The buffer for the output is as small as 64 bytes, so it'll
overflow if we add more clock type. Use seq file instead.
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <4B1DC4FB.5030407@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
I've been asked a few times about how to find out what is calling
some location in the kernel. One way is to use dynamic function tracing
and implement the func_stack_trace. But this only finds out who is
calling a particular function. It does not tell you who is calling
that function and entering a specific if conditional.
I have myself implemented a quick version of trace_dump_stack() for
this purpose a few times, and just needed it now. This is when I realized
that this would be a good tool to have in the kernel like trace_printk().
Using trace_dump_stack() is similar to dump_stack() except that it
writes to the trace buffer instead and can be used in critical locations.
For example:
@@ -5485,8 +5485,12 @@ need_resched_nonpreemptible:
if (prev->state && !(preempt_count() & PREEMPT_ACTIVE)) {
if (unlikely(signal_pending_state(prev->state, prev)))
prev->state = TASK_RUNNING;
- else
+ else {
deactivate_task(rq, prev, 1);
+ trace_printk("Deactivating task %s:%d\n",
+ prev->comm, prev->pid);
+ trace_dump_stack();
+ }
switch_count = &prev->nvcsw;
}
Produces:
<...>-3249 [001] 296.105269: schedule: Deactivating task ntpd:3249
<...>-3249 [001] 296.105270: <stack trace>
=> schedule
=> schedule_hrtimeout_range
=> poll_schedule_timeout
=> do_select
=> core_sys_select
=> sys_select
=> system_call_fastpath
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Olof Johansson stated the following:
Comparing a va_list with NULL is bogus. It's supposed to be treated like
an opaque type and only be manipulated with va_* accessors.
Olof noticed that this code broke the ARM builds:
kernel/trace/trace.c: In function 'trace_array_vprintk':
kernel/trace/trace.c:1364: error: invalid operands to binary == (have 'va_list' and 'void *')
kernel/trace/trace.c: In function 'tracing_mark_write':
kernel/trace/trace.c:3349: error: incompatible type for argument 3 of 'trace_vprintk'
This patch partly reverts c13d2f7c32 and
re-installs the original mark_printk() mechanism.
Reported-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Signed-off-by: Carsten Emde <C.Emde@osadl.org>
LKML-Reference: <4B1BAB74.104@osadl.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
If the seq_read fills the buffer it will call s_start again on the next
itertation with the same position. This causes a problem with the
function_graph tracer because it consumes the iteration in order to
determine leaf functions.
What happens is that the iterator stores the entry, and the function
graph plugin will look at the next entry. If that next entry is a return
of the same function and task, then the function is a leaf and the
function_graph plugin calls ring_buffer_read which moves the ring buffer
iterator forward (the trace iterator still points to the function start
entry).
The copying of the trace_seq to the seq_file buffer will fail if the
seq_file buffer is full. The seq_read will not show this entry.
The next read by userspace will cause seq_read to again call s_start
which will reuse the trace iterator entry (the function start entry).
But the function return entry was already consumed. The function graph
plugin will think that this entry is a nested function and not a leaf.
To solve this, the trace code now checks the return status of the
seq_printf (trace_print_seq). If the writing to the seq_file buffer
fails, we set a flag in the iterator (leftover) and we do not reset
the trace_seq buffer. On the next call to s_start, we check the leftover
flag, and if it is set, we just reuse the trace_seq buffer and do not
call into the plugin print functions.
Before this patch:
2) | fput() {
2) | __fput() {
2) 0.550 us | inotify_inode_queue_event();
2) | __fsnotify_parent() {
2) 0.540 us | inotify_dentry_parent_queue_event();
After the patch:
2) | fput() {
2) | __fput() {
2) 0.550 us | inotify_inode_queue_event();
2) 0.548 us | __fsnotify_parent();
2) 0.540 us | inotify_dentry_parent_queue_event();
[
Updated the patch to fix a missing return 0 from the trace_print_seq()
stub when CONFIG_TRACING is disabled.
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
]
Reported-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
This fixes a cut and paste error that had pipe_close get called
if pipe_open was defined (not pipe_close).
Reported-by: Kosaki Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <20091209153204.F4CD.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
An ftrace plugin can add a pipe_open interface when the user opens
trace_pipe. But if the plugin allocates something within the pipe_open
it can not free it because there exists no pipe_close. The hook to
the trace file open has a corresponding close. The closing of the
trace_pipe file should also have a corresponding close.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
* 'tracing-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (40 commits)
tracing: Separate raw syscall from syscall tracer
ring-buffer-benchmark: Add parameters to set produce/consumer priorities
tracing, function tracer: Clean up strstrip() usage
ring-buffer benchmark: Run producer/consumer threads at nice +19
tracing: Remove the stale include/trace/power.h
tracing: Only print objcopy version warning once from recordmcount
tracing: Prevent build warning: 'ftrace_graph_buf' defined but not used
ring-buffer: Move access to commit_page up into function used
tracing: do not disable interrupts for trace_clock_local
ring-buffer: Add multiple iterations between benchmark timestamps
kprobes: Sanitize struct kretprobe_instance allocations
tracing: Fix to use __always_unused attribute
compiler: Introduce __always_unused
tracing: Exit with error if a weak function is used in recordmcount.pl
tracing: Move conditional into update_funcs() in recordmcount.pl
tracing: Add regex for weak functions in recordmcount.pl
tracing: Move mcount section search to front of loop in recordmcount.pl
tracing: Fix objcopy revision check in recordmcount.pl
tracing: Check absolute path of input file in recordmcount.pl
tracing: Correct the check for number of arguments in recordmcount.pl
...
When a string was written to <debugfs>/tracing/trace_marker, some
strange characters appeared in the trace output instead of the
string, since a vprint function erroneously called a vararg print
function with a va_list argument. This patch fixes the problem and
simplifies the related code.
Signed-off-by: Carsten Emde <C.Emde@osadl.org>
LKML-Reference: <4B01AE5D.1010801@osadl.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The function tracing_stats_read() mistakenly returns ENOMEM instead
of the negative value -ENOMEM.
Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4AFB2C0B.50605@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Now that the return from alloc_percpu is compatible with the address
of per-cpu vars, it makes sense to hand around the address of per-cpu
variables. To make this sane, we remove the per_cpu__ prefix we used
created to stop people accidentally using these vars directly.
Now we have sparse, we can use that (next patch).
tj: * Updated to convert stuff which were missed by or added after the
original patch.
* Kill per_cpu_var() macro.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
This patch updates percpu related symbols in kernel tracer such that
percpu symbols are unique and don't clash with local symbols. This
serves two purposes of decreasing the possibility of global percpu
symbol collision and allowing dropping per_cpu__ prefix from percpu
symbols.
* kernel/trace/trace.c: s/max_data/max_tr_data/
* kernel/trace/trace_hw_branches: s/tracer/hwb_tracer/, s/buffer/hwb_buffer/
Partly based on Rusty Russell's "alloc_percpu: rename percpu vars
which cause name clashes" patch.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
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>
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>
this_cpu_xx can reduce the instruction count here and also
avoid address arithmetic.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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:
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()
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>
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>
* 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
sched: Simplify sys_sched_rr_get_interval() system call
sched: Fix potential NULL derference of doms_cur
sched: Fix raciness in runqueue_is_locked()
sched: Re-add lost cpu_allowed check to sched_fair.c::select_task_rq_fair()
sched: Remove unneeded indentation in sched_fair.c::place_entity()
runqueue_is_locked() is unavoidably racy due to a poor interface design.
It does
cpu = get_cpu()
ret = some_perpcu_thing(cpu);
put_cpu(cpu);
return ret;
Its return value is unreliable.
Fix.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <200909191855.n8JItiko022148@imap1.linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Limit the length of a tracer's name within 100 chars, and then we
don't have to play with max_tracer_type_len.
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4AB32377.9020601@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Now that the pluging tracers use macros to create the structures and
automate the exporting of their formats to the format files, they also
automatically get a filter file.
This patch adds the code to implement the filter logic in the trace
recordings.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The state of the function pair tracing_stop()/tracing_start() is
correctly considered when tracer data are updated. However, the global
and externally accessible variable tracing_max_latency is always updated
- even when tracing is stopped.
The update should only occur, if tracing was not stopped.
Signed-off-by: Carsten Emde <C.Emde@osadl.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Create a "trace_parser" that can parse the user space input for
separate words.
struct trace_parser is the descriptor.
Generic "trace_get_user" function that can be a helper to read multiple
words passed in by user space.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1252682969-3366-2-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The userstack trace required the recording of the tgid entry.
Unfortunately, it was added to the generic entry where it wasted
4 bytes of every entry and was only used by one entry.
This patch moves it out of the generic field and moves it into the
only user (userstack_entry).
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The irqsoff tracer will fail to swap the cpu buffer with the max
buffer if it preempts a commit. Instead of ignoring this, this patch
makes the tracer report it if the last max latency failed due to preempting
a current commit.
The output of the latency tracer will look like this:
# tracer: irqsoff
#
# irqsoff latency trace v1.1.5 on 2.6.31-rc5
# --------------------------------------------------------------------
# latency: 112 us, #1/1, CPU#1 | (M:preempt VP:0, KP:0, SP:0 HP:0 #P:4)
# -----------------
# | task: -4281 (uid:0 nice:0 policy:0 rt_prio:0)
# -----------------
# => started at: save_args
# => ended at: __do_softirq
#
#
# _------=> CPU#
# / _-----=> irqs-off
# | / _----=> need-resched
# || / _---=> hardirq/softirq
# ||| / _--=> preempt-depth
# |||| /
# ||||| delay
# cmd pid ||||| time | caller
# \ / ||||| \ | /
bash-4281 1d.s6 265us : update_max_tr_single: Failed to swap buffers due to commit in progress
Note the latency time and the functions that disabled the irqs or preemption
will still be listed.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
This patch adds a trace_array_printk to allow a tracer to use the
trace_printk on its own trace array.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The latency tracers (irqsoff and wakeup) can swap trace buffers
on the fly. If an event is happening and has reserved data on one of
the buffers, and the latency tracer swaps the global buffer with the
max buffer, the result is that the event may commit the data to the
wrong buffer.
This patch changes the API to the trace recording to be recieve the
buffer that was used to reserve a commit. Then this buffer can be passed
in to the commit.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Reseting the trace buffer without first disabling the buffer and
waiting for any writers to complete, can corrupt the ring buffer.
This patch makes the external version of tracing_reset safe from
corruption by disabling the ring buffer and calling synchronize_sched.
This version can no longer be called from interrupt context. But all those
callers have been removed.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Currently the latency tracers reset the ring buffer. Unfortunately
if a commit is in process (due to a trace event), this can corrupt
the ring buffer. When this happens, the ring buffer will detect
the corruption and then permanently disable the ring buffer.
The bug does not crash the system, but it does prevent further tracing
after the bug is hit.
Instead of reseting the trace buffers, the timestamp of the start of
the trace is used instead. The buffers will still contain the previous
data, but the output will not count any data that is before the
timestamp of the trace.
Note, this only affects the static trace output (trace) and not the
runtime trace output (trace_pipe). The runtime trace output does not
make sense for the latency tracers anyway.
Reported-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The function tracing_reset is deprecated for outside use of trace.c.
The new function to reset the the buffers is tracing_reset_online_cpus.
The reason for this is that resetting the buffers while the event
trace points are active can corrupt the buffers, because they may
be writing at the time of reset. The tracing_reset_online_cpus disables
writes and waits for current writers to finish.
This patch replaces all users of tracing_reset except for the latency
tracers. Those changes require more work and will be removed in the
following patches.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Resetting the ring buffers while traces are happening can corrupt
the ring buffer and disable it (no kernel crash to worry about).
