The selftest for function and function graph tracers are defined as
__init, as they are only executed at boot up. The "tracer" structs
that are associated to those tracers are not setup as __init as they
are used after boot. To stop mismatch warnings, those structures
need to be annotated with __ref_data.
Currently, the tracer structures are defined to __read_mostly, as they
do not really change. But in the future they should be converted to
consts, but that will take a little work because they have a "next"
pointer that gets updated when they are registered. That will have to
wait till the next major release.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1373596735.17876.84.camel@gandalf.local.home
Reported-by: kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Reported-by: Chen Gang <gang.chen@asianux.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Add the "cpudump" command to have the current CPU ftrace buffer dumped
to console if a function is hit. This is useful when debugging a
tripple fault, where you have an idea of a function that is called
just before the tripple fault occurs, and can tell ftrace to dump its
content out to the console before it continues.
This differs from the "dump" command as it only dumps the content of
the ring buffer for the currently executing CPU, and does not show
the contents of the other CPUs.
Format is:
<function>:cpudump
echo 'bad_address:cpudump' > /debug/tracing/set_ftrace_filter
To remove this:
echo '!bad_address:cpudump' > /debug/tracing/set_ftrace_filter
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Add the "dump" command to have the ftrace buffer dumped to console if
a function is hit. This is useful when debugging a tripple fault,
where you have an idea of a function that is called just before the
tripple fault occurs, and can tell ftrace to dump its content out
to the console before it continues.
Format is:
<function>:dump
echo 'bad_address:dump' > /debug/tracing/set_ftrace_filter
To remove this:
echo '!bad_address:dump' > /debug/tracing/set_ftrace_filter
Requested-by: Luis Claudio R. Goncalves <lclaudio@uudg.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The function tracing probes that trigger traceon or traceoff can be
set to unlimited, or given a count of # of times to execute.
By separating these two types of probes, we can then use the dynamic
ftrace function filtering directly, and remove the brute force
"check if this function called is my probe" routines in ftrace.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The only thing ftrace_trace_onoff_unreg() does is to do a strcmp()
against the cmd parameter to determine what op to unregister. But
this compare is also done after the location that this function is
called (and returns). By moving the check for '!' to unregister after
the strcmp(), the callback function itself can just do the unregister
and we can get rid of the helper function.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Remove some duplicate code and replace it with a helper function.
This makes the code a it cleaner.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Currently, the way the latency tracers and snapshot feature works
is to have a separate trace_array called "max_tr" that holds the
snapshot buffer. For latency tracers, this snapshot buffer is used
to swap the running buffer with this buffer to save the current max
latency.
The only items needed for the max_tr is really just a copy of the buffer
itself, the per_cpu data pointers, the time_start timestamp that states
when the max latency was triggered, and the cpu that the max latency
was triggered on. All other fields in trace_array are unused by the
max_tr, making the max_tr mostly bloat.
This change removes the max_tr completely, and adds a new structure
called trace_buffer, that holds the buffer pointer, the per_cpu data
pointers, the time_start timestamp, and the cpu where the latency occurred.
The trace_array, now has two trace_buffers, one for the normal trace and
one for the max trace or snapshot. By doing this, not only do we remove
the bloat from the max_trace but the instances of traces can now use
their own snapshot feature and not have just the top level global_trace have
the snapshot feature and latency tracers for itself.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The global and max-tr currently use static per_cpu arrays for the CPU data
descriptors. But in order to get new allocated trace_arrays, they need to
be allocated per_cpu arrays. Instead of using the static arrays, switch
the global and max-tr to use allocated data.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Dan's smatch found a compare bug with the result of the
trace_test_and_set_recursion() and comparing to less than
zero. If the function fails, it returns -1, but was saved in
an unsigned int, which will never be less than zero and will
ignore the result of the test if a recursion did happen.
Luckily this is the last of the recursion tests, as the
infrastructure of ftrace would catch recursions before it
got here, except for some few exceptions.
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The function tracer had two different versions of function tracing.
The disabling of irqs version and the preempt disable version.
