The irqsoff and friends tracers help in finding causes of latency in the
kernel. The also work with the function tracer to show what was happening
when interrupts or preemption are disabled. But the function tracer has
a bit of an overhead and can cause exagerated readings.
Currently, when tracing with /proc/sys/kernel/ftrace_enabled = 0, where the
function tracer is disabled, the information that is provided can end up
being useless. For example, a 2 and a half millisecond latency only showed:
# tracer: preemptirqsoff
#
# preemptirqsoff latency trace v1.1.5 on 2.6.32
# --------------------------------------------------------------------
# latency: 2463 us, #4/4, CPU#2 | (M:preempt VP:0, KP:0, SP:0 HP:0 #P:4)
# -----------------
# | task: -4242 (uid:0 nice:0 policy:0 rt_prio:0)
# -----------------
# => started at: _spin_lock_irqsave
# => ended at: remove_wait_queue
#
#
# _------=> CPU#
# / _-----=> irqs-off
# | / _----=> need-resched
# || / _---=> hardirq/softirq
# ||| / _--=> preempt-depth
# |||| /_--=> lock-depth
# |||||/ delay
# cmd pid |||||| time | caller
# \ / |||||| \ | /
hackbenc-4242 2d.... 0us!: trace_hardirqs_off <-_spin_lock_irqsave
hackbenc-4242 2...1. 2463us+: _spin_unlock_irqrestore <-remove_wait_queue
hackbenc-4242 2...1. 2466us : trace_preempt_on <-remove_wait_queue
The above lets us know that hackbench with pid 2463 grabbed a spin lock
somewhere and enabled preemption at remove_wait_queue. This helps a little
but where this actually happened is not informative.
This patch adds the stack dump to the end of the irqsoff tracer. This provides
the following output:
hackbenc-4242 2d.... 0us!: trace_hardirqs_off <-_spin_lock_irqsave
hackbenc-4242 2...1. 2463us+: _spin_unlock_irqrestore <-remove_wait_queue
hackbenc-4242 2...1. 2466us : trace_preempt_on <-remove_wait_queue
hackbenc-4242 2...1. 2467us : <stack trace>
=> sub_preempt_count
=> _spin_unlock_irqrestore
=> remove_wait_queue
=> free_poll_entry
=> poll_freewait
=> do_sys_poll
=> sys_poll
=> system_call_fastpath
Now we see that the culprit of this latency was the free_poll_entry code.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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>
While using an application that does splice on the ftrace ring
buffer at start up, I triggered an integrity check failure.
Looking into this, I discovered that resizing the buffer performs
an integrity check after the buffer is resized. This check unfortunately
is preformed after it releases the reader lock. If a reader is
reading the buffer it may cause the integrity check to trigger a
false failure.
This patch simply moves the integrity checker under the protection
of the ring buffer reader lock.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
There was a comment in the ring buffer code that says the calling
layers should prevent tracing or reading of the ring buffer while
resizing. I have discovered that the tracers do not honor this
arrangement.
This patch moves the disabling and synchronizing the ring buffer to
a higher layer during resizing. This guarantees that no writes
are occurring while the resize takes place.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
strstrip returns a pointer to the first non space character, but the
code in parse_ksym_trace_str() ignores that.
strstrip is now must_check and therefor we get the correct warning:
kernel/trace/trace_ksym.c:294: warning:
ignoring return value of ‘strstrip’, declared with attribute warn_unused_result
We are really not interested in leading whitespace here.
Fix that and cleanup the dozen kfree() exit pathes.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: 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>
There is a case where the graph tracer might get confused and omits
displaying of a single record. This applies mostly with the trace_pipe
since it is unlikely that the trace_seq buffer will overflow with the
trace file.
As the function_graph tracer goes through the trace entries keeping a
pointer to the current record:
current -> func1 ENTRY
func2 ENTRY
func2 RETURN
func1 RETURN
When an function ENTRY is encountered, it moves the pointer to the
next entry to check if the function is a nested or leaf function.
func1 ENTRY
current -> func2 ENTRY
func2 RETURN
func1 RETURN
If the rest of the writing of the function fills the trace_seq buffer,
then the trace_pipe read will ignore this entry. The next read will
Now start at the current location, but the first entry (func1) will
be discarded.
