The trace_event benchmark thread runs in kernel space in an infinite loop
while also calling cond_resched() in case anything else wants to schedule
in. Unfortunately, on a PREEMPT kernel, that makes it a nop, in which case,
this will never voluntarily schedule. That will cause synchronize_rcu_tasks()
to forever block on this thread, while it is running.
This is exactly what cond_resched_rcu_qs() is for. Use that instead.
Acked-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
In case of error, the function kthread_run() returns ERR_PTR() and never
returns NULL. The NULL test in the return value check should be replaced
with IS_ERR().
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170112135502.28556-1-weiyj.lk@gmail.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 81dc9f0e ("tracing: Add tracepoint benchmark tracepoint")
Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <weiyongjun1@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The trace event start up selftests fails when the trace benchmark is
enabled, because it is disabled during boot. It really only needs to be
disabled before scheduling is set up, as it creates a thread.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Trace events are enabled very early on boot up via the boot command line
parameter. The benchmark tool creates a new thread to perform the trace
event benchmarking. But at start up, it is called before scheduling is set
up and because it creates a new thread before the init thread is created,
this crashes the kernel.
Have the benchmark fail to register when started via the kernel command
line.
Also, since the registering of a tracepoint now can handle failure cases,
return -ENOMEM instead of warning if the thread cannot be created.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Some tracepoints have a registration function that gets enabled when the
tracepoint is enabled. There may be cases that the registraction function
must fail (for example, can't allocate enough memory). In this case, the
tracepoint should also fail to register, otherwise the user would not know
why the tracepoint is not working.
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Seiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@hds.com>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
There's no need to record the time tracepoints take when tracing is off.
This is because:
1) We cannot see these records since ring_buffer record is off at that
moment.
2) If tracing is off and benchmark tracepoint is enabled, the time
tracepoint takes is fewer than the same situation when tracing is on,
since the tracepoints need to be wrote into ring_buffer, it would
take more time. If turn on tracing at this moment, the average and
standard deviation cannot exactly present the time that tracepoints
take to write data into ring_buffer.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1445947933-27955-1-git-send-email-zhang.chunyan@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Chunyan Zhang <zhang.chunyan@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
When calculating the average and standard deviation, it is required that
the count be less than UINT_MAX, otherwise the do_div() will get
undefined results. After 2^32 counts of data, the average and standard
deviation should pretty much be set anyway.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
I've been told that do_div() expects an unsigned 64 bit number, and
is undefined if a signed is used. This gave a warning on the MIPS
build. I'm not sure if a signed 64 bit dividend is really an issue
or not, but the calculation this is used for is standard deviation,
and that isn't going to be negative. We can just convert it to
unsigned and be safe.
Reported-by: David Daney <ddaney.cavm@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Somehow this unused variable warning sneaked past my warnings check
(probably due to it depending on a new config).
kernel/trace/trace_benchmark.c: In function 'trace_do_benchmark':
kernel/trace/trace_benchmark.c:38:6: warning: unused variable 'seedsq' [-Wunused-variable]
u64 seedsq;
^
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140604160921.4f4e69c4@canb.auug.org.au
Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
In order to help benchmark the time tracepoints take, a new config
option is added called CONFIG_TRACEPOINT_BENCHMARK. When this option
is set a tracepoint is created called "benchmark:benchmark_event".
When the tracepoint is enabled, it kicks off a kernel thread that
goes into an infinite loop (calling cond_sched() to let other tasks
run), and calls the tracepoint. Each iteration will record the time
it took to write to the tracepoint and the next iteration that
data will be passed to the tracepoint itself. That is, the tracepoint
will report the time it took to do the previous tracepoint.
The string written to the tracepoint is a static string of 128 bytes
to keep the time the same. The initial string is simply a write of
"START". The second string records the cold cache time of the first
write which is not added to the rest of the calculations.
As it is a tight loop, it benchmarks as hot cache. That's fine because
we care most about hot paths that are probably in cache already.
An example of the output:
START
first=3672 [COLD CACHED]
last=632 first=3672 max=632 min=632 avg=316 std=446 std^2=199712
last=278 first=3672 max=632 min=278 avg=303 std=316 std^2=100337
last=277 first=3672 max=632 min=277 avg=296 std=258 std^2=67064
last=273 first=3672 max=632 min=273 avg=292 std=224 std^2=50411
last=273 first=3672 max=632 min=273 avg=288 std=200 std^2=40389
last=281 first=3672 max=632 min=273 avg=287 std=183 std^2=33666
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