As function tracing in very intrusive and can cause nasty recursion
issues, it has its own recursion protection. But the old method to
do this was a flat layer. If it detected that a recursion was happening
then it would just return without recording.
This made the preempt version (much faster than the irq disabling one)
not very useful, because if an interrupt were to occur after the
recursion flag was set, the interrupt would not be traced at all,
because every function that was traced would think it recursed on
itself (due to the context it preempted setting the recursive flag).
Now that we have a recursion flag for every context level, we
no longer need to worry about that. We can disable preemption,
set the current context recursion check bit, and go on. If an
interrupt were to come along, it would check its own context bit
and happily continue to trace.
As the preempt version is faster than the irq disable version,
there's no more reason to keep the preempt version around.
And the irq disable version still had an issue with missing
out on tracing NMI code.
Remove the irq disable function tracer version and have the
preempt disable version be the default (and only version).
Before this patch we had from running:
# echo function > /debug/tracing/current_tracer
# for i in `seq 10`; do ./hackbench 50; done
Time: 12.028
Time: 11.945
Time: 11.925
Time: 11.964
Time: 12.002
Time: 11.910
Time: 11.944
Time: 11.929
Time: 11.941
Time: 11.924
(average: 11.9512)
Now we have:
# echo function > /debug/tracing/current_tracer
# for i in `seq 10`; do ./hackbench 50; done
Time: 10.285
Time: 10.407
Time: 10.243
Time: 10.372
Time: 10.380
Time: 10.198
Time: 10.272
Time: 10.354
Time: 10.248
Time: 10.253
(average: 10.3012)
a 13.8% savings!
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Pull trivial branch from Jiri Kosina:
"Usual stuff -- comment/printk typo fixes, documentation updates, dead
code elimination."
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (39 commits)
HOWTO: fix double words typo
x86 mtrr: fix comment typo in mtrr_bp_init
propagate name change to comments in kernel source
doc: Update the name of profiling based on sysfs
treewide: Fix typos in various drivers
treewide: Fix typos in various Kconfig
wireless: mwifiex: Fix typo in wireless/mwifiex driver
messages: i2o: Fix typo in messages/i2o
scripts/kernel-doc: check that non-void fcts describe their return value
Kernel-doc: Convention: Use a "Return" section to describe return values
radeon: Fix typo and copy/paste error in comments
doc: Remove unnecessary declarations from Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c
various: Fix spelling of "asynchronous" in comments.
Fix misspellings of "whether" in comments.
eisa: Fix spelling of "asynchronous".
various: Fix spelling of "registered" in comments.
doc: fix quite a few typos within Documentation
target: iscsi: fix comment typos in target/iscsi drivers
treewide: fix typo of "suport" in various comments and Kconfig
treewide: fix typo of "suppport" in various comments
...
I've legally changed my name with New York State, the US Social Security
Administration, et al. This patch propagates the name change and change
in initials and login to comments in the kernel source as well.
Signed-off-by: Nadia Yvette Chambers <nyc@holomorphy.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
There's times during debugging that it is helpful to see traces of early
boot functions. But the tracers are initialized at device_initcall()
which is quite late during the boot process. Setting the kernel command
line parameter ftrace=function will not show anything until the function
tracer is initialized. This prevents being able to trace functions before
device_initcall().
There's no reason that the tracers need to be initialized so late in the
boot process. Move them up to core_initcall() as they still need to come
after early_initcall() which initializes the tracing buffers.
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
and no longer use its debugfs knobs. The change slightly touches
kernel/trace directory, but it got the needed ack from Steven Rostedt:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2012/8/21/688
2. Added maintainers entry;
3. A bunch of fixes, nothing special.
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Merge tag 'for-v3.7' of git://git.infradead.org/users/cbou/linux-pstore
Pull pstore changes from Anton Vorontsov:
1) We no longer ad-hoc to the function tracer "high level"
infrastructure and no longer use its debugfs knobs. The change
slightly touches kernel/trace directory, but it got the needed ack
from Steven Rostedt:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2012/8/21/688
2) Added maintainers entry;
3) A bunch of fixes, nothing special.
