Impact: improve workqueue tracer output
Currently, /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_stat/workqueues can display
wrong and strange thread names.
Why?
Currently, ftrace has tracing_record_cmdline()/trace_find_cmdline()
convenience function that implements a task->comm string cache.
This can avoid unnecessary memcpy overhead and the workqueue tracer
uses it.
However, in general, any trace statistics feature shouldn't use
tracing_record_cmdline() because trace statistics can display
very old process. Then comm cache can return wrong string because
recent process overrides the cache.
Fortunately, workqueue trace guarantees that displayed processes
are live. Thus we can search comm string from PID at display time.
<before>
% cat workqueues
# CPU INSERTED EXECUTED NAME
# | | | |
7 431913 431913 kondemand/7
7 0 0 tail
7 21 21 git
7 0 0 ls
7 9 9 cat
7 832632 832632 unix_chkpwd
7 236292 236292 ls
Note: tail, git, ls, cat unix_chkpwd are obiously not workqueue thread.
<after>
% cat workqueues
# CPU INSERTED EXECUTED NAME
# | | | |
7 510 510 kondemand/7
7 0 0 kmpathd/7
7 15 15 ata/7
7 0 0 aio/7
7 11 11 kblockd/7
7 1063 1063 work_on_cpu/7
7 167 167 events/7
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup
Remove a few leftovers and clean up the code a bit.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <1236356510-8381-5-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: faster and lighter tracing
Now that we have trace_bprintk() which is faster and consume lesser
memory than trace_printk() and has the same purpose, we can now drop
the old implementation in favour of the binary one from trace_bprintk(),
which means we move all the implementation of trace_bprintk() to
trace_printk(), so the Api doesn't change except that we must now use
trace_seq_bprintk() to print the TRACE_PRINT entries.
Some changes result of this:
- Previously, trace_bprintk depended of a single tracer and couldn't
work without. This tracer has been dropped and the whole implementation
of trace_printk() (like the module formats management) is now integrated
in the tracing core (comes with CONFIG_TRACING), though we keep the file
trace_printk (previously trace_bprintk.c) where we can find the module
management. Thus we don't overflow trace.c
- changes some parts to use trace_seq_bprintk() to print TRACE_PRINT entries.
- change a bit trace_printk/trace_vprintk macros to support non-builtin formats
constants, and fix 'const' qualifiers warnings. But this is all transparent for
developers.
- etc...
V2:
- Rebase against last changes
- Fix mispell on the changelog
V3:
- Rebase against last changes (moving trace_printk() to kernel.h)
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <1236356510-8381-5-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: add a generic printk() for tracing, like trace_printk()
trace_bprintk() uses the infrastructure to record events on ring_buffer.
[ fweisbec@gmail.com: ported to latest -tip, made it work if
!CONFIG_MODULES, never free the format strings from modules
because we can't keep track of them and conditionnaly create
the ftrace format strings section (reported by Steven Rostedt) ]
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <1236356510-8381-4-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: save on memory for tracing
Current tracers are typically using a struct(like struct ftrace_entry,
struct ctx_switch_entry, struct special_entr etc...)to record a binary
event. These structs can only record a their own kind of events.
A new kind of tracer need a new struct and a lot of code too handle it.
So we need a generic binary record for events. This infrastructure
is for this purpose.
[fweisbec@gmail.com: rebase against latest -tip, make it safe while sched
tracing as reported by Steven Rostedt]
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <1236356510-8381-3-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
An new optimization is making its way to ftrace. Its purpose is to
make trace_printk() consuming less memory and be faster.
Written by Lai Jiangshan, the approach is to delay the formatting
job from tracing time to output time.
Currently, a call to trace_printk() will format the whole string and
insert it into the ring buffer. Then you can read it on /debug/tracing/trace
file.
The new implementation stores the address of the format string and
the binary parameters into the ring buffer, making the packet more compact
and faster to insert.
Later, when the user exports the traces, the format string is retrieved
with the binary parameters and the formatting job is eventually done.
The new implementation rewrites a lot of format decoding bits from
vsnprintf() function, making now 3 differents functions to maintain
in their duplicated parts of printf format decoding bits.
Suggested by Ingo Molnar, this patch tries to factorize the most
possible common bits from these functions.
The real common part between them is the format decoding. Although
they do somewhat similar jobs, their way to export or import the parameters
is very different. Thus, only the decoding layer is extracted, unless you see
other parts that could be worth factorized.
Changes in V2:
- Address a suggestion from Linus to group the format_decode() parameters inside
a structure.
Changes in v3:
- Address other cleanups suggested by Ingo and Linus such as passing the
printf_spec struct to the format helpers: pointer()/number()/string()
Note that this struct is passed by copy and not by address. This is to
avoid side effects because these functions often change these values and the
changes shoudn't be persistant when a callee helper returns.
It would be too risky.
- Various cleanups (code alignement, switch/case instead of if/else fountains).
