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Steven Rostedt e77405ad80 tracing: pass around ring buffer instead of tracer
The latency tracers (irqsoff and wakeup) can swap trace buffers
on the fly. If an event is happening and has reserved data on one of
the buffers, and the latency tracer swaps the global buffer with the
max buffer, the result is that the event may commit the data to the
wrong buffer.

This patch changes the API to the trace recording to be recieve the
buffer that was used to reserve a commit. Then this buffer can be passed
in to the commit.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-09-04 18:59:39 -04:00
Jason Baron 57421dbbdc tracing: Convert event tracing code to use NR_syscalls
Convert the syscalls event tracing code to use NR_syscalls, instead of
FTRACE_SYSCALL_MAX. NR_syscalls is standard accross most arches, and
reduces code confusion/complexity.

Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: Jiaying Zhang <jiayingz@google.com>
Cc: Martin Bligh <mbligh@google.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Josh Stone <jistone@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: H. Peter Anwin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <9b4f1a84ecae57cc6599412772efa36f0d2b815b.1251146513.git.jbaron@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2009-08-26 21:30:02 +02:00
Hendrik Brueckner cd0980fc8a tracing: Check invalid syscall nr while tracing syscalls
Most arch syscall_get_nr() implementations returns -1 if the syscall
number is not valid.  Accessing the bit field without a check might
result in a kernel oops (at least I saw it on s390 for ftrace selftest).

Before this change, this problem did not occur, because the invalid
syscall number (-1) caused syscall_nr_to_meta() to return NULL.

There are at least two scenarios where syscall_get_nr() can return -1:

1. For example, ptrace stores an invalid syscall number, and thus,
   tracing code resets it.
   (see do_syscall_trace_enter in arch/s390/kernel/ptrace.c)

2. The syscall_regfunc() (kernel/tracepoint.c) sets the
   TIF_SYSCALL_FTRACE (now: TIF_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINT) flag for all threads
   which include kernel threads.
   However, the ftrace selftest triggers a kernel oops when testing
   syscall trace points:
      - The kernel thread is started as ususal (do_fork()),
      - tracing code sets TIF_SYSCALL_FTRACE,
      - the ret_from_fork() function is triggered and starts
	ftrace_syscall_exit() with an invalid syscall number.

To avoid these scenarios, I suggest to check the syscall_nr.

For instance, the ftrace selftest fails for s390 (with config option
CONFIG_FTRACE_SYSCALLS set) and produces the following kernel oops.

Unable to handle kernel pointer dereference at virtual kernel address 2000000000

Oops: 0038 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 Not tainted 2.6.31-rc6-next-20090819-dirty #18
Process kthreadd (pid: 818, task: 000000003ea207e8, ksp: 000000003e813eb8)
Krnl PSW : 0704100180000000 00000000000ea54c (ftrace_syscall_exit+0x58/0xdc)
           R:0 T:1 IO:1 EX:1 Key:0 M:1 W:0 P:0 AS:0 CC:1 PM:0 EA:3
Krnl GPRS: 0000000000000000 00000000000e0000 ffffffffffffffff 20000000008c2650
           0000000000000007 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
           0000000000000000 0000000000000000 ffffffffffffffff 000000003e813d78
           000000003e813f58 0000000000505ba8 000000003e813e18 000000003e813d78
Krnl Code: 00000000000ea540: e330d0000008       ag      %r3,0(%r13)
           00000000000ea546: a7480007           lhi     %r4,7
           00000000000ea54a: 1442               nr      %r4,%r2
          >00000000000ea54c: e31030000090       llgc    %r1,0(%r3)
           00000000000ea552: 5410d008           n       %r1,8(%r13)
           00000000000ea556: 8a104000           sra     %r1,0(%r4)
           00000000000ea55a: 5410d00c           n       %r1,12(%r13)
           00000000000ea55e: 1211               ltr     %r1,%r1
Call Trace:
([<0000000000000000>] 0x0)
 [<000000000001fa22>] do_syscall_trace_exit+0x132/0x18c
 [<000000000002d0c4>] sysc_return+0x0/0x8
 [<000000000001c738>] kernel_thread_starter+0x0/0xc
Last Breaking-Event-Address:
 [<00000000000ea51e>] ftrace_syscall_exit+0x2a/0xdc

Signed-off-by: Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: Jiaying Zhang <jiayingz@google.com>
Cc: Martin Bligh <mbligh@google.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
LKML-Reference: <20090825125027.GE4639@cetus.boeblingen.de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2009-08-26 21:29:48 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 35dce1a99d Merge branch 'tracing/core' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/random-tracing into tracing/core
Conflicts:
	include/linux/tracepoint.h

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-26 08:29:02 +02:00
Li Zefan 43b51ead3f tracing/filters: Add __field_ext() to TRACE_EVENT
Add __field_ext(), so a field can be assigned to a specific
filter_type, which matches a corresponding filter function.

