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Linus Torvalds 78417334b5 Merge branch 'bkl/core' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/random-tracing
* 'bkl/core' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/random-tracing:
  do_coredump: Do not take BKL
  init: Remove the BKL from startup code
2010-08-07 17:06:54 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 4aed2fd8e3 Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (162 commits)
  tracing/kprobes: unregister_trace_probe needs to be called under mutex
  perf: expose event__process function
  perf events: Fix mmap offset determination
  perf, powerpc: fsl_emb: Restore setting perf_sample_data.period
  perf, powerpc: Convert the FSL driver to use local64_t
  perf tools: Don't keep unreferenced maps when unmaps are detected
  perf session: Invalidate last_match when removing threads from rb_tree
  perf session: Free the ref_reloc_sym memory at the right place
  x86,mmiotrace: Add support for tracing STOS instruction
  perf, sched migration: Librarize task states and event headers helpers
  perf, sched migration: Librarize the GUI class
  perf, sched migration: Make the GUI class client agnostic
  perf, sched migration: Make it vertically scrollable
  perf, sched migration: Parameterize cpu height and spacing
  perf, sched migration: Fix key bindings
  perf, sched migration: Ignore unhandled task states
  perf, sched migration: Handle ignored migrate out events
  perf: New migration tool overview
  tracing: Drop cpparg() macro
  perf: Use tracepoint_synchronize_unregister() to flush any pending tracepoint call
  ...

Fix up trivial conflicts in Makefile and drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
2010-08-06 09:30:52 -07:00
Jason Wessel 955b61e597 ftrace,kdb: Extend kdb to be able to dump the ftrace buffer
Add in a helper function to allow the kdb shell to dump the ftrace
buffer.

Modify trace.c to expose the capability to iterate over the ftrace
buffer in a read only capacity.

Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
CC: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2010-08-05 09:22:23 -05:00
Ingo Molnar 3a01736e70 Merge branch 'tip/perf/core' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into perf/core 2010-07-23 09:10:29 +02:00
Dan Carpenter 24a461d537 trace: strlen() return doesn't account for the NULL
We need to add one to the strlen() return because of the NULL
character.  The type->name here generally comes from the kernel and I
don't think any of them come close to being MAX_TRACER_SIZE (100)
characters long so this is basically a cleanup.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100710100644.GV19184@bicker>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-07-22 14:56:41 -04:00
KOSAKI Motohiro ef710e100c tracing: Shrink max latency ringbuffer if unnecessary
Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt says

  buffer_size_kb:

        This sets or displays the number of kilobytes each CPU
        buffer can hold. The tracer buffers are the same size
        for each CPU. The displayed number is the size of the
        CPU buffer and not total size of all buffers. The
        trace buffers are allocated in pages (blocks of memory
        that the kernel uses for allocation, usually 4 KB in size).
        If the last page allocated has room for more bytes
        than requested, the rest of the page will be used,
        making the actual allocation bigger than requested.
        ( Note, the size may not be a multiple of the page size
          due to buffer management overhead. )

        This can only be updated when the current_tracer
        is set to "nop".

But it's incorrect. currently total memory consumption is
'buffer_size_kb x CPUs x 2'.

Why two times difference is there? because ftrace implicitly allocate
the buffer for max latency too.

That makes sad result when admin want to use large buffer. (If admin
want full logging and makes detail analysis). example, If admin
have 24 CPUs machine and write 200MB to buffer_size_kb, the system
consume ~10GB memory (200MB x 24 x 2). umm.. 5GB memory waste is
usually unacceptable.

Fortunatelly, almost all users don't use max latency feature.
The max latency buffer can be disabled easily.

This patch shrink buffer size of the max latency buffer if
unnecessary.

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100701104554.DA2D.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-07-21 10:20:17 -04:00
Li Zefan e870e9a124 tracing: Allow to disable cmdline recording
We found that even enabling a single trace event that will rarely be
triggered can add big overhead to context switch.

(lmbench context switch test)
 -------------------------------------------------
 2p/0K 2p/16K 2p/64K 8p/16K 8p/64K 16p/16K 16p/64K
 ctxsw  ctxsw  ctxsw ctxsw  ctxsw   ctxsw   ctxsw
------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------- -------
  2.19   2.3   2.21   2.56   2.13     2.54    2.07
  2.39   2.51  2.35   2.75   2.27     2.81    2.24

The overhead is 6% ~ 11%.

It's because when a trace event is enabled 3 tracepoints (sched_switch,
sched_wakeup, sched_wakeup_new) will be activated to map pid to cmdname.