* tag 'for-v3.7' of git://git.infradead.org/users/cbou/linux-pstore:
pstore: Avoid recursive spinlocks in the oops_in_progress case
pstore/ftrace: Convert to its own enable/disable debugfs knob
pstore/ram: Add missing platform_device_unregister
MAINTAINERS: Add pstore maintainers
pstore/ram: Mark ramoops_pstore_write_buf() as notrace
pstore/ram: Fix printk format warning
pstore/ram: Fix possible NULL dereference
With this patch we no longer reuse function tracer infrastructure, now
we register our own tracer back-end via a debugfs knob.
It's a bit more code, but that is the only downside. On the bright side we
have:
- Ability to make persistent_ram module removable (when needed, we can
move ftrace_ops struct into a module). Note that persistent_ram is still
not removable for other reasons, but with this patch it's just one
thing less to worry about;
- Pstore part is more isolated from the generic function tracer. We tried
it already by registering our own tracer in available_tracers, but that
way we're loosing ability to see the traces while we record them to
pstore. This solution is somewhere in the middle: we only register
"internal ftracer" back-end, but not the "front-end";
- When there is only pstore tracing enabled, the kernel will only write
to the pstore buffer, omitting function tracer buffer (which, of course,
still can be enabled via 'echo function > current_tracer').
Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org>
. Fix include order for bison/flex-generated C files, from Ben Hutchings
. Build fixes and documentation corrections from David Ahern
. Group parsing support, from Jiri Olsa
. UI/gtk refactorings and improvements from Namhyung Kim
. NULL deref fix for perf script, from Namhyung Kim
. Assorted cleanups from Robert Richter
. Let O= makes handle relative paths, from Steven Rostedt
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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Merge tag 'perf-core-for-mingo' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux into perf/core
Pull perf/core improvements and fixes from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:
* Fix include order for bison/flex-generated C files, from Ben Hutchings
* Build fixes and documentation corrections from David Ahern
* Group parsing support, from Jiri Olsa
* UI/gtk refactorings and improvements from Namhyung Kim
* NULL deref fix for perf script, from Namhyung Kim
* Assorted cleanups from Robert Richter
* Let O= makes handle relative paths, from Steven Rostedt
* perf script python fixes, from Feng Tang.
* Improve 'perf lock' error message when the needed tracepoints
are not present, from David Ahern.
* Initial bash completion support, from Frederic Weisbecker
* Allow building without libelf, from Namhyung Kim.
* Support DWARF CFI based unwind to have callchains when %bp
based unwinding is not possible, from Jiri Olsa.
* Symbol resolution fixes, while fixing support PPC64 files with an .opt ELF
section was the end goal, several fixes for code that handles all
architectures and cleanups are included, from Cody Schafer.
* Add a description for the JIT interface, from Andi Kleen.
* Assorted fixes for Documentation and build in 32 bit, from Robert Richter
* Add support for non-tracepoint events in perf script python, from Feng Tang
* Cache the libtraceevent event_format associated to each evsel early, so that we
avoid relookups, i.e. calling pevent_find_event repeatedly when processing
tracepoint events.
[ This is to reduce the surface contact with libtraceevents and make clear what
is that the perf tools needs from that lib: so far parsing the common and per
event fields. ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
As more users of the function tracer utility are being added, they do
not always add the necessary recursion protection. To protect from
function recursion due to tracing, if the callback ftrace_ops does not
specifically specify that it protects against recursion (by setting
the FTRACE_OPS_FL_RECURSION_SAFE flag), the list operation will be
called by the mcount trampoline which adds recursion protection.
If the flag is set, then the function will be called directly with no
extra protection.
Note, the list operation is called if more than one function callback
is registered, or if the arch does not support all of the function
tracer features.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Return as the 4th paramater to the function tracer callback the pt_regs.
Later patches that implement regs passing for the architectures will require
having the ftrace_ops set the SAVE_REGS flag, which will tell the arch
to take the time to pass a full set of pt_regs to the ftrace_ops callback
function. If the arch does not support it then it should pass NULL.