This patch keeps a copy of the current entry in the iterator private
storage and will keep track of when the trace_seq buffer fills. When
the trace_seq buffer fills, it will reuse the copy of the entry in the
next iteration.
[
This patch has been largely modified by Steven Rostedt in order to
clean it up and simplify it. The original idea and concept was from
Jirka and for that, this patch will go under his name to give him
the credit he deserves. But because this was modify by Steven Rostedt
anything wrong with the patch should be blamed on Steven.
]
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1259067458-27143-1-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The trace_seq buffer might fill up, and right now one needs to check the
return value of each printf into the buffer to check for that.
Instead, have the buffer keep track of whether it is full or not, and
reject more input if it is full or would have overflowed with an input
that wasn't added.
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
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>
When we define the common event fields in kprobe, we invert the error
handling and return immediately in case of success. Then we omit
to define specific kprobes fields (ip and nargs), and specific
kretprobes fields (func, ret_ip, nargs). And we only define them
when we fail to create common fields.
The most visible consequence is that we can't create filter for
k(ret)probes specific fields.
This patch re-invert the success/error handling to fix it.
Reported-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <1260263815-5167-1-git-send-regression-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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>
struct perf_event::event callback was called when a breakpoint
triggers. But this is a rather opaque callback, pretty
tied-only to the breakpoint API and not really integrated into perf
as it triggers even when we don't overflow.
We prefer to use overflow_handler() as it fits into the perf events
rules, being called only when we overflow.
Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: "K. Prasad" <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
* '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
...
After duplications are removed, syscall_name_to_nr() is unused.
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B14D2A6.6060803@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
use only one prof_sysenter_enable() instead of
prof_sysenter_enable_##sname()
use only one prof_sysenter_disable() instead of
prof_sysenter_disable_##sname()
use only one prof_sysexit_enable() instead of
prof_sysexit_enable_##sname()
use only one prof_sysexit_disable() instead of
prof_sysexit_disable_##sname()
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B14D2A1.8060304@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
use only one init_syscall_trace instead of
many init_enter_##sname()/init_exit_##sname()
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B14D29B.6090708@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Add syscall_nr field to struct syscall_metadata,
it helps us to get syscall number easier.
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B14D293.6090800@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
use ->enter_event->id instead of ->enter_id
use ->exit_event->id instead of ->exit_id
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B14D288.7030001@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Set event_enter_##sname->data to its metadata,
it makes codes simpler.
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B14D282.7050709@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Fix a memory leak case in create_trace_probe(). When an argument
is too long (> MAX_ARGSTR_LEN), it just jumps to error path. In
that case tp->args[i].name is not released.
This also fixes a bug to check kstrdup()'s return value.
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: systemtap <systemtap@sources.redhat.com>
Cc: DLE <dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20091201001919.10235.56455.stgit@harusame>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
"symbol_name+0" is not so friendly.
It makes the output longer.
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B0CEBCB.7080309@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Sometimes the group name is not "kprobes",
It'll be better if we can read it from tracing/kprobe_events.
# echo 'r:laijs/vfs_read vfs_read %ax' > kprobe_events
# cat kprobe_events
r:laijs/vfs_read vfs_read %ax=%ax
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B0CEBAF.6000104@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
tp->nr_args is not set before we "goto error",
it causes memory leak for free_trace_probe() use tp->nr_args
to free memory of args.
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B0CEB95.2060107@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Field syscall number is missed in syscall_enter_define_fields()/
syscall_exit_define_fields().
Syscall number is also needed for event filter or other users.
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <4B0E330D.1070206@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Kernel breakpoints are created using functions in which we pass
breakpoint parameters as individual variables: address, length
and type.
Although it fits well for x86, this just does not scale across
architectures that may support this api later as these may have
more or different needs. Pass in a perf_event_attr structure
instead because it is meant to evolve as much as possible into
a generic hardware breakpoint parameter structure.
Reported-by: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1259294154-5197-2-git-send-regression-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This simplifies the error handling when we create a breakpoint.
We don't need to check the NULL return value corner case anymore
since we have improved perf_event_create_kernel_counter() to
always return an error code in the failure case.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <1259210142-5714-3-git-send-regression-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The error path of a breakpoint modification is broken in
the ksym tracer. A modified breakpoint hlist node is immediately
released after its removal. Also we leak a breakpoint in this
case.