We'd like to avoid this overhead, so add a trace option '(no)record-cmd'
to allow to disable cmdline recording.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4C2D57F4.2050204@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-07-20 21:52:33 -04:00
Arnd Bergmann b444786f1a tracing: Use generic_file_llseek for debugfs
The default for llseek will change to no_llseek,
so the tracing debugfs files need to add explicit
.llseek assignments. Since we're dealing with regular
files from a VFS perspective, use generic_file_llseek.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <1278538820-1392-10-git-send-email-arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2010-07-20 14:31:24 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker eb7beb5c09 tracing: Remove special traces
Special traces type was only used by sysprof. Lets remove it now
that sysprof ftrace plugin has been dropped.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Soeren Sandmann <sandmann@daimi.au.dk>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
2010-07-20 14:31:07 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker f376bf5ffb tracing: Remove sysprof ftrace plugin
The sysprof ftrace plugin doesn't seem to be seriously used
somewhere. There is a branch in the sysprof tree that makes
an interface to it, but the real sysprof tool uses either its
own module or perf events.

Drop the sysprof ftrace plugin then, as it's mostly useless.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Soeren Sandmann <sandmann@daimi.au.dk>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
2010-07-20 14:29:46 +02:00
Arnd Bergmann 5e3d20a68f init: Remove the BKL from startup code
I have shown by code review that no driver takes
the BKL at init time any more, so whatever the
init code was locking against is no longer there
and it is now safe to remove the BKL there.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2010-07-09 15:40:32 +02:00
Ingo Molnar c726b61c6a Merge branch 'perf/core' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/random-tracing into perf/core 2010-06-09 18:55:57 +02:00
Américo Wang 30dbb20e68 tracing: Remove boot tracer
The boot tracer is useless. It simply logs the initcalls
but in fact these initcalls are also logged through printk
while using the initcall_debug kernel parameter.

Nobody seem to be using it so far. Then just remove it.

Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Cc: Chase Douglas <chase.douglas@canonical.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100526105753.GA5677@cr0.nay.redhat.com>
[ remove the hooks in main.c, and the headers ]
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2010-06-08 23:31:28 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 6113e45f83 Merge branch 'tip/perf/core-3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into perf/core 2010-06-08 19:34:40 +02:00
Steven Rostedt 5168ae50a6 tracing: Remove ftrace_preempt_disable/enable
The ftrace_preempt_disable/enable functions were to address a
recursive race caused by the function tracer. The function tracer
traces all functions which makes it easily susceptible to recursion.
One area was preempt_enable(). This would call the scheduler and
the schedulre would call the function tracer and loop.
(So was it thought).

The ftrace_preempt_disable/enable was made to protect against recursion
inside the scheduler by storing the NEED_RESCHED flag. If it was
set before the ftrace_preempt_disable() it would not call schedule
on ftrace_preempt_enable(), thinking that if it was set before then
it would have already scheduled unless it was already in the scheduler.

This worked fine except in the case of SMP, where another task would set
the NEED_RESCHED flag for a task on another CPU, and then kick off an
IPI to trigger it. This could cause the NEED_RESCHED to be saved at
ftrace_preempt_disable() but the IPI to arrive in the the preempt
disabled section. The ftrace_preempt_enable() would not call the scheduler
because the flag was already set before entring the section.

This bug would cause a missed preemption check and cause lower latencies.

Investigating further, I found that the recusion caused by the function
tracer was not due to schedule(), but due to preempt_schedule(). Now
that preempt_schedule is completely annotated with notrace, the recusion
no longer is an issue.

Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-06-03 19:32:38 -04:00
Linus Torvalds bc7d352c5e Merge branch 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  perf tui: Fix last use_browser problem related to .perfconfig
  perf symbols: Add the build id cache to the vmlinux path
  perf tui: Reset use_browser if stdout is not a tty
  ring-buffer: Move zeroing out excess in page to ring buffer code
  ring-buffer: Reset "real_end" when page is filled
2010-05-30 12:35:01 -07:00
Linus Torvalds c5617b200a Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (61 commits)
  tracing: Add __used annotation to event variable
  perf, trace: Fix !x86 build bug
  perf report: Support multiple events on the TUI
  perf annotate: Fix up usage of the build id cache
  x86/mmiotrace: Remove redundant instruction prefix checks
  perf annotate: Add TUI interface
  perf tui: Remove annotate from popup menu after failure
  perf report: Don't start the TUI if -D is used
  perf: Fix getline undeclared
  perf: Optimize perf_tp_event_match()
  perf: Remove more code from the fastpath
  perf: Optimize the !vmalloc backed buffer
  perf: Optimize perf_output_copy()
  perf: Fix wakeup storm for RO mmap()s
  perf-record: Share per-cpu buffers
  perf-record: Remove -M
  perf: Ensure that IOC_OUTPUT isn't used to create multi-writer buffers
  perf, trace: Optimize tracepoints by using per-tracepoint-per-cpu hlist to track events
  perf, trace: Optimize tracepoints by removing IRQ-disable from perf/tracepoint interaction
  perf tui: Allow disabling the TUI on a per command basis in ~/.perfconfig
  ...
2010-05-27 15:23:47 -07:00
Steven Rostedt 2711ca237a ring-buffer: Move zeroing out excess in page to ring buffer code
Currently the trace splice code zeros out the excess bytes in the page before
sending it off to userspace.

