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Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) 0fc1b09ff1 tracing: Use temp buffer when filtering events
Filtering of events requires the data to be written to the ring buffer
before it can be decided to filter or not. This is because the parameters of
the filter are based on the result that is written to the ring buffer and
not on the parameters that are passed into the trace functions.

The ftrace ring buffer is optimized for writing into the ring buffer and
committing. The discard procedure used when filtering decides the event
should be discarded is much more heavy weight. Thus, using a temporary
filter when filtering events can speed things up drastically.

Without a temp buffer we have:

 # trace-cmd start -p nop
 # perf stat -r 10 hackbench 50
       0.790706626 seconds time elapsed ( +-  0.71% )

 # trace-cmd start -e all
 # perf stat -r 10 hackbench 50
       1.566904059 seconds time elapsed ( +-  0.27% )

 # trace-cmd start -e all -f 'common_preempt_count==20'
 # perf stat -r 10 hackbench 50
       1.690598511 seconds time elapsed ( +-  0.19% )

 # trace-cmd start -e all -f 'common_preempt_count!=20'
 # perf stat -r 10 hackbench 50
       1.707486364 seconds time elapsed ( +-  0.30% )

The first run above is without any tracing, just to get a based figure.
hackbench takes ~0.79 seconds to run on the system.

The second run enables tracing all events where nothing is filtered. This
increases the time by 100% and hackbench takes 1.57 seconds to run.

The third run filters all events where the preempt count will equal "20"
(this should never happen) thus all events are discarded. This takes 1.69
seconds to run. This is 10% slower than just committing the events!

The last run enables all events and filters where the filter will commit all
events, and this takes 1.70 seconds to run. The filtering overhead is
approximately 10%. Thus, the discard and commit of an event from the ring
buffer may be about the same time.

With this patch, the numbers change:

 # trace-cmd start -p nop
 # perf stat -r 10 hackbench 50
       0.778233033 seconds time elapsed ( +-  0.38% )

 # trace-cmd start -e all
 # perf stat -r 10 hackbench 50
       1.582102692 seconds time elapsed ( +-  0.28% )

 # trace-cmd start -e all -f 'common_preempt_count==20'
 # perf stat -r 10 hackbench 50
       1.309230710 seconds time elapsed ( +-  0.22% )

 # trace-cmd start -e all -f 'common_preempt_count!=20'
 # perf stat -r 10 hackbench 50
       1.786001924 seconds time elapsed ( +-  0.20% )

The first run is again the base with no tracing.

The second run is all tracing with no filtering. It is a little slower, but
that may be well within the noise.

The third run shows that discarding all events only took 1.3 seconds. This
is a speed up of 23%! The discard is much faster than even the commit.

The one downside is shown in the last run. Events that are not discarded by
the filter will take longer to add, this is due to the extra copy of the
event.

Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-05-03 17:59:24 -04:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) 33fddff24d tracing: Have trace_buffer_unlock_commit() call the _regs version with NULL
There's no real difference between trace_buffer_unlock_commit() and
trace_buffer_unlock_commit_regs() except that the former passes NULL to
ftrace_stack_trace() instead of regs. Have the former be a static inline of
the latter which passes NULL for regs.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-04-29 17:44:01 -04:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) fa66ddb870 tracing: Move trace_buffer_unlock_commit{_regs}() to local header
The functions trace_buffer_unlock_commit() and the _regs() version are only
used within the kernel/trace directory. Move them to the local header and
remove the export as well.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-04-29 16:14:12 -04:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) 9cbb1506ab tracing: Fold filter_check_discard() into its only user
The function filter_check_discard() is small and only called by one user,
its code can be folded into that one caller and make the code a bit less
comlplex.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-04-29 16:14:08 -04:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) 65da9a0a3b tracing: Make filter_check_discard() local
Nothing outside of the tracing directory calls filter_check_discard() or
check_filter_check_discard(). They should not be called by modules. Move
their prototypes into the local tracing header and remove their
EXPORT_SYMBOL() macros.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-04-27 10:13:46 -04:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) dad56ee742 tracing: Move event_trigger_unlock_commit{_regs}() to local header
The functions event_trigger_unlock_commit() and
event_trigger_unlock_commit_regs() are no longer used outside the tracing
system. Move them out of the generic headers and into the local one.

