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Tim Abbott
31b6e76e21 ftrace: use .sched.text, not .text.sched in recordmcount.pl
The only references in the kernel to the .text.sched section are in
recordmcount.pl.  Since the code it has is intended to be example code
it should refer to real kernel sections.  So change it to .sched.text
instead.

[ Impact: consistency in comments ]

Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott <tabbott@mit.edu>
LKML-Reference: <1241136371-10768-1-git-send-email-tabbott@mit.edu>
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-05-05 19:17:22 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
41ede23ede ring-buffer: disable writers when resetting buffers
As a precaution, it is best to disable writing to the ring buffers
when reseting them.

[ Impact: prevent weird things if write happens during reset ]

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-05-05 17:22:02 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
afbab76a62 ring-buffer: have read page swap increment counter with page entries
In the swap page ring buffer code that is used by the ftrace splice code,
we scan the page to increment the counter of entries read.

With the number of entries already in the page we simply need to add it.

[ Impact: speed up reading page from ring buffer ]

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-05-05 16:58:24 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
778c55d44e ring-buffer: record page entries in buffer page descriptor
Currently, when the ring buffer writer overflows the buffer and must
write over non consumed data, we increment the overrun counter by
reading the entries on the page we are about to overwrite. This reads
the entries one by one.

This is not very effecient. This patch adds another entry counter
into each buffer page descriptor that keeps track of the number of
entries on the page. Now on overwrite, the overrun counter simply
needs to add the number of entries that is on the page it is about
to overwrite.

[ Impact: speed up of ring buffer in overwrite mode ]

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-05-05 14:28:08 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
e4906eff9e ring-buffer: convert cpu buffer entries to local_t
The entries counter in cpu buffer is not atomic. It can be updated by
other interrupts or from another CPU (readers).

But making entries into "atomic_t" causes an atomic operation that can
hurt performance. Instead we convert it to a local_t that will increment
a counter with a local CPU atomic operation (if the arch supports it).

Instead of fighting with readers and overwrites that decrement the counter,
I added a "read" counter. Every time a reader reads an entry it is
incremented.

We already have a overrun counter and with that, the entries counter and
the read counter, we can calculate the total number of entries in the
buffer with:

  (entries - overrun) - read

As long as the total number of entries in the ring buffer is less than
the word size, this will work. But since the entries counter was previously
a long, this is no different than what we had before.

Thanks to Andrew Morton for pointing out in the first version that
atomic_t does not replace unsigned long. I switched to atomic_long_t
even though it is signed. A negative count is most likely a bug.

[ Impact: keep accurate count of cpu buffer entries ]

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-05-05 14:25:44 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
c8d771835e tracing: export stats of ring buffers to userspace
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>
2009-05-05 13:52:02 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
f0d2c681ac ring-buffer: add counters for commit overrun and nmi dropped entries
The WARN_ON in the ring buffer when a commit is preempted and the
buffer is filled by preceding writes can happen in normal operations.
The WARN_ON makes it look like a bug, not to mention, because
it does not stop tracing and calls printk which can also recurse, this
is prone to deadlock (the WARN_ON is not in a position to recurse).

This patch removes the WARN_ON and replaces it with a counter that
can be retrieved by a tracer. This counter is called commit_overrun.

While at it, I added a nmi_dropped counter to count any time an NMI entry
is dropped because the NMI could not take the spinlock.

[ Impact: prevent deadlock by printing normal case warning ]

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-05-05 13:51:02 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
d6ce96dabe ring-buffer: export symbols
I'm adding a module to do a series of tests on the ring buffer as well
as benchmarks. This module needs to have more of the ring buffer API
exported. There's nothing wrong with reading the ring buffer from a
module.

[ Impact: allow modules to read pages from the ring buffer ]

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-05-05 13:46:33 -04:00
Jason Baron
9ee1983c9a tracing: add irq tracepoint documentation
Document irqs for the newly created docbook.

[ Impact: add documentation ]

Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca
Cc: wcohen@redhat.com
LKML-Reference: <73ff42be3420157667ec548e9b0e409c3cfad05f.1241107197.git.jbaron@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-01 14:03:36 +02:00
Jason Baron
a76f8c6da1 tracing: add new tracepoints docbook
Add tracepoint docbook. This will help us document and understand
what tracepoints are in the kernel. Since there are multiple
macros, and files that contain tracepoints.