This is to make sure userspace is not getting anything it should not be
when reading the pages, because the excess data was never initialized
to zero before writing (for perfomance reasons).

But the splice code has no business in doing this work, it should be
done by the ring buffer. With the latest changes for recording lost
events, the splice code gets it wrong anyway.

Move the zeroing out of excess bytes into the ring buffer code.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-05-25 11:57:26 -04:00
Jens Axboe ee9a3607fb Merge branch 'master' into for-2.6.35
Conflicts:
	fs/ext3/fsync.c

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-05-21 21:27:26 +02:00
Jens Axboe 35f3d14dbb pipe: add support for shrinking and growing pipes
This patch adds F_GETPIPE_SZ and F_SETPIPE_SZ fcntl() actions for
growing and shrinking the size of a pipe and adjusts pipe.c and splice.c
(and relay and network splice) usage to work with these larger (or smaller)
pipes.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2010-05-21 21:12:40 +02:00
Steven Rostedt a9a5776380 tracing: Allow events to share their print functions
Multiple events may use the same method to print their data.
Instead of having all events have a pointer to their print funtions,
the trace_event structure now points to a trace_event_functions structure
that will hold the way to print ouf the event.

The event itself is now passed to the print function to let the print
function know what kind of event it should print.

This opens the door to consolidating the way several events print
their output.

   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
4913961	1088356	 861512	6863829	 68bbd5	vmlinux.orig
4900382	1048964	 861512	6810858	 67ecea	vmlinux.init
4900446	1049028	 861512	6810986	 67ed6a	vmlinux.preprint

This change slightly increases the size but is needed for the next change.

v3: Fix the branch tracer events to handle this change.

v2: Fix the new function graph tracer event calls to handle this change.

Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-05-14 14:20:32 -04:00
David Miller 72c9ddfd4c ring-buffer: Make non-consuming read less expensive with lots of cpus.
When performing a non-consuming read, a synchronize_sched() is
performed once for every cpu which is actively tracing.

This is very expensive, and can make it take several seconds to open
up the 'trace' file with lots of cpus.

Only one synchronize_sched() call is actually necessary.  What is
desired is for all cpus to see the disabling state change.  So we
transform the existing sequence:

	for_each_cpu() {
		ring_buffer_read_start();
	}

where each ring_buffer_start() call performs a synchronize_sched(),
into the following:

	for_each_cpu() {
		ring_buffer_read_prepare();
	}
	ring_buffer_read_prepare_sync();
	for_each_cpu() {
		ring_buffer_read_start();
	}

wherein only the single ring_buffer_read_prepare_sync() call needs to
do the synchronize_sched().

The first phase, via ring_buffer_read_prepare(), allocates the 'iter'
memory and increments ->record_disabled.

In the second phase, ring_buffer_read_prepare_sync() makes sure this
->record_disabled state is visible fully to all cpus.

And in the final third phase, the ring_buffer_read_start() calls reset
the 'iter' objects allocated in the first phase since we now know that
none of the cpus are adding trace entries any more.

This makes openning the 'trace' file nearly instantaneous on a
sparc64 Niagara2 box with 128 cpus tracing.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
LKML-Reference: <20100420.154711.11246950.davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-04-27 13:06:35 -04:00
Jiri Olsa 62b915f106 tracing: Add graph output support for irqsoff tracer
Add function graph output to irqsoff tracer.

The graph output is enabled by setting new 'display-graph' trace option.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1270227683-14631-4-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-04-27 12:36:53 -04:00
Frederic Weisbecker cecbca96da tracing: Dump either the oops's cpu source or all cpus buffers
The ftrace_dump_on_oops kernel parameter, sysctl and sysrq let one
dump every cpu buffers when an oops or panic happens.

It's nice when you have few cpus but it may take ages if have many,
plus you miss the real origin of the problem in all the cpu traces.

Sometimes, all you need is to dump the cpu buffer that triggered the
opps, most of the time it is our main interest.

This patch modifies ftrace_dump_on_oops to handle this choice.

The ftrace_dump_on_oops kernel parameter, when it comes alone, has
the same behaviour than before. But ftrace_dump_on_oops=orig_cpu
will only dump the buffer of the cpu that oops'ed.

