Add the missing pair tracing_{start,stop}_record_cmdline() to record well
the cmdline associated with pid.
Changes in v2:
- fix a build error, the sched_switch tracer is needed to record the
cmdline.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Ingo Molnar suggested a series of clean ups for the splice code.
This patch implements those suggestions.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
This moves the pipe waiting code from tracing_read_pipe() into
tracing_wait_pipe(), which is useful to implement other fops, like
splice_read.
Signed-off-by: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Added and implemented tracing_pipe_fops->splice_read(). This allows
userspace programs to get tracing data more efficiently.
Signed-off-by: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
When one cats the trace file, the leaf functions are printed without brackets:
function();
whereas in the trace_pipe file we'll see the following:
function() {
}
This is because the ring_buffer handling is not the same between those two files.
On the trace file, when an entry is printed, the iterator advanced and then we can
check the next entry.
There is no iterator with trace_pipe, the current entry to print has been peeked
and not consumed. So checking the next entry will still return the current one while
we don't consume it.
This patch introduces a new value for the output callbacks to ask the tracing
core to not consume the current entry after printing it.
We need it because we will have to consume the current entry ourself to check
the next one.
Now the trace_pipe is able to handle well the leaf functions.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: build fix
The BLK_DEV_IO_TRACE entry used to be in block/Kconfig - which
file itself was dependent on CONFIG_BLOCK. But now the entry is
in kernel/trace/Kconfig - which is present even on !CONFIG_BLOCK.
So add a 'depends on BLOCK' to BLK_DEV_IO_TRACE.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: simplification
Instead of requiring that plugins have the sequence:
my_tracer_stop(my_trace_array);
unregister_tracer(my_tracer);
it should be possible just do a:
unregister_tracer(my_tracer);
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup
Move the power tracer headers to trace/power.h to keep ftrace.h and power bits
more easy to maintain as separated topics.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Making it more easy to do a basic regression test for this tracer.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: clean up
Fixed several typos in the comments.
Signed-off-by: Wenji Huang <wenji.huang@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Impact: clean up
Now that a generic in_nmi is available, this patch removes the
special code in the ring_buffer and implements the in_nmi generic
version instead.
With this change, I was also able to rename the "arch_ftrace_nmi_enter"
back to "ftrace_nmi_enter" and remove the code from the ring buffer.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Impact: prevent deadlock in NMI
The ring buffers are not yet totally lockless with writing to
the buffer. When a writer crosses a page, it grabs a per cpu spinlock
to protect against a reader. The spinlocks taken by a writer are not
to protect against other writers, since a writer can only write to
its own per cpu buffer. The spinlocks protect against readers that
can touch any cpu buffer. The writers are made to be reentrant
with the spinlocks disabling interrupts.
The problem arises when an NMI writes to the buffer, and that write
crosses a page boundary. If it grabs a spinlock, it can be racing
with another writer (since disabling interrupts does not protect
against NMIs) or with a reader on the same CPU. Luckily, most of the
users are not reentrant and protects against this issue. But if a
user of the ring buffer becomes reentrant (which is what the ring
buffers do allow), if the NMI also writes to the ring buffer then
we risk the chance of a deadlock.
This patch moves the ftrace_nmi_enter called by nmi_enter() to the
ring buffer code. It replaces the current ftrace_nmi_enter that is
used by arch specific code to arch_ftrace_nmi_enter and updates
the Kconfig to handle it.
When an NMI is called, it will set a per cpu variable in the ring buffer
code and will clear it when the NMI exits. If a write to the ring buffer
crosses page boundaries inside an NMI, a trylock is used on the spin
lock instead. If the spinlock fails to be acquired, then the entry
is discarded.
This bug appeared in the ftrace work in the RT tree, where event tracing
is reentrant. This workaround solved the deadlocks that appeared there.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Impact: fix to prevent developers from using entry->cpu
With the new ring buffer infrastructure, the cpu for the entry is
implicit with which CPU buffer it is on.