The safest thing to do is disable the ring buffers, call synchronize_sched()
to wait for all current writers to finish and then reset the buffer.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
When reading the tracer from the trace file, updating the max latency
may corrupt the output. This patch disables the tracing of the max
latency while reading the trace file.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
During development of the tracer, we would copy information from
the live tracer to the max tracer with one memcpy. Since then we
added a generic ring buffer and we handle the copies differently now.
Unfortunately, we never copied the critical section information, and
we lost the output:
# => started at: kmem_cache_alloc
# => ended at: kmem_cache_alloc
This patch adds back the critical start and end copying as well as
removes the unused "trace_idx" and "overrun" fields of the
trace_array_cpu structure.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The tracing_max_latency file should only be present when one of the
latency tracers ({preempt|irqs}off, wakeup*) are enabled.
This patch also removes tracing_thresh when latency tracers are not
enabled, as well as compiles out code that is only used for latency
tracers.
Reported-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
There are many clock sources for the tracing system but we can only
enable/disable one at a time with the trace/options file.
We can move the setting of clock-source out of options and add a separate
file for it:
# cat trace_clock
[local] global
# echo global > trace_clock
# cat trace_clock
local [global]
Signed-off-by: Zhao Lei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A939D08.6050604@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
"echo noglobal-clock > trace_options" can be used to change trace
clock but "echo 0 > options/global-clock" can't. The flag toggling
will be silently accepted without actually changing the clock callback.
We can fix it by using set_tracer_flags() in
trace_options_core_write().
Changelog:
v1->v2: Simplified switch() after Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>'s
suggestion
Signed-off-by: Zhao Lei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
set_tracer_flags() have a local variable named trace_flags which has
the same name than a global one in the same scope.
This leads to confusion, using tracer_flags should be better by its
meaning.
Changelog:
v1->v2: Simplified another patch in this patchset, no change in this
patch.
Signed-off-by: Zhao Lei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
This patch implements the kernel side support for ftrace event
record sampling.
A new counter sampling attribute is added:
PERF_SAMPLE_TP_RECORD
which requests ftrace events record sampling. In this case
if a PERF_TYPE_TRACEPOINT counter is active and a tracepoint
fires, we emit the tracepoint binary record to the
perfcounter event buffer, as a sample.
Result, after setting PERF_SAMPLE_TP_RECORD attribute from perf
record:
perf record -f -F 1 -a -e workqueue:workqueue_execution
perf report -D
0x21e18 [0x48]: event: 9
.
. ... raw event: size 72 bytes
. 0000: 09 00 00 00 01 00 48 00 d0 c7 00 81 ff ff ff ff ......H........
. 0010: 0a 00 00 00 0a 00 00 00 21 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........!......
. 0020: 2b 00 01 02 0a 00 00 00 0a 00 00 00 65 76 65 6e +...........eve
. 0030: 74 73 2f 31 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0a 00 00 00 ts/1...........
. 0040: e0 b1 31 81 ff ff ff ff .......
.
0x21e18 [0x48]: PERF_EVENT_SAMPLE (IP, 1): 10: 0xffffffff8100c7d0 period: 33
The raw ftrace binary record starts at offset 0020.
Translation:
struct trace_entry {
type = 0x2b = 43;
flags = 1;
preempt_count = 2;
pid = 0xa = 10;
tgid = 0xa = 10;
}
thread_comm = "events/1"
thread_pid = 0xa = 10;
func = 0xffffffff8131b1e0 = flush_to_ldisc()
What will come next?
- Userspace support ('perf trace'), 'flight data recorder' mode
for perf trace, etc.
- The unconditional copy from the profiling callback brings
some costs however if someone wants no such sampling to
occur, and needs to be fixed in the future. For that we need
to have an instant access to the perf counter attribute.
This is a matter of a flag to add in the struct ftrace_event.
- Take care of the events recursivity! Don't ever try to record
a lock event for example, it seems some locking is used in
the profiling fast path and lead to a tracing recursivity.
That will be fixed using raw spinlock or recursivity
protection.
- [...]
- Profit! :-)
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The function graph events helpers which insert the function entry and
return events into the ring buffer currently reside in trace.c
But this file is quite overloaded and the right place for these helpers
is in the function graph tracer file.
Then move them to trace_functions_graph.c
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The sched events helpers which insert the sched switch and wakeup
events into the ring buffer currently reside in trace.c
But this file is quite overloaded and the right place for these helpers
is in the sched switch tracer file.
Then move them to trace_functions.c
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Make the stacktrace event insertion helpers globals.
This has two effects:
- Prepare for moving the sched events insertion helpers to
the sched switch tracer file.
- Move some ifdef outside function definitions
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
In order to prepare the moving of the function graph tracer insertion
helpers from trace.c to trace_functions_graph.c, we need to export the
ftrace_cpu_disabled variable.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
About a half events are missing when we splice_read
from trace_pipe. They are unexpectedly consumed because we ignore
the TRACE_TYPE_NO_CONSUME return value used by the function graph
tracer when it needs to consume the events by itself to walk on
the ring buffer.
The same problem appears with ftrace_dump()
Example of an output before this patch:
1) | ktime_get_real() {
1) 2.846 us | read_hpet();
1) 4.558 us | }
1) 6.195 us | }
After this patch:
0) | ktime_get_real() {
0) | getnstimeofday() {
0) 1.960 us | read_hpet();
0) 3.597 us | }
0) 5.196 us | }
The fix also applies on 2.6.30
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
LKML-Reference: <4A6EEC52.90704@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
The current code will truncate the ftrace files contents if O_APPEND
is not set and the file is opened in write mode. This is incorrect.
It should only truncate the file if O_TRUNC is set. Otherwise
if one of these files is opened by a C program with fopen "r+",
it will incorrectly truncate the file.
Reported-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
'\n' is already appended, and what we need is just an extra
space for the '\0'.
Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A3EED63.3090908@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
* Remove smp_lock.h from files which don't need it (including some headers!)