Similarly, sysctl kernel.ftrace_dump_on_oops=1 and
echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/ftrace_dump_on_oops keep their previous
behaviour. But setting 2 jumps into cpu origin dump mode.

v2: Fix double setup
v3: Fix spelling issues reported by Randy Dunlap
v4: Also update __ftrace_dump in the selftests

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
2010-04-21 23:11:42 +02:00
Ingo Molnar b15c7b1cee Merge branch 'tip/tracing/core' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into tracing/core 2010-04-14 12:15:23 +02:00
Ingo Molnar c1ab9cab75 Merge branch 'linus' into tracing/core
Conflicts:
	include/linux/module.h
	kernel/module.c

Semantic conflict:
	include/trace/events/module.h

Merge reason: Resolve the conflict with upstream commit 5fbfb18 ("Fix up
              possibly racy module refcounting")

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-04-08 10:18:47 +02:00
Lai Jiangshan aa27497c2f tracing: Fix uninitialized variable of tracing/trace output
Because a local variable is not initialized, I got these
when I did 'cat tracing/trace'. (not trace_pipe):

CPU:0 [LOST 18446744071579453134 EVENTS]
              ps-3099  [000]   560.770221: lock_acquire: ffff880030865010 &(&dentry->d_lock)->rlock
CPU:0 [LOST 18446744071579453134 EVENTS]
              ps-3099  [000]   560.770221: lock_release: ffff880030865010 &(&dentry->d_lock)->rlock
CPU:0 [LOST 18446612133255294080 EVENTS]
              ps-3099  [000]   560.770221: lock_acquire: ffff880030865010 &(&dentry->d_lock)->rlock
CPU:0 [LOST 18446744071579453134 EVENTS]
              ps-3099  [000]   560.770222: lock_release: ffff880030865010 &(&dentry->d_lock)->rlock
CPU:0 [LOST 18446744071579453134 EVENTS]
              ps-3099  [000]   560.770222: lock_release: ffffffff816cfb98 dcache_lock

See peek_next_entry(), it does not set *lost_events when we 'cat tracing/trace'

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4BB9A929.2000303@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-04-05 11:01:22 -04:00
Steven Rostedt bc21b47842 tracing: Show the lost events in the trace_pipe output
Now that the ring buffer can keep track of where events are lost.
Use this information to the output of trace_pipe:

       hackbench-3588  [001]  1326.701660: lock_acquire: ffffffff816591e0 read rcu_read_lock
       hackbench-3588  [001]  1326.701661: lock_acquire: ffff88003f4091f0 &(&dentry->d_lock)->rlock
       hackbench-3588  [001]  1326.701664: lock_release: ffff88003f4091f0 &(&dentry->d_lock)->rlock
CPU:1 [LOST 673 EVENTS]
       hackbench-3588  [001]  1326.702711: kmem_cache_free: call_site=ffffffff81102b85 ptr=ffff880026d96738
       hackbench-3588  [001]  1326.702712: lock_release: ffff88003e1480a8 &mm->mmap_sem
       hackbench-3588  [001]  1326.702713: lock_acquire: ffff88003e1480a8 &mm->mmap_sem

Even works with the function graph tracer:

 2) ! 170.098 us  |                                            }
 2)   4.036 us    |                                            rcu_irq_exit();
 2)   3.657 us    |                                            idle_cpu();
 2) ! 190.301 us  |                                          }
CPU:2 [LOST 2196 EVENTS]
 2)   0.853 us    |                            } /* cancel_dirty_page */
 2)               |                            remove_from_page_cache() {
 2)   1.578 us    |                              _raw_spin_lock_irq();
 2)               |                              __remove_from_page_cache() {

Note, it does not work with the iterator "trace" file, since it requires
the use of consuming the page from the ring buffer to determine how many
events were lost, which the iterator does not do.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-03-31 22:57:06 -04:00
Steven Rostedt 66a8cb95ed ring-buffer: Add place holder recording of dropped events
Currently, when the ring buffer drops events, it does not record
the fact that it did so. It does inform the writer that the event
was dropped by returning a NULL event, but it does not put in any
place holder where the event was dropped.

This is not a trivial thing to add because the ring buffer mostly
runs in overwrite (flight recorder) mode. That is, when the ring
buffer is full, new data will overwrite old data.

In a produce/consumer mode, where new data is simply dropped when
the ring buffer is full, it is trivial to add the placeholder
for dropped events. When there's more room to write new data, then
a special event can be added to notify the reader about the dropped
events.

But in overwrite mode, any new write can overwrite events. A place
holder can not be inserted into the ring buffer since there never
may be room. A reader could also come in at anytime and miss the
placeholder.

