating a kernel
event set of files. trace_create_file() warns if it fails to
create the file anyway, and we don't store the dentry anywhere.
v2: Fix a small conflict in kernel/trace/trace_events.c
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cleanup remaining headers inclusion that were only useful when
the filter framework and its tracing related filesystem user interface
weren't yet separated.
v2: Keep module.h, needed for EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Remove open-coded zalloc_cpumask_var() and zalloc_cpumask_var_node().
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Make all seq_operations structs const, to help mitigate against
revectoring user-triggerable function pointers.
This is derived from the grsecurity patch, although generated from scratch
because it's simpler than extracting the changes from there.
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (34 commits)
trivial: fix typo in aic7xxx comment
trivial: fix comment typo in drivers/ata/pata_hpt37x.c
trivial: typo in kernel-parameters.txt
trivial: fix typo in tracing documentation
trivial: add __init/__exit macros in drivers/gpio/bt8xxgpio.c
trivial: add __init macro/ fix of __exit macro location in ipmi_poweroff.c
trivial: remove unnecessary semicolons
trivial: Fix duplicated word "options" in comment
trivial: kbuild: remove extraneous blank line after declaration of usage()
trivial: improve help text for mm debug config options
trivial: doc: hpfall: accept disk device to unload as argument
trivial: doc: hpfall: reduce risk that hpfall can do harm
trivial: SubmittingPatches: Fix reference to renumbered step
trivial: fix typos "man[ae]g?ment" -> "management"
trivial: media/video/cx88: add __init/__exit macros to cx88 drivers
trivial: fix typo in CONFIG_DEBUG_FS in gcov doc
trivial: fix missing printk space in amd_k7_smp_check
trivial: fix typo s/ketymap/keymap/ in comment
trivial: fix typo "to to" in multiple files
trivial: fix typos in comments s/DGBU/DBGU/
...
Leave the last slot for the tailing '\0'.
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <4AB865FA.5080801@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