* Add smp_lock.h to files which do need it
* Make smp_lock.h include conditional in hardirq.h
It's needed only for one kernel_locked() usage which is under CONFIG_PREEMPT
This will make hardirq.h inclusion cheaper for every PREEMPT=n config
(which includes allmodconfig/allyesconfig, BTW)
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch converts the ring buffers into a completely lockless
buffer recording system. The read side still takes locks since
we still serialize readers. But the writers are the ones that
must be lockless (those can happen in NMIs).
The main change is to the "head_page" pointer. We write to the
tail, and read from the head. The "head_page" pointer in the cpu
buffer is now just a reference to where to look. The real head
page is now kept in the head_page->list->prev->next pointer.
That is, in the list head of the previous page we set flags.
The list pages are allocated to be aligned such that the lowest
significant bits are always zero pointing to the list. This gives
us play to put in flags to their pointers.
bit 0: set when the page is a head page
bit 1: set when the writer is moving the page (for overwrite mode)
cmpxchg is used to update the pointer.
When the writer wraps the buffer and the tail meets the head,
in overwrite mode, the writer must move the head page forward.
It first uses cmpxchg to change the pointer flag from 1 to 2.
Once this is done, the reader on another CPU will not take the
page from the buffer.
The writers need to protect against interrupts (we don't bother with
disabling interrupts because NMIs are allowed to write too).
After the writer sets the pointer flag to 2, it takes care to
manage interrupts coming in. This is discribed in detail within the
comments of the code.
Changes in version 2:
- Let reader reset entries value of header page.
- Fix tail page passing commit page on reader page test.
- Always increment entries and write counter in rb_tail_page_update
- Add safety check in rb_set_commit_to_write to break out of infinite loop
- add mask in rb_is_reader_page
[ Impact: lock free writing to the ring buffer ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
We already have ftrace= boot option, and this adds a similar
boot option for trace events, so allow trace events to be
enabled at boot, for boot debugging purpose.
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A4ACE29.3010407@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
We should be able to specify [KMG] when setting trace_buf_size
boot option, as documented in kernel-parameters.txt
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A41F2DB.4020102@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The iterator is m->private, but it's not reset to trace_types in
t_start(). If the output is larger than PAGE_SIZE and t_start()
is called the 2nd time, things will go wrong.
Reviewed-by: Liming Wang <liming.wang@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A418728.5020506@cn.fujitsu.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: (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
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>
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>
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>
* '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
...
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>
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>
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>
When adding the EXPORT_SYMBOL to some of the tracing API, I accidently
used EXPORT_SYMBOL instead of EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL. This patch fixes
that mistake.
[ Impact: export the tracing code only for GPL modules ]
Reported-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
This patch adds stats to the ftrace ring buffers:
# cat /debugfs/tracing/per_cpu/cpu0/stats
entries: 42360
overrun: 30509326
commit overrun: 0
nmi dropped: 0
Where entries are the total number of data entries in the buffer.
overrun is the number of entries not consumed and were overwritten by
the writer.
commit overrun is the number of entries dropped due to nested writers
wrapping the buffer before the initial writer finished the commit.
nmi dropped is the number of entries dropped due to the ring buffer
lock being held when an nmi was going to write to the ring buffer.
Note, this field will be meaningless and will go away when the ring
buffer becomes lockless.
[ Impact: let userspace know what is happening in the ring buffers ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The pages allocated for the splice binary buffer did not initialize
the ref count correctly. This caused pages not to be freed and causes
a drastic memory leak.
Thanks to logdev I was able to trace the tracer to find where the leak
was.
[ Impact: stop memory leak when using splice ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Splice works with pages, it is much more effecient to use an entire
page than to copy bits over several pages.
Using logdev to trace the internals of the splice mechanism, I was
able to see that splice can be very aggressive. When tracing is
occurring, and the reader caught up to the writer, and the writer
is on the reader page, the reader will copy what is there into the
splice page. Splice may iterate over several pages and if the
writer is still writing to the page, the reader will keep copying
bits to new pages to pass to userspace.
This patch changes it to only pass data to userspace if the page
is full (the writer has left the page). This has a small side effect
that splice can not read a partial page, and must wait for the
page to fill. This should not be an issue. If tracing has stopped,
then a use of "read" will still read all of the page.
[ Impact: better performance for ring buffer splice code ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The splice code allocates a page even when the ring buffer is empty.
It detects the ring buffer being empty when it it fails to copy
anything from the ring buffer into the page.
This patch adds a check to see if there is anything in the ring buffer
before allocating a page.
Thanks to logdev for letting me trace the tracer to find this.
[ Impact: speed up due to removing unnecessary allocation ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The pages allocated for the splice binary buffer did not initialize
the ref count correctly. This caused pages not to be freed and causes
a drastic memory leak.
Thanks to logdev I was able to trace the tracer to find where the leak
was.
[ Impact: stop memory leak when using splice ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
ftrace_dump is used for printing out the contents of the ftrace ring buffer
to the console on failure. Currently it uses a spinlock to synchronize
the output from multiple failures on different CPUs. This spin lock
currently is a normal spinlock and can cause issues with lockdep and
lock tracing.
This patch converts it to raw since it is for error handling only.
The lock is local to the ftrace_dump and is not used by any other
infrastructure.
[ Impact: prevent ftrace_dump from locking up by internal tracing ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
struct trace_entry->type is unsigned char, while trace event's id is
int type, thus for a event with id >= 256, it's entry->type is cast
to (id % 256), and then we can't see the trace output of this event.
# insmod trace-events-sample.ko
# echo foo_bar > /mnt/tracing/set_event
# cat /debug/tracing/events/trace-events-sample/foo_bar/id
256
# cat /mnt/tracing/trace_pipe
<...>-3548 [001] 215.091142: Unknown type 0
<...>-3548 [001] 216.089207: Unknown type 0
<...>-3548 [001] 217.087271: Unknown type 0
<...>-3548 [001] 218.085332: Unknown type 0
[ Impact: fix output for trace events with id >= 256 ]
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <49EEDB0E.5070207@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
trace_printk can be called from any context, including NMIs.
