But there were a few features that were added.
Uprobes now work with event triggers and multi buffers.
Uprobes have support under ftrace and perf.
The big feature is that the function tracer can now be used within the
multi buffer instances. That is, you can now trace some functions
in one buffer, others in another buffer, all functions in a third buffer
and so on. They are basically agnostic from each other. This only
works for the function tracer and not for the function graph trace,
although you can have the function graph tracer running in the top level
buffer (or any tracer for that matter) and have different function tracing
going on in the sub buffers.
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Merge tag 'trace-3.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace
Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
"Most of the changes were largely clean ups, and some documentation.
But there were a few features that were added:
Uprobes now work with event triggers and multi buffers and have
support under ftrace and perf.
The big feature is that the function tracer can now be used within the
multi buffer instances. That is, you can now trace some functions in
one buffer, others in another buffer, all functions in a third buffer
and so on. They are basically agnostic from each other. This only
works for the function tracer and not for the function graph trace,
although you can have the function graph tracer running in the top
level buffer (or any tracer for that matter) and have different
function tracing going on in the sub buffers"
* tag 'trace-3.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (45 commits)
tracing: Add BUG_ON when stack end location is over written
tracepoint: Remove unused API functions
Revert "tracing: Move event storage for array from macro to standalone function"
ftrace: Constify ftrace_text_reserved
tracepoints: API doc update to tracepoint_probe_register() return value
tracepoints: API doc update to data argument
ftrace: Fix compilation warning about control_ops_free
ftrace/x86: BUG when ftrace recovery fails
ftrace: Warn on error when modifying ftrace function
ftrace: Remove freelist from struct dyn_ftrace
ftrace: Do not pass data to ftrace_dyn_arch_init
ftrace: Pass retval through return in ftrace_dyn_arch_init()
ftrace: Inline the code from ftrace_dyn_table_alloc()
ftrace: Cleanup of global variables ftrace_new_pgs and ftrace_update_cnt
tracing: Evaluate len expression only once in __dynamic_array macro
tracing: Correctly expand len expressions from __dynamic_array macro
tracing/module: Replace include of tracepoint.h with jump_label.h in module.h
tracing: Fix event header migrate.h to include tracepoint.h
tracing: Fix event header writeback.h to include tracepoint.h
tracing: Warn if a tracepoint is not set via debugfs
...
As the data parameter is not really used by any ftrace_dyn_arch_init,
remove that from ftrace_dyn_arch_init. This also removes the addr
local variable from ftrace_init which is now unused.
Note the documentation was imprecise as it did not suggest to set
(*data) to 0.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1393268401-24379-4-git-send-email-jslaby@suse.cz
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
No architecture uses the "data" parameter in ftrace_dyn_arch_init() in any
way, it just sets the value to 0. And this is used as a return value
in the caller -- ftrace_init, which just checks the retval against
zero.
Note there is also "return 0" in every ftrace_dyn_arch_init. So it is
enough to check the retval and remove all the indirect sets of data on
all archs.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1393268401-24379-3-git-send-email-jslaby@suse.cz
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The branch target should be the func addr, not the addr of func_descr_t.
So using ppc_function_entry() to generate the right target addr.
Signed-off-by: Liu Ping Fan <pingfank@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
As Colin Cross ported my x86 change to ARM, he also pointed out that
powerpc is also behind in this fix.
The commit 722b3c7469 "ftrace/graph: Trace function entry before
updating index" fixes an issue with function graph tracing for x86,
where if the called entry function decides not to trace interrupts, it
can fail the check if an interrupt comes in just after the
curr_ret_stack is updated.
The solution is to call the entry function first, then update the
curr_ret_stack if the entry function wants to be traced.
Cc: Colin Cross <ccross@android.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Just like the module loader, ftrace needs to be updated to use r12
instead of r11 with newer gcc's.
Signed-off-by: Roger Blofeld <blofeldus@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
The patch_instruction() interface is made to modify kernel text. It is
safer to use that then the probe_kernel_write() when modifying kernel
code.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
PowerPC does not have the synchronization issues that x86 has with
modifying code on one CPU while another CPU is executing it.