[ Impact: add documentation ]

Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca
Cc: wcohen@redhat.com
LKML-Reference: <84160b6bd94aff02455da7e12bad054d34c579a0.1241107197.git.jbaron@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-01 14:03:35 +02:00
Jason Baron
56afb0f882 kerneldoc, tracing: make kernel-doc understand TRACE_EVENT() macro (take #2)
Add support to kernel-doc for tracepoint comments above TRACE_EVENT()
macro definitions. Paves the way for tracepoint docbook.

[ Impact: extend DocBook infrastructure ]

Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca
Cc: wcohen@redhat.com
LKML-Reference: <d80706b6797e277924d2f3ec9af176c6b2951f88.1241107197.git.jbaron@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-01 14:03:35 +02:00
Heiko Carstens
a0e39ed378 tracing: fix build failure on s390
"tracing: create automated trace defines" causes this compile error on s390,
as reported by Sachin Sant against linux-next:

 kernel/built-in.o: In function `__do_softirq':
 (.text+0x1c680): undefined reference to `__tracepoint_softirq_entry'

This happens because the definitions of the softirq tracepoints were moved
from kernel/softirq.c to kernel/irq/handle.c. Since s390 doesn't support
generic hardirqs handle.c doesn't get compiled and the definitions are
missing.

So move the tracepoints to softirq.c again.

[ Impact: fix build failure on s390 ]

Reported-by: Sachin Sant <sachinp@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
LKML-Reference: <20090429135139.5fac79b8@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-29 14:06:21 +02:00
Tom Zanussi
8b37256210 tracing/filters: a better event parser
Replace the current event parser hack with a better one.  Filters are
no longer specified predicate by predicate, but all at once and can
use parens and any of the following operators:

numeric fields:

==, !=, <, <=, >, >=

string fields:

==, !=

predicates can be combined with the logical operators:

&&, ||

examples:

"common_preempt_count > 4" > filter

"((sig >= 10 && sig < 15) || sig == 17) && comm != bash" > filter

If there was an error, the erroneous string along with an error
message can be seen by looking at the filter e.g.:

((sig >= 10 && sig < 15) || dsig == 17) && comm != bash
^
parse_error: Field not found

Currently the caret for an error always appears at the beginning of
the filter; a real position should be used, but the error message
should be useful even without it.

To clear a filter, '0' can be written to the filter file.

Filters can also be set or cleared for a complete subsystem by writing
the same filter as would be written to an individual event to the
filter file at the root of the subsytem.  Note however, that if any
event in the subsystem lacks a field specified in the filter being
set, the set will fail and all filters in the subsytem are
automatically cleared.  This change from the previous version was made
because using only the fields that happen to exist for a given event
would most likely result in a meaningless filter.

Because the logical operators are now implemented as predicates, the
maximum number of predicates in a filter was increased from 8 to 16.

[ Impact: add new, extended trace-filter implementation ]

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <1240905899.6416.121.camel@tropicana>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-29 14:06:11 +02:00
Tom Zanussi
a118e4d140 tracing/filters: distinguish between signed and unsigned fields
The new filter comparison ops need to be able to distinguish between
signed and unsigned field types, so add an is_signed flag/param to the
event field struct/trace_define_fields().  Also define a simple macro,
is_signed_type() to determine the signedness at compile time, used in the
trace macros.  If the is_signed_type() macro won't work with a specific
type, a new slightly modified version of TRACE_FIELD() called
TRACE_FIELD_SIGN(), allows the signedness to be set explicitly.

[ Impact: extend trace-filter code for new feature ]

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <1240905893.6416.120.camel@tropicana>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-29 14:06:03 +02:00
Tom Zanussi
30e673b230 tracing/filters: move preds into event_filter object
Create a new event_filter object, and move the pred-related members
out of the call and subsystem objects and into the filter object - the
details of the filter implementation don't need to be exposed in the
call and subsystem in any case, and it will also help make the new
parser implementation a little cleaner.