If this happens, then we must test for for recursion before
grabbing any spinlocks.
This patch prevents trace_printk from being called recursively.
[ Impact: prevent hard lockup in lockdep event tracer ]
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Not all the necessary symbols were exported to allow for tracing
by modules. This patch adds them in.
[ Impact: allow modules to commit data to the ring buffer ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Export the cached task comms to userspace. This allows user apps to translate
the pids from a trace into their respective task command lines.
[ Impact: let userspace apps reading binary buffer know comm's of pids ]
Signed-off-by: Avadh Patel <avadh4all@gmail.com>
[ added error checking and use of buf pointer to index file_buf ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Impact: let modules add trace events
The trace event code requires some functions to be exported to allow
modules to use TRACE_EVENT. This patch adds EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL to the
necessary functions.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
This patch changes filter_check_discard() to make use of the new
ring_buffer_discard_commit() function and modifies the current users to
call the old commit function in the non-discard case.
It also introduces a version of filter_check_discard() that uses the
global trace buffer (filter_current_check_discard()) for those cases.
v2 changes:
- fix compile error noticed by Ingo Molnar
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
LKML-Reference: <1239178554.10295.36.camel@tropicana>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The ring_buffer_discard_commit makes better usage of the ring_buffer
when an event has been discarded. It tries to remove it completely if
possible.
This patch converts the trace event filtering to use
ring_buffer_discard_commit instead of the ring_buffer_event_discard.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Frederic Weisbecker suggested that the trace_special event shouldn't be
filterable; this patch adds a TRACE_EVENT_FORMAT_NOFILTER event macro
that allows an event format to be exported without having a filter
attached, and removes filtering from the trace_special event.
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This patch adds run-time field descriptions to all the event formats
exported using TRACE_EVENT_FORMAT. It also hooks up all the tracers
that use them (i.e. the tracers in the 'ftrace subsystem') so they can
also have their output filtered by the event-filtering mechanism.
When I was testing this, there were a couple of things that fooled me
into thinking the filters weren't working, when actually they were -
I'll mention them here so others don't make the same mistakes (and file
bug reports. ;-)
One is that some of the tracers trace multiple events e.g. the
sched_switch tracer uses the context_switch and wakeup events, and if
you don't set filters on all of the traced events, the unfiltered output
from the events without filters on them can make it look like the
filtering as a whole isn't working properly, when actually it is doing
what it was asked to do - it just wasn't asked to do the right thing.
The other is that for the really high-volume tracers e.g. the function
tracer, the volume of filtered events can be so high that it pushes the
unfiltered events out of the ring buffer before they can be read so e.g.
cat'ing the trace file repeatedly shows either no output, or once in
awhile some output but that isn't there the next time you read the
trace, which isn't what you normally expect when reading the trace file.
If you read from the trace_pipe file though, you can catch them before
they disappear.
Changes from v1:
As suggested by Frederic Weisbecker:
- get rid of externs in functions
- added unlikely() to filter_check_discard()
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Merge reason: pick up both v2.6.30-rc1 [which includes tracing/urgent fixes]
and pick up the current lineup of tracing/urgent fixes as well
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
I got these from strace:
splice(0x3, 0, 0x5, 0, 0x1000, 0x1) = 12288
splice(0x3, 0, 0x5, 0, 0x1000, 0x1) = 12288
splice(0x3, 0, 0x5, 0, 0x1000, 0x1) = 12288
splice(0x3, 0, 0x5, 0, 0x1000, 0x1) = 16384
splice(0x3, 0, 0x5, 0, 0x1000, 0x1) = 8192
splice(0x3, 0, 0x5, 0, 0x1000, 0x1) = 8192
splice(0x3, 0, 0x5, 0, 0x1000, 0x1) = 8192
I wanted to splice_read 4096 bytes, but it returns 8192 or larger.
It is because the return value of tracing_buffers_splice_read()
does not include "zero out any left over data" bytes.
But tracing_buffers_read() includes these bytes, we make them
consistent.
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <49D46674.9030804@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: Cleanup
These two lines:
if (unlikely(*ppos))
return -ESPIPE;
in tracing_buffers_splice_read() are not needed, VFS layer
has disabled seek(2).
We remove these two lines, and then we can update file->f_pos.
And tracing_buffers_read() updates file->f_pos, this fix
make tracing_buffers_splice_read() updates file->f_pos too.
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <49D46670.4010503@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: Cleanup
Sometimes, we open trace_pipe_raw, but we don't read(2) it,
we just splice(2) it, thus, the page is not used.
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <49D4666B.4010608@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: disable pread()
We set tracing_buffers_fops.llseek to no_llseek,
but we can still perform pread() to read this file.
That is not expected.
This fix uses nonseekable_open() to disable it.
tracing_buffers_fops.llseek is still set to no_llseek,
it mark this file is a "non-seekable device" and is used by
sys_splice(). See also do_splice() or manual of splice(2):
ERRORS
EINVAL Target file system doesn't support splicing;
neither of the descriptors refers to a pipe;
or offset given for non-seekable device.
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <49D46668.8030806@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup
Most of the tracing files creation follow the same pattern:
ret = debugfs_create_file(...)
if (!ret)
pr_warning("Couldn't create ... entry\n")
Unify it!
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1238109938-11840-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Some of the tracers have been renamed, which was not updated in the in-kernel
run-time README file. Update it.
Signed-off-by: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>
LKML-Reference: <200903231158.32151.knikanth@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: fix a crash while cat trace file
Currently we are using a cpumask to remind each cpu where a
trace occured. It lets us notice the user that a cpu just had
its first trace.