The original code use to record the current cpu into the generic
entry header, which can be retrieved by entry->cpu. When the
ring buffer was introduced, the users were convert to use the
the cpu number of which cpu ring buffer was in use (this was passed
to the tracers by the iterator: iter->cpu).
Unfortunately, the cpu item in the entry structure was never removed.
This allowed for developers to use it instead of the proper iter->cpu,
unknowingly, using an uninitialized variable. This was not the fault
of the developers, since it would seem like the logical place to
retrieve the cpu identifier.
This patch removes the cpu item from the entry structure and fixes
all the users that should have been using iter->cpu.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Impact: cleanup
To make it easy for ftrace plugin writers, as this was open coded in
the existing plugins
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: new API
These new functions do what previously was being open coded, reducing
the number of details ftrace plugin writers have to worry about.
It also standardizes the handling of stacktrace, userstacktrace and
other trace options we may introduce in the future.
With this patch, for instance, the blk tracer (and some others already
in the tree) can use the "userstacktrace" /d/tracing/trace_options
facility.
$ codiff /tmp/vmlinux.before /tmp/vmlinux.after
linux-2.6-tip/kernel/trace/trace.c:
trace_vprintk | -5
trace_graph_return | -22
trace_graph_entry | -26
trace_function | -45
__ftrace_trace_stack | -27
ftrace_trace_userstack | -29
tracing_sched_switch_trace | -66
tracing_stop | +1
trace_seq_to_user | -1
ftrace_trace_special | -63
ftrace_special | +1
tracing_sched_wakeup_trace | -70
tracing_reset_online_cpus | -1
13 functions changed, 2 bytes added, 355 bytes removed, diff: -353
linux-2.6-tip/block/blktrace.c:
__blk_add_trace | -58
1 function changed, 58 bytes removed, diff: -58
linux-2.6-tip/kernel/trace/trace.c:
trace_buffer_lock_reserve | +88
trace_buffer_unlock_commit | +86
2 functions changed, 174 bytes added, diff: +174
/tmp/vmlinux.after:
16 functions changed, 176 bytes added, 413 bytes removed, diff: -237
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Ingo Molnar suggested using goto logic to keep the indentation
down and to be able to remove the nasty line breaks. This actually
makes the code a bit more readable.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: simplification of tracers
As all tracers are doing this we might as well do it in
register_ftrace_event and save one branch each time we call these
callbacks.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
As they actually all return these enumerators.
Reported-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: bugfix and cleanup
Some callsites were returning either TRACE_ITER_PARTIAL_LINE if the
trace_seq routines (trace_seq_printf, etc) returned 0 meaning its buffer
was full, or zero otherwise.
But...
/* Return values for print_line callback */
enum print_line_t {
TRACE_TYPE_PARTIAL_LINE = 0, /* Retry after flushing the seq */
TRACE_TYPE_HANDLED = 1,
TRACE_TYPE_UNHANDLED = 2 /* Relay to other output functions */
};
In other cases the return value was not being relayed at all.
Most of the time it didn't hurt because the page wasn't get filled, but
for correctness sake, handle the return values everywhere.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
"ftrace: use struct pid" commit 978f3a45d9
converted ftrace_pid_trace to "struct pid*".
But we can't use do_each_pid_task() without rcu_read_lock() even if
we know the pid itself can't go away (it was pinned in ftrace_pid_write).
The exiting task can detach itself from this pid at any moment.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: API change
The trace_seq and trace_entry are in trace_iterator, where there are
more fields that may be needed by tracers, so just pass the
tracer_iterator as is already the case for struct tracer->print_line.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: make trace_event more convenient for tracers
All tracers (for the moment) that use the struct trace_event want to
have the context info printed before their own output: the pid/cmdline,
cpu, and timestamp.
But some other tracers that want to implement their trace_event
callbacks will not necessary need these information or they may want to
format them as they want.