If an arch can pass full regs, then it should define:
ARCH_SUPPORTS_FTRACE_SAVE_REGS to 1
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120702201821.019966811@goodmis.org
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Currently the function trace callback receives only the ip and parent_ip
of the function that it traced. It would be more powerful to also return
the ops that registered the function as well. This allows the same function
to act differently depending on what ftrace_ops registered it.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120612225424.267254552@goodmis.org
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Since the function accepts just one bit, we can use the switch
construction instead of if/else if/...
Just a cosmetic change, there should be no functional changes.
Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
This patch introduces 'func_ptrace' option, now available in
/sys/kernel/debug/tracing/options when function tracer
is selected.
The patch also adds some tiny code that calls back to pstore
to record the trace. The callback is no-op when PSTORE=n.
Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
ftrace_ops that are registered to trace functions can now be
agnostic to each other in respect to what functions they trace.
Each ops has their own hash of the functions they want to trace
and a hash to what they do not want to trace. A empty hash for
the functions they want to trace denotes all functions should
be traced that are not in the notrace hash.
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The ftrace_preempt_disable/enable functions were to address a
recursive race caused by the function tracer. The function tracer
traces all functions which makes it easily susceptible to recursion.
One area was preempt_enable(). This would call the scheduler and
the schedulre would call the function tracer and loop.
(So was it thought).
The ftrace_preempt_disable/enable was made to protect against recursion
inside the scheduler by storing the NEED_RESCHED flag. If it was
set before the ftrace_preempt_disable() it would not call schedule
on ftrace_preempt_enable(), thinking that if it was set before then
it would have already scheduled unless it was already in the scheduler.
This worked fine except in the case of SMP, where another task would set
the NEED_RESCHED flag for a task on another CPU, and then kick off an
IPI to trigger it. This could cause the NEED_RESCHED to be saved at
ftrace_preempt_disable() but the IPI to arrive in the the preempt
disabled section. The ftrace_preempt_enable() would not call the scheduler
because the flag was already set before entring the section.
This bug would cause a missed preemption check and cause lower latencies.
Investigating further, I found that the recusion caused by the function
tracer was not due to schedule(), but due to preempt_schedule(). Now
that preempt_schedule is completely annotated with notrace, the recusion
no longer is an issue.
Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
For direct function pointers (like what mcount provides) PowerPC64
requires the use of %ps, otherwise nothing is printed.
This patch converts all prints of functions retrieved through mcount
to use the %ps format from the %pf.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
We can directly use %pf input format instead of kallsyms_lookup()
and %s input format
Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
ftrace_trace_onoff_callback() will return an error even if we do the
right operation, for example:
# echo _spin_*:traceon:10 > set_ftrace_filter
-bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument
# cat set_ftrace_filter
#### all functions enabled ####
_spin_trylock_bh:traceon:count=10
_spin_unlock_irq:traceon:count=10
_spin_unlock_bh:traceon:count=10
_spin_lock_irq:traceon:count=10
_spin_unlock:traceon:count=10
_spin_trylock:traceon:count=10
_spin_unlock_irqrestore:traceon:count=10
_spin_lock_irqsave:traceon:count=10
_spin_lock_bh:traceon:count=10
_spin_lock:traceon:count=10
We want to set _spin_*:traceon:10 to set_ftrace_filter, it complains
with "Invalid argument", but the operation is successful.
This is because ftrace_process_regex() returns the number of functions that
matched the pattern. If the number is not 0, this value is returned
by ftrace_regex_write() whereas we want to return the number of bytes
virtually written.
Also the file offset pointer is not updated in this case.
If the number of matched functions is lower than the number of bytes written
by the user, this results to a reprocessing of the string given by the user with
a lower size, leading to a malformed ftrace regex and then a -EINVAL returned.
So, this patch fixes it by returning 0 if no error occured.
The fix also applies on 2.6.30
Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Perfcounter reports the following stats for a wide system
profiling:
#
# (2364 samples)
#
# Overhead Symbol
# ........ ......
#
15.40% [k] mwait_idle_with_hints
8.29% [k] read_hpet
5.75% [k] ftrace_caller
3.60% [k] ftrace_call
[...]
