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Randy Dunlap 7e25f44cbf Documentation: Update ftrace-design.txt
Correct grammos.  Spell out words.  Add missing words.
Consistent use of "mcount()" function name.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <4B2C0D78.6060707@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-20 06:18:25 +01:00
Randy Dunlap b41df645c8 Documentation: Update tracepoint-analysis.txt
Fix grammar, spelling, punctuation, hyphenation, section
numbering. Tell what PCL means.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <4B2C0D70.4030707@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-20 06:18:25 +01:00
Randy Dunlap 360b6e5cab Documentation: Update mmiotrace.txt
Fix typos, spellos, hyphenation, line lengths.

BTW:  are there some userspace tools?  There is a reference to
some at the wiki page, but there are no tools listed there.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi>
LKML-Reference: <4B2C0D68.6080401@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-20 06:18:23 +01:00
Ingo Molnar a7b63425a4 Merge branch 'perf/core' into perf/probes
Resolved merge conflict in tools/perf/Makefile

Merge reason: we want to queue up a dependent patch.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-17 10:17:47 +01:00
Masami Hiramatsu 77b44d1b7c tracing/kprobes: Rename Kprobe-tracer to kprobe-event
Rename Kprobes-based event tracer to kprobes-based tracing event
(kprobe-event), since it is not a tracer but an extensible
tracing event interface.

This also changes CONFIG_KPROBE_TRACER to CONFIG_KPROBE_EVENT
and sets it y by default.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20091104001247.3454.14131.stgit@harusame>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-04 13:02:48 +01:00
Ingo Molnar a2e7127153 Merge commit 'v2.6.32-rc6' into perf/core
Conflicts:
	tools/perf/Makefile

Merge reason: Resolve the conflict, merge to upstream and merge in
              perf fixes so we can add a dependent patch.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-04 11:59:45 +01:00
Jiri Olsa 67b394f7f2 tracing: Fix comment typo and documentation example
Trivial patch to fix a documentation example and to fix a
comment.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20091023233646.871719877@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-24 11:07:50 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 4331595650 Merge branch 'perf/core' into perf/probes
Conflicts:
	tools/perf/Makefile

Merge reason:

 - fix the conflict
 - pick up the pr_*() infrastructure to queue up dependent patch

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-23 08:23:20 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker 459c6d15a0 tracing: Document HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS needs
Document the arch needed requirements to get the support for syscalls
tracing.

v2: HAVE_FTRACE_SYSCALLS have been changed to HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS
    recently. Update this config name in the documentation then.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
2009-10-14 09:54:38 +02:00
Masami Hiramatsu 2e06ff6389 tracing/kprobes: Make special variable names more self-explainable
Rename special variables to more self-explainable names as below:
- $rv to $retval
- $sa to $stack
- $aN to $argN
- $sN to $stackN

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <20091007222759.1684.3319.stgit@dhcp-100-2-132.bos.redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2009-10-12 23:30:29 +02:00
Masami Hiramatsu 99329c44f2 tracing/kprobes: Remove '$ra' special variable
Remove '$ra' (return address) because it is already shown at the head of
each entry.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <20091007222748.1684.12711.stgit@dhcp-100-2-132.bos.redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2009-10-12 19:24:05 +02:00
Masami Hiramatsu 405b2651e4 tracing/kprobes: Add $ prefix to special variables
Add $ prefix to the special variables(e.g. sa, rv) of kprobe-tracer.
This resolves consistency issues between kprobe_events and perf-kprobe.