This patch adds a new default-enabled trace option:
TRACE_ITER_CONTEXT_INFO When disabled through:
echo nocontext-info > /debugfs/tracing/trace_options
The pid, cpu and timestamps headers will not be printed.
IE with the sched_switch tracer with context-info (default):
bash-2935 [001] 100.356561: 2935:120:S ==> [001] 0:140:R <idle>
<idle>-0 [000] 100.412804: 0:140:R + [000] 11:115:S events/0
<idle>-0 [000] 100.412816: 0:140:R ==> [000] 11:115:R events/0
events/0-11 [000] 100.412829: 11:115:S ==> [000] 0:140:R <idle>
Without context-info:
2935:120:S ==> [001] 0:140:R <idle>
0:140:R + [000] 11:115:S events/0
0:140:R ==> [000] 11:115:R events/0
11:115:S ==> [000] 0:140:R <idle>
A tracer can disable it at runtime by clearing the bit
TRACE_ITER_CONTEXT_INFO in trace_flags.
The print routines were renamed to trace_print_context and
trace_print_lat_context, so that they can be used by tracers if they
want to use them for one of the trace_event callbacks.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Now that we have a working ftrace=<tracer> function, make the boot
tracer get activated by it. This way we can turn it on or off without
recompiling the kernel, as well as keeping the selftests on. The
selftests are disabled whenever a default tracer starts running.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Peter Zijlstra started the functionality to start up a default
tracing at bootup. This patch finishes the work.
Now if you add 'ftrace=<tracer>' to the command line, when that tracer
is registered on bootup, that tracer is selected and starts tracing.
Note, all selftests for tracers that are registered after this tracer
is disabled. This prevents the selftests from disturbing the running
tracer, or the running tracer from disturbing the selftest.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: New way of using the blktrace infrastructure
This drops the requirement of userspace utilities to use the blktrace
facility.
Configuration is done thru sysfs, adding a "trace" directory to the
partition directory where blktrace can be enabled for the associated
request_queue.
The same filters present in the IOCTL interface are present as sysfs
device attributes.
The /sys/block/sdX/sdXN/trace/enable file allows tracing without any
filters.
The other files in this directory: pid, act_mask, start_lba and end_lba
can be used with the same meaning as with the IOCTL interface.
Using the sysfs interface will only setup the request_queue->blk_trace
fields, tracing will only take place when the "blk" tracer is selected
via the ftrace interface, as in the following example:
To see the trace, one can use the /d/tracing/trace file or the
/d/tracign/trace_pipe file, with semantics defined in the ftrace
documentation in Documentation/ftrace.txt.
[root@f10-1 ~]# cat /t/trace
kjournald-305 [000] 3046.491224: 8,1 A WBS 6367 + 8 <- (8,1) 6304
kjournald-305 [000] 3046.491227: 8,1 Q R 6367 + 8 [kjournald]
kjournald-305 [000] 3046.491236: 8,1 G RB 6367 + 8 [kjournald]
kjournald-305 [000] 3046.491239: 8,1 P NS [kjournald]
kjournald-305 [000] 3046.491242: 8,1 I RBS 6367 + 8 [kjournald]
kjournald-305 [000] 3046.491251: 8,1 D WB 6367 + 8 [kjournald]
kjournald-305 [000] 3046.491610: 8,1 U WS [kjournald] 1
<idle>-0 [000] 3046.511914: 8,1 C RS 6367 + 8 [6367]
[root@f10-1 ~]#
The default line context (prefix) format is the one described in the ftrace
documentation, with the blktrace specific bits using its existing format,
described in blkparse(8).