The other CPU will either see the old or new code without any
issues, unlike x86 which may issue a GPF.
Instead of calling the heavy stop_machine, just update the code.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
This patch implements the raw syscall tracepoints on PowerPC and exports
them for ftrace syscalls to use.
To minimise reworking existing code, I slightly re-ordered the thread
info flags such that the new TIF_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINT bit would still fit
within the 16 bits of the andi. instruction's UI field. The instructions
in question are in /arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_{32,64}.S to and the
_TIF_SYSCALL_T_OR_A with the thread flags to see if system call tracing
is enabled.
In the case of 64bit PowerPC, arch_syscall_addr and
arch_syscall_match_sym_name are overridden to allow ftrace syscalls to
work given the unusual system call table structure and symbol names that
start with a period.
Signed-off-by: Ian Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
* 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (24 commits)
tracing/urgent: warn in case of ftrace_start_up inbalance
tracing/urgent: fix unbalanced ftrace_start_up
function-graph: add stack frame test
function-graph: disable when both x86_32 and optimize for size are configured
ring-buffer: have benchmark test print to trace buffer
ring-buffer: do not grab locks in nmi
ring-buffer: add locks around rb_per_cpu_empty
ring-buffer: check for less than two in size allocation
ring-buffer: remove useless compile check for buffer_page size
ring-buffer: remove useless warn on check
ring-buffer: use BUF_PAGE_HDR_SIZE in calculating index
tracing: update sample event documentation
tracing/filters: fix race between filter setting and module unload
tracing/filters: free filter_string in destroy_preds()
ring-buffer: use commit counters for commit pointer accounting
ring-buffer: remove unused variable
ring-buffer: have benchmark test handle discarded events
ring-buffer: prevent adding write in discarded area
tracing/filters: strloc should be unsigned short
tracing/filters: operand can be negative
...
Fix up kmemcheck-induced conflict in kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c manually
In case gcc does something funny with the stack frames, or the return
from function code, we would like to detect that.
An arch may implement passing of a variable that is unique to the
function and can be saved on entering a function and can be tested
when exiting the function. Usually the frame pointer can be used for
this purpose.
This patch also implements this for x86. Where it passes in the stack
frame of the parent function, and will test that frame on exit.
There was a case in x86_32 with optimize for size (-Os) where, for a
few functions, gcc would align the stack frame and place a copy of the
return address into it. The function graph tracer modified the copy and
not the actual return address. On return from the funtion, it did not go
to the tracer hook, but returned to the parent. This broke the function
graph tracer, because the return of the parent (where gcc did not do
this funky manipulation) returned to the location that the child function
was suppose to. This caused strange kernel crashes.
This test detected the problem and pointed out where the issue was.
This modifies the parameters of one of the functions that the arch
specific code calls, so it includes changes to arch code to accommodate
the new prototype.
Note, I notice that the parsic arch implements its own push_return_trace.
This is now a generic function and the ftrace_push_return_trace should be
used instead. This patch does not touch that code.
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
There's no need to wrap PPC_INST_NOP in a static inline.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
These macros were used in the original port, but since commit
e4486fe316 (ftrace, use probe_kernel API to modify code) they
are unused.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Use ppc_function_entry() from code-patching.h.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
After upgrading my distcc boxes from gcc 4.2.2 to 4.4.0, the function
graph tracer broke. This was discovered on my x86 boxes.
The issue is that gcc used the same register for an output as it did for
an input in an asm statement. I first thought this was a bug in gcc and
reported it. I was notified that gcc was correct and that the output had
to be flagged as an "early clobber".
I noticed that powerpc had the same issue and this patch fixes it.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
pr_debug() can now result in code being generated even when #DEBUG
is not defined. That's not really desirable in the ftrace code
which we want to be snappy.