The main goal is to avoid conflicts between local variable names of
probed functions, used by perf probe, and special variables used
in the kprobe event creation interface (stack values, etc...) and
also available from perf probe.

ie: we don't want rv (return value) to conflict with a local variable
named rv in a probed function.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <20091007222740.1684.91170.stgit@dhcp-100-2-132.bos.redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2009-10-12 19:21:35 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker d7a4b414ee Merge commit 'linus/master' into tracing/kprobes
Conflicts:
	kernel/trace/Makefile
	kernel/trace/trace.h
	kernel/trace/trace_event_types.h
	kernel/trace/trace_export.c

Merge reason:
	Sync with latest significant tracing core changes.
2009-09-23 23:08:43 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 342ff1a1b5 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (34 commits)
  trivial: fix typo in aic7xxx comment
  trivial: fix comment typo in drivers/ata/pata_hpt37x.c
  trivial: typo in kernel-parameters.txt
  trivial: fix typo in tracing documentation
  trivial: add __init/__exit macros in drivers/gpio/bt8xxgpio.c
  trivial: add __init macro/ fix of __exit macro location in ipmi_poweroff.c
  trivial: remove unnecessary semicolons
  trivial: Fix duplicated word "options" in comment
  trivial: kbuild: remove extraneous blank line after declaration of usage()
  trivial: improve help text for mm debug config options
  trivial: doc: hpfall: accept disk device to unload as argument
  trivial: doc: hpfall: reduce risk that hpfall can do harm
  trivial: SubmittingPatches: Fix reference to renumbered step
  trivial: fix typos "man[ae]g?ment" -> "management"
  trivial: media/video/cx88: add __init/__exit macros to cx88 drivers
  trivial: fix typo in CONFIG_DEBUG_FS in gcov doc
  trivial: fix missing printk space in amd_k7_smp_check
  trivial: fix typo s/ketymap/keymap/ in comment
  trivial: fix typo "to to" in multiple files
  trivial: fix typos in comments s/DGBU/DBGU/
  ...
2009-09-22 07:51:45 -07:00
Mel Gorman 8fbb398f5c tracing, documentation: Add a document on the kmem tracepoints
Knowing tracepoints exist is not quite the same as knowing what they
should be used for.  This patch adds a document giving a basic description
of the kmem tracepoints and why they might be useful to a performance
analyst.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Larry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Li Ming Chun <macli@brc.ubc.ca>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 07:17:34 -07:00
Mel Gorman bb72222086 tracing, documentation: add a document describing how to do some performance analysis with tracepoints
The documentation for ftrace, events and tracepoints is pretty extensive.
Similarly, the perf PCL tools help files --help are there and the code
simple enough to figure out what much of the switches mean.  However,
pulling the discrete bits and pieces together and translating that into
"how do I solve a problem" requires a fair amount of imagination.

This patch adds a simple document intended to get someone started on the

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Larry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Li Ming Chun <macli@brc.ubc.ca>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 07:17:34 -07:00
Mel Gorman c9d05cfc00 tracing, page-allocator: add a postprocessing script for page-allocator-related ftrace events
This patch adds a simple post-processing script for the
page-allocator-related trace events.  It can be used to give an indication
of who the most allocator-intensive processes are and how often the zone
lock was taken during the tracing period.  Example output looks like

Process                   Pages      Pages      Pages    Pages       PCPU     PCPU     PCPU   Fragment Fragment  MigType Fragment Fragment  Unknown
details                  allocd     allocd      freed    freed      pages   drains  refills   Fallback  Causing  Changed   Severe Moderate
                                under lock     direct  pagevec      drain
swapper-0                     0          0          2        0          0        0        0          0        0        0        0        0        0
Xorg-3770                 10603       5952       3685     6978       5996      194      192          0        0        0        0        0        0
modprobe-21397               51          0          0       86         31        1        0          0        0        0        0        0        0
xchat-5370                  228         93          0        0          0        0        3          0        0        0        0        0        0
awesome-4317                 32         32          0        0          0        0       32          0        0        0        0        0        0
thinkfan-3863                 2          0          1        1          0        0        0          0        0        0        0        0        0
hald-addon-stor-3935          2          0          0        0          0        0        0          0        0        0        0        0        0
akregator-4506                1          1          0        0          0        0        1          0        0        0        0        0        0
xmms-14888                    0          0          1        0          0        0        0          0        0        0        0        0        0
khelper-12                    1          0          0        0          0        0        0          0        0        0        0        0        0

Optionally, the output can include information on the parent or aggregate
based on process name instead of aggregating based on each pid. Example output
including parent information and stripped out the PID looks something like;