But on latest -tip we have the following crash once we cat the trace
file:
IP: [<c0270c4a>] print_trace_fmt+0x45/0xe7
*pde = 00000000
Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
last sysfs file: /sys/class/net/eth0/carrier
Pid: 3897, comm: cat Not tainted (2.6.29-tip-02825-g0f22972-dirty #81)
EIP: 0060:[<c0270c4a>] EFLAGS: 00010297 CPU: 0
EIP is at print_trace_fmt+0x45/0xe7
EAX: 00000000 EBX: 00000000 ECX: c12d9e98 EDX: ccdb7010
ESI: d31f4000 EDI: 00322401 EBP: d31f3f10 ESP: d31f3efc
DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 00e0 SS: 0068
Process cat (pid: 3897, ti=d31f2000 task=d3b3cf20 task.ti=d31f2000)
Stack:
d31f4080 ccdb7010 d31f4000 d691fe70 ccdb7010 d31f3f24 c0270e5c d31f4000
d691fe70 d31f4000 d31f3f34 c02718e8 c12d9e98 d691fe70 d31f3f70 c02bfc33
00001000 09130000 d3b46e00 d691fe98 00000000 00000079 00000001 00000000
Call Trace:
[<c0270e5c>] ? print_trace_line+0x170/0x17c
[<c02718e8>] ? s_show+0xa7/0xbd
[<c02bfc33>] ? seq_read+0x24a/0x327
[<c02bf9e9>] ? seq_read+0x0/0x327
[<c02ab18b>] ? vfs_read+0x86/0xe1
[<c02ab289>] ? sys_read+0x40/0x65
[<c0202d8f>] ? sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x3c
Code: 00 00 00 89 45 ec f7 c7 00 20 00 00 89 55 f0 74 4e f6 86 98 10 00 00 02 74 45 8b 86 8c 10 00 00 8b 9e a8 10 00 00 e8 52 f3 ff ff <0f> a3 03 19 c0 85 c0 75 2b 8b 86 8c 10 00 00 8b 9e a8 10 00 00
EIP: [<c0270c4a>] print_trace_fmt+0x45/0xe7 SS:ESP 0068:d31f3efc
CR2: 0000000000000000
---[ end trace aa9cf38e5ebed9dd ]---
This is because we alloc the iter->started cpumask on tracing_pipe_open but
not on tracing_open.
It hadn't been noticed until now because we need to have ring buffer overruns
to activate the starting of cpu buffer detection.
Also, we need a check to not print the messagge for the first trace on the file.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1238619188-6109-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Building a kernel with tracing can raise the following warning on
tip/master:
kernel/trace/trace.c:1249: error: implicit declaration of function 'vbin_printf'
We are missing an include to string.h
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1238160130-7437-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: fix time output bug in 32bits system
ns2usecs() returns 'long', it's incorrect.
(In i386)
...
<idle>-0 [000] 521.442100: _spin_lock <-tick_do_update_jiffies64
<idle>-0 [000] 521.442101: do_timer <-tick_do_update_jiffies64
<idle>-0 [000] 521.442102: update_wall_time <-do_timer
<idle>-0 [000] 521.442102: update_xtime_cache <-update_wall_time
....
(It always print the time less than 2200 seconds besides ...)
Because 'long' is 32bits in i386. ( (1<<31) useconds is about 2200 seconds)
...
<idle>-0 [001] 4154502640.134759: rcu_bh_qsctr_inc <-__do_softirq
<idle>-0 [001] 4154502640.134760: _local_bh_enable <-__do_softirq
<idle>-0 [001] 4154502640.134761: idle_cpu <-irq_exit
...
(very large value)
Because 'long' is a signed type and it is 32bits in i386.
Changes in v2:
return 'unsigned long long' instead of 'cycle_t'
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <49D05D10.4030009@cn.fujitsu.com>
Reported-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
graph time is the time that a function is executing another function.
Thus if function A calls B, if graph-time is set, then the time for
A includes B. This is the default behavior. But if graph-time is off,
then the time spent executing B is subtracted from A.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
If the function graph trace is enabled, the function profiler will
use it to take the timing of the functions.
cat /debug/tracing/trace_stat/functions
Function Hit Time
-------- --- ----
mwait_idle 127 183028.4 us
schedule 26 151997.7 us
__schedule 31 151975.1 us
sys_wait4 2 74080.53 us
do_wait 2 74077.80 us
sys_newlstat 138 39929.16 us
do_path_lookup 179 39845.79 us
vfs_lstat_fd 138 39761.97 us
user_path_at 153 39469.58 us
path_walk 179 39435.76 us
__link_path_walk 189 39143.73 us
[...]
Note the times are skewed due to the function graph tracer not taking
into account schedules.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Impact: give user a choice to show times spent while sleeping
The user may want to see the time a function spent sleeping.
This patch adds the trace option "sleep-time" to allow that.
The "sleep-time" option is default on.
echo sleep-time > /debug/tracing/trace_options
produces:
------------------------------------------
2) avahi-d-3428 => <idle>-0
------------------------------------------
2) | finish_task_switch() {
2) 0.621 us | _spin_unlock_irq();
2) 2.202 us | }
2) ! 1002.197 us | }
2) ! 1003.521 us | }
where as,
echo nosleep-time > /debug/tracing/trace_options
produces:
0) <idle>-0 => yum-upd-3416
------------------------------------------
0) | finish_task_switch() {
0) 0.643 us | _spin_unlock_irq();
0) 2.342 us | }
0) + 41.302 us | }
0) + 42.453 us | }
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Impact: fix traces output
Sometimes one can observe an imbalance in the traces between function
calls and function return traces:
func1() {
}
}
The curly brace inside func1() is the return of another function nested
inside func1. The return trace have been inserted in the buffer but not
the entry.
We are storing a return address on the function traces stack while we
haven't inserted its entry on the buffer, hence the imbalance on the
traces.
This is because the tracers doesn't check all failures that can happen
on buffer insertion.
This patch reports the tracing recursion failures and the ring buffer
failures. In such cases, we now restore the original return address for
the function, giving up its return trace.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <1237843021-11695-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: fix a crash with ftrace={nop,boot} parameter
If the nop or initcall tracers are launched as boot tracers,
they will attempt to create their option directory and files.
But these tracers are registered very early and then assigned
as "boot tracers" very early if asked to.