Along with __event_trigger_test_discard() that is only used by them.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-04-26 21:24:53 -04:00
Tom Zanussi db1388b4ff tracing: Add support for named triggers
Named triggers are sets of triggers that share a common set of trigger
data.  An example of functionality that could benefit from this type
of capability would be a set of inlined probes that would each
contribute event counts, for example, to a shared counter data
structure.

The first named trigger registered with a given name owns the common
trigger data that the others subsequently registered with the same
name will reference.  The functions defined here allow users to add,
delete, and find named triggers.

It also adds functions to pause and unpause named triggers; since
named triggers act upon common data, they should also be paused and
unpaused as a group.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/c09ff648360f65b10a3e321eddafe18060b4a04f.1457029949.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-04-19 18:56:00 -04:00
Tom Zanussi d0bad49bb0 tracing: Add enable_hist/disable_hist triggers
Similar to enable_event/disable_event triggers, these triggers enable
and disable the aggregation of events into maps rather than enabling
and disabling their writing into the trace buffer.

They can be used to automatically start and stop hist triggers based
on a matching filter condition.

If there's a paused hist trigger on system:event, the following would
start it when the filter condition was hit:

  # echo enable_hist:system:event [ if filter] > event/trigger

And the following would disable a running system:event hist trigger:

  # echo disable_hist:system:event [ if filter] > event/trigger

See Documentation/trace/events.txt for real examples.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/f812f086e52c8b7c8ad5443487375e03c96a601f.1457029949.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-04-19 18:55:57 -04:00
Tom Zanussi 7ef224d1d0 tracing: Add 'hist' event trigger command
'hist' triggers allow users to continually aggregate trace events,
which can then be viewed afterwards by simply reading a 'hist' file
containing the aggregation in a human-readable format.

The basic idea is very simple and boils down to a mechanism whereby
trace events, rather than being exhaustively dumped in raw form and
viewed directly, are automatically 'compressed' into meaningful tables
completely defined by the user.

This is done strictly via single-line command-line commands and
without the aid of any kind of programming language or interpreter.

A surprising number of typical use cases can be accomplished by users
via this simple mechanism.  In fact, a large number of the tasks that
users typically do using the more complicated script-based tracing
tools, at least during the initial stages of an investigation, can be
accomplished by simply specifying a set of keys and values to be used
in the creation of a hash table.

The Linux kernel trace event subsystem happens to provide an extensive
list of keys and values ready-made for such a purpose in the form of
the event format files associated with each trace event.  By simply
consulting the format file for field names of interest and by plugging
them into the hist trigger command, users can create an endless number
of useful aggregations to help with investigating various properties
of the system.  See Documentation/trace/events.txt for examples.

hist triggers are implemented on top of the existing event trigger
infrastructure, and as such are consistent with the existing triggers
from a user's perspective as well.

The basic syntax follows the existing trigger syntax.  Users start an
aggregation by writing a 'hist' trigger to the event of interest's
trigger file:

  # echo hist:keys=xxx [ if filter] > event/trigger

Once a hist trigger has been set up, by default it continually
aggregates every matching event into a hash table using the event key
and a value field named 'hitcount'.

To view the aggregation at any point in time, simply read the 'hist'
file in the same directory as the 'trigger' file:

  # cat event/hist

The detailed syntax provides additional options for user control, and
is described exhaustively in Documentation/trace/events.txt and in the
virtual tracing/README file in the tracing subsystem.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/72d263b5e1853fe9c314953b65833c3aa75479f2.1457029949.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-04-19 12:16:14 -04:00
Steven Rostedt c37775d578 tracing: Add infrastructure to allow set_event_pid to follow children
Add the infrastructure needed to have the PIDs in set_event_pid to
automatically add PIDs of the children of the tasks that have their PIDs in
set_event_pid. This will also remove PIDs from set_event_pid when a task
exits

This is implemented by adding hooks into the fork and exit tracepoints. On
fork, the PIDs are added to the list, and on exit, they are removed.

Add a new option called event_fork that when set, PIDs in set_event_pid will
automatically get their children PIDs added when they fork, as well as any
task that exits will have its PID removed from set_event_pid.

