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Kalesh Singh 0ca6d12c97 tracing/histogram: Update division by 0 documentation
If the divisor is a constant and zero, the undeifned case can be
detected and an error returned instead of -1.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211029183339.3216491-3-kaleshsingh@google.com

Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Kalesh Singh <kaleshsingh@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2021-11-01 20:46:29 -04:00
Kalesh Singh 93d76e4a0e tracing/histogram: Fix documentation inline emphasis warning
This fixes the warning:

Documentation/trace/histogram.rst:1766: WARNING: Inline emphasis
start-string without end-string

The issue was caused by an unescaped '*' character.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20211028170548.2597449-1-kaleshsingh@google.com/T/#m77da47432f5cc6521d4294ffdb9621949cc35d04
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211028170548.2597449-1-kaleshsingh@google.com

Fixes: 2d2f6d4b8c ("tracing/histogram: Document expression arithmetic and constants")
Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Kalesh Singh <kaleshsingh@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2021-10-28 21:21:45 -04:00
Kalesh Singh 2d2f6d4b8c tracing/histogram: Document expression arithmetic and constants
Histogram expressions now support division, and multiplication in
addition to the already supported subtraction and addition operators.

Numeric constants can also be used in a hist trigger expressions
or assigned to a variable and used by refernce in an expression.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211025200852.3002369-9-kaleshsingh@google.com

Signed-off-by: Kalesh Singh <kaleshsingh@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2021-10-26 20:27:20 -04:00
Steven Rostedt (VMware) 4420f5b1be tracing/doc: Fix table format in histogram code
The addition of the buckets conversion for the histogram code, updated the
documentation table of available conversions, but did not update the format
to accommodate the extra size needed to cover the description.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210823100007.71ce2ba9@oasis.local.home

Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Tested-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2021-08-24 09:48:34 -04:00
Steven Rostedt (VMware) 3703643519 tracing/histogram: Update the documentation for the buckets modifier
Update both the tracefs README file as well as the histogram.rst to
include an explanation of what the buckets modifier is and how to use it.
Include an example with the wakeup_latency example for both log2 and the
buckets modifiers as there was no existing log2 example.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210707213922.167218794@goodmis.org

Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2021-08-16 11:37:20 -04:00
Steven Rostedt (VMware) 1e3bac71c5 tracing/histogram: Rename "cpu" to "common_cpu"
Currently the histogram logic allows the user to write "cpu" in as an
event field, and it will record the CPU that the event happened on.

The problem with this is that there's a lot of events that have "cpu"
as a real field, and using "cpu" as the CPU it ran on, makes it
impossible to run histograms on the "cpu" field of events.

For example, if I want to have a histogram on the count of the
workqueue_queue_work event on its cpu field, running:

 ># echo 'hist:keys=cpu' > events/workqueue/workqueue_queue_work/trigger

Gives a misleading and wrong result.

Change the command to "common_cpu" as no event should have "common_*"
fields as that's a reserved name for fields used by all events. And
this makes sense here as common_cpu would be a field used by all events.

Now we can even do:

 ># echo 'hist:keys=common_cpu,cpu if cpu < 100' > events/workqueue/workqueue_queue_work/trigger
 ># cat events/workqueue/workqueue_queue_work/hist
 # event histogram
 #
 # trigger info: hist:keys=common_cpu,cpu:vals=hitcount:sort=hitcount:size=2048 if cpu < 100 [active]
 #

 { common_cpu:          0, cpu:          2 } hitcount:          1
 { common_cpu:          0, cpu:          4 } hitcount:          1
 { common_cpu:          7, cpu:          7 } hitcount:          1
 { common_cpu:          0, cpu:          7 } hitcount:          1
 { common_cpu:          0, cpu:          1 } hitcount:          1
 { common_cpu:          0, cpu:          6 } hitcount:          2
 { common_cpu:          0, cpu:          5 } hitcount:          2
 { common_cpu:          1, cpu:          1 } hitcount:          4
 { common_cpu:          6, cpu:          6 } hitcount:          4
 { common_cpu:          5, cpu:          5 } hitcount:         14
 { common_cpu:          4, cpu:          4 } hitcount:         26
 { common_cpu:          0, cpu:          0 } hitcount:         39
 { common_cpu:          2, cpu:          2 } hitcount:        184

Now for backward compatibility, I added a trick. If "cpu" is used, and
the field is not found, it will fall back to "common_cpu" and work as
it did before. This way, it will still work for old programs that use
"cpu" to get the actual CPU, but if the event has a "cpu" as a field, it
will get that event's "cpu" field, which is probably what it wants
anyway.

I updated the tracefs/README to include documentation about both the
common_timestamp and the common_cpu. This way, if that text is present in
the README, then an application can know that common_cpu is supported over
just plain "cpu".