[ Impact: refactor trace-filter code to prepare for new features ]

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <1240905887.6416.119.camel@tropicana>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-29 14:05:54 +02:00
Stuart Bennett
0f9a623dd6 tracing: x86, mmiotrace: only register for die notifier when tracer active
Follow up to afcfe024ae in Linus' tree
("x86: mmiotrace: quieten spurious warning message")

Signed-off-by: Stuart Bennett <stuart@freedesktop.org>
Acked-by: Pekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <1240946271-7083-5-git-send-email-stuart@freedesktop.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-29 11:33:34 +02:00
Stuart Bennett
46e91d00b1 tracing: x86, mmiotrace: refactor clearing/restore of page presence
* change function names to clear_* from set_*: in reality we only clear
  and restore page presence, and never unconditionally set present.
  Using clear_*({true, false}, ...) is therefore more honest than
  set_*({false, true}, ...)

* upgrade presence storage to pteval_t: doing user-space tracing will
  require saving and manipulation of the _PAGE_PROTNONE bit, in addition
  to the existing _PAGE_PRESENT changes, and having multiple bools stored
  and passed around does not seem optimal

[ Impact: refactor, clean up mmiotrace code ]

Signed-off-by: Stuart Bennett <stuart@freedesktop.org>
Acked-by: Pekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <1240946271-7083-4-git-send-email-stuart@freedesktop.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-29 11:33:33 +02:00
Stuart Bennett
0492e1bb8f tracing: x86, mmiotrace: code consistency/legibility improvement
kmmio_probe being *p and kmmio_fault_page being sometimes *f and
sometimes *p is not helpful.

[ Impact: cleanup ]

Signed-off-by: Stuart Bennett <stuart@freedesktop.org>
Acked-by: Pekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <1240946271-7083-3-git-send-email-stuart@freedesktop.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-29 11:33:33 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
7d7d2b8031 ring-buffer: fix printk output
The warning output in trace_recursive_lock uses %d for a long when
it should be %ld.

[ Impact: fix compile warning ]

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-04-29 00:42:01 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
f2957f1f19 tracing: have splice only copy full pages
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>
2009-04-29 00:26:30 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
93459c6cb9 tracing: only add splice page if entries exist
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>
2009-04-29 00:23:13 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
5beae6efd1 tracing: fix ref count in splice pages
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>
2009-04-29 00:16:21 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
cd891ae030 tracing: convert ftrace_dump spinlocks to raw
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>
2009-04-28 11:39:34 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
701970b3a8 tracing/events: make modules have their own file_operations structure
For proper module reference counting, the file_operations that modules use
must have the "owner" field set to the module. Unfortunately, the trace events
use share file_operations. The same file_operations are used by all both
kernel core and all modules.

This patch makes the modules allocate their own file_operations and
copies the functions from the core kernel. This allows those file
operations to be owned by the module.

Care is taken to free this code on module unload.

Thanks to Greg KH for reminding me that file_operations must be owned
by the module to have reference counting take place.

[ Impact: fix modular tracepoints / potential crash ]

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-04-26 13:07:00 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
060fa5c83e tracing/events: reuse trace event ids after overflow
With modules being able to add trace events, and the max trace event
counter is 16 bits (65536) we can overflow the counter easily
with a simple while loop adding and removing modules that contain
trace events.

This patch links together the registered trace events and on overflow
searches for available trace event ids. It will still fail if
over 65536 events are registered, but considering that a typical
kernel only has 22000 functions, 65000 events should be sufficient.

Reported-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-04-24 23:06:00 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
b8e65554d8 tracing: remove deprecated TRACE_FORMAT
The TRACE_FORMAT macro has been deprecated by the TRACE_EVENT macro.
There are no more users. All new users must use the TRACE_EVENT macro.

[ Impact: remove old functionality ]

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-04-24 11:50:39 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
160031b556 tracing/irq: convert irq traces to use TRACE_EVENT macro
The TRACE_FORMAT will soon be deprecated. This patch converts it to
the TRACE_EVENT macro.

Note, this change should also speed up the tracing.

[ Impact: remove a user of deprecated TRACE_FORMAT ]

Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-04-24 11:26:55 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
39517091f8 tracing/lockdep: convert lockdep to use TRACE_EVENT macro
The TRACE_FORMAT will soon be deprecated. This patch converts it to
the TRACE_EVENT macro.

Note, this change should also speed up the tracing.

[ Impact: remove a user of deprecated TRACE_FORMAT ]

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-04-24 11:05:52 -04:00
Lai Jiangshan
334d4169a6 ring_buffer: compressed event header
RB_MAX_SMALL_DATA = 28bytes is too small for most tracers, it wastes
an 'u32' to save the actually length for events which data size > 28.