- Fix a bug that printed the first format specifier following a %p
Changes in v4:
- drop unapropriate const qualifier loss while casting fmt to a char *
(thanks to Vegard Nossum for having pointed this out).
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <1236356510-8381-6-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: add new APIs for binary trace printk infrastructure
vbin_printf(): write args to binary buffer, string is copied
when "%s" is occurred.
bstr_printf(): read from binary buffer for args and format a string
[fweisbec@gmail.com: rebase]
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <1236356510-8381-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Use fixmaps instead of vmap/vunmap in text_poke() for avoiding
page allocation and delayed unmapping.
At the result of above change, text_poke() becomes atomic and can be called
from stop_machine() etc.
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
LKML-Reference: <49B14352.2040705@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Use the mutual exclusion provided by the text edit lock in alternatives code.
Since alternative_smp_* will be called from module init code, etc,
we'd better protect it from other subsystems.
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <49B14332.9030109@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Use the mutual exclusion provided by the text edit lock in the kprobes code. It
allows coherent manipulation of the kernel code by other subsystems.
Changelog:
Move the kernel_text_lock/unlock out of the for loops.
Use text_mutex directly instead of a function.
Remove whitespace modifications.
(note : kprobes_mutex is always taken outside of text_mutex)
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Acked-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <49B14306.2080202@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This is an architecture independant synchronization around kernel text
modifications through use of a global mutex.
A mutex has been chosen so that kprobes, the main user of this, can sleep
during memory allocation between the memory read of the instructions it
must replace and the memory write of the breakpoint.
Other user of this interface: immediate values.
Paravirt and alternatives are always done when SMP is inactive, so there
is no need to use locks.
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
LKML-Reference: <49B142D8.7020601@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: build fix
The 'struct power_trace' definition is needed (for the event tracer) even if
the power-tracer plugin is turned off in the .config.
Cc: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090306104106.GF31042@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: fix deadlock while using set_ftrace_pid
Reproducer:
# cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing
# echo $$ > set_ftrace_pid
then, console becomes hung.
Details:
when writing set_ftracepid, kernel callstack is following
ftrace_pid_write()
mutex_lock(&ftrace_lock);
ftrace_update_pid_func()
mutex_lock(&ftrace_lock);
mutex_unlock(&ftrace_lock);
mutex_unlock(&ftrace_lock);
then, system always deadlocks when ftrace_pid_write() is called.
In past days, ftrace_pid_write() used ftrace_start_lock, but
commit e6ea44e9b4 consolidated
ftrace_start_lock to ftrace_lock.
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090306151155.0778.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: allow user apps to read binary format of basic ftrace entries
Currently, only defined raw events export their formats so a binary
reader can parse them. There's no reason that the default ftrace entries
can't export their formats.
This patch adds a subsystem called "ftrace" in the events directory
that includes the ftrace entries for basic ftrace recorded items.
These only have three files in the events directory:
type : printf
available_types : printf
format : format for the event entry
For example:
# cat /debug/tracing/events/ftrace/wakeup/format
name: wakeup
ID: 3
format:
field:unsigned char type; offset:0; size:1;
field:unsigned char flags; offset:1; size:1;
field:unsigned char preempt_count; offset:2; size:1;
field:int pid; offset:4; size:4;
field:int tgid; offset:8; size:4;
field:unsigned int prev_pid; offset:12; size:4;
field:unsigned char prev_prio; offset:16; size:1;
field:unsigned char prev_state; offset:17; size:1;
field:unsigned int next_pid; offset:20; size:4;
field:unsigned char next_prio; offset:24; size:1;
field:unsigned char next_state; offset:25; size:1;
field:unsigned int next_cpu; offset:28; size:4;
print fmt: "%u:%u:%u ==+ %u:%u:%u [%03u]"
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Impact: clean up
Move the macro that creates the event format file to a separate header.
This will allow the default ftrace events to use this same macro
to create the formats to read those events.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Impact: cleanup
All file_operations structures should be constant. No one is going to
change them.
Reported-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Clean up menu structure, introduce TRACING_SUPPORT switch that signals
whether an architecture supports various instrumentation mechanisms.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup
The functions tracing_start/tracing_stop have been moved to kernel.h.
These are not the functions a developer most likely wants to use
when they want to insert a place to stop tracing and restart it from
user space.
tracing_start/tracing_stop was created to work with things like
suspend to ram, where even calling smp_processor_id() can crash the
system. The tracing_start/tracing_stop was used to stop the tracer from
doing anything. These are still light weight functions, but add a bit
more overhead to be able to stop the tracers. They also have no interface
back to userland. That is, if the kernel calls tracing_stop, userland
can not start tracing.
What a developer most likely wants to use is tracing_on/tracing_off.
These are very light weight functions (simply sets or clears a bit).
These functions just stop recording into the ring buffer. The tracers
don't even know that this happens except that they would receive NULL
from the ring_buffer_lock_reserve function.
