But there were a few features that were added.
Uprobes now work with event triggers and multi buffers.
Uprobes have support under ftrace and perf.
The big feature is that the function tracer can now be used within the
multi buffer instances. That is, you can now trace some functions
in one buffer, others in another buffer, all functions in a third buffer
and so on. They are basically agnostic from each other. This only
works for the function tracer and not for the function graph trace,
although you can have the function graph tracer running in the top level
buffer (or any tracer for that matter) and have different function tracing
going on in the sub buffers.
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Merge tag 'trace-3.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace
Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
"Most of the changes were largely clean ups, and some documentation.
But there were a few features that were added:
Uprobes now work with event triggers and multi buffers and have
support under ftrace and perf.
The big feature is that the function tracer can now be used within the
multi buffer instances. That is, you can now trace some functions in
one buffer, others in another buffer, all functions in a third buffer
and so on. They are basically agnostic from each other. This only
works for the function tracer and not for the function graph trace,
although you can have the function graph tracer running in the top
level buffer (or any tracer for that matter) and have different
function tracing going on in the sub buffers"
* tag 'trace-3.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (45 commits)
tracing: Add BUG_ON when stack end location is over written
tracepoint: Remove unused API functions
Revert "tracing: Move event storage for array from macro to standalone function"
ftrace: Constify ftrace_text_reserved
tracepoints: API doc update to tracepoint_probe_register() return value
tracepoints: API doc update to data argument
ftrace: Fix compilation warning about control_ops_free
ftrace/x86: BUG when ftrace recovery fails
ftrace: Warn on error when modifying ftrace function
ftrace: Remove freelist from struct dyn_ftrace
ftrace: Do not pass data to ftrace_dyn_arch_init
ftrace: Pass retval through return in ftrace_dyn_arch_init()
ftrace: Inline the code from ftrace_dyn_table_alloc()
ftrace: Cleanup of global variables ftrace_new_pgs and ftrace_update_cnt
tracing: Evaluate len expression only once in __dynamic_array macro
tracing: Correctly expand len expressions from __dynamic_array macro
tracing/module: Replace include of tracepoint.h with jump_label.h in module.h
tracing: Fix event header migrate.h to include tracepoint.h
tracing: Fix event header writeback.h to include tracepoint.h
tracing: Warn if a tracepoint is not set via debugfs
...
Pull core block layer updates from Jens Axboe:
"This is the pull request for the core block IO bits for the 3.15
kernel. It's a smaller round this time, it contains:
- Various little blk-mq fixes and additions from Christoph and
myself.
- Cleanup of the IPI usage from the block layer, and associated
helper code. From Frederic Weisbecker and Jan Kara.
- Duplicate code cleanup in bio-integrity from Gu Zheng. This will
give you a merge conflict, but that should be easy to resolve.
- blk-mq notify spinlock fix for RT from Mike Galbraith.
- A blktrace partial accounting bug fix from Roman Pen.
- Missing REQ_SYNC detection fix for blk-mq from Shaohua Li"
* 'for-3.15/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (25 commits)
blk-mq: add REQ_SYNC early
rt,blk,mq: Make blk_mq_cpu_notify_lock a raw spinlock
blk-mq: support partial I/O completions
blk-mq: merge blk_mq_insert_request and blk_mq_run_request
blk-mq: remove blk_mq_alloc_rq
blk-mq: don't dump CPU -> hw queue map on driver load
blk-mq: fix wrong usage of hctx->state vs hctx->flags
blk-mq: allow blk_mq_init_commands() to return failure
block: remove old blk_iopoll_enabled variable
blktrace: fix accounting of partially completed requests
smp: Rename __smp_call_function_single() to smp_call_function_single_async()
smp: Remove wait argument from __smp_call_function_single()
watchdog: Simplify a little the IPI call
smp: Move __smp_call_function_single() below its safe version
smp: Consolidate the various smp_call_function_single() declensions
smp: Teach __smp_call_function_single() to check for offline cpus
smp: Remove unused list_head from csd
smp: Iterate functions through llist_for_each_entry_safe()
block: Stop abusing rq->csd.list in blk-softirq
block: Remove useless IPI struct initialization
...