This works for instances as well.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-04-19 10:28:28 -04:00
Steven Rostedt f4d34a87e9 tracing: Use pid bitmap instead of a pid array for set_event_pid
In order to add the ability to let tasks that are filtered by the events
have their children also be traced on fork (and then not traced on exit),
convert the array into a pid bitmask. Most of the time the number of pids is
only 32768 pids or a 4k bitmask, which is the same size as the default list
currently is, and that list could grow if more pids are listed.

This also greatly simplifies the code.

Suggested-by: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-04-19 10:28:27 -04:00
Peter Zijlstra 7e6867bf83 tracing: Record and show NMI state
The latency tracer format has a nice column to indicate IRQ state, but
this is not able to tell us about NMI state.

When tracing perf interrupt handlers (which often run in NMI context)
it is very useful to see how the events nest.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160318153022.105068893@infradead.org

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-03-22 18:04:10 -04:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) 353206f5ca tracing: Use flags instead of bool in trigger structure
gcc isn't known for handling bool in structures. Instead of using bool, use
an integer mask and use bit flags instead.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-03-08 11:19:36 -05:00
Tom Zanussi a88e1cfb1d tracing: Add an unreg_all() callback to trigger commands
Add a new unreg_all() callback that can be used to remove all
command-specific triggers from an event and arrange to have it called
whenever a trigger file is opened with O_TRUNC set.

Commands that don't want truncate semantics, or existing commands that
don't implement this function simply do nothing and their triggers
remain intact.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/2b7d62854d01f28c19185e1bbb8f826f385edfba.1449767187.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-03-08 11:19:35 -05:00
Tom Zanussi a5863dae84 tracing: Add needs_rec flag to event triggers
Add a new needs_rec flag for triggers that require unconditional
access to trace records in order to function.

Normally a trigger requires access to the contents of a trace record
only if it has a filter associated with it (since filters need the
contents of a record in order to make a filtering decision).  Some
types of triggers, such as 'hist' triggers, require access to trace
record contents independent of the presence of filters, so add a new
flag for those triggers.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/7be8fa38f9b90fdb6c47ca0f98d20a07b9fd512b.1449767187.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-03-08 11:19:34 -05:00
Tom Zanussi 104f281044 tracing: Add a per-event-trigger 'paused' field
Add a simple per-trigger 'paused' flag, allowing individual triggers
to pause.  We could leave it to individual triggers that need this
functionality to do it themselves, but we also want to allow other
events to control pausing, so add it to the trigger data.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/fed37e4879684d7dcc57fe00ce0cbf170032b06d.1449767187.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-03-08 11:19:33 -05:00
Tom Zanussi dbfeaa7aba tracing: Add get_syscall_name()
Add a utility function to grab the syscall name from the syscall
metadata, given a syscall id.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/be26a8dfe3f15e16a837799f1c1e2b4d62742843.1449767187.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-03-08 11:19:32 -05:00
Tom Zanussi c4a5923055 tracing: Add event record param to trigger_ops.func()
Some triggers may need access to the trace event, so pass it in.  Also
fix up the existing trigger funcs and their callers.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/543e31e9fc445ef61077421ab219033401c39846.1449767187.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-03-08 11:19:31 -05:00
Tom Zanussi ab4bf00892 tracing: Make event trigger functions available
Make various event trigger utility functions available outside of
trace_events_trigger.c so that new triggers can be defined outside of
that file.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4a40c1695dd43cac6cd475d72e13ffe30ba84bff.1449767187.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-03-08 11:19:30 -05:00
Tom Zanussi 4ef56902fb tracing: Make ftrace_event_field checking functions available
Make is_string_field() and is_function_field() accessible outside of
trace_event_filters.c for other users of ftrace_event_fields.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/2d3f00d3311702e556e82eed7754bae6f017939f.1449767187.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Tested-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-03-08 11:19:29 -05:00
Chunyu Hu d39cdd2036 tracing: Make tracer_flags use the right set_flag callback
When I was updating the ftrace_stress test of ltp. I encountered
a strange phenomemon, excute following steps:

echo nop > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/current_tracer
echo 0 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/options/funcgraph-cpu
bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument

check dmesg:
[ 1024.903855] nop_test_refuse flag set to 0: we refuse.Now cat trace_options to see the result

The reason is that the trace option test will randomly setup trace
option under tracing/options no matter what the current_tracer is.
but the set_tracer_option is always using the set_flag callback
from the current_tracer. This patch adds a pointer to tracer_flags
and make it point to the tracer it belongs to. When the option is
setup, the set_flag of the right tracer will be used no matter
what the the current_tracer is.