Also, there's a way for the user land to enable or disable this bit.
In debugfs/tracing/tracing_on, a user may echo "0" (same as tracing_off())
or echo "1" (same as tracing_on()) into this file. This becomes handy when
a kernel developer is debugging and wants tracing to turn off when it
hits an anomaly. Then the developer can examine the trace, and restart
tracing if they want to try again (echo 1 > tracing_on).
This patch moves the prototypes for tracing_on/tracing_off to kernel.h
and comments their use, so that a kernel developer will know how
to use them.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Impact: cleanup, micro-optimization
Pre-initialize boot_cpu_data.x86_phys_bits to a reasonable default
to remove the use of system_state tests in __virt_addr_valid()
and __phys_addr().
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Rather than relying on the ever-unreliable system_state,
add a specific __vmalloc_start_set flag to indicate whether
the vmalloc area has meaningful boundaries yet, and use that
in x86-32's __phys_addr and __virt_addr_valid.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
gcc 3.2.2 reports:
In file included from /usr/src/all/linux-next/arch/x86/include/asm/page.h:8,
from /usr/src/all/linux-next/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h:18,
from /usr/src/all/linux-next/arch/x86/include/asm/atomic_32.h:6,
from /usr/src/all/linux-next/arch/x86/include/asm/atomic.h:2,
from include/linux/crypto.h:20,
from arch/x86/kernel/asm-offsets_32.c:7,
from arch/x86/kernel/asm-offsets.c:2:
/usr/src/all/linux-next/arch/x86/include/asm/page_types.h:54: warning: parameter has incomplete type
/usr/src/all/linux-next/arch/x86/include/asm/page_types.h:56: warning: parameter has incomplete type
In file included from /usr/src/all/linux-next/arch/x86/include/asm/page.h:8,
from /usr/src/all/linux-next/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h:18,
from include/linux/prefetch.h:14,
from include/linux/list.h:6,
from include/linux/module.h:9,
from init/main.c:13:
/usr/src/all/linux-next/arch/x86/include/asm/page_types.h:54: warning: parameter has incomplete type
/usr/src/all/linux-next/arch/x86/include/asm/page_types.h:56: warning: parameter has incomplete type
This is a bogus warning, but moving the pat-related functions
into asm/pat.h and including asm/pgtable_types.h should fix it.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Reported-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup
In preparation for moving the function declaration to a header file,
unify 32-bit and 64-bit signatures.
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <1236257708-27269-16-git-send-email-penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup
The table_start, table_end, and table_top are too generic for global
namespace so rename them to be more specific.
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <1236257708-27269-15-git-send-email-penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup
This patch moves the init_memory_mapping() function to common mm/init.c.
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <1236257708-27269-14-git-send-email-penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup
This patch adds an empty static inline init_gbpages() for the 32-bit
version of init_memory_mapping() making both versions identical.
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <1236257708-27269-13-git-send-email-penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup
As a trivial preparation for moving common code to arc/x86/mm/init.c,
ifdef the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of NR_RANGE_MR.
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <1236257708-27269-12-git-send-email-penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup
To reduce the diff between the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of
init_memory_mapping(), ifdef configuration specific pfn setup
code in the function.
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <1236257708-27269-11-git-send-email-penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup
To reduce the diff between the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of
init_memory_mapping(), ifdef configuration specific setup code
in the function.
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <1236257708-27269-10-git-send-email-penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup
This patch adds a sanity check to the 32-bit version of
init_memory_mapping() to reduce the diff to the 64-bit version.
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <1236257708-27269-9-git-send-email-penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup
The 64-bit version of init_memory_mapping() uses the last mapped
address returned from kernel_physical_mapping_init() whereas the
32-bit version doesn't. This patch adds relevant ifdefs to both
versions of the function to reduce the diff between them.
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <1236257708-27269-8-git-send-email-penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup
This patch renames after_init_bootmem to after_bootmem in
mm/init_32.c to reduce the diff to the 64-bit version of of
init_memory_mapping().
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <1236257708-27269-7-git-send-email-penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup
The save_mr() function already checks that start_pfn is less than
end_pfn so we can remove the unnecessary check which reduces the
diff between the 32-bit and the 64-bit versions of init_memory_mapping().
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <1236257708-27269-6-git-send-email-penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup
Enabling NX, PSE, and PGE are only required on 32-bit so ifdef them
in both versions of the function.
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <1236257708-27269-5-git-send-email-penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup
This patch moves pgd_base out of init_memory_mapping() to reduce
the diff between the 32-bit version and the 64-bit version of the
function.
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <1236257708-27269-4-git-send-email-penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup
There are some minor differences between the 32-bit and 64-bit
find_early_table_space() functions. This patch wraps those
differences under CONFIG_X86_32 to make the function identical
on both configurations.
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <1236257708-27269-3-git-send-email-penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