Process                        Pages      Pages      Pages    Pages       PCPU     PCPU     PCPU   Fragment Fragment  MigType Fragment Fragment  Unknown
details                       allocd     allocd      freed    freed      pages   drains  refills   Fallback  Causing  Changed   Severe Moderate
                                     under lock     direct  pagevec      drain
gdm-3756 :: Xorg-3770           3796       2976         99     3813       3224      104       98          0        0        0        0        0        0
init-1 :: hald-3892                1          0          0        0          0        0        0          0        0        0        0        0        0
git-21447 :: editor-21448          4          0          4        0          0        0        0          0        0        0        0        0        0

This says that Xorg allocated 3796 pages and it's parent process is gdm
with a PID of 3756;

The postprocessor parses the text output of tracing.  While there is a
binary format, the expectation is that the binary output can be readily
translated into text and post-processed offline.  Obviously if the text
format changes, the parser will break but the regular expression parser is
fairly rudimentary so should be readily adjustable.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Larry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Li Ming Chun <macli@brc.ubc.ca>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 07:17:34 -07:00
Michal Sojka 6afb1c65d0 trivial: fix typo in tracing documentation
Signed-off-by: Michal Sojka <sojkam1@fel.cvut.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2009-09-21 15:15:52 +02:00
Uwe Kleine-Koenig 3dbda77e6f trivial: fix typos "man[ae]g?ment" -> "management"
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-Koenig <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2009-09-21 15:14:56 +02:00
Arjan van de Ven 6161352142 tracing, perf: Convert the power tracer into an event tracer
This patch converts the existing power tracer into an event tracer,
so that power events (C states and frequency changes) can be
tracked via "perf".

This also removes the perl script that was used to demo the tracer;
its functionality is being replaced entirely with timechart.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090912130542.6d314860@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-19 11:42:12 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 45bd00d31d Merge branch 'linus' into tracing/core
Merge reason: Pick up kernel/softirq.c update for dependent fix.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-17 20:53:10 +02:00
Masami Hiramatsu 5a0d9050db tracing/kprobes: Disable kprobe events by default after creation
Disable newly created kprobe events by default, not to disturb
another user using ftrace. "Disturb" means when someone is using
ftrace and another user tries to use perf-tools, (in near
future) if he defines new kprobe event via perf-tools, then new
events will mess up the frace buffer. Fix this to allow proper
and transparent kprobes events concurrent usage between ftrace
users and perf users.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090914204937.18779.59422.stgit@dhcp-100-2-132.bos.redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2009-09-17 04:04:01 +02:00
Masami Hiramatsu f52487e9c0 tracing/kprobes: Support custom subsystem for each kprobe event
Support specifying a custom subsystem(group) for each kprobe event.
This allows users to create new group to control several probes
at once, or add events to existing groups as additional tracepoints.

New synopsis:
 p[:[subsys/]event-name] KADDR|KSYM[+offs] [ARGS]

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090910235353.22412.15149.stgit@dhcp-100-2-132.bos.redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2009-09-17 04:03:24 +02:00
GeunSik Lim 52ad51e7a9 debugfs: Fix mount directory of debugfs by default in events.txt
We need common default directory of denbugfs for consistency.
(debugfs's default directory is /sys/kernel/debug/ by debugfs.)

Signed-off-by: GeunSik Lim <geunsik.lim@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-09-15 09:50:48 -07:00
Mike Frysinger 555f386c98 ftrace: document function and function graph implementation
While implementing function tracer and function tracer graph support,
I found the exact arch implementation details to be a bit lacking
(and my x86 foo ain't great).  So after pounding out support for
the Blackfin arch, start documenting the requirements/details.

Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
LKML-Reference: <1252973415-21264-1-git-send-email-vapier@gentoo.org>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-09-14 21:43:15 -04:00
Tom Zanussi 95b696088c tracing/filters: add filter Documentation
Documentation for event filters and formats.

v2 changes: fix a few problems noticed by Randy Dunlap.