Fix the path.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <1259210142-5714-1-git-send-regression-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Running the ring-buffer-benchmark's threads at the lowest priority may
work well for keeping it in the background, but it is not appropriate
for the benchmarks.
This patch adds 4 parameters to the module:
consumer_fifo
consumer_nice
producer_fifo
producer_nice
By default the consumer and producer still run at nice +19.
If the *_fifo options are set, they will override the *_nice values.
modprobe ring_buffer_benchmark consumer_nice=0 producer_fifo=10
The above will set the consumer thread to a nice value of 0, and
the producer thread to a RT SCHED_FIFO priority of 10.
Note, this patch also fixes a bug where calling set_user_nice on the
consumer thread would oops the kernel when the parameter "disable_reader"
is set.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Commit ee949a86b3 ("tracing/syscalls:
Use long for syscall ret format and field definitions") changed the
syscall exit return type to long, but forgot to change it in the
struct.
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1259133299-23594-3-git-send-email-tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Make perf_swevent_get_recursion_context return a context number
and disable preemption.
This could be used to remove the IRQ disable from the trace bit
and index the per-cpu buffer with.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <20091123103819.993226816@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Clean up strstrip() usage - which also addresses this build warning:
kernel/trace/ftrace.c: In function 'ftrace_pid_write':
kernel/trace/ftrace.c:3004: warning: ignoring return value of 'strstrip', declared with attribute warn_unused_result
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The ring-buffer benchmark threads run on nice 0 by default, using
up a lot of CPU time and slowing down the system:
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
1024 root 20 0 0 0 0 D 95.3 0.0 4:01.67 rb_producer
1023 root 20 0 0 0 0 R 93.5 0.0 2:54.33 rb_consumer
21569 mingo 40 0 14852 1048 772 R 3.6 0.1 0:00.05 top
1 root 40 0 4080 928 668 S 0.0 0.0 0:23.98 init
Renice them to +19 to make them less intrusive.
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
We are never in an NMI context when we commit a syscall trace to
perf. So just forget about the nmi buffer there.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1258863695-10464-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
When we commit a trace to perf, we first check if we are
recursing in the same buffer so that we don't mess-up the buffer
with a recursing trace. But later on, we do the same check from
perf to avoid commit recursion. The recursion check is desired
early before we touch the buffer but we want to do this check
only once.
Then export the recursion protection from perf and use it from
the trace events before submitting a trace.
v2: Put appropriate Reported-by tag
Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1258864015-10579-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Conflicts:
arch/x86/kernel/kprobes.c
kernel/trace/Makefile
Merge reason: hw-breakpoints perf integration is looking
good in testing and in reviews, plus conflicts
are mounting up - so merge & resolve.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Prevent build warning when CONFIG_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER is not set.
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4AF24381.5060307@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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>
With the change of the way we process commits. Where a commit only happens
at the outer most level, and that we don't need to worry about
a commit ending after the rb_start_commit() has been called, the code
use to grab the commit page before the tail page to prevent a possible
race. But this race no longer exists with the rb_start_commit()
rb_end_commit() interface.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Disabling interrupts in trace_clock_local takes quite a performance
hit to the recording of traces. Using perf top we see:
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
PerfTop: 244 irqs/sec kernel:100.0% [1000Hz cpu-clock-msecs], (all, 4 CPUs)
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
samples pcnt kernel function
_______ _____ _______________
2842.00 - 40.4% : trace_clock_local
1043.00 - 14.8% : rb_reserve_next_event
784.00 - 11.1% : ring_buffer_lock_reserve
600.00 - 8.5% : __rb_reserve_next
579.00 - 8.2% : rb_end_commit
440.00 - 6.3% : ring_buffer_unlock_commit
290.00 - 4.1% : ring_buffer_producer_thread [ring_buffer_benchmark]
155.00 - 2.2% : debug_smp_processor_id
117.00 - 1.7% : trace_recursive_unlock
103.00 - 1.5% : ring_buffer_event_data
28.00 - 0.4% : do_gettimeofday
22.00 - 0.3% : _spin_unlock_irq
14.00 - 0.2% : native_read_tsc
11.00 - 0.2% : getnstimeofday
Where trace_clock_local is 40% of the tracing, and the time for recording
a trace according to ring_buffer_benchmark is 210ns. After converting
the interrupts to preemption disabling we have from perf top:
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
PerfTop: 1084 irqs/sec kernel:99.9% [1000Hz cpu-clock-msecs], (all, 4 CPUs)
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
samples pcnt kernel function
_______ _____ _______________
1277.00 - 16.8% : native_read_tsc
1148.00 - 15.1% : rb_reserve_next_event
896.00 - 11.8% : ring_buffer_lock_reserve
688.00 - 9.1% : __rb_reserve_next
664.00 - 8.8% : rb_end_commit
563.00 - 7.4% : ring_buffer_unlock_commit
508.00 - 6.7% : _spin_unlock_irq
365.00 - 4.8% : debug_smp_processor_id
321.00 - 4.2% : trace_clock_local
303.00 - 4.0% : ring_buffer_producer_thread [ring_buffer_benchmark]
273.00 - 3.6% : native_sched_clock
122.00 - 1.6% : trace_recursive_unlock
113.00 - 1.5% : sched_clock
101.00 - 1.3% : ring_buffer_event_data
53.00 - 0.7% : tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick
Where trace_clock_local drops from 40% to only taking 4% of the total time.