Luckily, the way the ring buffer works, the read side can find out
if events were lost or not, and how many events. Everytime a write
takes place, if it overwrites the header page (the next read) it
updates a "overrun" variable that keeps track of the number of
lost events. When a reader swaps out a page from the ring buffer,
it can record this number, perfom the swap, and then check to
see if the number changed, and take the diff if it has, which would be
the number of events dropped. This can be stored by the reader
and returned to callers of the reader.

Since the reader page swap will fail if the writer moved the head
page since the time the reader page set up the swap, this gives room
to record the overruns without worrying about races. If the reader
sets up the pages, records the overrun, than performs the swap,
if the swap succeeds, then the overrun variable has not been
updated since the setup before the swap.

For binary readers of the ring buffer, a flag is set in the header
of each sub page (sub buffer) of the ring buffer. This flag is embedded
in the size field of the data on the sub buffer, in the 31st bit (the size
can be 32 or 64 bits depending on the architecture), but only 27
bits needs to be used for the actual size (less actually).

We could add a new field in the sub buffer header to also record the
number of events dropped since the last read, but this will change the
format of the binary ring buffer a bit too much. Perhaps this change can
be made if the information on the number of events dropped is considered
important enough.

Note, the notification of dropped events is only used by consuming reads
or peeking at the ring buffer. Iterating over the ring buffer does not
keep this information because the necessary data is only available when
a page swap is made, and the iterator does not swap out pages.

Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: "Luis Claudio R. Goncalves" <lclaudio@uudg.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-03-31 22:57:04 -04:00
Tejun Heo 5a0e3ad6af include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h
percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files.  percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.

percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed.  Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability.  As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.

  http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py

The script does the followings.

* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
  only the necessary includes are there.  ie. if only gfp is used,
  gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.

* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
  blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
  to its surrounding.  It's put in the include block which contains
  core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
  alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
  doesn't seem to be any matching order.

* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
  because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
  an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
  file.

The conversion was done in the following steps.

1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
   over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
   and ~3000 slab.h inclusions.  The script emitted errors for ~400
   files.

2. Each error was manually checked.  Some didn't need the inclusion,
   some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
   embedding .c file was more appropriate for others.  This step added
   inclusions to around 150 files.

3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
   from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.

4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
   e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
   APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.

5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
   editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
   files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell.  Most gfp.h
   inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
   wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros.  Each
   slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
   necessary.

6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.

7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
   were fixed.  CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
   distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
   more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
   build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).

   * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
   * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * ia64 SMP allmodconfig
   * s390 SMP allmodconfig
   * alpha SMP allmodconfig
   * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig

8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
   a separate patch and serve as bisection point.

Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
Linus Torvalds 8655e7e3dd Merge branch 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  tracing: Do not record user stack trace from NMI context
  tracing: Disable buffer switching when starting or stopping trace
  tracing: Use same local variable when resetting the ring buffer
  function-graph: Init curr_ret_stack with ret_stack
  ring-buffer: Move disabled check into preempt disable section
  function-graph: Add tracing_thresh support to function_graph tracer
  tracing: Update the comm field in the right variable in update_max_tr
  function-graph: Use comment notation for func names of dangling '}'
  function-graph: Fix unused reference to ftrace_set_func()
  tracing: Fix warning in s_next of trace file ops
  tracing: Include irqflags headers from trace clock
2010-03-13 14:40:50 -08:00
Steven Rostedt b6345879cc tracing: Do not record user stack trace from NMI context
A bug was found with Li Zefan's ftrace_stress_test that caused applications
to segfault during the test.

Placing a tracing_off() in the segfault code, and examining several
traces, I found that the following was always the case. The lock tracer
was enabled (lockdep being required) and userstack was enabled. Testing
this out, I just enabled the two, but that was not good enough. I needed
to run something else that could trigger it. Running a load like hackbench
did not work, but executing a new program would. The following would
trigger the segfault within seconds:

  # echo 1 > /debug/tracing/options/userstacktrace
  # echo 1 > /debug/tracing/events/lock/enable
  # while :; do ls > /dev/null ; done

Enabling the function graph tracer and looking at what was happening
I finally noticed that all cashes happened just after an NMI.