Pull x86 LTO changes from Peter Anvin:
"More infrastructure work in preparation for link-time optimization
(LTO). Most of these changes is to make sure symbols accessed from
assembly code are properly marked as visible so the linker doesn't
remove them.
My understanding is that the changes to support LTO are still not
upstream in binutils, but are on the way there. This patchset should
conclude the x86-specific changes, and remaining patches to actually
enable LTO will be fed through the Kbuild tree (other than keeping up
with changes to the x86 code base, of course), although not
necessarily in this merge window"
* 'x86-asmlinkage-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (25 commits)
Kbuild, lto: Handle basic LTO in modpost
Kbuild, lto: Disable LTO for asm-offsets.c
Kbuild, lto: Add a gcc-ld script to let run gcc as ld
Kbuild, lto: add ld-version and ld-ifversion macros
Kbuild, lto: Drop .number postfixes in modpost
Kbuild, lto, workaround: Don't warn for initcall_reference in modpost
lto: Disable LTO for sys_ni
lto: Handle LTO common symbols in module loader
lto, workaround: Add workaround for initcall reordering
lto: Make asmlinkage __visible
x86, lto: Disable LTO for the x86 VDSO
initconst, x86: Fix initconst mistake in ts5500 code
initconst: Fix initconst mistake in dcdbas
asmlinkage: Make trace_hardirqs_on/off_caller visible
asmlinkage, x86: Fix 32bit memcpy for LTO
asmlinkage Make __stack_chk_failed and memcmp visible
asmlinkage: Mark rwsem functions that can be called from assembler asmlinkage
asmlinkage: Make main_extable_sort_needed visible
asmlinkage, mutex: Mark __visible
asmlinkage: Make trace_hardirq visible
...
Pull scheduler changes from Ingo Molnar:
"Bigger changes:
- sched/idle restructuring: they are WIP preparation for deeper
integration between the scheduler and idle state selection, by
Nicolas Pitre.
- add NUMA scheduling pseudo-interleaving, by Rik van Riel.
- optimize cgroup context switches, by Peter Zijlstra.
- RT scheduling enhancements, by Thomas Gleixner.
The rest is smaller changes, non-urgnt fixes and cleanups"
* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (68 commits)
sched: Clean up the task_hot() function
sched: Remove double calculation in fix_small_imbalance()
sched: Fix broken setscheduler()
sparc64, sched: Remove unused sparc64_multi_core
sched: Remove unused mc_capable() and smt_capable()
sched/numa: Move task_numa_free() to __put_task_struct()
sched/fair: Fix endless loop in idle_balance()
sched/core: Fix endless loop in pick_next_task()
sched/fair: Push down check for high priority class task into idle_balance()
sched/rt: Fix picking RT and DL tasks from empty queue
trace: Replace hardcoding of 19 with MAX_NICE
sched: Guarantee task priority in pick_next_task()
sched/idle: Remove stale old file
sched: Put rq's sched_avg under CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
cpuidle/arm64: Remove redundant cpuidle_idle_call()
cpuidle/powernv: Remove redundant cpuidle_idle_call()
sched, nohz: Exclude isolated cores from load balancing
sched: Fix select_task_rq_fair() description comments
workqueue: Replace hardcoding of -20 and 19 with MIN_NICE and MAX_NICE
sys: Replace hardcoding of -20 and 19 with MIN_NICE and MAX_NICE
...