And the old dummy_tracer_flags is used for all the tracers which
doesn't have a tracer_flags, having issue to use it to save the
pointer of a tracer. So remove it and use dynamic dummy tracer_flags
for tracers needing a dummy tracer_flags, as a result, there are no
tracers sharing tracer_flags, so remove the check code.

And save the current tracer to trace_option_dentry seems not good as
it may waste mem space when mount the debug/trace fs more than one time.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1457444222-8654-1-git-send-email-chuhu@redhat.com

Signed-off-by: Chunyu Hu <chuhu@redhat.com>
[ Fixed up function tracer options to work with the change ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-03-08 11:19:08 -05:00
Chuyu Hu 05a724bd44 tracing: Fix comment to use tracing_on over tracing_enable
The file tracing_enable is obsolete and does not exist anymore. Replace
the comment that references it with the proper tracing_on file.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1450787141-45544-1-git-send-email-chuhu@redhat.com

Signed-off-by: Chuyu Hu <chuhu@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2015-12-23 14:27:25 -05:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) ba27f2bc73 ftrace: Remove use of control list and ops
Currently perf has its own list function within the ftrace infrastructure
that seems to be used only to allow for it to have per-cpu disabling as well
as a check to make sure that it's not called while RCU is not watching. It
uses something called the "control_ops" which is used to iterate over ops
under it with the control_list_func().

The problem is that this control_ops and control_list_func unnecessarily
complicates the code. By replacing FTRACE_OPS_FL_CONTROL with two new flags
(FTRACE_OPS_FL_RCU and FTRACE_OPS_FL_PER_CPU) we can remove all the code
that is special with the control ops and add the needed checks within the
generic ftrace_list_func().

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2015-12-23 14:27:18 -05:00
Dmitry Safonov 03e88ae6b3 tracing: Remove unused ftrace_cpu_disabled per cpu variable
Since the ring buffer is lockless, there is no need to disable ftrace on
CPU. And no one doing so: after commit 68179686ac ("tracing: Remove
ftrace_disable/enable_cpu()") ftrace_cpu_disabled stays the same after
initialization, nothing changes it.
ftrace_cpu_disabled shouldn't be used by any external module since it
disables only function and graph_function tracers but not any other
tracer.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1446836846-22239-1-git-send-email-0x7f454c46@gmail.com

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Safonov <0x7f454c46@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2015-11-07 13:25:14 -05:00
Dmitry Safonov fb8c2293e1 tracing: Remove redundant TP_ARGS redefining
TP_ARGS is not used anywhere in trace.h nor trace_entries.h
Firstly, I left just #undef TP_ARGS and had no errors - remove it.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1446576560-14085-1-git-send-email-0x7f454c46@gmail.com

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Safonov <0x7f454c46@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2015-11-03 15:07:07 -05:00
Yaowei Bai c6650b2e57 tracing: ftrace_event_is_function() can return boolean
Make ftrace_event_is_function() return bool to improve readability
due to this particular function only using either one or zero as its
return value.

No functional change.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1443537816-5788-9-git-send-email-bywxiaobai@163.com

Signed-off-by: Yaowei Bai <bywxiaobai@163.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2015-11-02 14:28:05 -05:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) 3fdaf80f4a tracing: Implement event pid filtering
Add the necessary hooks to use the pids loaded in set_event_pid to filter
all the events enabled in the tracing instance that match the pids listed.

Two probes are added to both sched_switch and sched_wakeup tracepoints to be
called before other probes are called and after the other probes are called.
The first is used to set the necessary flags to let the probes know to test
if they should be traced or not.

The sched_switch pre probe will set the "ignore_pid" flag if neither the
previous or next task has a matching pid.

The sched_switch probe will set the "ignore_pid" flag if the next task
does not match the matching pid.

The pre probe allows for probes tracing sched_switch to be traced if
necessary.

The sched_wakeup pre probe will set the "ignore_pid" flag if neither the
current task nor the wakee task has a matching pid.