Since they do this before debugfs has been registered (core initcall),
a crash is triggered.
Another early tracers could also come later. So we fix it by
checking if debugfs is initialized before creating the root
tracing directory.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <1237759847-21025-3-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: fix hard-lockup with sched switch events
Some ftrace events, such as sched wakeup, can be traced
while the runqueue lock is hold. Since they are using
trace_current_buffer_unlock_commit(), they call wake_up()
which can try to grab the runqueue lock too, resulting in
a deadlock.
Now for all event, we call a new helper:
trace_nowake_buffer_unlock_commit() which do pretty the same than
trace_current_buffer_unlock_commit() except than it doesn't call
trace_wake_up().
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <1237759847-21025-4-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup.
This patch fixes the following sparse warnings:
kernel/trace/trace.c:385:9: warning: symbol 'trace_seq_to_buffer' was
not declared. Should it be static?
kernel/trace/trace_clock.c:29:13: warning: symbol 'trace_clock_local'
was not declared. Should it be static?
kernel/trace/trace_clock.c:54:13: warning: symbol 'trace_clock' was not
declared. Should it be static?
kernel/trace/trace_clock.c:74:13: warning: symbol 'trace_clock_global'
was not declared. Should it be static?
Signed-off-by: Dmitri Vorobiev <dmitri.vorobiev@movial.com>
LKML-Reference: <1237741871-5827-4-git-send-email-dmitri.vorobiev@movial.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: detect tracing related hangs
Sometimes, with some configs, the function graph tracer can make
the timer interrupt too much slow, hanging the kernel in an endless
loop of timer interrupts servicing.
As suggested by Ingo, this patch brings a watchdog which stops the
selftest after a defined number of functions traced, definitely
disabling this tracer.
For those who want to debug the cause of the function graph trace
hang, you can pass the ftrace_dump_on_oops kernel parameter to dump
the traces after this hang detection.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <1237694675-23509-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The function depth in trace_printk was to facilitate the function
graph output. Now that the function graph calculates the depth within
the trace output, we no longer need to record the depth when the
trace_printk is called.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
This patch makes print_printk_msg_only and print_bprintk_msg_only
global for other functions to use. It also renames them by adding
a "trace_" to the beginning to avoid namespace collisions.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
There is currently no easy way to clear the trace buffer. Currently
the only way is to change the current tracer.
This patch lets the user clear the trace buffer by simply writing
into the trace files.
echo > /debug/tracing/trace
or to clear a single cpu (i.e. for CPU 1):
echo > /debug/tracing/per_cpu/cpu1/trace
Requested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Impact: fix command line to pid mapping
map_cmdline_to_pid[] is checked in trace_save_cmdline(), but never
updated. This results in stale pid to command line mappings and the
tracer output will associate the wrong comm string.
Signed-off-by: Carsten Emde <Carsten.Emde@osadl.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: prevent stale command line output
In case there is no valid command line mapping for a pid
trace_find_cmdline() returns without updating the comm buffer. The
trace dump keeps the previous entry which results in confusing trace
output:
<idle>-0 [000] 280.702056 ....
<idle>-23456 [000] 280.702080 ....
Update the comm buffer with "<...>" when no mapping is found.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup
The command line recorder uses (unsigned) -1 to mark non mapped
entries in the pid to command line maps. The validity check is
completely unintuitive: idx >= SAVED_CMDLINES
There is no need for such casting games. Use a constant to mark
unmapped entries and check for that constant to make the code readable
and understandable.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: prevent overwrite of command line entries
When the tracer is stopped the command line recording continues to
record. The check for tracing_is_on() is not sufficient here as the
ringbuffer status is not affected by setting
debug/tracing/tracing_enabled to 0. On a non idle system this can
result in the loss of the command line information for the stopped
trace, which makes the trace harder to read and analyse.
Check tracer_enabled to allow further recording.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: feature to allow better serialized clock
This patch adds an option called "global-clock" that will allow
the tracer to switch to a slower but more accurate (across CPUs)
clock.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
This patch adds a new function called ring_buffer_set_clock that
allows a tracer to assign its own clock source to the buffer.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Impact: fix for losing comms in trace
The command lines of tasks are cached at sched switch to not need
to record them at every trace point. Disabling the tracing on stops
the recording of traces, but does not stop the caching of command lines.
When the tracing is off the cache may overflow and cause the tracing
to show incorrect tasks matching the PIDs.
This patch disables prevents updates to the comm cache when the ring buffer
is off.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Impact: fix to one cause of incorrect comm outputs in trace
The spinlock only protected the creation of a comm <=> pid pair.
But it was possible that a reader could look up a pid, and get the
wrong comm because it had no locking.
This also required changing trace_find_cmdline to copy the comm cache
and not just send back a pointer to it.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Impact: fix crashes when tracing cpumasks
While ring-buffer allocation, the cpumasks are allocated too,
including the tracing cpumask and the per-cpu file mask handler.
But these cpumasks are freed accidentally just after.
Fix it.
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1237164303-11476-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: fix possible locking imbalance
In case of ring buffer resize failure, tracing_set_tracer forgot to
release trace_types_lock. Fix it.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1237151439-6755-5-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The binary_buffers directory in /debugfs/tracing held the files
to read the trace buffers in a binary format. This held one file
per CPU buffer. But we also have a per_cpu directory that holds
a way to read the pretty-print formats.
This patch moves the binary buffers into the per_cpu_directory:
# ls /debug/tracing/per_cpu/cpu1/
trace trace_pipe trace_pipe_raw
The new name is called "trace_pipe_raw". The binary buffers always
acted similar to trace_pipe, except that they produce raw data.
Requested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Impact: fix callsites with dynamic format strings
Since its new binary implementation, trace_printk() internally uses static
containers for the format strings on each callsites. But the value is
assigned once at build time, which means that it can't take dynamic
formats.