 1)               |    copy_user_handle_tail() {
 1)               |      bad_area_nosemaphore() {
 1)               |        __bad_area_nosemaphore() {
 1)               |          no_context() {
 1)               |            fixup_exception() {
 1)   0.319 us    |              search_exception_tables();
 1)   0.873 us    |            }
[...]
 1)   0.314 us    |  __rcu_read_unlock();
 1)   0.325 us    |    native_apic_mem_write();
 1)   0.943 us    |  }
 1)   0.304 us    |  rcu_nmi_exit();
[...]
 1)   0.479 us    |  find_vma();
 1)               |  bad_area() {
 1)               |    __bad_area() {

After capturing several traces of failures, all of them happened
after an NMI. Curious about this, I added a trace_printk() to the NMI
handler to read the regs->ip to see where the NMI happened. In which I
found out it was here:

ffffffff8135b660 <page_fault>:
ffffffff8135b660:       48 83 ec 78             sub    $0x78,%rsp
ffffffff8135b664:       e8 97 01 00 00          callq  ffffffff8135b800 <error_entry>

What was happening is that the NMI would happen at the place that a page
fault occurred. It would call rcu_read_lock() which was traced by
the lock events, and the user_stack_trace would run. This would trigger
a page fault inside the NMI. I do not see where the CR2 register is
saved or restored in NMI handling. This means that it would corrupt
the page fault handling that the NMI interrupted.

The reason the while loop of ls helped trigger the bug, was that
each execution of ls would cause lots of pages to be faulted in, and
increase the chances of the race happening.

The simple solution is to not allow user stack traces in NMI context.
After this patch, I ran the above "ls" test for a couple of hours
without any issues. Without this patch, the bug would trigger in less
than a minute.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Reported-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-03-12 20:31:49 -05:00
Steven Rostedt a2f8071428 tracing: Disable buffer switching when starting or stopping trace
When the trace iterator is read, tracing_start() and tracing_stop()
is called to stop tracing while the iterator is processing the trace
output.

These functions disable both the standard buffer and the max latency
buffer. But if the wakeup tracer is running, it can switch these
buffers between the two disables:

  buffer = global_trace.buffer;
  if (buffer)
      ring_buffer_record_disable(buffer);

      <<<--------- swap happens here

  buffer = max_tr.buffer;
  if (buffer)
      ring_buffer_record_disable(buffer);

What happens is that we disabled the same buffer twice. On tracing_start()
we can enable the same buffer twice. All ring_buffer_record_disable()
must be matched with a ring_buffer_record_enable() or the buffer
can be disable permanently, or enable prematurely, and cause a bug
where a reset happens while a trace is commiting.

This patch protects these two by taking the ftrace_max_lock to prevent
a switch from occurring.

Found with Li Zefan's ftrace_stress_test.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Reported-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-03-12 20:30:21 -05:00
Steven Rostedt 283740c619 tracing: Use same local variable when resetting the ring buffer
In the ftrace code that resets the ring buffer it references the
buffer with a local variable, but then uses the tr->buffer as the
parameter to reset. If the wakeup tracer is running, which can
switch the tr->buffer with the max saved buffer, this can break
the requirement of disabling the buffer before the reset.

   buffer = tr->buffer;
   ring_buffer_record_disable(buffer);
   synchronize_sched();
   __tracing_reset(tr->buffer, cpu);

If the tr->buffer is swapped, then the reset is not happening to the
buffer that was disabled. This will cause the ring buffer to fail.

Found with Li Zefan's ftrace_stress_test.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Reported-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-03-12 20:29:20 -05:00
Ingo Molnar 915a0b575f Merge branch 'tip/tracing/core' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into tracing/urgent 2010-03-11 13:39:33 +01:00
Tim Bird 0e95017355 function-graph: Add tracing_thresh support to function_graph tracer
Add support for tracing_thresh to the function_graph tracer.  This
version of this feature isolates the checks into new entry and
return functions, to avoid adding more conditional code into the
main function_graph paths.

When the tracing_thresh is set and the function graph tracer is
enabled, only the functions that took longer than the time in
microseconds that was set in tracing_thresh are recorded. To do this
efficiently, only the function exits are recorded:

 [tracing]# echo 100 > tracing_thresh
 [tracing]# echo function_graph > current_tracer
 [tracing]# cat trace
 # tracer: function_graph
 #
 # CPU  DURATION                  FUNCTION CALLS
 # |     |   |                     |   |   |   |
  1) ! 119.214 us  |  } /* smp_apic_timer_interrupt */
  1)   <========== |
  0) ! 101.527 us  |              } /* __rcu_process_callbacks */
  0) ! 126.461 us  |            } /* rcu_process_callbacks */
  0) ! 145.111 us  |          } /* __do_softirq */
  0) ! 149.667 us  |        } /* do_softirq */
  0) ! 168.817 us  |      } /* irq_exit */
  0) ! 248.254 us  |    } /* smp_apic_timer_interrupt */

Also, add support for specifying tracing_thresh on the kernel
command line.  When used like so: "tracing_thresh=200 ftrace=function_graph"
this can be used to analyse system startup.  It is important to disable
tracing soon after boot, in order to avoid losing the trace data.

Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B87098B.4040308@am.sony.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-03-05 21:20:57 -05:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 1acaa1b2d9 tracing: Update the comm field in the right variable in update_max_tr
The latency output showed:

 #    | task: -3 (uid:0 nice:0 policy:1 rt_prio:99)

The comm is missing in the "task:" and it looks like a minus 3 is
the output. The correct display should be:

 #    | task: migration/0-3 (uid:0 nice:0 policy:1 rt_prio:99)

The problem is that the comm is being stored in the wrong data
structure. The max_tr.data[cpu] is what stores the comm, not the
tr->data[cpu].

Before this patch the max_tr.data[cpu]->comm was zeroed and the /debug/trace
ended up showing just the '-' sign followed by the pid.

Also remove a needless initialization of max_data.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1267824230-23861-1-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-03-05 21:12:08 -05:00
Linus Torvalds 0a135ba14d Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu:
  percpu: add __percpu sparse annotations to what's left
  percpu: add __percpu sparse annotations to fs
  percpu: add __percpu sparse annotations to core kernel subsystems
  local_t: Remove leftover local.h
  this_cpu: Remove pageset_notifier
  this_cpu: Page allocator conversion
  percpu, x86: Generic inc / dec percpu instructions
  local_t: Move local.h include to ringbuffer.c and ring_buffer_benchmark.c
  module: Use this_cpu_xx to dynamically allocate counters
  local_t: Remove cpu_local_xx macros
  percpu: refactor the code in pcpu_[de]populate_chunk()
  percpu: remove compile warnings caused by __verify_pcpu_ptr()
  percpu: make accessors check for percpu pointer in sparse
  percpu: add __percpu for sparse.
  percpu: make access macros universal
  percpu: remove per_cpu__ prefix.
2010-03-03 07:34:18 -08:00
Lai Jiangshan ac91d85456 tracing: Fix warning in s_next of trace file ops
This warning in s_next() can be triggered by lseek():
 [<c018b3f7>] ? s_next+0x77/0x80
 [<c013e3c1>] warn_slowpath_common+0x81/0xa0
 [<c018b3f7>] ? s_next+0x77/0x80
 [<c013e3fa>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20
 [<c018b3f7>] s_next+0x77/0x80
 [<c01efa77>] traverse+0x117/0x200
 [<c01eff13>] seq_lseek+0xa3/0x120
 [<c01efe70>] ? seq_lseek+0x0/0x120
 [<c01d7081>] vfs_llseek+0x41/0x50
 [<c01d8116>] sys_llseek+0x66/0xa0
 [<c0102bd0>] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x26

The iterator "leftover" variable is zeroed in the opening of the trace
file. But lseek can call s_start() which will call s_next() without
reseting the "leftover" variable back to zero, which might trigger
the WARN_ON_ONCE(iter->leftover) that is in s_next().

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B8CE06A.9090207@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-03-02 21:11:47 -05:00
Ingo Molnar 64b9fb5704 Merge commit 'v2.6.33' into tracing/core
Conflicts:
	scripts/recordmcount.pl

Merge reason: Merge up to v2.6.33.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-02-26 09:18:32 +01:00
Tejun Heo ab386128f2 Merge branch 'master' into percpu 2010-02-02 14:38:15 +09:00
Steven Rostedt 74bf4076f2 tracing: Prevent kernel oops with corrupted buffer
If the contents of the ftrace ring buffer gets corrupted and the trace
file is read, it could create a kernel oops (usualy just killing the user
task thread). This is caused by the checking of the pid in the buffer.
If the pid is negative, it still references the cmdline cache array,
which could point to an invalid address.

The simple fix is to test for negative PIDs.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-01-25 15:11:53 -05:00
Steven Rostedt d931369b74 tracing: Add stack dump to trace_printk if stacktrace option is set
If the ftrace stacktrace option is set, then add the stack dumps to
trace_printk.

Requested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-01-06 18:09:57 -05:00
Lai Jiangshan 7e53bd42d1 tracing: Consolidate protection of reader access to the ring buffer
At the beginning, access to the ring buffer was fully serialized
by trace_types_lock. Patch d7350c3f45 gives more freedom to readers,
and patch b04cc6b1f6 adds code to protect trace_pipe and cpu#/trace_pipe.

But actually it is not enough, ring buffer readers are not always
read-only, they may consume data.

This patch makes accesses to trace, trace_pipe, trace_pipe_raw
cpu#/trace, cpu#/trace_pipe and cpu#/trace_pipe_raw serialized.
And removes tracing_reader_cpumask which is used to protect trace_pipe.

Details:

Ring buffer serializes readers, but it is low level protection.
The validity of the events (which returns by ring_buffer_peek() ..etc)
are not protected by ring buffer.