This fix uses compressed event header and enlarges RB_MAX_SMALL_DATA.

[ Impact: saves about 0%-12.5%(depends on tracer) memory in ring_buffer ]

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <49F13189.3090000@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-04-24 00:08:38 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
c2518c4366 tracing: fix cut and paste macro error
In case a module uses the TRACE_EVENT macro for creating automated
events in ftrace, it may choose to use a different file name
than the defined system name, or choose to use a different path than
the default "include/trace/events" include path.

If this is done, then before including trace/define_trace.h the
header would define either "TRACE_INCLUDE_FILE" for the file
name or "TRACE_INCLUDE_PATH" for the include path.

If it does not define these, then the define_trace.h defines them
instead. If define trace defines them, then define_trace.h should
also undefine them before exiting. To do this a macro is used
to note this:

 #ifndef TRACE_INCLUDE_FILE
 # define TRACE_INCLUDE_FILE TRACE_SYSTEM
 # define UNDEF_TRACE_INCLUDE_FILE
 #endif

[...]

 #ifdef UNDEF_TRACE_INCLUDE_FILE
 # undef TRACE_INCLUDE_FILE
 # undef UNDEF_TRACE_INCLUDE_FILE
 #endif

The UNDEF_TRACE_INCLUDE_FILE acts as a CPP variable to know to undef
the TRACE_INCLUDE_FILE before leaving define_trace.h.

Unfortunately, due to cut and paste errors, the macros between
FILE and PATH got mixed up.

[ Impact: undef TRACE_INCLUDE_FILE and/or TRACE_INCLUDE_PATH when needed ]

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-04-23 23:34:20 -04:00
Chris Wright
d7285c6b5c x86: use native register access for native tlb flushing
currently these are paravirtulaized, doesn't appear any callers rely on
this (no pv_ops backends are using native_tlb and overriding cr3/4
access).

[ Impact: fix lockdep warning with paravirt and function tracer ]

Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
LKML-Reference: <20090423172138.GR3036@sequoia.sous-sol.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-04-23 23:05:03 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
75db37d2f4 tracing: add size checks for exported ftrace internal structures
The events exported by TRACE_EVENT are automated and are guaranteed
to be correct when used.

The internal ftrace structures on the other hand are more manually
exported. These require the ftrace maintainer to make sure they
are up to date.

This patch adds a size check to help flag when a type changes in
an internal ftrace data structure, and the update needs to be reflected
in the export.

If a export is incorrect, then the only harm is that the user space
tools will not know how to correctly read the internal structures of
ftrace.

[ Impact: help prevent inconsistent ftrace format print outs ]

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-04-23 23:03:56 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
89ec0dee9e tracing: increase size of number of possible events
With the new event tracing registration, we must increase the number
of events that can be registered. Currently the type field is only
one byte, which leaves us only 256 possible events.

Since we do not save the CPU number in the tracer anymore (it is determined
by the per cpu ring buffer that is used) we have an extra byte to use.

This patch increases the size of type from 1 byte (256 events) to
2 bytes (65,536 events).

It also adds a WARN_ON_ONCE if we exceed that limit.

[ Impact: allow more than 255 events ]

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-04-23 23:03:19 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
9be24414aa tracing/wakeup: move access to wakeup_cpu into spinlock
The code had the following outside the lock:

        if (next != wakeup_task)
                return;

        pc = preempt_count();

        /* The task we are waiting for is waking up */
        data = wakeup_trace->data[wakeup_cpu];

On initialization, wakeup_task is NULL and wakeup_cpu -1. This code
is not under a lock. If wakeup_task is set on another CPU as that
task is waking up, we can see the wakeup_task before wakeup_cpu is
set. If we read wakeup_cpu while it is still -1 then we will have
a bad data pointer.

This patch moves the reading of wakeup_cpu within the protection of
the spinlock used to protect the writing of wakeup_cpu and wakeup_task.

[ Impact: remove possible race causing invalid pointer dereference ]

Reported-by: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-04-23 23:01:36 -04:00
Frederic Weisbecker
6a74aa4090 tracing/events: protect __get_str()
The __get_str() macro is used in a code part then its content should be
protected with parenthesis.