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210721110053.26b4f641@oasis.local.home

Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 8b7622bf94 ("tracing: Add cpu field for hist triggers")
Reviewed-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2021-07-23 08:44:47 -04:00
Linus Torvalds fefa636d81 Updates for tracing and bootconfig:
- Add support for "bool" type in synthetic events
 
 - Add per instance tracing for bootconfig
 
 - Support perf-style return probe ("SYMBOL%return") in kprobes and uprobes
 
 - Allow for kprobes to be enabled earlier in boot up
 
 - Added tracepoint helper function to allow testing if tracepoints are
   enabled in headers
 
 - Synthetic events can now have dynamic strings (variable length)
 
 - Various fixes and cleanups
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Merge tag 'trace-v5.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace

Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
 "Updates for tracing and bootconfig:

   - Add support for "bool" type in synthetic events

   - Add per instance tracing for bootconfig

   - Support perf-style return probe ("SYMBOL%return") in kprobes and
     uprobes

   - Allow for kprobes to be enabled earlier in boot up

   - Added tracepoint helper function to allow testing if tracepoints
     are enabled in headers

   - Synthetic events can now have dynamic strings (variable length)

   - Various fixes and cleanups"

* tag 'trace-v5.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (58 commits)
  tracing: support "bool" type in synthetic trace events
  selftests/ftrace: Add test case for synthetic event syntax errors
  tracing: Handle synthetic event array field type checking correctly
  selftests/ftrace: Change synthetic event name for inter-event-combined test
  tracing: Add synthetic event error logging
  tracing: Check that the synthetic event and field names are legal
  tracing: Move is_good_name() from trace_probe.h to trace.h
  tracing: Don't show dynamic string internals in synthetic event description
  tracing: Fix some typos in comments
  tracing/boot: Add ftrace.instance.*.alloc_snapshot option
  tracing: Fix race in trace_open and buffer resize call
  tracing: Check return value of __create_val_fields() before using its result
  tracing: Fix synthetic print fmt check for use of __get_str()
  tracing: Remove a pointless assignment
  ftrace: ftrace_global_list is renamed to ftrace_ops_list
  ftrace: Format variable declarations of ftrace_allocate_records
  ftrace: Simplify the calculation of page number for ftrace_page->records
  ftrace: Simplify the dyn_ftrace->flags macro
  ftrace: Simplify the hash calculation
  ftrace: Use fls() to get the bits for dup_hash()
  ...
2020-10-15 15:51:28 -07:00
Tom Zanussi bd82631d7c tracing: Add support for dynamic strings to synthetic events
Currently, sythetic events only support static string fields such as:

  # echo 'test_latency u64 lat; char somename[32]' > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/synthetic_events

Which is fine, but wastes a lot of space in the event.

It also prevents the most commonly-defined strings in the existing
trace events e.g. those defined using __string(), from being passed to
synthetic events via the trace() action.

With this change, synthetic events with dynamic fields can be defined:

  # echo 'test_latency u64 lat; char somename[]' > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/synthetic_events

And the trace() action can be used to generate events using either
dynamic or static strings:

  # echo 'hist:keys=name:lat=common_timestamp.usecs-$ts0:onmatch(sys.event).test_latency($lat,name)' > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events

The synthetic event dynamic strings are implemented in the same way as
the existing __data_loc strings and appear as such in the format file.

[ <rostedt@goodmis.org>: added __set_synth_event_print_fmt() changes:

  I added the following to make it work with trace-cmd. Dynamic strings
  must have __get_str() for events in the print_fmt otherwise it can't be
  parsed correctly. ]

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/cover.1601588066.git.zanussi@kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/3ed35b6d0e390f5b94cb4a9ba1cc18f5982ab277.1601848695.git.zanussi@kernel.org

Tested-by: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2020-10-05 19:32:18 -04:00
Christian Brauner eea11285da
tracing: switch to kernel_clone()
The old _do_fork() helper is removed in favor of the new kernel_clone() helper.
The latter adheres to naming conventions for kernel internal syscall helpers.

Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexandre Chartre <alexandre.chartre@oracle.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Xiao Yang <yangx.jy@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200819104655.436656-11-christian.brauner@ubuntu.com
2020-08-20 13:12:59 +02:00
Masanari Iida fe4ec72cca docs: tracing: Fix typos in histogram.rst
This patch fixes some spelling typos in histogram.rst

Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-05-29 15:49:01 -06:00
Linus Torvalds d2d8b14604 The major changes in this tracing update includes:
- Removing of non-DYNAMIC_FTRACE from 32bit x86
 
  - Removing of mcount support from x86
 
  - Emulating a call from int3 on x86_64, fixes live kernel patching
 
  - Consolidated Tracing Error logs file
 
 Minor updates:
 
  - Removal of klp_check_compiler_support()
 
  - kdb ftrace dumping output changes
 
  - Accessing and creating ftrace instances from inside the kernel
 
  - Clean up of #define if macro
 
  - Introduction of TRACE_EVENT_NOP() to disable trace events based on config
    options
 
 And other minor fixes and clean ups
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Merge tag 'trace-v5.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace

Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
 "The major changes in this tracing update includes:

   - Removal of non-DYNAMIC_FTRACE from 32bit x86

   - Removal of mcount support from x86

   - Emulating a call from int3 on x86_64, fixes live kernel patching

   - Consolidated Tracing Error logs file

  Minor updates:

   - Removal of klp_check_compiler_support()

   - kdb ftrace dumping output changes

   - Accessing and creating ftrace instances from inside the kernel

   - Clean up of #define if macro

   - Introduction of TRACE_EVENT_NOP() to disable trace events based on
     config options

  And other minor fixes and clean ups"

* tag 'trace-v5.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (44 commits)
  x86: Hide the int3_emulate_call/jmp functions from UML
  livepatch: Remove klp_check_compiler_support()
  ftrace/x86: Remove mcount support
  ftrace/x86_32: Remove support for non DYNAMIC_FTRACE
  tracing: Simplify "if" macro code
  tracing: Fix documentation about disabling options using trace_options
  tracing: Replace kzalloc with kcalloc
  tracing: Fix partial reading of trace event's id file
  tracing: Allow RCU to run between postponed startup tests
  tracing: Fix white space issues in parse_pred() function
  tracing: Eliminate const char[] auto variables
  ring-buffer: Fix mispelling of Calculate
  tracing: probeevent: Fix to make the type of $comm string
  tracing: probeevent: Do not accumulate on ret variable
  tracing: uprobes: Re-enable $comm support for uprobe events
  ftrace/x86_64: Emulate call function while updating in breakpoint handler
  x86_64: Allow breakpoints to emulate call instructions
  x86_64: Add gap to int3 to allow for call emulation
  tracing: kdb: Allow ftdump to skip all but the last few entries
  tracing: Add trace_total_entries() / trace_total_entries_cpu()
  ...
2019-05-15 16:05:47 -07:00
Tzvetomir Stoyanov 39a39d5b6b Documentation/trace: Add clarification how histogram onmatch works
The current trace documentation, the section describing histogram's "onmatch"
is not straightforward enough about how this action is applied. It is not
clear what criteria are used to "match" both events. A short note is added,
describing what exactly is compared in order to match the events.

Signed-off-by: Tzvetomir Stoyanov <tstoyanov@vmware.com>
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Reviewed-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
[jc: fixed trivial conflict with docs-next]
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-05-08 14:32:05 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 3df5ffd2e5 docs: trace: fix some Sphinx warnings
There are some warnings produced when building trace. Fix them.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-04-16 09:08:32 -06:00
Tom Zanussi 26a9449179 tracing: Add tracing/error_log Documentation
Move most of the hist trigger extended error documentation to
ftrace.rst and expand on it to fully document tracing/error_log.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/c5d53c8f643ef6844d6ad8d0200c116936730b01.1554072478.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com

Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2019-04-08 09:22:50 -04:00
Tom Zanussi e91eefd731 tracing: Add alternative synthetic event trace action syntax
Add a 'trace(synthetic_event_name, params)' alternative to
synthetic_event_name(params).

Currently, the syntax used for generating synthetic events is to
invoke synthetic_event_name(params) i.e. use the synthetic event name
as a function call.

Users requested a new form that more explicitly shows that the
synthetic event is in effect being traced.  In this version, a new
'trace()' keyword is used, and the synthetic event name is passed in
as the first argument.

In addition, for the sake of consistency with other actions, change
the documention to emphasize the trace() form over the function-call
form, which remains documented as equivalent.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/d082773e50232a001480cf837679a1e01c1a2eb7.1550100284.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2019-02-20 13:51:07 -05:00
Tom Zanussi ff0d35e2e1 tracing: Add hist trigger onchange() handler Documentation
Add Documentation for the hist:onchange($var) handler.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/ab54b7383b265609fda52648a8fbfbd2631a640f.1550100284.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2019-02-20 13:51:07 -05:00
Tom Zanussi fd451a3d92 tracing: Add hist trigger snapshot() action Documentation
Add Documentation for the hist:handlerXXX($var).snapshot() action.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/445861d7822cd4b6aeaea1cecfcdbda466502148.1550100284.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2019-02-20 13:51:07 -05:00
Tom Zanussi 5032b38189 tracing: Make hist trigger Documentation better reflect actions/handlers
The action/handler code refactoring didn't change the action/handler
syntax, but did generalize it - the Documentation should reflect that.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/c2fe4144678829c70cad67aaa847dca27d57cb83.1550100284.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2019-02-20 13:51:06 -05:00
Masanari Iida aea74de4b2 docs: Fix typos in histogram.rst
This patch fixes some spelling typos.

Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-10-18 12:33:08 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab ea272257cc docs: histogram.txt: convert it to ReST file format
Despite being mentioned at Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst as a
rst file, this file was still a text one, with several issues.

Convert it to ReST and add it to the trace index:
- Mark the document title as such;
- Identify and indent the literal blocks;
- Use the proper markups for table.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-07-02 11:26:02 -06:00