Pull perf changes from Ingo Molnar:
"Main changes:
Kernel side changes:
- Add SNB/IVB/HSW client uncore memory controller support (Stephane
Eranian)
- Fix various x86/P4 PMU driver bugs (Don Zickus)
Tooling, user visible changes:
- Add several futex 'perf bench' microbenchmarks (Davidlohr Bueso)
- Speed up thread map generation (Don Zickus)
- Introduce 'perf kvm --list-cmds' command line option for use by
scripts (Ramkumar Ramachandra)
- Print the evsel name in the annotate stdio output, prep to fix
support outputting annotation for multiple events, not just for the
first one (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
- Allow setting preferred callchain method in .perfconfig (Jiri Olsa)
- Show in what binaries/modules 'perf probe's are set (Masami
Hiramatsu)
- Support distro-style debuginfo for uprobe in 'perf probe' (Masami
Hiramatsu)
Tooling, internal changes and fixes:
- Use tid in mmap/mmap2 events to find maps (Don Zickus)
- Record the reason for filtering an address_location (Namhyung Kim)
- Apply all filters to an addr_location (Namhyung Kim)
- Merge al->filtered with hist_entry->filtered in report/hists
(Namhyung Kim)
- Fix memory leak when synthesizing thread records (Namhyung Kim)
- Use ui__has_annotation() in 'report' (Namhyung Kim)
- hists browser refactorings to reuse code accross UIs (Namhyung Kim)
- Add support for the new DWARF unwinder library in elfutils (Jiri
Olsa)
- Fix build race in the generation of bison files (Jiri Olsa)
- Further streamline the feature detection display, trimming it a bit
to show just the libraries detected, using VF=1 gets a more verbose
output, showing the less interesting feature checks as well (Jiri
Olsa).
- Check compatible symtab type before loading dso (Namhyung Kim)
- Check return value of filename__read_debuglink() (Stephane Eranian)
- Move some hashing and fs related code from tools/perf/util/ to
tools/lib/ so that it can be used by more tools/ living utilities
(Borislav Petkov)
- Prepare DWARF unwinding code for using an elfutils alternative
unwinding library (Jiri Olsa)
- Fix DWARF unwind max_stack processing (Jiri Olsa)
- Add dwarf unwind 'perf test' entry (Jiri Olsa)
- 'perf probe' improvements including memory leak fixes, sharing the
intlist class with other tools, uprobes/kprobes code sharing and
use of ref_reloc_sym (Masami Hiramatsu)
- Shorten sample symbol resolving by adding cpumode to struct
addr_location (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
- Fix synthesizing mmaps for threads (Don Zickus)
- Fix invalid output on event group stdio report (Namhyung Kim)
- Fixup header alignment in 'perf sched latency' output (Ramkumar
Ramachandra)
- Fix off-by-one error in 'perf timechart record' argv handling
(Ramkumar Ramachandra)
Tooling, cleanups:
- Remove unused thread__find_map function (Jiri Olsa)
- Remove unused simple_strtoul() function (Ramkumar Ramachandra)
Tooling, documentation updates:
- Update function names in debug messages (Ramkumar Ramachandra)
- Update some code references in design.txt (Ramkumar Ramachandra)
- Clarify load-latency information in the 'perf mem' docs (Andi
Kleen)
- Clarify x86 register naming in 'perf probe' docs (Andi Kleen)"
* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (96 commits)
perf tools: Remove unused simple_strtoul() function
perf tools: Update some code references in design.txt
perf evsel: Update function names in debug messages
perf tools: Remove thread__find_map function
perf annotate: Print the evsel name in the stdio output
perf report: Use ui__has_annotation()
perf tools: Fix memory leak when synthesizing thread records
perf tools: Use tid in mmap/mmap2 events to find maps
perf report: Merge al->filtered with hist_entry->filtered
perf symbols: Apply all filters to an addr_location
perf symbols: Record the reason for filtering an address_location
perf sched: Fixup header alignment in 'latency' output
perf timechart: Fix off-by-one error in 'record' argv handling
perf machine: Factor machine__find_thread to take tid argument
perf tools: Speed up thread map generation
perf kvm: introduce --list-cmds for use by scripts
perf ui hists: Pass evsel to hpp->header/width functions explicitly
perf symbols: Introduce thread__find_cpumode_addr_location
perf session: Change header.misc dump from decimal to hex
perf ui/tui: Reuse generic __hpp__fmt() code
...
While working on my tutorial for 2014 Linux Collaboration Summit
I found that the traceon trigger did not work when conditions were
used. The other triggers worked fine though. Looking into it, it
is because of the way the triggers use the ring buffer to store
the fields it will use for the condition. But if tracing is off, nothing
is stored in the buffer, and the tracepoint exits before calling the
trigger to test the condition. This is fine for all the triggers that
only work when tracing is on, but for traceon trigger that is to
work when tracing is off, nothing happens.