If one wants to have the classic blktrace formatting, this is possible by
using:
[root@f10-1 ~]# echo blk_classic > /t/trace_options
[root@f10-1 ~]# cat /t/trace
8,1 0 3046.491224 305 A WBS 6367 + 8 <- (8,1) 6304
8,1 0 3046.491227 305 Q R 6367 + 8 [kjournald]
8,1 0 3046.491236 305 G RB 6367 + 8 [kjournald]
8,1 0 3046.491239 305 P NS [kjournald]
8,1 0 3046.491242 305 I RBS 6367 + 8 [kjournald]
8,1 0 3046.491251 305 D WB 6367 + 8 [kjournald]
8,1 0 3046.491610 305 U WS [kjournald] 1
8,1 0 3046.511914 0 C RS 6367 + 8 [6367]
[root@f10-1 ~]#
Using the ftrace standard format allows more flexibility, such
as the ability of asking for backtraces via trace_options:
[root@f10-1 ~]# echo noblk_classic > /t/trace_options
[root@f10-1 ~]# echo stacktrace > /t/trace_options
[root@f10-1 ~]# cat /t/trace
kjournald-305 [000] 3318.826779: 8,1 A WBS 6375 + 8 <- (8,1) 6312
kjournald-305 [000] 3318.826782:
<= submit_bio
<= submit_bh
<= sync_dirty_buffer
<= journal_commit_transaction
<= kjournald
<= kthread
<= child_rip
kjournald-305 [000] 3318.826836: 8,1 Q R 6375 + 8 [kjournald]
kjournald-305 [000] 3318.826837:
<= generic_make_request
<= submit_bio
<= submit_bh
<= sync_dirty_buffer
<= journal_commit_transaction
<= kjournald
<= kthread
Please read the ftrace documentation to use aditional, standardized
tracing filters such as /d/tracing/trace_cpumask, etc.
See also /d/tracing/trace_mark to add comments in the trace stream,
that is equivalent to the /d/block/sdaN/msg interface.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Fix kmemtrace printk warnings:
kernel/trace/kmemtrace.c:142: warning: format '%4ld' expects type 'long int', but argument 3 has type 'size_t'
kernel/trace/kmemtrace.c:147: warning: format '%4ld' expects type 'long int', but argument 3 has type 'size_t'
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This patch brings various bugfixes:
- Drop the first irrelevant task switch on the very beginning of a trace.
- Drop the OVERHEAD word from the headers, the DURATION word is sufficient
and will not overlap other columns.
- Make the headers fit well their respective columns whatever the
selected options.
Ie, default options:
# tracer: function_graph
#
# CPU DURATION FUNCTION CALLS
# | | | | | | |
1) 0.646 us | }
1) | mem_cgroup_del_lru_list() {
1) 0.624 us | lookup_page_cgroup();
1) 1.970 us | }
echo funcgraph-proc > trace_options
# tracer: function_graph
#
# CPU TASK/PID DURATION FUNCTION CALLS
# | | | | | | | | |
0) bash-2937 | 0.895 us | }
0) bash-2937 | 0.888 us | __rcu_read_unlock();
0) bash-2937 | 0.864 us | conv_uni_to_pc();
0) bash-2937 | 1.015 us | __rcu_read_lock();
echo nofuncgraph-cpu > trace_options
echo nofuncgraph-proc > trace_options
# tracer: function_graph
#
# DURATION FUNCTION CALLS
# | | | | | |
3.752 us | native_pud_val();
0.616 us | native_pud_val();
0.624 us | native_pmd_val();
About features, one can now disable the duration (this will hide the
overhead too for convenient reasons and because on doesn't need
overhead if it hasn't the duration):
echo nofuncgraph-duration > trace_options
# tracer: function_graph
#
# FUNCTION CALLS
# | | | |
cap_vm_enough_memory() {
__vm_enough_memory() {
vm_acct_memory();
}
}
}
And at last, an option to print the absolute time:
//Restart from default options
echo funcgraph-abstime > trace_options
# tracer: function_graph
#
# TIME CPU DURATION FUNCTION CALLS
# | | | | | | | |
261.339774 | 1) + 42.823 us | }
261.339775 | 1) 1.045 us | _spin_lock_irq();
261.339777 | 1) 0.940 us | _spin_lock_irqsave();
261.339778 | 1) 0.752 us | _spin_unlock_irqrestore();
261.339780 | 1) 0.857 us | _spin_unlock_irq();
261.339782 | 1) | flush_to_ldisc() {
261.339783 | 1) | tty_ldisc_ref() {
261.339783 | 1) | tty_ldisc_try() {
261.339784 | 1) 1.075 us | _spin_lock_irqsave();
261.339786 | 1) 0.842 us | _spin_unlock_irqrestore();
261.339788 | 1) 4.211 us | }
261.339788 | 1) 5.662 us | }
The format is seconds.usecs.