[ Impact: make macro definition more robust ]

Reported-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2009-04-22 12:30:49 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
7e7ca9a22d tracing/lock: provide lock_acquired event support for dynamic size string
Now that we can support the dynamic sized string, make the lock tracing
able to use it, making it safe against modules removal and consuming
the right amount of memory needed for each lock name

Changes in v2:
adapt to the __ending_string() updates and the opening_string() removal.

[ Impact: protect lock tracer against module removal ]

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-04-22 12:30:15 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
9cbf117662 tracing/events: provide string with undefined size support
This patch provides the support for dynamic size strings on
event tracing.

The key concept is to use a structure with an ending char array field of
undefined size and use such ability to allocate the minimal size on the
ring buffer to make one or more string entries fit inside, as opposite
to a fixed length strings with upper bound.

The strings themselves are represented using fields which have an offset
value from the beginning of the entry.

This patch provides three new macros:

__string(item, src)

This one declares a string to the structure inside TP_STRUCT__entry.
You need to provide the name of the string field and the source that will
be copied inside.
This will also add the dynamic size of the string needed for the ring
buffer entry allocation.
A stack allocated structure is used to temporarily store the offset
of each strings, avoiding double calls to strlen() on each event
insertion.

__get_str(field)

This one will give you a pointer to the string you have created. This
is an abstract helper to resolve the absolute address given the field
name which is a relative address from the beginning of the trace_structure.

__assign_str(dst, src)

Use this macro to automatically perform the string copy from src to
dst. src must be a variable to assign and dst is the name of a __string
field.

Example on how to use it:

TRACE_EVENT(my_event,
	TP_PROTO(char *src1, char *src2),

	TP_ARGS(src1, src2),
	TP_STRUCT__entry(
		__string(str1, src1)
		__string(str2, src2)
	),
	TP_fast_assign(
		__assign_str(str1, src1);
		__assign_str(str2, src2);
	),
	TP_printk("%s %s", __get_str(src1), __get_str(src2))
)

Of course you can mix-up any __field or __array inside this
TRACE_EVENT. The position of the __string or __assign_str
doesn't matter.

Changes in v2:

Address the suggestion of Steven Rostedt: drop the opening_string() macro
and redefine __ending_string() to get the size of the string to be copied
instead of overwritting the whole ring buffer allocation.

Changes in v3:

Address other suggestions of Steven Rostedt and Peter Zijlstra with
some changes: drop the __ending_string and the need to have only one
string field.
Use offsets instead of absolute addresses.

[ Impact: allow more compact memory usage for string tracing ]

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
2009-04-22 12:29:18 +02:00
Li Zefan
7a4f453b6d tracing/events: make struct trace_entry->type to be int type
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>
2009-04-22 11:36:38 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
3554228d42 ring-buffer: only warn on wrap if buffer is bigger than two pages
On boot up, to save memory, ftrace allocates the minimum buffer
which is two pages. Ftrace also goes through a series of tests
(when configured) on boot up. These tests can fill up a page within
a single interrupt.

The ring buffer also has a WARN_ON when it detects that the buffer was
completely filled within a single commit (other commits are allowed to
be nested).

Combine the small buffer on start up, with the tests that can fill more
than a single page within an interrupt, this can trigger the WARN_ON.

This patch makes the WARN_ON only happen when the ring buffer consists
of more than two pages.

[ Impact: prevent false WARN_ON in ftrace startup tests ]

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
LKML-Reference: <20090421094616.GA14561@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-21 16:00:45 +02:00
Li Zefan
f66578a763 tracing/filters: allow user-input to be integer-like string
Suppose we would like to trace all tasks named '123', but this
will fail:

 # echo 'parent_comm == 123' > events/sched/sched_process_fork/filter
 bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument

Don't guess the type of the filter pred in filter_parse(), but instead
we check it in __filter_add_pred().

[ Impact: extend allowed filter field string values ]

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <49ED8DEB.6000700@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-21 11:58:28 +02:00
Li Zefan
e8082f3f5a tracing/filters: don't remove old filters when failed to write subsys->filter
If writing subsys->filter returns EINVAL or ENOSPC, the original
filters in subsys/ and subsys/events/ will be removed. This is
definitely wrong.