The trace time also goes from 210ns down to 179ns (31ns).
I talked with Peter Zijlstra about the impact that sched_clock may have
without having interrupts disabled, and he told me that if a timer interrupt
comes in, sched_clock may report a wrong time.
Balancing a seldom incorrect timestamp with a 15% performance boost, I'll
take the performance boost.
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The ring_buffer_benchmark does a gettimeofday after every write to the
ring buffer in its measurements. This adds the overhead of the call
to gettimeofday to the measurements and does not give an accurate picture
of the length of time it takes to record a trace.
This was first noticed with perf top:
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
PerfTop: 679 irqs/sec kernel:99.9% [1000Hz cpu-clock-msecs], (all, 4 CPUs)
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
samples pcnt kernel function
_______ _____ _______________
1673.00 - 27.8% : trace_clock_local
806.00 - 13.4% : do_gettimeofday
590.00 - 9.8% : rb_reserve_next_event
554.00 - 9.2% : native_read_tsc
431.00 - 7.2% : ring_buffer_lock_reserve
365.00 - 6.1% : __rb_reserve_next
355.00 - 5.9% : rb_end_commit
322.00 - 5.4% : getnstimeofday
268.00 - 4.5% : ring_buffer_unlock_commit
262.00 - 4.4% : ring_buffer_producer_thread [ring_buffer_benchmark]
113.00 - 1.9% : read_tsc
91.00 - 1.5% : debug_smp_processor_id
69.00 - 1.1% : trace_recursive_unlock
66.00 - 1.1% : ring_buffer_event_data
25.00 - 0.4% : _spin_unlock_irq
And the length of each write to the ring buffer measured at 310ns.
This patch adds a new module parameter called "write_interval" which is
defaulted to 50. This is the number of writes performed between
timestamps. After this patch perf top shows:
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
PerfTop: 244 irqs/sec kernel:100.0% [1000Hz cpu-clock-msecs], (all, 4 CPUs)
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
samples pcnt kernel function
_______ _____ _______________
2842.00 - 40.4% : trace_clock_local
1043.00 - 14.8% : rb_reserve_next_event
784.00 - 11.1% : ring_buffer_lock_reserve
600.00 - 8.5% : __rb_reserve_next
579.00 - 8.2% : rb_end_commit
440.00 - 6.3% : ring_buffer_unlock_commit
290.00 - 4.1% : ring_buffer_producer_thread [ring_buffer_benchmark]
155.00 - 2.2% : debug_smp_processor_id
117.00 - 1.7% : trace_recursive_unlock
103.00 - 1.5% : ring_buffer_event_data
28.00 - 0.4% : do_gettimeofday
22.00 - 0.3% : _spin_unlock_irq
14.00 - 0.2% : native_read_tsc
11.00 - 0.2% : getnstimeofday
do_gettimeofday dropped from 13% usage to a mere 0.4%! (using the default
50 interval) The measurement for each timestamp went from 310ns to 210ns.
That's 100ns (1/3rd) overhead that the gettimeofday call was introducing.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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>
All of the infrastructure already exists to support read accesses
for platforms that support a read access independently of read/write
(such as in the case of the SuperH UBC). This just trivially hooks
up the read case by itself.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <20091109083733.GA25848@linux-sh.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
The macro used to be used in both trace_selftest.c and
trace_ksym.c, but no longer, so remove it from header file.