For example, a later patch will allow this:
	__field_ext(const char *, str, FILTER_PTR_STR);

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A7B9272.6050709@cn.fujitsu.com>

[
  Fixed a -1 to FILTER_OTHER
  Forward ported to latest kernel.
]

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-08-26 00:32:06 -04:00
Josh Stone 1c569f0264 tracing: Create generic syscall TRACE_EVENTs
This converts the syscall_enter/exit tracepoints into TRACE_EVENTs, so
you can have generic ftrace events that capture all system calls with
arguments and return values.  These generic events are also renamed to
sys_enter/exit, so they're more closely aligned to the specific
sys_enter_foo events.

Signed-off-by: Josh Stone <jistone@redhat.com>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: Jiaying Zhang <jiayingz@google.com>
Cc: Martin Bligh <mbligh@google.com>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <1251150194-1713-5-git-send-email-jistone@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2009-08-26 00:41:48 +02:00
Li Zefan 4539f07701 tracing/syscalls: Fix the output of syscalls with no arguments
Before:

  # echo 1 > events/syscalls/sys_enter_sync/enable
  # cat events/syscalls/sys_enter_sync/format
  ...
        field:int nr;   offset:12;      size:4;

  print fmt: "# sync
  # cat trace
  ...
            sync-8950  [000]  2366.087670: sys_sync(

After:

  # echo 1 > events/syscalls/sys_enter_sync/enable
  # cat events/syscalls/sys_enter_sync/format
  ...
        field:int nr;   offset:12;      size:4;

  print fmt: ""
  # sync
  # cat trace
            sync-2134  [001]   136.780735: sys_sync()

Reported-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A8D05AF.20103@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-20 12:12:22 +02:00
Li Zefan 540b7b8d65 tracing/syscalls: Add filtering support
Add filtering support for syscall events:

 # echo 'mode == 0666' > events/syscalls/sys_enter_open
 # echo 'ret == 0' > events/syscalls/sys_exit_open
 # echo 1 > events/syscalls/sys_enter_open
 # echo 1 > events/syscalls/sys_exit_open
 # cat trace
 ...
   modprobe-3084 [001] 117.463140: sys_open(filename: 917d3e8, flags: 0, mode: 1b6)
   modprobe-3084 [001] 117.463176: sys_open -> 0x0
       less-3086 [001] 117.510455: sys_open(filename: 9c6bdb8, flags: 8000, mode: 1b6)
   sendmail-2574 [001] 122.145840: sys_open(filename: b807a365, flags: 0, mode: 1b6)
 ...

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A8BAFCB.1040006@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-19 15:02:24 +02:00
Li Zefan 10a5b66f62 tracing/syscalls: Add fields format for exit events
Add "format" file for syscall exit events:

 # cat events/syscalls/sys_exit_open/format
 name: sys_exit_open
 ID: 344
 format:
         field:unsigned short common_type;       offset:0;       size:2;
         field:unsigned char common_flags;       offset:2;       size:1;
         field:unsigned char common_preempt_count;       offset:3;       size:1;
         field:int common_pid;   offset:4;       size:4;
         field:int common_tgid;  offset:8;       size:4;

         field:int nr;   offset:12;      size:4;
         field:unsigned long ret;        offset:16;      size:4;

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A8BAF61.3060307@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-19 15:02:23 +02:00
Li Zefan e6971969c3 tracing/syscalls: Fix fields format for enter events
The "format" file of a trace event is originally for parsers to
parse ftrace binary output.

But the "format" file of a syscall event can only be used by
perfcounter, because it describes the format of struct
syscall_enter_record not struct syscall_trace_enter.

To fix this, we remove struct syscall_enter_record, and then
struct syscall_trace_enter will be used by both perf profile
and ftrace.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A8BAF39.1030404@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-19 15:02:22 +02:00
Li Zefan ba8b3a40ba tracing/syscalls: Fix to print parameter types
When syscall tracing was implemented as a tracer,
"syscall_arg_type" trace option could be set to enable the
display of syscall parameter types.