So this patch unearthes the raw trace_printk implementation for the callers
that will need trace_printk to be able to carry these dynamic format
strings. The trace_printk() macro will use the appropriate implementation
for each callsite. Most of the time however, the binary implementation will
still be used.
The other impact of this patch is that mmiotrace_printk() will use the old
implementation because it calls the low level trace_vprintk and we can't
guess here whether the format passed in it is dynamic or not.
Some parts of this patch have been written by Steven Rostedt (most notably
the part that chooses the appropriate implementation for each callsites).
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Impact: do not confuse user on small trace buffer sizes
When the system boots up, the trace buffer is small to conserve memory.
It is only two pages per online CPU. When the tracer is used, it expands
to the default value.
This can confuse the user if they look at the buffer size and see only
7, but then later they see 1408.
# cat /debug/tracing/buffer_size_kb
7
# echo sched_switch > /debug/tracing/current_tracer
# cat /debug/tracing/buffer_size_kb
1408
This patch tries to help remove this confustion by showing that the
buffer has not been expanded.
# cat /debug/tracing/buffer_size_kb
7 (expanded: 1408)
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Impact: prevent races with ring_buffer_expanded
This patch places the expanding of the tracing buffer under the
protection of the trace_types_lock mutex. It is highly unlikely
that there would be any contention, but better safe than sorry.
Reported-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Impact: cleanup
Some of the comments about the trace buffer resizing is gobbledygook.
And I wonder why people question if I'm a native English speaker.
This patch makes the comments make a bit more sense.
Reported-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Impact: save on memory
Currently, a ring buffer was allocated for each "possible_cpus". On
some systems, this is the same as NR_CPUS. Thus, if a system defined
NR_CPUS = 64 but it only had 1 CPU, we could have possibly 63 useless
ring buffers taking up space. With a default buffer of 3 megs, this
could be quite drastic.
This patch changes the ring buffer code to only allocate ring buffers
for online CPUs. If a CPU goes off line, we do not free the buffer.
This is because the user may still have trace data in that buffer
that they would like to look at.
Perhaps in the future we could add code to delete a ring buffer if
the CPU is offline and the ring buffer becomes empty.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Impact: fix to task live locking on reading trace_pipe on one CPU
The same code is used for both trace_pipe (all CPUS) and the per_cpu
trace_pipe file. When there is no data to read, it will check for
signals and wait on the trace wait queue.
The problem happens with the per_cpu wait. The trace_wait code checks
all CPUs. Thus, if there's data in another CPU buffer, then it will
exit the wait, without checking for signals or waiting on the wait queue.
It would then try to read the empty buffer, and since that will just
return nothing, then it will try to wait again. Unfortunately, that will
again fail due to there still being data in the other buffers. This
ends up with a live lock for the task.
This patch fixes the trace_wait to be aware that the iterator may only
be waiting on a single buffer.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
To save memory, the tracer ring buffers are set to a minimum.
The activating of a trace expands the ring buffer size. This patch
adds this expanding, when an event is activated.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Impact: less memory impact on systems not using tracer
When the kernel boots up that has tracing configured, it allocates
the default size of the ring buffer. This currently happens to be
1.4Megs per possible CPU. This is quite a bit of wasted memory if
the system is never using the tracer.
The current solution is to keep the ring buffers to a minimum size
until the user uses them. Once a tracer is piped into the current_tracer
the ring buffer will be expanded to the default size. If the user
changes the size of the ring buffer, it will take the size given
by the user immediately.
If the user adds a "ftrace=" to the kernel command line, then the ring
buffers will be set to the default size on initialization.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Impact: prevent locking up by lockdep tracer
The lockdep tracer uses trace_vprintk and thus trace_vprintk can not
call back into lockdep without locking up.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Impact: clean up
There existed a lot of <space><tab>'s in the tracing code. This
patch removes them.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Impact: faster and lighter tracing
Now that we have trace_bprintk() which is faster and consume lesser
memory than trace_printk() and has the same purpose, we can now drop
the old implementation in favour of the binary one from trace_bprintk(),
which means we move all the implementation of trace_bprintk() to
trace_printk(), so the Api doesn't change except that we must now use
trace_seq_bprintk() to print the TRACE_PRINT entries.
Some changes result of this:
- Previously, trace_bprintk depended of a single tracer and couldn't
work without. This tracer has been dropped and the whole implementation
of trace_printk() (like the module formats management) is now integrated
in the tracing core (comes with CONFIG_TRACING), though we keep the file
trace_printk (previously trace_bprintk.c) where we can find the module
management. Thus we don't overflow trace.c
- changes some parts to use trace_seq_bprintk() to print TRACE_PRINT entries.
- change a bit trace_printk/trace_vprintk macros to support non-builtin formats
constants, and fix 'const' qualifiers warnings. But this is all transparent for
developers.
- etc...
V2:
- Rebase against last changes
- Fix mispell on the changelog
V3:
- Rebase against last changes (moving trace_printk() to kernel.h)
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <1236356510-8381-5-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: add a generic printk() for tracing, like trace_printk()
trace_bprintk() uses the infrastructure to record events on ring_buffer.
[ fweisbec@gmail.com: ported to latest -tip, made it work if
!CONFIG_MODULES, never free the format strings from modules
because we can't keep track of them and conditionnaly create
the ftrace format strings section (reported by Steven Rostedt) ]
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <1236356510-8381-4-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: save on memory for tracing
Current tracers are typically using a struct(like struct ftrace_entry,
struct ctx_switch_entry, struct special_entr etc...)to record a binary
event. These structs can only record a their own kind of events.
A new kind of tracer need a new struct and a lot of code too handle it.
So we need a generic binary record for events. This infrastructure
is for this purpose.
[fweisbec@gmail.com: rebase against latest -tip, make it safe while sched
tracing as reported by Steven Rostedt]
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <1236356510-8381-3-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup
All file_operations structures should be constant. No one is going to
change them.
Reported-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Impact: cleanup
Use a more generic name - this also allows the prototype to move
to kernel.h and be generally available to kernel developers who
want to do some quick tracing.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