The sched_wakeup post probe will set the "ignore_pid" flag if the current
task does not have a matching pid.

Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2015-10-25 21:33:56 -04:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) 4909010788 tracing: Add set_event_pid directory for future use
Create a tracing directory called set_event_pid, which currently has no
function, but will be used to filter all events for the tracing instance or
the pids that are added to the file.

The reason no functionality is added with this commit is that this commit
focuses on the creation and removal of the pids in a safe manner. And tests
can be made against this change to make sure things are correct before
hooking features to the list of pids.

Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2015-10-25 21:33:55 -04:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) 37aea98b84 tracing: Add trace options for tracer options to instances
Add the tracer options to instances options directory as well. Only add the
options for tracers that are allowed to be enabled by an instance. But note,
that tracer options are global. That is, tracer options enabled in an
instance, also take affect at the top level and in other instances.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2015-09-30 15:22:58 -04:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) 9a38a8856f tracing: Add a method to pass in trace_array descriptor to option files
In preparation of having the multi buffer instances having their own trace
option flags, the trace option files needs a way to not only pass in the
flag they represent, but also the trace_array descriptor.

A new field is added to the trace_array descriptor called trace_flags_index,
which is a 32 byte character array representing a bit. This array is simply
filled with the index of the array, where

  index_array[n] = n;

Then the address of this array is passed to the file callbacks instead of
the index of the flag index. Then to retrieve both the flag index and the
trace_array descriptor:

  data is the passed in argument.

  index = *(unsigned char *)data;

  data -= index;

  /* Now data points to the address of the array in the trace_array */

  tr = container_of(data, struct trace_array, trace_flags_index);

Suggested-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2015-09-30 15:22:56 -04:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) 983f938ae6 tracing: Move trace_flags from global to a trace_array field
In preparation to make trace options per instance, the global trace_flags
needs to be moved from being a global variable to a field within the trace
instance trace_array structure.

There's still more work to do, as there's some functions that use
trace_flags without passing in a way to get to the current_trace array. For
those, the global_trace is used directly (from trace.c). This includes
setting and clearing the trace_flags. This means that when a new instance is
created, it just gets the trace_flags of the global_trace and will not be
able to modify them. Depending on the functions that have access to the
trace_array, the flags of an instance may not affect parts of its trace,
where the global_trace is used. These will be fixed in future changes.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2015-09-30 15:22:55 -04:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) 5557720415 tracing: Move sleep-time and graph-time options out of the core trace_flags
The sleep-time and graph-time options are only for the function graph tracer
and are not used by anything else. As tracer options are now visible when
the tracer is not activated, its better to move the function graph specific
tracer options into the function graph tracer.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2015-09-30 15:22:42 -04:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) b9f9108cad tracing: Remove access to trace_flags in trace_printk.c
In the effort to move the global trace_flags to the tracing instances, the
direct access to trace_flags must be removed from trace_printk.c

Instead, add a new trace_printk_enabled boolean that is set by a new access
function trace_printk_control(), that will enable or disable trace_printk.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2015-09-30 04:35:18 -04:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) b5e87c0581 tracing: Add build bug if we have more trace_flags than bits
Add a enum that denotes the last bit of the trace_flags and have a
BUILD_BUG_ON(last_bit > 32).

If we add more bits than we have in trace_flags, the kernel wont build.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2015-09-30 04:35:18 -04:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) 41d9c0becc tracing: Always show all tracer options in the options directory
There are options that are unique to a specific tracer (like function and
function graph). Currently, these options are only visible in the options
directory when the tracer is enabled.

This has been a pain, especially for something like the func_stack_trace
option that if used inappropriately, could bring the system to a crawl. But
the only way to see it, is to enable the function tracer.

For example, if one had done:

 # cd /sys/kernel/tracing
 # echo __schedule > set_ftrace_filter
 # echo 1 > options/func_stack_trace
 # echo function > current_tracer

The __schedule call will be traced and a stack trace will also be recorded
there. Now when you were done, you may do...

 # echo nop > current_tracer
 # echo > set_ftrace_filter

But you forgot to disable the func_stack_trace. The only way to disable it
is to re-enable function tracing first. If you do not add a filter to
set_ftrace_filter and just do:

 # echo function > current_tracer

Now you would be performing a stack trace on *every* function! On some
systems, that causes a live lock. Others may take a few minutes to fix your
mistake.