The fix is simple, just use a temp ring buffer to record the event
if tracing is off and the event has a trace event conditional trigger
enabled. The rest of the tracepoint code will work just fine, but
the tracepoint wont be recorded in the other buffers.
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
It is difficult to detect a stack overrun when it
actually occurs.
We have observed that this type of corruption is often
silent and can go unnoticed. Once the corrupted region
is examined, the outcome is undefined and often
results in sporadic system crashes.
When the stack tracing feature is enabled, let's check
for this condition and take appropriate action.
Note: init_task doesn't get its stack end location
set to STACK_END_MAGIC.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1395669837-30209-1-git-send-email-atomlin@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
I originally wrote commit 35bb4399bd to shrink the size of the overhead of
tracepoints by several kilobytes. Later, I received a patch from Vaibhav
Nagarnaik that fixed a bug in the same code that this commit touches. Not
only did it fix a bug, it also removed code and shrunk the size of the
overhead of trace events even more than this commit did.
Since this commit is scheduled for 3.15 and Vaibhav's patch is already in
mainline, I need to revert this patch in order to keep it from conflicting
with Vaibhav's patch. Not to mention, Vaibhav's patch makes this patch
obsolete.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140320225637.0226041b@gandalf.local.home
Cc: Vaibhav Nagarnaik <vnagarnaik@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
In event format strings, the array size is reported in two locations.
One in array subscript and then via the "size:" attribute. The values
reported there have a mismatch.
For e.g., in sched:sched_switch the prev_comm and next_comm character
arrays have subscript values as [32] where as the actual field size is
16.
name: sched_switch
ID: 301
format:
field:unsigned short common_type; offset:0; size:2; signed:0;
field:unsigned char common_flags; offset:2; size:1; signed:0;
field:unsigned char common_preempt_count; offset:3; size:1;signed:0;
field:int common_pid; offset:4; size:4; signed:1;
field:char prev_comm[32]; offset:8; size:16; signed:1;
field:pid_t prev_pid; offset:24; size:4; signed:1;
field:int prev_prio; offset:28; size:4; signed:1;
field:long prev_state; offset:32; size:8; signed:1;
field:char next_comm[32]; offset:40; size:16; signed:1;
field:pid_t next_pid; offset:56; size:4; signed:1;
field:int next_prio; offset:60; size:4; signed:1;
After bisection, the following commit was blamed:
92edca0 tracing: Use direct field, type and system names
This commit removes the duplication of strings for field->name and
field->type assuming that all the strings passed in
__trace_define_field() are immutable. This is not true for arrays, where
the type string is created in event_storage variable and field->type for
all array fields points to event_storage.
Use __stringify() to create a string constant for the type string.
Also, get rid of event_storage and event_storage_mutex that are not
needed anymore.
also, an added benefit is that this reduces the overhead of events a bit more:
text data bss dec hex filename
8424787 2036472 1302528 11763787 b3804b vmlinux
8420814 2036408 1302528 11759750 b37086 vmlinux.patched
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1392349908-29685-1-git-send-email-vnagarnaik@google.com
Cc: Laurent Chavey <chavey@google.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.10+
Signed-off-by: Vaibhav Nagarnaik <vnagarnaik@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
With CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE=n, I see a warning:
kernel/trace/ftrace.c:240:13: warning: 'control_ops_free' defined but not used
static void control_ops_free(struct ftrace_ops *ops)
^
Move that function around to an already existing #ifdef
CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE block as the function is used solely from the
dynamic function tracing functions.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1394484131-5107-1-git-send-email-jslaby@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Recent issues with user space callchains processing within
page fault handler tracing showed as Peter said 'there's
just too much fail surface'.
The user space stack dump is just another source of the this issue.
Related list discussions:
http://marc.info/?t=139302086500001&r=1&w=2http://marc.info/?t=139301437300003&r=1&w=2
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1393775800-13524-3-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Recent issues with user space callchains processing within
page fault handler tracing showed as Peter said 'there's
just too much fail surface'.