I guess no one needs the nanosec precision here, the main goal is to have
an overview about the general timings of events, and to see the place when
the trace switches from one cpu to another.
ie:
274.874760 | 1) 0.676 us | _spin_unlock();
274.874762 | 1) 0.609 us | native_load_sp0();
274.874763 | 1) 0.602 us | native_load_tls();
274.878739 | 0) 0.722 us | }
274.878740 | 0) 0.714 us | native_pmd_val();
274.878741 | 0) 0.730 us | native_pmd_val();
Here there is a 4000 usecs difference when we switch the cpu.
Changes in V2:
- Completely fix the first pointless task switch.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The logic in the tracing_start/stop code prevents the WARN_ON
from ever detecting if a start/stop pair was mismatched.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup of duplicate features
The trace output disables the ring buffer and prevents tracing to
occur. The code in irqsoff to do the same thing is no longer needed.
This patch removes it.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: fix bad times of recent resets
The ring buffer needs to reset its timestamps when reseting of the
buffer, otherwise the timestamps are stale and might be used to
calculate times in the buffer causing funny timestamps to appear.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: fix bad times of recent resets
The ring buffer needs to reset its timestamps when reseting of the
buffer, otherwise the timestamps are stale and might be used to
calculate times in the buffer causing funny timestamps to appear.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: better data for wakeup tracer
This patch adds the wakeup and schedule calls that are used by
the scheduler tracer to make the wakeup tracer more readable.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: add option to trace all tasks or just RT tasks
The current wakeup tracer only traces RT task wakeups. This is
fine for those interested in wake up timings of RT tasks, but
it is useless for those that are interested in the causes
of long wakeups for non RT tasks.
This patch creates a "wakeup_rt" to implement the tracing of just
RT tasks (as the current "wakeup" does). And makes "wakeup" now
trace all tasks as an average developer would expect.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
If the ring buffer recording has been disabled. Do not let
swapping of ring buffers occur. Simply return -EAGAIN.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: fix to erased trace output
To try not to have the outputing of a trace interfere with the wakeup
tracer, it would disable tracing while the output was printing. But
if a trace had started when it was disabled, it can show a partial
trace. To try to solve this, on closing of the tracer, it would
clear the trace buffer.
The latency tracers (wakeup and irqsoff) have two buffers. One for
recording and one for holding the max trace that is printed. The
clearing of the trace above should only affect the recording buffer.
But for some reason it would move the erased trace to the print
buffer. Probably due to a race with the closing of the trace and
the saving ofhe max race.
The above is all pretty useless, and if the user does not want the
printing of the trace to be traced itself, then the user can manual
disable tracing. This patch removes all the code that tries to keep
the output of the tracer from modifying the trace.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: trace max latencies on start of latency tracing
This patch sets the max latency to zero whenever one of the
irq variant tracers or the wakeup tracer is set to current tracer.
Most developers expect to see output when starting up a latency
tracer. But since the max_latency is already set to max, and
it takes a latency greater than max_latency to be recorded, there
is no trace. This is not the expected behavior and has even confused
myself.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: limit ftrace dump output
Currently ftrace_dump only calls ftrace_kill that is a fast way
to prevent the function tracer functions from being called (just sets
a flag and clears the function to call, nothing else). It is better
to also turn off any recording to the ring buffers as well.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