Having the func_stack_trace option visible allows you to check it and
disable it before enabling the funtion tracer.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2015-09-30 04:34:54 -04:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) 73dddbb57b tracing: Only create stacktrace option when STACKTRACE is configured
Only create the stacktrace trace option when CONFIG_STACKTRACE is
configured.

Cleaned up the ftrace_trace_stack() function call a little to allow better
encapsulation of the stacktrace trace flag.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2015-09-29 15:38:55 -04:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) 8179e8a15b tracing: Do not create function tracer options when not compiled in
When the function tracer is not compiled in, do not create the option files
for it.

Fix up both the sched_wakeup and irqsoff tracers to handle the change.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2015-09-29 15:01:34 -04:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) 4ee4301c4b tracing: Only create branch tracer options when compiled in
When the branch tracer is not compiled in, do not create the option files
associated to it.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2015-09-29 13:23:59 -04:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) 729358da95 tracing: Only create function graph options when it is compiled in
Do not create fuction graph tracer options when function graph tracer is not
even compiled in.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2015-09-29 13:23:58 -04:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) a3418a364e tracing: Use TRACE_FLAGS macro to keep enums and strings matched
Use a cute little macro trick to keep the names of the trace flags file
guaranteed to match the corresponding masks.

The macro TRACE_FLAGS is defined as a serious of enum names followed by
the string name of the file that matches it. For example:

 #define TRACE_FLAGS						\
		C(PRINT_PARENT,		"print-parent"),	\
		C(SYM_OFFSET,		"sym-offset"),		\
		C(SYM_ADDR,		"sym-addr"),		\
		C(VERBOSE,		"verbose"),

Now we can define the following:

 #undef C
 #define C(a, b) TRACE_ITER_##a##_BIT
 enum trace_iterator_bits { TRACE_FLAGS };

The above creates:

 enum trace_iterator_bits {
	TRACE_ITER_PRINT_PARENT_BIT,
	TRACE_ITER_SYM_OFFSET_BIT,
	TRACE_ITER_SYM_ADDR_BIT,
	TRACE_ITER_VERBOSE_BIT,
 };

Then we can redefine C as:

 #undef C
 #define C(a, b) TRACE_ITER_##a = (1 << TRACE_ITER_##a##_BIT)
 enum trace_iterator_flags { TRACE_FLAGS };

Which creates:

 enum trace_iterator_flags {
	TRACE_ITER_PRINT_PARENT	= (1 << TRACE_ITER_PRINT_PARENT_BIT),
	TRACE_ITER_SYM_OFFSET	= (1 << TRACE_ITER_SYM_OFFSET_BIT),
	TRACE_ITER_SYM_ADDR	= (1 << TRACE_ITER_SYM_ADDR_BIT),
	TRACE_ITER_VERBOSE	= (1 << TRACE_ITER_VERBOSE_BIT),
 };

Then finally we can create the list of file names:

 #undef C
 #define C(a, b) b
 static const char *trace_options[] = {
	TRACE_FLAGS
	NULL
 };

Which creates:
 static const char *trace_options[] = {
	"print-parent",
	"sym-offset",
	"sym-addr",
	"verbose",
	NULL
 };

The importance of this is that the strings match the bit index.

	trace_options[TRACE_ITER_SYM_ADDR_BIT] == "sym-addr"

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2015-09-29 13:23:57 -04:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) ce3fed628e tracing: Use enums instead of hard coded bitmasks for TRACE_ITER flags
Using enums with FLAG_BIT and then defining a FLAG = (1 << FLAG_BIT), is a
bit more robust as we require that there are no bits out of order or skipped
to match the file names that represent the bits.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2015-09-29 13:23:56 -04:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) 938db5f569 tracing: Remove unused tracing option "ftrace_preempt"
There was a time where the function tracing would disable interrupts unless
specifically told not to, where it would only disable preemption. With the
new lockless code, the function tracing never disalbes interrupts and just
uses disabling of preemption. Remove the option "ftrace_preempt" as it does
nothing anyway.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2015-09-29 13:23:54 -04:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) 03905582fd tracing: Move "display-graph" option to main options
In order to facilitate making all tracer options visible even when the
tracer is not active, we need to get rid of duplicate options. Any option
that is shared between multiple tracers really should be a main option.