Related list discussions:
http://marc.info/?t=139302086500001&r=1&w=2http://marc.info/?t=139301437300003&r=1&w=2
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1393775800-13524-2-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
We should print some warning and kill ftrace functionality when the ftrace
function is not set correctly. Otherwise, ftrace might do crazy things without
an explanation. The error value has been ignored so far.
Note that an error that happens during updating all the traced calls is handled
in ftrace_replace_code(). We print more details about the particular
failing address via ftrace_bug() there.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1393258342-29978-3-git-send-email-pmladek@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
As the data parameter is not really used by any ftrace_dyn_arch_init,
remove that from ftrace_dyn_arch_init. This also removes the addr
local variable from ftrace_init which is now unused.
Note the documentation was imprecise as it did not suggest to set
(*data) to 0.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1393268401-24379-4-git-send-email-jslaby@suse.cz
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
No architecture uses the "data" parameter in ftrace_dyn_arch_init() in any
way, it just sets the value to 0. And this is used as a return value
in the caller -- ftrace_init, which just checks the retval against
zero.
Note there is also "return 0" in every ftrace_dyn_arch_init. So it is
enough to check the retval and remove all the indirect sets of data on
all archs.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1393268401-24379-3-git-send-email-jslaby@suse.cz
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The function used to do allocations some time ago. This no longer
happens and it only checks the count and prints some info. This patch
inlines the body to the only caller. There are two reasons:
* the name of the function was misleading
* it's clear what is going on in ftrace_init now
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1393268401-24379-2-git-send-email-jslaby@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Some of them can be local to functions, so make them local and pass
them as parameters where needed:
* __start_mcount_loc+__stop_mcount_loc are local to ftrace_init
* ftrace_new_pgs -> new_pgs/start_pg
* ftrace_update_cnt -> local update_cnt in ftrace_update_code
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1393268401-24379-1-git-send-email-jslaby@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The functions that assign the contents for the ftrace events are
defined by the TRACE_EVENT() macros. Each event has its own unique
way to assign data to its buffer. When you have over 500 events,
that means there's 500 functions assigning data uniquely for each
event (not really that many, as DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS() and multiple
DEFINE_EVENT()s will only need a single function).
By making helper functions in the core kernel to do some of the work
instead, we can shrink the size of the kernel down a bit.
With a kernel configured with 502 events, the change in size was:
text data bss dec hex filename
12987390 1913504 9785344 24686238 178ae9e /tmp/vmlinux
12959102 1913504 9785344 24657950 178401e /tmp/vmlinux.patched
That's a total of 28288 bytes, which comes down to 56 bytes per event.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120810034708.370808175@goodmis.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The code that shows array fields for events is defined for all events.
This can add up quite a bit when you have over 500 events.
By making helper functions in the core kernel to do the work
instead, we can shrink the size of the kernel down a bit.
With a kernel configured with 502 events, the change in size was:
text data bss dec hex filename
12990946 1913568 9785344 24689858 178bcc2 /tmp/vmlinux
12987390 1913504 9785344 24686238 178ae9e /tmp/vmlinux.patched
That's a total of 3556 bytes, which comes down to 7 bytes per event.
Although it's not much, this code is just called at initialization of
the events.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120810034708.084036335@goodmis.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The code for trace events to format the raw recorded event data
into human readable format in the 'trace' file is repeated for every
event in the system. When you have over 500 events, this can add up
quite a bit.
By making helper functions in the core kernel to do the work
instead, we can shrink the size of the kernel down a bit.
With a kernel configured with 502 events, the change in size was:
text data bss dec hex filename
12991007 1913568 9785344 24689919 178bcff /tmp/vmlinux.orig
12990946 1913568 9785344 24689858 178bcc2 /tmp/vmlinux.patched
Note, this version does not save as much as the version of this patch
I had a few years ago. That is because in the mean time, commit
f71130de5c ("tracing: Add a helper function for event print functions")
did a lot of the work my original patch did. But this change helps
slightly, and is part of a larger clean up to reduce the size much further.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120810034707.378538034@goodmis.org
Cc: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
trace_block_rq_complete does not take into account that request can
be partially completed, so we can get the following incorrect output
of blkparser:
C R 232 + 240 [0]
C R 240 + 232 [0]
C R 248 + 224 [0]
C R 256 + 216 [0]
but should be:
C R 232 + 8 [0]
C R 240 + 8 [0]
C R 248 + 8 [0]
C R 256 + 8 [0]
Also, the whole output summary statistics of completed requests and
final throughput will be incorrect.