Reviewed-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1252642431.8016.9.camel@tropicana>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-09-12 22:33:12 -04:00
Masami Hiramatsu 6e9f23d161 tracing/kprobes: Show event name in trace output
Show event name in tracing/trace output. This also fixes kprobes events
format to comply with other tracepoint events formats.

Before patching:
<...>-1447  [001] 1038282.286875: do_sys_open+0x0/0xd6: ...
<...>-1447  [001] 1038282.286878: sys_openat+0xc/0xe <- do_sys_open: ...

After patching:
<...>-1447  [001] 1038282.286875: myprobe: (do_sys_open+0x0/0xd6) ...
<...>-1447  [001] 1038282.286878: myretprobe: (sys_openat+0xc/0xe <- do_sys_open) ...

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090910235345.22412.76527.stgit@dhcp-100-2-132.bos.redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2009-09-11 06:09:47 +02:00
Masami Hiramatsu eca0d916f6 tracing/kprobes: Add argument name support
Add argument name assignment support and remove "alias" lines from format.
This allows user to assign unique name to each argument. For example,

$ echo p do_sys_open dfd=a0 filename=a1 flags=a2 mode=a3 > kprobe_events

This assigns dfd, filename, flags, and mode to 1st - 4th arguments
respectively. Trace buffer shows those names too.

	<...>-1439  [000] 1200885.933147: do_sys_open+0x0/0xdf: dfd=ffffff9c filename=bfa898ac flags=8000 mode=0

This helps users to know what each value means.

Users can filter each events by these names too. Note that you can not
filter by argN anymore.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090910235337.22412.77383.stgit@dhcp-100-2-132.bos.redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2009-09-11 06:08:00 +02:00
Masami Hiramatsu e08d1c657f tracing/kprobes: Add event profiling support
Add *probe_profile_enable/disable to support kprobes raw events
sampling from perf counters, like other ftrace events, when
CONFIG_PROFILE_EVENT=y.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090910235329.22412.94731.stgit@dhcp-100-2-132.bos.redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2009-09-11 05:33:03 +02:00
Masami Hiramatsu 2fba0c8867 tracing/kprobes: Fix probe offset to be unsigned
Prohibit user to specify negative offset from symbols.
Since kprobe.offset is unsigned int, the offset must be always positive
value.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090910235314.22412.64631.stgit@dhcp-100-2-132.bos.redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2009-09-11 04:18:58 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker 8f8ffe2485 Merge commit 'tracing/core' into tracing/kprobes
Conflicts:
	kernel/trace/trace_export.c
	kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c

Merge reason: This topic branch lacks an important
build fix in tracing/core:

	0dd7b74787eaf7858c6c573353a83c3e2766e674:
	tracing: Fix double CPP substitution in TRACE_EVENT_FN

that prevents from multiple tracepoint headers inclusion crashes.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2009-09-11 01:09:23 +02:00
Albin Tonnerre 4a88d44ab1 tracing: Remove mentioning of legacy latency_trace file from documentation
The latency_trace file got removed a while back by commit
886b5b73d7 and has been replaced
by the latency-format option.

This patch fixes the documentation by reflecting this change.

Changes since v1:
 - mention that the trace format is configurable through the
   latency-format option
 - Fix a couple mistakes related to the timestamps

Signed-off-by: Albin Tonnerre <albin.tonnerre@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <20090831204007.GE4237@pc-ras4041.res.insa>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2009-09-04 23:30:38 +02:00
Masami Hiramatsu cd7e7bd5e4 tracing: Add kprobes event profiling interface
Add profiling interfaces for each kprobes event. This interface provides
how many times each probe hit or missed.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Cc: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Przemysław Pawełczyk <przemyslaw@pawelczyk.it>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090813203541.31965.8452.stgit@localhost.localdomain>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2009-08-27 02:32:39 +02:00
Masami Hiramatsu 4263565d49 tracing: Generate names for each kprobe event automatically
Generate names for each kprobe event based on the probe point.
(SYMBOL+offs or MEMADDR).