With CONFIG_DYNAMIC_DEBUG=y:
size before:
text data bss dec hex filename
3334 672 4 4010 faa arch/powerpc/kernel/ftrace.o
size after:
text data bss dec hex filename
2616 360 4 2980 ba4 arch/powerpc/kernel/ftrace.o
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
'tramp' is an unsigned long, so print it with %lx.
Fixes the following build warning:
arch/powerpc/kernel/ftrace.c:291: error: format ‘%x’ expects type ‘unsigned int’, but argument 2 has type ‘long unsigned int’
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Commit bb7253403f ("powerpc64,
ftrace: save toc only on modules for function graph"), added an
#if CONFIG_PPC64. This changes it to #ifdef.
Fixes the following warning on 32-bit builds:
arch/powerpc/kernel/ftrace.c:562:5: error: "CONFIG_PPC64" is not defined
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Today's linux-next build (powerpc allyesconfig) failed like this:
arch/powerpc/kernel/ftrace.c: In function 'prepare_ftrace_return':
arch/powerpc/kernel/ftrace.c:612: warning: passing argument 3 of 'ftrace_push_return_trace' makes pointer from integer without a cast
arch/powerpc/kernel/ftrace.c:612: error: too many arguments to function 'ftrace_push_return_trace'
Caused by commit 5d1a03dc54
("function-graph: moved the timestamp from arch to generic code") from
the tracing tree which (removed an argument from
ftrace_push_return_trace()) interacting with commit
6794c78243 ("powerpc64: port of the
function graph tracer") from the powerpc tree.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>
LKML-Reference: <20090327230834.93d0221d.sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Create a new header that becomes a single location for defining PowerPC
opcodes used by code that is either generationg instructions
at runtime (fixups, debug, etc.), emulating instructions, or just
compiling instructions old assemblers don't know about.
We currently don't handle the floating point emulation or alignment decode
as both are better handled by the specific decode support they already
have.
Added support for the new dcbzl, dcbal, msgsnd, tlbilx, & wait instructions
since older assemblers don't know about them.
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Impact: clean up, remove duplicate code
When ftrace was first ported to PowerPC, there existed a
create_function_call that would create the instruction to make a call
to a given address. Unfortunately, this call expected to write to
the address it was given, and since it used the address to calculate
the offset, it could not be faked.
ftrace needed a way to create the instruction without actually writing
that instruction to the text section. So ftrace had to implement its
own code.
Now we have create_branch in the code patching library, which does
exactly what ftrace needs. This patch replaces ftrace's implementation
with the library function.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
The original port of ftrace to PowerPC kept a lot of the code used
by x86. Some of this code was to handle x86's 5 byte instruction.
This was handled by using character arrays to manipulate the
code.
PowerPC has a consistent 4 byte instruction. Using unsigned ints
makes the code more efficient as well as more readable.
By converting to use unsigned ints to represent instructions,
I was able to remove the side effects that were needed for
manipulating character strings.
i.e. memcpy and memcmp
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
This patch ports the function graph tracer for PowerPC, but only
for static function tracing.
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
The TOCS used by modules are different than the one used by
the core kernel code. The function graph tracer must save and
restore the TOC whenever it traces a module call. But this
is an added overhead to burden the majority of core kernel
code being traced.
Benjamin Herrenschmidt suggested in testing the entry of
the call to tell if it is a core kernel function or a module.
He recommended using the REGION_ID() macro to perform this test.
This patch implements Benjamin's idea, and uses a different
return_to_handler routine dependent on if the entry is a core
kernel function or not. The module version saves the TOC, where as
the core kernel version does not.
Geoff Lavand tested on PS3.
Tested-by: Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@am.sony.com>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
This is the port of the function graph tracer to PowerPC with
dynamic tracing.
Geoff Lavand tested on PS3.
Tested-by: Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@am.sony.com>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
This is a port of the function graph tracer that was written by
Frederic Weisbecker for the x86.
This only works for PPC64 at the moment and only for static tracing.
PPC32 and dynamic function graph tracing support will come later.