This snapshot has been taken while neither the function tracer nor
the function graph tracer was running.
With dynamic ftrace, such results show a wrong ftrace behaviour
because all calls to ftrace_caller or ftrace_graph_caller (the patched
calls to mcount) are supposed to be patched into nop if none of those
tracers are running.
The problem occurs after the first run of the function tracer. Once we
launch it a second time, the callsites will never be nopped back,
unless you set custom filters.
For example it happens during the self tests at boot time.
The function tracer selftest runs, and then the dynamic tracing is
tested too. After that, the callsites are left un-nopped.
This is because the reset callback of the function tracer tries to
unregister two ftrace callbacks in once: the common function tracer
and the function tracer with stack backtrace, regardless of which
one is currently in use.
It then creates an unbalance on ftrace_start_up value which is expected
to be zero when the last ftrace callback is unregistered. When it
reaches zero, the FTRACE_DISABLE_CALLS is set on the next ftrace
command, triggering the patching into nop. But since it becomes
unbalanced, ie becomes lower than zero, if the kernel functions
are patched again (as in every further function tracer runs), they
won't ever be nopped back.
Note that ftrace_call and ftrace_graph_call are still patched back
to ftrace_stub in the off case, but not the callers of ftrace_call
and ftrace_graph_caller. It means that the tracing is well deactivated
but we waste a useless call into every kernel function.
This patch just unregisters the right ftrace_ops for the function
tracer on its reset callback and ignores the other one which is
not registered, fixing the unbalance. The problem also happens
is .30
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Impact: api and pipe waiting change
Currently, the waiting used in tracing_read_pipe() is done through a
100 msecs schedule_timeout() loop which periodically check if there
are traces on the buffer.
This can cause small latencies for programs which are reading the incoming
events.
This patch makes the reader waiting for the trace_wait waitqueue except
for few tracers such as the sched and functions tracers which might be
already hold the runqueue lock while waking up the reader.
This is performed through a new callback wait_pipe() on struct tracer.
If none is implemented on a specific tracer, the default waiting for
trace_wait queue is attached.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: clean up
The traceon and traceoff function probes are confusing to developers
to what happens when a counter is not specified. This should help
clear things up.
# echo "*:traceoff" > set_ftrace_filter
# cat /debug/tracing/set_ftrace_filter
#### all functions enabled ####
do_fork:traceoff:unlimited
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Impact: clean up
Ingo Molnar did not like the _hook naming convention used by the
select function tracer. Luis Claudio R. Goncalves suggested using
the "_probe" extension. This patch implements the change of
calling the functions and variables "_hook" and replacing them
with "_probe".
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Ingo Molnar pointed out some coding style issues with the recent ftrace
updates. This patch cleans them up.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
This patch adds a pretty print version of traceon and traceoff
output for set_ftrace_filter.
# echo 'sys_open:traceon:4' > set_ftrace_filter
# cat set_ftrace_filter
#### all functions enabled ####
sys_open:traceon:count=4
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
This patch adds the new function selection commands traceon and
traceoff. traceon sets the function to enable the ring buffers
while traceoff disables the ring buffers. You can pass in the
number of times you want the command to be executed when the function
is hit. It will only execute if the state of the buffers are not
already in that state.
Example:
# echo do_fork:traceon:4
Will enable the ring buffers if they are disabled every time it
hits do_fork, up to 4 times.
# echo sys_close:traceoff
This will disable the ring buffers every time (unlimited) when
sys_close is called.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Impact: cleanup
To make it easy for ftrace plugin writers, as this was open coded in
the existing plugins
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: clean up
After reorganizing the functions in trace.c and trace_function.c,
they no longer need to be in global context. This patch makes the
functions and one variable into static.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: less likely to interleave function and stack traces
This patch does replaces the separate stack trace on function with
a record function and stack trace together. This will switch between
the function only recording to a function and stack recording.