Also remove generic k*probe event types because there is no user
of those types.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Cc: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Przemysław Pawełczyk <przemyslaw@pawelczyk.it>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090813203526.31965.56672.stgit@localhost.localdomain>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2009-08-27 02:32:28 +02:00
Masami Hiramatsu a82378d880 tracing: Kprobe-tracer supports more than 6 arguments
Support up to 128 arguments to fetch for each kprobes event.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Cc: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Przemysław Pawełczyk <przemyslaw@pawelczyk.it>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090813203518.31965.96979.stgit@localhost.localdomain>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2009-08-27 02:32:23 +02:00
Masami Hiramatsu d8ec91850e tracing: Add kprobe-based event tracer documentation
Add the documentation to use the kprobe based event tracer.

[fweisbec@gmail.com: Split tracer and its Documentation in two patchs]

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Cc: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Przemysław Pawełczyk <przemyslaw@pawelczyk.it>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090813203510.31965.29123.stgit@localhost.localdomain>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2009-08-27 02:32:16 +02:00
Josh Triplett 6591b49387 tracing: Add vim script to enable folding for function_graph traces
function_graph traces look like nested function calls, complete with
braces denoting the start and end of functions.  function-graph-fold.vim
teaches vim how to fold these functions, to make it more convenient to
browse them.

To use, :source function-graph-fold.vim while viewing a function_graph
trace, or use "view -S function-graph-fold.vim some-trace" to load it
from the command-line together with a trace.  You can then use the usual
vim fold commands, such as "za", to open and close nested functions.
While closed, a fold will show the total time taken for a call, as would
normally appear on the line with the closing brace.  Folded functions
will not include finish_task_switch(), so folding should remain
relatively sane even through a context switch.

Note that this will almost certainly only work well with a single-CPU
trace (e.g. trace-cmd report --cpu 1).  It also takes some time to run
(a few seconds for a large trace on my laptop).  Nevertheless, I found
it very handy to get an overview of a trace and then drill down on
problematic calls.

Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
LKML-Reference: <20090806145701.GB7661@feather>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-08-26 00:32:04 -04:00
Steven Rostedt 8b2c70d1e4 ring-buffer: add design document
This adds the design document for the ring buffer and also
explains how it is designed to have lockless writes.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-07-07 18:36:13 -04:00
Li Zefan 020e5f85cb tracing/events: Add trace_event boot option
We already have ftrace= boot option, and this adds a similar
boot option for trace events, so allow trace events to be
enabled at boot, for boot debugging purpose.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A4ACE29.3010407@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-07-01 15:44:24 +02:00
GeunSik Lim 156f5a7801 debugfs: Fix terminology inconsistency of dir name to mount debugfs filesystem.
Many developers use "/debug/" or "/debugfs/" or "/sys/kernel/debug/"
directory name to mount debugfs filesystem for ftrace according to
./Documentation/tracers/ftrace.txt file.

And, three directory names(ex:/debug/, /debugfs/, /sys/kernel/debug/) is
existed in kernel source like ftrace, DRM, Wireless, Documentation,
Network[sky2]files to mount debugfs filesystem.

debugfs means debug filesystem for debugging easy to use by greg kroah
hartman. "/sys/kernel/debug/" name is suitable as directory name
of debugfs filesystem.
- debugfs related reference: http://lwn.net/Articles/334546/

Fix inconsistency of directory name to mount debugfs filesystem.

* From Steven Rostedt
  - find_debugfs() and tracing_files() in this patch.

Signed-off-by: GeunSik Lim <geunsik.lim@samsung.com>
Acked-by     : Inaky Perez-Gonzalez <inaky@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by  : Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Reviewed-by  : James Smart <james.smart@emulex.com>
CC: Jiri Kosina <trivial@kernel.org>
CC: David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
CC: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>
CC: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
CC: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
CC: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-06-15 21:30:28 -07:00
Matt Kraai ff2f5ff0cf trivial: Remove the hyphen from git commands
Signed-off-by: Matt Kraai <kraai@ftbfs.org>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2009-06-12 18:01:51 +02:00
GeunSik Lim baf20b3e51 trivial: ftrace:fix description of trace directory
Fix trace source directory from kernel/tracing/ to kernel/trace/.