As the wakeup and irqsoff tracers both use the "display-graph" option, and
use it exactly the same way, move that option from the tracer options to the
main options and consolidate them.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2015-09-29 12:56:40 -04:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) ca475e831f tracing: Make ftrace_trace_stack() static
ftrace_trace_stack() is not called outside of trace.c. Make it a static
function.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2015-09-28 09:41:11 -04:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) d78a461427 tracing: Remove ftrace_trace_stack_regs()
ftrace_trace_stack_regs() is used in only one place, and because that is
such a simple function, just move its code into the location that it was
used in (trace_buffer_unlock_commit_regs()).

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2015-09-25 15:37:23 -04:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) 6224beb12e tracing: Have branch tracer use recursive field of task struct
Fengguang Wu's tests triggered a bug in the branch tracer's start up
test when CONFIG_DEBUG_PREEMPT set. This was because that config
adds some debug logic in the per cpu field, which calls back into
the branch tracer.

The branch tracer has its own recursive checks, but uses a per cpu
variable to implement it. If retrieving the per cpu variable calls
back into the branch tracer, you can see how things will break.

Instead of using a per cpu variable, use the trace_recursion field
of the current task struct. Simply set a bit when entering the
branch tracing and clear it when leaving. If the bit is set on
entry, just don't do the tracing.

There's also the case with lockdep, as the local_irq_save() called
before the recursion can also trigger code that can call back into
the function. Changing that to a raw_local_irq_save() will protect
that as well.

This prevents the recursion and the inevitable crash that follows.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150630141803.GA28071@wfg-t540p.sh.intel.com

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.10+
Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Tested-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2015-07-08 11:53:45 -04:00
Linus Torvalds e382608254 This patch series contains several clean ups and even a new trace clock
"monitonic raw". Also some enhancements to make the ring buffer even
 faster. But the biggest and most noticeable change is the renaming of
 the ftrace* files, structures and variables that have to deal with
 trace events.
 
 Over the years I've had several developers tell me about their confusion
 with what ftrace is compared to events. Technically, "ftrace" is the
 infrastructure to do the function hooks, which include tracing and also
 helps with live kernel patching. But the trace events are a separate
 entity altogether, and the files that affect the trace events should
 not be named "ftrace". These include:
 
   include/trace/ftrace.h	->	include/trace/trace_events.h
   include/linux/ftrace_event.h	->	include/linux/trace_events.h
 
 Also, functions that are specific for trace events have also been renamed:
 
   ftrace_print_*()		->	trace_print_*()
   (un)register_ftrace_event()	->	(un)register_trace_event()
   ftrace_event_name()		->	trace_event_name()
   ftrace_trigger_soft_disabled()->	trace_trigger_soft_disabled()
   ftrace_define_fields_##call() ->	trace_define_fields_##call()
   ftrace_get_offsets_##call()	->	trace_get_offsets_##call()
 
 Structures have been renamed:
 
   ftrace_event_file		->	trace_event_file
   ftrace_event_{call,class}	->	trace_event_{call,class}
   ftrace_event_buffer		->	trace_event_buffer
   ftrace_subsystem_dir		->	trace_subsystem_dir
   ftrace_event_raw_##call	->	trace_event_raw_##call
   ftrace_event_data_offset_##call->	trace_event_data_offset_##call
   ftrace_event_type_funcs_##call ->	trace_event_type_funcs_##call
 
 And a few various variables and flags have also been updated.
 
 This has been sitting in linux-next for some time, and I have not heard
 a single complaint about this rename breaking anything. Mostly because
 these functions, variables and structures are mostly internal to the
 tracing system and are seldom (if ever) used by anything external to that.
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Merge tag 'trace-v4.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace

Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
 "This patch series contains several clean ups and even a new trace
  clock "monitonic raw".  Also some enhancements to make the ring buffer
  even faster.  But the biggest and most noticeable change is the
  renaming of the ftrace* files, structures and variables that have to
  deal with trace events.