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
This patch rebase the implementation of the breakpoints API on top of
perf events instances.
Each breakpoints are now perf events that handle the
register scheduling, thread/cpu attachment, etc..
The new layering is now made as follows:
ptrace kgdb ftrace perf syscall
\ | / /
\ | / /
/
Core breakpoint API /
/
| /
| /
Breakpoints perf events
|
|
Breakpoints PMU ---- Debug Register constraints handling
(Part of core breakpoint API)
|
|
Hardware debug registers
Reasons of this rewrite:
- Use the centralized/optimized pmu registers scheduling,
implying an easier arch integration
- More powerful register handling: perf attributes (pinned/flexible
events, exclusive/non-exclusive, tunable period, etc...)
Impact:
- New perf ABI: the hardware breakpoints counters
- Ptrace breakpoints setting remains tricky and still needs some per
thread breakpoints references.
Todo (in the order):
- Support breakpoints perf counter events for perf tools (ie: implement
perf_bpcounter_event())
- Support from perf tools
Changes in v2:
- Follow the perf "event " rename
- The ptrace regression have been fixed (ptrace breakpoint perf events
weren't released when a task ended)
- Drop the struct hw_breakpoint and store generic fields in
perf_event_attr.
- Separate core and arch specific headers, drop
asm-generic/hw_breakpoint.h and create linux/hw_breakpoint.h
- Use new generic len/type for breakpoint
- Handle off case: when breakpoints api is not supported by an arch
Changes in v3:
- Fix broken CONFIG_KVM, we need to propagate the breakpoint api
changes to kvm when we exit the guest and restore the bp registers
to the host.
Changes in v4:
- Drop the hw_breakpoint_restore() stub as it is only used by KVM
- EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL hw_breakpoint_restore() as KVM can be built as a
module
- Restore the breakpoints unconditionally on kvm guest exit:
TIF_DEBUG_THREAD doesn't anymore cover every cases of running
breakpoints and vcpu->arch.switch_db_regs might not always be
set when the guest used debug registers.
(Waiting for a reliable optimization)
Changes in v5:
- Split-up the asm-generic/hw-breakpoint.h moving to
linux/hw_breakpoint.h into a separate patch
- Optimize the breakpoints restoring while switching from kvm guest
to host. We only want to restore the state if we have active
breakpoints to the host, otherwise we don't care about messed-up
address registers.
- Add asm/hw_breakpoint.h to Kbuild
- Fix bad breakpoint type in trace_selftest.c
Changes in v6:
- Fix wrong header inclusion in trace.h (triggered a build
error with CONFIG_FTRACE_SELFTEST
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
While tracing using events with perf, if one enables the
lockdep:lock_acquire event, it will infect every other perf
trace events.
Basically, you can enable whatever set of trace events through
perf but if this event is part of the set, the only result we
can get is a long list of lock_acquire events of rcu read lock,
and only that.
This is because of a recursion inside perf.
1) When a trace event is triggered, it will fill a per cpu
buffer and submit it to perf.
2) Perf will commit this event but will also protect some data
using rcu_read_lock
3) A recursion appears: rcu_read_lock triggers a lock_acquire
event that will fill the per cpu event and then submit the
buffer to perf.
4) Perf detects a recursion and ignores it
5) Perf continues its work on the previous event, but its buffer
has been overwritten by the lock_acquire event, it has then
been turned into a lock_acquire event of rcu read lock
Such scenario also happens with lock_release with
rcu_read_unlock().
We could turn the rcu_read_lock() into __rcu_read_lock() to drop
the lock debugging from perf fast path, but that would make us
lose the rcu debugging and that doesn't prevent from other
possible kind of recursion from perf in the future.
This patch adds a recursion protection based on a counter on the
perf trace per cpu buffers to solve the problem.
-v2: Fixed lost whitespace, added reviewed-by tag
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1257477185-7838-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Rename Kprobes-based event tracer to kprobes-based tracing event
(kprobe-event), since it is not a tracer but an extensible
tracing event interface.
This also changes CONFIG_KPROBE_TRACER to CONFIG_KPROBE_EVENT
and sets it y by default.