This patch takes into account real completion size of the request and
fixes wrong completion accounting.
Signed-off-by: Roman Pen <r.peniaev@gmail.com>
CC: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
CC: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
If a module fails to add its tracepoints due to module tainting, do not
create the module event infrastructure in the debugfs directory. As the events
will not work and worse yet, they will silently fail, making the user wonder
why the events they enable do not display anything.
Having a warning on module load and the events not visible to the users
will make the cause of the problem much clearer.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140227154923.265882695@goodmis.org
Fixes: 6d723736e4 "tracing/events: add support for modules to TRACE_EVENT"
Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 2.6.31+
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Use MAX_NICE instead of the value 19 for ring_buffer_benchmark.
Signed-off-by: Dongsheng Yang <yangds.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1393251121-25534-1-git-send-email-yangds.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
The ENABLED flag needs to be cleared when a ftrace_ops is unregistered
otherwise it wont be able to be registered again.
This is only for static tracing and does not affect DYNAMIC_FTRACE at
all.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Being able to change the trace clock at boot can be advantageous if
you need a better source of when things happen across CPUs. The default
trace clock is the fastest, but it uses local clocks which may not be
synced across CPUs and it does not let you know when events took place
with respect to events on other CPUs.
The global trace clock can help in this case, and if you do not care
about timings, the counter "clock" is the best, as that is just a simple
atomic counter that is incremented for every event.
Usage is to add "trace_clock=counter" on the kernel command line. You
can replace counter with "global" or any of the clocks listed in
/sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_clock
Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Appreciated-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
It seems there's no reason to prevent mixed used of ftrace and perf
for a single uprobe event. At least the kprobes already support it.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1389946120-19610-6-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: zhangwei(Jovi) <jovi.zhangwei@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Add support for event triggering to uprobes. This is same as kprobes
support added by Tom (plus cleanup by Steven).
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1389946120-19610-5-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: zhangwei(Jovi) <jovi.zhangwei@huawei.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Support multi-buffer on uprobe-based dynamic events by
using ftrace_event_file.
This patch is based kprobe-based dynamic events multibuffer
support work initially, commited by Masami(commit 41a7dd420c),
but revised as below:
Oleg changed the kprobe-based multibuffer design from
array-pointers of ftrace_event_file into simple list,
so this patch also change to the list design.
rcu_read_lock/unlock added into uprobe_trace_func/uretprobe_trace_func,
to synchronize with ftrace_event_file list add and delete.
Even though we allow multi-uprobes instances now,
but TP_FLAG_PROFILE/TP_FLAG_TRACE are still mutually exclusive
in probe_event_enable currently, this means we cannot allow
one user is using uprobe-tracer, and another user is using
perf-probe on same uprobe concurrently.
(Perhaps this will be fix in future, kprobe don't have this
limitation now)
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1389946120-19610-4-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: zhangwei(Jovi) <jovi.zhangwei@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
A single uprobe event might serve different users like ftrace and
perf. And this is especially important for upcoming multi buffer
support. But in this case it'll fetch (same) data from userspace
multiple times. So move it to the beginning of the dispatcher
function and reuse it for each users.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1389946120-19610-3-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: zhangwei(Jovi) <jovi.zhangwei@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The uprobe_{trace,perf}_print functions are misnomers since what they
do is not printing. There's also a real print function named
print_uprobe_event() so they'll only increase confusion IMHO.
Rename them with double underscores to follow convention of kprobe.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1389946120-19610-2-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Create a "set_ftrace_filter" and "set_ftrace_notrace" files in the instance
directories to let users filter of functions to trace for the given instance.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
In preparation for having the function tracing instances be able to
filter on functions, the generic filter functions must first be
converted to take in the global_ops as a parameter.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Allow instances (sub-buffers) to enable function tracing.