  Over the years I've had several developers tell me about their
  confusion with what ftrace is compared to events.  Technically,
  "ftrace" is the infrastructure to do the function hooks, which include
  tracing and also helps with live kernel patching.  But the trace
  events are a separate entity altogether, and the files that affect the
  trace events should not be named "ftrace".  These include:

    include/trace/ftrace.h         ->    include/trace/trace_events.h
    include/linux/ftrace_event.h   ->    include/linux/trace_events.h

  Also, functions that are specific for trace events have also been renamed:

    ftrace_print_*()               ->    trace_print_*()
    (un)register_ftrace_event()    ->    (un)register_trace_event()
    ftrace_event_name()            ->    trace_event_name()
    ftrace_trigger_soft_disabled() ->    trace_trigger_soft_disabled()
    ftrace_define_fields_##call()  ->    trace_define_fields_##call()
    ftrace_get_offsets_##call()    ->    trace_get_offsets_##call()

  Structures have been renamed:

    ftrace_event_file              ->    trace_event_file
    ftrace_event_{call,class}      ->    trace_event_{call,class}
    ftrace_event_buffer            ->    trace_event_buffer
    ftrace_subsystem_dir           ->    trace_subsystem_dir
    ftrace_event_raw_##call        ->    trace_event_raw_##call
    ftrace_event_data_offset_##call->    trace_event_data_offset_##call
    ftrace_event_type_funcs_##call ->    trace_event_type_funcs_##call

  And a few various variables and flags have also been updated.

  This has been sitting in linux-next for some time, and I have not
  heard a single complaint about this rename breaking anything.  Mostly
  because these functions, variables and structures are mostly internal
  to the tracing system and are seldom (if ever) used by anything
  external to that"

* tag 'trace-v4.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (33 commits)
  ring_buffer: Allow to exit the ring buffer benchmark immediately
  ring-buffer-benchmark: Fix the wrong type
  ring-buffer-benchmark: Fix the wrong param in module_param
  ring-buffer: Add enum names for the context levels
  ring-buffer: Remove useless unused tracing_off_permanent()
  ring-buffer: Give NMIs a chance to lock the reader_lock
  ring-buffer: Add trace_recursive checks to ring_buffer_write()
  ring-buffer: Allways do the trace_recursive checks
  ring-buffer: Move recursive check to per_cpu descriptor
  ring-buffer: Add unlikelys to make fast path the default
  tracing: Rename ftrace_get_offsets_##call() to trace_event_get_offsets_##call()
  tracing: Rename ftrace_define_fields_##call() to trace_event_define_fields_##call()
  tracing: Rename ftrace_event_type_funcs_##call to trace_event_type_funcs_##call
  tracing: Rename ftrace_data_offset_##call to trace_event_data_offset_##call
  tracing: Rename ftrace_raw_##call event structures to trace_event_raw_##call
  tracing: Rename ftrace_trigger_soft_disabled() to trace_trigger_soft_disabled()
  tracing: Rename FTRACE_EVENT_FL_* flags to EVENT_FILE_FL_*
  tracing: Rename struct ftrace_subsystem_dir to trace_subsystem_dir
  tracing: Rename ftrace_event_name() to trace_event_name()
  tracing: Rename FTRACE_MAX_EVENT to TRACE_EVENT_TYPE_MAX
  ...
2015-06-26 14:02:43 -07:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) cc9e4bde03 tracing: Fix typo from "static inlin" to "static inline"
The trace.h header when called without CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING enabled
(seldom done), will not compile because of a typo in the protocol
of trace_event_enum_update().

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.1+
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2015-06-25 18:21:34 -04:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) 7967b3e0c4 tracing: Rename struct ftrace_subsystem_dir to trace_subsystem_dir
The name "ftrace" really refers to the function hook infrastructure. It
is not about the trace_events. The structure ftrace_subsystem_dir holds
the information about trace event subsystems. It should not be named
ftrace, rename it to trace_subsystem_dir.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2015-05-13 14:59:40 -04:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) 2425bcb924 tracing: Rename ftrace_event_{call,class} to trace_event_{call,class}
The name "ftrace" really refers to the function hook infrastructure. It
is not about the trace_events. The structures ftrace_event_call and
ftrace_event_class have nothing to do with the function hooks, and are
really trace_event structures. Rename ftrace_event_* to trace_event_*.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2015-05-13 14:06:10 -04:00