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20091104001247.3454.14131.stgit@harusame>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Conflicts:
tools/perf/Makefile
Merge reason: Resolve the conflict, merge to upstream and merge in
perf fixes so we can add a dependent patch.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
When a command is passed to the set_ftrace_filter, then
the ftrace_regex_lock is still held going back to user space.
# echo 'do_open : foo' > set_ftrace_filter
(still holding ftrace_regex_lock when returning to user space!)
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4AEF7F8A.3080300@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
We got a sudden panic when we reduced the size of the
ringbuffer.
We can reproduce the panic by the following steps:
echo 1 > events/sched/enable
cat trace_pipe > /dev/null &
while ((1))
do
echo 12000 > buffer_size_kb
echo 512 > buffer_size_kb
done
(not more than 5 seconds, panic ...)
Reported-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4AF01735.9060409@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
____ftrace_check_##name() is used for compile-time check on
F_printk() only, so it should be marked as __unused instead
of __used.
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <4AEE2D01.4010305@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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>
Fix find_probe_event() to compare both of event-name and
event-group. Without this fix, kprobe-tracer overwrites existing
same event-name probe even if its group-name is different.
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20091027204244.30545.27516.stgit@harusame>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The cpu argument is not used inside the rb_time_stamp() function.
Plus fix a typo.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20091023233647.118547500@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Trivial patch to fix a documentation example and to fix a
comment.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20091023233646.871719877@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
trace_seq_printf() return value is a little ambiguous. It
currently returns the length of the space available in the
buffer. printf usually returns the amount written. This is not
adequate here, because:
trace_seq_printf(s, "");
is perfectly legal, and returning 0 would indicate that it
failed.
We can always see the amount written by looking at the before
and after values of s->len. This is not quite the same use as
printf. We only care if the string was successfully written to
the buffer or not.
Make trace_seq_printf() return 0 if the trace oversizes the
buffer's free space, 1 otherwise.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20091023233646.631787612@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Instead of directly updating filp->f_pos we should update the *ppos
argument. The filp->f_pos gets updated within the file_pos_write()
function called from sys_write().
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20091023233646.399670810@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Conflicts:
tools/perf/Makefile
Merge reason:
- fix the conflict
- pick up the pr_*() infrastructure to queue up dependent patch
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Conflicts:
kernel/Makefile
kernel/trace/Makefile
kernel/trace/trace.h
samples/Makefile
Merge reason: We need to be uptodate with the perf events development
branch because we plan to rewrite the breakpoints API on top of
perf events.
Américo Wang noticed that we have a locking imbalance in the
error paths of ftrace_profile_set_filter(), causing potential
leakage of event_mutex.
Also clean up other error codepaths related to event_mutex
while at it.
Plus fix an initialized variable in the subsystem filter code.
Reported-by: Américo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <2375c9f90910150247u5ccb8e2at58c764e385ffa490@mail.gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
- Add an ioctl to allocate a filter for a perf event.
- Free the filter when the associated perf event is to be freed.
- Do the filtering in perf_swevent_match().
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4AD69546.8050401@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
"==" will always do a full match, and "~" will do a glob match.
In the future, we may add "=~" for regex match.
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4AD69528.3050309@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Change:
for_each_pred
for_each_subsystem
To:
for_each_subsystem
for_each_pred
This change also prepares for later patches.
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4AD69502.8060903@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Merge reason: to add event filter support we need the following
commits from the tracing tree:
3f6fe06: tracing/filters: Unify the regex parsing helpers
1889d20: tracing/filters: Provide basic regex support
737f453: tracing/filters: Cleanup useless headers
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
set_cmdline_ftrace is a better match against what does this function:
apply a tracer name from the kernel command line.
Reported-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
We are using strncpy in the wrong way to copy the ftrace_graph_filter
boot param because we pass the buffer size instead of the max string
size it can contain (buffer size - 1). The end result might not be
NULL terminated as we are abusing the max string size.
Lets use strlcpy() instead.
Reported-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Most of the syscalls metadata processing is done from arch.
But these operations are mostly generic accross archs. Especially now
that we have a common variable name that expresses the number of
syscalls supported by an arch: NR_syscalls, the only remaining bits
that need to reside in arch is the syscall nr to addr translation.
v2: Compare syscalls symbols only after the "sys" prefix so that we
avoid spurious mismatches with archs that have syscalls wrappers,
in which case syscalls symbols have "SyS" prefixed aliases.