Each instance will have its own function tracing capability.
For now, instances will not have function stack tracing, or will
they be able to pick and choose what functions they can trace.
Picking and choosing their own functions will come later.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
As tracers will soon be used by instances, the tracer enabled field
needs to be converted to a counter instead of a boolean.
This counter is protected by the trace_types_lock mutex.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
When an instance is about to be deleted, make sure the tracer
is set to nop. If it isn't reset the tracer and set it to the nop
tracer, otherwise memory leaks and bad pointers may result.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
If global_ops function is being called directly, instead of the global_ops
list function, set the global_ops private to be the same as the ops private
that's being called directly.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Currently the tracers (function, function_graph, irqsoff, etc) can only
be used by the top level tracing directory (not for instances).
This sets up the infrastructure to allow instances to be able to
run a separate tracer apart from the what the top level tracing is
doing.
As tracers need to adapt for being used by instances, the tracers
must flag if they can be used by instances or not. Currently only the
'nop' tracer can be used by all instances.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
As options (flags) may affect instances instead of being global
the flag_changed() callbacks need to receive the trace_array descriptor
of the instance they will be modifying.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
As options (flags) may affect instances instead of being global
the set_flag() callbacks need to receive the trace_array descriptor
of the instance they will be modifying.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Each sub-buffer (buffer page) has a full 64 bit timestamp. The events on
that page use a 27 bit delta against that timestamp in order to save on
bits written to the ring buffer. If the time between events is larger than
what the 27 bits can hold, a "time extend" event is added to hold the
entire 64 bit timestamp again and the events after that hold a delta from
that timestamp.
As a "time extend" is always paired with an event, it is logical to just
allocate the event with the time extend, to make things a bit more efficient.
Unfortunately, when the pairing code was written, it removed the "delta = 0"
from the first commit on a page, causing the events on the page to be
slightly skewed.
Fixes: 69d1b839f7 "ring-buffer: Bind time extend and data events together"
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 2.6.37+
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Pull core block IO changes from Jens Axboe:
"The major piece in here is the immutable bio_ve series from Kent, the
rest is fairly minor. It was supposed to go in last round, but
various issues pushed it to this release instead. The pull request
contains:
- Various smaller blk-mq fixes from different folks. Nothing major
here, just minor fixes and cleanups.
- Fix for a memory leak in the error path in the block ioctl code
from Christian Engelmayer.
- Header export fix from CaiZhiyong.
- Finally the immutable biovec changes from Kent Overstreet. This
enables some nice future work on making arbitrarily sized bios
possible, and splitting more efficient. Related fixes to immutable
bio_vecs:
- dm-cache immutable fixup from Mike Snitzer.
- btrfs immutable fixup from Muthu Kumar.
- bio-integrity fix from Nic Bellinger, which is also going to stable"
* 'for-3.14/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (44 commits)
xtensa: fixup simdisk driver to work with immutable bio_vecs
block/blk-mq-cpu.c: use hotcpu_notifier()
blk-mq: for_each_* macro correctness
block: Fix memory leak in rw_copy_check_uvector() handling
bio-integrity: Fix bio_integrity_verify segment start bug
block: remove unrelated header files and export symbol
blk-mq: uses page->list incorrectly
blk-mq: use __smp_call_function_single directly
btrfs: fix missing increment of bi_remaining
Revert "block: Warn and free bio if bi_end_io is not set"
block: Warn and free bio if bi_end_io is not set
blk-mq: fix initializing request's start time
block: blk-mq: don't export blk_mq_free_queue()
block: blk-mq: make blk_sync_queue support mq
block: blk-mq: support draining mq queue
dm cache: increment bi_remaining when bi_end_io is restored
block: fixup for generic bio chaining
block: Really silence spurious compiler warnings
block: Silence spurious compiler warnings
block: Kill bio_pair_split()
...
the new features added to 3.14.