Also some whitespace fix ups as well.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: clean up of trace.c
The function tracer functions were put in trace.c because it needed
to share static variables that were in trace.c. Since then, those
variables have become global for various reasons. This patch moves
the function tracer functions into trace_function.c where they belong.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: new feature to stack trace any function
Chris Mason asked about being able to pick and choose a function
and get a stack trace from it. This feature enables his request.
# echo io_schedule > /debug/tracing/set_ftrace_filter
# echo function > /debug/tracing/current_tracer
# echo func_stack_trace > /debug/tracing/trace_options
Produces the following in /debug/tracing/trace:
kjournald-702 [001] 135.673060: io_schedule <-sync_buffer
kjournald-702 [002] 135.673671:
<= sync_buffer
<= __wait_on_bit
<= out_of_line_wait_on_bit
<= __wait_on_buffer
<= sync_dirty_buffer
<= journal_commit_transaction
<= kjournald
Note, be careful about turning this on without filtering the functions.
You may find that you have a 10 second lag between typing and seeing
what you typed. This is why the stack trace for the function tracer
does not use the same stack_trace flag as the other tracers use.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup
This patch factors out common code from multiple tracers into a
tracing_reset_online_cpus() function and converts the tracers to use it.
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: extend the ->init() method with the ability to fail
This bring a way to know if the initialization of a tracer successed.
A tracer must return 0 on success and a traditional error (ie:
-ENOMEM) if it fails.
If a tracer fails to init, it is free to print a detailed warn. The
tracing api will not and switch to a new tracer will just return the
error from the init callback.
Note: this will be used for the return tracer.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: remove obsolete variable in trace_array structure
With the new start / stop method of ftrace, the ctrl variable
in the trace_array structure is now obsolete. Remove it.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: Remove the ctrl_update tracer method
With the new quick start/stop method of tracing, the ctrl_update
method is out of date.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: change where tracing is started up and stopped
Currently, when a new tracer is selected via echo'ing a tracer name into
the current_tracer file, the startup is only done if tracing_enabled is
set to one. If tracing_enabled is changed to zero (by echo'ing 0 into
the tracing_enabled file) a full shutdown is performed.
The full startup and shutdown of a tracer can be expensive and the
user can lose out traces when echo'ing in 0 to the tracing_enabled file,
because the process takes too long. There can also be places that
the user would like to start and stop the tracer several times and
doing the full startup and shutdown of a tracer might be too expensive.
This patch performs the full startup and shutdown when a tracer is
selected. It also adds a way to do a quick start or stop of a tracer.
The quick version is just a flag that prevents the tracing from
taking place, but the overhead of the code is still there.
For example, the startup of a tracer may enable tracepoints, or enable
the function tracer. The stop and start will just set a flag to
have the tracer ignore the calls when the tracepoint or function trace
is called. The overhead of the tracer may still be present when
the tracer is stopped, but no tracing will occur. Setting the tracer
to the 'nop' tracer (or any other tracer) will perform the shutdown
of the tracer which will disable the tracepoint or disable the
function tracer.
The tracing_enabled file will simply start or stop tracing.
This change is all internal. The end result for the user should be the same
as before. If tracing_enabled is not set, no trace will happen.
If tracing_enabled is set, then the trace will happen. The tracing_enabled
variable is static between tracers. Enabling tracing_enabled and
going to another tracer will keep tracing_enabled enabled. Same
is true with disabling tracing_enabled.
This patch will now provide a fast start/stop method to the users
for enabling or disabling tracing.
Note: There were two methods to the struct tracer that were never
used: The methods start and stop. These were to be used as a hook
to the reading of the trace output, but ended up not being
necessary. These two methods are now used to enable the start
and stop of each tracer, in case the tracer needs to do more than
just not write into the buffer. For example, the irqsoff tracer
must stop recording max latencies when tracing is stopped.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To avoid further confusion between the ftrace infrastructure and the
function tracer. This patch renames the "ftrace" function tracer
to "function".
Now in available_tracers, instead of "ftrace" there will be "function".
This makes more sense, since people will not know exactly what the
"ftrace" tracer does.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)