The content of events may become garbage if we allow another process to consume
these events concurrently:
  A) the page of the consumed events may become a normal page
     (not reader page) in ring buffer, and this page will be rewritten
     by the events producer.
  B) The page of the consumed events may become a page for splice_read,
     and this page will be returned to system.

This patch adds trace_access_lock() and trace_access_unlock() primitives.

These primitives allow multi process access to different cpu ring buffers
concurrently.

These primitives don't distinguish read-only and read-consume access.
Multi read-only access is also serialized.

And we don't use these primitives when we open files,
we only use them when we read files.

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B447D52.1050602@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-01-06 12:51:34 -05:00
Tejun Heo 32032df6c2 Merge branch 'master' into percpu
Conflicts:
	arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/hvCall.S
	include/linux/percpu.h
2010-01-05 09:17:33 +09:00
Linus Torvalds b21c070403 Merge branch 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  tracing: Fix sign fields in ftrace_define_fields_##call()
  tracing/syscalls: Fix typo in SYSCALL_DEFINE0
  tracing/kprobe: Show sign of fields in trace_kprobe format files
  ksym_tracer: Remove trace_stat
  ksym_tracer: Fix race when incrementing count
  ksym_tracer: Fix to allow writing newline to ksym_trace_filter
  ksym_tracer: Fix to make the tracer work
  tracing: Kconfig spelling fixes and cleanups
  tracing: Fix setting tracer specific options
  Documentation: Update ftrace-design.txt
  Documentation: Update tracepoint-analysis.txt
  Documentation: Update mmiotrace.txt
2009-12-31 11:52:01 -08:00
Steven Rostedt c757bea93b tracing: Fix setting tracer specific options
The function __set_tracer_option() takes as its last parameter a
"neg" value. If set it should negate the value of the option.

The trace_options_write() passed the value written to the file
which is what the new value needs to be set as. But since this
is not the negative, it never sets the value.

Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-12-21 22:35:16 -05:00
Linus Torvalds 5a865c0606 Merge branch 'for-33' of git://repo.or.cz/linux-kbuild
* 'for-33' of git://repo.or.cz/linux-kbuild: (29 commits)
  net: fix for utsrelease.h moving to generated
  gen_init_cpio: fixed fwrite warning
  kbuild: fix make clean after mismerge
  kbuild: generate modules.builtin
  genksyms: properly consider  EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL{,_GPL}()
  score: add asm/asm-offsets.h wrapper
  unifdef: update to upstream revision 1.190
  kbuild: specify absolute paths for cscope
  kbuild: create include/generated in silentoldconfig
  scripts/package: deb-pkg: use fakeroot if available
  scripts/package: add KBUILD_PKG_ROOTCMD variable
  scripts/package: tar-pkg: use tar --owner=root
  Kbuild: clean up marker
  net: add net_tstamp.h to headers_install
  kbuild: move utsrelease.h to include/generated
  kbuild: move autoconf.h to include/generated
  drop explicit include of autoconf.h
  kbuild: move compile.h to include/generated
  kbuild: drop include/asm
  kbuild: do not check for include/asm-$ARCH
  ...

Fixed non-conflicting clean merge of modpost.c as per comments from
Stephen Rothwell (modpost.c had grown an include of linux/autoconf.h
that needed to be changed to generated/autoconf.h)
2009-12-17 07:23:42 -08:00
Linus Torvalds da184a8064 Merge branch 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  tracing: Fix return of trace_dump_stack()
  ksym_tracer: Fix bad cast
  tracing/power: Remove two exports
  tracing: Change event->profile_count to be int type
  tracing: Simplify trace_option_write()
  tracing: Remove useless trace option
  tracing: Use seq file for trace_clock
  tracing: Use seq file for trace_options
  function-graph: Allow writing the same val to set_graph_function
  ftrace: Call trace_parser_clear() properly
  ftrace: Return EINVAL when writing invalid val to set_ftrace_filter
  tracing: Move a printk out of ftrace_raw_reg_event_foo()
  tracing: Pull up calls to trace_define_common_fields()
  tracing: Extract duplicate ftrace_raw_init_event_foo()
  ftrace.h: Use common pr_info fmt string
  tracing: Add stack trace to irqsoff tracer
  tracing: Add trace_dump_stack()
  ring-buffer: Move resize integrity check under reader lock
  ring-buffer: Use sync sched protection on ring buffer resizing
  tracing: Fix wrong usage of strstrip in trace_ksyms
2009-12-16 12:02:25 -08:00
Alexey Dobriyan 28dfef8feb const: constify remaining pipe_buf_operations
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-16 07:20:05 -08:00