The third patch is a minor bugfix to the trace_puts() functions that
will crash the system if a developer adds one before the tracing system
is setup. It also affects trace_printk() if it has no arguments, as
the code will convert it to a trace_puts() as well. Note, this bug
will not affect unmodified kernels, as trace_printk() and trace_puts()
should only be used by developers for testing.
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Merge tag 'trace-fixes-3.14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace
Pull tracing fixes from Steven Rostedt:
"The first two patches fix the debugfs README file to reflect better
the new features added to 3.14.
The third patch is a minor bugfix to the trace_puts() functions that
will crash the system if a developer adds one before the tracing
system is setup. It also affects trace_printk() if it has no
arguments, as the code will convert it to a trace_puts() as well.
Note, this bug will not affect unmodified kernels, as trace_printk()
and trace_puts() should only be used by developers for testing"
* tag 'trace-fixes-3.14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace:
tracing: Check if tracing is enabled in trace_puts()
tracing: Fix formatting of trace README file
tracing/README: Add event file usage to tracing mini-HOWTO
If trace_puts() is used very early in boot up, it can crash the machine
if it is called before the ring buffer is allocated. If a trace_printk()
is used with no arguments, then it will be converted into a trace_puts()
and suffer the same fate.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.10+
Fixes: 09ae72348e "tracing: Add trace_puts() for even faster trace_printk() tracing"
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Fix the formatting of the README file in the trace debugfs to fit in
an 80 character window.
Also add a comment about the event trigger counter with regards to
traceon and traceoff.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
It would be useful to have a cheat-sheet for everything under
tracing/events/ alongside the existing text describing the other files
in the tracing/ dir.
Add short descriptions of the directories and files under events/
along with examples, similar to the existing text for the other files
in tracing/.
Also clean up a few minor alignment problems noticed when adding the
new text.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1389993104.3040.445.camel@empanada
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
triggers by Tom Zanussi. A trigger is a way to enable an action when an
event is hit. The actions are:
o trace on/off - enable or disable tracing
o snapshot - save the current trace buffer in the snapshot
o stacktrace - dump the current stack trace to the ringbuffer
o enable/disable events - enable or disable another event
Namhyung Kim added updates to the tracing uprobes code. Having the
uprobes add support for fetch methods.
The rest are various bug fixes with the new code, and minor ones for
the old code.
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Merge tag 'trace-3.14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace
Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
"This pull request has a new feature to ftrace, namely the trace event
triggers by Tom Zanussi. A trigger is a way to enable an action when
an event is hit. The actions are:
o trace on/off - enable or disable tracing
o snapshot - save the current trace buffer in the snapshot
o stacktrace - dump the current stack trace to the ringbuffer
o enable/disable events - enable or disable another event
Namhyung Kim added updates to the tracing uprobes code. Having the
uprobes add support for fetch methods.
The rest are various bug fixes with the new code, and minor ones for
the old code"
* tag 'trace-3.14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (38 commits)
tracing: Fix buggered tee(2) on tracing_pipe
tracing: Have trace buffer point back to trace_array
ftrace: Fix synchronization location disabling and freeing ftrace_ops
ftrace: Have function graph only trace based on global_ops filters
ftrace: Synchronize setting function_trace_op with ftrace_trace_function
tracing: Show available event triggers when no trigger is set
tracing: Consolidate event trigger code
tracing: Fix counter for traceon/off event triggers
tracing: Remove double-underscore naming in syscall trigger invocations
tracing/kprobes: Add trace event trigger invocations
tracing/probes: Fix build break on !CONFIG_KPROBE_EVENT
tracing/uprobes: Add @+file_offset fetch method
uprobes: Allocate ->utask before handler_chain() for tracing handlers
tracing/uprobes: Add support for full argument access methods
tracing/uprobes: Fetch args before reserving a ring buffer
tracing/uprobes: Pass 'is_return' to traceprobe_parse_probe_arg()
tracing/probes: Implement 'memory' fetch method for uprobes
tracing/probes: Add fetch{,_size} member into deref fetch method
tracing/probes: Move 'symbol' fetch method to kprobes
tracing/probes: Implement 'stack' fetch method for uprobes
...
Linus Torvalds