[ Impact: fix filter setting semantics on error condition ]

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <49ED8DD2.2070700@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-21 11:58:27 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
cb4764a6db tracing: use nowakeup version of commit for function event trace tests
The startup tests for the event tracer also runs with the function
tracer enabled. The "wakeup" version of the trace commit was used
which can grab spinlocks. If a task was preempted by an NMI
that called a function being traced, it could deadlock due to the
function tracer trying to grab the same lock.

Thanks to Frederic Weisbecker for pointing out where the bug was.

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Reported-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-04-20 18:16:44 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
aa18efb2a2 tracing: use recursive counter over irq level
Althought using the irq level (hardirq_count, softirq_count and in_nmi)
was nice to detect bad recursion right away, but since the counters are
not atomically updated with respect to the interrupts, the function tracer
might trigger the test from an interrupt handler before the hardirq_count
is updated. This will trigger a false warning.

This patch converts the recursive detection to a simple counter.
If the depth is greater than 16 then the recursive detection will trigger.
16 is more than enough for any nested interrupts.

[ Impact: fix false positive trace recursion detection ]

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-04-20 16:16:11 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
e395898e98 tracing: remove recursive test from ring_buffer_event_discard
The ring_buffer_event_discard is not tied to ring_buffer_lock_reserve.
It can be called inside or outside the reserve/commit. Even if it
is called inside the reserve/commit the commit part must also be called.

Only ring_buffer_discard_commit can be used as a replacement for
ring_buffer_unlock_commit.

This patch removes the trace_recursive_unlock from ring_buffer_event_discard
since it would be the wrong place to do so.

[Impact: prevent breakage in trace recursive testing ]

Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-04-20 13:32:44 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
17487bfeb6 tracing: fix recursive test level calculation
The recursive tests to detect same level recursion in the ring buffers
did not account for the hard/softirq_counts to be shifted. Thus the
numbers could be larger than then mask to be tested.

This patch includes the shift for the calculation of the irq depth.

[ Impact: stop false positives in trace recursion detection ]

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-04-20 13:24:21 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
23de29de2d tracing: remove dangling semicolon
Due to a cut and paste error, the trace_seq_putc had a semicolon
after the prototype but before the stub function when tracing is
disabled.

[Impact: fix compile error ]

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-04-20 12:59:29 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
28d20e2d6e tracing/events: call the correct event trace selftest init function
The late_initcall calls a helper function instead of the proper
init event selftest function.

This update may have been lost due to conflicting merges.

[ Impact: fix compiler warning and call extended event trace self tests ]

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-04-20 12:12:44 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
a7abe97fd8 tracing: rename EVENT_TRACER config to ENABLE_EVENT_TRACING
Currently we have two configs: EVENT_TRACING and EVENT_TRACER.
All tracers enable EVENT_TRACING. The EVENT_TRACER is only a
convenience to enable the EVENT_TRACING when no other tracers
are enabled.

The names EVENT_TRACER and EVENT_TRACING are too similar and confusing.
This patch renames EVENT_TRACER to ENABLE_EVENT_TRACING to be more
appropriate to what it actually does, as well as add a comment in
the help menu to explain the option's purpose.

[ Impact: rename config option to reduce confusion ]

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-04-20 17:55:35 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
4ed9f0716e tracing: create menuconfig for tracing infrastructure
During testing we often use randconfig to test various kernels.
The current configuration set up does not give an easy way to disable
all tracing with a single config. The case where randconfig would
test all tracing disabled is very unlikely.

This patch adds a config option to enable or disable all tracing.
It is hooked into the tracing menu just like other submenus are done.

[ Impact: allow randconfig to easily produce all traces disabled ]

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-04-20 11:07:49 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
9ae5b87900 tracing: change branch profiling to a choice selection
This patch makes the branch profiling into a choice selection:

  None               - no branch profiling
  likely/unlikely    - only profile likely/unlikely branches
  all                - profile all branches

The all profiler will also enable the likely/unlikely branches.

This does not change the way the profiler works or the dependencies
between the profilers.

What this patch does, is keep the branch profiling from being selected
by an allyesconfig make. The branch profiler is very intrusive and
it is known to break various architecture builds when selected as an
allyesconfig.

[ Impact: prevent branch profiler from being selected in allyesconfig ]

Reported-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Reported-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Reported-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-04-20 11:07:48 -04:00