(Reported by: Heiko Carstens)
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
I was debuging some module using "function" and "function_graph"
tracers and noticed, that if you load module after you enabled
tracing, the module's hooks will convert only to NOP instructions.
The attached patch enables modules' hooks if there's function trace
allready on, thus allowing to trace module functions.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <20091013203425.896285120@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
ftrace_cpu_disabled usage in trace_functions_graph.c were left out
during this_cpu_xx conversion in commit 9288f99a causing compile
failure. Convert them.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Remove the ftrace_trace_addr() function as only its off-case is
implemented and there are no users of it currently.
But we keep ftrace_graph_addr() off-case, in case someone come to use
the function graph tracer to profit from top-level callers filtering.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Do this rename because set_ftrace is too much generic and not enough
self-explainable as a name.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Every time we set a filter, we leak memory allocated by
postfix_append_operand() and postfix_append_op().
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> # for v2.6.31.x
LKML-Reference: <4AD3D7D9.4070400@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Rename probe-common fixed field names to harder conflictable names,
because current 'ip', 'func', and other probe field names are easily in
conflict with user-specified variable names.
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <20091007222814.1684.407.stgit@dhcp-100-2-132.bos.redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Check whether the argument name is in conflict with other field names
while creating a kprobe through the debugfs interface.
Changes in v3:
- Check strcmp() == 0 instead of !strcmp().
Changes in v2:
- Add common_lock_depth to reserved name list.
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <20091007222807.1684.26880.stgit@dhcp-100-2-132.bos.redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Rename special variables to more self-explainable names as below:
- $rv to $retval
- $sa to $stack
- $aN to $argN
- $sN to $stackN
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <20091007222759.1684.3319.stgit@dhcp-100-2-132.bos.redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Add a command line parameter to allow limiting the function graphs
that are traced on boot up from the given top-level callers , when
ftrace=function_graph is specified.
This patch adds the following command line option:
ftrace_graph_filter=function-list
Where function-list is a comma separated list of functions to filter.
[fweisbec@gmail.com: picked the documentation changes from the v2 patch]
Signed-off-by: Stefan Assmann <sassmann@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <4AD2DEB9.2@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Remove '$ra' (return address) because it is already shown at the head of
each entry.
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <20091007222748.1684.12711.stgit@dhcp-100-2-132.bos.redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Add $ prefix to the special variables(e.g. sa, rv) of kprobe-tracer.
This resolves consistency issues between kprobe_events and perf-kprobe.
The main goal is to avoid conflicts between local variable names of
probed functions, used by perf probe, and special variables used
in the kprobe event creation interface (stack values, etc...) and
also available from perf probe.
ie: we don't want rv (return value) to conflict with a local variable
named rv in a probed function.
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <20091007222740.1684.91170.stgit@dhcp-100-2-132.bos.redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.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:
tracing: user local buffer variable for trace branch tracer
tracing: fix warning on kernel/trace/trace_branch.c andtrace_hw_branches.c
ftrace: check for failure for all conversions
tracing: correct module boundaries for ftrace_release
tracing: fix transposed numbers of lock_depth and preempt_count
trace: Fix missing assignment in trace_ctxwake_*
tracing: Use free_percpu instead of kfree
tracing: Check total refcount before releasing bufs in profile_enable failure
* 'perf-fixes-for-linus-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
perf_events: Make ABI definitions available to userspace
perf tools: elf_sym__is_function() should accept "zero" sized functions
tracing/syscalls: Use long for syscall ret format and field definitions
perf trace: Update eval_flag() flags array to match interrupt.h
perf trace: Remove unused code in builtin-trace.c
perf: Propagate term signal to child
Just using the tr->buffer for the API to trace_buffer_lock_reserve
is not good enough. This is because the tr->buffer may change, and we
do not want to commit with a different buffer that we reserved from.
This patch uses a local variable to hold the buffer that was used to
reserve and commit with.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
fix warnings that caused the API change of trace_buffer_lock_reserve()
change files: kernel/trace/trace_hw_branch.c
kernel/trace/trace_branch.c
Signed-off-by: Zhenwen Xu <helight.xu@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20091008012146.GA4170@helight>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