Now this option is gone since it's no longer a tracer, but the
code is still there but dead.

So we remove dead code and re-enable the printing of paramete
types via the verbose option:

  # echo verbose > trace_options
  # echo syscalls > set_event
  # cat trace
	...
        bash-3331  [000]    95.348937: sys_fcntl64 -> 0x1
        bash-3331  [000]    95.348942: sys_close(unsigned int fd: a)
	...

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A891AF6.5050102@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-17 11:25:09 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker 19007a67a6 tracing: Support for syscall events raw records in perfcounters
This bring the support for raw syscall events in perfcounters.
The arguments or exit value are saved as a raw sample using
the PERF_SAMPLE_RAW attribute in a perf counter.

Example (for now you must explicitly set the PERF_SAMPLE_RAW flag
in perf record):

perf record -e syscalls:sys_enter_open -f -F 1 -a
perf report -D

	0x2cbb8 [0x50]: event: 9
	.
	. ... raw event: size 80 bytes
	.  0000:  09 00 00 00 02 00 50 00 20 e9 39 ab 0a 7f 00 00  ......P. .9....
	.  0010:  bc 14 00 00 bc 14 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ...............
	.  0020:  2c 00 00 00 15 01 01 00 bc 14 00 00 bc 14 00 00  ,..............
                  ^  ^  ^  ^  ^  ^  ^  ..........................
                  Event Size  struct trace_entry

	.  0030:  00 00 00 00 46 98 43 02 00 00 00 00 80 08 00 00  ....F.C........
                  ^  ^  ^  ^  ^  ^  ^  ^  ^  ^  ^  ^  ^  ^  ^  ^
                  ptr to file name        open flags

	.  0040:  00 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ...............
                  ^  ^  ^  ^  ^  ^  ^  ^  ^  ^  ^  ^  ^  ^  ^  ^
	.         open mode               padding

	0x2cbb8 [0x50]: PERF_EVENT_SAMPLE (IP, 2): 5308: 0x7f0aab39e920 period: 1

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: Jiaying Zhang <jiayingz@google.com>
Cc: Martin Bligh <mbligh@google.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
2009-08-11 20:35:30 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker dc4ddb4c0b tracing: Add fields format definition for syscall events
Define the format of the syscall trace fields to parse the binary
values from a raw trace using the syscall events "format" file.

This is defined dynamically using the syscalls metadata.
It prepares the export of syscall event raw records to perf
counters.

Example:

$ cat /debug/tracing/events/syscalls/sys_enter_sched_getparam/format
name: sys_enter_sched_getparam
ID: 39
format:
	field:unsigned short common_type;	offset:0;	size:2;
	field:unsigned char common_flags;	offset:2;	size:1;
	field:unsigned char common_preempt_count;	offset:3;	size:1;
	field:int common_pid;	offset:4;	size:4;
	field:int common_tgid;	offset:8;	size:4;

	field:pid_t pid;	offset:12;	size:8;
	field:struct sched_param * param;	offset:20;	size:8;

print fmt: "pid: 0x%08lx, param: 0x%08lx", ((unsigned long)(REC->pid)), ((unsigned long)(REC->param))

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: Jiaying Zhang <jiayingz@google.com>
Cc: Martin Bligh <mbligh@google.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
2009-08-11 20:35:30 +02:00
Jason Baron f4b5ffccc8 tracing: Add perf counter support for syscalls tracing
The perf counter support is automated for usual trace events. But we
have to define specific callbacks for this to handle syscalls trace
events

Make 'perf stat -e syscalls:sys_enter_blah' work with syscall style
tracepoints.

Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: Jiaying Zhang <jiayingz@google.com>
Cc: Martin Bligh <mbligh@google.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2009-08-11 20:35:29 +02:00
Jason Baron 64c12e0444 tracing: Add individual syscalls tracepoint id support
The current state of syscalls tracepoints generates only one event id
for every syscall events.

This patch associates an id with each syscall trace event, so that we
can identify each syscall trace event using the 'perf' tool.

Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: Jiaying Zhang <jiayingz@google.com>
Cc: Martin Bligh <mbligh@google.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2009-08-11 20:35:28 +02:00
Jason Baron fb34a08c34 tracing: Add trace events for each syscall entry/exit
Layer Frederic's syscall tracer on tracepoints. We create trace events
via hooking into the SYSCALL_DEFINE macros. This allows us to
individually toggle syscall entry and exit points on/off.

Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: Jiaying Zhang <jiayingz@google.com>
Cc: Martin Bligh <mbligh@google.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2009-08-11 20:35:28 +02:00
Jason Baron 066e0378c2 tracing: Call arch_init_ftrace_syscalls at boot
Call arch_init_ftrace_syscalls at boot, so we can determine early the
set of syscalls for the syscall trace events.

Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: Jiaying Zhang <jiayingz@google.com>
Cc: Martin Bligh <mbligh@google.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2009-08-11 20:35:26 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker 47788c58e6 tracing/syscalls: use a dedicated file header
Impact: fix build warnings and possibe compat misbehavior on IA64

Building a kernel on ia64 might trigger these ugly build warnings:

CC      arch/ia64/ia32/sys_ia32.o
In file included from arch/ia64/ia32/sys_ia32.c:55:
arch/ia64/ia32/ia32priv.h:290:1: warning: "elf_check_arch" redefined
In file included from include/linux/elf.h:7,
                 from include/linux/module.h:14,
                 from include/linux/ftrace.h:8,
                 from include/linux/syscalls.h:68,
                 from arch/ia64/ia32/sys_ia32.c:18:
arch/ia64/include/asm/elf.h:19:1: warning: this is the location of the previous definition
[...]

sys_ia32.c includes linux/syscalls.h which in turn includes linux/ftrace.h
to import the syscalls tracing prototypes.

But including ftrace.h can pull too much things for a low level file,
especially on ia64 where the ia32 private headers conflict with higher
level headers.

Now we isolate the syscall tracing headers in their own lightweight file.

Reported-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Tested-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Jiaying Zhang <jiayingz@google.com>
Cc: Michael Rubin <mrubin@google.com>
Cc: Martin Bligh <mbligh@google.com>
Cc: Michael Davidson <md@google.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090408184058.GB6017@nowhere>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-09 05:43:32 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker 5be71b61f1 tracing/syscalls: protect thread flag toggling from races
Impact: fix syscall tracer enable/disable race

The current thread flag toggling is racy as shown in the following
scenario:

- task A is the last user of syscall tracing, it releases the
  TIF_SYSCALL_FTRACE on each tasks

- at the same time task B start syscall tracing. refcount == 0 so
  it sets up TIF_SYSCALL_FTRACE on each tasks.

The effect of the mixup is unpredictable.
So this fix adds a mutex on {start,stop}_syscall_tracing().

Reported-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
LKML-Reference: <1237151439-6755-3-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-16 09:13:16 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker 6404434525 tracing/syscalls: various cleanups
Impact: cleanup

- Drop unused cpu variable
- Fix some errors on comments

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1237151439-6755-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-16 09:13:16 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker ac99c58c9e tracing/syscalls: fix missing release of tracing
Impact: fix 'stuck' syscall tracer

The syscall tracer uses a refcounter to enable several users
simultaneously.

But the refcounter did not behave correctly and always restored
its value to 0 after calling start_syscall_tracing(). Therefore,
stop_syscall_tracing() couldn't release correctly the tasks from
tracing.

Also the tracer forgot to reset the buffer when it is released.

Drop the pointless refcount decrement on start_syscall_tracing()
and reset the buffer when we release the tracer.

This fixes two reported issue:

- when we switch from syscall tracer to another tracer, syscall
  tracing continued.

- incorrect use of the refcount.

Reported-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-16 09:13:15 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker bed1ffca02 tracing/syscalls: core infrastructure for syscalls tracing, enhancements
Impact: new feature

This adds the generic support for syscalls tracing. This is
currently exploited through a devoted tracer but other tracing
engines can use it. (They just have to play with
{start,stop}_ftrace_syscalls() and use the display callbacks
unless they want to override them.)

The syscalls prototypes definitions are abused here to steal
some metadata informations:

- syscall name, param types, param names, number of params

The syscall addr is not directly saved during this definition
because we don't know if its prototype is available in the
namespace. But we don't really need it. The arch has just to
build a function able to resolve the syscall number to its
metadata struct.

The current tracer prints the syscall names, parameters names
and values (and their types optionally). Currently the value is
a raw hex but higher level values diplaying is on my TODO list.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-13 16:57:42 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker ee08c6eccb tracing/ftrace: syscall tracing infrastructure, basics
Provide basic callbacks to do syscall tracing.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
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[ simplified it to a trace_printk() for now. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-13 06:25:43 +01:00