The trace produces a visual calling of functions:
# tracer: function_graph
#
# CPU DURATION FUNCTION CALLS
# | | | | | | |
0) 2.224 us | }
0) ! 271.024 us | }
0) ! 320.080 us | }
0) ! 324.656 us | }
0) ! 329.136 us | }
0) | .put_prev_task_fair() {
0) | .update_curr() {
0) 2.240 us | .update_min_vruntime();
0) 6.512 us | }
0) 2.528 us | .__enqueue_entity();
0) + 15.536 us | }
0) | .pick_next_task_fair() {
0) 2.032 us | .__pick_next_entity();
0) 2.064 us | .__clear_buddies();
0) | .set_next_entity() {
0) 2.672 us | .__dequeue_entity();
0) 6.864 us | }
Geoff Lavand tested on PS3.
Tested-by: Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@am.sony.com>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Michael Neuling reported a compile bug when dynamic ftrace was
configured in and modules were not. This was due to the ftrace
code referencing module specific structures.
Reported-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Impact: cleanup
The PowerPC ftrace code uses a hacked up DEBUGP macro for prints.
This patch converts it to the standard pr_debug.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Impact: fix dynamic ftrace with large modules in PPC64
The math to calculate the offset into the TOC that is taken from reading
the trampoline is incorrect. The bottom half of the offset is a signed
extended short. The current code was using an OR to create the offset
when it should have been using an addition.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@am.sony.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Impact: clean up
Paul Mackerras pointed out that the code to determine if the branch
can reach the destination is incorrect. Michael Ellerman suggested
to pull out the code from create_branch and use that.
Simply using create_branch is probably the best.
Reported-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Reported-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: fix to PowerPC code modification
After modifying code it is essential to flush the icache. This patch
adds the missing flush.
Reported-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: clean up and robustness addition
This patch addresses the comments made by Paul Mackerras.
It removes the type casting between unsigned int and unsigned char
pointers, and replaces them with a use of all unsigned int.
Verification that the jump is indeed made to a trampoline has also
been added.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: add ability to trace modules on 32 bit PowerPC
This patch performs the necessary trampoline calls to handle
modules with dynamic ftrace on 32 bit PowerPC.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Impact: Allow 64 bit PowerPC to trace modules with dynamic ftrace
This adds code to handle the PPC64 module trampolines, and allows for
PPC64 to use dynamic ftrace.
Thanks to Paul Mackerras for these updates:
- fix the mod and rec->arch.mod NULL checks.
- fix to is_bl_op compare.
Thanks to Milton Miller for:
- finding the nasty race with using two nops, and recommending
instead that I use a branch 8 forward.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Impact: use cleaner probe_kernel API over assembly
Using probe_kernel_read/write interface is a much cleaner approach
than the current assembly version.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Impact: update to PowerPC ftrace arch API
This patch converts PowerPC to use the new dynamic ftrace arch API.
Thanks to Paul Mackennas for pointing out the mistakes of my original
test_24bit_addr function.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
The entire file of ftrace.c in the arch code needs to be marked
as notrace. It is much cleaner to do this from the Makefile with
CFLAGS_REMOVE_ftrace.o.
[ powerpc already had this in its Makefile. ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The arch dependent function ftrace_mcount_set was only used by the daemon
start up code. This patch removes it.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Record the address of the mcount call-site. Currently all archs except sparc64
record the address of the instruction following the mcount call-site. Some
general cleanups are entailed. Storing mcount addresses in rec->ip enables
looking them up in the kprobe hash table later on to check if they're kprobe'd.
Signed-off-by: Abhishek Sagar <sagar.abhishek@gmail.com>
Cc: davem@davemloft.net
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This patch cleans up the ftrace code in PowerPC based on the comments from
Michael Ellerman.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: proski@gnu.org
Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl
Cc: Pekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Cc: Soeren Sandmann Pedersen <sandmann@redhat.com>
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
This patch adds full support for ftrace for PowerPC (both 64 and 32 bit).
This includes dynamic tracing and function filtering.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