Signed-off-by: GeunSik Lim <geunsik.lim@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2009-06-12 18:01:49 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 8623661180 Merge branch 'tracing-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'tracing-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (244 commits)
  Revert "x86, bts: reenable ptrace branch trace support"
  tracing: do not translate event helper macros in print format
  ftrace/documentation: fix typo in function grapher name
  tracing/events: convert block trace points to TRACE_EVENT(), fix !CONFIG_BLOCK
  tracing: add protection around module events unload
  tracing: add trace_seq_vprint interface
  tracing: fix the block trace points print size
  tracing/events: convert block trace points to TRACE_EVENT()
  ring-buffer: fix ret in rb_add_time_stamp
  ring-buffer: pass in lockdep class key for reader_lock
  tracing: add annotation to what type of stack trace is recorded
  tracing: fix multiple use of __print_flags and __print_symbolic
  tracing/events: fix output format of user stack
  tracing/events: fix output format of kernel stack
  tracing/trace_stack: fix the number of entries in the header
  ring-buffer: discard timestamps that are at the start of the buffer
  ring-buffer: try to discard unneeded timestamps
  ring-buffer: fix bug in ring_buffer_discard_commit
  ftrace: do not profile functions when disabled
  tracing: make trace pipe recognize latency format flag
  ...
2009-06-10 19:53:40 -07:00
Mike Frysinger bc5c6c043d ftrace/documentation: fix typo in function grapher name
The function graph tracer is called just "function_graph" (no trailing
"_tracer" needed).

Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
LKML-Reference: <1244623722-6325-1-git-send-email-vapier@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-06-10 13:06:25 -04:00
GeunSik Lim 294ae40115 ftrace: fix typo about map of kernel priority in ftrace.txt file.
Fix typo about chart to map the kernel priority to user land priorities.

   * About sched_setscheduler(2)
      Processes scheduled under SCHED_FIFO or SCHED_RR
      can have a (user-space) static priority in the range 1 to 99.
      (reference: http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online/pages/
                  man2/sched_setscheduler.2.html)

   * From: Steven Rostedt
      0 to 98 - maps to RT tasks 99 to 1 (SCHED_RR or SCHED_FIFO)

      99 - maps to internal kernel threads that want to be lower than RT tasks
      but higher than SCHED_OTHER tasks. Although I'm not sure if any
      kernel thread actually uses this. I'm not even sure how this can be
      set, because the internal sched_setscheduler function does not allow
      for it.

      100 to 139 - maps nice levels -20 to 19. These are not set via
      sched_setscheduler, but are set via the nice system call.

      140 - reserved for idle tasks.

Signed-off-by: GeunSik Lim <geunsik.lim@samsung.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-29 16:21:08 +02:00
Li Zefan 143c145e3a tracing/events: Documentation updates
- fix some typos
- document the difference between '>' and '>>'
- document the 'enable' toggle
- remove section "Defining an event-enabled tracepoint", since it's
  out-dated and sample/trace_events/ already serves this purpose.

v2: add "Updated by Li Zefan"

[ Impact: make documentation up-to-date ]

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
LKML-Reference: <4A125503.5060406@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-19 10:29:21 +02:00
Theodore Ts'o abd41443ac tracing: Document the event tracing system
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <1239479479-2603-3-git-send-email-tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-12 14:57:12 +02:00
Theodore Ts'o 56c4995174 tracing: Add documentation for the power tracer
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1239479479-2603-4-git-send-email-tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-12 14:51:42 +02:00
Li Zefan 66bb74888e tracing: consolidate documents
Move kmemtrace.txt, tracepoints.txt, ftrace.txt and mmiotrace.txt to
the new trace/ directory.

I didnt find any references to those documents in both source
files and documents, so no extra work needs to be done.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
LKML-Reference: <49DD6E2B.6090200@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-09 07:28:10 +02:00